Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

Or they just spend all their time playing video games, getting high, whatever.

They're engaged in a lot of lateral movement, right?

They're not fulfilling any of their worldly responsibilities.

So they're not respected.

They're not accomplished.

They don't get positive feedback from the world, right?

This leads to existential depression as well.

And the third dimension is a little bit trickier.

We're not going to talk too much about that today.

And we talk a bunch about spirituality on the channel.

But the third thing that they sort of acknowledged, right, so these people who are focused on existential depression was that, you know, there's a third category of like something about meaning comes from a dimension that is not you and not the outside world.

They just acknowledge that these two dimensions seem to be insufficient to describe the total amount of meaning.

And so what they observed—I'm not saying this is—I think it's right.

So not that God is real or anything like that, but what they observed is that some human beings derive meaning or purpose from, like, a religious perspective or a spiritual perspective, right?

Some people, it's like, I'm going to do right by my family, I'm going to have some fun, and I'm going to, like, live a pious and not sinful life, and that will give my—I'm striving for heaven, and it gives their life purpose.

This is just an observation.

It's not saying that it's right or wrong, but I think what is indisputable, or maybe I'm sure it's disputable, but what I think is a fair observation is that a lot of human beings in the history of humanity have derived some sense of meaning and direction from a religious or spiritual pursuit.

Now, I'm a huge fan of this pursuit.

So that's why we sort of advocate for things like meditation.

And I think once you start meditating a lot, you will start to discover meaning and purpose in life in ways that you may not have otherwise realized.