JAMIE WHEAL: It's really easy to forget,
that we're just monkeys with clothes.  If you took all of life on Earth and
you compressed it into one 24-hour day,  anatomically modern man shows up at four
seconds before midnight, cave paintings at  

one second before midnight. We've been playing
at civilization for a fraction of a second. Everything is going into exponential change, from
education to quantum computing, to cryptocurrency,  to transport, to macroeconomics, to
geopolitics, to climate crisis, to everything.  

It's breaking our brains. We're overwhelmed,
we're collapsing in grief. It does feel that  the handrails, the things that we used to
look to for stability and security, have just  evaporated. If we've experienced a collapse
in meaning how do we go about restoring it?

I'm Jamie Wheal, founder of the Flow Genome
Project, and author of "Recapture the Rapture:  Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World
That's Lost Its Mind." The collapse in meaning,  

that I think you can at least argue we're in the
midst of right now, is complex and multivariable.  We've had a collapse in traditional organized
religion, what you could call kind of Meaning 1.0.  

For the first time ever, the nuns, the spiritual
but not religious, like the "none of the above's,"  is the largest and fastest growing
religious movement in North America.  There are increasingly folks that feel like, "Hey,
those stories, those codes, those ways of being,  

don't match my identity. Don't match my choices. 
Don't match my community." So organized religion   is no longer a place to hang our hats. 
And at the same time, modern liberalism   has also been getting a little creaky. That's 
Meaning 2.0. Think of the ivory tower in academia, 

news media, businesses, and corporate titans 
and leadership, potentially even medicine. And   you just take those and you just go one by one. 
You're like, oh, well, Goldman Sachs sold middle   America down the river in 2008. And McKinsey 
helped Purdue Pharma sell more OxyContin, well 

after the negative effects were demonstrated. 
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, 
which used to be considered the journals of 
record are now imploding. And the same thing   with doctors, the same thing with corruptions 
in peer review, and the replication crisis. 

Basically everything you've ever seen 
on a TED Talk is probably not true. So all of the places that we 
used to use rules of thumb   or decision-making shortcuts, 
that's just evaporated.   So in that collapse, we're getting fundamentalism 
on one side, and we're getting nihilism 

on the other. We're getting diseases of despair. 
We're getting real heartbreak. I think you could   make a case that that is why we're seeing this 
uptick in conspiracy theories of all stripes.   Will anybody make sense of all of this nonsense 
for me? If you can give me a happily ever after, 

if you can tell me that I'm one of the good guys, 
and you promised to get me to the other side, 
hundreds of thousands of people these days, are 
deeply vulnerable to that promise. These are   rapture ideologies. We can see examples of 
that with ISIS and Christian Zionism. But I 

I think what is equally important to note is that
they show up in Wall Street, in Silicon Valley. All of these rapture ideologies
share the same structure. Number one, the world as we know it is screwed. Number
two, there's an inflection point coming soon.

Number three, as soon as we get to that inflection
point, me and mine, the elect, the saved, are going to score one of the golden tickets to
the other side. Number four, so let's get there as

fast as possible. Don't worry about the collateral
damage of the world we're leaving behind. So the question then is, how do
we create liberating structures so that a lot of people all around the world,
can experiment, innovate and adapt their own

approaches to finding and restoring meaning,
without it coming top-down? If we want to create Meaning 3.0, which is a blend of traditional
religion and modern liberalism, how do we have the salvation that religion promises, and the
inclusion that modern liberalism is committed to?

From Meaning 1.0, we need healing, inspiration
and connection. From the modern liberal side, we want this to be open-source. We want
anybody anywhere to have access to this. It needs to be scalable, really cheap
or outright free. And then the third,

is it has to be anti-fragile. But as Mike Tyson
said, "Everybody's got a plan until they get hit," right? So the idea of an anti-fragile
solution is one that actually digs in

and get stronger, more rooted, more effective as things deteriorate around it. If you want to do things that everybody has access to that are effective, start with evolutionary drivers like breathing, sexuality, embodiment, substances, and music. Our nervous systems and our

bodies can actually be profoundly potent tools to discharge trauma, and to prompt peak states and inspiration. Bringing that design thinking approach is an attempt to support that. So that would be the hope for Meaning 3.0. It doesn't promise an out for an escape.

It doesn't promise a happily ever after that is structurally different from right here, right now. We need tools to mend our trauma, tools to reconnect with inspiration, why we're here and what it all means, and tools to better

connect with each other. And if we can do that, then we stand a chance of recapturing our rapture, our bliss, our contentment, our belonging, our passion, and the story of who we are, the story of

where we're going, and the commitment to figure out together what do we do now.

Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think

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인류의 짧은 역사와 현재의 의미의 위기

인간은 지구에 문명이 존재한 지 극히 일부분에 불과한 비교적 새로운 존재입니다.

다양한 분야에서 기하급수적인 변화가 일어나면서 의미와 안정성이 무너지고 있습니다.

전통적인 안정과 의미의 원천이 사라지면서 슬픔과 불확실성이 만연해졌습니다.

연사는 의미의 붕괴에 초점을 맞춰 자신과 자신의 책을 소개합니다.

전통적인 의미 체계의 쇠퇴(의미 1.0 및 2.0)

전통적인 조직화된 종교(의미 1.0)는 많은 사람들에게 관련성을 잃어가고 있습니다.

'영적이지만 종교적이지 않은' 그룹의 부상은 전통적인 종교 구조에서 벗어나고 있음을 의미합니다.

학계와 미디어 같은 기관을 포함한 현대 자유주의(의미 2.0)도 신뢰를 잃어가고 있습니다.

다양한 기관의 실패와 부패 사례가 언급되며 신뢰가 약화되고 있습니다.

이로 인한 공백은 음모론의 증가와 함께 근본주의와 허무주의로 이어집니다.

사람들은 더 나은 미래에 대한 약속에 취약해져 휴거 이데올로기의 부상으로 이어집니다.

다양한 맥락에서 발견되는 이러한 이데올로기는 파멸의 세계, 다가오는 변곡점, '당선자'의 선택, 부수적 피해에 대한 무시라는 공통된 구조를 공유합니다.

휴거 이데올로기의 공통된 구조에는 '선택받은 자'가 구원받을 변곡점이 다가올 것이라는 믿음이 포함되어 있습니다.

자유로운 구조 만들기: 의미 3.0

의미 회복을 위한 상향식 접근 방식의 필요성이 강조됩니다.

의미 3.0은 전통 종교의 치유와 연결과 현대 자유주의의 개방성 및 포용성을 결합해야 합니다.

즉, 3.0은 오픈 소스, 확장성, 저렴/무료, 취약성 방지 기능을 갖춰야 합니다.

의미 3.0을 위한 진화적 동인 활용하기

호흡, 성, 구체화, 물질, 음악과 같은 진화적 동인을 활용하여 트라우마를 해결하고 최고의 상태를 조성합니다.

Meaning 3.0은 도피처를 약속하는 것이 아니라 치유와 영감의 재연결, 더 나은 관계 형성을 위한 도구를 제공합니다.

목표는 이러한 도구를 통해 환희, 행복, 만족감, 소속감, 열정을 되찾는 것입니다.

우리가 누구인지, 어디로 가는지에 대한 스토리를 재구성하고 다음에 무엇을 해야 할지를 협력적으로 파악하는 데 중점을 둡니다.