Multi-Spections is the intentional perspective taking of multiple points of view in order to form a better understanding of a more holistic reality. It takes more than one perspective to understand the world. While some beliefs are utterly unverifiable and/or contradictory, most (while not all the time) can provide valuable insight into the holistic yet varied nature of reality. In order to approach as close as we can to an objective understanding of the universe, we must collate as many subjective, verifiable perspectives as we can. The analogy of Benjamin Franklin’s multi-colored bifocals comes to mind; we need to be able to switch between as many layers of view as we can to get to a more holistic, less stagnant, less dogmatic understanding of reality. Being the descendants of terrestrial apes, we must bare in mind that our eyes only adapted to perceive a mere fraction of the EM spectrum, and, since we are still planet-bound in a rather secluded corner of a single galaxy, we will need to exercise the full breadth of our collective imaginations to visualize perspectives outside our immediate experience. The only caveat for the inclusion of new lenses of perception into our allegoric bifocals is that the views remain internally coherent, independently observable (within the scope of our limited views), and allow for the existence of other potentially better perspectives. An example of two observations that seem contradictory but are in fact simultaneously true is that everything dies and that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. These are both verifiable scientific facts: entropy exists but so does rebirth. Another example is that everything is energy and also that everything is chemicals- additionally that everything is vibration on a subatomic level (including so-called solid matter). Everything is atoms, everything is particles, everything is waves, and everything is quantum entangled on a cosmic level with everything else. At the same time that there is community, solipsism is technically also true, which is that the only thing you can be totally sure of is that you are conscious. In many ways, these perspectives are entirely different worlds, but they are also One. They exist simultaneously intermeshed, not separate. So since we now know that we are all interconnected should we not work to be kind to each other/ourselves? Should we not practice Empathy/compassion with all of existence? Should we not realize the infinite benefits of this kind of selfish altruism? We exist in a reality of matter and also of mass, and of energy, and of chemicals, and of space, and of information, and of Consciousness. We might exist within a computer, or in a dream, or in a god; all these things are or could be simultaneously true and that is okay. To limit ourselves to just one of these hypotheses, these lenses of perception, is to stunt our holistic comprehension. Cynical realism coexists with idealistic inspiration. Reductionism and utilitarianism coexist alongside morality and ethics. These perspectives all exist within the same world; they are one. To reiterate, not all ideas are equally true. For example, the literal Abrahamic god belief is utterly exclusionary to the vast majority of other perspectives. He didn’t make the world in seven days unless both the god and “days” is viewed as one of the thousands of other creation myths as allegories, that archetype begins to make a lot more cohesive sense. We need not comprehend the specifics of every proposition in order to realize its general value as yet another point of view; each view adds to the “theory of everything.” Each internally cohesive perspective adds to our higher understanding. The usefulness of this gear shifting in everyday life cannot be overstated. Communally this perspective taking builds Empathy-Understanding with other living beings, yet more examples of the determinist mechanistic pause and effect perspective can be shown to be true at least to a point (that point being our terrestrial and spacial limitations), but this view can simultaneously coexist alongside or within a multiverse hypothesis where every possibility is potentially expressed in an alternate mirror-world, and these parallel universes are as numerous and varied as the perspective-taking of the consciousnesses within them. Additionally, the Dualistic (black is separate from white, or ‘you’ is separate from ‘me’) only truly makes sense between a Nondualist (where everything is part of a whole) reality. It is simultaneously true that everything seems finite, and, at the same time, reality appears to behave like an infinite fractal, minds within minds, cells within cells, worlds within worlds, ad infinitum, yet simultaneously finite within their localized within their limited scope. To more fully understand holistic (Nondual) reality and each other, we must be able to view many distinct (dualistic) perspectives. You need not, and indeed should not, incorporate them all into your interactive reality, but you should remain cognizant of them all. In Buddhism, the “Great Revelation” is that there is no self. In Hinduism, the “Great Truth” is that everything is the Self. Both things can be true. The Self (Freudian ego) may be delusory, but we are a part of the ‘Everything’ around us (quantum mechanics). Nothing can exist truly in a vacuum. We are each kinetically related to every other. Being on this planet, we are all of us Earthlings, and everything on Earth was made from stardust and sun energy, and every star in every galaxy came from the singularity. Whether you see it as the big bang or a god’s will or an eternally cyclical multiverse or a never-ending, always-changing, dramatic play, or a cosmic consciousness experiencing itself, the answer is YES. Everything is existence, everything is awareness, everything is perspective, and the more perspectives you hold the more you get to see.