Five Meanings: A short book about the meaning of life.

I've spent more than 35 years thinking about the meaning of life, existence, and our place in it. I wrote this book as a record of my thinking, and as an atlas to hopefully help others find their own meaning of life. I went searching for the meaning of life, and found five of them.

• How a person's purpose is based on natural laws that govern the entire universe.
• Why purpose and meaning are often confused - I clarify each and show how one builds off the other.
• How being guided by purpose can lead to a deeper feeling of meaningful life.
• How humanity fits into the big picture of the universe, and how the universe created us to be creators.
• How the order of our universe, our society, and our individual abilities are naturally linked.

Most self-help type books give tips and recipes for living a better life. Cookbooks, basically. This is not a cookbook. It precedes the question of how to do something. It uncovers why we should do anything at all. If an average self-help book is a stroll through town on your lunch break, this one is a month-long vision quest in the forest.