Final Musings From Kenya

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These are the last things I put down in my journal before moving on. Not a complete cycle of thoughts, but a good time capsule showing the status of my ideas just before leaving Africa.


Musings

Let's start with the recapitulation hypothesis: that Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny. This is the notion that the development of the individual reflects or imitates the development of it's entire ancestry.

This idea originally referred to the development of embryos as a reflection of the evolutionary proccess of organisms. I actually learned it in a class on mythology, where we related cultural history and Jungian archetypes to the life-cycle of the individual.

Nowadays, I see it everywhere.

One of the many ideas pouring through my head as I write this has to do with the importance of endangered, indigenous cultures, languages, and ethnic groups. Just as the individual's least-understood personal characteristics, repressed memories, and rarest psychological states give keys to his history and development, so do these little-understood, marginalized populations offer keys to the history and understanding of the entire human race.

I think this concept also extends out on another scale to the similarities between cosmic structure, molecular structure, and organism structure. Even out to the idea that the mind reflects the body, the body reflects the experiences and conditions of the organism, the organism reflects the history and make-up of his environment, the environment reflecting the story of it's world, the world's life-cycle reflecting that of it's solar system, galaxy, and universe.

Basically, at every order of being, there is a life-cycle and a structure that is analogous to that of every other order of being. This thought establishes the importance of religio-mythology and of scientific/historic inquiry in the same stroke.

Essentially, the conclusion is that all forms of understanding and knowledge are of the same nature and regard the same topic. Also, they should all be pursued equally, holistically, and integratively. This idea gives equal value to the knowledge derived through the senses, through reasoning, through analogy, or through intuition--whether it relates to plant growth, the essence of God, or human social organization.

Through this aggregation of knowledge, one can learn the entire phylogeny of the universe. Then, funneling that knowledge through your own present mind, one will best understand the process of one's own Ontogeny, and discover the best routes into the future.


A New University

I would like to someday found an Institute for Holistic and Integrative Studies.

This place would be dedicated to studying everything together. We may have courses like these:

- On The Relationship Between Astrophysics and Molecular Chemistry

- Comparing Gardening With the Western Literary Tradition

- Cooking: Through the Lenses of Islamic Faith and Taoist Philosophy

- Zorastrianism, Schizophrenia, and Modern Social Dichotomy

- Travel Writing, Rastafarianism, and Hindu History

I've already moved in this direction by developing my interests in scientifically-sound religion, progressive business, collective action systems as political units, holistic physical and mental fitness, and New Media.


My Work

Most of modern science, learning, and discussion is devoted to that knowledge which comes through the senses.

My writing work will focus on the knowledge that comes through intuition and analogy. I will back my discoveries with personal experience, a thorough understanding of the established sensory/physical/factual science, and a firm grasp of reasoning.

I will publish this work as a populizer, drawing on hard science, credible documents, expert sources, and personal experience.


A New World

A new world is coming. It has been heralded by Great Revolutions (in America, Europe, India and other former colonies turned Republic, in Communism) and by an unprecedented pace of change in technology and society. It's earliest stage is an increasing focus both on the collective life of man, and on the individual experience.

Civilization's growth has growing pains. They have caused denial and hopelessness in whole generations, they have caused regressive fundamentalism in all the world's religious traditions, and they have caused people to be easily manipulated into economic and spiritual inequalities.

But a new, larger, more perfect human existence is coming, in fulfillment of our history. There are those who will deny it, but they are not dangerous. The real danger comes from those who wish to control the New World--the rich, elite, and very powerful. They are the ones attempting to manipulate the innocent, the ignorant, and those opposed to progress.

Those who know about the coming age must resist it's decriers and their manipulations. We must embrace the innocent, the ignorant, and the misinformed, leading them away from damnation and into a kingdom of Heaven on Earth.


Religious Priorities

1. I believe in God, first. In the one-ness of God, in one God, in the self-evidence of God (scientifically observable, religiously inderstandable, personally experiencable).

2. I believe in the Individual, second. In personal religion. Each man has equal authority over himself in the eyes of God. It is our responsibility to learn and understand and practice in our own way--in the way that is right for God and for ourself.

3. I believe in Family, third. In the family that includes your parents, siblings, and other blood relatives--as well as other close loved-ones. It is important to be supportive of and harmonious with their beliefs and practices. Unity and respect begin in the family.

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Comments

[Aaron Brown]

cool thoughts, I'm liking your ideas. I've been told by about 5 people in a somewhat prophetic fashion that I will be taking on a large role in helping people to awaken to a more harmonious state of being, and right now the primary way of doing that would be through health.