The Reality of Senses: How We Feel the World Before We Understand It
Discover how the senses shape our reality and consciousness. Explore the profound role senses play in understanding our world and ourselves.
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We don’t begin our lives thinking. We begin by feeling. The first language of the psyche isn’t words, it’s sensation. The pulse of light behind closed eyelids, the taste of nurture, the vibration of a caregiver’s voice before we even know what a voice is. Before we have a self, we have a body that feels. The senses are the original home of consciousness. We enter the world, we are raised and conditioned, and then we break, and then we re-enter the world, and then we learn to not do away with what we feel.
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