The Liminal Learning Portal

4. Some become invested in their own philosophical or spiritual or media-driven greatness and begin to compete with others for the immortality that fame is implicitly believed to bring. They look for their chance to change the world, to make a dent in the universe.

3. They still get into heaps of relational complications and drama. They suffer from anxiety and burnout. They begin subscribing to crazy religious, spiritual, intellectual, and political doctrines—ruining their lives and families as a result. Some few commit suicide. universe.

@HedevanD @AlbertEinstein Good point.

“Clean your room — and *then* you can criticize society and change the world”. Einstein’s office at Princeton. And the office of Adolf Hitler. (From my upcoming book.)

An interview on the upcoming book — this one delves pretty deep and faces the more intellectual listeners. youtube.com/watch?v=vPcVxH…

Cosmoeroticism: the erotic drive is at the center of our spiritual experience of reality, our wordless relationship to reality itself. That’s why it’s called “cosmo”-eroticism; it’s about centering our attention on our lust-driven relatedness, our love affair with the cosmos.

*From the upcoming book.

Just like you can take a personal issue and project it onto a societal one, so can you take a societal issue and project it onto a personal one. Simple example: Did you know that about 98-99% of venture capital goes to men, 1-2% to women?

Facing that inconvenient truth, we’re all tempted to create some kind of immortality project: We all want fame and glory, or something along those lines. It’s just socially impossible to quite admit it to one another. We all think we’re a bit chosen. The Chosen One™.

And the same goes for everyone we love and care about. Even if some scientific progress is made to dramatically lengthen our lifespans we’re still going to die, sooner or later. And the same goes for “humanity”, however we define that category.