10-21-2003, 10:08 PM
I think your missing the point that bothered me.
Embracing turmoil and confusion doesnt help you most times. "Clearing your head"/meditaion or what ever you call it is ussually the key to self awareness/zen/seeing the big picture.
Gennerally when confronted with radical ideas, or a deluge of new information the human psyc is overwhelmed. We make pur best effort to assemble it coherently, but often we dont quite put it together properly.
The best approach in these cases is ussually to step back and allow our subconsious to gain some perspective.
Then it is time to turn back around and use the tools of reason to rebuild a coherent understanding.
All to often people dig quickly into a new subject and the result is a forced and contrieved paradigm that only serves to leave them dissillusioned when it fails.
The odd point here is your example from your youth was probably a bit of of a "zen" exsperience and seems much more quite reasonable than your example at the end of the first post.
Embracing turmoil and confusion doesnt help you most times. "Clearing your head"/meditaion or what ever you call it is ussually the key to self awareness/zen/seeing the big picture.
Gennerally when confronted with radical ideas, or a deluge of new information the human psyc is overwhelmed. We make pur best effort to assemble it coherently, but often we dont quite put it together properly.
The best approach in these cases is ussually to step back and allow our subconsious to gain some perspective.
Then it is time to turn back around and use the tools of reason to rebuild a coherent understanding.
All to often people dig quickly into a new subject and the result is a forced and contrieved paradigm that only serves to leave them dissillusioned when it fails.
The odd point here is your example from your youth was probably a bit of of a "zen" exsperience and seems much more quite reasonable than your example at the end of the first post.