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RE: I Met a Buddhist Monk When I Was 22: Part 2
Yeah, and that's clear in the characterizations of human nature in Greek and other mythologies,with different gods likely reflecting conflicting urges and beliefs of people.
I think vision-esque experiences are the product our intuition and subconscious processing experiences and information, and spitting out conclusions very suddenly into our conscious minds. You're right, many people do live that way, myself included; based on our society and what it values, it's decidedly a less common way of being, but an important and valid one nonetheless.
i believe people like us would fit in very easily in a tribe. A lot of modern society people have lost their inner narrative, as it has been replaced by consumerism. The traveling inward has a wealth that people of nowadays have mostly lost. Artists, programmers, writers and other creative people, those who create not in some kind of mechanical way, but as a product of inner dialogue, those people are like the messengers of a world before corporations and the over-dependence on consumerism. The less I buy, the more I am creating to fill in the voids. It took me a while, but I can say that I don't really desire things anymore. I desire experiences and connection, but not 'things.' It has not always been this way, but I started my quest pretty early....in my early 20's. I've been practicing this for a while now.
Huh, that's a really thought provoking perspective. Maybe Steemit is the tribe! I'm definitely getting better at detaching myself from things. Objects only matter to me insofar as they are vehicles for experience.