"For all of my remembered life I have loved and been empathetic to the natural world, humans included. Increasingly I feel like being in a dreamlike state."
Yep. I'm there too. Everyday life presents as madness. "People are stupid" is a mindset I try to resist but when I fail I remind myself that people live as they were taught and we all are suffering from the consequences of cultural madness.
If we lose faith in humanity, what else do we have?
I've grown fond of the word "metatonia" (its psychological reference, not theology) to describe my dreamlike feeling. It's a crisis of the mind. A liminal zone where one finds themselves between an established worldview and a revelatory birth of a new one.
"Carl Gustav Jung developed the usage to indicate a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn in a more adaptive form – a form of self healing often associated with the mid-life crisis and psychotic breakdown, which can be viewed as a potentially productive process. Jung considered that psychotic episodes in particular could be understood as an existential crisis which might be an attempt at self-reparation: in such instances metanoia could represent a shift in the balance of the personality away from the persona towards the shadow and the self." (from Wikipedia)
It's my view that we are all experiencing this now. Cultural stories die hard. Even among us who desire new stories.
"For all of my remembered life I have loved and been empathetic to the natural world, humans included. Increasingly I feel like being in a dreamlike state."
Yep. I'm there too. Everyday life presents as madness. "People are stupid" is a mindset I try to resist but when I fail I remind myself that people live as they were taught and we all are suffering from the consequences of cultural madness.
If we lose faith in humanity, what else do we have?
I've grown fond of the word "metatonia" (its psychological reference, not theology) to describe my dreamlike feeling. It's a crisis of the mind. A liminal zone where one finds themselves between an established worldview and a revelatory birth of a new one.
"Carl Gustav Jung developed the usage to indicate a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn in a more adaptive form – a form of self healing often associated with the mid-life crisis and psychotic breakdown, which can be viewed as a potentially productive process. Jung considered that psychotic episodes in particular could be understood as an existential crisis which might be an attempt at self-reparation: in such instances metanoia could represent a shift in the balance of the personality away from the persona towards the shadow and the self." (from Wikipedia)
It's my view that we are all experiencing this now. Cultural stories die hard. Even among us who desire new stories.