An interesting Guardian article:
It is worth reminding ourselves that the vast majority of our ancestors saw the world in a very different way than we do today. They understood their universe to be ensouled or inspirited, with invisible deities intricately entwined with all aspects of life and death. For most of human history, the questions and answers of life and death were sought not in the causal relationships of a historical worldview or the scientific method, but rather through mythology and religion.
Yes, but that knowledge, that wisdom, has now been vanquished by the cold, sterile, bleak picture created by our modern western Weltanschauung. Creating existential angst, despair, and an all pervasive ennui. We distract ourselves with the trivialities of existence -- money, prestige, travel, celebrities -- anything to distract us the from the inner anxiety and dread that threatens to rear its head in moments of reflection.
[I]n the Maya world, disease was understood as a result of physical and spiritual imbalance, with illness resulting from the transgression of the laws of nature and society or the captivity of the soul by supernatural beings.
That's good. Means I shouldn't get cancer and stuff. 😂
