The Map Is Not Reality

What if most of what we call reality is actually a map?

Master Mikel Steenrod and Morgan explore how the social mind shapes not only our view of the world, but also our view of ourselves. The conversation examines why reality must be directly perceived rather than merely understood, why “reality repeats,” how artificial repetition creates artificial reality, and how Taoist practice moves a person toward greater accuracy and completeness.

From the Red Dust and the fractured self to intuition, direct experience, and even the Taoist metaphor of cannibals, this episode asks what happens when the map begins to break—and reality starts to show through.