The Reckoning for Our Routine Suppressions of Epiphany
<p>When we’re young and well cared for, everything’s new and surprising and therefore relatively magical.</p>
<p>As we get older it’s harder to surprise us, so we’re liable to become jaded and alienated, unless we take care to question our assumptions, shift our perspective once in awhile, and appreciate the cosmic smallness of even the most astounding human accomplishments.</p>
<p>Achieving a childlike sense of wonder when we’re older is made harder, though, by several routine obstructions. Developed societies <a href="https://medium.com/interfaith-now/how-religions-suppress-spiritual-epiphanies-a0d0a5366549?sk=7dbe737309b1a554017bb80cfd9918b2" rel="noopener">suppress</a> wonder because this existential appreciation of life’s gravitas can be debilitating and bad for business. Far from submitting to the alienness of being’s departure from nonbeing, we humanize nature’s inhumanity to forestall epiphanies. An epiphany would be an encounter with the wildness that there’s anything at all or that the anomaly of personhood is embedded in a savage cosmos.</p>
<p>Let’s consider some of these psychological and social mechanisms that suppress epiphanies, before turning to the nature of what lies on the other side of them.</p>
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