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RE: The Games We Play: R.D. Laing's Poetry of Pathology
Fascinating figure, and neat intro (I was not aware of his ‘poetry’).
Love this: self-interest has no context in these grander, transcendent rules. Echoes, of course, of mystical truths 🙏🏼
Thanks Yahia - I felt I was losing my way a bit toward the end but am glad you enjoyed that attempt at a summation :) The whole book is a profoundly mystical experience for me, although it is so rooted in his psychological, scientific understanding. It's perhaps the best explanation, in my mind, of why we have this tendency towards such questions and searches in the first place.
We are meaning-seeking creatures, and the seeming paradox of it, is that sometimes this means looking past the rational to something that defies naming (though it might go by many names: science, psychology, intuition, mysticism).