Meaning, Myth, and the Creative Psyche

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🎙️ What is meaning, and where does it come from? In this conversation, we explore creativity, the personal myth, Jung, and the Platonic forces behind intuition. A grounded yet expansive dialogue on how meaning unfolds through us—not just from us.

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Hosted by Steve and Pauline Richards and James P Dowling.
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🕑 Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to After Dark!
00:18 What does 'meaning' actually mean—and how do we define it when we're searching for it?
00:51 People with higher potential often feel a deeper lack of meaning—because their instincts demand more.
02:50 True meaning drops in intuitively—it's not cognitive, not analytical, but a complete, internal certainty.
06:50 Meaning arrives as intuition, not thought—follow the affect, not the idea.
07:02 Don't chase Jungian constructs—track the affective signal back to its origin.
09:43 Experience meaning—don’t theorise it.
09:47 Jung: Original experience matters more than theory—drop ego, drop cognition, follow affect and instinct.
11:28 Many online views of meaning are just unconscious personal myths—mistakenly universalised.
14:43 Personal myths shape even great thinkers—meaning only emerges when we drop theory and truly receive the other.
21:49 Clinical meaning begins with rapport—not theory—and Adler offers overlooked wisdom on this.
25:10 Spontaneous creativity in youth must be nurtured—without rushing into metaphysical abstraction.
26:41 Without guidance, young people collapse into cultural externals—missing the intuitive core of their own experience.
29:12 True creativity is a superpositioned phenomena—felt affectively, intuitively and biologically all at once.
34:41 We all live inside a personal myth—creativity and meaning are that mythic structure unfolding.
36:07 Narrative may be woven into reality itself—superpositioning links biology, myth, and field consciousness.
44:06 Creativity feels linear, but superpositioning exists from the start—intuition collapses into each step.
44:49 Our perception of creativity is linear—but true creation is driven by ever-present superpositioned fields.
49:10 The ego sees creativity as step-by-step—but the original idea and finished product are part of the same field-event.
50:50 Creativity works through us—its source is Platonic, not ego-driven, and meaning arrives only when the process completes.
53:55 Completion gives meaning—because the Platonic drive behind creativity is finally fulfilled.
55:20 The soul is the bridge—uniting Plato and Darwin by bringing meaning into the world.
58:17 Intuition is the true efficient cause—Plato acting through Darwin to deliver meaning.
59:11 Trust the real magic—creativity, synchronicity, and personal myth are undeniable signs of a deeper order.