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Dates

Dimensions of being and transformation

1.      

Being in the world—Ideas (metaphysics, knowledge as relation, development and transmission, reason – critical and imaginative, art), Practice (physical and meditative yoga, acting – projection of the real), Action (nature, society, artifact, and universal – see below)

2.      

Becoming—immersive, intrinsic, and instrumental

i.        Nature as a place of being and catalyst to the real. Animal being(s), evolution and devolution—observation, situational empathy, defocus, reason.

ii.      Society. Civilization and culture as a vehicle and path to the real. Transformation via psyche—by immersion in social groups as place of being and catalyst to the real.

iii.    Artifact. Civilizing the universe (especially technology as enhancing being in the universe)—universe as peak consciousness via spread of sapient being.

iv.    Universal, incompletely known. The common way – experiential, pure, and pragmatic – from self to Being (Atman to Brahman), via the block universe and extended secular worlds consistent with experience of and in the world.

3.      

Being in the universe—directly approaching the Universal. Realizing Peak Being (Brahman) in the present. If not achieved in the world, ‘this life’ is a beginning that is continued beyond death. Outcome of items above. The means are in the previous dimensions, the everyday templates, and open to discovery.