Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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de-

PIE demonstrative stem.

Other derivatives include to ‘in the direction of’ and too, stressed version of to, hence ‘furthermore, also’. As a prefix used with an intensive or completive sense or to denote negation, as in defrost, defuse, and de-escalate.

[Pokorny *de-, do-, pp. 181–183.]

cultural delusion

As Western civilization denies the existence of the Cosmic Psyche, the 99% of the Totality of Existence inaccessible to our physical senses, it is clearly delusional to believe that the physical universe of matter, space, and time is the Universe.

delusion

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-5) defines delusions as ‘fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence’. Similarly, The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines delusion as

define

Etymologically, when we define a concept and give it a name, we put limits on it, indicating what it is and what it is not. However, as we live in a paradoxical world, we cannot always create such one-sided, either-or definitions.

For instance, while an orange is exclusively a fruit, with seeds in it, eaten as a dessert, for instance, and a carrot is a vegetable, accompanying a main meal, a tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable. These different meanings are dependent on context, unified within the broader context of plant, the original meaning of vegetable.