this process of making sense of the world by co-identifying things in your life is known as co-identification - > This awakening often arises from various philosophical, psychological, or spiritual practices and insights, such as mindfulness meditation, contemplative inquiry, psychedelic experiences, existential philosophy, or mystical traditions. Through these practices, individuals may come to perceive themselves not as isolated entities but as integral parts of a larger whole, leading to a profound sense of unity, empathy, and interconnectedness with other beings and the world around them. Co-identifying means taking two things to create a conceptual connection of them through [[Meta-meaning]] have our personal individuality and sensemaking while still finding our place in the world A [[Transframing]] process Usually the agent changes, but sometimes both can through [[Sensibility Transcendence]] Comes from Aristotle ## Components ### Agent - Us - Like a character in an RPG, we have a certain character with unique attributes and perspectives ### Arena - Environment where we have guidelines and can gauge our performance as the agent [[Worldview]] - the dependence between the world as it is and our personal understanding, there is co-identification - this requires us to know the [[Form]] of both the football player and football arena - identity makes sense of importance of structure. without one, we lose meaning in the other - to understand reality, then we need to attend to both of these aspects. this is where [[Socratic dialogue]] can help