I think it is fruitful in the way that I personally, have a never ending chatter about looking for "truth" or something worthwhile or better to do with my life but forget that whatever we might conceive as that, is nothing but a figuration of a tiny nervous system fed with a specific context field, so as the essay explains, the human mind can know nothing but it's creations. So taking the ideas too seriously, and the things we consider true too seriously you only get a serious face based on your own creations instead of actually pursuing truth and missing life in the way. Just like what it would feel to go to the mountain top and ignoring everyone and everything along the way because your are pursuing the "higher goal" of the shrine.

I haven't read Spengler's book but I've heard the concept of Faustian culture in the ecosophian community. It's a massive tome I've heard! You really do have a huge appetite for literature. How do you find the time to have a full time work, be a parent, an occult student and read that much?

I think you are right, I hadn't seen that. There definitely is a Faustian rationale to it, but I don't think it goes past the figuration phase but rather the figuration phase is faustian so it sees a goal in the distance, a final destination where there is a goal to it, but if you change your aspect perception --that is, your perception of the same thing changes based on the other contexts of your mind-- you can also see that the mountain and climbing it is not only a way but a goal in and off itself. That's were I like what Sadhguru mentions about dancing, there is not purpose to it but doing it.