/lit/ - Literature

yes. it started last summer when i had a lot of free time with nothing to do but walk around by myself in the woods. like another anon upthread i was ruminating on the hard problem of consciousness & increasingly became convinced of idealism and realized the paucity of the materialism and scientism to which i’d previously subscribed. shortly thereafter i read some about st catherine of siena & st teresa of avila and started feeling this intense yearning in my heart to receive the eucharist and experience the real presence of Christ. started going to mass recently & will probably join RCIA soon. i was baptized catholic but wasn’t raised in the church. i’m really attracted to the concepts of free will, compassion, truth, goodness, beauty, the rational human spirit, & the intelligibility and purpose of the universe.