As I wrote in the first post of this series (Energy as the Structure and Fabric of the Universe), the evolution of consciousness and its journey through physicality has given us the possibility to develop and awaken different senses and schemas of perception. With these, and along with other processes and aspects of consciousness, we are able to perceive, experience, and consciously interact with different segments of what we call reality.

In subsequent posts we explored some of the ways in...

Engaging in the world as those around us perceive it is how we engage in what the Toltecs call the dream of the planet. In so-called innocence, kids manifest mostly love and little fear. The latter they have to learn or be taught: you can fall down, fire burns, ooh that hurt, some spiders may be poisonous, you have to behave, you have to follow these rules, being of a particular racial group informs your position in the world and your relationships with others, you can’t play in the mud, yo...

Cultural-historical and socio-cultural psychologists have studied the way in which cognition develops; paying close attention to how it is embedded in a given place and time, in biology, and in different sets of social relationships and meanings.

Scholars following a Vygotskian perspective have shown how ‘higher mental functions’ develop through social interaction, by mediating and reinterpreting biological needs in terms of socio-cultural understandings. This example does an awesome job...

The evolution of consciousness and its journey through physicality has given us the possibility to develop and awaken different senses in order to experience this broad spectrum of what we call reality. Our sensory organs come in touch with different segments and specific aspects of the reality we experience. For example, our ears pick up certain frequencies of vibration and we learn what these sounds are about. Our eyes see the light that bounces off our environment and everything in it. The...