the way of being

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The aim of the way is to see what mesh there is of our world with the ultimate, and to use it for the good. How? To avoid dogma, approaches should be initially neutral to the real. ‘Being’ is found suitably neutral to the real and to associated problems of value, knowledge, language, intuition, and action. Proof via analysis of being yields a worldview as framework for knowledge and paths or lifeways in the immediate and the ultimate.

The view, named the ‘real metaphysics‘, is of the universe as limitless in variety, extension, duration, phasing through void, manifest, and peak (ultimate) states. This view is counter to most modern views and may challenge readers’ sense of the real; however, while doubt is acknowledged and addressed, it agrees with experience and science in their valid realms.

There are significant consequences for human knowledge and endeavor (see concepts and essays). One consequence is a non-prescriptive framework for pathways in the world and the ultimate, which (i) gives meaning and quality to the world and agency to persons rather than authority (ii) implies that our true being transcends the apparent and realizes peak being (and dissolution without end or limit to variety). The framework is a template via which human and ultimate being and meaning are shared and negotiated (ideas from prescriptive ways may be incorporated).