The Final Answer is to Question

In my blog I try to take care not to take on a tone that could be considered New Age — which, to me, means any search that begins by turning against dogmas and ends up with its very own dogma and with the seeker thinking themselves a prophet. From the beginning of my search, the one thing I was determined to do was to avoid thinking I had a final answer: it wasn't a final answer I was looking for, just to stay curious and keep learning, because we can always go deeper and ask questions about the answers to our questions.
So when I coined the word "infinitarianism", more as a joke than something else (I wanted an email address without my name), it expressed the question rather than the answer, and if anything, its final answer is that there are no final answers. For me, the road is the goal, which isn't to say just to move around any roads I can find, but the actual building of the roads all over the universe, all over my brain, to allows me to move anywhere I want in my consciousness.
And if at any point I turn out to be wrong, it won't stop me from thinking "what if" because it's still interesting as a possibility. I don't want my thinking to be limited to anything, including to the real or to the imaginary. I'll just put a sign at that particular road saying "dead end" and go there when I want to enjoy the quiet outside the traffic… it helps me think, gives me perspective. I don't know where I am, but I enjoy traveling anyway, so I'm in no hurry to get anywhere.
Many spiritual people turn to dogma because it's much easier to bear being faced with infinity when you believe there is some rhyme and reason to it: it's easier to feel like you are "synchronizing to the vibration of the galaxy" than to realize that you're alone in your search and no one will share it with you — because it goes against the stream of society and nature alike, and the way that dogma always turns up in that search is just another way in which every force in your environment is trying to drag you back down to their level.

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