Introduction: A Personal Experience of Culture Shock

Abstract

The author’s early life experiences that contributed to his appreciation of his own and others’ self-identities as receptive centres of awareness are briefly described. This appreciation is contradicted by objective perceptions of reality that exclude individual receptivity from consideration by mentally isolating natural bodies within definitive boundary limits. While these perceptions seem to render life mechanistically predictable and have become deeply culturally embedded, they are falsely premised and are a source of profound misunderstanding and psychological, social and environmental harm and conflict. The author aims to provide a remedy for these problems through a deepened, more natural understanding of the origin of life patterns.