the way of being

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The aim of the way is, as far as possible, to integrate our world with the ultimate, emphasizing mutual benefit. To avoid dogma, approaches should be initially neutral to what is real. Being is found suitably neutral to the real and to associated problems of value, knowledge, language, and intuition. Analysis of being leads to a worldview as framework for knowledge and paths or lifeways in the immediate and the ultimate.

The demonstrated worldview is of the universe as limitless in variety, extension, duration, phasing through void, manifest, and peak states. If counter to modern views, the consequent real metaphysics agrees with experience in its valid realm (doubt is asserted and addressed). There are significant consequences for human knowledge and endeavor (see concepts and essays).

A 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).