Working for the Care of People and Planet by demandside

We Need To Go from Working within the Collapse of Nature and Humanity to Working for the Care of People and Planet

From UN Sec-Gen U Thant’s Message in 1969, Quoted in The Limits To Growth p.17, in 1972, to His Holiness’ Message for the New Year in 2024

50 years of neoliberal policies have powered economic growth and private profits over people and planet

r Heartfulness dependent on our ever more conscious participation in our common humanity (soma-psychepneuma/nous) and in our inhabitation of divine qualities (agape, eros, agency, philia, love, beauty, goodness, truth, joy, justice, wholeness, unity, compassion, wisdom et al.).

On the occasion of the New Year, I would like to thank everyone who has sent me good wishes, and I offer my greetings to you all, brothers and sisters across the world. Despite the many challenges that we are facing today, I feel optimistic that with a growing appreciation of how interconnected we all are in the oneness of humanity, we can all work to lead more meaningful lives and create a better world. As human beings we share a common wish to be happy and free from pain. We are social animals who depend on others to survive. Therefore, as I often say, we should work for the benefit of others. If we cannot help them, we should at least make sure we do no harm. I have found that helping others is the best way of ensuring happiness and calm for ourselves. I also firmly believe that we can find peace in the world only when we find peace within. Every human being has the potential to cultivate inner peace, and by so doing to contribute to the peace of our global community. We must try to cultivate compassion and inner peace, regardless of our nationality or religion, we can contribute to the well-being and happiness of all mankind. If the last century was the century of violence, it is our responsibility to make this century the century of dialogue. Once again, I extend warm greetings to you all. I hope that you all enjoy an auspicious beginning to the new year, 2024. With prayers and good wishes, Dalai Lama

75 years ago, in 1948, humanity joined altogether to authorise the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations. 50 years ago, in 1972, the Club of Rome published groundbreaking work on the Limits to Growth on our finite planet, The Limits to Growth+50 - Club of Rome. Today, many of us learn to work with heartless neoliberal policies, which allow interacting violations of human rights (see, for example, Self-Help or Self-Governance? The Role of the Psy-Disciplines in Neoliberalism (madinamerica.com) and From local insights to global impact: The role of indigenous psychologies in developing global psychology - Mad in the UK) within interacting ecological overshoots of planetary boundaries, Global Commons Alliance - for a safe and just future. Will we ever learn to live in tune with the true heartfulness of our full humanity, and with the wondrous radiance of life on our planet?

Guterres urges G77 and China to drive momentum for global governance reform | UN News An Economic Bill of Rights | Marianne 2024

We-Thou” Relations, and “I-We-Seen” Sciences, Based on Various

Skills in Varying Degrees in Various

In my street, in my city, and on our one shared planet, there are people with cultural heritages from Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Europe, North-Central-South America. Accordingly, in my work, I try to give appropriate attention and due care with the life-affirming values that can be found within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Muslim et al.), Modern (Cartesian sciences), Postmodern (various critiques of modern), and Polymodern-Metamodern (modern + postmodern) communities, as independent identities, as inter-independent parties, and as fully appreciated interactive communities on our one shared planet, altogether.

Xiye Bastida, an Otomi-Toltec woman from Mexico, in her life and work, like many people, struggles to hold her non-modern Indigenous values, which tend to be in tune with Mother Nature, with her modern values, which devitalise nature, turning living beings into inanimate resources that can be measured, made into various products, monetised by businesses for their short-term profits, and consumed by consumers for the economic growth of heartless elites, corporations, and nations.

Xiye Bastida, nevertheless, gave a courageous heartfelt speech at the United Nations in New York in September 2023. She defended the simple dignities of Mother Nature, celebrating Her precious gifts of clean air, clean waters, and clean lands, International Day of Peace 2023 | YOUTH EVENT PROGRAMME | United Nations & Xiye Bastida (xiyebeara.com). Now, with all that already said, let us look at the Oceania — Connecting Climate Minds proposal. We are looking for case studies from Oceania that will broaden global understanding of the intersection of climate change and mental health. Relevant case studies could discuss:

• A problem in a community, e.g. A population living in a coastal community already experiencing sea-level rise, where individuals are anecdotally reporting increasing rates of depression or anxiety.

• An intervention in a community or country, e.g. An NGO implementing a community-based intervention to enhance the psychological resilience of climate-affected populations.

• A policy, e.g. A country or city passing a national mental health policy that has strong emphasis on addressing the mental health impacts of climate change.

• A research project, e.g. investigating the mental health impacts of climate change using participatory methods or combined health and environmental big data. Please correct me if my impressions are inadequate, but this proposal engages with which understandings of climate change? mental health? non-modern? modern? integrative? Non-modern Primal, Oriental, and Semitic communities have witnessed over many decades, sorry centuries, and continue to lament, the ongoing destruction of Mother Nature. Despite truly heroic efforts, these communities continue to see clean air become dirty air, clean waters become dirty waters, clean lands become dirty lands, as all sorts of modern pollution continue to intensify and interact in air, waters, lands, bodies, and minds, degrading and destroying the habitats of many plants, many animals, and many human beings. In contrast to the Love of Nature that can be found within various non-modern Primal, Oriental, and Semitic communities, many people in various Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern communities continue to authorise their selected knowledge claims based on what philosopher Alfred North Whitehead called, in the 1920s, Cartesian bifurcation. Cartesian ‘bifurcation’ [...] constitutes a dichotomy which divides the world into two substances, namely Thought (res cogitans) and Extension (res extensa). This gives rise to the belief that the ‘objective’ world can be wholly described in quantitative terms. In light of [Wolfgang] Smith’s ontological distinction, this is tantamount to the reduction of the corporeal to the physical. Therefore, qualitative attributes—such as colour, sound, or taste—are taken, in the Cartesian paradigm, to be mental or subjective. On the other hand, the quantitative attributes—the ‘extended’ (i.e., measurable) aspects—of the world are taken to be the ‘really real’. Quantities are thought to have ontological priority over qualities, insofar as the latter are merely ‘in our heads’ (res cogitantes). What is left in the external world, then, are objects which can be accounted for, without residue, in mathematical terms (res extensae). John Trevor Berger, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » Surveying the Integral Cosmos | Philos-Sophia Initiative [text has been adjusted]. Now, when we investigate current concepts of climate change, mental health, and human wellbeing, we find that, for many modern people, each concept continues to be a Cartesian concept, dependent on the primacy of res extensae (quantities-measurements-data) over res cogitantes (qualities), thus on sciences of measurements, using selected metrics in selected case studies (e.g., Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being: a Mental Wealth perspective). Crucially, according to these modern measurement-based Cartesian accounts, human wellbeing does not require participation in “I-I” enlightenment (the journey from one’s surface self into Heart-Centred Oneness with Nature and Humanity in deep compassion and integrative all-inclusive wisdom), nor participation in various “I-We-Thou” relations, in which the Divine in one person sees and dignifies the Divine in another person (which people in the Vedic East call Namaste, and people in the non-modern West call Loving Thy Neighbour), nor participation in non-modern wisdom schools with attention on inhabiting, in varying degrees from shallow to deep, various Divine Qualities, like Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Joy, and Love (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), in Nature, Arts, Morals, Ethics, Relations, Cultures, Sciences, and Organisations. I'm sorry if what I am raising here with you is not familiar knowledge, nor perhaps easy to understand. Maybe this will help. Have you seen the image of three modern frogs in water in a saucepan (p. 13), which is slowly being heated? One frog says, concerned, my calculations show something is wrong here. Another frog says, without any concern, everything is good here. And the third frog, annoyed, abruptly dismisses any concerns with contempt, "alarmist!" Let us ask here: Which frog is being physically healthy? mentally healthy? spiritually healthy? In modern ways? In non-modern ways? In non-modern + modern, integrative ways? Any one of them? I hope you can now see that I am trying to engage with some vital issues here. Will you join us in participating more fully in our Whole-Hearted Nature and Humanity?

Inhabiting Compassion

Wisdom in “I

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May All Beings Be Happy: From Maxing My/Our Wealth to

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Divine Qualities

Working for Genuine Care of People and Planet?

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature] and Unity [ErosMasculine Nature], with Agentic [Masculine] Energies and Communal [Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices [Qualities Loved, degraded, or denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set of Skills, in Each Person, in Each Community, and in Our Shared Humanity, in tune (or not) with Divine Life, Light, and Love, “All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the dialogues of civilisations, each of which with their own versions of contents and discontents [personal arts-morals-skills, inter-personal relations-ethics-cultures, and authorised sciences] in matricessystems-organisations

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”, “Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

OR Working to Intensify the Collapse of Nature and Humanity?

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences

Many people learn to inhabit Cartesian bifurcation. They collapse Spiritus-anima-corpus in Nature and Humanity into Cartesian (physical-quantified) body and Cartesian (disqualified-disheartened) mind. Then, they call their collapse (from Heart-centred living into heartless consumerism) progress, allowing them to power their pursuit of profits and wealth supremacy without genuine care of people and planet.

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

What Is Being Seen?

With Attention and Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DIALOGUES with various Others within, across, and beyond our current readings of skills in personal artsmorals, in inter-personal relations-ethics-cultures, and in authorised sciences, in matrices-systemsorganisations, at local, national & global scales

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Born into a Primal World Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a PostModern World Born into a MetaModern World My Life in My Body © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu The Human Predicament in 22 Clips (youtube.com)

Are You Busy with Genuine Care of People and Planet? OR with Intensifying the Collapse of Nature and Humanity?

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences What Is Being Seen?

Nate Hagens l The Superorganism and the future l Stockholm Impact/Week 2023 (youtube.com)

Olivia Lazard l The blind spots of the energy transition

Daniel Schmachtenberger l An introduction to the Metacrisis

Wealth Supremacy – Marjorie Kelly

1983 Climate Crisis: This summer’s record temperatures may be one of the signs that the earth’s atmosphere is warming up. NOVA looks at the climate predictions and hazard warnings for the next century, based on the effects of our soaring consumption of fossil fuels. December 20, 1983 - Documentary on “the Climate Crisis” shown - All Our Yesterdays

With Attention and Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Dr. James E. Hansen (columbia.edu): "A Miracle Will Occur" Is Not Sensible Climate Policy. Global Tipping Points | Home

The Human Predicament in 22 Clips - YouTube I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am. (youtube.com)

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

(1)

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

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© Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu Ubuntu: living the principles, ethics, and compassion that are embedded in what it means to be human - Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Club of Rome

Are You Busy with Genuine Care of People and Planet?

OR with Intensifying the Collapse of Nature and

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage? How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences What Is Being Seen?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”, “Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Humanity discovered what an exponential increase in atmospheric CO2 would look like in 1972 (The Limits to Growth, p.72). Humanity has done very little to not follow this exponential curve.

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for Safeguarding Earth-Regulating Systems in the Anthropocene. By Johan Rockström, Louis Kotzé, et al. PNAS, 121 (5) e2301531121, January 22, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301531121

"a fundamental shift from a focus only on governing shared resources beyond national jurisdiction, to one that secures critical functions of the Earth system irrespective of national boundaries"

With Attention and Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

Humanity? (2)

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

Kate Raworth l How radical ideas can turn into transformative practice

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Presenting Doughnut Economics: videos and slides | DEAL, Planetary boundaries - Stockholm Resilience Centre

Are You Busy with Genuine Care of People and Planet? OR with Intensifying the Collapse of Nature and Humanity?

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage? How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences What Is Being Seen?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”, “Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

With Attention and Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

(3)

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

Kate Raworth l How radical ideas can turn into transformative practice Presenting Doughnut Economics: videos and slides | DEAL, Planetary boundaries - Stockholm Resilience Centre

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Born into a Primal World Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a PostModern World Born into a MetaModern World My Life in My Body ©

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Three Concise Views of Human Development: From “ME” to “US” to “All of Us, Humanity and Nature, Altogether” in Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity, within Each Person, within Our Various Communities, Local, National, and Global

3. Worldcentric “All of Us”, with Each Other, Altogether + Ethno-Socio-centric “US”

Nondual: Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness

The Dream Metaphor of Mary & Jane (Rupert Spira Summary) | Sloww

Our Community + Egocentric “ME” My Body

2. Ethnocentric “US”

Our Community + Egocentric “ME” My Body

1. Egocentric “ME” My Body

5. All of Us, Humanity and Nature (Heart-Soul-Body), Altogether

4. All of Us, Interconnecting with Each Other, Inter-Independent Inclusivists

Source of Image: Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision, Welcome to Integral Life – Integral Life Feminine Presence of Wholeness

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Sun (Heart-Spirit/Intellect-Pneuma/Nous), outside the caves of space and time, seeing all things, with limited ways of seeing apparent things inside the caves of space and time.

18. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Causal Formless)

17. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Subtle Archetypal)

16. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Integrative Visioning)

15. Vision-logic (late, ~28 years onward): Cross-paradigmatic engagements, dialectical developmentalism with seer [who is seeing] x seeing [how is seeing being done in each of various arts-moralssciences] x seen [what is being seen in a skill-context-field] x why [purpose, good or ill] dynamics as World Process-Soul

14. Vision-logic (middle): Inter-connects various contexts-histories

13. Vision-logic (early, ~21 years onward): Initial inclusivist-pluralist skills-stories-contexts-contracts-disciplines-matrices-systems, diverse dynamic multi-cross-inter-trans-meta-disciplinary contexts-histories

12. Formal rational mind (late formal operations, self-/we-authorised expert-achiever disciplinary esteem): Multiple static formal rational readings of skills-stories-contexts-contracts-disciplines-systems

3. Us, Our Social Contracts Centred, Independent Disciplinary Experts-Achievers

2. Us, Our Community Centred, Dependent Rules-Roles Conformists

1. Me, My Body Centred

11. Formal rational mind (early formal operations, ~11-21 years): thinking-feeling-behaving about thinking-feeling-behaving, questioning literal exclusive readings of skills-narratives-stories-myths-conceptssymbols-images-emotions-impulses, formalising rationality, static universal formalisms in arts, morals, and sciences

10. Rules-roles mind (late concrete operations): OUR literal one-rightway myths, OUR rationalisations of OUR exclusive mythic structures

9. Rules-roles mind (early concrete operations, belonging, ~7-11 years): Concrete-literal readings of narratives, stories, myths, images, symbols, concepts, emotions, and impulses; learning OUR skills in reason, will, sentiments, imagination, and memory; locus of mythic power is in OUR deified mythic socio-political Order (family, tribe, community, or nation)

8. Concept (representational mind) (~2-4 years): Ego omnipotence transferred to local Power-Gods

7. Endocept: Ego omnipotence challenged

6. Symbol (~2 years): Locus of magic power = ego

5. Image: Word magic, phantasmic-emotional, narcissistic

4. Impulse (~9 months): Subject-object fusions “selfobject”

3. Exocept “hatching” (~5-9 months): Hallucinatory wish fulfillment

2. Perception: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body

1. Sensation: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)

Masculine Quest for Unity

Matter (sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, polymer, cellular): Undifferentiated, pleromatic body Adapted from: Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, Transformations of Consciousness, Integral Psychology, Integral Spirituality. Notwithstanding many reductionist claims made by modern scientists, such as “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons”. © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

of Care for

From “Me” to “Us” Versus “Them” in Heartless Polarisations to “All of Us, Altogether” in Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity, within Each Person, and within Our Various Communities, Living in Tune with Nature, Heart-Soul-Body

All of Us, Nature and Humanity, Altogether, with Deep Compassion and Universal Wisdom

All of Us, InterConnecting with Each Other

Us, Our Authorised Knowledge in Our Social ContractsDisciplines

Wholeness [Agape-Feminine Nature] and Unity [Eros-Masculine Nature], with Agentic [Masculine] Energies and Communal [Feminine] Energies, in Virtues-Vices [Qualities, like Colours, Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Joy, Music, Compassion, Wisdom, that are being Loved, degraded, or denied, in various ways in various degrees], within Each Stage-Level-Layer-Degree of Development-Inhabitation of a Skill and Each Set of Skills, in Arts, Morals, and Sciences, in Each Person, in Each Community, in Each Matrix-System-Organisation, and in Our Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity, in tune (or not) with the Wholeness and Unity of Divine Nature, Life, Light, and Love, “All of Us, All of Life, Living With Each Other, Altogether” . ”

Non-Modern Triple Worlds in Nature and Humanity Pneuma/Nous-psyche-soma (Greek), Spiritus/Intellectusanima-corpus (Latin), Rūḥ/‘Aql-nafs-jism (Arabic), Heartsoul-body (English), Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū (Vedic Tribhuvana).

See The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing.

Us, OUR In-Formation in OUR Thinking, Feeling, and Behaving in OUR Community

Modern Cartesian physical quantified body and disheartened mind

A spatio-temporal world represented mathematically in terms of the Cartesian quadruple (x1, x2, x3, t) with three spatial and linear temporal coordinates.

See Wolfgang Smith, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » and Alfred North Whitehead (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) on Cartesian bifurcation.

All of Us are working to inter-connect with each other to understand each other in our dialogues across civilisations, each of which with their own versions of contents and discontents [personal/collective intentions-behaviours-arts-skills, inter-personal relations-morals-ethics-cultures, and socially authorised sciences, based on given or selected seer (who is seeing) x seeing (how seeing is being done) x seen (what is being seen) x why (purpose, good or evil) dynamics (using given or selected perspectives-assumptions-methodologies-outcomes)] in inter-relating matrices-systems-organisations.

Source of Images: Wolfgang Smith, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » To Be or Not To Be an Apple.

Rational thinking-feeling-behaving about thinking-feeling-behaving Cartesian thinking-feeling-behaving about thinking-feeling-behaving

“ ur” ExpertsAchievers in Primal contracts-debatesdisciplines in our arts, morals, and sciences

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” Primal Community’s narratives-norms-rulesroles-rituals-heritagetraditions with “ UR” reading of Primal Values (from surface appearances into deep Heartfulness within various schools within First Peoples in Africa, Asia, Europe, NorthCentral-South America, Australia, and Oceania)

“ ur” ExpertsAchievers in Oriental contracts-debatesdisciplines in our arts, morals, and sciences

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” riental Community’s narratives-norms-rulesroles-rituals-heritagetraditions with “ UR” reading of Oriental Values (from shallow into deep Heartfulness within various schools within Shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism et al.)

“ ur” ExpertsAchievers in Semitic contracts-debatesdisciplines in our arts, morals, and sciences

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” Semitic Community’s narrativesnorms-rules-roles-ritualsheritage-traditions with “ UR” reading of Semitic Values (from shallow conformist habits into profound contemplative Heart-Centredness within various schools within Judaism (Conservative, Liberal), Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism), Islam (Sunnism, Shî’ism) et al.)

“ ur” ExpertsAchievers in Modern contracts-debatesdisciplines in our Cartesian sciences of measurements “ ur” ExpertsAchievers in PostModern contractsdebates-disciplines in our critiques of modern knowledge claims “ ur” Experts-Achievers in Meta-Modern contractsdebates-disciplines in trying to hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” Modern Community’s narrativesnorms-rules-roles-ritualsheritage-traditions with “ UR” reading of Modern Values

Faith in Cartesian science. The individual. Rational economic man. Development and progress. Democracy. A meritocratic social order with winners and losers. Neoliberalism. Humanity can recreate nature by virtue of reason.

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” Post-Modern Community’s narrativesnorms-rules-roles-ritualsheritage-traditions with “ UR” reading of Post-Modern Values

Critical questioning of all knowledge and science. Suspicion towards all grand narratives of “progress”. Emphasis on symbols and contexts. Ironic distance.

Cultures have been oppressed and ruined by modern society. Reveals injustice in “democratic” societies Relations create the individual.

A multicultural order where the “weak” are included. Humanity has destroyed the biosphere

Conformity-Loyalty to “ UR” Meta-Modern Community’s narratives-norms-rules-rolesrituals-heritage-traditions with “ UR” reading of Meta-Modern Values

How can we reap the best parts of modern and postmodern? Can we create better processes for human development? Can we recreate the processes by which society is governed, locally and globally? Can the inner dimension of life gain a more central role in society? How can modern, postmodern, and premodern people live together productively? How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world? What is the unique role of humanity in the ecosystems of nature?

“Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have travelled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.”

~ William Commanda, Algonquin

See News - The Matheson Trust, Marjorie Kelly, Wealth Supremacy, and Nebel, A. et al. (2023).

Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13442.

There is present within humanity, however, a Deep Sense of Heartfulness, which is in tune with Living Life Well for the Benefit of All Living Beings.

“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad, or an economist” ~ David Attenborough

Many people fail to appreciate how living in a modern economy, designed to exploit life in nature and people for the short-term “wealth supremacy” of privileged elites, is so heart-breaking!!!

Stages-Levels-Layers-Degrees

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Me,

Born

Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a Post-Modern World Born into a Meta-Modern World

My Life in My Body

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in Each Person, But Living within ur “War on Nature” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen), Authorised by Current Markets

OUR PLANET NEEDS ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY, in Tropical, Temperate, and Polar Habitats, Altogether. NOT escalating ecological overshoots of various ecological boundaries within various local, national, and global habitats. OUR SOCIETIES NEED SOCIAL COHERENCE, across InterPersonal Communities, at Local, National, and Global Scales. NOT social divisions, with inhabitants within a social division refusing to learn to understand any other community.

EACH PERSON NEEDS PERSONAL UNITY, within Dependent Child-Student, Independent Adult, and Inter-Independent ElderSage, Living with Others, in Body-Soul-Heart, Altogether. NOT reductive body-based materialisms, nor reductive mind-based idealisms, nor supposed mind-body dualisms.

Seers Seeing the Seen: Who Is Seeing? How Is Seeing Being Done? What

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Child? Student? Adult? Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT - Kosmos-centric Wholeness (Agape) and Unity (Eros), with Agentic and Communal VirtuesVices, in Full Humanity, in tune (or not) with Divine Life, Light, and Love, “All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL - World-centric

“All of Us, working to inter-connect with each other” in the dialogues of civilisations, each of which with their own versions of contents and discontents [personal arts-moralsskills, inter-personal relations-ethicscultures, and authorised sciences] in matrices-systems-organisations

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Is Being Seen?

How Is Seeing Being Done? Within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences Within What Is Being Seen? With Love (Philia)?

The Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings, from Ego-centric Me, to Ethno-Group-centric US, to Socio-centric US, to World-centric All of Us with Each Other, into Noetic Kosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One) in Tripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body.

Engaging in dialogues on skills in arts, relations-ethicscultures, and sciences, in matrices-systems-organisations, with people inside and outside of various Primal Traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, and Oceania; various Oriental Traditions in Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism et al.; various Semitic Traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.; various modern disciplines (sciences of measurement); various post-modern disciplines (critiques of modern); and various meta-modern disciplines (modern + postmodern).

Modernity: A mix of Monist Materialists (Mind inside Matter in Cartesian space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]), Monist Idealists (Matter inside Mind) and Matter-Mind Dualists. No Vedic Tribhuvana (Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū). No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/IntellectusHeart, Psyche-Anima-Soul, and Soma-Corpus-Body).

Multi-cross-inter-trans-meta-disciplinary engagements

in attempts to co-ordinate diverse data sets in sciences of measurement within and across various disciplines e.g., IPCC & WHO

in terms of living systems designs and/or flat nonhierarchical relations in various critiques of modern lifeless mechanics in terms of selected from less to more complex developmental or evolutionary criteria, e.g., from egocentric me to worldcentric us

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DIALOGUES with various Others within, across, and beyond our current readings of skills in arts, relations-ethicscultures, and sciences, in matrices-systemsorganisations, at local, national & global scales

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

“My” Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Our Primal Tradition with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Experts-Achievers in Skills in Arts, in Morals-Ethics in Relations, and in Disciplines in Sciences in Organisations within Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts in Arts, Morals-Ethics, Sciences, in Organisations, in Our Eco-Society

Our Primal Ways of Living with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Our Oriental Tradition with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Our Semitic Tradition with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Our Modern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds

Our Postmodern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds Our Metamodern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds

Conforming to OUR Authorised Narratives-Norms-Rules-Roles-Rituals-Heritage-Traditions within CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives and Group Norms

Our Oriental Tradition with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Our Semitic Tradition with open ↔ closed body-soul-hearts

Our Modern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds

Our Postmodern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds

Our Metamodern Lives with open ↔ closed body-minds

Unity

May All Beings Be Happy with Ecological Integrity in Nature, Social Coherence in Each Society, and Wholeness and

Skills for “Post Doom, No Gloom” Living: Michael Dowd, Post-Doom Frontiers | Listen to the science! Which science? Regenerative research for times of planetary crises (frontiersin.org).

Primal Traditions Oriental Traditions Semitic Traditions Modernity Post-Modernity Meta-Modernity ALTOGETHER

INTER-INDEPENDENT

A Brief Overview of Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics:

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

Who is Seeing? How Is Seeing Being Done? What is Being Seen?

Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within What Is Being Seen? With Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Modern Cartesian Linear Time

in A Primal Tradition? An Oriental Tradition? A Semitic Tradition? Modernity? Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric

DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

People in Primal-Oriental-Semitic Traditions tend to see losses in Heart-Centredness, with disturbing degradations in air, waters, lands, plants, animals, and humans.

Modernity: A mix of mainly Monist Materialists (Mind inside Matter in Cartesian space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]) in a mechanistic universe in which measurements count, some Monist Idealists (Matter inside Mind), and some Matter-Mind Dualists.

Post-Modernity: Challenges modern lifeless mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims. Meta-Modernity: Tries to hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether.

Modernity Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of Qualities (Truth-Goodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana. No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Psyche-Soma).

People in Modernity-Postmodernity-Metamodernity

tend to see “historical progress”, and work for “ongoing progress” according to their chosen set of indicators.

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

See CACOR: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear. Skills for “Post Doom, No Gloom” Living: Michael Dowd, Post-Doom. Born into a Primal World Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a PostModern World Born into a MetaModern World My Life in My Body © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Child? Student? Adult? Mature Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within What Is Being Seen? With Love (PhiliaCommunion)? A Primal Tradition? An Oriental Tradition? A Semitic Tradition? Modernity? Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?

The Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings, from Ego-centric Me to Ethno-Group-centric US to Sociocentric US to World-centric All of Us with Each Other into Kosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One) in Tripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body. The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing

Engaging in dialogues (on skills in traditional arts and crafts, “I-I” Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, Divine Qualities) with various people inside and outside of various Primal Traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, and Oceania; various Oriental Traditions in Taoism, Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Sikhism et al.; various Semitic Traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.; various modern disciplines (sciences of measurement); various post-modern disciplines (critiques of lifeless mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims); and various meta-modern disciplines (working to hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether).

Modernity

Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of Qualities (TruthGoodness-Beauty).

No Vedic Tribhuvana.

No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/NousSpiritus/IntellectusHeart, psycheanima-soul, and soma-corpus-body).

Multi-inter-trans-disciplinary engagements, e.g., r3-0.org

Priority is: Economic Growth [Wealth]?

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Experts-Achievers in Skills in Traditional Arts and Crafts, “I-I”

Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, and Divine Qualities

(including Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyCommunion), Music, Wisdom, Compassion et al.) in Traditional Sciences in OUR Communities.

Teachings in Skills in Traditional Arts and Crafts, “I-I”

Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, and Divine Qualities (including Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyCommunion), Music, Compassion, Wisdom et al.) in Traditional Sciences in OUR Communities.

Wellbeing: PeoplePlanet-Prosperity?

Living Well within Earth’s Systems?

Disciplines in Systems

Experts-Achievers in Skills in Modern Arts, Modern Individualism, Modern Instrumental Relations, and Modern Sciences and Technologies (including Sciences of Measurement, Information Technologies, Computers, Mobile Phones, Social Media, Netflix et al.) in OUR Organisations in OUR Communities.

Teachings in Skills in Modern Arts, Modern Individualism, Modern Instrumental Relations, and Modern Sciences and Technologies (including Sciences of Measurement, Information Technologies, Social Media et al.) in OUR Organisations in OUR Communities.

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DIALOGUES with various

Others within, across, and beyond our current readings of skills in personal artsmorals, in inter-personal relations-ethics-cultures, and in authorised sciences, in matrices-systemsorganisations, at local, national & global scales

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, RelationsEthics-Cultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles- Rituals-HeritageTraditions

in Wisdom

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within “I-I” Enlightenment, the Heart of “I-We-Thou” Relations, and

Schools

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Disciplines in Silos Disciplines Inter-Acting

Born into a Primal World Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a PostModern World Born into a MetaModern World My Life in My Body

© Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

COVID Policies in Many Countries Are Being Controlled by Neoliberal Economic Interests within Business-As-Usual. See UK

'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health

John Snow Project Editorial 06 November 2023

'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health - John Snow Project

Ziyad Al Aly - Long COVID: the lasting legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic

An Intimate Conversation with Leading Climate Scientists To Discuss New Research on Global Warming

COVID Inquiry.

Source of many memes presented in this paper is, and much thanks to, @CodeRedEarth Sophie Gabrielle An Intimate Conversation with Leading Climate Scientists To Discuss New Research on Global Warming - YouTube Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change | Oxford Academic (oup.com) New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists - Inside Climate News 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory | BioScience | Oxford Academic (oup.com) Humanity’s new era of “global boiling”: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis - Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com)

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within UN SDPI, Latest State of the World Plot, Climate Equality & Lancet

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences What Is Being Seen? With Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Many learn to inhabit Cartesian bifurcation, collapsing Spiritus-animacorpus in Nature-Humanity into Cartesian physical quantified body and disqualified-disheartened mind. Then, they call their collapse progress, allowing them to power profits without true care of people and planet.

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Lost Decade: Susty Standards Sabotage Susty (r3-0.org) Baue-Lost-Decade-9-Nov-Presentation-for-posting.pdf

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, RelationsEthics-Cultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions Nebel, A., Kling, A., Willamowski, R., & Schell, T. (2023). Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13442.

Countdown

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT experts-achievers, “US”, “Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within What Is Being Seen? With Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in

Modern Cartesian Linear Time in A Primal Tradition? An Oriental Tradition? A Semitic Tradition? Modernity? Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?

TRUE VALUES (HeartSoulBody)

Modern (Mind-Body) Proposed Ideal System Values

Modern (Body-Mind)

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

Post-Modernity: Challenges modern lifeless mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims. Meta-Modernity: Tries to co-ordinate modern and postmodern knowledge claims

Modernity Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of Qualities (Truth-Goodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana. No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Psyche-Soma).

Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales

PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVING LIFE WITHIN TRIPARTITE NATURE (Pneuma/NousPsyche-Soma) IN HEART-CENTRED COMMUNITIES [within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Islamic et al.), and some people within Modern-PostmodernMetamodern Communities, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South America, Australia & Oceania].

Post-Growth Standards

Degrowth Standards

UN SDPI Standards

Doughnut Economics

Earth4All

Shared Material Values Valuing What Counts

Modern (Body-Mind)

Shareholder

Material Values

UN SDG Standards

ESG Standards

CSR Standards

Esoteric

Fluid Contextual Identities

Exoteric

Fixed

Contractual and/or Prescribed Identities

Home - Earth4All

“Earth4All and the world of the Pope”: documentary

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, RelationsEthics-Cultures, Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-RulesRoles-Rituals-HeritageTraditions

Global

Scales (1)

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

Huston Smith, Levels

Reality, Levels of Self, Why Religion Matters p.224

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Intersecting Economic Standards at Local,

Who Is Seeing within the Seer? Dependent Child? Student? Independent Adult? Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT

experts-achievers, “US”,

“Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within What Is Being Seen? With Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in Modern Cartesian Linear Time in A Primal Tradition? An Oriental Tradition? A Semitic Tradition? Modernity? Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?

The Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings,

from Ego-centric Me to Ethno-Group-centric US to Sociocentric US to World-centric All of Us with Each Other into Kosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One) in Tripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body. The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing

TRUE VALUES (HeartSoulBody)

Modern (Mind-Body)

Proposed

Ideal System Values

Modern (Body-Mind)

Shared Material Values

Modernity

Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of Qualities (TruthGoodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana. No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/NousSpiritus/IntellectusHeart, psycheanima-soul, and soma-corpus-body).

Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales

PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVING LIFE WITHIN TRIPARTITE NATURE (Pneuma/Nous-

Psyche-Soma) IN HEART-CENTRED COMMUNITIES [within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Islamic et al.), and some people within Modern-PostmodernMetamodern Communities, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South America, Australia & Oceania].

Post-Growth Standards

Transforming economies to foster genuine and inclusive wellbeing through ecologically sustainable and equitable post-growth societies (Source: EEForAll)

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Agency-Communion

Modern (Body-Mind)

Shareholder

Material Values

Degrowth Standards

UN SDPI Standards

Doughnut Economics

Earth4All

Valuing What Counts

UN SDG Standards

ESG Standards

CSR Standards

1. Abandon GDP 2. Universal Basic Services 3. Focus on SUFFICIENCY

4. Reduce Inequality 5. Just Transition (Source: Degrowth Vienna)

“Authentic Sustainability” for Prosperity-People-Planet (r3.0 - Ralph Thurm)

DEAL (doughnuteconomics.org), Beyond Growth 2023, and Beyond-GDP

Maintain Economic Wellbeing within Prescribed Care for Environments & People

GDP plus People plus Planet (Home - Earth4All, Valuing What Counts)

Maintain Economic Growth within Our Prescribed 17 Goals for People & Planet

Maximise OUR Corporate Profits with OUR Prescribed Governance for Selected Environments and Selected People (e.g., GRI, ISSB, EFRAG, or ESRS Standards)

Maximise OUR Corporate Profits with OUR Prescribed Care for Selected People

Compete to Maximise Private Profits and Economic Growth (GDP) with no deep regard for personal integrity, social coherence, and living within ecological boundaries, ending with intensifying personal and social crises interacting within ecological overshoots of our planet’s limited carrying capacities. Nebel, A., Kling, A., Willamowski, R., & Schell, T. (2023). Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model. Journal of Industrial

. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13442

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts-Disciplines in Arts-Morals, Relations-EthicsCultures, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesRituals-Heritage-Traditions

Global

(2)

National, and

Scales

ALL OF US, HUMANITY AND NATURE (HEART-SOUL-BODY), ALTOGETHER

ALL OF US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

Ecology

Ego-centric

Are You Familiar with this Common Reading of Modern Science, As an Independent Magisterium with Limited or No Regard for Humanity’s Wisdom?

Excerpt from Edward F. Kelly et al. Beyond Physicalism:

The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a picture of reality that conflicts sharply both with everyday experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world’s great cultural traditions. A particularly stark but influential early statement of the emerging picture came from philosopher Bertrand Russell: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins all of these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built. (“The Free Man’s Worship,” 1903)

There can be no doubt that this bleak vision continues to dominate mainstream scientific thinking and has contributed to the “disenchantment” of the modern world with its multifarious attendant ills. Prominent recent spokesmen include, for example, Nobel prize winners such as theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg, for whom “the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless,” and physicist-turned-neurobiologist Francis Crick, whose “astonishing hypothesis” declares that “You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased it: ‘YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A PACK OF NEURONS.’” (my highlights).

Overt conflict between science and religion has erupted sporadically since the stirrings of science centuries ago, and recent years have witnessed a series of heavily publicised attacks on nearly all things religious by well-meaning defenders of Enlightenmentstyle rationalism. Such persons clearly regard themselves, and current mainstream science itself, as reliably marshalling the intellectual virtues of reason and objectivity against retreating forces of irrational authority and superstition. For them the truth of the picture sketched above has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt, and to think anything different is necessarily to abandon centuries of scientific progress, release the black tide of occultism, and revert to primitive supernaturalist beliefs characteristic of bygone times.

Contributors to the present volume share a very different view. We believe it takes astonishing hubris to dismiss en masse the collective experience and wisdom of a large proportion of our forebearers, including persons widely recognised as pillars of human civilisation, and we are united in believing that the single most important task confronting all of modernity is that of meaningful reconciliation of science and religion. We emphatically reject, moreover, the idea of simply exiling these humanly vital subjects to independent “magisteria” where they can go their separate ways as a means to uneasy truce, as originally decreed by Descartes and recently suggested again by Stephen Jay Gould.

Let Us Ask Here: Are There Any Better Readings of Nature, Human Society, and the Human Person?

[Russell and Whitehead's] Principia Mathematica, though read by only a stalwart few, has even so had a powerful impact upon Western civilization: in outlawing IW [irreducible wholeness], as it were, it has promoted a leveling down of Occidental culture, a drastic flattening thereof in toto. I surmise that the nihilistic nominalism of the point set paradigm has eventually filtered down to the public at large as the last word of Science, and in so doing has contributed decisively to the “enlightenment” of millions. One might say that it has disenchanted the universe, deprived it, in the eyes of the “enlightened ones,” of the authentic mystery residing in every natural thing – down to the humblest. And so it has in effect dehumanized a significant portion of mankind by rendering it profane. The fact is, nonetheless, that the domain of quantity does not exclude irreducible wholeness; if such were the case, not only could there be no music or traditional arts, but there could be no physics as well.

Excerpt from Wolfgang Smith, Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology

Much Too Often To Love Our Full Humanity and the Wholeness of Nature Altogether Is Considered To Be Not Normal! Ecological Integrity in Nature? Social Coherence in Each Society? Wholeness and Unity in Each Person? Living within Intensifying Ecological Crises Arctic

Global

Arctic News:

News: 2023 (arctic-news.blogspot.com)

temperatures set to reach new records in next five years | World Meteorological Organization (wmo.int)

2023 (arctic-news.blogspot.com)

Our Fundamental Crisis in Our W.E.I.R.D. Modern World: Why Are We Overshooting Many Ecological Thresholds, and Failing to Care for the Basic Needs of Many Living Creatures on Our One Shared Planet?

WHOLENESS (SPIRITUS-ANIMA-CORPUS) OF NATURE

In ordinary corporeal worlds, the QUALITY of QUALITIES, like COLOURS, LOVE, BEAUTY in Skills, GOODNESS in Relations, and TRUTH in Vision (Who Is the Seer?) in Methods (How Is Seeing Being Done?) and in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen?), are often more valuable in many situations than limited reductive measurements.

In corporeal worlds, QUALITIES, like Colours, LOVE (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), Beauty, Goodness, and Truth, in all sorts of ways, have more value in many situations than QUANTITIES-measurements-data.

Moreover, QUALITIES participate in the Wholeness of Nature (pneuma-spiritus-heart, psyche-anima-soul, and soma-corpus-body) in principial equilibrium, uniting various complementaries and oppositions (silence-sound, darkness-light, essence-substance, virtues-vices, masculinefeminine, yang-yin, et al.) at the Heart of All Beings. What is GOOD for planetary health and human happiness involves human beings becoming fully alive; growing up as artists; developing stages-layers of skills in LOVE, Beauty, Goodness, and Truth in each person, in inter-personal relations, and in ecosocial organisations; learning to live creatively in tune with Universal Spirit (Seer) and Sacred Nature (Seen); waking up to become Wise Sages. Inhabitants: People living in tune with Universal Spirit and Sacred Nature (SatChit-Ananda [Being-Consciousness-Bliss]) include Heart-Centred storytellers, mythologists, philosophers, & metaphysicians in our Primal Traditions (Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia, Oceania) and in our World Religions (Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.) who say:

1) beyond the worlds of things, lives, minds, and souls is Divine Presence, 2) in living beings, there is a natural capacity for, a relative similarity to, and a deep longing for Divine Presence, and 3) the true goal of existence is evermore conscious participation in the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in timeless Divine Presence.

Modern Physical Sub-Corporeal Worlds

In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the familiar three spatial and one linear temporal Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), regardless of various body-mind-soul-heart qualities that are present in various individual and collective living worlds, ONLY MEASUREMENTS COUNT.

In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of (three spatial and one linear temporal) Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t),

QUANTITIES-measurements-data are the primary or much too often the only concern in many situations. Consequently, Nature tends to be denatured; human beings dehumanised; qualities (like life, love, body, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, justice et al.) disqualified; “unfriended” as “Ghosts in the Machine.”

This is said in business-as-usual to be good? for economic growth (GDP)?, with attention focused on technological innovations, production and consumption of goods, and wealth supremacy, mandated into law to authorise ongoing abuses of people and planet, but with limited or no responsibility for supporting human development from “ME”-, and/or “US”-centredness into “ALL of US”, ALL of LIFE,

Altogether, HEART-CENTREDNESS in each person, in our inter-personal relations, and in our eco-social organisations, at local, national, and global scales.

W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic) Inhabitants: People operating with Cartesian bifurcation (res extensae [extended things in Cartesian space-time], and res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]) include:

Modernists, who tend to hold that modern “physics is the basis of reality and that science and rationality set people free.”

Post-Modernists, who tend to hold “a critical stance towards knowledge and science, and power structures, unconscious drives, cognitive biases, and arbitrary social constructions that enthral human minds.”

Meta-Modernists, who tend to hold “a worldview which combines the modern faith in progress with the postmodern critique.”

(Source: Metamoderna)

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Looking into the Philosophical Roots of Current Obsessions with Limitless Economic Growth on Our Limited Planet

On Cartesian Bifurcation in the 1920s

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”

Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)

Excerpt from Alfred North Whitehead (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Whitehead spoke of the “bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality” (1920 [1986: 30]) to denote the strategy originating with Galileo, Descartes, Boyle and Locke of bifurcating nature into the essential reality of primary qualities and the non-essential reality of “psychic additions” or secondary qualities, ultimately to be explained away in terms of primary qualities. Whitehead sided with Berkeley in arguing that the primary/secondary distinction is not tenable (1920 [1986: 43–44]), that all qualities are “in the same boat, to sink or swim together” (1920 [1986: 148]), and that, for example,

the red glow of the sunset should be as much part of nature as are the molecules and electric waves by which men of science would explain the phenomenon. (1920 [1986: 29])

Whitehead described the philosophical outcome of the bifurcation of nature as follows:

The primary qualities are the essential qualities of substances whose spatiotemporal relationships constitute nature. … The occurrences of nature are in some way apprehended by minds … But the mind in apprehending also experiences sensations which, properly speaking, are qualities of the mind alone. These sensations are projected by the mind so as to clothe appropriate bodies in external nature. Thus the bodies are perceived as with qualities which in reality do not belong to them, qualities which in fact are purely the offspring of the mind. Thus nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for his song: and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colorless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly. (1925 [1967: 54])

“The enormous success of the scientific abstractions”, Whitehead wrote, “has foisted onto philosophy the task of accepting them as the most concrete rendering of fact” and, he added:

Thereby, modern philosophy has been ruined. It has oscillated in a complex manner between three extremes. There are the dualists, who accept matter and mind as on an equal basis, and the two varieties of monists, those who put mind inside matter, and those who put matter inside mind. But this juggling with abstractions can never overcome the inherent confusion introduced by the ascription of misplaced concreteness to the scientific scheme. (1925 [1967: 55])

Vedic Tradition Modern West

On Cartesian Bifurcation in 2023:

An Excerpt from Wolfgang Smith’s Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology

To the extent that modern physics possesses an ontology at all, it has tended to be the Cartesian doctrine of "bifurcation." Not only, however, does this thesis prove to be untenable, but since the advent of quantum theory it has rendered physics de facto incomprehensible. This book introduces an astoundingly uncomplicated and inherently Platonist ontology in which the quantum theoretic stratum assumes its rightful place within the hierarchy of being.

Here is An excerpt from 'Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology' - SAND (scienceandnonduality.com)

The first step towards an ontological comprehension of physics consists in the rediscovery of what we term the corporeal domain, which is basically the perceptible, beginning with the visual. It is neither necessary nor feasible—initially, at least—to speculate about the other four senses, nor to worry about “border cases” and the like. To regain a grasp of “the corporeal” it is needful to substantiate that the grass is indeed “green”: and this should suffice to break the Cartesian [1] spell.

There is thus a categorical distinction to be made between the world as conceived by the physicist—which we refer to as the physical—and the perceptible world in which we “live and have our being,” which we distinguish ontologically from the physical as the corporeal.

Having rejected Cartesian bifurcation, we reflect upon what this entails in regard to the measurement problem of quantum theory. And the fact is that, having restored ontological rectitude, the resolution of this conundrum literally “stares us in the face”! This is what we wish now to explain.

In place of the Cartesian dichotomy of so-called res extensae versus res cogitantes which has proved to be spurious another ontological dichotomy has now taken its place: one needs namely to distinguish ontologically between the entities of physics and the entities comprising this ordinary perceptible world. What invalidates the Democritean [2] premise is the fact that qualities beginning, yes, with color have once again been recognized as bona fide components of the “external” world. And this has drastic implications for physics, given that—by its very modus operandi it has no eye for qualities! A worldview based upon physics is bound, therefore, to exclude the “qualitative dimension” of the cosmos not because it is not there but because this science is categorically incapable of grasping that dimension, that aspect of the world.

An ontological distinction is thus to be made between the spatio-temporal world as perceptible, and that world as conceived by the physicist: the two are by no means the same. No wonder that from the physicist’s point of view the measurement problem could not be solved: what else can you expect, given that the act of measurement inasmuch as the result must be perceptible transcends “the world of physics” categorically! What strikes me as perhaps the most amazing fact concerning the quantum measurement quandary is that it has apparently failed to rouse the physics community at large from their “Cartesian slumber.”

What is called for is an ontological distinction between the spatio-temporal world as perceptible and the world as conceived by the physicist: the corporeal and the physical, we shall say. It appears that Eddington was right: there are in truth “two tables.” There is namely the one I can see and touch, and the one made of “atoms and the void” which I cannot.

What renders a corporeal entity thus irreducible is the ontological fact that, in its essence, it is not subject to the bounds of space and time. And this notion of irreducible wholeness leads quite naturally to the Platonist ontology represented by the tripartite cosmos, as we have come to conceive of it. In this ontology the integral cosmos divides hierarchically into three domains, ranging from the corporeal—subject to the bounds of both space and time—to what may traditionally be termed the aeviternal, which is subject to neither and must consequently be the ontological stratum from which both VC and IW are ultimately derived. Dante refers to it poetically as “the pivot around which the primordial wheel revolves,” a metaphor in which that “primordial wheel” refers evidently to time, which proves in fact to be definitive of an ontological stratum referred to traditionally as the intermediary domain, of which the corporeal is the termination. The integral cosmos may therefore be represented in iconographic mode as a circle in which the center represents the aeviternal realm, the interior the intermediary, and the circumference the corporeal domain.

[1] René Descartes (1596–1650) posited a division of reality into two substances: res cogitantes (things of thought) and res extensae (things extended in space). A. N. Whitehead named this partition “bifurcation.” The interest of modern physics is with res extensae, which are purely quantitative and conceived of as wholly “objective”; res cogitantes are, in this paradigm, merely subjective constructs “in the mind” and include qualitative attributes, such as color. Ed.

[2] Democritus of Abdera (5th century BC) declared: “According to vulgar belief, there is color, the sweet and the bitter; but in reality, only atoms and the void.” Cf. Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Dublin: Weidmann, 1969), vol II, p. 168. Ed.

Wolfgang Smith graduated from Cornell at age eighteen with majors in physics, mathematics, and philosophy. He subsequently contributed a theoretical solution to the re-entry problem for space flight. After taking his doctorate in mathematics at Columbia, he served for thirty years as professor of mathematics at M.I.T., U.C.L.A., and Oregon State University. Smith then devoted himself to correcting the fallacies of scientistic belief, focusing on foundational problems pertaining to quantum theory and visual perception by way of the traditional tripartite cosmology. The Philos-Sophia nitiative Foundation’s documentary on his life and work, "The End of Quantum Reality", is now available on disc and digital platforms worldwide. Visit Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » to go much deeper into the philosophical roots of our current problems.

The Fundamental Crisis in Our W.E.I.R.D. Modern World’s “War on

The integral kosmos and integral human being are ontologically tripartite, composed of the Tribhuvana or “triple world” in the Vedic East, Pneuma/Nous-Rūḥ/‘Aql-Spiritus/IntellectusHeart, psyche-nafs-anima-soul, and soma-jism-corpus-body in Greek-Arabic-Latin-English.

In ordinary corporeal worlds, various QUALITIES, like COLOURS, are more valuable in many situations than reductive measurements.

Nature”

In the modern cosmos, human beings learn to inhabit a spatio-temporal world represented mathematically in terms of three spatial coordinates and a linear temporal coordinate: the familiar Cartesian quadruple (x1, x2, x3, t).

In corporeal worlds, QUALITIES – like colours, love, and other virtues that presence beauty, goodness, and truth in various ways – have more value in many situations than QUANTITIES-measurements-data. Moreover, qualities participate in the Wholeness of Nature (spiritus-heart, anima-soul, and corpus-body) in principial equilibrium, uniting various complementaries and oppositions (silence-sound, essence-substance, masculine-feminine, yangyin, good-evil, et al.) at the Heart of All Beings. What is GOOD for planetary health and human happiness is human beings becoming fully alive, living creatively in tune with Universal Spirit (Seer) and Sacred Nature (Seen).

Inhabitants: People living in tune with Universal Spirit and Mother Nature (Sat-Chit-Ananda) include Heart-Centred philosophers, metaphysicians, mythologists, and storytellers in our Primal Traditions (in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Oceania, et al.) and in our World Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism et al.) that say: 1) beyond the worlds of things, lives, minds, and souls is Divine Presence, 2) in living beings, there is a natural capacity for, a relative similarity to, and a deep longing for Divine Presence, and 3) the true goal of existence is conscious participation in Divine Presence.

“According to the traditional wisdom of humankind, the anthropos constitutes actually a microcosm: a “cosmos in miniature,” a fact which entails that even as a human being is tripartite – consisting of corpus (body), anima (soul), and spiritus (heart) in the Latin West, the tribhuvana or “triple world” in the Vedic East – so too is the cosmos at large tripartite (corporeal, intermediary, and spiritual). It is thus the artist, and above all the saint – the “pure in heart” – who know how to perceive” (adjusted), Wolfgang Smith, The End of Quantum Reality, Physics and Vertical Causation, The Vertical Ascent, The Quantum Enigma, Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions, Science & Myth, Cosmos & Transcendence, and his essays, Vertical Causation and Wholeness, The Tripartite Wholeness, Cosmic versus Measurable Time et al., PhilosSophia Initiative; Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Who Is Man? (Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol.2, No.1); Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Christian and Oriental, or True, Philosophy of Art; Whitall N. Perry, The Spiritual Ascent (previously A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom); Titus Burckhardt, Sacred Art in East and West, The Universality of Sacred Art, The Seven Liberal Arts (Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol.16, No.1&2, www.studiesincomparativereligion.com); Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature; Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye of the Heart; Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ; Center for Action and Contemplation (cac.org); Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature; Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, The Transfiguration of the Human Being et al.

In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, regardless of various body-soul-heart qualities that are present in a living context, only MEASUREMENTS count.

In modern physical sub-corporeal spatio-temporal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the familiar Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), QUANTITIES-measurements-data have primacy in many situations. Thus, Nature tends to be denatured, human beings dehumanised, qualities (like life, love, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, et al.) disqualified, “unfriended” as “ghosts in the machine.” This is said to be good? for economic growth, opening pathways for technological innovations, with attention on making evermore profits, mandated by law, with limited or no responsibility for spiritual transformation from ego- to Heart-Centredness.

Inhabitants: People operating with Cartesian principles (res extensae [extended things in space-time], and res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]) include modernists, who hold that “physics is the basis of reality and that science and rationality set people free,” postmodernists, who hold “a critical stance towards knowledge and science, and power structures, unconscious drives, cognitive biases, and arbitrary social constructions that enthral human minds,” and metamodernists, who hold “a worldview which combines the modern faith in progress with the postmodern critique” (Source: Metamoderna).

Susanne Cook-Greuter, Vertical Development Academy, in Paul van Schaik’s Urban Hub 23: Integral Africa, p. 116, refers to our W.E.I.R.D. English mediated version of reality, and “how the world is being colonized and influenced by Western ideas of what it means to be a developing human being.” W.E.I.R.D. (original version found in behavioral sciences) – Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic. W.E.I.R.D. (Susanne Cook-Greuter’s version) – White, Educated, Integrally-informed, (post)-Rational, Developmental. W.E.I.R.D. (my version) – Western, Educated in modern Cartesian principles (res extensae [extended things in space-time], and res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]), Industrialised in mechanistic information systems, Rich in exploiting Nature’s limited resources beyond our only planet’s natural carrying capacities, Democratic in reducing the quality of human maturity to a single vote in regular or occasional political elections. Moreover, much of this also tends to be V.U.C.A.: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous.

A Key Question for All of Us in the 2020s: Are there healthy ways to integrate the limited worthwhile discoveries that have been made and continue to be made within our modern physical spatio-temporal worlds into a living harmony within corpus-anima-spiritus, within Universal Spirit and Mother Nature, on our planet? Footnotes2Plato | Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation, Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke: a Dialogos on Turning Toward a Science Grounded in Platonism & Levels of Intelligibility – John Vervaeke © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman - Academia.edu

Source: Wolfgang Smith, To Be Or Not To Be An Apple, Philos-Sophia Initiative.

One-in-Many, Many-in-One, Wholeness and Unity, Wisdom and Compassion for All Beings Eye of Contemplative World Soul, Living with Noetic-Yogic Practices of Purifying, Illuminating, and Unifying Bodies, Souls, and Hearts, Engages in

Esoteric

Depths

e.g. Wise Seers

Inter-Independent Dialogues, Working on Transforming Our Personal Selves, Inter-Personal Relations, and Eco-Social Worlds, in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

Pathways to Wholeness and Unity Are Broken in Modern Times due to Cartesian Bifurcation

Our Eye of Rational Mind Sees OUR Independent Experts-Achievers in OUR Disciplines in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within Our Schools of Negotiated Action in Primal Traditions, Religious Traditions, Modernity, Post-Modernity, and Meta-Modernity, respectively.

In Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern Disciplines, Our Eye of Rational Mind Tends to be Trained, Using Empirical Methodologies, to Focus Attention on Measuring Exoteric Surfaces, in Terms of the Familiar Cartesian Coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t). This Restricts Participation in the Universal Qualities of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.

Exoteric Surfaces

Our Eye of In-Formation Sees OUR Dependent Conformists-Loyalists Learning and Living with OUR Rules and Roles within Our Schools of Prescribed Action in Primal Traditions, Religious Traditions, Modernity, Post-Modernity, and Meta-Modernity, respectively.

My Life in Primal Traditions Oriental Traditions Semitic Traditions Modernity Post-Modernity Meta-Modernity

From the Heart of All Beings to the Sensory Surface of Things: From the Sensory Surface of Things to the Heart of All Beings WHO is Seeing within the Seer x HOW is Seeing being done with selected methodologies x WHAT is being Seen within Five Levels of Reality Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower, for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of their mode of knowing [adjusted] – Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) See Vedic Sanâtana Dharma, Latin Sophia Perennis, Samuel Bendeck Sotillos’ Paths That Lead to the Same Summit, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s Paths That Lead to the Same Summit © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman - Academia.edu.

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and My Eye of Corporeal Body Sees MY Sensory Experiences

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Beings

Heart-Spirit in Emptiness Sees

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Relations in Our Local, National,

Global Agreements e.g. from my surface self e.g. Tao to the Heart of All Beings Te Ching

Who is Seeing: Five Eyes of Potential Knowing within Human Beings Stages-Levels-Layers in Human Development from ME to US to All of Us, Altogether What

Being Seen within Five Stages-Levels-Layers of Reality Stages-Levels-Layers-Degrees of Participation in Beauty, Go odness, and Truth

and Inter-Organisational

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Five Divine Presences in Traditional Universal Metaphysics

Basic Categories English Sanskrit Three Bodies (Trikâya) of Buddha Arabic Greek Latin Lakota Sioux

(1) BEYOND BEING (Divine Essence, Supra-Personal God) Âtmâ

(2) BEING (Personal God, Creator, Judge, Divine Qualities UNCREATED LOGOS Îshvara

Dharmakâya (universal body) Dhât Ousia Essentia Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit) Tunkashila (Grandfather)

Sifāt Energeia Logos

Selected Contents within Basic Categories in Heart-Soul-Body Kosmos

The Divine The Unmanifest The Uncreated The Metacosmic

Ate (Father)

Universal or Supra-formal Manifestation

(3) Spirit, Intellect (Spiritual, Intellectual, or Angelic realm) CREATED LOGOS Buddhi

Sambhogakâya (body of felicity)

Rūh'Aql PneumaNous SpiritusIntellectus

A human being is an axial being between Earth and Heaven, between sensory surfaces and Heart-Spirit

SPIRITUS NATURA “Essence” Purusha Yang (active or Masculine Pole) “Substance” Prakriti Yin (passive or Feminine Pole)

ACTUS POTENTIA

INTELLECTUS MATERIA Static mode Static mode

(4) soul (animic or psychic realm)

manas and prâna

Nirmânakâya (body of impermanence in inhabiting gross waking sensory states, subtle dreaming states, and deep dreamless sleep states, during day and night)

nafs psyche anima

EXISTENCE The Manifest The Created The Cosmic Dynamic mode Dynamic mode

subtle states

(varying quality of skills in reason, imagination, will, sentiments, and memory)

(5) body (corporeal realm) sthûla jism soma corpus

Ina (Mother) Unchi (Grandmother)

gross states (varying quality of skills in sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)

individual or formal manifestation (varying quality of skills in vision-logic, rational mind, rules-roles, symbols, images, emotions, perceptions, and sensations, in arts, morals, and sciences, in microcosm in each person, in mesocosm in inter-personal communities, and in macrocosm in the whole kosmos)

IMMORTAL HEAVEN DIVINE ÂTMÂ ABSOLUTE

MAYA RELATIVE

HUMAN

EARTH

MORTAL

Correlations across categories from different languages are approximate. Adapted from: William Stoddart, An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism, Annotations; Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian; Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, Transformations of Consciousness, Integral Psychology. © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

Modern Metaphysics: The Collapse of the Great Chain of Being into Cartesian Bifurcation, of Qualities into Quantities

Basic Categories English Sanskrit

(1) BEYOND BEING (Divine Essence, Supra-Personal God) Âtmâ

(2) BEING (Personal God, Creator, Judge, Divine

Qualities UNCREATED LOGOS Îshvara

(3) Spirit, Intellect (Spiritual, Intellectual, or Angelic realm)

CREATED LOGOS Buddhi

Three Bodies (Trikâya) of Buddha Arabic Greek Latin Lakota Sioux

Dharmakâya (universal body)

Dhât Ousia Essentia Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit)

Selected Contents within Basic Categories in Heart-Soul-Body Kosmos

The Divine

The Unmanifest The Uncreated The Metacosmic

(4) soul (animic or psychic realm) manas and prâna

Sambhogakâya (body of felicity)

Sifāt Energeia Logos

Tunkashila (Grandfather)

Ate (Father)

Correlations across categories in different languages are approximate.

Universal or Supra-formal Manifestation

mode

SPIRITUS NATURA

EXISTENCE

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A human being is an axial being between Earth and Heaven, between sensory surfaces and Heart-Spirit

INTELLECTUS

“Essence” Purusha Yang (active or Masculine Pole) “Substance” Prakriti Yin (passive or Feminine Pole)

ACTUS POTENTIA

subtle states

(res cogitantes

Nirmânakâya (body of impermanence in inhabiting gross waking sensory states, subtle dreaming states, and deep dreamless sleep states, during day and night)

nafs psyche anima

“things of the mind” primacy of REASON over imagination, will, sentiments, and memory)

(5) body (corporeal realm) sthûla jism soma corpus

Ina (Mother) Unchi (Grandmother)

gross states (primacy of res extensae “extended entities” within subcorporeal physical domains of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch over res cogitantes)

individual or formal manifestation (primacy of physical sciences over life sciences (e.g., biomedical models), and psycho-social sciences (e.g., case studies & surveys in psycho-social models in arts, morals, and sciences), in each person, in interpersonal relations, and in eco-systemsorganisations)

The Manifest The Created The Cosmic Modern sciences of measurement, with qualities, like colours, beauty, goodness, truth, joy, music, compassion, and wisdom degraded, disqualified, denied.

IMMORTAL HEAVEN DIVINE ÂTMÂ ABSOLUTE

MAYA RELATIVE

HUMAN

Dynamic mode Dynamic

MATERIA Static mode Static mode EARTH

MORTAL

Adapted from: Wolfgang Smith, Physics, Physics and Vertical Causation, The Quantum Enigma; William Stoddart, An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism, Annotations; Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian. © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

Many people, educated in modern Cartesian bifurcation, are trained to discount and ignore non-modern worlds.

Who

Approximate Correspondences of Stages-Levels-Layers in Human Development Across Selected Models

Non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern worlds tend to inhabit different understandings of human development. Non-modern worlds value Divine Qualities, the spiritual “I-I” journey from my/our surface self to True Self, Oneness with the Wholeness of Nature.

Modern worlds, informed by Cartesian bifurcation, value things that can be measured, primarily measurements of res extensae in modern physical and life sciences, and secondarily measurements of res cogitantes in modern psychometrics and/or sociometrics.

Post-modern worlds tend to critique modern lifeless mechanics with living systems designs, often in terms of non-hierarchical flatland relations.

Meta-modern worlds tend to value from less to more complex, developmental, or evolutionary understandings, with some meta-modernists choosing to use models of adult development, like the models presented here [also see charts in Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology (pp. 197-217)].

Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity involves inter-relating non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern values at child “ME”, adult “US”, and sage “All of Us, Inter-Connecting, Altogether” stages-levels-layers of development within the Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature.

Proposed correspondences of stages-levels-layers across these selected models of human development are approximate. Keep in mind each model privileges its own selected sets of

such as linear time within Cartesian coordinates. Adapted from: Tom Murray, Sentence Completion Assessments for Ego Development, Meaning-Making, and Wisdom Maturity, Including STAGES, Integral Leadership Review, Aug.-Nov.2017. © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

is Seeing in the Seer?

Berger Susanne

MAP VeDA’s LMF William R. Torbert GLP ActionLogics Edward J. Kelly ActionLogics

Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Jane Loevinger WUSCT, Ego Development Robert Kegan Orders of Consciousness Jennifer Garvey

Cook-Greuter

Dawson

Wilber

AQAL Theory Terri O’Fallon STAGES Pacific Integral All of Us (in Inter-Independencies) Altogether Kosmoscentric Ways of Living Nondual Unity (Clear Light White, Ultraviolet, Violet) Unified Tier (7.0 – 8.5 pp) Worlds Aware (Indigo) Illumined (6.5 pp) Unitive Kosmic Aware Graded Wholeness (Turquoise) Universal (6.0 pp) Ironist Principled Systems (P3) Pattern Aware Transpersonal (5.5 pp) SelfTranscendence Integrated e9 SelfTransforming/ Inter-Individual (Fifth Order) Construct Aware AlchemistMagician Alchemical Principled Mappings (P2) Turquoise Global View Construct Aware Construct Aware (5.0 pp) Worldcentric SelfActualisation Autonomous e8 SelfActualising Strategist Transforming Single Principles/ Axioms (P1/Ab4) Yellow Flex Flow Systems Aware Holistic (Teal) Strategist (4.5 pp) Aesthetic Individualistic e7 SelfQuestioning Individualist Redefining Abstract Systems (Ab3) Green Human Bond Context Aware Pluralist Harmony (Green) Pluralist (4.0 pp) US (in Independen ce ) Sociocentric Cognitive Conscientious e6 Self-Authoring/ Institutional (Fourth Order) SelfDetermining Achiever Achiever Abstract Mappings (Ab2) Orange Strive Drive Achievement Rational Achievement (Orange) Achiever (3.5 pp) Self-Esteem Self-Aware e5 Skill-Centred Expert Technician Expert (Ab1/Rp4) Single Abstractions Expertise Expert (3.0 pp) Ethnocentric Belonging Conformist e4 Socialized/ Interpersonal (Third Order) GroupCentred Diplomat Diplomat Representational Systems (Rp3) Blue Truth Force Meaning Mythic Love (Amber) Conformist (2.5 pp) Delta e3 Representational Mappings (Rp2) Discerning Awareness Rule Oriented (2.0 pp) ME (in Dependen ce ) Egocentric Safety Self-Protective e3 Instrumental/ Imperial (Second Order) Self-Centred Opportunist Opportunist (Rp1/A4) Single Representations Red Power Gods Power Magic Power Vitality (Red) Egocentric (1.5 pp) Relations Survival Impulsive e2 Impulsive (First Order) Impulsive Impulsive Action Sensorimotor (A1, A2, A3) Purple Kin Spirits Seeking Magic Sex (Magenta) Impulsive (1.0 pp) (pp = person perspective) Pre-Social e1 Beige Survival Sense Life ArchaicHunger (CrimsonInfrared)

Kurt Fischer Skill Assessment, Theo

LAS, Lectica Clare W. Graves, Spiral Dynamics John Kesler Integral Polarity Practice Ken

Integral

variables,

Varying Capabilities in Various Skills in Arts, in Morals-Ethics in Inter-Personal Relations, and in Various Sciences, in each Person, in each Community, and in each Organisation, in our Eco-Society

18. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus-Heart (Causal Formless)

17. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus-Heart (Subtle Archetypal)

16. Pneuma-Spiritus-Heart (Integrative Heartful Visioning)

15. Vision-logic (late, ~28 years onward): Cross-paradigmatic engagements, dialectical developmentalism with seer [who is seeing] x seeing [how is seeing being done in arts-moralssciences] x seen [what is being seen in a skill-context] x why [purpose, good or ill] dynamics as World Process-Soul

14. Vision-logic (middle): Inter-relates contexts-histories

13. Vision-logic (early, ~21 years onward): Inclusivistpluralist-dynamic skills-contexts-contracts-disciplinesfields-histories-matrices-systems

12. Formal rational mind (late formal operations, self-/we-authorised expert-achiever disciplinary esteem):

Multiple static formal rational contracts-disciplines-systems 11. Formal rational mind (early formal operations, ~11-21 years): thinking-feeling-behaving about thinking-feelingbehaving, questioning literal exclusive readings of symbolsmyths-concepts, formalising rationality, static universal formalisms in arts, morals, and sciences

10. Rules-roles mind (late concrete operations): OUR literal one-right-way myths, OUR rationalisations of OUR exclusive socio-political mythic structures-functions

9. Rules-roles mind (early concrete operations, belonging, ~7-11 years): Concrete-literal readings of myths, concepts, symbols, images, and impulses; learning OUR skills in reason, will, sentiments, imagination, and memory; locus of mythic power is in OUR deified mythic socio-political Order

8. Concept (representational mind) (~2-4 years): Ego omnipotence transferred to local Power-Gods

7. Endocept: Ego omnipotence challenged

6. Symbol (~2 years): Locus of magic power = ego

5. Image: Word magic, phantasmic-emotional, narcissistic

4. Impulse (~9 months): Subject-object fusions “selfobject”

3. Exocept “hatching” (~5-9 months): Hallucinatory wish fulfillment

Heart-Centred Arts, Morals, and Sciences, One-in-All, All-in-One, Humanity and Nature, Altogether No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, Psyche-Anima-Soul, and Soma-Corpus-Body), nor Vedic Tribhuvana (Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū), within Modern, Postmodern, or Metamodern Sets of Values.

Inter-Independent “I-I” skills in individual and collective arts, “I-We-Thou” skills in inter-personal relations-moralsethics-cultures, and “I-Org” skills in sciences, interconnecting with each other, within, across, and beyond various schools within a Primal Tradition (various schools within First Peoples in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South America, Australia, and Oceania), various Schools within an Oriental Tradition (various schools within Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism et al.), and various Schools within a Semitic Tradition (various schools within Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.), and within, across, and beyond various schools with Modern (sciences of measurement) sets of values, various schools with Postmodern (critiques of lifeless mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims) sets of values, and various schools with Metamodern (working to hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether) sets of values, within, across, and beyond various places in Europe, North-Central-South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania.

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in our Primal Tradition

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in our Oriental Tradition

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools in our Primal Tradition

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools in our Oriental Tradition

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in our Semitic Tradition

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences with our Modern Values

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools in our Semitic Tradition

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools with our Modern Values

Born into a Community in a Primal Tradition in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas et al.

Born into a Community in an Oriental Tradition (Hinduism, Buddhism et al.)

Born into a Community in a Semitic Tradition (Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.)

Born into a Community with Modern Values in Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas and other places

2. Perception: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)

1. Sensation: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)

Matter (sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, polymer, cellular): Undifferentiated, pleromatic body Nondual: Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences with our Post-modern Values

Independent expertsachievers in one or more Schools in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences with our Metamodern Values

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools with our Postmodern Values

Dependent students in skills in one or more Arts, Morals, or Sciences in one or more Schools with our Metamodern Values

Born into a Community with Postmodern Values in Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas

Born into a Community with Metamodern Values in Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas

Three, Five, or Eighteen Stages-Levels-Layers-Degrees of Skilfulness within Various Values within Each Person, within Inter-Personal Relations within Communities, and within Sciences within Our Organisations

Primal Values Oriental Values Semitic Values Modern Values Postmodern Values Metamodern Values All of Us In Divine Love: in creative plays of Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia

US In Our Love: in creative plays of Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia

ME In My Love: in Agape- Eros-Agency-Philia

Adapted from: Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, Transformations of Consciousness, Integral Psychology, Integral Spirituality. Notwithstanding the reductionist claims of many modern scientists, such as “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons”. © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman - Academia.edu

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within “I-I” Enlightenment, the Heart of “I-We-

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

EYE OF HEARTSPIRIT

“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether” views of “I-I” Enlightenment, and “I-WeThou” Relations

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL INTERINDEPENDENT

“All of Us, inter-relating with each other” views of “I-I” Waking & “I-We-Thou” Relations

Ken Wilber’s Pointing Out Instructions (Witness Exercise)

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences? What Is Being Seen?

Notice first of all the broad, distinguishing features of the transcendent self [Eye of Heart-Spirit]: it is a center and expanse of awareness which is creatively detached from one’s personal mind, body, emotions, thoughts, and feelings. So if you would like to begin to work at intuiting this transcendent self within you that goes beyond you, the you that is not you, then proceed as follows:

Slowly begin to recite the following to yourself, trying to realize as vividly as possible the import of each statement:

I have a body, but I am not my body. I can see and feel my body, and what I can see and feel is not the true Seer. My body may be tired or excited, sick or healthy, heavy or light, but that has nothing to do with my inward I, the Witness. I have a body, but I am not my body.

I have desires, but I am not my desires. I can know my desires, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Desires come and go, floating through my awareness, but they do not affect my inward I, the Witness. I have desires but I am not my desires.

I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. I can feel and sense my emotions, and what can be felt and sensed is not the true Feeler. Emotions pass through me, but they do not affect my inward I, the Witness. I have emotions but I am not my emotions.

I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I can know and intuit my thoughts, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Thoughts come to me and thoughts leave me, but they do not affect my inward I, the Witness. I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts.

This done – perhaps several times – then affirm as concretely as you can: I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved Witness of all these thoughts, emotions, feelings, and sensations.

Sources: Ken Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth, pp.128-9; Grace and Grit: A Spiritual Journey Through Life, Loss & Beyond, p.126; and Welcome to Integral Life – Integral Life.

A Non-Modern Understanding of Transformation: METANOIA

We are told that “The heart is deep” (Psalm 64:6) or, as St. Makarios states, “the heart is an immeasurable abyss.” The heart is, as St. Philotheos of Sinai (9th or 10th century) states, the “place of God” which, when the Divine dwells within it, becomes “the heaven of the heart.”

In the Jewish tradition, the Divine Intellect will then dwell in its proper abode, within the spiritual heart of the human being, where it becomes the “eye of the heart” (‘ein ha-lev): “In the hearts of all that are wise-hearted, I have put wisdom” (Exodus 31:6). The Gospel refers to this “heart-intellect” here: “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). The Lakota holy man Hehaka Sapa, more commonly known as Black Elk (1863–1950), provides a stunning passage outlining the “eye of the heart”: I am blind and do not see the things of this world; but when the Light comes from Above, it enlightens my heart and I can see, for the Eye of my heart (Chante Ista) sees everything. The heart is a sanctuary at the center of which there is a little space, wherein the Great Spirit dwells, and this is the Eye (Ista). This is the Eye of the Great Spirit by which He sees all things and through which we see Him. If the heart is not pure, the Great Spirit cannot be seen, and if you should die in this ignorance, your soul cannot return immediately to the Great Spirit, but it must be purified by wandering about in the world. In order to know the center of the heart where the Great Spirit dwells you must be pure and good, and live in the manner that the Great Spirit has taught us. The man who is thus pure contains the Universe in the pocket of his heart (Chante Ognaka).

Black Elk, quoted in Frithjof Schuon, The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1990), p. 51.

Source: The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DIALOGUES with various Others within, across, and beyond our current readings of skills in arts, morals-ethics, and sciences EYE OF RATIONAL MIND “US” INDEPENDENT views of “I-I” Waking & “I-We-Thou” Relations

EYE OF INFORMATION DEPENDENT

Treya Killam Wilber: So what exactly are some of the essentials of the perennial philosophy?

John Denver (The WILDLIFE Concert):

Our DEBATES within Our Social ContractsDisciplines

“US” views of “I-I” Waking & “I-We-Thou” Relations CONFORMITYLOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community Norms

EYE OF CORPOREAL

KW: One, Spirit exists, and Two, Spirit is found within. Three, most of us don’t realize this Spirit within, however, because we are living in a world of sin, separation, and duality that is, we are living in a fallen or illusory state. Four, there is a way out of this fallen state of sin and illusion, there is a Path to our liberation. Five, if we follow this Path to its conclusion, the result is a Rebirth or Enlightenment, a direct experience of Spirit within, a Supreme Liberation, which—Six—marks the end of sin and suffering, and which Seven issues in social action of mercy and compassion on behalf of all sentient beings

BODY My Life in My Body

Sources: Ken Wilber, Grace and Grit, p.81; Grace and Grit - The Movie.

“Music does bring people together; it allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what colour we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and faith, music proves we are the same.”

Thou” Relations

Wisdom

Schools

Light One Candle

Light one candle for the Maccabee children

Give thanks that their light didn't die

Light one candle for the pain they endured

When their right to exist was denied

Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice

Justice and freedom demand

And light one candle for the wisdom to know

When the peacemaker's time is at hand

Don't let the light go out!

It's lasted for so many years

Don't let the light go out!

Let it shine through our love and our tears

Let it shine through our love and

our tears

Don't let the light go out!

It's lasted for so many years

Don't let the light go out!

Let it shine through our love and our tears

What is the memory that's valued so highly

That we keep it alive in that flame?

What's the commitment to those who have died

When we cry out they've not died in vain

We have come this far, always believing

That justice will somehow prevail

This is the burning, this is the promise

And this is why we will not fail

Light one candle for the strength that we need

To never become our own foe

And light one candle for those who are suff'ring

Pain we learned so long ago

Light one candle for all we believe in

Let anger not tear us apart!

Light one candle to bind us together

With peace as the song in our heart

Don't let the light go out!

It's lasted for so many years!

(lasted for so many years!)

Don't let the light go out!

One And Many

Noel Paul Stookey

One light; many candles

One sky; many stars

One sea; many rivers

One Love; many hearts

One world; many mountains

One hill; many trees

One tree; many branches

One branch; many leaves

Don't let the light go out! (don't let the light go out!)

It's lasted for so many years

Don't let the light go out!

Let it shine through our love and our tears

Don't let the light go out!

It's lasted for so many years

Don't let the light go out!

Let it shine through our love and our tears

Don't let the light go out!

Songwriter: Peter Yarrow

Peter, Paul and Mary - Light One Candle - YouTube

One light; many candles

One sky; many stars

One sea; many rivers

One Love; many hearts

One life; many dreamers

One death; many tears

One word; many meanings

One hope; many years

One light; many candles

One sky; many stars

One sea; many rivers

One Love; many hearts

ONE LIGHT, MANY CANDLES NOW AVAILABLE - YouTube

One Light Many Candles –

A Multifaith Program in word and song presented by Reverend Betty Stookey and Noel Paul Stookey

Bodhisattva Thich Nhat Hanh

Ten Love Letters to the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh (emergencemagazine.org)

Peter, Paul, & Mary - Light One Candle (PBS Holiday Concert)YouTube

Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Chosen Values for Awakening Heart in Nature and Humanity

Who Is Seeing within the Seer?

Child? Student? Adult?

Mature Elder? Sage?

EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT

Kosmos-centric Wholeness [Agape-Feminine Nature], and Unity [Eros-Masculine Nature], with Agentic [Masculine] Energies and Communal [Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices

[Qualities Loved, degraded, or denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set of Skills, in Each Person, in Each Community, and in Our Shared Humanity, in tune (or not) with Divine Life, Light, and Love, “All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”

EYE OF WORLD-SOUL

World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the dialogues of civilisations, each of which with their own versions of contents and discontents [personal arts-morals-skills, interpersonal relations-ethics-cultures, and authorised sciences] in matrices-systems-organisations

EYE OF RATIONAL MIND

Socio-centric INDEPENDENT experts-achievers, “US”, “Our” self-/we-authorised social contracts-disciplines

EYE OF IN-FORMATION

Ethno-centric/Group-centric DEPENDENT “US”

“Our” community’s narrativesrules-roles-norms-heritagetraditions

EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY

Ego-centric Agency-Communion

How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within What Is Being Seen? With Love (Agape-Eros-AgencyPhilia [Communion])?

A Primal Tradition? First Nations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, and Oceania

An Oriental Tradition? Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Shintoism et al.

A Semitic Tradition? Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.

Heart-centred Kosmos with all sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the Seen from the Sensory Surface of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings

Our DIALOGUES with various Others within, across, and beyond our current readings of skills in arts-morals, skills in inter-personal relationsethics-cultures, and skills in authorised sciences, in matrices-systemsorganisations at local, national & global scales

Our DEBATES within Our Social Contracts in Arts, Morals-Ethics, and Sciences, in Organisations in Our Eco-Society

CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our Prescribed Community NarrativesNorms-Rules-RolesRituals-HeritageTraditions

ALL of US, ALTOGETHER

Huston Smith, Levels of Reality, Levels of Self, Why Religion Matters, p.224

All of US, INTER-INDEPENDENT

News - The Matheson Trust

Born into a Primal World Born into an Oriental World Born into a Semitic World Born into a Modern World Born into a PostModern World Born into a MetaModern World My Life in My Body “ME” © Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu

May All Beings Be Happy: Max Wealth for the Few, and Leave All Others with Grim Lives and Futures, or Live Well within Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity with Wholeness and Tripartite Unity in Nature, Each Community, and Each Person?

We ask here: Which world do you live in? Do you inhabit the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-anima-soul, somacorpus-body) of Nature? Or do you only inhabit physical sub-corporeal worlds, in which only measurements count? Many people believe, in their lives and work, that only economic growth counts. Thus, in their legally authorised and socially myopic duties, their attention is on maximising their short-term profits and longterm economic wealth in heartless operations within business-as-usual, at local, national, and global scales. Consequently, in various inattentive ways, many marginalise and externalise coldly the health of people and planet (air, waters, soils, plants, and animals) from their immediate concerns and future considerations. Thus, ALL OF US are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen), with many of us failing to live HeartCentred lives, failing to truly LOVE familiar and unfamiliar people, and failing to fully engage with the thriving of life on our precious planet. So, let us go deeper here in our inquiries: Why are we cascading so madly with interacting ecological and social crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It)?

Many people, in Primal (First Nations), Oriental, and Semitic communities, inhabit in various ways in varying degrees Qualities – like Colours, Love in Agape-Eros-Agency-Communion, Beauty in “I-I” Skills in Arts, Goodness in “I-We-Thou” Heart-toHeart Relations, and Truth in Vision (Who Is Seeing in the Seer? dependent child-student? independent adult? inter-independent elder-sage?), in Methods (How Is Seeing Being Done in arts-stories-myths? in inter-personal relations-morals-ethics? and in mono/multi-/inter-/trans-/meta-disciplinary sciences?), and in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen within a given skillcontext-discipline-field?) within the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity of Nature (Pneuma/Nous-Rūḥ/‘AqlSpiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-nafs-anima-soul, and soma-jism-corpus-body in non-modern GreekArabic-Latin-West, or Tribhuvana in the Vedic East) –which are more valuable in many situations than acquired modern habits of only recognising and privileging selected sets of reductive measurements.

to Our Selected Sets of Measurements.

Source of Image: Wolfgang Smith, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » To Be or Not To Be an Apple Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Sun (Heart-Spiritus/IntellectusPneuma/Nous) outside the caves of space and time seeing all things, with various limited ways of seeing apparent things inside the cave of space and time, e.g., Universal Principles and Action Steps from The Convergence Magazine by Light on Light - Issuu

Many people, in modern, postmodern, and metamodern communities, learn to inhabit in various ways in varying degrees physical subcorporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the familiar spatio-temporal Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t). So, in inhabiting their selected “I-it” indicators, many people tend to disregard “I-I” and “I-We-Thou” Body-Soul-Heart Qualities that are present in our living worlds, as often in their work they claim authoritatively that ONLY THEIR MEASUREMENTS COUNT. Consequently, reality is quantified-flatlanded, nature denatured (with air, waters, soils, plants, animals, and humans heartlessly exploited for short-term profits), qualities (like life, body, mind, soul, spirit, arts, morals, sciences, love, feminine, masculine, beauty, goodness, truth, justice, music, colours) disqualified, human beings dehumanised, all of them “unfriended”, as increasingly W.E.I.R.D. “ hosts in the Machine.”

Obvious or not, our current cold heartlessness cannot continue. We must change or perish.

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres thunders repeatedly: “Humanity has a choice:

Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.”

So, here we must stand, altogether!

We – members of our various Primal, Oriental, Semitic, Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern communities – must work with each other to inhabit Integrative Heart-Centred Humanity in which we are enabled to transform our current lives from my ego-centric “me” isolations, and our various ethnosocio-centric “us versus them” alienations, towards world-centric “all of us, altogether” cooperative harmonies to live well with each other, with intra-generational and inter-generational equity, within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social distributions of our planet's limited living capabilities-capacities, within everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity of Nature. Please see: Hottest July ever signals ‘era of global boiling has arrived’ says UN chief | UN News, "Unlearning Economics": Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, and Kate Raworth | The Great Simplification, Al Gore: What the fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to know | TED

From Living Worlds Woven Delightfully with Qualities, like Colours, to Modern Worlds Reduced

Talk

Job One for Humanity

Climate Emergency Forum - YouTube, ClimateSafe Villages - YouTube

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, with ready access to the dedicated work of many UN agencies, understands better than many what is happening on our planet. He keeps on saying, REPEATEDLY, again and again, “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal” (UNEP report, Making Peace With Nature). With the release of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: WG1, he declared a Code Red for Humanity! At COP27 in Egypt, he said, “We are on a Highway to Climate Hell with our Foot on the Accelerator!” So, here we are in CODE RED with an escalating climate crisis, with our current BAU trends already condemning ourselves to 1.5°C degrees of global heating within a few years, and, given that for many of us changing ourselves is much too hard, re-signing ourselves to allowing around 3.0°C degrees of global boiling within a generation or two! Moreover, we are not yet ready to talk about abrupt runaway climate change, prompted by geophysical surprises yet to be considered or measured in current IPCC reports, which would turn already very alarming IPCC projections, in each of five authorised scenarios, into more blah! blah! BLAH!, Arctic News: Crossing 3C (arctic-news.blogspot.com) Indeed, all of us are living in very challenging, unsettling times (Said E. Dawlabani, Paradise Lost | The Sequel – Kosmos Journal; Jeremy Lent, Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the End of Capitalism). In addition to deliberately choosing with BAU to dooming ourselves to inhabiting uninhabitable global boiling in upcoming years-decades, we have

• our ongoing challenges with COVID-19 with novel everchanging variants that are likely to continue to emerge to disrupt, upset, and terminate many lives into the foreseeable future.

• according to the WWF and Zoological Society of London’s 2022 Living Planet Report, population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish declining by 69% on average since 1970, and, with ongoing significant losses of habitat continuing to be orchestrated by BAU, population sizes are likely to decline into the foreseeable future.

• Sir David Attenborough presenting, in Breaking Boundaries and A Life on Our Planet, his thoughtful accounts on the devastating environmental consequences of humanity’s rapid economic and population growth in recent decades. He laments the tragic ongoing decline of biodiversity and life on Earth, saying emphatically, “ ur planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it.” (UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK).

• limited supplies and declining resource quality of key resources, compounding within upcoming years-decades, according to Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification) and Harald Sverdrup et al. r3.0 2020 Conference, WORLD7, Global Integrated Assessment Model, that will be needed in any possible transformations into regenerative economies.

• economic systems that deliberately, legally externalise from their accounts, unethically, unsustainably 1) fail to consider the necessity of living within our planet’s limited ecological matrices-thresholds, and 2) fail to provide secure social foundations for everybody with everybody in genuine intragenerational-intergenerational justice

• political systems that 1) fail to go beyond divisive debates between various “us” versus “them” contenders, 2) fail to generate diversity informed “all of us, interconnecting with each other” dialogues, and 3) fail to work to integrate what is true, good, and beautiful in the various contributions of various rightsholders. Now, let us dive from what is happening on our observable measurable surfaces into our metaphysical depths. There is much more of crucial importance to be considered here:

• in physics, as A.N. Whitehead, Nick Herbert, Wolfgang Smith, Sabine Hossenfelder, et al. have declared in various ways for decades, physicists have “lost their grip on reality”.

• in philosophy, too few understand humanity’s Heart-soul-body metaphysics which can be found within humanity’s diverse languages, from East to West, from South to North.

• in religion, noetic-yogic practices of purification, illumination, and unification, in Heart-soul-body, in individuals, communities, and kosmos, that generate METANOIA (Change of Heart) from exclusive self-centredness and/or exclusive group-centredness into the Universal Heart of All Living Beings too often tend to be ignored in both theoria and praxes Now, with this barest outline of our global-national-local metacrises in place, let’s ask: what does authentic development and overall regenerative transformation truly mean?

• in humanity’s wisdom traditions, development means noetic transformations from self-centredness and/or group-centredness into the Universal Heart of All Living Beings.

• in metaphysics, development means awakening ever more inclusive modes of the seer (who is seeing in epistemic views in me-centred body, us-centred community, or heartcentred, all of us, living beings, altogether?), seeing (how is seeing being done with our current methodologies?), and seen (what is being seen in various domains, in individuals, communities, and kosmos?) into ever more inclusive modes of wisdom and compassion in Heart-Centred Service of the Wellbeing of All Living Beings.

• in modern science, development means, in ordinary, “instrumentalist”, “positivistic” terms, using limited “sciences of measurement”, advances in technological innovations.

• in capacities management, development means putting into place the cyclical renewal of limited living capacities, not our current reckless taking, using, and wasting of resources.

• in biodiversity management, development means re-wilding habitats and re-generating biodiversity, not continuing with polluting air, waters, and lands in business-as-usual (BAU).

• in climate action, development means reducing, stopping, and drawdown-ing emissions of greenhouse gases as much as possible as quickly as possible within our current decade, the 2020s, and working to repair, restore, and regenerate the natural balance of our planet that was present in the Holocene in which all forms of life tended to flourish.

• in economics, development involves going beyond our current degenerative BAU exploitations, and various ESG LaLaLands, transforming key initiatives, like Bill Baue’s Lost Decade: Susty Standards Sabotage Susty (r3-0.org), and U R SD’s Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (SDPIs) User Manual, at pathfinding organisations, like r3.0 Conference 2023 | Activating Restorative Norms (r3-0.org), Global Thresholds and Allocations, UNRISD SDPI, Earth4All, DEAL, and WEAll, into a regenerative economics, based on everybody living well with each other in Heart-soul-body within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds and with fair social allocations for everybody • in politics, development means local-national-global co-ordinations in robust, ethical, and Heartful Service of the Wellbeing of Life in All Beings on our Precious Planet.

Now, let all of us move out of our current forms of “deadly incrementalism” (BAU, CSR, ESG, UN SDGs et al.) into truly robust, multi-dimensional, regenerative transformations. We repeat here that a tangible way forward must work to coordinate what is happening within who is seeing, and how is seeing being done with our methodologies, both of which are resulting in what is being seen in our various Covid, biodiversity, ecological matrices-thresholds, climate, economic, and political crises, separately, interconnectedly, and altogether. Time for each of us to respond with all of us to overcome our current degenerative ways of living, which have resulted in all of us living in our life-threatening CODE RED world. I wish you, everybody, well, in our challenging, unsettling, hopefully transformative times, in moving out of our heartless ways of living into Heartful Regenerations, Gerard Bruitzman.