Clarifying Reality
the first step in building a
Better Future
Making Sense of Life
Taking a Hard Look at Ourselves
Broadening Our Perspectives
Remaking Our Beliefs and Norms
Perspectives on what we can do to remake the frameworks that guide us through life.
People Paving the Way
Welcome to Clarifying Reality, a website designed to help us build new ways of living our lives.
Underlying the threads running through this website is the belief that our current frameworks for living and interacting with one another are getting in the way of our forward progression as a species.
These frameworks are based on an outmoded understanding of reality stemming from an amalgamation of scientific, spiritual, and cultural beliefs developed in times long gone.
It’s time to take stock, rethink, and remake these frameworks based on our updated understanding of reality, as well as on the fact that it’s simply obvious that the people of the world need to change our ways if we are to survive.
Ultimately, the goal of this website is to help us get comfortable with the idea that we need to shed old beliefs and adopt new ones, in service of creating a more viable future for us all.
The Survival of Homo Sapiens
As Homo sapiens, we are the sole survivors of a lineage that once included multiple human species. But that doesn’t mean our future as a species is secured.
Unlike other species, we would be the primary cause of our own undoing. That’s because we’re at the top of the food chain, and we have no other creatures to blame but ourselves.
The good news is, we have the power to change.
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About This Website
Clarifying Reality is a call to chip away at the old frameworks and worldviews that are getting in the way of our well-being, both as individuals and as an evolving species.
It’s a call to take stock, think deeply, and accept our respective roles in causing the problems that we face.
It’s also a call to embrace uncertainty, keeping in mind that accepting the way things are is a sure course for the human species going the way of the dinosaurs.
Pat Case
Producer | Author | Curator
Pat Case, the producer, author, and curator for this website, writes about the aspects of life that shape how we perceive and interact with the world and how those perceptions and experiences influence our journeys through life.
Pat explores the foundations of our belief systems and challenges us to rethink whether or not our constructs about life, religion, spirituality, and reality hold up against alternative views.
She is an ardent believer in the idea that humans need to remake our belief systems so that we can live in greater harmony with the world at large.
Recent Articles
The Physicist and the Prophet How Einstein and Gandhi Transformed the World from Opposite Ends of the Spectrum
Visionaries from every realm of life face skepticism, resistance, and doubt, especially when their ideas challenge conventional wisdom. Yet across disciplines and cultures, those guided by conviction and purpose find ways to bend the arc of the future toward new ways of seeing and being in the world.
Redirecting Our Brain’s Automatic Responses To Better Meet Our Survival Needs in a Modern World
We often imagine ourselves as independent thinkers, making deliberate, rational decisions. But cognitive science paints a different picture—one that may be limiting our ability to thrive in today’s complex world.
Sciences Are Converging On a Broader View of Reality A Reality that Challenges Conventional Wisdom
Reality may seem absolute—fixed, tangible, and independent of individual interpretation. Yet sciences across the board are increasingly converging on a view that challenges this assumption. It’s anything but conventional, at least in terms of how the modern Western mind has been conditioned to understand reality
How Our Minds Shape Reality In Its Quest to Find Meaning
Ancient wisdom traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism have long proposed that the world we experience is a construct of the mind. Today, modern evidence-based sciences are converging on a similar insight.