Nothingness and the Camino

Back in college, I had a small part in a production of Albert Camus's "Caligula". It is a classic Existentialist play which portrays the "Right-minded" Cherea vs the madness of Caligula. Why is Cherea "Right-minded"? He, unlike Caligula, can handle life despite knowing the meaninglessness of Existence. He can handle the despair of knowing that Death just brings Nothingness by making the most of his life by leading it in a meaningful way. Others either go mad, like Caligula. Some sink into Hedonism, still others haven't a clue and just moo merrily along.

What is the meaninglessness that I talk of? It is the knowledge, that in the greater scheme of the Universe, we are just a blip, a flash, a speck. What we are is truly temporary and in the end nothingness is really all there is waiting for us. "Nothings gonna change my world" -John Lennon. Damn straight it will.

What's this got to do with the Camino Santiago? well...

I'm not walking it 'cuz I'm religious. I'm more a historian.

I need to sort out a "Right-minded" way to face down the nothingness that is approaching. Who knows what I may find when I'm not looking. Maybe something.

Lately I have become interested in the ideas of multiverses and multidimensional thinking. We are such a constrained species. Our understandings are limited by our physical senses, we are unable to perceive what may be other understandings/gestalts in other paradigms.

There is a lot of time to think when you walk and you never know what other ideas you may run into.