Category: Personal

the brain

One major insight I have had is that we cannot assume that other people experience the world in the same or similar ways. (And, as an aside for future discussion, we cannot assume that people experience language in the same way!)

So here is a little article that illustrates that point, shared by one who is anxious most of the time:

The Brains of Anxious People May Perceive the World Differently

 

doctrine over people

I was thinking about this passage from Fear and Trembling:

The paradox of faith, then, is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual…determines his relation to the universal by his relation to the absolute, not his relation to the absolute by his relation to the universal.

And then I stumbled upon this:

Identifying Religious Brainwashing: Doctrine Over Person (Part 7 of 8)

In our modern scientific post-Enlightenment age have we placed doctrine/ideas above people? Is there a general push just to conform, to defend the party, rather than embody the truth in my life?