The way of being
Design, Planning, and Structure

Design – the documents

Every session

The essential site documents

Snippets…

Styles in use

Structure of the way of being

Into the way of being

Being

Metaphysics

Pathways

Return

Parallel developments

Resources

 

The way of being
Design, Planning, and Structure

Design – the documents

Every session

Reduce and update design.

The essential site documents

1.     The functions,

2.     The documents.

The functions

1.     Home (minimal, with the way in and directory, communication, income generation),

2.     Resources,

3.     Templates,

4.     Outline,

5.     Design,

6.     Content,

7.     Micro,

8.     Macro,

9.     Life, death and beyond (nothingness, emptiness, being-in-the-world).

The documents

A.   Outline

design and planning.docm, this document is where the outline is first placed.

1.     essence of the way - micro.docm

2.     essence of the way.docm

3.     outline of the way.docm

B.   Essential now – outline, with micro entries and style

1.     Micro (central and top content),

a.      Now

                                                              i.      Mark essential topics (only) to be absorbed from essence and outline (eliminate),

                                                            ii.      Absorb to micro,

                                                          iii.      Mark essential briefer outline (with particular attention to ‘into’, ‘dimensions’, ‘path’, and ‘program’)

                                                          iv.      Micro,

                                                            v.      Content

b.     Contacts,

c.      Test links, edit, note comments and remarks, import styles from this to residual docs.

2.     Templates (complete for now),

3.     Minimal home – web and mobile – with communication, the way in, and directory,

a.      A daily and life resource for me and the way – inspirational and minimal, problem oriented, and routine,

b.     A presentation of the way for spreading acceptance and influence.

4.     Macro material

a.      Content, content styles, content headings,

5.     Design.

C.   Essential – in-the-world

1.     TWB > zero.iso.potential.jhang > trip

2.     Macro,

a.      Center-out and top-down (cotd),

b.     Test links, edit, note comments and remarks, import styles as needed.

3.     Home with

c.      Income generation,

d.     Pics, symbols, sound, and video for effecrtive communication,

4.     Document revision

a.      Narrative

                                                              i.      Ongoing

                                                            ii.      Embedded

                                                          iii.      Universal

Snippets…

Comment 1.                 List possible snippets.

Rewrite, rename, re-folder, and re-link argument.

Design?

Dimensions?

Lessons from my journey – to resources?

Dedication?

Styles in use

Plan

Continue to review for utility and mimimality.

All styles are paragraph styles except those noted as a character style.

Arrangement by importance

General content

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style for headings and content not to appear in short versions

General – Alt + G – geared to general reader

Base – Alt + B – currently similar to General

Essential content

Central – Alt + M – core material

Main – Alt + Z – important

Content for realization

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – possible use for detail geared to realization

Academic content

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – for lists of concepts, especially in (important) parts

Meta-content

Comment 2.                 Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Source or study topic 1.              Source or study topic – Alt + V

Arrangement in alphabetic order

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Base – Alt + B – currently similar to General

Central – Alt + M – core material

Comment 3.                 Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – for lists of concepts, especially in (important) parts

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style for headings and content not to appear in short versions

General – Alt + G – geared to general reader

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Main – Alt + Z – important

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – possible use for detail geared to realization

Source or study topic 2.              Source or study topic – Alt + V

Structure of the way of being

Into the way of being

The aim

This version

Relation to received worldviews

Secular and transsecular worldviews

Secularism and secular worldviews

Religion – actual and ideal

Metaphysics

The worldview of the narrative

Empirical and rational basis

Ultimacy in foundation and extent

Limits of science and religion

Building a picture of the ultimate

Beginning at a low level of detail

To begin at a high level of detail

Why appeal to the possible

Motivation of the approach from being

Complementary approach from detail and experience

Features

The scope of meaning of some terms will be enhanced with narration

Reading and understanding the way of being

On worldviews

On meaning

On definition

Outline and preview

Sources

Being

Being and beings

The universe

A conceptual limit to the universe

Cosmos

Natural laws

The void

Existence of the void

Some beings

There are no laws of the void.

Metaphysics

Possibility

Logical possibility

Real and relatively real possibilities

Logical possibility is the greatest possibility

The ultimate

Showing that the ultimate is the possible

A fundamental principle

Identity of real and logical possibility

All beings realize the ultimate

Limitlessness of being

On the limitlessness

Approach to peak being

The trajectory of beings

The system of metaphysics

On the question ‘What is metaphysics?’

What is metaphysics?

Initial justification of this conception of metaphysics

Relation to received conceptions of metaphysics

How ought metaphysics to be further developed from here?

Where shall we go from here?

Introducing pragmatic knowledge

The real metaphysics

Levels of metaphysical knowledge

Metaphysics as science – as the knowledge discipline

Abstract

Concrete

General argument or general logic

Introduction
What is argument?
General argument

Method

Doubt and certainty

General doubt

Specific doubt

Residual doubt

Living with (residual) doubt

Value

Axiology and the concept of value

Ethics

Aesthetics

Dimensions, paradigms, and means of being

The concepts

Introduction

Dimension

Paradigm

Means

Levels of dimension and paradigm

Experience

Experience and being

Why experience

We are experiential beings
The universe is a field of experience

The main structure of experience

Elementary distinctions

State
Process

The structure of experience in detail

Relation—experience itself
See essence of the way.docm
Experience of experience and memory
Subject
Object

High-level structure of the universe (world)

Introduction
Beyond experience?
Extension, duration, and relation
Introduction
The most basic experience
Derivation of extension, duration, and cause

Consequences for dimensions and paradigms

The dimensions and paradigms

Introduction

Pure

Dimension
Sound argument as paradigm
Means
Knowledge
Being
Artifact and technology

Pragmatic

Subject aspects of experience (as-if mind)
Object aspects of experience (as-if matter)
Nature
Individual and society
Synthesis
Toward universal being
Artifact and technology
Argument as paradigm

Cosmology

A hierarchy of experiential being

Appendix—problems of the endeavor of being

Pathways

Design of pathways

Main design goals

Aim of the way.

Means, dimensions, paradigms aligned with enlightenment and path.

The aims of dimensions here are (a) understanding, explanation, and prediction (b) means of action.

Study categories and other background material.

What is to be designed

The concept of enlightenment

Pathways and programs

Everyday and immediate emphasis
Universal and long term emphasis

Pathway templates for use

How it is to be designed

From the concept of enlightenment

From the real metaphysics

Essential background
Dimensions, paradigms, and means of being and experience
The levels of metaphysics

It should be experimental in nature

To whom should it appeal? How should it appeal?

The issue is not closed.

Laying out the development

Net path

Issues

Healthy living and pathways

Programs

Resources and templates

Bring dimensions and programs into alignment

Enlightenment

Background in the real metaphysics

Sources in received ways – culture, tradition, and religion

Religion
What is religion?

Meta-questions

What religion is

On the use of religion
The place of ways from tradition
Secular humanism

The concept of enlightened ways

Preliminary

The ultimate

Issues

Goals for path and program design

The pure and the pragmatic

Integration of the elements of experience

About integration and balance

Healthy living

Roles for received ways

Integration of the pure and the pragmatic

About integration and balance

Pragmatic

Synthesis

Paths

The universal (being)

Elements

Pure
Means
Synthesizing
Mind
Nature
Society and artifact
Synthesis – the universe and the universal

Planning

Program

Being – the world
Ideas
Practice
Action
Becoming—intrinsic, instrumental
Nature
Society
Artifact
Being – the universal
Synthesis as above.

The personal (beings)

Elements

Attitude and planning
Developing and living the way
Routine

Planning

Program

Defining the program
Morning
The path
Afternoon
Evening
Summary

Resources

Return

The world

Instituting the way

Renewal, retreat, and journey

The way of being

Parallel developments

Preliminary

Knowledge

What knowledge is

Method: discovery and justification

A system based in the metaphysics

Implications for epistemology

Universal narrative

Method and content

Metaphysics and philosophy

Cosmology

Some topics

Dialetheia (and emptiness)

Concrete and abstract objects.

Resources

Source documents – twb site

Plan

Main

Received ways

System of human knowledge

Design documents

Brief essentials

Long and resource versions –

Secondary

General interest

Special interest

Historical

Directories

2024 – 2025

2023

2022

2021

2020

Earlier

Other

From other documents

Sources of sources

External

Reference and bibliography

Links in this document

Links to the way of being site

Path templates

External references and links

Document

Tables of contents

Index

Lexicon (vocabulary)

The author

Histories – the metaphysics, the way of being

Lessons from the way of being

The parallel developments

Content template

Tables of contents

The material

Concepts, system, sequence of introduction

What

Content
Examples
Relation to received and ongoing meaning
A collection of alternate and related terms
Issues
Some terms
Database

Why

Lexical material

Sources and references

Comments

Living the way

Writing

Executing