metonymy4u

Humanity has for centuries told stories of the beyond. And whether we have pictured it as a radiant celestial realm above (the Platonic-Christian tradition) or a dark inscrutable underground (the Dionysian-Pagan tradition) still there has always been a sense that whatever is im-mediately happening is not sufficient. That an additional explanatory model must be adduced to whatever is our experience. But what if we try a different way of thinking? What if (like Kant or the Buddha) we try to think of everything being right here and now, in one world only? How then should we live?