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On the infrastructure that makes conscience legible

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

I keep returning to Edgar Mitchell’s account of his return from the moon — looking back at Earth from beyond its sphere of influence, he found himself overwhelmed by an inner conviction as certain as any equation he’d ever solved: that this beautiful blue world is part of a living system, harmonious and whole, and that we all participate in a universe of consciousness.

Mitchell was a trained engineer and astronaut, not predisposed to mysticism. But something about the impossible perspective broke the Cartesian spell. He came home and spent the rest of his life trying to reconcile the difference between what he’d experienced and what the institutions of his world were capable of understanding.

How do we reconcile the parallax of perception from a distance, to the shortsighted view of global machinations at ground level...

https://intothedialectic.com/wiring-the-organism/

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