How can we peek into actual, truthful reality?!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMar 24, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Are your problems actually real or one’s that you created in your mind?”

We can’t even answer this question as long as we are locked into our inherently egocentric, subjective consciousness, perception of reality.

By default, we exist in a very limited, distorted personal cocoon, as whatever we perceive from reality is filtered through individually tuned, very limited sensors and whatever those sensors capture is interpreted by an also very limited introverted personal computer working on a selfish “pleasure/pain” software.

We notice, assess from the world only what is important to serve this minute to minute “pleasure/pain” attitude, taking us closer to ever-growing selfish pleasures, distancing us from actual or expected pain. It is the same internal software that also creates for us the illusory coordinates of time, space and physical motion in relation to the time and distance from pleasure or pain.

“My problems” are exactly my problems, as everything is evaluated only from the viewpoint of the introverted “pleasure/pain” software. Good is what is good for me and bad is what is bad for me.

In order to start talking about a truthful reality, in order to compute what “absolute good/bad” is, in order to start understanding, connecting to other people, first, we need to develop a unique, totally selfless and thus objective consciousness, perception of reality.

And we have a unique, purposeful and highly practical scientific method, that allows us to escape from our inherently egocentric, subjective cocoons in a special environment, through a purposeful, methodical mutual cooperation with other committed, like-minded people.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.