1. A History of Meaning
Or the thinking man’s guide to
life, business and spirit

2. Pre-historic, Socialized Religion
• 200,000 B.C.
Welcome, man.
• 90,000 B.C. First
evidence of spiritual
objects
• 50,000 B.C. First
evidence of meditation
• 5,000 B.C. – 610 A.D. –
Major religions take
hold

3. Classical, Dark Ages & Enlightenment
• 450 B.C. Socrates begins
the Enlightenment
• 500 – 1500 A.D. Dark Ages
• 1641 Descartes rekindles
Enlightenment
• 1677 Spinoza posits first
secular ethics
• 1885 Nietzsche calls us to
be gods

4. Modern
• 1900 Freud gives us the subconscious
• 1902 William James’ paranormal
psychology
• 1921 Jung gives us collective
unconscious
• 1910-30 Einstein, Oort& Heisenberg
destroy materialism
• 1943-90
Maslow/Kohlberg/Csikentmihalyi
articulate first scientifically vetted
guide posts for the “good life”
• 1948 Kinsey tell us that 85% of us
are, at minimum, sort of gay
• 1953 Wittgenstein destroys any
remaining universality of meaning

5. Post-Modern
• 1960-present
Sapolsky, Santos, Goodall kill human
uniqueness
• 1982 Aspect kills Einstein
• 1993 Murphy documents
supernormal human potential
• 1999 Ray gives us “Cultural
Creatives”
• 2000 Wilber integrates art &
science, spirit & matter, faith &
reason
• 2009 Eagleman gives us
Possibilianism

6. 2012 Synthesis
No Religious Meaning +
No Scientific Meaning +
No Universal Meaning +
Unlimited Human Potential +
Cross-discipline Pattern
Emergence =
Tantric Narrativism
What does this mean to you?
• Put All Particulars Into Your
Universal
• Know Thyself
• Be Thyself ^n