If you've been following along with my work for any significant period of time, you've heard me mentioning this concept called Meta or going Meta.

I've used this concept a lot in the past, but I've used it indirectly, obliquely, implicitly

without formally defining what it is. And so I think it's worthwhile to do that here today

because this is a concept that we use recuringly

if we're trying to understand life or reality at a deep level or if we're trying to

understand the nature of science or we're trying to understand religion

we're trying to understand spirituality we're trying to do personal development at a deep level.

To do these things, you really have to come to terms with the notion of meta.

And even though this notion of meta,

it's actually being used even by kids. this to say meta this, meta that, but they don't really understand what they're saying.

And even many scientists and computer programmers and so forth who should have a deeper grasp of this

notion, they still don't really understand the significance of what Meta means.

So it really is worthwhile to spend a couple hours discussing this notion in depth, explaining

why it's so important important and giving many examples.

So let's begin.

So what does going meta mean?

And usually when we say meta, we attach to other domains or concepts like meta physics, meta data,

meta cognition.

So once you start to think along these lines you realize that you've probably heard this

concept use many times before and I'll give you way more examples than this as we keep going.

But the dictionary defines it formally as the following, quote,

showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself

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