What did David Hawkins mean when he said: It is the ultimate human paradox that man's reliance on perception precludes the seeing of his true nature?

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Oh wow, a Hawkins question! So, Hawkins believes in the pathway of self-inquiry and surrender. You use self-inquiry to identify parts of the ‘self’, and then proceed to surrender these parts to the ‘Self’. The Self is the divine part of consciousness, the part directly connected to God, and the part