The Free Radical

Bigsquatch!

(Author Narration with musical accompaniment: Aftaglid excerpt by Steve Hillage)

As the one who brings meaning to the world, I find new depths of creativity in my audacity to change the meanings of any, or all, of the infinite symbols within my Life experience. Whatever objects, words, people, concepts, actions, behaviours, in their infinite variety, I encounter in my experience, these are the utterly blank symbols to which I alone assign individual and general meanings, according to what I’ve learned and how I’m programmed. I fully realize that what I perceive as ‘the world’ of my experience has no intrinsic meaning of its own; meaning comes from me, from within. The world brings me infinite blank symbols– including people and their actions– for me to experience, and from my internal creational proclivities I bring specific and unique meaning to everything in that experience. In this moment, I realize the tremendous degree to which the world prefers secondhand meanings. I acknowledge, therefore, the awesome responsibility of Being the one– and only one– who assigns meanings to the quanta of my experience… accepting or rejecting secondhand dogma at Will.

As I consider the process of healing, I appreciate that it is a process of changing the meanings–both individually and collectively– of the minutiae comprising a traumatic episode. Healing– which typically occurs through time– is primarily the transformation of the meaning of an injurious event. Trauma is brought to peace by adjusting the meanings of events… for myself, for my own damn reasons.

But the whole trick for changing meanings is that the new meanings have to be believed. All learning is the adoption of new meanings. The world of my perception expands (yielding more choices) in concert with the rate at which I create and assign new meanings to the symbols within my experience. If ever I settle upon immovable meanings, the world ceases growing in all of those places.

To change the world is to alter its meaning and the significance of all manner of things; and that is my super-hero-power! I am the bringer of meaning to the world, and all I need to do is tell a new story, that only I have to believe.