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The Varieties of Mystical Experience
In a concise note at the beginning of the book, Critchley describes a fabled world “once upon a time” when “hermit-like” sufferers of an unnamed plague became painfully aware of contagion and withdrew from social life. He thankfully refrains from a ham-fisted thesis about how the Covid era was akin to the apocalyptic plagues of yore and turned us a... See more
Elvia Wilk • The Varieties of Mystical Experience
This reminds me a lot of the recent “Chaos is a Ladder” entry in Not Boring’s Vertical Integrators series. The idea that disruption leads to new paradigms. This also reminds me of Hegel’s concept of sublation. Take a disruption to the status quo, emerge with a new challenger to the paradigm, merge the new with the old and establish a new status quo. This appears to be a steadfast rule applying equally to a spiritual evolution, per this article, or a techno-economic paradigm, or the entire course of history in the world