What are some of the epithanies that led you to it and maybe even out of it!?
PS I don't mean depression here, but rather I am interested in your quest for the turth and etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Philosophy> Are you having an existential crisis?Question: Are you having an existential crisis!? What are some of the epithanies that led you to it and maybe even out of it!?
PS I don't mean depression here, but rather I am interested in your quest for the turth and etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: All of my existential crises have resulted in my being led back to religion in one form or another!.!.!.!.and then a pendulum swing back into existential crisis!. My first crisis was at the age of four when I had the epiphany that I would die some day!. Parents placated me with religion!. As I grew older and understood the inevitability of death and taxes, my need for religion wavered and I found myself once again, drawn to the intellectual, as opposed to the spiritual!. It wasn't until my latest epiphany that I realized that one can have both spiritual and intellectual tendencies!. So in a nutshell - currently, no, but I've experienced them in the past!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I'm not sure if I am in crisis now but I did have what I would define as an existential crisis about 5 years ago!. I had long been a spiritual and mystical person, overwhelmed with philosophy and spiritual practices!. Certain forms of meditation will eventually cause a catharsis of subconscious content--and when it occurs, its not necessarily pretty despite what airy fairy New Agey and monistic people who claim to be enlightened say!. One day, I found out who and what I really was and why my personality and life was as it was (and what everyone else is)!. Having realized the difference between the conditioned self and the volitional self, I was angry and miserable for a while but when I made peace with it, I felt very free and compassionate!. Now I know that the purpose of life is just to exist and that whatever happens is natural!. Although I still dabble in spirituality, mysticism and (now) even psychonautical magic and although I stress and fume over unrequited desires and have mind-trips and what- not just like any regular person, I know that this is just stuff to do and stuff happening and is merely the inexorable nature of being a conditioned human being fashioned from a complex and neurotically contrived web of interdependently arising circumstances!.Www@QuestionHome@Com well, it was a snippet of philosophy that I'd overheard that led into it!. I was rather young and impressionable at the time!. Too many movies with schizophrenics who can't tell the difference between their waking dreams and reality!.!.!. I got out of it by realizing that it doesn't matter if I truely exist or am somebody elses dream, Or whether or not what I see is reality!. I can only live my life the best I can living as I know how to live and trying to be what I believe I should be!. When it comes down to it, you either exist or don't but it's not something you have control over!. I've seen people frustrate themselves sick with worrying over things they have no control over!. Sometimes we just have to give in or accept that things are going to be a certain way!. Don't take that to mean you should never try and change things, just that you should try to be aware of what things you can affect and which ones you can't!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I was introduced to existentialism way too early!. At eighteen years of age I was reading Sarte, Jean Genet and Camus!. I really thought I had an understanding of it!. I was determined to live out the values of the principles I was reading about!. It really twisted my perceptions and led to a crisis of sorts!. I still have great respect for the artistry of those novels!. I no longer take them on as personal manifestos!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My whole life is a big pile of existential problems!. I think it comes and goes because I've found that people can't live their life constantly wondering and analysing never really knowing what it is that they are doing!. I would say that what helps me get out of it mostly, is remembering that most things are meaningless and it doesn't matter that i can't find my way!. I would go to a cafe and watch people and realise that they are not thinking about what i am!. That I have seen fault in life and that i am noticing it, and that I can accept it!. I then go on to remind myself to live life through the thought of death, it doesn't matter what i'm here for just make the most of it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The search for the nexus of thought has had my attention for about 41/2 to 5 years now!. Trying to figure out how a specific person in my life was capable of a particular from of self destruction and twisted logic started it!. And now I am left with watching two camps argue over the their view of consciousness!. Materialism or Phenomenal-ism!. Oddly enough this seems to be the central question on many minds, just indifferent formats!. I do not like to take a side, I like the facts and arguments behind them!.,Www@QuestionHome@Com No I am not having an existential crisis!. I know why I exist!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |