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[Anonymous No.22536310]

I'm looking for books that go into the possibility to have a spiritual depth in a secular world. How do we regain the mystical and the sacred whilst still retaining reason and the scientific method? Is it even possible? And no don't give me some new age rubbish or western "buddhist" trite

[Anonymous No.22536319]

>>22536310
The German Romantic tradition. Goethe, Carlyle, Kierkegaard, Wagner, Nietzsche, Weber, Rilke, George, Jung, Heidegger, Junger, Gadamer, etc.

[Anonymous No.22536345]

>>22536319
Germans can't think and all their desire for republics while longing for meaning is exactly the atheist torment. Republics are not meant to be spiritual in any way, since they are a mercantile and bureaucratic tool to make the bureaucrats and business men the ruling class.
At the end of the day,a theists have to acknowledge that there is no meaning in the business world and if they want meaning democracy has to be destroyed.

Also Germans are so pathetic that they were 100 years late on the secular enlightenment kek.

[Anonymous No.22536359]

>>22536310
What you're looking for is "appeal to emotion". I have never gotten an explanation for what spirituality even is better said than an emotional reaction pertaining to one's religious beliefs. And the actual beliefs are irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.22536363]

>>22536310
Go to a classical music concert
It connects you with the sacred and has the community aspect of a mass

[Anonymous No.22536366]

>>22536345
>Germans can't think

[Anonymous No.22536399]

>>22536345
>all their desire for republics
What are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.22536407]

>>22536363
>>22536319

>art and aesthetics can replace religion

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