I made this comment in another thread but I want more of your eyeballs on it, maybe somebody has something useful to say.
I have some serious anxiety about the fact that modern civilization is all of us in a bus driving towards a cliff, with the driver’s foot firmly on the accelerator pedal. Therapy is available to me, but what the fuck are they gonna say? Tune out?
That kind of "new age" thinking is a problem when profits gets in the way, or if you use it to form yourself a cage to be safe from the outside, I think. The good part about it is opening oneself to other types of thinking, people from other lands, which thought of some existential questions you ask yourself too often, which are all humans but so removed from our own lives that it can only be of great use. Hence why the best "spiritual" works are, maybe, often those that are anonymous and survived through the ages, that one guy just wrote for the sake of giving his perspective and knowledge to others, without seeking anything in return.
Anyway reading is cool. And following obsessions someone plunged in all the same 200 years ago, is pretty neat, too, to better our understanding of.. various problems, and the struggle with our current world.