Paschal Baute

We Create the Reality We Live In maps a profound civilizational crisis: we are trying to navigate a hyper-complex, digital global village using an ancient nervous system engineered for stone-age survival. Throughout our lives, no institution teaches us how the three-pound organ between our ears actually processes reality. Left illiterate about our internal machinery, we become prisoners to an evolutionary script we don't even know we are readinIn this groundbreaking volume, a lifetime of unique perspective from monastic contemplation and chaplaincy pairs with cutting-edge neuroscience to expose the ultimate human blind spot.
When modern life bombards us with relentless triggers, our primitive brain panics, demands a story of blame, and treats ideological opponents as literal predators. The devastating results are everywhere: an epidemic of raw reactivity, fractured attention, and tribal "kangaroo courts" that tear apart our societies and estrange our families. Blending sharp historical analysis with insights from modern cognitive neuroscientists, this book is an urgent manifesto for self-inquiry.
It calls for a foundational rebellion: moving from blindly reacting to our biology to consciously governing it. Volume One ends at the ultimate human frontier, showing that true freedom begins by simply, deeply, becoming aware.