The Hellenistic Period - The Mystery Religion

So even if a family member should die, you should accept that as just part of the plan of the universe and be emotionless. That's not really the way a normal person would react. So all these philosophical schools that we've talked about here were not really superpopular with the average person. And so what people began to do was, as they had less connection emotionally to their cities, they began to be more interested in finding rel s fulfilment,. not in ritual observance of their city, but in these individualistic religions.