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Facing life and its various experiences – its beauty, pain and mystery – people throughout time had developed spiritual life-strategies, in the hope of achieving a sustainable and functioning sense of being.
Within these attitudes, three distinctive types of 'other-worldly' reactions are extremely common: seclusion, conceptualization and submission. Put more broadly, when the absurdity of life and the unlikelihood of the universe becomes apparent to an individual – usually while growing up or during an initiation phase – one unusually tries the following: to stay as far away from worldly phenomena, to mentally understand them, or to consent and 'give oneself' to them completely.