Are we irrational?

[Ankh]

About seeing what one wants to believe in: firstly, if you are *wanting* to believe in something, where did that will come from? Where did you pick up that there are greater things that one can see and touch?

Some people would claim that this 'wanting' is a form of escapism. Is it escapism to want to believe that life is grander than what we see before us? The idea that this is all there is to life is almost impossible for me to grasp.

Isn't believing only in what you can see and touch a greater form of escapism? All life strives towards the light, physically, mentally and spirtually (once they have become aware of this complex), and by light I mean the Creator. So, when closing oneself off to that light, and just believing in what is in front you, also a sort of escapism, from the greater "truth"?

But I understand what you mean! And that sort of escapism you are talking about is probably very common among spiritual and/or New Age people.

Maybe there is a balance between a total blind 'wanting' and a total scepticism?