Q&A: A Strange Existential Feeling and Celestial Bodies
A Strange Existential Feeling and Celestial Bodies
Question
Hello.
A. We live on a blue sphere, floating around a ball of fire, and surrounded by a moon that controls the oceans. Stars, galaxies, and endless black expanses. For me, looking at this has become natural, and the more I look at things, the more I can’t shake the feeling that existence is pretty strange. I’m amazed, as though I don’t belong to any of this, and in another moment I’ll have to wake up from a dream that, to my surprise, is reality. Does this also happen to you from time to time, and do you find yourself identifying with these feelings?
B. Do you have any advice regarding fear of celestial bodies—like the size of the sun and the fact that it’s close to us—a fear that causes not-so-healthy functioning? And if you say this is some kind of psychological problem, I’m not so sure that’s all it is, because I find it logical. I’m also not at ease with the idea that the Creator placed us next to such a star. I have a very hard time with that.
Thank you.
Answer
A. No.
B. These are questions for a psychologist or psychiatrist.
I’d just like to suggest that it’s possible the questioner has a strong mystical tendency—a psychologist will kill it. Start reading, or keep reading, religious texts like The Doors of Perception by Huxley and many others. Keep opening up more and more—with the necessary caution, and together with a circle and a guide—and then, with God’s help, harness your tendencies to become a great person, like Jung, Mircea Eliade, Erich Neumann in recent generations, and, to distinguish, as towering spiritual figures in the Torah world, though this is not the place to list them. Go in this your strength.