Science is sacred - by Ruben Laukkonen - Sacred Basic
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The mastery of mania
“…one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla Life is all about the questions we choose to keep alive. The closer you get to real science—by which I mean the stuff that begins to make fleeting, shimmering moments of contact with a hidden reality—the more you discover that it’s a spiritual endeavour and that a transcendental intuition is needed to ask the right questions. A kind of religious integrity is also needed. In a weird way, being truly creative in science or art requires us to master mania. Because a worldview that steps beyond the zeitgeist always looks a bit crazy…
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