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How Things Seem

eric mccarty
2 min readJul 9, 2021

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How Things Seem To Be — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

How Things Seem to be:

it’s just science, a deep and thorough explanation on how things seem to be. Our world is explained by science but given meaning by experience, how life is personal for each of us alone. Yet these ideals are not opposed, but virtually the same. We live the science of our first experiences, an exploration into the unknown of every moment, testing aspects of life through repeated encounters.

it’s all science.

and it’s all a story — from our own interpretations of each moment, our experiences, and mystery of simply finding ourselves alive and aware within the vastness of what life holds. To science too and its story of how this might have come to be. Both are precise in testing the premise of their story. We come to believe that an experience holds meaning for us not just by repetition but through contemplation, measuring it against a daily routine, how it seems to be of an entirely different material than the ordinary matter. We come to terms with a new version of reality and adjust our stories accordingly. Science does as well. Our lab is a bit more personal, and science seemingly more remote in making its observations.

but not really.

everything is personal, and science is nothing more than what’s happening now. We are an experience of the Big Bang itself, the universe expanding through the…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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