Christianity is at least 2000 years old so its not exactly recent

Reality is increasingly enclosed so people have to make due with what they have left which is just their headspace

Gnosticism is making a long overdue comeback

its Buddhism basically

I think it's a largely a product of the massively ramped up isolation that people are feeling because of the pandemic. I have trouble keeping grounded with reality myself these days.

i personally really like german idealism, like fichte. it's a cool way to explain consciousness that doesnt rely on physical reality, since that is pretty difficult to reconcile with the concept of "soul".

inb4 anyone tells me that morality goes away doing this, pfft, morality was never a grounded thing to begin with.