Perhaps like you, I am intrigued by ancient wisdom, especially given that it arose within and largely despite the oppressive slave states it somehow----likely from the impervious human heart, with its own neural structure and properties----defeated, ultimately.
‘Eironeia’ is for me the utmost of that wisdom tradition, at least in the West; from Tom Stoppard’s marvelous play ‘Hapgood’ to Depak Chopra’s writings having to do with the flow which is possible between this physical realm and those virutal/spiritual and quantum realms invisibly interwoven with the physical, I have gleaned this core principle governing the universe and, indeed, the universal physics which manifests in nature and, therefore, all of us.
Specifically, as a writer, largely of comedy, I have found that this ‘the firehouse is burning’ mode of thinking and seeing is perhaps the most effective key to comprehending a multiverse in which most that is essential is hidden from our pedestrian and rather slow-witted sensory apparati.
It has opened up transdimensional vistas to my mind which have led me to the flow you so wisely point to; having gone from a difficult childhood trauma to a frustrated, unhappy career in law (which literally gave me prostate cancer) to now, the place I dwell in blissful awe of the irony which is us. Bucky Fuller said it best (like Goethe and others before him in their times): ‘All children are born geniuses….’; unlearning the conditioning which de-genuised us all to varying degrees is what this wondrous irony at the heart of life itself has meant to me and my writing.