The Meta Crisis, Are We Going to Pass the Mete Crisis?

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The question is, can we have inclusive salvation? Can we come up with a means of making sense of this and acting effectively that delivers us from evil, right at the eleventh hour for everyone? There's some beautiful things about tha, sort of the enlightenment experiment, and it was basically inclusivety. But all of them, no matter how sexy or flashy, whether it's silican valley or soudy arabia, they work for a tiny fraction of humanity and leave the rest of us holding the bag. And so the modern experiment is, well, it needs to be open source. It needs to be scalable, because if its not cheap or free, then it's not

What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection?

Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by anthropologist and writer Jamie Wheal. Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. In the book, he makes the case that in order to address the meta-crisis — the interconnected challenges we face, which we talked about in Episode 36 with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we must address the meaning crisis — the need to stay inspired, mended, and bonded in challenging times. Jamie argues that it doesn't matter whether we're staying inspired, mended, and bonded through institutionalized religion or other means as long as meaning-making is inclusively available to everyone.

What we hope you'll walk away with is a humane way to think about how to address the challenges we face, from COVID to climate — by enabling us to make meaning in challenging times.