“… Nietzsche was to eventually consider the goal of understanding the nature of reality both impossible and inherently demeaning to the human condition.”
Impossible? No, not at all. Reality has historically revealed the nature of real reality to mystics.
Demeaning to humans? No. Not at all either. Reality is evolving humans as extensions of Itself as it creates all existence.
“Yet, we ask, can a thinking human being ever stop wondering about what reality and the self within it, ultimately are?
No, humans can’t stop wondering about reality and the self within it. It’s inbuilt.
Reality is making some of Its reality clear to mystics all the time.
But it hasn’t made 80 percent of the human race at any one time in history aware of their basic, seminal, real spiritual selves yet, if the Pareto* principle is right. Why, we don’t know.
“Even if we, as primates, cannot arrive at the ultimate metaphysical answers, aren’t we correct in aspiring to overcome our own metaphysical mistakes and delusions?”
We do arrive at the ultimate metaphysical answers – as and when Reality is good and ready to wake us and prepare us for them.
The full essay from which these quotes are taken as review items is at Essentiafoundation.org
*The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.
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