TY - JOUR AU - Kabat-Zinn, Jon AB - Mindfulness (2018) 9:1309–1311 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-018-0952-x ORTHOGONAL ROTATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS Jon Kabat-Zinn Published online: 24 April 2018 Jon Kabat-Zinn 2018 As a rule, we humans have been admirable explorers and somewhat removed from the domain of being, from sen- inhabitants of conventional reality, the world “out there” tience, even though it is closer than close at all moments. defined and modulated by our five classical senses. We have made ourselves at home within that world, and have learned to shape it to our needs and desires over I say to Myla as a young person passes by us in the the brief course of human history. We understand cause street: “He has such a nice face.” To which she responds: and effect in the physical world, at least the Newtonian “Yes, if you don’tsee thelack of affectinit.” physical world, to an ever-increasing degree due to the efforts of science, and that understanding is continuing to It is all a matter of what we are willing to see or reflexively deepen with ongoing discoveries. ignore, how reflexively we are willing to berth our momentary And yet even within science, looking at the edges, it perceptions at the dock of the habitually inattentive, TI - Orthogonal Reality: Rotating in Consciousness JO - Mindfulness DO - 10.1007/s12671-018-0952-x DA - 2018-04-24 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/orthogonal-reality-rotating-in-consciousness-3ulybCvIve SP - 1309 EP - 1311 VL - 9 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -