Pathways

Design of pathways

Design and its process

This section is preliminary to and grounds the design of the pathways.

Design

Design is a process of coming up with an address to an occasion at a level of specificity that is ready to implement.

Note that the term ‘occasion’ is generic and may refer to a need, opportunity, problematic situation, or other (kind of) occasion.

Design process

Outline

Occasion > careful definition of problem > synthesis – conceptual address of problem > analysis and improvement > final evaluation

Details

Occasion – a situation to address, e.g., a need, opportunity, or other occasion. The situation may be new or a need arising out of an existing system.

Careful definition of the problem – in concrete and specific terms.

Synthesis – coming up with a concept to address the occasion; it will involve creativity and possible (often likely) use of existing designs and implementations.

Analysis – adjustment of the conceptual synthesis to satisfy the careful definition.

Improvement generally involves – trials > matching for precision > correction of imprecision, until precision is satisfactory. Optimization may substitute for or augment the trial process if the conceptual synthesis has an analytic or otherwise definite model.

Final evaluation and review – a phase involving a wider audience than the ‘designers’ and may mesh with implementation.

Design-implementation cycle

Given an occasion that is new or of an existing system, the cycle is

… occasion > design or redesign > implementation > occasion …

Or, in general terms

… world > opportunity > choice and action > world …

Notes

As observed, the design, its process, and implementation ‘in-the-world’, may mesh in many ways, both vertically and horizontally.

Design and design elements for pathways

The occasion; what pathways are

The occasion

The metaphysics shows the universe as ultimate, that all beings will reach it, that there is an effective approach to it

What pathways are

I.e., that there are effective and shared pathways to the ultimate “in, for, and from the immediate to the ultimate” (i.e., the aim of the way of being).

In the immediate—with degrees of approximation from zero to one according to degree of realization

Beginning in the immediate, through worlds, to the ultimate.

What we know: the metaphysics through categories of experiential being and their dynamics

The following and their dynamics are (i) interactive in terms of vertical cause and (ii) mutually informative in conceptual terms.

Experiential being and non-being

The category itself

Concepts—the real metaphysics including meaning and ethics, universe as experiential-relational field, with concept (mind) and object (world) sides and their mesh.

Details—oneness of being vs process; transformation of experience vs transformation in extension; immanence-vs-explicitness-of-principles-and-ideas-including-meta.

Dynamics—structures that comply with logic.

Supplement: dimensions of experience (where, what level)

To be integrated with the above.

Dimensions of state

Form – Quality

Bound – Free

Integration and personality

Trajectory in time

Ground and choice

Projects and evolution

General form and formation (intermediate between the universe and worlds)

Concepts—abstract form transcends and includes temporal formation and spatial form.

Dynamics—transients (arising from the void), of which some are more persistent as a result of symmetry and therefore stability, of which some effectively populate the universe in their experiential reflexivity.

Our world – and its general paradigms as dynamics

The pragmatic categorial levels.

Concepts

Knowledge of our world (i) is formulated as a system of levels (physical etc, below) (ii) from which paradigms, many well-known, are extracted (iii) which may be generalized and applied as justified by the real metaphysics (iv) which, together with the metaphysics enables negotiation of the universe.

Dynamics (paradigms)

Physical—mechanism (determinism with indeterminism) and causation.

Complexity from the physical to the living—form, emergence, and evolution – variation and selection (a case of formation).

Mind and its aspects—experience itself including experiencing, the concept side (cognition, emotion-feeling – especially pleasure and pain, attitude, choice), experiential relation (concept and linguistic meaning, knowing, acting), and the experienced (world including process, body).

Society and culture—competition, cooperation, and amplification of the power of mind, with technology of space and mind exploration.

Sources

LASHT BUT ALSO SEE RESOURCES AND SOURCES FORM THE OTHER PAGES

The way of being

Tradition

Experience, especially with the way and realization

Completeness

Metaphysical

Metaphysical completeness is derived from the categories (their elements above), tradition (below, with ‘a system of human knowledge’).

‘Tradition’ is used in the expansive sense of all that is considered received, subject to reason.

Pragmatic completeness

Pragmatic completeness, such as it may occur, will come from the following and ongoing (i.e., while on paths) review and revision.

Design for completeness

See design and its process.

Adaptability

General adaptability

Orientation to a range of personality types and projects, situations, and cultures (for the range or situations also see ‘a system of human knowledge’).

Paths and programs

For adaptability, pathways will be divided into paths and programs

Paths

Paths are about quality, form, and dimensions (categories) of realization.

Programs

Programs are implementation—dynamic (i.e., learning in action) parallel sequences of action.

Programs – details

Adaptability is further implemented via (i) program elements (ii) a program for the way and my life (which also functions as an example) and (iii) a program template abstracted from the example (item #ii) and generalized to provide options.

Areas and kinds of action

Immediate v ultimate

Immersive v instrumental

Their integration

Tradition

How traditions are viewed

Traditions are not seen as authoritative but as useful for (i) symbolic and other suggestiveness (ii) elements to be incorporated in the way and its implementations.

Some traditions

Real – Buddhism, Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Christian mysticism

Symbolic – remote gods

Quality vs form

Quality – effective pathways

Form – programs

There will be a degree of immanence over explicitness

Think about what amount the level will be.

Of ‘what we know’ in the pathways and programs

Of effectiveness of pathways in the programs

Paths

Import, improve, and minimize structure

Aware and enlightened paths (may substitute an appropriate synonym for ‘enlightened’)

Sharing, healthy living (psyche) etc

Ground

Security, safety, belonging etc.

Programs

Generic

Local…

Universal…

Integration – four aspects as one

As noted above

Program for the way of being

My life (also an example)

Template

Resources

Use and modify from master.