If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.
the more different you and I are, the less we will be able to identify with each other, and the more difficult it will to understand each other. If we can't see ourselves in another person at all__f his beliefs and background and reactions and emotions conflict too radically with our own__e often just withdraw the assumption that he is like us in any important way. That kind of dehumanization generally leads nowhere good.
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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the more different you and I are, the less we will be able to identify with each other, and the more difficult it will to understand each other. If we can't see ourselves in another person at all__f his beliefs and background and reactions and emotions conflict too radically with our own__e often just withdraw the assumption that he is like us in any important way. That kind of dehumanization generally leads nowhere good.
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