In a way perhaps it matters not whence cometh the numinous relationship meaning (see also here), perhaps if one found the source, the efficacy, the power, the mystery, or some other part of the process, might fade away. Again: unneeded differentiation can destroy effective symbolization of the experience - yet when can one say this is enough differentiation, that I need go no further than this, especially if the manner in which one is accustomed to furthering symbological meaning in their life by the process of differentiation. Where the line in the sand?
If we are here, living life, in order to experience the experientially derived meaning and purposes in life (again I wonder how many numinous nodes of human experience there can be, at least whether infinite or finite), then chasing the source of the numinous relationship experience must be like chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: it works only for a little while and then one finds one's self lost with the rainbow gone.
And then I think about the idea of humans as 'programmed' for meaning, 'programmed' for the purpose of finding meaning, purpose and significance (perhaps why I find that article so interesting, the idea of human evolutionary genetic code, our 'programming', being scientific and sacred, without being scientistic). I happen to find meaning in chasing the numinous via the node of increasing differentiation (though I run the risk of over-differentiation) as well as through the node of a rather uxorious romantic relationship - I don't think the exact nature of the 'programming' is significant, other than what it is programmed for, e.g. finding meaning, purpose, significance, value and worth through experience.
This seems to me an especially powerful idea, potentially with great explanatory power. It admittedly has all the hallmarks of a (personal) 'grand theory of everything', but who doesn't seek to make their mental framework increasingly accurate and adequate for their human experience, or even all human experience?
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