Dear Federico:

By knowing less and less, or knowing nothing (in the title of your thread), you definitely didn’t mean what I expressed in my first post to you.

I think that a key sentence to what you mean is in your post today: “I have been down too many blind alleys regarding spirituality, faith, ‘gut feelings’, following passions, blah blah blah and now my brain is tired of trying to find meaning and never succeeding.”-

I think that you suffer from overload, excess amount of information of the subjective kind: spirituality, faith, gut feelings, passions, the items you mentioned in the sentence I quoted.

You wrote: “everything at all times is purely subjective”- the items you mentioned are subjective, spirituality for one: is there a god, reincarnation, heaven, paradise earth and so on- some believe others don’t. But there are items that are objective: planet earth, the oceans, the trees, nature, life and death.

In your original post you wrote: “Maybe there’s a point we reach when the process is reversed? Perhaps it’s possible to actually know stuff as you get older. Does anyone know?”-

When you suffer an overload, an excess of subjective information and your brain is tired and rejects it all, it may be the time to apply the concept of a “beginner’s mind”- the brain of the baby or young child, seeing things as if for the first time. Look at things from the beginning, before the excess started accumulating. A Beginner’s Mind is the way to “actually know stuff as you get older.”

anita