Physical reality and the experience of being and existing
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https://doi.org/10.21901/2448-3060/self-2016.vol01.0006Keywords:
physics, life, conscience, unconscious, individuation, self, realityAbstract
Physical reality is inaccessible to us and we do not know what we are or what reality is. The psyche ‒ the subjective individual psychological experience, composed by a conscious part and by a deeply unconscious part ‒ is the unique experience of being and existing and the only reality we have access to. The origin of the God image is in searching for restraint of the perplexity and of the fear of death, of unknown and of non-existence, and in searching for meaning to the psychic experience perceived as the only reality. The diversity of expressions of God images ‒ either avowedly religious or rational and mathematical formulations ‒ is a function of the culture and takes a psychologically true narrative form. Describing the experienced reality is what we can do.
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