everyone is prone to perennial problems, how meaning making machinery makes us feel meaningless and lose our co identification they are perennial since they are part of our machinery to solve these problems we turn to things like dukkha and [[Enlightenment]] - enlightenment solves problems and alleviates us all solutions must be wrapped in wisdom framing to solve these problems, we require agapic machinery ## Problems ### Functional - Self-organization / [[Relevance realization]] - Causes [[Parasitic processing]] - Self-odentification - Causes [[Modal confusion]] - Self-reflection, causes [[Reflectiveness gap]] - chaos vs choking, flow state. daoism is religion of [[Flow State]], overcoming reflective gap ### Structure - Self-world - [[Absurdity]] and [[Horror]] - Self-self - [[Anxiety]] - Self-others - [[Loneliness]] ### Development - [[Gnosticism]], existential entrapment - [[Existential Inertia]], cant move to new worldview - Need for [[Anagoge]] - needs gnosists, mythos, higher states of consciousness - existential ignorance - dont know what you will lose which is existential entrapment, [[Irreversible change]]