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humans-cannot-survive-pure-immanence
# Humans cannot survive pure immanence We are creatures who orient, and we need something beyond ourselves to orient toward, something that can draw us into a trajectory of transformation. The yearning for transcendence is not illusion or regression; it points at the perennial problems (suffering, death, self-deception, meaning) that wisdom traditions equipped us to face before the worldview supporting them collapsed. What people hunger for, often wordlessly, is that binding depth: felt contact with what is most real and most valuable. Related: [[we-objectified-reality-and-subjectivised-value]], [[legacy-religions-fail-to-disclose-the-sacred]], [[religio-is-the-binding-that-makes-a-world]]
Provenance
Source: manual
Holding
Zero holding — a leaf in the rests-on graph.