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Newsletter Nr. 1.347
Amsterdam, May 11, 2025

Satori and Universal Insights  The Eye of Spirit and its Discontents - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Satori, in the Zen tradition, is often described as a sudden, intuitive insight into the nature of reality or the self. But what insights about the universe—in an ontological or cosmological sense—does it actually provide, if any?

The honest answer is: very little in terms of objective, empirical knowledge about the universe as studied by science. Satori doesn't offer new data about the cosmos, quantum fields, or the age of galaxies. Instead, its "insights" are more existential or phenomenological—centered on how reality is experienced rather than what reality is in an external sense.

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