The sense of inquiry recovers its capacity to move as a whole rather than as a collection of guarded fragments. What had been chronic interference becomes, through the cultivation of nonjudgmental openness, a more permeable interface.
The foundational layer that underpins all inquiry is not the raw data of the world, nor even the conscious questions we pose. It is a deeper, largely invisible stratum of prior assumptions that have hardened into felt certainties.
The fundamental problem with any conditioned observer—or indeed with any human being—is that we instinctively permit our own rigidity and culturally inherited frameworks of understanding to intrude upon and distort the living sociobody of our sense of inquiry.
Objective reality is not thereby grasped in its totality—such a claim would itself be another form of rigidity—but it is approached with fewer intervening screens.