one ultimate reality, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 276


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There must be, of course, only one ultimate reality.  (I am speaking of a physical and not a conceptual ultimate reality.) However, the human brain is not equipped to perceive that single reality.  Instead we have multiple and therefore fragmented perceptions upon this single ultimate reality ... perceptions from which we then reconstruct, on our own terms, a “mental whole.”  This mental whole is not the same as the physical ultimate reality.  However, the evolution of the mental whole is more than just a series of errors: it serves as a kind of signposting ...  a finding one’s way toward higher and higher perceptions.  This mental whole, this reconstruction of the universe through the resolution of contradictions, is my “spiritual” process and is dependent upon a natural phenomenon which I like to call, “Repetition.”



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