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@camino_delsol Cognition is a sense, like vision, like emotion. We mistake it for the thing that is us, but like any sense it's just a felt experience subject to the limitations of its shape. The important things can't be "known" in the way we generally use that word. They are intuited.
@camino_delsol Yes. I am the locus of experience, and on some level that means that all experience is reconciled within me. The default mode of reconciliation is coherence, especially in post-enlightenment society, but actually there's no reason to believe that all of this coheres.
@camino_delsol The trick is to recognize that *I am* the reconciliation itself, not the locus of the reconciliation. The various experiences I have may diverge wildly, the fact that I am the one having them IS the reconciliation. Moving from cognition to unmediated experience allows this.
@camino_delsol Our external, material senses (the classic 5+) DO tend to cohere, which confuses us. I can see a thing and hear a thing and smell a thing and using those resolve all of that down to the same "thing" I'm perceiving differently. They converge. Emotions don't. Cognition is phew.
@mykola “various experiences I have may diverge wildly, the fact that I am the one having them IS the reconciliation. Moving from cognition to unmediated experience allows this.”🎯👌🏽 this - the allowing of the experience to just be felt can be enough to start with.