Perception Paradigm & Shift: Lindsay Conrad

In The Silent Planet Ransom is beaten and drugged and then put on a spaceship. I found it interesting the way he began to discover his surroundings and how his paradigm of what is safe and normal seemed to shift as the book carried on.
At first he was trying to figure out his surroundings by comparing the feel of things to what her knew. For instance, he was on a bed, but the wall was hot, so he determined he was in an outhouse by the heater. Since that was ineffective as he went into the new land, he started to just notice things as the hrossa did. I think we have trouble understanding things we do not have previous knowledge of. So, I would argue that intuition plays a part in what we know and how we learn and perceive things. I also think that would beg the question: how does one come to know God? Maybe He is already in our hearts and minds and what we discover, our hearts already know and can be further transformed from them.
As Ransom continued to grow and learn from the hrossa, those that looked like him became foreign and even strange. When he saw his captors for the first time after he was on the planet for quite some time, they looked strange and not from the land. He thought he was coming in contact with a new a different creature from the land and he was confused because he had not heard of this new creature. At this point he had shifted his paradigm of one that had founded on only one point of knowledge to that of another creature and even another planet.
I think the same situation is shown in the moving from country to country. Each are members of this place, Earth, but each have different ways. By choosing to embrace the differences of perceptions and opinions we are truly able to open up different avenues to discover truth and maybe even a sense of transcendence and peace.