Introduction
to The Goals of Awareness . . .
Welcome to the introduction of the "Goals of Awareness." The "Perception" and "Paradigm Shift" diagrams and "Phoenix" of our "Religious Traditions" are original drawings of the site’s Author and serve as icons and trademarks of Being Quest.
The Goals of Awareness relate to everything that we call the truth in our experience, the noble integrity of character, the achievements of high-culture, and advancement of civilization. In this respect, we will consider our Person to be the greatest of institutions here as the organizational 'what-ness' of awareness that informs and transforms society in every respect, or lacking integrity, corrupts and destroys civilization as we know it.
We begin our introduction of this section with the blue, absolute aspect of the Perception. The observer will note that the blue circle of our Perception diagram encompasses but does not intrude obviously upon the whole of the remaining diagram, yet the absolute contains all that we could ever know of reality, which Perception involves though only proximately obtains. As we consider this to be true and that our understanding of reality is ever partial, we say that our perceptions are always ‘paradigmatic’.
Like the circumference of the circle, this absolute of Perception is wholly unknowable except in estimation, which like time in relation to eternity, trails ever onward without end. For this reason, the enigmatic quantum of our mathematical ‘pi’ is a suitable metaphor for the absolute in our Perception diagram.
Yet the absolute of Perception and of Paradigm Shift is not properly an ‘aspect’ of the Real but is that unknowable ‘what-ness’ of that which is truly real in experience and which underlies, overshadows, and informs every actual existence, its possibility and essential validity as experience. In physics we may call the inclusion of this paradigm Objective Idealism, apparent in our ‘scientific method’ with empirical certainty as the intellective ground of every practical advance in what is the utility of ‘science’.
But when the individual organizes the world in their conceptions, the absolute is wholly reflected in the integrity of the person him/herself as the ‘real’ of their own character. Here we are concerned with more rigorous inspections of the very dynamics of being and becoming where the red, objective paradigm of our diagrams certainly has its role but is not the ‘say all’ for what is veritably real in our existence.
Moving backward from the absolute to the transcendental of our diagrams, the green of Perception is that dynamic of awareness that transcends both the objective and subjective paradigms, touching upon the absolute paradigm while also penetrating the other aspects of experience, whether objective or subjective. It is the dynamic of synthesis itself that makes our conscious reflection possible, uniting the objective being of the outer and the subjective becoming of the inner to make perception possible. Note the position of the yellow, subjective aspect in the Perception diagram in its relationship to the other aspects. As such, the transcendental is one with but more than the subjective paradigm, concurring also with two aspects of the objective paradigm for synthesis to accomplish the overall depth of awareness for Perception. The relation of the transcendental to the objective paradigm we treat briefly in the following.
There are two ways in which the objective paradigm operates to inform the perceptions of the individual, which should be recognized as the instantiation of our greatest human dower for awareness. The outer pyramid in our Perception diagram is basically an imposition of material facts and only represents what is ‘practically’ real, intercepted by the transcendental which itself touches upon the absolute or Real of the real. We may call this outer, objective paradigm Practical Necessity.
From its own state of imposition this paradigm looks like it dominates the depth and height and breadth of our awareness, which Perception properly represents. Rather, it is encompassed by the transcendental aspect and is further penetrated by the same. Were it not for the transcendental aspect, the outer, objective paradigm would be only one dimensional, or linear. Such are the material ‘facts’ of the objective paradigm in terms of the world’s material order and our practical necessities. Here it is a true, material imposition. The subjective aspect is faint in relation and is supposed to be wholly dominated by the objective, so far as the materialists are concerned. Yet the subjective is the cornerstone of ‘depth’ for the individual and is actually one with the transcendental in relation to the absolute.
The inner pyramid of our objective paradigm has no such imposition however. Here it is obviously dominated by the transcendental and is encompassed by the depth represented by the unison of the subjective with the transcendental. Here is the ‘cube’ of the diagram Perception, within which is the inherent legitimacy of the objective paradigm as it relates to the reflections of awareness and personality of the individual. Here the objective paradigm obtains unison with the subjective paradigm and is properly qualified as to the form of its own material and logical necessity. Otherwise our life takes on a wholly one-dimensional, linear appearance that virtually dominates the true cipher of relations that actually exist as the complex dynamics of awareness, whose perfect synthesis is the integrity of personality and character.
The dynamics of the whole are as follows.
The depth of Perception, which the 6 points of the transcendental aspect lend to the integrity, or ‘cube’ of our awareness, involves the same points to which the outer, objective paradigm extends as well, though by half. One might say that the objective paradigm is ‘part’ of what is real in awareness, but is distinct from the absolutely real. The transcendental aspect intercepts the objective, which former is that which distinguishes what is paramount to awareness. But the objective is aligned in synthesis with the subjective in the latter’s relation with the transcendental, then importing its purely formal principles of relation to stabilize awareness and make concrete the personality of the individual in the whole realm of experience, which is the inner realm of the 'cube'. The objective then has its just relation as an aspect of awareness to its compliment, the subjective, while restricted in function to its proper logic, call it the integrity, of formal relations to perfect the proper development of character. However, the function of this paradigm is ‘suspended’ as to the relations of its former, material necessity we see in the ‘scientific method’, importing only the logic of relations which now becomes the ordering principle of ideas, though neither their cause nor imperious inquisitor.
Of course this is fairly abstract reasoning, and one might find good cause to question the importance of this dynamic briefly sketched above. The Author can only recommend for now the first three contribution papers named for this section as the proposed elaboration of this rather difficult dynamic. Whether time will allow or good fortune dictate the resources necessary to perfect these contributions is yet to be seen, but which papers stand as examples of the Work here pursued.