The kind of nothingnessness that she describes in this post seems like it might be connected with why awakened states haven’t been able to scale effectively. It seems to me that it is a non-obvious step to integrate a high level of awakeness with ongoing meaningness. I think that among other things, it requires having a community of people with a shared sense of awakeness. This makes sense, since humans are socio-cultural creatures. And then if the only sorts of communities that can maintain such a state tend to be unproductive (genetically or economically) because they are monasteries… then there are natural scaling limits.
This raises questions like “what would an enlightened family look like?” and “what would an enlightened company look like?” and “what would an enlightened school look like?” It seems that (for lots of reasons) the cultures would be very different than what we’re used to.
I am interested in knowing if Valentine or others have thoughts on these questions or any other questions related to scaling or avoiding what are in essence nihilist traps!
I clicked on a link in the first one and found my way to this post: https://aellagirl.com/2016/08/21/421/
The kind of nothingnessness that she describes in this post seems like it might be connected with why awakened states haven’t been able to scale effectively. It seems to me that it is a non-obvious step to integrate a high level of awakeness with ongoing meaningness. I think that among other things, it requires having a community of people with a shared sense of awakeness. This makes sense, since humans are socio-cultural creatures. And then if the only sorts of communities that can maintain such a state tend to be unproductive (genetically or economically) because they are monasteries… then there are natural scaling limits.
This raises questions like “what would an enlightened family look like?” and “what would an enlightened company look like?” and “what would an enlightened school look like?” It seems that (for lots of reasons) the cultures would be very different than what we’re used to.
I am interested in knowing if Valentine or others have thoughts on these questions or any other questions related to scaling or avoiding what are in essence nihilist traps!