 Yet, there is not a divide between man's subjectiveness and his metaphysical reality.Wojtyla refers to one's own subjective experience as "lived experience" or "inner life" and argues that an individual's conscious perception of this interior life is the experience of oneself as an acting self rooted in a metaphysical reality.This interior life of a person rooted in the metaphysical reality of "Imago Dei" is what shapes John Paul II's conception of gender.