There is a personal directive I hold:
Preserve Life…itself!
As I view the world of humans and then expand outward to view the planet Earth, and the biosphere it provides us for our existence, I am appalled and terrified by the gluttonous, unaccountable, and disastrous course we, as homo sapiens, are crashing the Mothership.
In order to curtail ourselves, and hopefully extricate this geological-biological destruction, I propose a deep dive into the only place where we might examine our motives of action: our thoughts and beliefs.
The purpose/intention of this site, and the information it proffers, is to broaden our vocabulary of constructs, deepen our use of them for nuanced understanding, then apply that increase awareness to our agency, and choose differently…for us all.
Explorations, such as the one I propose, begins with a metaphysical lattice; a structure and terminology not to replace material reality but to offer a logical and thought-provoking frame-of-reference. It can fill-in the mental placeholders that many people either avoid owning, or worse, fill them with religious or political narratives designed to capture and suppress critical thinking, instead of encourage and free it.
Thinking is noticing, seeking context, comparing, contrasting, and computing. The era of Algorithmic feedback and AI convenience have lulled far too many away from the personal responsibility of such analysis. Automation breeds automatons…we are losing deliberate agency to someone, or somethings, presets that they direct in us.
No belief is required here. It is merely a idea map to compare, contrast, consider, critique, and indeed have a fixed position of which to reflect or reject. In itself, such processes of human metacognition, could cause a vast and radical reset of our collective consciousness, if enough individuals simply expand beyond the boxes of fixated beliefs.
So to begin a starting place: Some definitions.
TMT = The Michael Teachings = The omnibus structure and terminology.
OMT = Orthodox Michael Teachings = Like many systems of thought, time has produced concept deepening, modification, addition, and clarifications. Many practitioners of the approach basically associate and agree with these amalgamations.
AMA = Applied Michael Approach = Employing the ideas of the “teaching” to the ethics of human behavior and efficacy of choices we make personally and in relationship to intimates, contemporaries and society itself.
SM&A = Social Memes and Aphorisms =Â Acknowledging the current reliance on shortened concepts often container or ‘marketed’ as catchy, and even trite phrases, I’ve included some of these constructions in hopes that they permeate veneer and lodge themselves, like a pebble in one’s shoe for review and consideration.
In life, there are four grand schema’s which we face philosophically, the IAM of my own agency and thought; they are:
- Cosmology
- Evolution
- Personality and Selfhood
- Society and Permissions and Constraints
Within this web site, I’ll do my best to provide my overt contextualizing, but more importantly invite you to consider these structures and how they might effect your thinking and affect your emotions and sentiments about life, and your interaction with living.