Design for the way of being

with Planning and Structure

Contents

Design and plan

Net plan

Functions and documents

Work to do – concepts

Work to do – general

Resources for writing

Structure of the way of being

Plan of development

Into the way of being

Parallel developments

Resources

Design for the way of being

with Planning and Structure

Design and plan

Net plan

Today / immediate

Concepts

1. Return – like ‘into’ but modified per criteria ________

2. All – what is F?

3. Axiom – F!

And

1. Design

2. Plan – design – jhang

Every session

Reduce and update design.

Now – sequential action

Write the essential version

Construct ‘content’

Maintain this design document

Simple site

Next – in the world – parallel action

Safety, security, life, realization

Write “The way of being”

Maintain ‘content’, site, snippets

Functions and documents

The functions

Bold items are permanent documents; other items will be collected as target documents.

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).

Design

Site – simple, appeal, communicate, pay

Essence of the way – essential with regard to main and peripheral content

The way of being – eliminate repetition, see content templates

Content – may be cumbersome but marked with styles to make the document easy to use

Design – this document – minimize, may contain content

Base documents

Target documents with current / new names

Essential

essence of the way – micro (parts of), design and planning / essence of the way

Content

essence of the way, outline of the way / content, design and planning

The way of being

all documents in the resources directory / the way of being

Database

To be set

Site

current home / next home

Snippets…

About snippets, template

about snippets etc (html)

Current

argument (html)

Possible

dedication, affirmation, attitude

dimensions of being and experience (with paradigms and means); this will absorb categories (html)

lessons from my journey

Work to do – concepts

Aim

Set significant concepts (criteria – fundamental, essential, the list should be brief)

Plan

red

complete base and axiomatic collections, synthesize

bring into line with outline…

reduce multiple to single entries as far as reasonable

Conventions

~~Strikethrough~~ marks a concept that could occur at the given location in an unfolding treatment, but it is efficient to introduce it later.

Star* marks concepts that are repeated, developed, and/or defined in stages, at different locations, in increasing breadth and/or depth. Typical reasons for this include (i) the concept is introduced from ordinary experience (ii) the developments make for greater scope.

A dagger† marks a concept whose definition here is quite different from its standard use(s).

A question mark (?) indicates a concept regarding which there is an issue of entry, form, definiteness (incomplete definiteness is not in itself problematic).

Red font marks concepts that are not yet entered to essence of the way - micro.docm at the location of the particular instance of the concept in the concept list.

Base concepts

To incorporate (terms needing study and / or inclusion)

understanding

as-if (signifies neutral stance to reality, but allows for limited usefulness)

Into the way

world

into (focus – reflection, but not rejection of the world)

world

experience*

phenomenal

ground (partial)

accepting

living in

stirring

seeking

real

value (significance, meaning of life)

knowledge

foundation (incomplete, proximate)

understanding

empiricism, rationalism

art

action

worldviews

worldviews (limits), received

secular (common, science, naturalistic metaphysics)

transsecular (religion, special metaphysics, theology)

method

method* (is content)

foundation (proximate, ultimate)

doubt and certainty

criticism and imagination

essence, substance—issues of (i) prejudice (ii) numericity; kind – e.g., mind, matter (iii) mode – e.g., entity, process, relation)

meaning

content

abstraction* (and perfect vs pragmatic knowledge)

reason

Being

being (existence, neutrality, vehicle, potency)

existence

abstraction

beings (all, some, none)

universe

limits (conceptual), limitlessness (vs the infinite)

ultimate

cosmos

law (pattern)

the void (issue: non-numericity, existence, no laws)

Metaphysics

possibility

actuality

possibility (the concept, kinds – unqualified, logical, metaphysical, real, relatively real, physical, greatest)

the ultimate

limitlessness

metaphysics

metametaphysics

system (imposed v emergent; distinction and unity in and of knowledge and action)

real metaphysics

pragmatic knowledge

real metaphysics

value

levels of knowledge

method

method (informal but careful use of conceptual and linguistic representation, establishment of fact and elementary inference, deductive and ampliative)

building (metaphysics)

reflexivity†

fact (true piece of information ranging from simple to theories and metaphysical systems, established by observation, corroboration, probability, necessity, or inference from another fact)

inference (showing the truth a fact from another fact, called conclusion and premise respectively; in deduction, the conclusion necessarily follows, e.g., propositional calculus and extensions including multivalued and ‘dialetheic’ logics; in ampliative inference, the conclusion is reasonable, e.g., induction, abduction, and analogy)

argument (general process of establishment of facts, directly and by inference)

experience

experience (what it is; the concepts of concept and object; meaning, language, intention)

language (expression, expressive power, semantics, syntax)

knowledge (what it is, kinds – knowing that vs knowing how; acquisition; creation—discovery and imagination, justification and criticism; reflexivity)

dimensions (of being)

categories, relation to

dimensions (of being)

object (natural, social, universal)

subject (experience and its dimensions)

paradigms (of being)

robust world (or being)

means (of becoming)

cosmology

logical (i.e., general cosmology)

form and formation

experiential (cosmology and hierarchy of experiential being, which includes as-if cases of material, inert, and passive being)

peak (includes god)

physical

endeavor of being

Comment 1. Should this be placed elsewhere – perhaps much earlier?

knowledge

value

action

realization

Pathways

path

goal (realization, process toward the ultimate in this world and beyond)

means (integration of the elements of being and experience, program)

the elements

general

be-ing – becoming (state – process)

immediate – ultimate (local – universal)

self – other

pure – pragmatic (see dimensions of being for details)

experiential

subject – experience – object (see discussion of experience for details), particularly

cognition (thought, perception) – awareness – feeling (emotion, sensation, pleasure, pain, suffering) – intention – action

unavoidability (of the elements of experience, especially pleasure, pain, and suffering)

matter (body, world) – mind (as-if)

miscellaneous (to be categorized)

therapy

enlightenment

intelligence

received ways

to add somewhere

program

emphases

personal (local, communal, day through life)

universal (global, universal, life and beyond)

dimensions (of being and process, with paradigms and means)

healthy living (self, community, spirit; attention to pain and action, optimal)

sharing (helping, networking, contacts, therapy)

discipline (spontaneity)

planning

routine

plan

timeline

action

personal – yoga (practice, action), work, family and community

universal – natural, social (economics, politics, culture, artifact – technology of being and exploration), universal (metaphysics, science, spiritual action)

discipline

Return (complement to ‘into the world’)

return (focus – informed being, not rejection of reflection)

freshness (alive to the world, grounded and groundless)

informed (ground, foundation, direction, destination)

integration (especially of the immediate and the ultimate)

shared endeavor

ground (world as)

foundation (being in the world as)

Axiomatic

to do

comb through for more basic and other concepts

in the definitions, the main terms in brackets should also be defined or explained

doubt

co (td)

Comment 2. Where to place this

Received, e.g., Christian version of TWB…

living in the world

the phenomenal world is not (known to be) the world, living is a mix of acceptance and seeking beyond

many live on an acceptance – seeking continuum, some live at the extremes

significance is (found) in being itself, in the universe, not in an ‘ultimate beyond’

there is significance to be-ing (living), to accepting and seeking

knowledge, value, art, and action are a key in this endeavor

natural language used carefully is presumed; simple concepts and rules of establishment of fact may be argued, which will later be justified, the grounds of which also emerge

argument or establishment of fact

introduction

the focus is axiomatic systems for the world (the real) (focus is secondarily on syntactically postulated axiomatic systems).

the aim of an axiomatic system for the world (or part of it) is to set out a conceptual image of the world the is adequately precise and certain for purposes of understanding and negotiating the world.

specification of a system for the world requires existence of objects corresponding to the concepts and, in that way, is more demanding than it is to specify a syntactically postulated system.

certainty and precision are often desirable but not always possible.

degrees of certainty should be noted and different degrees should not be conflated; and they should not be mixed without justification.

the system of this narrative begins with certain and precise terms; it derives a picture of the universe; it then proceeds to incorporate less than certain pragmatic knowledge and to justify the incorporation.

since justification emerges with the system, principles of justification are emergent (to a degree).

net structure

concept specification or definition (syntactic axiomatics: definitions); definition does not imply existence (syntactic axiomatics: definition does not imply existence of a model)

argument or establishment of fact (syntactic axiomatics: inference)

fact (includes existence of objects) (syntactic axiomatics: theorem)

argument (method, justification)

facts are established

(i) directly (experiment and observation—often but not necessarily imprecise or uncertain, corroboration, necessity—e.g., inference without base in fact – from an ‘empty fact’, which is found possible and important examples given) (syntactic axiomatics: ‘facts’, i.e., axioms or ‘zero order theorems’, are postulated)

(ii) by inference from other facts (deductive—conclusions follow necessarily, especially standard logics, if indicated variant logics may be taken up with justification; ampliative—conclusions are ‘reasonable’, e.g., via induction, abduction, analogy, and ordinary reason with justification) (syntactic axiomatics: inference is usually deductive) (iii) checking for consistency with other facts (syntactic axiomatics: other theorems, models)

method (imagination, discovery, creation)

imagination is essential in providing material for justification; its main ‘method’ is informal—to let the imagination roam, often generated by the creative impulse, and to allow time for connections and iterations to gel (incubation, at least subconsciously in part; change of scene, walking away from the desk, spending (extended) time in nature, reading systematically and randomly; allowing ideas to interact across and within all levels; and there are theoretical and emerging computational ways to generate material for justification—one theoretical approach is the use of possible worlds theories

notes

certain and reasonable conclusions are not to be conflated; they are not to be mixed without justification

‘ordinary reason with justification’ means just what it says; the purpose of its inclusion is that it is not necessarily true that all principles of argument are known

argument (method) and content are one, i.e., they constitute a system, for knowledge, value, and art are in the world, and, in review of ‘fundamentals’, they emerge together (but the emergence of method may seem remote)

basic concepts

world (phenomenal, real, significance, living in, acceptance, seeking, value, knowledge, art, action)

argument (fact, observation, corroboration, necessity, inference, deduction, ampliative inference, reasonable inference, induction, abduction, analogy)

being (existence)

beings (existents, e.g., entities, processes, interactions, abstracta, concreta, tropes, and more; objects of the verb ‘is’ used intransitively in its most general sense, particularly a sense that includes tense and stands above tense)

abstraction

universe

cosmos

pattern

law

void

logic, physics (science), possibility (conceptual or logical, real / universal, relatively real / for part of the universe, physical, metaphysical; and impossibility and necessity)

limitlessness

realization

identity

peak (god…)

ultimate (immediate)

birth (and death)

diffuse being (and potential being)

metaphysics

ideal metaphysics

perfect knowledge (in the sense of faithfulness)

value

levels (of knowledge)

basic facts

the following facts follow from abstraction or directly from their conception; only where it is neither obvious nor trivial is proof given (in minimal versions of the way of being)

there is being

there are beings

the universe is a being

there is exactly one universe; all being is in the universe

for a limited region, a possibility is what would obtain if contingent facts (not, e.g., laws); such possibilities include the real (actual) for the region

for the universe the possible and the real (actual) are the same; all possibilities (e.g., states and worlds) are in the universe

cosmoses are not (observationally) known to its inhabitants) to the universe

in the knowledge of its beings, the laws of a cosmos do not project beyond

for the void, existence and nonexistence are identical

the void is a being

the void and a being are just the being

effectively, there is one and only one void

the void has no laws

on possibility

logical possibility is the greatest in the sense of being the most inclusive, it includes real and metaphysical possibilities, and real possibility includes physical possibility

a being that realized all logical possibility would be limitless in the sense that it would realize all states whose conception did not entail a violation of logic

a limitless being has infinities without limit (subject to logic), but having an infinity does not entail being limitless—it entails being limited only in some ways (thus while infinite cardinals are numbers, limitlessness is not essentially numerical)

limitlessness of the universe

the universe is the realization of the greatest, i.e., logical possibility, i.e., the universe is limitless in that if a concept does not entail a violation of logic, it is realized

proof—if from the void a logical possibility did not manifest, that would constitute a law of the void (and all beings have this power of the void)

this is not a contradiction of experience or common sense, for the possibilities we do not see occur beyond the threshold of experience, e.g., in being weakly causal, in being remote in location in our or other cosmoses, or in being remote in time

the universe is the possible universe, which follows from limitlessness, which follows in turn, from the conceptions of the universe and the void and the demonstrated existence and lawlessness of the void

the universe has identity; the universe and its identity are limitless in extension, duration, and variety of being and peaks of being (e.g., ‘gods’); the universe phases endlessly between void, manifest, and peak states of endless variety; there is a limitless variety of cosmoses and each variety is repeated without limit; thus the universe is ultimate and contains ultimates but the nature of the ultimate is incompletely known to limited beings; every being realizes the ultimate and this is not a contradiction for, first, beings merge as they become ultimate and, second, while beings that are limited on limited scales of time, their limitlessness may occur at levels of description that transcend description in terms of time; this entails that in birth living and aware beings emerge from diffusion in the background (‘potential’) to which at death they return; and discounting those who claim knowledge of other ‘lives’, while aware beings may not perceive their own ultimacy in a given life, they may conceive it (as we are doing here) and, further, there aware beings that are marked by their place in a hierarchy of being – a range of powers of awareness and realization – from minimal to peak, and limited beings do perceive their ultimacy as they ascend hierarchies of being

the universe, the void, and all beings are equivalent (given enough time or at levels of description beyond time)

at our level we may say: (at some level) every being is reflected in all beings

an ideal metaphysics

with metaphysics as knowledge of the real, (some) metaphysical truth has been demonstrated

that the universe is the realization of logical possibility defines an ideal metaphysics, which shows the universe and its beings to be ultimate in the sense stated above (from abstraction, this metaphysics is perfect knowledge in that it is faithful to its object, the real – but not all the real)

logic – its systems – are the instrument of exploration (development) of the ideal metaphysics

this ideal metaphysics shows the universe and its beings to be ultimate, but is not full – rather it is a framework for (knowledge of) the universe

the ideal metaphysics is an (important) example of metaphysics

the immediate and the ultimate

beings inhabit – live in – the immediate and the ultimate

given significance, it lies – must lie – in the immediate and the ultimate

significance of the immediate is in itself, as portal to the ultimate, in reflecting the ultimate

remoteness of the ultimate is only in (some) perception; the fact of the ultimate (and concern with it) promotes the immediate and its significance (and concern with it)

value

two levels of knowledge

apparent contradictions

the void exists and does not exist

every being is (not) all being

there are (not) beginnings and ends to beings (and the universe)

there are (not) birth and death

the world is (not) the realization of logic

though these assertions have meaning and are not mere contradictions (they refer to levels of description, corresponding to levels of being), contradiction is problematic; resolution would be good

two levels of knowledge (metaphysics)

the apparent contradictions are resolved by recognizing two levels of knowledge—abstract-high and pragmatic-world

it is pragmatic that we are born and die; but at a level of description above the time scale of somewhere between human life and the life of a cosmos and certainly at a level of description above all time, we are eternal

dialetheia

still, a somewhat more formal resolution would be useful; we shall do this in terms of what are called ‘dialetheia’ – see Dialetheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

a dialetheia is a true contradiction; e.g., given a proposition A, the compound proposition that A and ~A is true (i.e., that both A and ~A are true) is a dialetheia

in standard propositional logic, a dialetheia implies that all propositions are true (and false), which is called ‘explosion’

the resolution is that though A in A and ~A has the same form, its universes of reference are different and are therefore not the same proposition; and, further, dialetheia have and require accommodation by non-standard logic in which, e.g., there are more than two truth values, e.g., t, f, and b, which are true, false, and ‘both’ respectively (note that b can be read “is true and false” but not “is true and is false”, for the latter may lead to explosion; thus the reading “is true-false” is better than “is true and false”

in the literature on dialetheia it is suggested that even if reality is not itself contradictory, our descriptions of it must be; an alternative suggestion is that all seeming dialetheia – see the article linked above – have resolution in, e.g., (i) identification of universes of application (and thus of meaning) but that suppression of such distinctions and dialetheic expression of truths is or may be useful (ii) in seeing that truth values have been assigned where there is no reference to an object and, therefore, no truth at all (as in the liar paradox, “This sentence is true”) and, so, no truth value; i.e., we are suggesting, on the basis of examples, that the seeming dialetheia do not involve actual contradictions; for greater detail, see dialetheia on this site

basic concepts (more)

contradiction

pragmatic (knowledge)

proposition

description (level of)

dialetheia

real metaphysics (the metaphysics)

perfect knowledge (in the sense of joint epistemic-value criteria)

real metaphysics

consider a joint system – the ideal metaphysics and pragmatic knowledge (which was defined as the real metaphysics or just the metaphysics); in negotiating the world, the ideal illuminates and guides the pragmatic and the pragmatic illustrates the ideal and is a guide toward the ultimate; the join is not perfectly faithful, but as the best and obviously the only system of knowledge (since it is all valid knowledge of beings in possession of it), it is perfect relative to joint faithfulness (epistemic) – value criteria; this perfection does not eliminate the significance of the received endeavor and knowledge criteria (epistemic and value based) but gives them some context

for limited beings, systems of metaphysic remains in an iterative process of action and learning; metaphysics (knowledge) and action constitute a system

this system is emergent rather than imposed and is thus not necessarily subject to standard negative valuations of ‘systematic metaphysics’

experience

experience is awareness in all its kinds and levels

there is experience (illusion is experiential) and experience of experience (otherwise, “there is experience” would not be a proposition)

there is a world, even if it is only experience

experience is essential to our being

all significance registers in experience; without it we are as if nonexistent; we are experiential beings

the form of experience

its form is subject (experience-of, as-if mind, concept) – experience (relation, being – as justified later) – object (the experienced, as-if matter); in pure experience the object is empty

an adapted and mobile being can be argued from principle to have – elementary sentience at the root of the varieties of sentience, a degree of binding to self and world (perception and basic feeling), a degree of autonomy (conception and thought, intention and will to action, motor control, memory, a degree of emotional control), moment to moment integration of experientiality in process and memory, long term integration and growth in personality

a real world

beyond experience of experience, the existence of an external world has pragmatic-metaphysical justification, e.g., from its apparent structure (Kant’s argument was that the structure of perception is external to the individual and must also be the similar to structure of the world), but not logical justification; however, from limitlessness there are beings in worlds and therefore external worlds and, later, it is seen that we are almost certainly living in that kind of world

but the external world is not ‘outside’ experience, for it also includes experience of experience

if the universe were constituted (‘made’) ‘strictly of a pure kind’ or what is called ‘substance’ in philosophy, e.g., mind or matter, the kind would be experience, for it is necessary in the universe and sufficient to kinds (as experience is relation there is no kind beyond it but, of course, there are higher varieties of experience without limit); as the universe is equivalent to the void, it cannot be made of kinds, but primitive experientiality can and does reach to the root and experience is subject – relation – object; therefore the universe may be taken to be experiential in fact and essence. That it is always found to be experiential, at least in part, is due to the fact that significance and experience of things never registers outside experience.

From some experience and some science, our cosmos seems to be of a pure kind but as it is ultimately in contact with the entire universe it cannot be. Yet, the cosmos is approximated by substance for some purposes. That substance may be experiential and if physics provides substance then the elementary objects of physics must have primitive experientiality.

meaning, use, and knowledge

a concept is iconic ‘experience of’, from memory, which enables recognition of an object; without the icon, icon-free words cannot be a base of recognition, but words and other linguistic structures can be such basis by association with iconic concepts—these are linguistic concepts

concept meaning is an iconic concept and its possible objects; in action, it is the concept and intended objects; linguistic meaning is the same as concept meaning with ‘iconic concept’ replaced by ‘linguistic concept’

derivation of meaning of compound structures from elements is only partially rule-like, for much is spontaneous and much is colloquial; the present meaning of meaning is not in opposition to the origin and stabilization of meaning in human behavior and interaction (‘use’), the two are complementary

knowledge is meaning realized—i.e., propositional knowledge, whether in language or in the mind of the knower; here we are not so concerned with knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge of how to (do things)

dimensions, paradigms, and means

a dimension is an aspect of being that is useful in understanding and negotiating the world (which include knowing and predicting)

the idea of dimension is related to that of category (high level kinds or genera, just under the level of being)

distinctions between dimensions and categories—dimensions (i) emphasize usefulness as above (ii) dimensions occur at the highest level – (experiential) being is a dimension (iii) subject – relation – object is a dimensional axis just at and below the highest level and general argument is the predictive system at these levels (iv) form and formation with selection for stable form occurs at an intermediate level (v) at the level of our world there is again, subject – relation – object (detail below).

a paradigm of behavior is an established way of understanding and predicting behavior and a means is a way of negotiating the world

at the level of experiential being

dimension – experiential being

paradigm – argument, specifically necessary fact and deductive logic

means of being – emptiness

means of approach – yoga, being directed adaptation with evolution, synthesis with artificial being

form and formation

dimension – form and formation

paradigm – symmetry (stability) and increment through stable states

our world

subject

meditation, metaphysics, science, art

object

nature, mind, society and their sciences

physical yoga, technology for synthesis of artificial and natural being, technology for exploration

knowledge

implications of the developments, especially the metaphysics include

what knowledge is and its value

knowledge of the world is (i.e., propositional knowledge or ‘knowledge that’), naïvely, a picture—naïve because pictures (concepts) can be conceptually and factually in error, and because knowledge as picture is also a picture

but from abstraction, the ideal metaphysics is free from distortion; and it is an ultimate framework; further, the real metaphysics (ideal, filled in with pragmatic knowledge) is perfect relative to realization toward the ultimate; and therefore, the question of what knowledge is in the mind of the knower (which is what finally counts), is of less ultimate importance than it is in secular or religious views of the world (what knowledge is, of course, is still of human and instrumental interest, both instrumental and theoretical)

in addition to the values of knowledge in a secular world, it is now seen as one guide to action toward realization – transformation toward – the ultimate

implications for traditional divisions of knowledge

metaphysics—metaphysics as knowledge of the real is clearly possible; it is not necessary for all metaphysics to be of the real; as knowledge, value, and argument are in the world, epistemology, axiology, and philosophical logic (broader than deductive and mathematical logic), are, rationally, part of metaphysics, as are science and philosophy, too, as far as it is about the world; further, the developments show the range of application of these disciplines to be greater than thought in standard secular and religious views

abstract sciences—metaphysics itself, mathematics, fall under the umbrella of the real metaphysics; thus while mathematics evolved from an empirical discipline in the ancient world to an abstract – axiomatically formulated – discipline today, the real metaphysics shows that the abstract discipline of mathematics may still be seen as concrete in being an abstraction from the universe (if the universe is the realization of the logically possible, while some mathematics has application in our world, all mathematics is realized in the universe (it does not follow that all mathematics in this sense is discoverable)

concrete sciences—there are worlds beyond ours, whose sciences are quite different from ours (and perhaps there are other sciences) – and that ‘beyond’ is not just in spacetime but also in being too weakly causal, e.g., they are blowing through us now; the known borders of our cosmos are not the borders of the real (even though our scientific models may suggest those borders to be real)

the abstract and the concrete—it is entailed from these words that there is no ontological distinction between abstract and concrete objects; the distinction is relative to our instruments of knowledge – two sides of concepts, tied to objects (perception) and freedom from with ability to capture objects (higher conception)

incompleteness

we have seen that for limited beings (we are limited relative to the local level of knowledge and the real), knowledge of the ultimate must be incomplete, and therefore, claims of finality regarding all things, whether in science or religion, must be in error

for limited beings, realization of the ultimate is not action or transformation toward a known goal—we must discover, transform, and create as we go – whether, atypically, here and now or, typically, by repeated return to and emergence from the diffuse background (but also note that in diffuse being, an eternity may be as-if an instant)

art

since formal knowledge is expressed in discrete language that cannot capture the entire universe as continuum (which, from the metaphysics, must be one of its modes of being), art and intuition may take us beyond such formal knowledge even if not all the way to the ultimate

a system of knowledge

it emerges that the range of (human) knowledge is a seamless system; metaphysics is at the core of it; and the traditional academic divisions, while they reflect real and useful distinctions, are also artificial in their distinction; said another way, there is unity and distinction

miscellaneous items

abstract and concrete objects

unity and distinction in the universe (and knowledge)

dialetheia

argument, implications for method, method and content as one (though not without distinction)

the universe and being as experiential

in a hierarchy of being, there is nothing beyond experiential (aware, conscious) being, but there is a hierarchy of being in terms of degrees of experientiality and power of being (transformation); this has been observed earlier

starting with the primitive experience of sameness and difference, the concept and nature of identity, spacetimebeing, and property may be derived; and that there is no kind of extension beyond spacetime

pathways

to do

“What shall we do?”

aim

healthy individual, communal, and global life in the world, in light of and toward the ultimate

there is a range of attention and energy division between the world and the beyond that is good (optimal)

means

elements from the ideas

received ways

elements (considerations)

experiential being

subject and object aspects (i.e., mind – world / body)

pure and pragmatic

individual and human (shared)

local and global

non-specificity

healthy living (physical, mental, communal, and spiritual)

enlightenment

programs

the division is one of emphasis, not essence

personal, local

attitude…

routine and its elements

global, universal

pure

pragmatic

Work to do – general

Now

Micro

Structure

1. Essential concepts with axiomatic base,

2. Essential headings with order (with particular attention to ‘into’, ‘dimensions’, ‘path’, and ‘program’, and ‘religion’ – particularly, where should religion go),

3. Eliminate repeated headings,

4. Center-out and minimal top-down (cotd),

Write

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

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

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

Site home

Minimal, consistent with items in ‘Write’, above

May begin in the world, next parallel to security and realization

In the world

Content

Set content.docm and import all content

The way of being – long – write

Write the way from (i) micro and (ii) content template

Topics

Essentialize ‘topics’ (‘logic’, ‘politics-of-experience and economics…

Structure

Center-out and top-down (cotd),

Content, content styles, content headings,

Edit

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

Home

Income generation,

Pics, symbols, sound, and video for effective communication,

Database and re-organization software

Reflect

Ongoing design

Planning for the way – writing and living

Document revision

Ongoing, embedded in the world, interactive with experience, universal

Software to organize, essentialize, reorganize…

Resources for writing

Site sources

Plan

1. Continue to identify and include useful sources,

2. Modify the arrangement below for utility.

Main

Received ways

§ the way.docm (html) (folder) – i.e., ‘traditional ways’ [for yoga and some details on world religions]

System of human knowledge

§ a system of knowledge.docm (html) (folder)

§ a system of knowledge-supplement.docm (html) (folder)

Design documents

§ the world.pdf (folder) – ‘my program’

§ program for the way of being.docm (html) (folder)

§ design.docm (html) (folder) ‘site design’

Brief essentials

§ … and some possible canonicals – the way of being.docm (html) (folder)

§ the way of being-plain.docm (html) (folder) especially [the preview]

Long and resource versions –

§ journey in being.docm (html) (folder) [‘resource version 2021’]

§ little manual.docm (html) (folder) has material on dialetheia and the source of logic; has a vocabulary for metaphysics and the way [useful]

Secondary

these documents are of lesser relevance to the way of being but not of lesser general importance

General interest

§ metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.docm (html) (folder)

§ what is philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

§ toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

§ necessity of being.docm (html) (folder) being founded in itself – in absolute necessity

§ dimensions of being, experience, and the world.docm (html) (folder) dimensions and paradigms of being and experience

§ language for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder) part of the little manual (html) (folder) (see above)

§ journey in being.docm#lexicon (html) (folder) [earlier lexicon]

§ Principles of Reason (html) (folder) has some thoughts toward method

§ Journey in Being (html) (folder) has a lexicon and a history of the metaphysics, which may be useful to the lessons

§ Realization--resource version (html) (folder) more on history and another lexicon

§ The Way of Being (html) (folder) has a brief glossary

§ fundamental paradigms for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder)

Special interest

§ abstract objects.docm (html) (folder)

§ dialetheia.docm (html) (folder)

§ the year.docm (html) (folder) ‘journal 2024’ has further material on dialetheia and planning an essay on dialetheia

§ god.docm (html) (folder) a conception of god as (i) arising from the real metaphysics (ii) immanent (iii) a becoming of which all beings are a part

§ the way of being – database.docm (html) (folder) preliminary to a database of concepts and more

§ world problems and opportunities.docm (html) (folder) – this has been extracted from journey in being.docm (html) (folder)

Historical

§ journey in being.docm (html) (folder) – original version of 2002 – 2003

§ archive of old documents – folder

Styles

Plan

Continue to review for utility and minimality.

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 – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 – subsidiary concepts

Meta-content

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

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

Site source 1. Site source – Alt + W

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

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 – subsidiary concepts

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

Site source 2. Site source – Alt + W

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

Structure of the way of being

Net plan

Today / immediate

Concepts

And

Every session

Now – sequential action

Next – in the world – parallel action

Functions and documents

The functions

Design

Base documents

Current document locations

Design

Current site documents

Site

Target documents with current / new names

Essential

Content

The way of being

Database

Site

Snippets…

Directory

About snippets, template

Current

Possible

Work to do – concepts

Aim

Plan

Conventions

Base concepts

To incorporate (terms needing study and / or inclusion)

Into the way

world

worldviews

method

Being

Metaphysics

possibility

the ultimate

metaphysics

real metaphysics

real metaphysics

method

experience

dimensions (of being)

cosmology

endeavor of being

Pathways

path

the elements

general

experiential

miscellaneous (to be categorized)

to add somewhere

program

emphases

planning

action

Return (complement to ‘into the world’)

Axiomatic

to do

living in the world

argument or establishment of fact

introduction

net structure

argument (method, justification)

method (imagination, discovery, creation)

notes

basic concepts

basic facts

on possibility

limitlessness of the universe

an ideal metaphysics

the immediate and the ultimate

value

two levels of knowledge

apparent contradictions

two levels of knowledge (metaphysics)

dialetheia