Other Resources

Not surprisingly, among the many others who are on a journey to find the meaning of life, there are a variety of books, videos etc. on the subject. Some have a very similar title to this one but often take a quite different path. For instance:

Alan Lightman, is a physicist, a writer and a self-confessed materialist who believes that the Universe is made up of atoms and nothing more. In a series of videos he attempts to reconcile this belief with human experience. In fact the series is almost all to do with Physics and his references to consciousness well express the impossibility of this task. At the conclusion, he has to invoke the magic wand of “emergence” to make the link. The possibility that his initial belief in materialism could be false is not considered.

A film entitled A Quest for Meaning was released in 2015 which focuses on how humans live in the world at this time and the effects of globalisation. While that is an important topic, it is very different from the more cosmic subject matter discussed here.

Tariq Ramadan wrote a book entitled The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism [Ramadan 2012] and has given lectures outlining the material.

An interesting video which explores the analogy between a sail-boat and the journey to find meaning is here.

iiihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_%28philosophy_of_mind%29#Cartesian_dualism

vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

viiiSymptoms Are Your Friends, Visions Healthcare

viihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

viiihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosotomy