# How can I feel a connection with humanity (like a saint)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 24, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-feel-a-connection-with-humanity-like-a-saint/554827 "2010-09-24T00:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Wikipedia_Cites)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-feel-a-connection-with-humanity-like-a-saint/554827/1 "2010-09-24T00:08:48Z")

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Recently I was sick and in pain and in fear and I felt this super-empathy/sympathy with humanity, like I was a saint. It’s like fearing death and suddenly you dont care about your childhood enemies, and that sort of thing.

BUt now I’m healthier so I am back to being the same old Sass in the A$$.

So how can I achieve this empathy zen thing again? Without the pain.

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**Author:** ![carm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@carm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carm)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-feel-a-connection-with-humanity-like-a-saint/554827/2 "2010-09-24T00:52:07Z")

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For the perfect mixture of empathy and sympathy, I recommend going to a poor African village and taking a load of ecstasy tabs.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-feel-a-connection-with-humanity-like-a-saint/554827/3 "2010-09-24T01:26:31Z")

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If you watch documentaries about LSD and also about shrooms, people who use them report feeling an all-encompassing connection to the whole universe, mankind included, both during the trip and for the rest of their lives.

Alternatively, you could pursue a serious path of religious meditation.