I have a question about what you call the Cosmic Perspective when a person is trying to forgive and to understand the one who behaved badly. You say that this perspective is for those who have a transcendent perspective or a religious perspective. Can you think of how a non-religious person can appropriated the Cosmic Perspective?

Not all people who do not have a religious perspective want to take the Cosmic Perspective.  For those who have an interest, I would recommend that they start by focusing on the non-concreted aspects of people, particularly the mind and rationality.  The materialist philosophical perspective to date has not been able to account for the mind, which does not seem to have a physical cause because the mind and the brain are not the same.  In other words, the person who is trying to forgive can see that all people, including the one who acted unjustly, share an abstract, transcendent issue and that is the presence of the mind.

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