Hi all,

As a poet and artist passionate about metatheory and concerned about the
"meaning crisis," I've been keen to find a way to articulate the immensely
beautiful and inspiring metanarrative of emergence and complexification (as
expressed by TOK, for instance) into the symbolic language of myth. The
urgent need for such a metanarrative is probably clear to many in this
group. Gregg succinctly states in his book, *A New Unified Theory of
Psychology, *"Currently the worldviews--the large-scale justification
systems--that guide human action are in a state of 'fragmented pluralism,'
meaning that they are fundamentally contradictory and incompatible.
Fragmented pluralism does not seem like an ideal state of affairs," he
adds, and one might provide a host of evidence for this very valid
conclusion (p. 26). The importance of a "post-postmodern grand
meta-narrative" (p. 24) such as UTOK is that it "provides the ultimate map
of the general background structure that can coherently frame but not
imprison the infinite variety of human experience" (p. 28).

Such a coherent frame can, I think, provide the salutary edifice that so
many people currently lack, who are currently suffering the psychological
anguish of nihilism, depression, and despair as a result of the
insufficiency of the dominant narratives on offer. To the degree that such
value nihilism is a principal driver of society's short-sighted and selfish
habits of over-consumption and destructive exploitation, such a narrative
might even "save the world" (so to speak). Less dramatically, to the degree
that such a narrative is simply true and factual but at present largely
inaccessible and so unknown to vast swathes of the population, its
dissemination through more easily accessible modes would be inherently
valuable.

Towards these ends, I have begun a work that I hope can effectively convey
the above-mentioned "post-postmodern grand meta-narrative" to a broad
audience in a symbolic, mythic register. The work I am calling simply
*Ω *(Omega),
which I summarize this way:

*Ω is the story of everything. It is an attempt to render the metanarrative
of metamodernity mythopoeically, relating the complexification of the
universe and the evolution of consciousness through the domains of Matter,
Life, Mind, and Culture.*

You can read more about the project and view the first 6 pages here:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brendangrahamdempsey.com_omega&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=y0Tvs-M5dlM7XmmabmmeDvY6spuVcIiGz6HHnRmUyGM&s=rZ9tANEq2orPWM4NzOCGCDBVrjwJ9cHuSt5M4AIYky0&e= 

I will continue to serially publish pages as I complete them. I welcome any
and all feedback.

Cheers,
Brendan

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