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Further Lessons on Existential Truth
Moving to a deeper understanding of existential truth requires a navigational chart to thoroughly explore one of the most important experiences that bring meaning to our personal journey.
To discover the terrain of truth, we begin with the Greek origin of its meaning, Alethia: the process of unforgetting, then to Heidegger’s phenomenology of Dasein: self-in-the-world, and finally landing on my theory of biocognition that focuses on the mindbody effects of living our existential truth.
According to Greek mythology, in the Underworld of Hades, before returning to mortal form it was required to drink water from the Lethe River to forget their earlier life. So, truth was to remember what was lost before re-entering mortality. Heidegger brought the mythology of Alethia back to expand on what he called existential truth — an inquiry into how the inauthentic can be spotted and changed to the authentic. Thus, truth is more than what one believes to be evident. It is rather about discovering what obstructs recalling our authenticity.
In my theory of biocognitive science I propose that mindbody self seeks coherence between what we believe to be evident (truth) and what we enact (live). Without a thorough inquiry into what we believe we are and what we exist, the inauthentic self will remain hidden creating a mindbody confusion with…
