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Ep. 17 - Gnosis and Existential Inertia

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Transformative Experience

This goes to the heart of one of the best books. I've already mentioned it before in this series, and i think philosophy in the last 20 years, elli paul's work, a transformative experience. She she says, somebody offers you to taste this fruit that you've never tasted before. You don't know which reaction you're going to have until you bite the fruit. This is your prospectibal knowing. That's the core of you don't know what your salient landscape will be like when you eat this fruit until you have eaten the fruit.

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