Aug 3, 2007
The view from the inside out calls for a "reevaluation of all values." Inside out thinking, the result of reportage from the domain of the living, calls for values to be based on the realization that the world is always "my world." In effect, my life equals, in the words of Ortega y Gasset, "I plus my circumstances." Given the universality of this fact of life, values may be seen as the elements required to improve the world, the universal "my world."
This blog is essentially about two narrative topics that are or will be more important to us in the near future, chaos and determinism. To quote Edward Lorenz, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” and, oddly, William Faulkner, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Strangely, both succinctly declare what this blog is all about and how chaos, determinism, and the past along with sentience or awareness are in process of generating human subjective experience--again, the life of each one of us as it is lived. This blog seeks to humanize our language of experience and to help us focus on experience at the expense of an undue prioritizing of theory over experience.
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Perhaps the review of values would entail an embodiment of the Yamas (restraints), Niyamas ( observances) and the Brahma Vihara practices of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. When one knows without a doubt it is “my world” the responsibility of it becomes theirs as well. A clear review of the values both held as concepts and acted via experience is required.
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