All consciousness is local, in the strict sense of the frog, who does not know the greater cause of his sickness, but only that he is sick.
Just so, every individual being, each unique consciousness, clings to its landmarks and pathways, unaware that its own, peculiar landscape is part of something greater.
Every living being, from the miniscule microbe to the gigantic sequoia, lives at the center of its own landscapes. Landscape intelligence extends only so far, and whatever is hidden by the familiar landmarks and pathways is of beyond their ken.
And people, despite the gifts of mind, intelligence, reflection and imagination, are also (for the most part) imprisoned in the landmarks and pathways of the human landscape. We are just like that frog.