It starts with recognizing the
Physical Reality ~ Human Mind divide
Absorbing the reality of your body being an evolved biological thinking machine, produced by Earth’s Evolutionary processes.
That leads to an appreciation that our biological body is the direct cumulative product of millions even billions of years of evolution unfolding upon this planet.
Meaning there’s an awful lot of awareness going on below our conscious awareness, that we are blind to.
That leads to a realization that your mind, that is, all your thoughts and feelings, are the cumulative product of all the days and experiences of your particular life.
I’ve never seen it. Heck mysticism tries to deny the body altogether. Why? I imagine because religions confine themselves to our Mindscape (the totality of human introspective conscious awareness, the thoughts and emotions we possess, and the battles we choose.)
Confronting Science Contrarians: What is “Earth Centrism”?
… Science and religion are subgroups of Human Mindscape, whereas Physical Reality simply IS, regardless of human anything.
Science seeks to objectively learn about this physical world that we find ourselves embedded within, but we should still recognize all our understanding is embedded within and constrained by our brain’s Mindscape.
Religion and Philosophy are all about the human Mindscape itself, with its wonderful struggles, fears, spiritual undercurrents, needs and stories we create to give our live’s meaning and make it worth living, or at least bearable.
What’s the point? It’s about better appreciating our ‘frame of reference’. Our dreams and desires aren’t the center of Creation. Earth is. Our gods are reflections of our own egos and Earth is the stage that created all of its characters. …