How to Radically Embrace Meaning Even When Secular Materialism is in the Water

Caty Lee
Exiting A Paradigm
Published in
10 min readSep 9, 2022

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Stop submitting to a worldview that leaves you spiritually paralyzed.

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Do you know the easiest way to control a population?

Tell them life is meaningless and random. Get them to believe we are headed pointlessly toward chaos and destruction.

The narrative goes something like this: humanity entered planet earth pointlessly, and it will destroy it pointlessly. Your body is a ticking time bomb. At any moment, you could awaken with a lump on your neck, and your “only option” will be to “fight” a war against your body.

The free-floating notion that we’re condemned to meaninglessness or a sudden onslaught of brutish random suffering is a convenient fiction that keeps the populace desperate for outside authority.

Why? A fearful population without a backbone of meaning is a population that is easy to control.

The solution lies in radically embracing your power to author your own fate. You do this by trusting that every experience, no matter how small, is meaningful, influences the cosmos, and serves as an invitation to higher levels of self-understanding and reunion.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s

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Caty Lee
Exiting A Paradigm

Tickle your dark side. Rejoice with your golden side. Dissolve creative blocks by seeing their root causes. Talk to me @ cait@catylee.com.