A living experience to be sure. This is key. Perls would say that everything has awareness, we just have to meet it with awareness. I am not all that with Gestalt theory, but I can get by. Years from now I will appreciate it more and more I am confident.
Theories sometimes change like the weather, with a word here or a word there.
Sometimes theories do more harm in feeding confusion then is accomplished by the research into theories. As a matter of fact, ALL theories must one day crumble, as always new experiences will engineer new realities. And new theories. What is here today is often gone tommorrow. What always remains eternal is experience.