Truth

As much as any fact is a fact, it is a fact only due to the construction and relative agreement upheld by group consensus. Through a scientific lens, experience is not a fact and cannot be taken as true as it cannot be upheld by group consensus. Psychology plays a vital role as a phenomenology as well as science as there is no creative thinking without imagination or fantasy. The foundation of science is rooted in imagination and creativity and only further science respected within the scientific community is based upon facts reproducible within the agreed upon group consensus, discluding feeling and experience. Under a scientific lens, feeling, imagination, conscious experience, and the unconscious are not concretely definable as ‘real’ or ‘truth’. Reality is experienced through our unique interpretations and perspectives. As such, outside of the material world there is very little collectively agreed upon group consensus, if any. While certain byproducts of feelings and consciousness can be reductively observed through modern imagery, technology and chemical reactions, they're infinitely limited to observing or explaining the nature of these processes. Almost everything you feel, think, and experience in a conscious or unconscious fashion is a phenomena, everything you perceive as truth or reality is solely observed through your limited perception. In other words, what is true to you, is only what you think of as truth.

Excerpt from, “Love Over Fear: A Foundation for Autonomy” by J. Wesley