The persona can eventually become ourselves, or an aspect of ourselves, to the point where we don't know which is the mask and which is the I. - F. David Peat

Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.

Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way. ...it is a dynamic and living process, an aspect of the ever-changing, ever-renewing process of nature.

Is there an objective aspect that remains constant through time? Or are we more like open systems or processes within the constant flow of life?