## Highlights
dialectic affords us a collective of God that is similar to flow State
horizontal dimension of dialectic is realization of communion, philia
vertical dimension is contemplative dimension that accompanies transframing, sophia
the logos is how everything is connected
aspiration changes the entire agent arena relationship
just like how we understand the world through our senses, we understand the world through other people's senses through distributed cognition
imaginal is important for changing our perspective on the future (ex. caring about ourselves during retirement) by getting us into ratio religio
this makes us more rational because we are overcoming temporal discounting self deception
we can only see through the root self, the I
buddhist monks say that there is no self, but the biggest responsibility we have is to know ourself. this is a case that needs nonlogical identity
realization is to understand but to also make real. one is internal realization (internalize), or external (
religion is the real self realization of reality - when both definitions are related