I love transcendence stories.<\/p>\n
The gospels of the new testament are a classic example. The movie powder would be another. Stranger in a strange land another. <\/p>\n
The basic elements are a naive\/pure outsider with an important life-and-paradigm changing message. Some hear and follow, including some wise and jaded, others do not.<\/p>\n
But the ending is always the same. Death, dispersal, ascension, whatever. Removal from the material world made physical. Maybe it’s commentary on the impermanence of transcendence. Maybe it’s expressing a fundamental truth that it is to be valued and perhaps even cultivated, but that it does not sustain life.<\/p>\n
I’ll say this for bujold in her chalion series. She shows people changed but still there after transcendence. Yay for partial transcendence, I suppose. Even if it is impermanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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