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The death of definitive answers is the birth of living inquiry.

>>20469599
The Unknown, the holy symbol of which is the question mark.

I'm looking for philosophers who have explored the concept of the unknown, the process of discovery, and wonder - especially philosophers who have emphasized and celebrated it, instead of problematizing it.

The unknown isn't an absence, but is something like an omnipresent horizon of potentiality: something like a force that tugs on consciousness and perhaps the entire universe.

The experience of the unknown is wonder, which is explored in this document: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/appliedimagination/readings/a_philosophy_of_wonder.pdf

>Our English wonder,lying relatively close to its primitive roots, retains the more powerful force of miracle; and although it is liberally used in English translations of Biblical terms that carry supernatural connotations, it is by no means an equivalent. Wonder,from the Old English wundor, might be cognate with the German Wunde or wound. It would thus suggest a breach in the membrane of awareness, a sudden opening in a man's system of established and expected meanings, a blow as if one were struck or stunned. To be wonderstruck is to be wounded by the sword of the strange event, to be stabbed awake by the striking.

Reject Buddhism and worship the Holy Question Mark - the symbol of the infinite and ever-changing Unknown. May you apply desire to itself, whittling striving into a piercing wonder that forever seeks the strangifying event.

>>20413299
Imagine avoiding The Wonderful instead of trying to seek it out with every ounce of spirit you can.
Absolutely petrified.

Life can be filled with endless wonder if you can find and follow the call of discovery. Let the question mark be your holy symbol, and find curiosity as your holy impulse.

Why not make a religion around the process of searching? Is it not something that is universal to human experience, something primordially found in the act of an organism grasping towards sustenance? Something that compels higher aspiration? Making discovery and The Unknown a holy object is inherently self-transformative, thus overcoming the petrifying effects that traditional transcendental objects have. A religion of discovery is the true religion of becoming.

Basically my religion is philosophy - not as any particular philosophical conclusion, but the process of philosophical investigation itself. Or even more generally: inquiry and questioning. Consciousness itself is a process of discovery. "God" is "The Unknown" that instead of being an absence, is something like a horizon of potentiality. Curiosity is divine.

Searching for any and all philosophical or poetic literature about this. Heraclitus says something about it:

>Whoever cannot seek
>the unforeseen sees nothing,
>for the known way
>is an impasse.

>>20375153
Sounds like you truly understand all the hype around "becoming." All that's left is application.

There is a spirituality of exploration, creativity, and discovery that can be found among people whose curiosity has been successfully nourished by their experiences and cultivated by their own search. A sense of divinity is found in The Unknown, in what lies beyond one's immediate understanding and interpretation of the world, and finds communion in experiences of awe and wonder with the world. What is unknown to anyone is truly infinite, and can be grasped by contemplating the cosmos and the natural world. The will to explore is an evolutionary impulse, an extension of the grasping of life towards potentiality.
These two videos and comic describes this spirituality from the perspective of a scientist, musician, and an artist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVVm75k_8Q
https://youtu.be/rWnA4XLrMWA
http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

>>17445366
>It's amazing someone managed to reduce him this well.
You'll probably love this comic: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park