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Originally Posted by Androgenicx

I followed objectivist philosophy for about a year on my own before even reading her work, and then for a year longer after reading some of her work.

Worst years of my life. I had a perpetual sense of self-worth and delusions of grandeur, but I was completely anti-social and joined the highest order of known misanthropy.

When I returned to my roots in mysticism, spirituality, and in the perennial philosophies, I realized the incredible folly of this philosophy. Transcedance is achieved through complete loss of self and ego, causing one to return to the eternal and only true consciousness. Ayn Rand's, and all other stark individualist philosophies, all cause a great increase in the person's sense of ego, which is perfectly counter-productive to achieving self actualization.

Well, you know, if you don't go all the way Objective at least once, how could you really be Enlightened to its perspective, and also to people with it?