My life is bursting with meaning.
Or as Bernardo Kastrup describes it, it is “pregnant with meaning.”
He actually aptly describes it because often at times, when one is experiencing growth and development, it often feels like one is dying in birthing a larger sense of one’s Self.
So there are feelings of fear, anxiety, and pain, as well as feelings of wonder and joy at the same time.
For myself, everywhere I look nowadays I see this meaning bursting forth.
Yet this meaning is often within a language that very few people can perceive, as one needs to be versed and experienced with.
To me, it’s similar to mythopoetic language. In effect, it relates to fictional stories that relay truths about life. These are what myths are truly about and how they also can relate to an individual experiencing their own personal myth within their life, especially at a time when the current world’s myth is dying and hollowing out, becoming a meaningless husk to many.
Whenever I speak this language within myself, I can often use very few words to relay a deeper understanding of life.
Yet to explain this meaning and language to others not familiar with it requires delving deep within layers and layers of experiences and knowledge that creates a scaffold necessary to help them relate to it.
So it feels strange. I feel like I’m a magician or perhaps more aptly a bard, casting complex incantations comprised of a single sentence that embodies the depth and breadth of life. Yet to others unfamiliar with this language, my words will probably seem mundane and trivial, perhaps even childish at best.
Yet sadly this language is everywhere, often hiding in plain sight amongst the most notable literary authors of our past.
And this is how my perception works in the same way. I see keywords in everything I read and watch nowadays, even seemingly mundane things that relay a deeper meaning to life.
Below is an example of what I mean by this, discovered late last year, but with which meaning is still bursting forth from it even this year, every time I watch it.
On the surface it will seem like something conventional and mundane, even frivolous. But below the surface, the creators of it have perhaps unknowingly but creatively imbued it with a deeper meaning, as though it is hiding a “secret level” of meaning about life within itself.
It’s time.
This world has awaited for your arrival.
There is a larger worldview, a secret “level” of consciousness, awaiting within you.
It is you.
You will open the door.
Because you are the chosen.
You are the key, the chosen one, to opening this door, this portal, to a new worldview because only you can truly know yourself.
All those moments.
It’s a new adventure.
Just for you.
All of these liminal moments of your life, where you get brief glimpses and forays into this new worldview, are collectively an inner adventure just for you, to help you prepare yourself to step into and embody a larger, heroically authentic sense of Self.
Come in.
You have a game to play.
“Come in,” inside yourself. You have a larger game, a larger role, and a larger sense of Self to play beyond the borders and sandbox of your existing sense of “self” that you are currently playing.
In other words, what got you here won’t get you to where you want to go next.
Such an understanding will also make it clear that finding a guide for your journey isn’t a question of finding a special person. It is a question of becoming a special person: a traveller, a pilgrim, a person on a journey. When you have done that, the whole world turns out to be full of guides.
William Bridges, JobShift
The point is not to play the same old game, whether we’re buying into it or rebelling against it. Either way, you’re still letting the other person define the terms and set the rules
(which will not be in your favor).
The point is to keep your eye to the horizon, your ear to the ground, and channel the resources around you and the people on your side to discover a new game that embodies new values.
To claim — and to share, to spread, to enable, to inspire — the power to do that.
Justine Musk, Darling It Is Time To Be Powerful
Hello.
Alan Watts
Welcome to the human race.
We are playing a game.
And we are playing by the following rules.
We want to tell you what the rules are
so that you know your way around.
And when you’ve understood what rules
we’re playing by when you get older,
you may be able to invent better ones.