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The 3 hopes of life

Metaphysics of Quality

Robert Pirsig

Philosophology is to philosophy as musicology is to music, or as art history and art appreciation are to art, or as literary criticism is to creative writing.

Philosophology

Welcome to the Meaningful Participation website. Read this to find out more about what this site is about.

Welcome

A sense of potential is a stand that one makes that something could and maybe even should happen. Life has 3 primary potentials.

The 3 potentials of life

An introduction to Meaningful participation

Meaningful Participation

A habit is an action that occurs in a particular situation as an automatic coupling of stimulus and response, without the invention of conscious awareness.

Habituality

Why postmodernism was a misstep in responding to Cartesian objectivity

Postmodernism

Are you primarily an Effect or just a Cause in your own life?

'Happening to you' or 'Happening through you'

My participation matter is an affirmation of the preciousness and finiteness of life, and the importance of our active participation in reconciling those.

My participation matters

The Law of Earned says that every action has an outcome that is proportional in strength and that this strength is earned. 

The Law of Earned

This principle says that life is an expression of a set of fractal principles

Fractal Principle Principle

Asleepness

Binary thinking is a kind of thinking in which habits of thought are triggered without the intervention of conscious thought.

Binary thinking

We have a conditioned habit of tending to only see opposites but not the larger context of which they are both a part

Third force blind

Language

A Dependable practice is generally catalysed when a person decides they’ve had enough and they want to make a change in their life. They want something different and have decided they’re going to take responsibility for making it happen.

Dependable practice

Projected authority is a state where we have given away our authority to define ouselves, what is important and how to realise that.

Projected authority

Circularity is a feature of living systems that means we can become invisibly trapped inside of arbitrary limits.  Definitely something important to be aware of.

Circularity

Suffering is a universal and uncomfortable experience in life, but is it all bad?

Suffering

Systematics is the name given by John G. Bennett (1897–1974) to a branch of systems science that he developed in the mid-twentieth century.

Systematics

Distinctions are the building blocks of intelligence

Distinction

George Gurdjieff was a 18th and 19th century philosopher and teacher who introduced a number of profound ideas around humankind’s role in the universe.

George Gurdjieff

Reciprocal maintenance is the most essential core of Gurdjieff’s teachings. I think of it as the exchange of effort in the service of meaning.

Reciprocal maintenance

These 6 capabilities are the most fundamental skills of life & living systems

The 6 capabilities

Self authorship is an affirmation that my participation matters in the quality of my life.

Self Authorship

Capability is the essential quality of life that enables potentiality to be converted Into actuality.

Capability

Every choice we make has 2 sides; a cost and a reward, and 2 impacts; an immediate one and a non-immediate one.

The red pill path vs the blue pill path

The triholon is the core architectural fractal structure of life and living systems

Triholon

Re-selfing

“What is important now?” is “The Always Question”.  It introduces value into every moment it is asked

What is important now

Dyad

Organic thinking

Authority

Multimodal user interface (MUI) theory

Donald Hoffman

Constructive Developmental Theory

The Hacker: Reflection & Problem solving

The Guide: Meaning & Motivation

Triad

Radical constructivism

Effort

Practice

The Self-mediator: Dis-identification & Self-mediation

The Grunt: Wilfulness & Practice

The Witness: Awareness, Appreciation & Nourishment

Responsibility

Holon

Value-theory

Morality

Perceptual Control Theory

Reawakening is the first of the 6 capabilities of Self Authorship

The Reawakener: Reawakening

Morning remembrance

Finiteness

Meaningful Potential is the universe’s answer to the question “What is important now?”

Meaningful Potential

Constructivism

Fulfilled Realisation

Re-noticing

Already always listening

These are the key influencers whose ideas have catalysed, affirmed and resonated with my own thinking

My influences

Robert Kegan

Alfred North Whitehead

Werner Erhard is an American author and lecturer best known for his original work in the area of self-improvement.

Werner Erhard

Martin Heidegger

Authenticity

Integrity

Pride

Emotion

Meaning gap

Conscience

Imtuition

The beginning of Self Authorship starts with becoming conscious of how we are not that. This what I call the state of Rusty autopilot. In Rusty autopilot one is a kind of automation living out yesterdays habits, and others expectations.

Rusty Autopilot

The Law of three is the most significant abstract principle of life and living systems.

Robert Pirsig

Metaphysics of Quality

Robert Pirsig

Philosophology

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