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Originally Posted by Shoe
What you are describing here is what Viktor Frankl termed Existential Angst. People fall into despair as they view everything as random and meaningless.
William James described spirituality as attempting to live in harmony with the unseen order. Laszlo is formulating a theory about an unseen order. That is why I am interested in his writings.
I also recommend reading Dean Radin's Entangled Minds.
Someone once said that a mind is like a parachute ; it works best if it is open. Not too open that your brain is going fall out though. Tom Campbell likes to use the phrase " Open minded skepticism "
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I never thought I was intelligent enough to experience existential angst. Better late than never, I guess.
Yesterday I ended up talking about this with someone - with an actual human being, who's advice basically ended up boiling down to "You're not a robot - just live!" Which isn't really what I wanted, but it did get me thinking.
I guess my solution (however long it lasts) is to just kind of...ignore it. It still feels dishonest to not adjust your worldview to new information, to not experience yourself differently knowing everything from nameless fear to transcendent inspiration is just a lot of neurons firing and shouldn't be taken seriously. But I know I'd be happiest to continue to feel those things as they come and conceptualize them abstractly and talk about concept as though they were things. Even if that makes me a crappy person who would rather be happy and ignorant. And yeah, it also gives me the right to explore things even if they're irrational and not real.
Thanks for the book recommendations.
