LOOKING FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE
AN INTERNET PORTAL

    The links provided below will lead you to other rooms in this museum,
which deal with the quest for meaning in life.
If you know of other useful links anywhere on the Internet,
they will be considered for adding to this portal.

    "Looking for the Meaning of Life"
This is a 3-page cyber-sermon presenting the basic quest
and an existential answer.

    A slightly different spin will be found in chapter entitled:
"Relative Meaninglessness & Spiritual Meaninglessness"
which is Chapter 4 of Opening to Grace:
Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise.
This chapter is 4 pages long.

    A longer treatment in a much wider context appears in
the following book of more than 300 pages:

James Park  Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death
(Minneapolis, MN: www.existentialbooks.com, 2006—5th edition)
Ch. 4 "Existential Meaninglessness" p. 69-75.
More information about Our Existential Predicament
is available on the Internet,
including about 10% of the pages of the book.

Here the chapter on meaninglessness is called:
Existential Meaninglessness:
The Collapse of 'Meanings' and Illusions 

Because this is the shortest chapter of Our Existential Predicament,
it is presented in its entirety on the Internet.
This provides a flavor of the other chapters,
which explore the same problem from 10 other perspectives.

    Another small book (just 40 pages),
explores the six most common ways in which people seek meaning in life
—and how each of these fails:
   
James Park  In Quest of Fulfillment:
Money, Achievement, Marriage, Children, Enjoyment, & Religion
(Minneapolis, MN: www.existentialbooks.com, 2007—second edition)
For more information about In Quest of Fulfillment, go to:

    If you would like to know more about this existential approach,
read some of the books in the Existential Spirituality Bibliography:

    Other books exploring a variety of approaches
to the quest for meaning in life are found here:
Meaning in Life Bibliography:


    If you have discovered other useful resources on the Internet
concerning the quest for meaning in life,
please suggest them to the webmaster:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
INTERNET ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUP

    If you might be interested in an ongoing discussion
of themes related to existential meaninglessness,
have a look at this Yahoo group, called the Existential Freedom Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExistentialFreedom/

    This is a modest group at present,
but it can grow as new people discover it.
If you are looking for the meaning of life,
this group of kindred spirits might be helpful.

    In 2009, a Facebook Page was established with a somewhat wider scope.
It is called "Existential Spirituality".
Go to http://www.facebook.com
and search for "Existential Spirituality".


Created August 10, 2008; Revised 2-13-2009
Go to other portals for exploring our Existential Malaise.

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