Five Meanings: A short book about the meaning of life.

I’ve spent more than 35 years thinking about the meaning of life, existence, and our place in it. I wrote this book as a record of my thinking, and as an atlas to hopefully help others find their own meaning of life. I went searching for the meaning of life, and found five of them.

In the book you’ll find my thoughts about:

How a person’s purpose is based on natural laws that govern the entire universe. Why purpose and meaning are often confused - I clarify each and show how one builds off the other. How being guided by purpose can lead to a deeper feeling of meaningful life. How humanity fits into the big picture of the universe, and how the universe created us to be creators. How the order of our universe, our society, and our individual abilities are naturally linked.

Most self-help type books give tips and recipes for living a better life. Cookbooks, basically. This is not a cookbook. It precedes the question of how to do something. It uncovers why we should do anything at all. If an average self-help book is a stroll through town on your lunch break, this one is a month-long vision quest in the forest.

I hope you enjoy it.