"Now that we know all language lies." Indeed we do, but we since we still rely almost completely on language we do not yet know how to orient ourselves in this knowledge. To consider it as a tool is one approach, not entirely satisfactory because it displaces the realm of stable meanings to a hypothetical position outside of language: there is us and there are certain goals we seek consistent with our nature, for which language, or more broadly, the symbolic realm and our degree of power or influence in it are the sole means we can employ to realise them. The goal is always our entire freedom and so in this instance it is to clearly discriminate the ways that we are implicated in the symbolic realm without being merely a side-effect of it, as some would have it. The symbolic world is not isotropic, its density varies considerably with and around certain isolated points of great concentration which are not exactly points of contact with the real but purely symbolic structures that function as if they were. These are vortices of meaning wherein particular personal, existential or spiritual lines of tension cross and almost coincide with cultural and historical lines. Due to the reflexively infolded structure of the layers of symbolic meaning these vortices or thickenings of significance can be found to occur in more places than first appears. They are not like black holes sucking in both meanings and the subject who means but rather the opposite, like birth, death, love, man, woman, God, they are continually productive of divergent lines of significance even while seeming to be absolutely fixed in place.