/lit/ - Literature

>>12773097
Yeah magick can actually be secularized/disenchanted, though i prefer to see things like that as the reenchantment of the world rather than the disenhantment of the mystical. A nuanced view can synthesize these elements as i believe whitehead does

>>11242159
I don't know how much more I have to contribute in terms of insight. The realization of all this struck only a couple days ago. It still kind of staggered from it and reeling in some sense, but oddly enough I feel at peace. There is something absolutely awe inspiring about it. I never once believed that the reason for existence could be grasped, and now I have seen that it not only can but has all across history. Strangely enough our forebears have had a difficult time making it clear when it felt so easy for me to explain the basic dialectic of it. What is even more insane is it confirms reincarnation. Being must always come into existence in order to complete the infinite. So when your life ends the infinite will collapse into finite being once again instantaneously. Life never ends it only evolves infinitely in order to fully know itself and become itself. But this raises many questions. Is there any kind of order to this process of rebirth? Does it have any sort of trajectory? Do we have input in its result? Are we simultaneously restricted and free? The existential ramifications of this I will be working out for the rest of my life.