A meaningful reminder

In this post, I will be elucidating the problem of meaninglessness and purposelessness. As you might know, I am always trying to tackle this problem my self. It is as if, we are always in danger of slipping into that apathetic sense of “what’s the point?” I think it is the result of archetypal amnesia and forgetting that meaning and purpose is there somewhere, we just constantly forget where it is. We can barely remember what we ate a week ago, let alone what our purpose was archetypally.

So what may the remedy be? I propose that you hit all categories of life from every angle or at the very least the top four of spiritual, psychological, social and biological. If you always consider these four things in whatever you encounter, then I think you will always run into reminders that remind you of the purpose.

For example, if we look at a book, it is bios is just paper from a dead tree that our bodies use to record information because of our evolutionary learning that we forget things. Our eyes somehow transmit through light and patterns (very archetypal) in our brain to let us know this is a book and these are words in a book, which is just a man-made inorganic structure.

Socially, it gives us a way to communicate with each other that is not through sound. It stimulates the inner senses and we imagine the voice of the author. Psychologically a book is a category in our mind, we know “this is a book, this is a table.” Consciousness organizes it for us automatically.

Lastly, spiritually and archetypally, a book is one manifestation of the archetype of “Thee Book” or the Logos and the Word. Words are symbols in which we somehow use an archetypal math to decode their meaning. And sometimes even the book itself contains something that has meaning with the words written, or it means something to us because somebody gave it as a present.

You can go on and on, and it is always multilayered and you can do this with anything. It is never just psychology, or biology or whatever. If we can’t find meaning in our current discipline, then by way of the law of compensation and perhaps meaning itself is a law, it can show up in places where we aren’t often looking. Thus, chasing the never-ending mystery of being.