Poetry of precision, clarity of expression, logic, insight and necessity (obviousness of content—i.e., the force of the content comes from its necessity rather than persuasion)—repeated below

Journey

Endless adventure in variety; summit without limit in variety, mode and elevation-plateau-dissolution

Phases

Two

Organic and Social Being—Design, Application, Adaptation, and Immersion

Contexts

Nature: matter, life, mind

Source, place, engagement of body and psyche

Society

Institutions… Persons and roles… Network

Culture: Accumulated, shared… Charismatic—original experience

Disciplines: Religion, Literature, Art, Technology, Humanities, Sciences, Political Economy, Daily Life—e.g. secular and spiritual vs. original and whole

Psyche-Body

Concept of psyche-body

Immersion—participation, adaptation

Body-Process-Engage / Alter… Includes Psyche

Universal

Idea-Experiment (integration with) Transformation

Journey, Identity

Goals

Universal—see values above

Local—Nature, Society, Psyche

Modes and Means

Principle and practice

No ultimate distinction between principles and practice

Review, renewal

Single state vs. incremental and iterative design, adaptation

Conceptual-experimental for transformation

Stages of Journey: 1. Discovery, 2. Working out, 3. The Ultimate

Body

Body as inclusive: traditional body & psyche—or, better, BEING

Catalytic engagement ® Psyche: Mystic immanence of Brahman

Cognitive-feeling — Bound-free — Real-Symbolic — Outer-Inner — Self-Universe or separateness-identity

Ritual

Meditate, Chöd, prayer… Art, Music… ® Catalytic engagement of Body-Psyche

Existential

Chöd vs. Nirvana—chöd is rapture

Knowing and Being Death and Fear

Moments, Goals and Wholes

Intrinsic vs. External Meaning

Institution and Role

Person

Charisma, original experience, personal power—psyche-body (above)

Intelligence, vision, feeling-presence, courage-risk, example, connection

Immediate presence, network-individual, empathy, group and group interaction (speaking, dynamics)

Role

Level and kind of engagement with the person

Observer-witness, scientist-priest (®immersion), vision-experiment (nature, chöd, society… catalyst), leader (charisma, overlap of other roles), service, administration and management

Institution

Place, architecture as relevant, ritual, art, literature, calendar, role, constitution

Integration at universal levels is essential for grounding (depth, substance via demonstration) and completeness (limitless variety, endless journey). This integration is built into the Journey via the Universal Metaphysics and design

Integration and tie in to society, local culture is essential for Journey to take root

See society, institution, in contexts above

Political economy

Traditional religion

Symbolic vs. literal

Tie into local culture

a. Here now, e.g. SUMMER 2011

b. The seeker—what is his/her type?

c. Sunday Religion

Leadership

Charisma and Patriarchalism

Today’s individuals and types

Level of engagement with the Universal

Choice

Kind of individual—need, optimality

Situation

Sources

Below

Brief essential version

Core vs. periphery

Design

Review Journey

Phases

Principles vs. practice (ultimately there is no distinction)

Review template and design

Review; develop principles for Journey, Template

Core vs. periphery; audiences; versions

Brief / essential version

Sources—Traditional culture, reflection-action

Symbolic versus literal (ultimately identical, the symbolic enters as convenient regarding ignorance and suppression of detail)

Traditional religions (Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Native American)

Poetry

Poetry of precision, clarity of expression, logic, insight and necessity (obviousness of content—i.e., the force of the content comes from its necessity rather than persuasion)—repeats from above