A human being is evolving on the Earth within thousands of years. What does it mean? He is given five senses, and what he perceives in them is called the surrounding nature. This is what is given to us, what we sense. Thus, we were evolving within frames of various social and economic patterns for about 40,000 years.
And suddenly we come to such a state, when a void appears in us. In other words, we already don’t sense that we’re able to fill ourselves at the next level of development, with technical or cultural development or some other kind of a social pattern. Imagine the most comfortable existence of humanity and you’ll feel: “Well, and what comes next?” There appears a sensation of emptiness that didn’t exist before.
That’s why a person starts yearning not for corporeal fulfillments, such as wealth, glory and power and not even for knowledge. He’s convinced that even if he could receive in this world everything he wants, nothing would fill him. There appears a new kind of lack, a demand that he can’t satisfy or fill in our world, even in the most fantastic cases. He can’t imagine what he needs, that is, he needs something but doesn’t know what.