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27 • Symbols
Surprise bonus episode: How symbols can become powerful metaphors that can help you see deeper into reality and potentially transcend your framing.
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Stefan Lesser
Previously… — recap #2
A brief summary and recollection of the second half — posts 14-26 — of my Mirror of the Self series.
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26 • The Mirror of the Self
In this episode we are concluding the Mirror of the Self series with a look back at where we started — Can we now make sense of Vervaeke’s The Sacred…
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25 • Sacredness and the sacred
What does it mean to experience sacredness? What makes something sacred? And does it have to be rooted in something supernatural?
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24 • Opening the Eye to the Storm
Our capacity for framing breaks in confrontation with the mystery of our ultimate insignificance. Fascinated and horrified we remember that we are…
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23 • The mystery of wonder and awe
What is phenomenologically mysterious isn’t necessarily also inexplicable. Differentiating between propositional and perspectival knowing, we can…
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22 • Fundamental framing and human spirituality
All we make sense of and we make sense with — concepts, categories, beliefs, ego, truth, goodness, beauty — is grounded in something nameless, without…
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21 • Metaphor
Bridges between concepts balance similarities and differences and connect abstract ideas with our intuition for embodied interaction — to help us make…
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20 • Flow and intuition
The flow state and our ability for implicit learning are a powerful combination to enhance our cognition — and to hone in on what really matters in the…
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19 • Here- and Now-ness
Our consciousness performs incredible work to present us with what we find salient in the present moment. Can we get a grasp on what consciousness does…
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18 • Opponent processing
A continuous trade-off between selection for efficiency and variation for resiliency enable our capacity for growth. Processes that appear to work…
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17 • The essence of design
What do evolution, design, and consciousness have in common?
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