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