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>>18592004
There were certainly ups and downs to it. The best thing probably is that my family situation got significantly better, we're more financially stable than ever, with none of the toxic (unironically using that word) influences that plagued us beforehand. Home situation doesn't feel like walking on eggshells nowadays, it's more of a slow burn, not perfect, but nothing that I can't manage myself.

Another positive would be the time it left to me to consider myself, my vision of the world, and where I see myself in it right now and in the future. Solitude in the best sense of the word. I've read a good amount, learned a good deal, kept myself in decent shape, and I have a much clearer vision of what it is that I want to do, what I want to strive towards, and how I should go about it.

A negative would be, of course, the solitary nature of it - not to get into things too deeply, but I've hardly ever felt too connected to my milieu, nowadays that connection is all but severed. Nevertheless, that severance, that experience of being mentally unbound made me learn to be at peace with myself when I'm by myself, for the most part : it's not that I don't plan to establish connections in the future, after all, they are what make life truly worth living, but that I am significantly less needy, and that is a positive thing after all, I'd say.

Another negative would be the sheer time spent in such a way that I imagine most would see as practically pissing away one's most important years, and the disadvantage it put me at compared to my original peers. Since then I've made peace with this, too : I realized that hurrying to become another cog in the machine is not something that I feel the need to shed a tear over. This disconnection from most of my peers, I think it helped me develop a perspective that is unlike most other's, which I don't regret gaining : normalcy was probably never in the cards for me, anyway. Now, I feel the vague idea, or impulse of something in my mind churn, gather, and crystallize, as images, sounds, and tracks of various thoughts buzz by each other - if I'll have my way, I'll give them shape, through words or visuals.

I don't mean all that in a schizophrenic way, of course, it's just that I didn't mind the chance for contemplation, the stilling of my mind that NEET life gave me, because it brought me to be more attuned with various aspects of myself. Regardless of whether anything comes of it, or if what comes of it will be successful or a worthless failure, I feel glad that I've been given the ability and the opportunity to create something, too, something that others might find interesting or touching. All I need to figure out now is how to realize it. And make something of myself on the way there, both as a normie and as something of an "artist".

Now that I think about it, all that sounded kinda nonsensical, didn't it? Sorry. I really ought to become better with words if I am to ever use them as a medium of expression.

Redpill me on medieval cosmology/cosmologies. What did people think the universe was like? What should I read about this topic?

>>15253715
I'm not a big brain but I can try to explain how Jung thought this would/could happen: human consciousness is right now entering a new era (or aion as Jung called it). It is leaving the era of the Christian myth, which has been the defining myth of the West for about 2000 years. Leaving Christianity means, as you pointed out, the death of God. The problem is that the god-image is an essential archetype of the human mind. Simply put, if we do not consciously acknowledge God, something else will take its place, which is what happens in Communist, Fascism, consumerism.

The solution to this would obviously be to make the god image conscience as is done in traditional religion, except we can't because God is dead. Science has advanced to the point where basically no one literally believes the metaphysical claims of the Bible, except for a small minority of fundamentalists. So how does the god-image evolve so that it may exist in this new era?

I don't have the full answer, but I think that a good start is for the god-image to be recognized as an integral part of man's psyche. In traditional religion people will project these inner archetypes onto the external world, hence the gods of ancient Greece who personify human emotions. We must search for the meta narratives of all the worlds religions, and distill them to their fundamental truths about the inner psyche. Western man must become far more introspective than he has been for the last few hundred years. Just because the God of the bible may not "exist" in the cosmos does not mean he does not "exist" in the psyche in a significant way. It is important to remember that Nietzsche wasn't the first to posit the death of God. In fact the bible itself describes the crucifixion and death of Jesus, who is himself God incarnate. Jesus was killed and then rose from the dead. God must die so that he can be reborn in a new light, so that the unconscious instincts that guide human beings can be reconciled with a changing world.

Id recommend Jung's Aion or the works of Edward Edinger for more on this topic. Like I said I'm just a brainlet who likes interesting ideas; I'm no expert.