Aim indefinite without complete worldview—therefore (1) seek worldview / metaphysics and (2) to extent worldview incomplete, aim / process ‘incomplete’ (not a negative judgment).

Aim to Civilization? Individual? See being, metaphysics, and meaning.

Standard worldviews

Primal, secular and supra-secular—status, incompleteness, in process nature. Science and religion.

Possibilities

Preview of the aim of the way of being

Aim of the way of being…

Aim and structure of the essay

Narrative / essay / text / book

The aim of the essay—to explain and communicate the way; influence; pave way for realization.

Open narrative is in-process, without beginning of end… includes its planning… emerging metaphysics and definitions—neither altogether final and given nor altogether tentative and in process but an integration of final and in process

Section parts may include—brief general explanation, extended explanation oriented toward ideas and action-realization, and formal.

Being, experience, metaphysics, and meaning

Two related reasons for being (1) For realization—what is the vehicle? (2) For worldview-metaphysics—the ‘algebraic’ approach avoids substance / pre-commitment.

Being is simple: ‘is’, ‘are’, ‘was’, ‘will be’; not mysterious but contains all mystery.

The original meaning of metaphysics, knowledge of being, has been criticized on several fronts—primarily its possibility. The response is to identify a core of precision that frames the imprecise and that the join has dual criteria—precision for the core, practicality for the framed—which are jointly adequate. Experience is crucial because it is the place of meaning and significance.

Meaning is crucial—see meaning. Preliminary comments—(1) concepts are essential in identifying the objects… necessary and sufficient (linguistic meaning associates a sign with meaning) (2) At the boundary between the known and unknown, there must be a balance between fluidity and fixity of meaning. Old terms are suggestive but may be too suggestive; therefore definitions should be given but be seem as emerging, e.g. as in experience…

Part I. Ideas

Experience

Experience / awareness / consciousness

Two ways to see experience (1) Points within the real world (2) Experience is a field; beings are concentrations of the field; experience is relationship and subject and object aspects of the field…

Uses of ‘experience’. Present meaning. Why. First and extended meanings. How. Distinguishing other uses… cumulative experience, experience of, ex-perience…

Experience and meditation. MEDITATION has an aim and technique; techniques may be many; aims may concern ends or process / state of being and in the latter case, aim and technique merge. Meditation, then, is refinement and expansion of experience and the related capability (where experience is understood maximally in all its kinds (emotion, perception-conception), manners (active, receptive, pure), and modes (sight, sound…).

Action

Meaning

Existence

Being

Synthesis

Power

Relationship

Identity

Spacetime

Universe

Possibility

Law

Realism

Consequences

Void

Metaphysics

Philosophy here? Foundation for system of human knowledge?

Cosmology

System of human knowledge?

Religion… what… first and later meanings… functions… the gods of the gaps…

Attitude

Part II. The way

Elements

Path

Expedition / trip / beyul / action planning… planning vs. crashing (preparation and practice for crashing… essentials)

I want people around me who support what I do… i.e. criticism with understanding. Regarding this I must be active and proactive; passivity is (self) destructive and leads to nihilism.

Resources

The way

Developing resources

Essential philosophy, mathematics (category), physics, biology, and structure of psyche (mind / experience)… and what else?