"The Age of The World Picture" I accept unity through the universal beauty of nature's ways, Fredrick__By way of the aesthetic/esthetic distinction, or the science of our senses and feelings... This was discovered and popularized in Germany from the early 1800's to the early 20th century, at least the modern version of esthetics deep understanding of nature's true mechanics of beauty and values__until the two world wars put a crimp in people listening to what the Germans had to say. This has been a big mistake in the modern world, by the way of losing track of our nature's most important central mechanics of the esthetic enjoyment and knowledge of our nature's most important and deep mechanics and values operations... Here's a small example of what I speak: "To abandon the utopian impulse in thinking is to imprison ourselves within the world as it is and to give up once and for all the prospect that another world is possible, however small, fleeting and compromised such a world might be. In the political circumstances that presently surround us in the West, to abandon the utopian impulse in political thinking is to resign oneself to liberal democracy which, as we showed above, is the rule of the rule, the reign of law which renders impotent anything that would break with law: the miraculous, the moment of the event, the break with the situation in the name of the common."
This isn't something we learn, it's what we are all about__at our deepest understanding of our own epistemic mechanics, at the level quantum nature has a hand in our everyday functions... Seeing this deep esthetic level of nature within us, allows us to see the quantum functions, of not only ourselves__but QM's greater functions of the entire unified continuum of our Universe... This, imo, was and is why such geniuses as Laotzsu and Heraclitus, among hundreds of other ancient greats are so important... Imo, when we know the quantum mechanics of our own deepest levels of function, we know the functions of the entire Universe__as they be identical, with the slight bio-conplications of quantum states' human, and other bio-natures', interactions... The estheticians from the 1800's to the present day, have described this best, as there's, imo, more quantum truth in these estheticians, than in all the quantum mechanicists, in the same period__as the quantum mechanics becomes self-evident by studying the estheticians, as the best ones were all logicians and mathematicians__many being autodidactic polymaths, as well...
Btw, survival of the Pyramidal Communities, was achieved by the protective overwhelming sublime beauty and power projection of their city's fortresses of esthetics__the physical objects of beauty's true mental, subjective and objective powers...
"No higher state of mind can be reached, than the sublime esthetic beauty of it all..."
Btw Fredrick, if you wish to see a full explanation of the "no-thing" states of mind, just read Heidegger's aesthetics__it's one of his central premises... "The 'no-thing' that isn't 'no-thing', yet leads to everything..." The title, 'The Age of The World Picture' is Heidegger's... (P.s.; Sounds like you already may have, and would I be guessing correct that you are German...?)
I still prefer the 'state of unknowing...', as it's more recognized and accepted by more people, and since my ideas and writings are always geared to a future general audience, when I publish__I prefer it due to this fact, also...