People live by what they
think, not by what they really know.
It is by knowledge that we
orient ourselves in our two worlds, the realistic world and the inner world of
experience. Which are correctly informs us of conditions we must cope with.
To know is to survive and
not knowing is to assess the real environment inaccurately and the struggle for
survival.
With the examination of the
sources, nature, and accuracy of our knowledge, we begin to develop sense
awareness and a more subtle understanding of what we know and how we know it
that creates a more clear relevants, what we don’t know.
To know the ultimate
reality or a certain absolute that there is “one truth”, need to make sense, or
everything becomes meaningless.
Through a lifetime of sense-events
we build a fabric of refined information which helps us interpret, survive in,
and control the world about us. Three of our senses—sight, sound, and
smell—give us information about events and objects that are at a distance,
while two of the five senses—taste and touch—inform us about happenings in the
immediate vicinity of our sensors.
Touching sensations take
place over the entire surface of our bodies and responding to different stimuli
with heat, cold, touch, pressure, and pain. These touching senses give us a
great deal of real knowing and put it to immediate use in our understanding at
close range.
Proprioception and the
sense of space in time is a physical coordination that is determined by
intuitive senses. Equilibrium is another sense that enables us to maintain balance.
All senses that enable us
to adapt to and understand our two worlds and thereby improve our chances for
better adjustment, survival, and well-being. A world of senses, that are giving
to us and knowledge which needs to be trusted.
Realizations proceed to
construct a more accurate picture of the true nature of things. Unfortunately
the naive realism of the outer world is the acceptances of one’s senses are the
real world, and a sort of blind faith becomes the realistic world.
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