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To: VisionsOfSugarplums who wrote (14654)	8/30/2010 11:14:33 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23098

At 20 I was pretty much an uneducated person. When I stumbled into college from a paper bag factory I was workign in, with little primary education and not even knowing what the word society meant (I thought it meant high society) and having no realistic view of the world and being broke, I started out majoring in business. As I started to learn, my perception of the world started to change. Knowledge directed perception it is called. The more one understands the more one can see. Then my epiphany at 24 when I was a junior. I had changed my major from business to experimental psychology and philosophy by that time. I had also changed my objectives from making money to learning. From 24 to 26 I just read everyone on earth to try and understand whatever it was the great minds understood. I had no idea what it was or most of what I was reading meant. I started in the US, but never found much. Mostly just story tellers like Steinbeck and Hemingway and Faulkner. Then I crossed the Atlantic ocean and found the great minds: Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Baudelair, Russell, Whithead, Huxley, Malraux, Tolstoy, Shaw, Mcluhan, Geothe, Watts, etc. For a long time I read and read, understanding little. But I just kept reading and slowly a new reality of the world took form. Two things I took from this experience was I learned what existentialism meant and that I was an existentialist, by nature, and two Zen. It changed my life forever.