Experiential ignorance

Experiential ignorance from not using Coping with other people s use Being the designated driver Being unmindful of prescriptive medication... 

Because we are creatures with a certain kind of body and nervous system, a large number of human potentials are in principle available to use. but each of us is born into a particular culture that selects and develops a small number of these potentials, rejects others, and is ignorant of many. The small number of experiential potentials selected by our culture, plus some random factors, constitute the structural elements from which our ordinary state of consciousness is constructed, we are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of our culture s particular selection. The possibility of tapping and developing latent potentials, which lie outside the cultural norm, by entering an altered state of consciousness, by temporarily restructuring consciousness, is the basis of the great interest in such states. 

Problems arising when differences are ignored. Charts C are experiential mappings of the sort done in Figure 5-1. The other two charts are summary charts, as explained in... 

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