JOURNEY IN BEING
Journey in Being is the universal adventure
of Being, through thought and action,
through stories of cosmos, life, humankind and the civilizations and cultures
…to the edge of possibility, into ultimate Being
TOPICS FOR THE SITE-MAP
Journey in Being: Main Documents | Supporting Documents and Reference | Commentary on the documents | Design for a Journey in Being | Metaphysics: the Logic of Being | Dynamics: Transformations of Being – Ideas and
Experiments
| The Variety of Being: Experiments with Ideas and Artifacts | Action, Influence,
Charisma and History
| Information links
| Key
Journey in Being. The following versions exist
Journey
in Being - 2005: the latest
version. Currently in-process. Anticipated completion:
September 2005
Journey
in Being: Whereof one cannot speak: September 2004 version
The
Logic and Concepts of the Journey in Being:
July 2004
Journey
In Being and Prologue
to the Journey in Being: June 2003
The original and first version to
include a number of fundamental new ideas:
The Theory of Being and
its basis in pure logic; the original consolidation of my thoughts on mind -
its nature,
the mind-body problem
and its resolution, the categories; consolidation of my thoughts on social and
political theory and action…
Words, language, metaphysics is a listing of a vocabulary for Journey in Being and for
a variety of pertinent metaphysical systems. In addition to substance ontology,
alternative systems of metaphysics, and a system of basic words, the document
contains systems of words for language, being, mind, knowledge and
transformation and a detailed array of sub-topics. Metaphysics Lexicon, just begun as of February 2004, is intended to be a
dictionary of basic words for metaphysics in English, French,
German, Greek, Latin and Sanskrit (June 2005: when I have completed the
2005 version of Journey in Being, I will import its lexicon)
Design for a Journey in Being is the blue print for the future
New Ideas and supplements contain ideas for improvement of and corrections to Journey in Being including
fundamental enhancements and elaborations to the main paradigms
History
of Thought and Action compiled from John A. Garraty
and Peter Gay, eds., The Columbia History of the World, 1972. data for
[1] possibility of trends, prediction and understanding… and e.g. what
kind of trends i.e. while some kinds of trends may be unpredictable this may
not be universal; [2] identify focal events and individuals for further study;
and [3] History as interaction of thought and action. Combine with:
History
of Western Philosophy
Metaphysics
and Power
Max
Weber's Sociology of Charisma
A Note on History and its use in the present context: it is regarded as
evident that any narrative history must make choices that reflect a system of
valuation and categories of understanding. However, even within these
limitations it is clear that the recorded events speak at least as directly to
the nature of history than any idea of that nature. Thus, for example, on
reading a chapter from the foregoing reference on The Golden Age of Spain it
becomes clear that the period in question was much more a patchwork of numerous
interacting threads than a monolithic situation, and that the idea of a golden
age is a retrospective assignment that exalts something quite tenuous. The
history to be written will emphasize both ideas and action and will be bound
together on the principles of Journey in Being in which the determinate
and necessary are essentially the product of the indeterminate
Kinds
of Knowledge; also
see Susan Haack, Philosophy of Logics, 1978
Evolution,
Design and the Absolute
Essays
on Mind; especially Philosophy
of Mind and Consciousness
Journey
In Being
The other
essays linked from the site-map are not as current as Journey in Being which
often supersedes or vastly improves the ideas from earlier essays. However, the
older documents are of interest for some of their ideas and elaborations and
may be useful if I later edit or revise Journey in Being
Other
documents include designs and related concerns
Design
for a Journey in Being is a blue print for the future
New
Ideas: contains ideas for improvement of and corrections to Journey in Being including
fundamental enhancements and elaborations to the main paradigms
Proposal
for Horizons Enterprises™
Horizons
Enterprises™ Financial Planning
The aims of the metaphysics are:
Develop a theory of being that
includes actual being and its possibilities and potentials;
the theory develops the principle of being that all being is accessible to
every being
Show what is accessible to
individual [human] being and to show what is ethical and the means of access;
an approach, the dynamics of being, that underlies the tradition of
transformations in being
and the Experiments
in Transformation, below
Develop an understanding and
lines of solution, in light of the theory, of problems in metaphysics;
the topics include some significant issues in the classical and modern
traditions of metaphysics
and for application in the Journey in Being
Metaphysics. Theory
Theory: Knowledge and Action, Metaphysics
Topics: Mind, Cosmology, Ethics and its common
roots with being and knowledge
Applications: Experiments in the Transformation of Being,
The Variety of Being, Action and Influence
Vocabulary
for Metaphysics | Metaphysics
Lexicon
The
Fundamental Problem of Metaphysics
Topics – Philosophy and its History
The
Periods of Indian Philosophy
Topics – Knowledge and Epistemology and Ethics
Kinds
of Knowledge; Linguistics
On
Thomas Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science
Topics – Evolution, Design and the Absolute
Evolution,
Design and the Absolute
Topics – Mathematics and Science
Mathematics
and its Foundations
Topics – Mind
Has the most
up-to-date and complete developments on the nature of mind,
the mind body problem, the aspects of mind e.g. attitude, experience and action
and other issues. The following earlier essays have details of interest
Philosophy
of Mind and Consciousness
Philosophy of Mind Satellite Site
Essays
on Mind – and consciousness
Review:
John Searle and David Chalmers
Twenty
Thinkers – in philosophy of mind and
consciousness
Summary: Susan
Greenfield, The Human Mind
Applications – for
convenience, the following list repeats the phases of the Journey
Journey
In Being
contains all phases, theory and applications
The purposes of the experiments
are
Use
and develop the dynamics of being to integrate and enhance traditional
approaches to transformation
Use
the resulting system in the Journey – specifically in an attempt to
experimentally demonstrate the principle of being
Use
the approaches to transformation in my own life and develop special purpose
applications
The Experiments and their
Theory
Experiments
in the Transformation of Being
Dynamics of Being, Becoming, Journey-Quest, A System of Experiments including a Complete, Minimal System
Perception and Vision-Quest, Dreams and Hypnosis, Yoga
and Meditation
The
Periods of Indian Philosophy
Coming: applications in healing and wellness – Research Topics, Treatment
Planning
Journey-Quest and Planning
Journey
Planning
– in Design for a Journey in Being
Includes templates for Objectives
& Itinerary | Short
List | Vacation
Request
Mathematics
and its Foundations
The
Fundamental Problem of Metaphysics and its Resolution
Journal 2002 – the entire content has been absorbed
to Journey
in Being and other essays
The purposes to the study of the
variety of being include:
To
develop an understanding of the variety – actual and possible being
including hypothetical being;
I use hypothetical to include reference to beings or
modes of being from the tradition of thought, especially God
To
develop a perspective on and further human attempts in the construction of
being – especially machine intelligence and being
To
use the results in understanding being
The Variety: Theory and Machine
Intelligence
Topics – Applications
The
Variety of Being outlines applications and plans
Databases
and Concepts, Database
of Section Titles, Databases
and Concepts: Discussion
Automation
in Psychiatric Care
In Action, Influence, Charisma
and History [Change]:
I
consider, first, the general understanding and change of social arrangements
– especially politics
I
develop some tools for application; a first stage is communication including
the present website
subsequent stages will be more direct, more active and more involved
I
have formulated a design for an institute, Horizons EnterprisesÔ, for development of the aims of
Journey in Being
On Action, Influence and Change
Max
Weber's Sociology of Charisma
Topics – Education
Qualitative
Measure is not Objective
Topics – Engineering
Emphasis on Education in Engineering; the same as The
Concept of Education above
Topics – Psychiatry
Topics
in Psychiatry; older, interesting, dated – needs update
Resources
For Psychiatry – outline
Levels of
Psychiatric Function
Differential
Treatment of Disorders
Research
Topics, Treatment
Planning
Topics – Psychology,
Sociology and Anthropology
Topics
in Psychology –
older, interesting, dated – needs update
Design
of a Life – dated
Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning
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