To the descentist, life is a problem in need of a solution. The problem is that I find myself here, experiencing all manners of pain and suffering.
The solution is meaningful change through existential transformation. For me it was prompted by a growing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Not for a shortage of ideas; the spiritual marketplace is loud with every type of voice. But I only found answers without action, and action without results. Though it took two decades before I could explain exactly why, for all their variety, they felt the same. Sonsotism is the result of my decades-long search for actionable answers.
The state of existence, or existential model, is the collection of beliefs, behaviors and practices that define the general character of our life experience. According to sonsotism, there are two such categories: ascentism and descentism. Ascentism is the traditional existential model formed over long years of indoctrination, while descentism is an opposing construct arrived at through contemplation and practice.
Unilateral instruction from parents, educators, authorities, and ambient channels form the boundaries of the ascentist reality, so that by the time we have questions, we are lost in a conceptual maze built and reinforced over decades. This isn’t accidental; the ascentist worldview is a deliberate and systematic effort to restrict the narrative of our existence to keep us in servitude to two principles:
- Principle of Submission. We are small observers of an external world that exists without us.
- Principle of Replication. Life must be preserved and extended.
These two ascentist principles permeate every aspect of the ascentist worldview and are the reason we lead meaningless lives of toil, consumption, and proliferation while ignoring our inner longing for escape and peace. Decades of indoctrination have created sturdy mental and physical walls, and, Like a prison, everything seems designed to keep us locked into a cycle of submission, desire, and procreation.
Descentism challenges this perspective by exposing our suppressed desire for permanent peace, and a practical path for achieving meaningful transformation to that end.
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