12 Principles to Transcend the 'Meaning Crisis'
Hyper-Meaning: A New Un-Framework for Discovering Infinite Meaningfulness
Many people assert that we are in the midst of a ‘meaning crisis.’
Traditional structures of meaning have been called into question.
Science undermined much from religion, yet did not provide much to replace it.
People are increasingly feeling confused and insecure in their attempts to find a fixed ‘meaning of life’ to grasp onto.
This is where hyper-meaning comes in.
12 Principles of Hyper-Meaning
Exactly where you are standing, Hyper-Meaningfulness is there with you.
The key to noticing ever-present Hyper-Meaningfulness is to cease looking for fixed or final meanings.
When you look for a single fixed map or story that can encapsulate the ‘meaning of life,’ you confine yourself to the domain of mentalization.
Confined to the domain of thought and belief, you tend to block yourself from noticing the ongoing explosion of trans-meaningful juiciness, flavorfulness, texture, innuendo, luminosity, suggestiveness, aliveness, and miraculousness that continuously shines forth as radiant being.
This explosion of ‘hyper-meaning’ includes all possible human maps or meanings as valid perspectives while also revealing infinite subtle nonverbal meaningfulness that cannot be mapped or contained in any structure. Hyper-meaning transcends and includes all articulable meanings.
The key to appreciating hyper-meaning is openness, fluidity, and sensitization.
As you become more open and fluid, you’re able to let yourself drift among reality’s endless perspectival-experiential modes, appreciating its endless flavors of meaningfulness.
And as you increasingly sensitize yourself to the actual infinity of artistic detail that is present in every nonrepeating moment of ever-morphing experience, life itself is revealed as a kind of kaleidoscopic hyper-artwork—ever gyrating, tingling, buzzing, twinkling, and dancing with unimaginable fractal subtlety.
The key is to open into a wider range of modes of seeing and being. Slip into this rich immediacy as if you were slipping into a hot bubble bath. Adorn yourself with it like a robe of exotic silk. Savor it like a delectable slice of Chicago-style deep-dish pizza erupting with marinara. Ride it like a geyser of god-juice. You’re learning to experience all of life as a living poem—a living many-dimensional tapestry of zest—a jambalaya emanating numberless ambient shades of ambrosia. Let yourself be seduced by the voluptuous undulations of the ever-bellydancing goddess we call ‘universe.’ The shakti is all-permeating. Being is pansexual omni-flow. Existence is full-contact sensual aliveness. Personal and suprapersonal. Pure naked intimacy.
Through this sensitization process—this radical opening to the fullness of life—we gradually become less fascinated by mappable meanings. Maps are cool but dead. Dead by comparison to this visceral aliveness of now. Aliveness itself becomes our wellspring. We go directly to the source. Immediate experience is jazz. The Big Bang is now. Ether-magma gushes volcanically from all angles. We discover we are a river of richness. Even boringness is astonishing. All-inclusive hyper-meaning effulges from every nook and cranny. Modulations of oceanic god-music pulsate omni-directionally. A single spicy bite of Chipotle burrito contains sufficient meaningfulness to satisfy for aeons. Christ is love is heart.
Here we have attempted to evoke what cannot be said. Yet the core point is simple: A miraculousness way beyond meaningful is spontaneously oozing and grooving all around you. Life itself is overflowing with textural juice and luscious nectar of the highest order. All you have to do is repeatedly notice this living miracle so as to sensitize yourself to its continuous marvels. Relinquish the need for fixed or final meanings so as to let yourself float in/as the all-inclusive omni-sea. The cosmos is a non-finite orb of lightning. Be thunderstruck.
This is actually here. And it’s bizarre and wonderful beyond imagining. Check it out.
You are loved. Thank you for being you.
Love,
Jordan
P.S. If you are interested in discussing this further or applying it to your life, feel welcome to reply to this email or schedule a heart-to-heart with me here. I enjoy dialoging about these matters.
What arises for you in relation to what has been shared here? I’d love to hear your perspective.
Appreciating this invitation! Noticing it also constructs a map asking us to go beyond maps. Perhaps maps can be part of the territory, and the boundary between the two softens in solidity while still arising in appearance. Some musings in reflection to your lovely piece :)