Problems and opportunities

The material for this section is currently in Journey in Being-detail.html.

The material must be rethought from human, world, and metaphysical perspectives.

Resources

These resources are intended to suggest general, particular, and local approaches to a path. The metaphysics makes it clear that they cannot be complete.

Founding an institute

Focused groups: an institute: see TranscommunityDesign and a first plan—TransCommunity.xls or TransCommunity.

General resources

Some standard modern sources are Psychoanalysis, Humanistic psychology, Gestalt psychology, and Rational emotive therapy, and psychology of Mindfulness in world thought (includes tradition)

Some traditional sources are Christian theology, Islam, Judaism; and the Vedas, Upanishads, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Kashmir Saivism, and Bhagavad-Gita.

It would leave these suggestions incomplete to not suggest some ‘primal’ sources. A general but very cursory source is Indigenous Religions (from Encyclopedia.com). An outstanding source is Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest, Richard K. Nelson (1983) (the link to University of Chicago press site was live as of January 21, 2015). The author cautions that conclusions regarding one Native American group cannot be generalized to ‘primality’. The restriction however is not pertinent to the insight of what is possible and meaningful. Perhaps the most pertinent conclusions to the present purpose are (1) that natural and spiritual knowledge encompass an entire human ecological niche and (2) that the system of knowledge is both deep, wonderful, and flexible (and in this way quite different from our modern rigid fundamentalisms but may be seen as an origin of modern science and religion though not the cause of their dichotomous fundamentalism).

The Journey in Being website, http://www.horizons-2000.org has an array of resources. See the primary source for supplements of content and web links for the present document.

Human sources

Religious (spiritual) teachers and communities are important for good direction and support (even though we are ultimately on the forefront—at the beginning—without external support on the road to the universal precisely because the universe is all that there is: there is nothing outside it).

Every system has its written and living sources of insight; its communities. Readers are encouraged, if they would derive insight and support from tradition, to experiment with and find literature, teachers, and communities appropriate to their inclination. The internet and the printed literature abound with information.

Process resources