History of meaning
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This document provides a historical overview of the development of meaning and spirituality from pre-historic times to the present. It traces the rise of major religions between 5,000 BC to 610 AD, followed by the Classical period, Dark Ages and Enlightenment. The modern era saw developments in fields like psychology, physics and biology that challenged traditional notions of meaning. Post-modern thinkers further dismantled ideas of human uniqueness and universality of meaning. By 2012, the document argues the synthesis leads to the emergence of "Tantric Narrativism", described as having no religious or scientific meaning but unlimited human potential through cross-discipline pattern emergence.
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- 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