Phoenix

by Dale J. Sprague

An Epistema

Of this I am,
this I am that yearns to be,
this thought, this wish,
this word, for which I reach,
this feeling..this light,
each

---

Epistema index

---

Absolute truth: 'Non plus ultra' beliefs; often mistaken for articles of faith. Faith here, is the sense that good things follow by believing that one's absolute truths are absolutely true.

Abuse: If one pursues understanding until compassion is felt, one survives abuse, and with this enlightenment, one is no longer a victim. 

Academic intellectual: An academic intellectual is measured by dispassion towards concept, as opposed to a philosopher who is measured by passion for the same.

Aesthetics: A subject on which everyone is an expert.

After'life: In eternity, it is inevitable that one's life returns, therefore consider the silver linings, the bright sides, the up'side...all the serendipities, the saving graces, and any pursuit that could possibly convert a liability into an asset. Pursue them earnestly..with vigor and gusto, but whenever possible, be here now for chance variation..for a life in all its detail existed before and will exist again, ad infinitum. In the meantime, one is a luminous being evolving from lifetime to lifetime. After'life presupposes before'life. If existence before and after life can be proved, should it be? If memories from a past life can be recalled, should they be? 

Agape: Sensitivity, sensuality, love, giving, and receiving..all through values shared with others. Does not feel as though one has given unless it is in terms of the receiver. See Eros.

American Dream: To secure freedom of imagination; to stimulate ideation, not physical sensation; to facilitate when necessary, transcendence of ingrained engram, not eternal cadence of program; freedom within a society to effect one's intuition, imagination, inspiration, and instinct without persecution, insofar as one is not a predator of that society.

Anger: In mind, it is good; in the heart, it is bad; in soul, it is ugly. 

Animal: As defined here, a creature that does not acknowledge that they are an animal, and subsequently lives without a perspective to it. See Carnal darkness.

Apogee gate: First incarnation of the luminous body, after which successive incarnations within an ego'dominant reality evolves.  See Perigee gate. 

Armageddon: A war rages between good and evil within, until the eye sees by reflection where evil truly lies. Only those who by evil see, have Armageddon ahead of them. See Evil, conceptions of. 

Art: Dying is requisite to living. Art, dreaming metaphor, merely conducts and expresses the post'mortem.

Artist: Being caught up by the labors of love, the visions of beauty, the need for truth, all of which create great necessity, for which the soul indentures mind, and commands fearful heart to reveal a portion of itself. 

Assumption: One of the ways by which one is known.

Astronomy: Archeology of celestial lights beyond the physically'existent horizon.

Atonement: Or 'at-one-ment.' To pray or meditate until a state of at'one'ment is achieved with another person, or with one's portrait of themselves, or with one's belief system, articles of faith, or simply...with 'all and everything.'

Atonement, Godhead: At some time in one's life, if possible, a jaundiced examination of one's Godhead should be made. Care should be taken about the God one chooses, because when one prays, one atones, and with whom one atones is one's lot and extent of one's peace; if one's God is at war with the world, so will one's spirit be.

Attitude: Where matter exists fundamentally in four dimensions, each attitude adds a dimension to that matter. With multiple attitudes, life becomes multiplied in complexity as does the weight of its inertia. Console attitude, if necessary; occasionally encircle it, make it spin a bit; encounter it, wit for wit; otherwise, do nothing, for if confronted directly, attitude will become self'conscious and entrench itself deeper. Attitude superintends open'mindedness and reduces intelligence, however much attitude may be more interesting than intelligence. 

Being: One who acknowledges foremost that they are a creature, an animal, and therefore achieves a perspective to it, and lives with carnal knowledge. As beings, we are ignorant where we cannot see; we are vulnerable where we have not adapted; we are a'moral where we have not valuated. Is there any being, therefore, who is not ignorant, vulnerable, and a'moral in some way?

Belief: One of those universal things; it can be based upon something or nothing, wherein, one is capable of being as righteously compelling, as one can be passionately, dead wrong.

Belief empowerment: The ability to empower a belief system is matched equally by the willingness of the many, or the one, to believe that the belief system is true. The greater the many, the greater are its empowered institutions, monuments, and icons. 

Bias: It acts, and after action, is disabled from seeing any contradiction or variation of itself.

Bible: On one side, the Star of David, the Old Testament, the right brain; on the other side, the Cross of Yeshua, the New Testament, the left brain; spin the wheel, spark the flint...the Bible is the fire between them.

Biology: The study of a starry ecosystem continuum of interactive impulses, wants, needs, cravings, compulsions; even with words, the mind senses its environment and hungers after it within a vastly complex and deeply profound body of needs and desires..all competing to be satisfied.

Birth: In life, death precedes a succession of births...birth follows a succession deaths. 

Boundaries, universe: A closed mind sees the universe in fixed terms of itself; an open mind sees the universe in transcendental terms of itself. The boundaries of the universe are therefore, at once, closed and open'minded, a dichotomy, however small or large a closed mind may be..how ever myopic or far'sighted an open mind can see.

Butterfly effect: As the 'Butterfly Effect' relates to Chaos theory, given Earth as a relatively closed or adiabatic system, all paths of energy are in constant relation with each other. Any event can be traced to any other event within this closed system. Chaos relates directly to the inability to measure energy events taking place every moment. This inability to measure translates into un'predictability, or chaos. Given un'limited ability to trace and measure any energy vector in the world, while a tropical storm in the South Pacific can be traced to the flap of a butterfly wing in Seattle, the storm event can also be traced to any other initial source of energy in the world. All is in relation to all, which is why the butterfly seems to be so happy, flapping its wings. 

Capitalism: Often confused with the idea of greed. Capital reserves are also endosperms, fruit, and roots. Capitalism is wise because it is naturally instinctive. If the economic socialism of a bee hive or an ant colony was the best form of economy, all life would be existing in hives and colonies. The purpose of capitalism is to generate liquidity, money as an asset for company prosperity, far more than the liability of disposal income. The economics of communism and socialism work under great environment stress for the purposes of basic subsistence and survival, but within an ambient environment, a complex system of asset generating companies and corporations work to create prosperity beyond survival subsistence. 

Carnal body: The body created by DNA as far as it had evolved at the time of incarnation of the luminous body.  

Carnal darkness:  Where a creature does not acknowledge that they are a creature, or denies it, and lives as a slave to their instincts, whether or not, they are in a closet. 

Carnal knowledge: Carnal knowledge is the acknowledgement that one is as much a creature as any other animal, which transcends one's creaturehood. Animals are slaves to their instincts, and therefore innocent by them. With carnal knowledge, one is not.

Celebrity: Everyone is producer, director, and star..in the comedy, drama, mystery, and romance of one's life.

Change: To experience change, change the environment, or encounter it.

Church and state: From the Constitution's point of view, its inalienable rights, the majority does not rule; the minority is no less significant than the majority; all spiritual paths are equal. Allowing the monotheistic majority to express itself in the public domain turns the Pledge of Allegiance into a prayer, and currency into religious icons.

Co'dependency: Having forsaken commitment to the evolution of one's own individuality, one commits to a relationship in which two become one, where individuality struggles to survive with volleys of love and hate, as it vies for control of the one; their love is maintained in stasis within a conceptual world. 

Co'dominance: Having committed to the evolution of one's self first, two commit to a relationship in which that self continues to be nurtured; their love evolves within a perceptual world. 

Composition: Strike the bad, trash the boring, delete the great...save the good. 

Conceptual world: One dwells in a reality where perception is subordinate to concept. From conceptual constructs that collectively become a reality more separated from the original perceptual reality that was made. Often used to simplify one's environment, enough to emotionally navigate through it. 

Conscience: Only when it perceives its own shadow, does it incarnate; only with limits and context does it live; conscience without context is fascism.

Consciousness: Consciousness is light.

Contentment: A temporary thing; if continuous..involves more compromise of one's self than one can ultimately live with. 

Control person:  An adrenalin junky preoccupied with controlling their relationships; the easiest behavior to predict, and therefore the easiest to control, if necessary. 

Copesetic: Good rapport; a state of mind where one is in an agreeable or pleasant association with another, others, one's environment, or an aspect of it; an adjective that takes the preposition 'with'; ~from the Creole French word coupersétique, 'able to cope with." 

Cosmogenesis Continuum: Cosmogenesis or the generation of the cosmos within a continuum. Cosmogenesis continuum or the construction and deconstruction of the cosmos ad infinitum, in that, as matter deconstructs, it is simutaneously created somewhere else. 

Cosmology: The study of total reality, which includes ego, zero'infinity consciousness, and all energy systems. 

Courage: Containment and control of fear, in contrast to the fear'driven who ridicules the fearless, and the fearless who regards the fear'driven with contempt.  

Criticism, art: Analyzing art is a way of shielding one's self from the influence of art.

Cult, Religious: A spiritual belief system distinguished by an anthropomorphic supernatural being. Cults do not inspire spiritual paths, but rather, limited exclusive domains made known by decree or dogma, and procedures to maintain a state of grace with that domain.

Dadaism: Just when a movement thinks it knows what art is, the grim reapers appear...each Dada one of them.

Dark matter: Space clouds, interstellar and intergalactic.

Death: A change in one's character, however dramatic or subtle; experienced during the course of life, and therefore, a notion enabling life, rather than ending it. 

Demagoguery: The practice of bolstering popularity and power and effecting controls by arousing people's emotions, passions, and prejudices, to create a 'politically correct' atmosphere for the purpose of overlording the people's commerce and liberties.

Determinist: One who believes that free'will does not exist; an indecisionist who allows their circumstances to deteriorate until all options disappear.

Dialogue: Rap in search of verification and meaning, the best sharpening stone for the mind.

Dichotomous being: An optimal psyche paradigm expressed as an equilibrium between two equally stationed general frames of reference where information, sensual or conceptual, is mapped iocentrically, and sociocentrically. Iocentric...a tree in the forest who sees other trees only in terms of its self; sociocentric...a tree of a forest who sees only what it shares with other trees; and being equally stationed in this forest, one become a dichotomous being. See Indeterminism.

Dichotomy of Being Principle: With the measure one feels individually unique, by that same measure, one is enabled to give selflessly in their social relationships. See Co'dominance.

Dignity: Achieved by owning one's limitations, as they achieve confidence in knowledge and skill; only then, is one perfectly imperfect.

Dis'incarnation: When the carnal body is no longer able to host the luminous body, the luminous body dis'incarnates and joins the supra'conscious reality until it reincarnates.

Dreamer: Feeling sentimental about something that has yet to happen; often confused with visionary.

Educated: Those who are not embarrassed about their ignorance.

Ego'dominant: After ego'recessive elements evolve to a critical complexity within an un'interrupted environment, they pass through the apogee gate, and become self'aware; it incarnates, becomes a luminous body profoundly separate from the ego'recessive reality, and begins to evolve, as necessary, as the ego encounters its environment. 

Ego'recessive: For the ego to survive, it must, when necessary, put itself aside and diminish. As it diminishes, it approaches the perigee gate through successive incarnations, and disperse into ego'recessive elements. Within the ego'recessive reality does the ego'dominant luminous body awaken and evolve. 

Emotion: Not a slave, nor a slayer, but rather, a master of it.

Enlightenment: Enlightenment is achieved by owning one’s every thought, feeling, and everyday experience. With ownership, one will always be true to one’s self, and everything experienced will be as real as real can be.

Epistema: A map of ideas or beliefs. 

Epistemologist: A cartographer of ideas and beliefs. 

Equalation, Principle of: When one thing very large equalizes for all practical purposes two or more other things that would otherwise appear significantly different; for example, the speed of light equalizing distances on Earth and Earth to moon; a common nemesis equalizing those who would otherwise be adversaries; or massive Earth equalizing boulders and pebbles as the weight ratio of boulder to Earth and pebble to Earth has a difference too small to practically measure and appear to fall with equal acceleration.

Eros: Sensitivity, sensuality, love, giving, and receiving..all through values unique to the individual. One does not feel they have given unless it is something they value, something of themselves given. See Agape.

Essential cuisine: Metaphysical: Consume only what the spirit body needs, in the proportion it needs; do not stay hungry, let appetite rule. Physical: Consume only what the body needs, in the proportion it needs; stay hungry, rule appetite.  

Eternity: Given that the universe exists without a timeline, and is eternal, feeling no sense of time, is to experience eternity. Remembrance of eternities recalls a sense of time at once, instantaneous and forever long.

Evil, conception of: Conceptions of evil are self'impassioned, self'imposed limitations of understanding, limitations of compassion, and thereby, the means to simplify and emotionally negotiate the world. 'Evil' is what is conceived, not perceived; it is subjective, even if popular; a notion that gives dignity to ignorance. To recognize 'evil,' look not at the object of the accusing eye, but into the eye of the accuser, into its fire and ice of fear and hate. To conceive, adopt, and deify notions of 'evil,' is to fall from the grace of a child. Any promulgation of 'evil,' however exalted or sublime the good may be, inspires hatred, and hatred, the progenitor of the seven deadlies, is the bane of the world. 'Evil,' like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and only when that eye sees where 'evil' lives, will 'evil' die. 

Execution penalty: The policy of a society that approves the killing of a human being as revenge or punishment through litigation that cannot possibly be infallible, and consequently, pays for itself with the lives of those who were innocent. 

Existence, cognitive:  We are given existence, E_x = 0 * * E_energy, so limited and so darkened into feeling, that all else spirals, coils..condenses, coalesces..configures and confines..regulates and shapes into ordered niches of mind...a dream within a dream, within a dream..until one becomes lost and incarnate.

Experience: A requirement of knowledge, however esoteric it may be.

Failure: Only failure teaches. Own it. Use it. Capitalize. Make it pay in some way. In this way, failures become assets, for if "I do not own them, they will own me." See Learning.

Fantasies: Artificial connections between cause and effect.

Fascism: When passion for one's values preclude sense and sensibility for others, one becomes moribund bound, enhancing the value of one's life while devaluating another.

Fear: A component of courage; something to confront, but not to eliminate; something to define, so the un'defined will not rule..because the grip of fear on one's choking throat is only as strong as the fear in one's strangling hands; when faced and challenged, fears without basis disappear..others are put into context and weighed accordingly. 

Feelings: Keys that unlock the meaning of dreams.

Flora: Dreamstates. ~from Stuart Ness.

Forgiveness: If one does not condemn, one does not need to forgive. 

Freedom, degrees of: Degrees of freedom are  known by the price one is willing to pay for them; maximum freedom is paid by owning all of one's thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and tolerance of those, discordent.

Freedoms, inalienable: I can think and feel anything; I can know freely, with choices of experiences; I can be 'I am that I am' without any sense of thinking, feeling, or knowing.

Free thinker: State of mind based on inalienable freedoms; one within whom the value and pleasure of thinking freely is willingly paid with the isolation it may cause from thinking independently. 

Free will: Objectively, determinism is a function of energy and its system analysis, in that, the more concrete the analysis, the more and more there is predictability, and less and less free'will; however, as with all empirical data, there is always some variation of sensual thresholds, plus and minus this or that. A sense of free'will may diminish, but never disappear, no matter how small plus and minus this or that may be. Subjectively, free'will is a sense related to choice; as long as there are two or more choices, there is a sense of free'will. One with free Will tends not to act until there is at least two choices. One without free Will tends not to act until there is no choice. One locked into ever searching more and more choices dys'relates with one ever enpursuent of eliminating them. One locked into one's free Will, feels safe only with its attendant sense of freedom. One locked in otherwise, feels safe only in confinement. Free'willists like open space within which to intuit what choice should be made. One otherwise, likes confinement so decisions become self evident. 

Gnosis: Innerspace wisdom or insight. 

God, necessity: Proposition: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." ~Voltaire. Basis: With loss or fear too terrible to bear, a god is conceived, an omnipotent, omnipotent, and omnipresent supreme being who gives life and freely takes it away. How is this conception possible?..how does a newborn infant perceive its parents?

Good sight: Perceives the shade of an idea as readily as its reflected light.

Guru: A well informed teacher, but one who knows that conveying truth for truth's sake, does not make truth more true, nor necessarily effect enlightenment.

Hate: Puts one into bed with strangers. One does not suffer from anger; one suffers from hate and strange bedmates. 

Heart: Keeps the soul from over'reacting, and the mind from under'reacting. 

'here and now': See Eternity.

Hiatus, the: Where one is between awake and a dream; one is non'being; one, self'aware, has ceased to exist. Is the oblivion of dreamless sleep, the only hiatus, the only repose? Is life?..the only way to experience it. 

Hinterspace: ~from hinterland, n: a remote and underdeveloped area. Hinterspace, n: One maps reality from one vantage or another. Two arguing about the same territory from different vantages are in hinterspace.

Honesty: When every word puts the relationship at risk.

Human being: Made of a very fine substance that had folded into itself until self aware, and once self aware, begins upon a critical path, for which some is self'created, some is absorbed from the labors of work, some is borrowed, some is broken, a bit is stolen...ever wanting, ever needing..feeling unique, but un'knowing how unique, while a thought may say one thing, a feeling, another..and an experience, yet something else altogether, alien. Human beings distinguish themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom by denying that they are one of them. Denying that one is an animal, does not make it so..and innocently so, do they live in carnal darkness, and far more dangerous to themselves and the rest of the world, than they would otherwise be, in carnal knowledge.

Idealism: Only realists make good idealists.

Identities, existential: 'I am that I am'; 'I feel, therefore I am'; 'I think, therefore I am'; 'I know, therefore I am'. Existential identities are distinct from identity persona, in that they have no restrictions of what one can feel, think, know, or just be. See Freedoms, inalienable.

Identity persona: Identity persona is conceptual, concrete, idealistic, and an abstract self image or portrait generally created with attributes that garner the respect that has been lacking in one's life, in that, if one maintains their identity persona, nothing but happiness will come their way. Identity persona has limited character attributes, in contrast with existential identities that do not; limited character attributes like a player's character on a stage. Its attributes generally are positive, and effects self esteem, but attributes can be negative if circumstances has caused one to become morbid’bound. With identity persona, one's 'survival instinct' shifts to the persona, after which, one becomes fear'driven to preserve it by restricting experiences to keep it unchallenged, by avoiding paths of thought outside its mind, and by putting feelings, that do not fit, into a closet. Identity personas are created by conditional love; in contrast, existential identities are created by unconditional love.

Illogic: Created by differing assumptions; therefore, question logic by investigating its assumptions, and a new path of logic will be discovered. See Logic.

Immortality: Given an eternal universe, and therefore an eternal return of everything in it, ad infinitum, everything is immortal, and forgetfulness serves its purpose.

Incarnation: When the luminous body attaches itself to the carnal body with first breath, the luminous body is incarnate at the birth of the carnal body. 

Indeterminism, philosophy of: Two brains, each with exclusive frames of reference that exist in an equilibrium state. A resonance between two mutually exclusive frames of mind, by which perpetual motion or eternal energy exists; one, mapping information iocentrically,'I am'; the other, sociocentrically,'We are'; both with its own instincts of survival; each with its own criteria for transcendental metamorphosis. Only with two independently sustained and mutually exclusive frames of mind can a state of eternal energy exist, can perpetual motion be, does the universe exist, eternally.

Inertia: Ego'recessive matter is so preoccupied with itself, so passive within its environment, that it moves only when moved, and remains in uniform motion unless otherwise moved; the tendency for one to remain the same until affected by force of experience, by which one is reconfigured, or accelerates and stabilizes or not, within a greater consciousness. The greater one's complexity, the greater is one's matter..the greater is one's inertia.

Infinity: When ego senses 'all and everything' bearing down upon it, ego conceives infinity to protect itself; the cause of zero. 

Information: Creates awareness. Often confused with knowledge.

Information mapping: Right and left brain information mapping; each an eye through which to see, enables stereo'vision of reality.

Mode	Left Brain	Right Brain
aboriginal theism	poly	mono
The Bible	new testament	old testament
brain center	unifying belief	self
Chinese	yang	yin
creativity	innovate upon	create new
dimensions	multi	single
frame of reference	sociocentric	iocentric
function	discontinuous	continuous
generation	evolve	spontaneous
info view	aspect	global
info conduction	parallel	serial
info processing	differentiate	integrate
light perception	particle	wave
logic	inductive	deductive
love	agape	eros
meditation	ideate	non thinking
numbers	rational	irrational
politics	Democrat	Republican
reality extremes	communipsism	solipsism
consciousness	zero	infinity
Star Wars	Jedi	Sith
survival tactic	group	individual
time	past'future	present
truth	objective	subjective

Innocent: Relative only to one's conscience, the absence of feeling guilty..however much one may be held culpable for one's action or inaction. 

Inspiration: Where the subconscious mind is pressured until light is cast where darkness was before; a death and simultaneous birth has occurred. 

Instinct: A faint deer path through the forest..over, around, under reservations, regrets, or guilt.

Intelligence, general: The ability to achieve and sustain a steady'state relationship with one's environment. 

Intimacy: A paradise isle to which lovers speed, wreck upon its shores, and remain in bliss until the absence of a boat becomes apparent..after which, a raft is diligently and urgently fashioned out of anything that floats. A night in just sharing a bed with one person can be more intimate than a day of fever'pitched congress in the same bed with another. 

Intolerance, religious: 

Tolerant, non'judgmental, private, personal	Normal, optimal
Intolerant, judgmental, social, mission to convert non'believers by friendly persuasion	Alpha'male or female imperialist
Intolerant, social, mission to convert non'believers and subjugate the rest by force, and maintains believers by force	Militant alpha'male or female gone a'muk

Intoxication: An altered state of mind induced by drugs such as ideals of one's self, complexities of guilt, or over'bearing fears. 

Iocentric: 'I'..'I am'; 'o'..phonetic tool; 'centric'..center; for information mapping, the individual qualia serves exclusively as the general frame of reference for mapping one's empirical knowledge in terms of who one is, as an individual; associated with the right brain and functions as one's individualistic ego. See Sociocentric. 

Irony: A result, effect, or state of affairs opposite than what was expected. Ironies are torsions between two mutually exclusive frames of reference that serve as road signs to insight. For example, by acknowledging, accepting, and embracing creaturehood, one transcends creaturehood.

JHVH: A tetragrammaton of consonants used as a tool to demonstrate that JHVH is not a word, concept, or idea, which precludes any supernatural being. JHVH inspires atonement, a state of at'one'ment with all power, all knowledge, all places, and all nescience..thuswise achieving a state of peace and grace, however long or short, with the universe, as a child inherently does. 

Judgmental: One who devaluates or supervaluates another into a conceptual construct.

Knowledge: What is learned from experience; what is not, is of a lesser emotional order, or information. What is of greater emotional order is wisdom, gained from extensive experience. Only by experiencing by chance or what may have come by information, with ease, even pleasure, or at a cost, cheap or expensive, even very expensive, or by pain, slight or searing, or even near death experience will knowledge be gained.

Learning, principle of: Success confirms; failure teaches. 

Life: Simplicity in nothingness is equally stationed with complexity ad infinitum between which, life becomes a fleeting moment in all eternity, yet the opportunity to experience many of them.  

Lifestyle: Less in what one does, than how one negotiates and conducts their relationships.

Light: Consciousness; its nature...continuous or discontinuous, depending on how one perceives, or luminescent if stereo perceived. 

Logic: Everyone is perfectly logical; we differ only in assumption..what is conscious..what is not; what is more relevant or traditional..what is not; given this, analysis of logic is analysis of assumption, where the wrong one, can be in one's backyard, and the right one, on an alien planet. See Illogic.

Love, unrequited : Poison to the proud; a muse for the wise.

Lovers: Greater intimacy requires greater communication, without which the lover with only hope is the fool, and the beloved's reticence is the sin. Even in this way, does love also serve, fools and sinners.

Luminous body: Made of aggregated photons, which assumes the form of the carnal body after it incarnates. 

Magic: When something sensational is experienced beyond one's knowledge or understanding. All Zodiac signs are true for all human beings, which is why any one of them is true for an individual. If one does not know this, then astrological belief, and...magic. 

Marriage: Exists beyond words; therefore, anyone who can be talked into it, is a fool; anyone who can be talked out of it, is lucky. 

Marriage boundaries: Man and woman, too much in love, too attached, children become neglected; man and woman too detached, too far apart, children become neglected.

Matter:  All is one state of consciousness or another and reveals itself more by communication, than through experimentation.

Meek: Christian traditionalist believe that soon, Jesus will return to Earth, after which everyone will become Christian. Muslim radicals believe that Islam shall rule the infidels. The Jewish Torah, or the law, awaits their messiah and judgment day for all humankind. Are these the meek who shall inherit the Earth?..the conflict and inevitable apocalypse..blood, bone, and soul clashing and mixing until ugly anger rubs bare, the mark of fire and brimstone they share. 

Metaphysics (met'e-fiz'iks): Metaphysics here, is the study and mapping of belief systems, which does not require formal logic, but rather, an interest in them, after which formal logic may be applied, to mine what was mapped.

Metaphysical principle: Mind and matter are separated by limited means of communication.

Monotheism, polytheism: Attendant with beliefs of 'good' and 'evil,' breeds insensitivity to everything except itself. 

Morality: Comes last, not first, in that, it cannot be taught, only inspired; cannot be imposed, only adopted.

Nakedness: A tradition of clothing nakedness inspires traditions of occult hearts over which, wolves may dress in impeccable suits, as easily as the righteous in old rags.

Narcissism: Angry when given no attention, and when given, ignores it.

Negative capability: ~from John Keats. The capability of living with a mystery without reaching for rationalization or myth. Without this capability, the deeper the mystery, the more powerful becomes the myth, or the more nested, becomes the rationalization. 

Non'thing: Consciousness of zero and infinity, from which all things spring.

Occult principle: Given the Pauli Exclusion Principle, everything else can be experienced and known, to the extent that it can be sensed, but one's self. 

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: While ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, ontology recapitulates epistemology; that is, like embryogenesis from a single cell to functioning body, developments of the luminous body in previous lifetimes are repeated in the current incarnation. They are re'experienced in order for the luminous body to fully reincarnate, after which a sense of mortality is felt, and the prospect of new developments, if necessary, of the luminous body. 

Ontology: The investigation into the nature of being.

Opinion: The more blunt and unfocused an opinion is, the louder becomes the voice of its argument.

Organism: High tech.

Paganism: Anthropocentric divinity, wherein humankind, having consumed the fruit of the tree of good and conceptions of evil, has assumed divinity, and presumed overlord authority to judge and condemn, as necessary; describes JHVH as omnipotent, omnipotent, and omniscient..in contrast to pantheism, which describes JHVH as all'power, all'places, all'knowledge, and all'ignorance. See Atonement, Godhead. 

Pantheism: The default position for one who has failed to decide where the divine is, and where it is not. Regards 'all and everything' of the universe as divine manifestation, within which one can lose a sense of one's self..momentarily, or otherwise. This includes anything and anti'anything; even the antithesis of pantheism is included; a dichotomy of thesis and anti'thesis; an indeterminate resonance of 'all and everything;' the only theism with which the rational mind ultimately cannot come to terms; atonement with, will always transcend one's consciousness..the effect of being  incomprehensible, unpronounceable, or inconceivable. The word, 'pantheism', here..being all inclusive, does not need qualification. All arguments about what pantheism is or is not, are valid. A point of view that asserts that pantheism is a delusion and does not exist, is also a part of pantheism and is valid from its point of view. Pantheism is this, pantheism is that, pantheism is..this and that. Pantheism includes monotheism, polytheism, agnosticism, atheism, monism, or whatever 'ism that can be imagined, each with its own destiny. 

Panvitalism: Pan'vital'ism, n.; pan: all, 'is' implicit; vita, vital: life or alive; -ism: doctrine, system, or theory; panvitalism, or the system in which 'all is alive.' 'Panvitalism' is the default position that, all matter is alive, one state of consciousness or another, as all life exists in perpetual motion and transfigures only when necessary to perpetuate its motion. Using Occum's Razor here, the idea of panvitalism avoids the complication of defining and holding to what is alive and what is not, in addition to the immeasurable sensitivity it creates. ~term suggested by Andrew C. Millard. 

Pareidolia: Perhaps the most important notion in psychology, though defined as pathos. Perhaps the most important word in the English language, though unfamiliar and difficult to pronounce. Perhaps the most important idea in science, though difficult to test. Implies that what one imagines from vague stimuli or sparing information can be as real or even more real than what exists without imagination.

Pathos: Noun. Pathological condition that causes suffering or maladies. Pathology is the study of pathos. ~from Greek: pathos = suffering, malady. Literally "what befalls one."

Patience: A measure used for passionate sense, and compassionate sensibility.

Patience, infinite: With infinite patience, one is willing to undergo death and transfiguration to effect an outcome. 

Patronizing: A compliment with an agenda.

Peace, inner: Zero'infinity space within. See JHVH.

Perception, principle of: One perceives initially only in terms of what one already knows; for something new, something must first be sacrificed.

Perceptions: Created from a reality of limited senses, which aggregate into a separate reality. 

Perceptual world: One dwells continuously in a reality where concept is subordinate to perception; as one perceives the world, concept glasses are easily created or modified according to one's experience, which can be removed as easily as they can be applied. Experience rules. Conception is malleable, and what survives over time approaches truth...subjective and objective. See Conceptual world.

Perigee gate: The end of the last incarnation of a luminous body when it disperses itself and becomes a part of the ego'recessive reality. See Apogee gate.

Personality'character: Often pre'empts intelligence, yet gives meaning to all else.

Philosopher: A philosophy architect and developer. If one is self'aware, one is predisposed with an inherent need or love of wisdom, beyond what has not been inherited in the bone, to meet the demands of their environment. The time one spends searching for wisdom and developing one's beliefs and its system, subjective or objective, idealistic or empiricalistic, into a world view is the time one is...a philosopher.  See Academic intellectual.

Philosopher's Stone: A philosopher's stone, within a world, we know not of, transforms common metal into precious gold; within a world, we do know, transmutes liabilities into assets..for the philosopher's stone and its sentiments, the sun and moon, the stars, earth, and wind..all that a mountain knows, reaching for a cloud, refreshing a tree, have no vanity, pride, nor truth absolutely, to live'by..nor envy, lust..greed or hate, as fate of feeling...only the knowing of wisdom, and the fear, it cradles, while telling a bedtime story. 

Philosophy: The study and analysis of belief systems of the living, which is more interesting than philosophy in search of the absolute truth based upon a'posteriori observations of the empirical reality, which Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" has declared futile, anyway. 

Phoenix: Metaphor for the creative process. With enlightenments, one dies and burns, and from the ashes of each, emerges with new feathers. 

Photon: Created by the isolation of the fundamental element, zero'infinity consciousness; in isolation, only speed can serve as diversion from it. With speed, it becomes mass, by which all matter compounds. 

Pleasure, Pain: A zero'sum lifestyle, lest one becomes spoiled by too much of one or the other.

Pleasure principle: Never cut a great sensation short; never beat a pleasure to death.

Political correctness: A championing of injustices associated with issues that lead to ideological tyranny, which inspires vernal rage against perceived offenders, which in turn leads to ideological oppression, witch hunts, and reverse discrimination. See Demagogery.

Power: The strong dominates the weak; the weak is inherent in all. In this way, the universe is fail'safe'd..in that, as power increases, in the same proportion, weaknesses magnify. Therefore, power does not corrupt; it merely magnifies faults already there. See Weakness.

Power, age of: 

Age	Power
Prehistoric	Stones
Medieval	Metals
Apocalyptic	Pyrotechnics
Messianic	Information

Presidiary: Highest station, authority, or importance. ~from presidium:  "an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers." -WNUUD, 1996

Presidiary left brain: A tree, with all the world to see, only in terms of the forest does it ever perceive; in terms of receiving, there is no sensation unless it hurts. 

Presidiary right brain: A snake consuming its own tail..in that, with all the world to see, only in terms of itself does it ever perceive; in terms of giving, there is no sensation unless it hurts. 

Privacy: When mutually granted, the binding force of friendship or marriage.

Psychophysical equivalencies:  Psycho'physical equivalencies serve as a two'way bridge...its toll, 'as within, so without,' and in crossing there and back, what was not alive before, springs to life now.

Psyco'Physical Equivalencies
Within	Without
Zero'Infinity	Fundamental elements
Consciousness	Light
Belief system	Matter
Emotion	Magnetic field
Spirit	Motion

Qualia: Qualia is to one's psyche as timbre is to a musical instrument; that unique singularity of one's self; one's aloneness, but not loneliness. 

Raising children: The bronc'd bronc their own, but the gentle'broken gentle break their own, for them to acquire as much spirit of their own, as possible.

Randomness: Apparent disorder caused by many opinions of order encountering many other differing opinions. The interference patterns from colliding remotely connected ordered systems. The less remote one ordered system is to another, the more predictable is the relation and its outcome..and therefore, less chaos and more order; chaos is a function of mis'perception and mis'understanding..differing opinions of what order should be, poor communication, and values that disagree.

Rap: Derivation here is from 'rapport;' to discuss freely and at length, establishing a rapport in conversation using one's intuitive ideas and experiences..to challenge belief systems, including one's own, for the purpose of evolving and refining them, to become more insightful and sensitive to one's self and one's environment; or in short, the aerobic conditioning and weight training of one's mind.

Reality, being: 'Idealism' perceives via zero'infinity faculty; 'empiricalism' perceives in terms of sensual experience, where everything exists with variations, and there is always an exception to a rule. If idealism and empiricalism are equally stationed, where idealism may define a goal, empiricalism effects a path that can only approach that goal. 

Reality, plenary: The total reality, R_T, equals the zero'infinity (0,) state of consciousness in operation (_*) with energy (E); or R_T = ( 0,) _* ( E). The sensual expressed with error, and the conceptual expressed without error, with the fundamental axiom, 'everything is alive,' one state of consciousness or another, where the state of consciousness, zero'infinity, serves as the fundamental element for the universe that exists without a timeline, or in eternity.  Matter is to one degree or another, self'aware, self' reflecting, self'comprehending, and therefore, self'evolving. Life is the stage upon which metaphysical, I, lives the nature of reality, R, as it is empirically sensed or conceptually perceived, since R is ultimately defined by how it is perceived as much by what is perceived, of which, sincere examinations may lead to speculations upon questions of R that science cannot answer, in as much as R beyond science could or would be revealed...which precludes taking very seriously any a'priori inductive chrysanthemums or a'posterori deductive roses. This we know, leads to one form or another of esoteric oblivion. 

Reincarnation: A process of successive incarnations and dis'incarnations as the luminous body evolves from lifetime to lifetime. 

Relationship, romantic: For those wanting a romantic relationship...re'construct the significant other's spirit'body in terms of one's values, one or many of them, as the other is able to inspire; relate to that, disregard the rest. Then, do not let the other spoil the wine, nor the brandy that the romantic images make.

Relationship discussions:  Two discussing their relationship, must first sacrifice having a relationship. 

Relationship matrix: Possible relationship outcomes between person 1 and 2.

1-benefited 2-benefited	1-benefited 2-harmed	1-benefited 2-unaffected
1-harmed 2-benefited	1-harmed 2-harmed	1-harmed 2-unaffected
1-unaffected 2-benefited	1-unaffected 2-harmed	1-unaffected 2-unaffected

Relationship truth table:

Relationship	Feels	Union is
Good	Good	True
Good	Bad	False
Bad	Good	True
Bad	Bad	False

Relativity: One thing  moves only relative to the motion of another thing. Without relativity, no thing moves.

Respect: When respect is demanded, half merits; when it is not, imagination limits. 

Reverence: What one experiences when one loses one's sense of self; to whatever causes one to lose a sense of one's self, one is reverent, in a state of grace, and experiences eternity. 

Romance: Adventure. 

Satan: No stronger than the authority granted to him by human; no more a supernatural overlord than what has been delegated by human congregation; no more alive than human article of faith breathing life into him; strongest only when forgotten, who is creator of him.

Scientific investigation: Minimalizes the effect that the observer has on the observed; the greater the minimalization, the greater the objective truth, as diminishing uncertainty approaches its asymptote..a state of zero'infinity state of mind.  

Self esteem: A confidence in one's self based on learning, knowledge, and wisdom, as opposed to creating an image of one's self with upbeat attributes, and programming one's self to believe it.

Singular event horizon: A regiment of lofty angels is mixed, each with their pyramidal belief system refuge, and each with a sword. Some white, some black, a host of miscellaneous others, all vying for the single eye, progress backwards, imploding from a straight or crooked path into its own singular event horizon. 

Social null space postulate: Social culturalists end with zero; associated individualists begin with zero.

Sociocentric: 'Socio'..group; 'We are'; 'centric'..center; for information mapping, the group to which one belongs serves exclusively as the general frame of reference for all of one's empirical information as a member; associated with the left brain, and functions as one's social ego. See Iocentric. 

Soul: One's luminescent body; the luminous being; one's true self'body constructed from freely associating photons.

Space: Inner or outer; no matter, no space. 

Stereo'perception: Spiritual depth perception; the ability to see reality simultaneously from two mutually exclusive frames of reference...sociocentric and iocentric. 

Strangeness: Incomplete perception, in contrast to wierdness, which is a result of one's limited sensibilities. Both have similar effects; for the former, senses may be extended and information gathered, but for the latter, an inability to gather. Expressing 'strangeness' or 'wierdness' is a dramatization of one's limitations. For the former, research; for the latter, express. Yet, to be, a limitation of sense and sensibility is always inherent; therefore, clarity can only be expressed in the form of a question, or state of confusion, and while the universe can eventually be very well understood, and however small or trivial the strangeness may eventually become, one's sensibility of it, endures longer, which is why the universe always feels a little weird, more than a little strange.

Supraconscious reality: The cognitive reality to which the luminous body belongs and experiences between successive incarnations. The speed of light is the gate to the supra'conscious reality.

Survival: Binary, in that, in any situation, one has only two choices...effect action as an iocentric individual, or as a sociocentric member of a group.

Teleology: The doctrine that a fundamental cause of existence exists; the investigation of fundamental cause.

Testing Love: If love is put to the test, passing or failing, love becomes the property of intellect. 

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil:  To have knowledge of 'good and evil' is to have a conception of evil, which includes an object of evil. And for objects of evil, procedures of retribution are established..without forgiveness, compassion, nor understanding. For objects of evil, there is only hate, judgment, punishment, or execution. Creation has been divided into good and evil, into where god is and where god is not..what God is, what God is not, which requires only imagination, and is limited only by the same. See 'Tree of Life,' Fruit of the Serpent's Tree.

Tree of Life: If one does not condemn with good and evil, one does not need to forgive. Where the Tree of Life is, is the divine in all that is; omnipresence, all places..omniscience, all knowledge..and omnipotence, all power. 

Truth: Stereo vision with a focus of light that is subjective and objective. Objectivity minimizes subjectivity to the point of predictability. Truth without subjectivity is boring; truth without objectivity is maddening. 

Unified field theory, general: Empirically, the only puzzle where one piece must be sacrificed to see the rest; in total, the only puzzle that requires ego to complete. 

Virus: A renegade of evolution's parade, or the original life'form, and invisible to the microscopic eye, whereby shear simplicity of self'replication, through four billion years of evolution, the virus remains, as it were in the beginning, the dominant life'form living.

Weakness: Developing strength simultaneously develops weakness; one is a complex of both. Weakness is inherent with strength. See Power.

Why anything?: If existence began with a singularity, that singularity cannot be explained by physical laws. Without physical laws, the cause of cosmogenesis is limited only by imagination. Given that the universe is eternal, a cause for existence is non'sequitur, and the answer to the question, "Why anything?" or "Why everything?" is axiomatic; the universe serves as its own proof.

Wisdom: Over the course of one's life, extensive experience of one's knowledge, develops one's schema of knowledge. An example of wisdom is knowing when truth should be revealed, if at all. 

Within, without: Within...the ego'dominant reality; without...the ego'recessive reality.

Writer's block: Happens when one's conscious mind makes itself task master of the subconscious mind. To overcome writer's block, do not search for theme; rather, let what is feeling, write and write until theme become apparent.

Yeshua, Jesus: Essentially, a psychologist, prosecuted and matyr'd, was made into a god to preserve his teachings, but only when de'deified and made human again, shall his vision and teachings be accessible and assimilated. To accept him as a human being, one must accept the divinity in everything; "God is within you and outside you." God is all and everything. 

Zero: Ego's sense of itself after sensing the infinity of 'all and everything.' Infinity, the cause; zero, the effect. 

---

Epistema index

Phoenix Homepage