Objectivity

Psychologist have that ideal that there is the stage of sanity, an evolution of man that allows us to understand reality as is. Erich Fromm writes in 'The Sane Society':

"Although biologically the brain capacity of the human race has remained the same for thousand of generations, it takes a long evolutionary process to arrive at objectivity, that is, to acquire the faculty to see the world, nature, other persons and oneself as they are, and not distorted by desires and fears."

The Course in Miracles reminds us that there are only two ways of looking at the world and people, you either look at them with God's vision or you look at them from the point of view of the ego. These worlds are polar opposites and there is no in-between.  The former world embraces pure love and nothing but, while the latter is based on our desires and fears and will always remain distorted in one way or another.

It turns out that if you read Erich Fromm's claim carefully, you actually discover my spiritual  interpretation as well: when man is able to erase desires and fears in himself, he has in fact managed to transcend the ego. Only then is he able to perceive nature and people with God's objective vision, that is, the perfect vision of love.