2008 EDITION
Source material for Journey: introduction
ANIL MITRA, COPYRIGHT © 2008
CONTENTS
The universality of the journey
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Function of this part—‘Journey’
This document is pertinent to (1) the introductory discussion of the journey, (2) the chapter Journey in division Theory of being, and (3) the part Journey in being
‘Becoming’ suggests pan-process. Yet, actual becoming is more like that of a river system—many sources, tributaries, lakes, ground water, joins and ends, distributaries, ocean, moisture, rain…
Hence the metaphor for being-becoming… the many journeys—that—constitute the journey
…and, so the universe as journey
The journey is in transformation of being and identity, yet ideas are pivotal (1) as the place of experience of transformation, (2) as a mode of being and a means of transformation
If someone were to design and execute the ultimate journey—what kind of person might that be?
The Dionysian—immersed in life or the Apollonian—immersed in form and symmetry?
It would be one who had the extremes in integration or conflict…
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The focus of this part—Journey—is transformation. It remains in process and includes provisional concepts, practice and progress
In this version of the narrative, this part serves as rough guide and working blueprint and is therefore confined to description of essentials
The ideas—Foundation—achieve a completeness and definiteness that has not yet been achieved in Journey
The concern in Journey is to achieve some representative fraction of the variety of being revealed in the Ideas. Completeness of such achievement is expected to be at most fractional, for the actual variety shown possible in metaphysics of immanence and necessary for some identity in theory of identity may be elusive in the particular case of the journey reported in this narrative. Yet, as being, the ideas are essentially incomplete; they are still essential, however, as the place that the experience of being is appreciated
On account of the essential incompleteness of the ideas, the Journey is the more important part. In the mind of the author, the journey stands out as the greatest of ambitions. It occupies this place on account of its being both life and meaning; and perhaps on account of the fact that the adventure is at it beginning
Details that would detract from the blueprint function may be found in the 2006 version