1 - Welcome to Lorna Koestner's world
Greetings and welcome to my world! I was born in 1964 in rural Minnesota. The normal ways my modern industrial civilized society understands "reality" never felt right or made sense to me. I felt like an alien amongst my species, and watched in horror the way we treat the beautiful earth we live on. Over the years I have managed to find different puzzle pieces that fit together in a worldview that actually explains, to me at least, a lot of what I experience, and gives me a "mental life raft" to keep my bearings in this tumultuous world. The part of me that is a scientist is constantly trying to upgrade my "mental life raft" to keep it fit for the task of navigating my experience. I don't know any single person who sees reality and navigates their experience exactly the way I do, but there isn't any part of my worldview that isn't shared by at least a couple other individuals that I know of. This is comforting and validating, but doesn't m...