When one sufficiently overcomes the habit of naive realism one can coherently understand the nature of reality rather than remain trapped in a self-reproducing closed loop of unconscious assumptions and resulting misunderstandings.

A coherent understanding can be attained personally and also examined scientifically. A personal understanding will transform one's life. A scientific understanding will transform civilisation.

The main features of a coherent understanding:

• Reality is that which perceives rather than that which is perceived. The objects of perception are not objective because they depend on how we perceive them. The objective reality is the stream of awareness within which the objects of perception arise and which is our true self.

• We have experiences of "being in a world", which is how the situation appears from our perspective. However those appearances do not reveal the true nature of reality, just as experiences of a VR game world do not reveal its true nature to be computation.

• There are underlying processes that animate our stream of awareness and give rise to the appearances that we apprehend. These processes are that by which we perceive and cannot be apprehended as objects of perception, thus they themselves seem unmanifest and abstract.

• All manifest forms are inferred to exist from our perceptions, however they have no independent self-nature. Hence the ideas of matter and a physical universe are myths.

• The underlying processes animate all systems and enable them to experience, react and thereby interact. All system interactions are driven by reciprocal experiences and there are no inanimate systems.

• The underlying processes that enable our individual streams of awareness are part of a unified process that animates everything.

• There is a global coherence to this unified process, which imparts a global coherence to the realm of manifest forms. Thus no event is local, every event is a 'movement' of the entire cosmos.

• We can operate via sensory perceptions and thereby exert influence locally, or we can operate via the inner-most animating process 'within' us and thereby exert influence globally or remotely.

• Our individual state of being (both body and mind) arises from the many levels of interacting sub-systems that comprise us. If these sub-system interactions are dysfunctional we suffer.

• Our interactions and relationships integrate us into many levels of super-systems (groups and organisations) that comprise society as a whole. The collective state of being emerges from this integration. If our interactions are dysfunctional the emergent collective suffers.

The main results of the work from which this world-view arises can be found here http://anandavala.info/OIPVSE.pdf