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The information below is for use by readers and author. Living the way of being is for both; developing the way of being is more for the author. The ‘editable’ versions are Microsoft Word documents.

Living the way of being

Works for understanding and living the way—ultra-brief edition (editable version) ◆ the essential way (editable) ◆ field manual (editable, print version) ◆ the complete way (editable) ◆ path templates (editable) ◆ received ways (editable) ◆ reason without apriorism ◆ June 2003 axiomatic version – for possible revision (editable)

Topics—system of knowledge (editable) ◆ theory of meaning (editable) ◆ dimensions of the world (editable) ◆ reason without apriorism (editable) ◆ June 2003 axiomatic version (for revision) (editable) ◆ reading

Plans—priorities (editable) ◆ finances ◆ hiking list (editable) ◆ trip preparation—gear and supplies ◆ places hike (editable) ◆ forty natural places to visit

Developing the way of being

Documents for development

Main in-site resources—data source for the way (editable)—content, links to resources and functions ◆ bare content (editable)—a recent and useful version

Encyclopedia and knowledge project—the project (editable) ◆ what is philosophy (editable) ◆ database for philosophy (editable)—internet resource, themes ◆ supplement to system of knowledge (editable)

Related—philosophy—index ◆ directory ◆ history of western philosophy (editable) ◆ the disciplines—new and old directories ◆ social media essays—directory

Older topics for development (for some details, see 2013, left column of links > Author)—science ◆ medicine ◆ engineering ◆ mathematics ◆ physics ◆ more

Plan of development

I’m saturated with this project as of June 2022. I need (i) a break (ii) to continue ‘writing’ as adjunct to realization.

A plan for writing is as follows

1. Write an essential and revisable outline (also, with slight modification, in the 2022 folder as the way of being-outline.html)—

Contents ◆ Preface—about the text—its history, claims of originality, status relative to previous versions ◆ Into the way—an informal general introduction to the way—essential bird’s eye view, origins in history and experience, sources, standard worldviews and their individual and mutual limits, the new view and its meaning, overview, necessarily simultaneous emergence of knowledge of the world and method of knowledge, understanding the way ◆ Prologue—a personal introduction or history ◆ Being—experience, abstraction, concept meaning and knowledge, existence, being and beings, how to identify beings, kinds of being, the universe and its oneness, the void, existence of the void ◆ Metaphysics—the concept of metaphysics used here, that it is possible and has already begun, the fundamental principle—the universe is the realization of possibility in its most inclusive sense, the real metaphysics, conclusions for the way and realization of the ultimate ◆ Consequences of the real metaphysics—(i) experience revisited—dimensions of experience (‘functions’), interpretations and the world (ii) philosophy, metaphysics and its problems, epistemology, logic – logic and metaphysics as theory of the universe, ethics, science and whether science is metaphysics (iii) relation to the received concept of metaphysics (iv) that the system is emergent rather than imposed (v) cosmology (vi) dimensions of being (vii) ‘meaning of life’ (viii) growth of persons and civilizations ◆ Realization—pathways to ultimate being, path templates—design and negotiation, quality of being, an ideal world, doubt and judgment and action ◆ Return—into the world ◆ Resources—(i) for living the way (ii) for developing the way (iii) origins, development, and negotiation of the way as a paradigm (iv) reference—topics and themes, sources, lexicon (with system and received meanings), and index.

2. Fit the essays and the outline—

The main essays are (i) the field manual (ii) the way of being. Resources are the other essays, above and the database. To write the way of being, its content will be incorporated to the database, and the essay will be written afresh from the essential outline above.

Sources—the literature

Sources are so many and have been so diffuse that it is impossible to do justice to them in the works.

For lists of sources see—manifest influences (editable) ◆ bibliographies ◆ reading

Other documents with sources—history of western philosophy (editable) ◆ philosophy of consciousness (editable) ◆ history of thought and action (editable) has ideas for sources ◆ system of knowledge (editable) ◆ supplement to the system of knowledge (editable)

Developing the site

Page template, frames ◆ png’s for page color, appeal, graphics, media; HTML5, css, programming for web, databases, knowledge, decisions, world simulation, and stem; using office—access, powerpoint, excel, publisher, onenote…; visual studio code, SharePoint, atom, WordPress, Sage Mathematics

Versions of the site—1999 2002 2005 2013 2017 2019 2020 2021 and 2022