- Slow intellectual ascent to reduce inner conflict (increase self-knowledge) and be in contact with reality (reduce self-deception) - reducing inner conflict, reducing deception, lessens our ego, becoming more in touch with reality - you start with some basic real patterns, and you use those to find more patterns, causing a cycle to become more in touch with reality through [[Transframing]] - Outlined via [[Platos Cave]] - Practiced via [[Temporal Discounting]] - I wonder how [[Making connections between notes]] supports this ## Process This is the reciprocal opening that comes from [[Internalization]] into [[Indwelling]]. We internalize the world to come into a deeper understanding of reality, then we use that new perspective to further improve our [[Sensibility Transcendence]]. - We indwell to internalize, meaning that we move into the world and experience it directly in order to bring it into our understanding of ourselves. - We internalize to indwell, meaning that we use the knowledge and perspectives we have gained from the world to further expand our experience of reality.