Objectives and Itinerary for 2001

OBJECTIVES AND ITINERARY: JOURNEY 2001

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OBJECTIVES AND ITINERARY
2001

OBJECTIVES

1. OBJECTIVES FOR MY LIFE – fundamental objectives and ultimate being

1.1 THE FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIVES…

A simple map of my world / the world. What is fundamental? … “Be all?” … Other values … Review of objectives. What is important? Love, ideas, nature…

Brief “superlist”

Yoga: the ways including meditation, vision, being present to self and feeling in the moment among others and the world, and the dynamics of the real. Combine this with Being and the Elements of Being

The Yoga / meditative side of the metaphysics of presence

Walking meditation

Immediate and ultimate being construction and knowledge … Ends and influence … Marta

Support: placement for support and resources …for personal and location … secondarily for intellectual challenge and money

1.2 THE ISSUE OF BEING - IDEAS AND EXPERIMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEING…

EXPERIMENTS- continue to consider [kinds of] experiments, experience and construction

1. “Cartesian” experiments in alteration of physical and mental state …to see in the present through access to places normally not accessed. See “The quest for vision and being” for details. Use of Yoga as defined in the fundamental objectives. The experiments are “Cartesian” in that they split life into “life” and “experiment.”

2. Construction of a life through meaning, definition, choices, ends action and projects. Influence, world, work, family

3. Arching from human to ultimate being through limits, understanding, overcoming and awareness. Review the “Dynamics of the Real.”

IDEAS- The nature of being: critical and constructive approaches. Mesh of universal and local ontologies – the metaphysics of presence. The principle that the essence of all being is in every being. Using Yoga

Universal Ontology. Being as being-relationship-action …the origin of the world in “nothing”

Being and knowledge. Meaning of knowledge. Foundation for a full theory of being. Experiments/possibilities in being

Noumenon. The noumena of Kant, Heidegger and Indian Philosophy. Being in Indian philosophy

Atman/Brahman … Field of intuition - the conscious and unconscious

Local ontology. Pre-Cartesian ontologies … in which knower and known are integral, not alien. Mind, matter… refer to different properties or attributes, not different things or substances

Heidegger. Meaning/question of being. Approach through Dasein. Criticism of anthropocentrism - and response
Modifications of/alternatives to Heidegger; alternate philosophies; contributions of the “regional” disciplines

Themes

Being/mind: an atlas…begin the atlas from the fundamentals of being/action/relation within Being

2. NATURE, PERCEPTION AND DYNAMICS – and action

Immersion: Being in wild places

Simply: endurance, and health; body-dynamics and nature-sense; hikes… the following detail is useful

2.1 PERCEPTION: AWARENESS, ATTENTION, ATTUNEMENT, and NATURE SENSE

Animal and primal experience

Terrain, water, air, sky, weather, animals and plants

Plain diet. Eliminate caffeine

2.2 DYNAMICS

Body and sense attunement; flexibility and attitude – stretching; body dynamics especially in relation to terrain

Endurance and intense physical activity

Physical Objectives: Specific hikes and places, climbs, and routes; duration

Relax; enjoy sun, sky, clouds… nature, and health

OBJECTIVES

ITINERARY Monday, September 3 11:30 PM - Thursday, October 18, 3 PM

PREPARATION AND TRAVEL

Places. Trinity Alps. Alternates: Marble Mountains, Russian Wilderness, Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, Kings Canyon, and the San Juan Mountains

Travel and Permit - on the way

Journey 1

Two weeks: about Thursday, September 6 – Wednesday, September 19

Objective: Primary objectives. Review objectives for the next Journeys

THE JOURNEY: Journey 2

Two weeks: about Thursday, September 20 – Wednesday, October 3

Objective: Primary objectives. Consolidate

Alternate objective: Bay Area, Jobs

THE JOURNEY: Journey 3

Two weeks: about Thursday, October 4 – Wednesday, October 17

Alternate objective: Bay Area, Work, Placement

Objective: Primary objectives. Consolidate

RETURN AND REINTEGRATION - Review this toward end of journey

Immediate: clean, maintain gear and vehicle, laundry

Review and reintegrate - ideas from the place. What next? Possibilities, plans and risks… The Journey – next, new concept, six months to a year. For the future – one through 25 years, and beyond death; evolution of Being and the Elements of Being, the phases: selection and realization; simple, powerful presentation

Notes: write and integrate; print; upload. Define the set of fundamental essays and, as far as possible incorporate notes and ideas into existing essays