How do we make sense and live harmoniously with nature and amongst ourselves? Sense-making focuses on context over content while celebrating our complexity.
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.", it dawned on me that the world is mentally constructed. I was looking at a photo of a woman's face and was asked if I saw an older woman or a younger one. I identified the younger one but blinked my eye for a fleeting moment and saw an older woman.
I am not saying we are forever stuck in a specific worldview, sometimes we need variation, however adapting to one framework at the exclusion of another can be harmful. My experience at P.S. 10, consisted of a deep-rooted view of the world that was driven by cause-and-effect reasoning with little opportunity to step out of the box.
This has enormous implications traceable as far back as Greco-Roman antiquity. Western society evolved to focus on an industrial complex that molded its educational, economic, and health systems to support and maintain a cause-and-effect model. The problem is that models are tautologies, i.e. A+B=C. Gaia or quantum physics doesn't work that way. Any woodsman or hiker knows that nature is both simultaneously beautiful and messy, as is life.
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