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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4898990" data-attributes="member: 59082">How does what I wrote sound terrible? I don't see it, or maybe you're not really understanding what I'm saying. But I will say that my view is informed by studying developmental psychology and various educational theories, so it isn't merely some sort of auto-didactic pie-in-the-sky perspective. If you're the only person in the world that lives outside of the basic principles of psychological development, more power to you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Another way to put it is that people--both individually and collectively (historically)--are born into a kind of quasi-paradisical state, a non-differentiated consciousness where they are not separate from the world. Gradually, and then suddenly with adolescence, separation occurs, thus the myths of the Fall that are central to just about every mythology. The ego/individuality manifests, not fully formed and "here" until about 21 (although this varies) and one inhabits a solely external world. Many people enter some kind of mid-life crisis or search for meaning sometime in their 30s or early 40s (although it can come about earlier), where the world-as-it-is no longer satisfies, or rather the culturally normative explanations don't satisfy. I would say that, unfortunately, the vast majority of people find some sort of succor from a belief system or lifestyle that satiates rather than "cures" the dissatisfaction. Very few go the other way, which is inward, the Grail Quest.My point is that the sense of wonder that David Zindell spoke of is a deep experience of reality that we had as children but often lose as adults, or at least to the same degree. But I am also saying that we can not only re-capture it but manifest a new order of it that is ultimately more satisfying because of our own added creative impulse and participation. Terrible, I know <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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