I used to be able to avoid this nonsense by walking past the self help and new age aisles in the bookshop, but now it gets repackaged as clickbait on the front page of HN.

Yes we have all experienced losing ourselves in an overwhelming sense of our finitude compared to the unfathomable megacycles of human civilisation and the universe.

But you can't live like this. It cultivates disconnection from the world. Meditation can give you the same benefits without the mumbo jumbo, and you can develop it into a daily practice.