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The notion of purpose is really just a slightly abstracted version of connected (which, in turn, is a slightly abstracted version of integrated, which in turn...) In other words, the failure to sense what we are part of by abstracting reality and living inside that abstraction creates an experiential disconnection that hurts.
And that hurt translates to us as a raw need, just like the need for oxygen when we hold our breath. But since we don't usually sense any more depth to that feeling than just something that is missing, it comes out in our experience as not belonging, of not fitting in in a way that seems to include a loss of direction. Run through our cultural filters, that translates into needing a purpose.
What it all means is that we are perceptually out of place and feel it as viscerally as a fish out of water. We just don't know we are out of our place because we don't perceive reality from an experiential perspective. But, thank goodness, this is a learned behavior. And what is learned can be unlearned...
Peace,
Anton Elohan
The notion of purpose is really just a slightly abstracted version of connected (which, in turn, is a slightly abstracted version of integrated, which in turn...) In other words, the failure to sense what we are part of by abstracting reality and living inside that abstraction creates an experiential disconnection that hurts.
And that hurt translates to us as a raw need, just like the need for oxygen when we hold our breath. But since we don't usually sense any more depth to that feeling than just something that is missing, it comes out in our experience as not belonging, of not fitting in in a way that seems to include a loss of direction. Run through our cultural filters, that translates into needing a purpose.
What it all means is that we are perceptually out of place and feel it as viscerally as a fish out of water. We just don't know we are out of our place because we don't perceive reality from an experiential perspective. But, thank goodness, this is a learned behavior. And what is learned can be unlearned...
Peace,
Anton Elohan
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