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Individual Transformation. Immersion-participation.
Nature. Culture. .
Details. Use of ‘mechanics’, ‘ways’, ‘catalysts’ (‘Yoga’)
in transformation… Select and experiment with catalysts and ways… Place—nature
as place, inspiration; and realization-‘Beyul’; return to society…
experiment with charisma.
Network. Communicate-publish.
Contact-share. Institutions-resources. | .
Talk
Journey
in Being | Experience
| Standard Cosmologies
| Metaphysics
| Significance
| Imperative
| Civilization
| The Way
| Program
Plan for the document—refine, minimize, write as
simpler version with notes. Render as a presentation?
What? Search for realization—quest for discovery and
realization of the Universe, its greatest manifestation, the place of
animal being in it.
Being? Neutral
and empowering container for understanding and process. Even neutral
to neutrality—allows appropriate commitment.
Journey? Human and individual endeavor often experienced
as journey. ‘Being’ will be
revealed as a process.
First
meaning—awareness (scope extended
later). Not everything (in this meaning), experience is focal point of point of engagement,
relation, significance, and our being. Associated with seeing,
thinking, knowing, intending, acting. Begins in but not limited to the
present.
Moral—as long as individuated, you are your primary
source and inspiration—cultivate your life, especially cumulative
experience and endeavor. Teachers are guides and inspiration to
inspiration.
A
virtue of the standard secular cosmology is as a map of our cosmos.
A fairly widespread error (positivism) is in not seeing that experience
does not even probably limit the universe to the known cosmos.
A
main virtue of the trans-secular is as map of psyche. A common error
is conflation of myth with truth (and significance of myth with
significance of truth).
Experience
allows the universe to be wide open requiring only agreement in what the
experience shows of the cosmos.
Imagine
a universe without limit to form (which here includes ‘size’). The general scene
is one of limited structure and interaction. Occasionally structured and
less than transient forms arise in very weak interaction with the immense
background universe. Inhabitants have no immediate way of knowing of the
background. One such less-than-transient is an exact replica of our cosmos.
Taken
together the standard cosmologies strongly tend to result in immense and
unnecessary limits on our perspectives.
Realism—the only experiential limit on the Universe is
that its description agree with experience in its valid domains.
Liberal
realism—the Universe is the greatest Being consistent with
realism. Liberal realism has no conflict with experience, i.e. with
fact and reason, i.e. with science and logic which we may rename Logic or
Realism.
Proof. The laws of nature apply only to manifest forms. There is no law
of the Void. Therefore the forms realized by the Void are without limit.
Since the Void is part of every element of Being—including the Universe,
these too are without limit.
Meaning
and consequences. The conceptual
meaning is that the Universe is defined by Logic or Realism. It is
important that this Realism is not a limit but a constraint on ‘thought’
(creativity allows non realistic conceptions—those that disagree with known
fact and logic). In this sense Realism says ‘the Universe has no limits’. Consequences
are vast, include (1) Manifestation and Identity (‘connected experience’)
of the Universe occurs in acute, diffuse and absent phases and is without
limit on variety, extension, duration, summit-elevation of form, and
dissolution; (2) The individual assumes Identity-manifestation of the
Universe (else there would be a limit on the Universe); (3) For limited
form, realization is an endless and ever-fresh journey (unlimited form would
‘see’ all and have no occasion for freedom or reasoning; the only way to go
would be dissolution / demotion).
Doubt. Our experience of the world as it is, our
experience of limits. Resolution. Limits such the physics of our
cosmos, pain, death are real (normal) but not absolute.
Essential
doubt. The proof. There are
alternatives and plausibility but doubt remains. It is important to see
that the principle of limitlessness violates no facet of experience
(including reason).
Maximize
significance consistent with truth.
Shows
the true nature of the Universe.
Gives
meaning to ambition, death, pain, suffering; does not show death and pain
etc. to be avoidable (‘Nirvana’ is an occasional outcome). Limitlessness
requires the occasional experience of and therefore realistic deference to
limits.
Journey.
Process
begins ever in the present; but widens the scope of meaning of the present…
of an ‘instant’.
From
its significance, plausibility, and consistency—the principle of limitlessness as guide to action.
Faith is the attitude conducive to greatest outcome. This is precisely as
for all endeavors of significance.
While
peak or summit forms are given it is reasonable that efficiency and enjoyment are
immensely enhanced by commitment and engagement.
Civilization
is the matrix of endeavor. Human civilization is the web of cultures across
time and continents. Universal Civilization is the matrix of civilizations
across the Universe.
Individuals
foster civilization; civilization nurtures the individual.
Civilization
provides disciplines—rough cumulative modes of ‘method’; as well as culture
as a rough cumulative ‘discipline’ of disciplines. There is no ultimate
discipline or master; there is sharing and teaching at the experimental
front of all endeavor.
The
disciplines are intrinsic—concern our ‘being’ e.g. Yoga as the
system of disciplines of connection of individual and universe; and instrumental
or ‘extrinsic’ e.g. science and technology. Practices can be described as
‘catalytic’ of abrupt change and capturing or stabilizing. The former
include disruptions of psyche, the latter include integration in memory,
reason, culture, and artifact.
From
experience—ideas and action are the means…
Individual
and civilization are vehicles…
Places of realization are the primitive ground or nature
and the matrix of mutual support-civilization, culture, community
Modes of realization are intrinsic and instrumental
The way. From limitlessness there is no deterministic way of realization.
The essence of any mechanics
is change by any means and capture in form or adaptation. At the front, the
final resort for change is ‘take the next step’ and for capture it is
risk—i.e. ‘success or failure’. In between the vehicles, means, places, and
modes are available. An essential connection between the received
ways etc. and the front is openness and experiment.
Ideas-meditation ® Transformation: individual ® Civilization ® Artifact-technology
® Ideas…
Ideas
and meditation—support and ongoing
(1)
Support for the other phases—mechanics with catalysts and ways;
shared endeavor, TransCommunity (Institute) design; concepts for artifact
and technology
(2)
Ongoing development of revealed potential—pure and applied
metaphysics (intersection of tradition and metaphysics), Logic
Individual
transformation—change and
capture—home, nature, civilization
(1)
Home—‘Yoga’ as ways and experiment in connection; focused endeavor immensely enhances
efficiency and enjoyment of realization
(2)
Nature—inspiration; ground and portal, ‘Beyul’
(3)
Civilization—immersion and sharing: general, program of ideals,
context of institutions—secular and other
Transformation
of civilization—sharing,
TransCommunity
(1)
Shared endeavor—continuous with above; sharing and communication multiply efficiency
(1) numerically, (2) mutual support, (3) origin and distribution of
function (ideas, action, charisma, ‘mass action’) by ability and need, (4)
synthesis by communication at a variety of levels, local and up, (5) cumulative
over time. The social character of human being is reflected in duality of efficiency and enjoyment
of sharing.
(2)
TransCommunity—intentional, institute
Artifact
and technology—concepts,
implementation
(1)
Concepts, design, building…
(2)
Implementation—independent, adjunct, ‘symbiotic’, and
co-evolutionary
Sustenance.
Min-max.
Space-property—triage:
necessary and immediate-store-disposable, gear—organize for access,
organize room for action, store | Time-action | Money
Transportation.
Independent—tour
bike, trailer, hike / bike DL, auto, DMV laws, reciprocity. Assisted—casual, pro,
advertise. .
Place—Home | Location—inspiration, supportive association, collaboration;
CRAIGLIST | Work.
Schedule—contact
realty / setup ® store and travel ® find
place (contacts, ads, Craiglist)
Location,
e.g. shadow of mountains and mist—Arcata, W’ville, G’ville, US, Mexico,
Assam, Continents, World
Work—Institute
/ University. TransCommunity.
Health.
MD: advance initiative; tired—caffeine, sugar
(hormone), dehydration; lesions, Weaverville; Azelastine | DDS: Lewis, Weaverville, Burre, Mex, insurance | COUNSEL | lifestyle-diet, physical activity—therapy,
exercise—aerobic (bike), flexibility, tone
Issues—details—possibilities
for tiredness: depression, post acute w/d, caffeine etc., sugar, hormone /
enzyme levels, hydration levels, dental infection, mold, roundup
Work skills.
Priorities—(1)
Job and money (2) Automate conceptual analysis, publication, networking
Emphases—(1)
Information processing—networking. Web design and publishing;
networking tools e.g. blog, email, http…; software use; programming (2) Technical.
Engineering, mathematics, computation (algorithms…) (3) Analysis.
Scope, method, application.
Detail.
Access skills; Excel; programming visual basic versus C++. Other
possibilities
Next cycle…
Transformation of Civilization Shared endeavor—TransCommunity.
®
Transformation of civilization,
its arrangements and interrelation—immersion
and participation; share the elements (give, receive); setting up and
living in TransCommunity. Place—society, institutions including
government and university (academic), TransCommunity.
A grant andor other support is a valuable measure of
participation.
Artifact & Technology Artificial
Being—TransCommunity. ®
Artifact and Technology in
Symbiotic Transformation—study,
research, development, prototype, and production program—science (physics,
biology, information, psycho-philosophy), technology, design, build of
‘artificial being’. Place—Academic institutions, Research and
Development institutions, TransCommunity.
Note. The symbiotic case includes the adjunct and
independent use of artifact. Note that while ‘symbiosis’ usually refers to
two or more biological species; here it refers to combinations that include
artifact and technology.
Ideas & Meditation Logic, pure and applied
metaphysics, mechanics with catalysts and ways. Meditation—focus in
practice and action ® Individual…
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