Knowing, reaching to, and becoming the ultimate—via abstraction of meaning (and Experience); Vision Search; Jnâna (the ultimate and the instruments of meaning); Raja Yoga (psycho-physical preparation, practice, and action)… Chöd (Being in Being by embrace of fear, disgust, and transitoriness)

Mediate

Individual—psyche (all aspects including spirit and body), and action

Society—persons; culture and tradition; secular and religious institutions and functions—religious, political, economic, material and technological

Process— ®Experience and enjoyment (patience is the state of enjoyment of the present and action toward goals without distinction)® Idea (Imagination, Realism—e.g., criticism) including knowledge of actuality and alternative… value and choice, goal, means, and execution® Act (Execute)® Review outcome compared to goal, estimate its source, learning regarding these elements® …

Goals

Shared knowledge and action in enjoyment and service of the present, directed to, and being in the ultimate

Program

Ways

Ideas and action—The metaphysics, tradition; experience, experiment, learning (knowledge, choice, intention, action, outcome, comparison with intention, estimation of source of difference, correction), reflex… recognition and cultivation of transformation (transformation is not an action but is the result of knowledge… action… etc.)

Practice, Action, and Practice in Action—knowledge of the ultimate in Experience (metaphysics)… Vision Search (quest)… Jnâna (mediate and ultimate knowledge and its instruments especially of meaning) and Raja Yoga (psycho-physical preparation, practice, and action)… Chöd (embrace of Being by embrace of fear, disgust, transitory being…)

Catalysts

Action. Action toward the goal, especially in nature and the cultural milieu—and failure, familiarization, and improvement—is self-catalytic. Charismatic action. (1) Action, risk, word, drama as catalytic (2) Practice for encounter, develop psychic and physical energy (3) Care for and insight into others (4) Magic as the use of words and ideas for action and deep understanding… Acting and drama—acting as if (e.g. there is immanent power, assumption of charismatic personality) as catalytic of self and other

Significant catalytic activity. Rhythm, dance, march, and breath… Exertion, exposure, and dedication… Presence, fear, crisis sense, and opportune action… Altering perspective—nature, cultures, micro-cultures, handedness, risk… Fasting, diet, psychoactive substances

Awareness of Death and Crisis Sense. (1) Existential orientation as a Limit of all reaching beyond; and in acceptance (acceptance is not acquiescence) (2) As catalytic (galvanizing) of awareness and action—intrinsically and via contemplation of the nature of death and crisis (e.g. the tranquil life as delusion)

Place—nature… chaos… culture. Place, especially nature as (1) Ground and Gate to the universal (2) Meditative (3) Place of catalytic practice and action (4) Beyul—map of psyche. Chaos etc. as (1) General practice (2) Chöd. Cultural institutions as conducive to reception and action (1) Churches (2) Minimal-Aesthetic living space (3) Architecture for civilization

A Minimal System of Experiments

Planning

Planning is essential because we inevitably come back to the beginning

The elements of planning are those of method (Mediate powers [1] and Ways [2])

Phase of Being—Ideas

Program

The metaphysics—development of the foundation, method, and character (depth, breadth, equivalence to Logic, endeavor and action), elaboration and application (Logic, System of Endeavor including the Disciplines. Art, Religion, Science, Objects, Method, Cosmology and Death, Power, Applied Metaphysics and World, and Journey)

Scientific method and the sciences—consequences of the metaphysics (especially cosmology and physics, biology, science of psyche, science of social systems)

Art—expression and communication of what is deepest in human being and capability… Practice—goal—seeing, absorbing, representing, communicating… and, especially, development of intuition

Religion—as the deployment of all modes of being of individual and group in realization of All Being (and Value and its meaning)

Journey—concept and action

Expression and Communication

Narrative form. Clarity, poetry of precision, presentational form (vs. discursive)

Writing. Integrate journey—experience, transformation—to narrative

Speaking. Formal—venues. Informal—exposure, anticipation and practice, critical sense

Networking. Informal—practice and action. Formal—research, practice, and action

Publication. Self, specialty, mainstream

Phase of Being—Transformation

Mediate—ultimate

Psyche

Includes spirit, body, Being; emphasizes—begins with—local action, Spirit, Body / Being

Emphasis—the world and the ultimate

Practice and action—Ways, e.g., yoga, meditation…(see Ways) as training in focus (1) In being present to the world and self (2) In action in action (3) In transformation and transition to transformation

Catalytic practice—see Catalysts above (1) Emphasize presence, crisis sense, exertion (nature), inaction (breath and meditation) over entertainment (2) Death and Critical Sense (3) Place (4) Tantric Chöd (5) Meanings in Sacred Texts (i.e. textuality; select the greatest examples) (6) Charisma—(a) Practice expression and motivation in action; repetition (b) Practice encounter (c) Insight into motivation (d) Cultivate psychic and physical energy (7) 12 Step logic

Self, Culture, Society and Charismatic Action

Emphasizes action in society; see also Special Phase—Social

This intersects and therefore covers aspects of the previous topic

Self. Right living in relation to self; thinking and activity in relation to others; place of society and culture in the ultimate (social engagements not connected to the ultimate and realization are secondary until this phase matures). Physical health; endurance; flexibility; strength; diet for these purposes and to cleanse

Charisma. Charisma is risk, energy, generosity and patience… also see immediately prior and earlier sections… and acting and drama (above)

Action toward the following ends. Human Endeavor—Realization Is and Requires Distribution and Immanence of Power. Areas—Knowledge (immediate, ultimate), and organization of action (political, economic). Local material self-sufficiency in balance with globalization

Nature and Catalytic Practice

Preliminary—the idea of nature. Here, nature is seen as source, ground, and contact (to the universal)

Planning… and plan—Act on, review, and reformulate the following… define intentions

A list of approaches

1. Be-ing

2. Contact with the Real; elements—places, earth, earth forms, water, weather, elements, plant, animal; ground, gate to, image of the ultimate—sacredness of place: conducive to receptivity, engagement

3. Attunement—body and psyche

4. Source of ideas

5. Reflection, review

6. Catalytic activity—walking, rhythm, repetition; environment inducement; alterations from exposure, extremes in environment, exertion and depletion of internal resources; fasting, isolation

7. Ways and practice—shamanic vision search; Chöd (Tantra); places (Beyul), animals, and other elements (see Contact with the Real, above) as gates (portal is an overused word) to and maps of inner and ultimate reals

8. Contact, catalysts, yoga (meditation—Raja Yoga, Jnâna Yoga)

9. Universal. A role for reflection on and being in abstraction, abstract action, and inhabiting abstract Objects

Special Phase

Also called ‘focused phase’

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Currently open for the future—during / after / as transformation; see Focused Phase for information

Organic-Mechanical Being

Modes of Being and Process. Psyche—powers and modes—and Soma; Ideas and Action

Range. Cell to organ; Organism and Individual; Individual to Society and Civilization; Earth to Cosmos; Universe

Modes of Mimesis. Construction—material, organic (organism, ecosystem, and world in evolution)—analog and emulation. Iconic and symbolic simulation and emulation. Science, art, metaphysics. Mathematical modeling: qualitative, quantitative; exact and approximate; numerical. Digital modeling (e.g. based on mathematics and other symbolic models) and digital emulation. Acting—as if; emulating—inhabiting

Design and Development

Study—AI and artificial life or ALife, robotics, adaptive and self-replicating systems, ontology, physical eschatology, theology, cognitive science...

Research, development, experiment and experimental systems, construction, and deployment

Social Being

1. Social and group dynamics—concepts and theories; charisma, participation, and immersion

2. Preparation, planning, action, sharing

3. Universal aspect—sharing; ideas—metaphysics, dynamics, journey; from ground to Being

4. Ground—our world, problem and opportunity, value, action

5. Universal aspect—civilization

NOTES

[1] Process— ®Experience and enjoyment (patience is the state of enjoyment of the present and action toward goals without distinction)® Idea (Imagination, Realism—e.g., criticism) including knowledge of actuality and alternative… value and choice, goal, means, and execution® Act (Execute)® Review outcome compared to goal, estimate its source, learning regarding these elements® …

[2] Ideas and action—The metaphysics, tradition; experience, experiment, learning (knowledge, choice, intention, action, outcome, comparison with intention, estimation of source of difference, correction), reflex… recognition and cultivation of transformation (transformation is not an action but is the result of knowledge… action… etc.)