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The dynamics of this world are extremely complex, too complex for any individual to fully make sense of. One way to ease the burden on your sensemaking tools is to reduce your own inner complications by getting very clear on how your own perception and cognition are happening.
Dedicated inner work will reveal that your conscious experience is actually happening in a much simpler way than the mind imagines: a field of consciousness appearing before an imperceptible witness. This eliminates needless cognitive twists and roadblocks in your sensemaking.
Our mental narratives add mountains of needless layers of complexity. Once you see that none of those narratives apply to your true identity, you're able to bypass all those distortions in the way you process information and simply use thought as a tool.
Otherwise you're just ingesting highly manipulated narratives about an already complex world through your own distorted perceptual filters which are based on unconscious believed assumptions about what you are, what the world is, etc. Inner clarity eliminates those distortions.
There are many approaches to the inner work one can do to find this inner clarity, but I described one really effective way here:
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