We are moving – to Metameaning.com

This is the first post on this website in a long time – and also the last.

Two or three years ago we were active here on the topic of “Climate and Communication”, many of you read our articles, which then appeared much less frequently than we had planned due to time and capacity constraints. Nevertheless, this website has become a document for us of the social processes that we have all experienced together.

The predictions from back then are long out of date. Some developments have become more extreme than we could have imagined. Some things have come true in a sad and frightening way, such as the increase in violence in the climate crisis. And we see that the individual crises are intertwining, reinforcing and accelerating each other, so that scientists are now talking about a meta-crisis.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find meaning in all of this, to lead a meaningful and fulfilling life. This is also a psychological and spiritual crisis. John Vervaeke describes: “that the meaning of life is not just a tool for survival, but essential for human well-being. It is no wonder that people are constantly searching for it.” And now we are experiencing a “crisis of meaning, a disorienting feeling that we have forgotten an essential dimension of reality and lost our relationship to what is good, true and beautiful.”

How do we deal with all of this? With powerlessness and helplessness. With our understandable but problematic desire for denial and distraction. How can we experience our life as meaningful? What can we do so that fear does not overwhelm us, so that we do not live and act against each other but in solidarity, even and especially in times of crisis?

“Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to nuclear war, none is so great as the deadening of our response”Joanna Macy

This is the focus of our new website and podcast: metameaning.com. And in times of increasing challenges and destabilization, we now want to publish more regularly: the articles appear on Thursdays, the podcast on Mondays, usually weekly.

We would be happy if you would move with us!