A History of Meaning

Or the thinking man’s guide to life, business and spirit

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

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

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

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

2012 SynthesisNo 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