Living, a person dies many times. We die every single time we miss an opportunity that was literally waiting for us. And our eventual deaths are just a kind of summation of every missed opportunity. The dead soul literally hungers and thirsts for the truth that would have set it free, just as the living soul will spend many anxious nights attempting to sort itself out. Every single day, the universe has new opportunities tailored literally for every single human being. Our choices are like a literal marketplace, in which the universe is bidding for our attention. And receptivity to the universe's many bids is simply the way to live. So what stops us from living our best lives, now? There is always a kind of resentment toward the idea of even choosing that drives us toward subjectivity and away from objectivity. And this is why we are told to think "positively" -- because society in general is well-aware that the forces driving us away from these bids are "negative" in nature. How does society know this? Because we are all surrounded by the spirits of the dead, who interact with us mostly out of bitterness. That same bitterness that causes a living soul to shut its eyes and ears to even beginning to have "a calling" -- causes the spirits of the dead to taunt us to find meaning in this world. If they couldn't make much sense of being alive, can we? If they, finally, look back on every single missed opportunity as a death, can't we? So they wander through our dreams, our ancestors do. In and out of our imaginations -- neither truly "positive" nor "negative" as influences, simply asking us to look at things a bit more closely than they did. If they never found the truth they sought, it was because seeing that truth was difficult. And so, just the act of seeing the world more objectively than our predecessors can set us free. We must not determine that we should only ever take after them, or only interpret our lives in the way that they would have done. Let it be clear that in the case of "originalism," we have already died. Let it be clear that every single form of literalism and legalism are deaths in the same sense of restricting the objective universe according to subjectivity. The truth in its purest form is not a diagnosis in the sense of a doctor's note, but a diagnosis in the sense of a dream. One requires faith in expertise, and the other, the true path, simply says that there must be something more, something un-nameable, in play. Try as we might to cling on to all our heathen idols, the faith that can shatter continents is faith in the nameless, the formless, the limitless.
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