ENGA11H3 Lecture : KEY THEMES FOR LECTURE 1
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Loss of transcendental certitude, you have a crisis of reality: y. In earlier times, you did not have to understand what was happening because it was thought to be done by divinity. But you did know that whatever there was, was right. y transcendental certitude is a belief in something that cannot be topped. If you sin the soul darkens, if your forgiven the soul lightens. y. God, you have a good sense of direction in your life. In age of anxiety, which is the current age, our center seems to have been distorted. It is occupied by materialistic things, which cannot keep us aligned with our reality. y an example would be that of the hip hop and pop culture, they crave for fame and money. They start having conflicts with their reality, which mostly results in them being involved with drugs. These drugs make them numb so they don t have to deal with their reality.
