March 6, 2026On Dreams
Human life does not consist solely of occurrences in the external world. While a human being is an entity living in the visible world, establishing relationships, working, speaking, and making decisions, they simultaneously possess an invisible inner world. Consequently, almost all profound intellectual traditions aimed at understanding human life address human existence through two fundamental dimensions: the external and the internal. The external is the realm of human behavior, relationships, and social visibility, whereas the internal encompasses the invisible aspect of the human being, namely, the spiritual and cognitive structure. In classical thought traditions, this distinction is expressed as zahir (the manifest) and batin (the hidden). The zahir represents the facet of the human being oriented toward the world, while the batin is the side that opens inward toward oneself. However, the internal life is not monolithic in its own right. The human inner world contains at least two distinct layers: the psychological layer and the divine layer, situated at a deeper level.
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