Global Warming: Balancing Perspectives and Facts

Here's a great illustration from InformationIsBeautiful.net on the often stark contrasts between the "industrialist-capitalist" apologetic front and the ongoing scientific research and consensus on the effects of the CO2 on global warming. The concept of "truthful speech" is evidently a virtue long-lost in the antiquity, when we live in a world where warped or false state statements to advance slanted agendas have become the norm of the day. Below is a composite of the diagrams for eye-food. Please see the full documented illustration and related notes on the website.

= A Compilation of Illustrations from the Global Warming Visualization =

People keep thinking the world isn't ever going to tip out of balance despite our global efforts to sap her dry and to pump her full of every conceivable kind of harmful substance in liberal excess. Hoping to consume without worry for the future is however a very short-sighted utopia. Our imaginative sugar-coatings of the emerging problems may give us a hollow sense of solace, yet if we fail to address the actual existing problems at the bottom of the buzz, all we will have accomplished is juggling a parade of words while the world grows all the more morbid on the background.

Whenever you take too much and neglect the greater balance, whether in nature or the society, you'll be deprived of the pleasures of your loot at the end of the day. If you don't build with two eyes for sustainability, you're not going enjoy a balanced life-cycle in production — a concept not at all outside the realm of common sense, if you care enough to actually pause and think about it. There are no infinite resources, there is no infinite tolerance — and if you don't know where exactly the line is drawn in water, then by all means err on the side of caution!

= Fact Checking: "The Global Warming Skeptics vs The Scientific Consensus" =

Foresight is everything if you intend to operate on a scale with potential global impact, whether we're talking about governments, corporations, or anyone else in the helm. The evil of confusion is rampant in the absence of foresight for sustenance and balance, and this cardinal vice is at the heart of countless environmental disasters. Greed makes us blind in one eye; greed-driven power blinds them both. And we all know the story of the blind leading the blind into the proverbial dark pit!

= Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526–1569): The Blind Leading the Blind =

As with the global warming chart here, whenever we form opinions and broadcast thoughts on important topics like these, let's seek to look at all the perspectives — if only to ensure we're actually commenting on the real issues deserving attention, not just the ongoing popular hearsay. Whether it's politics, global warming or ideological conflicts, we need to carefully identify and understand the variables and relations of the whole big picture — and to keep double-checking our perspectives to ensure we're battling beyond the lofty realms of our stimulated imagination!

There's too much broadcasting of strong opinions in proportion to the little homework people do with the information they digest and pass on as facts. A saturation of convoluted opinions and off-balance commentary leads to an overall convolution and degradation of the level of helpful and constructive discussion, leaving the actual pressing issues all but resolved while we bicker on about trivialities. Comparing perspectives and getting to the bottom of claims is not optional at this point, for the amount of warped information flowing across the cyber-highway has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade.

= A Holistic System Definition: Spirituality and Wisdom Grid (SySpir) =

Let's not contribute to the confusion, let's contribute to the solutions! The actual solutions will only become more evident once we've cleared through the buzz of confusion and arrived at real data and more reliable information to work with. Check your sources and distill information to facts, look for gaps and seek for the full spectrum of insight, double-check your own thoughts and question your trail of reason, keep your approach open and subject to recurring peer review — and contribute your share in a solution of wisdom to heal the growing state of confusion in the interconnected world of information.

Spiritual Synthesis: Wisdom Singularity Flow Model

When we are struck by a thought we feel is truly profound, we tend to think of it as wisdom. On closer study, we also tend to find that it's recurring and universal. When the wisdom is benevolent, it harmonizes conflicting polarities and leads us to a level plane of balance and unity. Such elementary truths are the base fabric of our manifold fields of existence.

True wisdom is hungry for its own reality, reaching out into the universe to gain more wisdom from across time and space, from throughout the collective history of human civilization. This wisdom leads to a singularity of human knowledge — perhaps a curse, perhaps a blessing, perhaps an utopia, and perhaps nothing at all. The Wisdom Singularity Flow Model seeks to advance a sense of unity among the many strands of wisdom scattered around the world.

Adapting the model and providing a large amount of examples, this paper presents an overall profile of the overwhelming amount of elementary unifying factors in diverging systems of thought. It is free to use and re-work for any and all purposes that seek to unify scattered fields of insight. If you copy information from this paper, please remember to include a back-link, as its contents may be periodically revised to bring it closer towards the intended ultimate model of reconciliation.

Published: 02/January/2011, 21:21 GMT+2  8  Updated: 04/01/2011  8  Version: 1.1.1

≡ Barrel of Interwoven Infinity ≡
Whether we like it or not, we're stuck in a barrel with similar patterns recurring all over again, day in and day out, in diverse contexts. Unraveling these basic patterns is the key to human fulfillment and holistic evolution. The center of the wheel remains still.

Base of Existence: Interwoven Patterns and Cycles

The whole of the domain of natural science seeks the underlying patterns in nature's endless formations, charting the common patterns in planetary bodies, cells, molecules, atoms, and elementary particles. The concept of a Theory of Everything is a Holy Grail in the horizons of many a dedicated seeker and student of fundamental truths; grasping this underlying fabric of patterns would be nothing short of having a universal blueprint to consult. Since we are all looking at an essentially identical world, we will ultimately reach conclusions that are essentially similar. Triangulating the signals, we can begin to distill and deduct the central structure from a global network of colored reflections.

[4x] The entire world of physics is under the reign of the four fundamental interactions. Our planet has its bipolar axis and its four cardinal directions, our yearly cycle sticks obstinately to its ever-flowing seasons of change, and our lives begin and end in cycles of birth, growth, maturity and decay. The whole of our existence is orchestrated in the concert hall of elementary cycles and polarities. Every relationship in existence follows an underlying thread of logos. If there were no Gluons to help the Strange Quarks and the Charm Quarks dance along in tune, and if Quark and Anti-Quark lost touch with each other, Heaven and Earth would fall apart in an instant.

[2x] To speak nothing of the endless life-cycles in nature, we are hard-pressed to escape the two basic polarities of dynamic and static, light and darkness, life and death, right and wrong, Chaos and Logos, above and below — culminating as our fundamental experience of pleasure and pain. We adore the tale of the lover and the beloved, we find solace in the balance of motion and stillness, we learn from our fathers and our mothers, and we find a promise of continuity in the father and the son. Whatever the context, we always find ourselves faced with the same basic polarities, seeking for the wisdom of the fundamental patterns to better understand and relate to the specifics of our situation.

≡ Serapis, Sadashiva, Stupa and Octagon ≡
In ancient days, the world was vast enough to avoid the inevitable convergence of perspectives. When traveling, people would commonly pay homage to the gods of the locale, seeing them as functional equivalents. In today's global and networked society, it's getting awfully crowded.

Shared Human Quest: Shared and Unified Principles

Throughout human history, we have sought to chart and better understand these underlying patterns, the basic universals that would give us better bearings in navigating the stormy seas of life. This same quest has enveloped a vast number of fields of thought, from science to creative arts, from religion to psychology, from societal organization to astrology, seeking to distill a series of universal archetypes as the cardinal and ordinal directions of our reality.

While it has been a quest for essentially one objective, and while dozens of fields of thought have evolved with essentially similar observations and models for relating to the basic elements of their existence, they have been so shrouded by cultural particularity and individualistic pursuits as to become almost entirely incompatible with each other. More often than not, and particularly in the worlds of religion and spirituality, the conflicting divergence is a sign of losing sight of the underlying fundamentals that connect everything together — into the greatness of totality they conceive of as God, Universal Spirit or One Mind.

These manifold systems of thought describe diverse facets of one totality of existence, and therefore always and invariably overlap in essential principles. The same essentials are clad in colorful clothes and known by countless names, applied in radically diverging fields of endeavor with equally diverging agendas. When stripped naked, we are left with one being with a body and a mind, two eyes, two brain hemispheres, four limbs, and eight cardinal and ordinal directions to take. Invariably, if only we choose broaden our perspective to see the forest from the trees, we will come to find that we are fundamentally in a great deal of agreement over the essentials.

For as long as we remain subject to the inevitable pull of Gravitation, the unswerving grind of the Weak Force, the energizing and mesmerizing flow of Electromagnetism, and the fundamental overdrive of the Strong Color Force, we rotate in the same and shared wheel of reality. Inasmuch as we cannot escape the atoms and the cells combining to form our bodies, we cannot escape the fundamental unity that connects our interwoven endeavors as sentient beings. The only fundamental separating us from a field of unity is the obsessive ego, our craving for distinction by means of separation from an underlying unity.

As we now live in an integrally interconnected and networked global world, with instant access to information across all cultures, a lack of understanding of the universality shared in our human pursuits has brought us to a world of escalating conflicts between apparently irreconcilable positions. With a shared platform of understanding being nothing short of an axiom of survival into the future, it stands to reason that we pay more attention to the basic principles underlying our shared reality in our search for solutions to the ever-increasing flux of information, exchange and conflicts emerging in the global human society.

≡ Wisdom Singularity Flow Model ≡

0x Wisdom Singularity: ∞ = Nondual Dimension = Undivided Awareness = Ultimate Aim
1x Wisdom Balance: +/- = Mirror Awareness = Unity in Duality = Golden Median

2x Cosmic Polarities: + / Dynamis, Yang, Positive ∫∫ - / Neutralis, Yin, Negative
2x Wisdom Awareness: Specifying Awareness ∫ Unifying Awareness

4x Wisdom Dimensions: ++ Big Picture ∫ +- Causality ∫∫ -+ Foresight ∫ -- Introspection
4x Wisdom Perspectives = Universal Relations ∫ Reactive Connections ∫∫ Cyclic Recurrence ∫ Subjective Evolution
4x Wisdom Modes = Systemic Operation ∫ Catalytic Influence ∫∫ Proactive Approach ∫ Subjective Reflection
4x Wisdom Attitudes = Spiritual Victory ∫ Persevering Analysis ∫∫ Hopeful Orientation ∫ Internal Vigilance
4x Wisdom Sentiments: = Benevolence ∫ Compassion ∫∫ Sympathetic Joy ∫ Equanimity

8x Ternary Principles = +++ Heaven ∫ ++- Lake ∫ +-+ Fire ∫ +-- Thunder ∫∫ -++ Wind ∫ -+- Water ∫ --+ Mountain ∫ — Earth
8x Wisdom Aspects = Vision & Power ∫ Depth & Profundity ∫ Grasping & Illuminating ∫ Exciting & Reacting ∫∫ Gentle & Detached ∫ Flowing & Seamless ∫ Fortitude & Firmness ∫ Solidity & Stillness
8x Conscious Fields: Lucid Cognition ∫ Subconscious Conscience ∫ Analytical Cognition ∫ Obsessive Emotion ∫∫ Expansive Cognition ∫ Natural Emotion ∫ Protective Cognition ∫ Receptive Cognition

Wisdom Singularity Flow Model: An Introduction

The system of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, featured earlier as the Wisdom Wheel arrangement, is principally based on the ancient Chinese model of Ba Gua, developed by Taoist and Confucian sages and scholars in the days of antiquity. The Ba Gua model has served as a useful base reference in charting the worlds of archetypal thinking, for it operates with basic and essentially mechanistic polarities and principles, without the heavy overlays of symbolism and cultural specifics that often shroud the wisdom from the millennia past. It is designed as a neutral and universal open-source model for study and reconciliation of diverse systems of thought.

In developing the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, the basic structure has been compared and contrasted with more than two dozen noteworthy models of thought that feature essentially identical patterns, hierarchies, dynamics and derivative relations. These "compatible" traditions include Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hermeticism, Hinduism (Tantric, Puranic, Vedic), Buddhism (Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana), Astrology (Western, Indic, Chinese), and a good number of connecting threads from diverse fields of Psychology, Biology, Computer science, and Particle/Quantum physics. They are all readily compatible with each other — at times down to remarkable principal detail — when laid out against a neutral frame of reference and observed without a specific agenda.

The intention of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model is to provide a basis of understanding and reconciliation between conflicting fields of thought, whether in the realms of science, society, spirituality, entertainment, psychology, or any one of the countless other systems founded on basic principii we devise in improving our human situation. They need not live in a state of competition and conflict; if we are willing to forsake our obsessive attachment to minute particularity, the rewards of a harmoniously cross-referenced world of insight far outweigh the possible economical and egoistic losses suffered in the process.

≡ Wisdom Field Correlation Wheel ≡
The world is saturated with basic polarities and patterns. If we choose to see them
and reflect on their unity and compatibility, we can reach a state of balance and equilibrium.
Heaven + Earth = Basic Patterns | Lake + Mountain = Models and Methods of Estimation
Fire + Water = Detailed Material Methods | Thunder + Wind = Detailed Cognitive Methods

Basic Symmetries: Zero-One and Two-in-One

Religious and spiritual systems aim almost invariably for creating a fundamental state of balance that transcends the particularities of culture. They seek to advance the balance between Spirit and Matter, between God and Humanity, between Heaven and Earth, between Giving and Taking, and between whatever other labels these two fundamental polarities receive across diverse contexts and peoples.

[1x2] The interaction and exchange between the [+] Dynamis and the [–] Neutralis, the Creating and the Neutralizing, is at the heart of an ultimate spiritual communion and holistic experience of reality. As such, it is the active Axis Mundi of all religious and spiritual efforts. When existence is brought to a state of reconciled balance, the battle between Good and Evil is over. All foundational concepts of moral, ethical and theological good and evil have their roots in this fundamental dichotomy, a conflict between two opposite but complementary polarities in an endless flux of interaction and permutation.

[∞0] This universal balance of the two polarities is fueled by a Great Unknown, a Cosmic Singularity, a Wisdom Non-Duality, an undivided and immeasurable field of unity. This is the ultimate Singularity, the dimension where all other dimensions and phenomena cease to exist; it is the the exact and absolute zero point state of existence, where all of existence is unified into a non-dual strata of no knower, no known, and no knowledge. As such, it is the ultimate knowledge and the pinnacle of mystic union with the Uncreated God, the Universal Spirit, the Great Singularity, and the rest of its manifold labels.

All of mankind's contemplative and creative efforts, when they culminate, are geared towards discovering these ultimate components in their many combinations, and most of all, in their primal and elemental form as pure and timeless principii, a great unifying field that would yield infinite knowledge, infinite energy, infinite dimensionality, and an infinity of experience.

When these ultimate dimensions of reality are attained, the human mind is reposed in a field of perennial peace and tranquility. In practice, the unifying factors will begin to envelope the diversifying factors, establishing a natural sense of unity, shared prosperity and a natural balance of ethics. Therefore, it is entirely unreasonable to be so short-sighted as to hate others, to plunder or to wage wars in the name of religious purity and missionarism. In fact, religious wars are primarily waged over particularities that would be considered impurities in light of the pure heart of the religion's wisdom.

Conflicts between non-theistic, monotheistic and polytheistic vantage points emerge as aspects of a uniform totality become personified or abstracted for ease of access to particular audiences. They are all, of course, components of the same grand entirety of being, the Alpha and Omega of all existence, like a spectre looked at from an infinity of perspectives. While we may many paint many faces for the subsequent aspects of the one Immeasurable Ultimate, we are all after one ultimate field of unification and resolution for all of our shared reality.

 [∞] Singularity = {  [±] Balance = { [+] Dynamis, [-] Neutralis } }
As they mature and culminate, most systems of thought appear to reach a concept of
infinite ultimacy and golden balance while working with the two basic polarities.

Table #1: Basic Correlations in Systemic Models

The following is a table of 108 correlations between the ∞0 (Infinite Zero) and 1x2 (Universal Balance) principles, as found in diverse religions, mythologies and spiritual systems throughout the world and its millennia of recorded history. They are essentially identical in their function as the Great Unknown and Balance of Two Polarities that guide the heart of these formulations. This is a master list of fields that will be studied and cross-referenced in further detail in upcoming appendixes.

Systemic Spirituality: Generic Properties
Generic Terms	Singularity	Balance	Dynamis	Neutralis
Base State	Singularity	Dual Unity	Positive	Negative
Base Polarity	∞0	±1	+1	-1
Binary Sign	∞	1/0	1	0

Systemic Spirituality: Internal Dimension
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Base Cognition	Nondual Wisdom	Mirror Awareness	Specifying Awareness	Unifying Awareness
Base Emotions	Tranquil	Reflective	Desire	Aversion
General Ethics	Neutral	Balanced	Good	Evil
Human Situation	Unity	Humanity	Macrocosm	Microcosm

Systemic Spirituality: Material Dimension
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
General Cosmogeny	Singularity	Explosion	Radiation	Particles
Fundamental States	Unknown = Immeasurable	Oscillating = Quantum	On = Dynamic	Off = Static
States of Matter	Plasma	Gaseous	Liquid	Solid
General Physical States	Still	Interacting	Influence	Resistance

Systemic Spirituality: Social Dimension
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
General Bonding	Commonality	Relationship	Meeting	Separation
General Interaction	Purpose	Exchange	Giving	Receiving
General Politics	Unified	Harmonic	Progressive	Conservative

Systemic Spirituality: Metaphysical Dimension
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Alchemy	Primal State	Transmutation	As Above	So Below
Base Elements	Space	Air	Fire	Water
Phenomenal Principles	Unbeing = Non-Existence	Being = Existence	Chaos = Expanding, Scattering	Logos = Stabilizing, Contracting
Primal Realities	Primal Void	Fullness of Duality	Process of Formation	Compatible Materials
Operative Absorption	Inaction-in-Action	Action-in-Inaction	Dynamic Action	Static Inaction
Existentiality	Transcendence	Immanence	Spirit	Matter
Faith Perspectives	Monism	Pantheism	Theism, Monotheism	Atheism, Materialism
States of Being	Ascension = Ultimate Freedom	God-Man Union = Divine Manifestation	Divine = Expansive Being	Human = Limited Being
Path of Integration	Singularity = Ego Dissolution	Duality = Ego Penetration	Proactive = Process of Discrimination	Reactive = Process of Elimination
General Theology	Mono-God	Two-As-One God	Creator/Loving God	Destroyer/Redeeming God
General Creationism	Empty & Formless	Light & Darkness	Heaven Above	Earth Below

Science and Psychology
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Particle Physics: Primal Cosmogeny	Singularity	Big Bang	Radiation	Particles
Fusion Analogy: Solar Dynamics	Sun = Massive Unity of Solar Field	Emanation = Internal Transmutation	Solar Heat = Life-Generating Property	Sunlight = Vision-Granting Property
Neurobiology: Cerebral Structures	Neocortex = Higher Cognitive Functions	Cerebrum-Cerebellum = Volitional Action, Balance, Orientation, Patterns	Right Hemisphere = Approximation, Impressions, Abstraction, Association, Innovation, Tone of Language	Left Hemisphere = Comparison, Fact Retrieval, Precision, Categorization, Formalization, Structure of Language

Classical Philosophy and Culture
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Greece: Metaphysics of Psyche	Nous = Immortal Primal Mind	Noema = Object & Perceiver	Dianoia = Rational Thought	Noesis = Intuitive Thought
Socratic Method: Structured Dialogue	Logoi = Evident Conclusion	Synthesis & Aporia = Unifying Assertion & Puzzlement	Antithesis = Opposing View	Thesis = Initial View
Plato: Allegory of the Cave	Sun = Release from Subjective Cave	Twilight = Inside the Subjective Cave	Reality = Objective Light and Life	Impressions = Perceived Shadows on Wall
Plato: Analogy of the Divided Line	Noesis = Philosophy, The Form of the Good	Dianoia = Mathematics, Abstract Objects	Pistis = Beliefs about Physical Objects	Eikasia = Projections and Shadows
Plato and Aristotle: Theory of Forms	Great Infinity = Actual Infinity	Small Infinity = Potential Infinity	Ideal Forms = Animator, Pattern Structure	Matter = Fabric of Existence
Neoplatonism: Cosmology	One Monad = Absolute Source of Being	Henosis = Divine Oneness	Anima mundi = World-Soul	Phenomena = Material World
Pyrrhonism: Peace in Total Scepticism	Ataraxia = Mental Imperturbability	Epokhe = Yielding, Suspension of Judgment	Critique = Unwarranted Judgments, Appearing of Reality	Assumptions = Unwarranted Foundations, Being of Reality
Stoicism: Cosmology	One Being = One Substance, One Soul, One Movement	Nature = Seminal Reason, Existence Itself, God-Nature	Fate = Universal Drive & Purpose	Matter = Passive & Malliable Material Substance
Gnosticism	Monad, Proarkhe = One, Before Beginning	Pleroma, Aeons = Fullness of Power, Eternal Beings	Demiurge = Masculine, Incomplete Creator God	Sophia = Feminine, Divine Knowledge and Wisdom

Abrahamic Culture and Religion
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Judaism: Cosmology	YHWH = One Indivisible Unknowable God	Covenant = Communion with God of Israel	Elohim (Pneuma) = All Powers, Forces and Causes	Torah (Logos) = The Word, Primal Law
Judaism: Mystic Kabbalah Theogenesis	Ohr Ein Sof = Limitless Light	Tzimtzum, Etz Chaim = Filtered Divinity, Tree of Life	Ohrot = Lights	Keilim = Vessels
Genesis: Primal Sin, Fall from Grace	Godlike Knowledge and Eternal Life	Temptation, Separation = Dichotomy of Interest	Adam = Original Man, Violator	Eve = Original Woman, Supporter
Christianity: Fundamental Theology	Holy Spirit = Uncreated Spirit of God	Agape: Two Equal Commands = Love of God & Love of Mankind	Father-God, Father in Heaven = High Creator God	Jesus, Only Begotten Son = Descending Redeemer God
Christianity: Totality of Christ	Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI) = Jesus Nazarene, King of Jews, One Logos	Jesus Christ = Hypostatic union = Temptation, Transfiguration	Rex Iudean = Son of God, Messiah Come	Jesus Nazarene = Son of Man, God in Flesh
Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Mysticism	Ousia = God's Essence, Separate and As-Is	Nous, Kardia = Soul-Mind, Opening Eye of Heart	Tabor = Longing Spirit, Uncreated Light of God	Logos = Jesus Prayer, Primal Word and Purpose
Christianity: Catholic Mysteries of Rosary	Glorious Mysteries = Resurrection, Ascension, Descent of Holy Spirit, Assumption of Mary, Coronation of Mary	Luminous Mysteries = Baptism, Wedding, Proclamation of Kingdom of God, Transfiguration, Eucharist	Joyful Mysteries = Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Finding as Child at Temple, Presentation at Temple	Sorrowful Mysteries = Agony in Garden, Scourging at Pillar, Crowning with Thorns, Carrying the Cross, Crucifixion
Islam: Functional Cosmology	Allah = Great God, One God	Islam = Surrender to Allah, Wahdat-al-Wujud = Loss of Self, Union with God	Al-Rahman = Compassionate God	Islamic prophets, Mahdi = Guided One, One of the Moon
Baha'i: Theological Unity	Unity of God	Elimination of Extremes	Unity of Humanity	Unity of Religion

Mythological Models
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Generic Mythological Archetypes	Infinite Void = Primal Being	Axis Mundi = Cosmic Conduit	Primal God = Pervading Creator	Primal Goddess = Receptive Fabric
Shamanism: Cosmology	Earth Mother = Ground of Being, Integrality	Shaman = Spirit World, World Tree, Stability	Heaven = Enthusing Trance, Explosion/Ascension	Underworld = Revealing Trance, Implosion/Descension
Mythological Heroic Quests	Supreme Victory = Axis Mundi, Conquest of Heaven	Great Potentive Secret = Holy Grail, Philosophers' Stone, Tree of Life, Forgotten Treasure	Battle for Good, Life and Light	Defeat of Evil, Death and Darkness
Ancient Egyptian Cosmogeny	Nu = Waters of Infinite Primal Expanse	Duat = Dimension of Death and Rebirth / Maat = Cohesive Principle, Eternal Order of Universe	Nut = Goddess of Sky Arch	Geb = God of Earth Plane
Greek and Roman Cosmogeny	Chaos = Primal Void	Phanes-Phusis = Light-Bringer & Nature	Erebus = Pervading Shadows	Nyx = Goddess of Night
Native American Cosmology	Taboo = Omnipresent Invisible Force	Spirits = Land of Natural World	Creator = Revered Deity	Hero = Mythic Teacher
Norse / Germanic Cosmology	Yggdrasil = Unifying World Tree, Three Roots	Hel = Beyond, Hell and Death, Journey in Underworld	Well of Mimir = Above, Wisdom, Jötnar Frost Giants	Well of Urdr = Below, Fate, Female Norns and Æsir
Fenno-Ugrean Kalevala Cosmogeny	Waters = Root Existence	Primal Egg = Source of Cosmos	Heaven = Upper Half	Terra = Lower Half

Mystical and Occult Systems
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Alchemy: Process for Elixir	Perfected State = Synthetic Gold	Transmutation of Elements	Coagula = Joining Together	Solve = Separating
Alchemy: Fundamental Elements	Nigredo = Beyond, Dissolution, Blackening, Existential Individuation, Immortal True Self	Rubedo = Middle, Unification, Reddening, Man & God, Limited & Unlimited	Citrinitas = Above, Sun, Gold, Yellowing, Technological, Operative, Spiritualization	Albedo = Below, Moon, Silver, Whitening, Psychological, Contemplative, Purification
Hermetic Cosmology	The All = The One, Supreme Mind, Universal Mother	Theurgy = All Stars, Above & Below, Evil/Divine Spirits	Sun = Alchemy, Investigation, Experimentation	Moon = Astrology, Patterns, Planetary Cycles
Thelema: Symbolic Phenomenology	City of Pyramids = Unified in Primal Dissolution	Thelema, Night of Pan = Great Abyss Between Domains, Ego Death	Ritual = Pattern of Transformation	Babalon = Surrender as Babe of the Abyss
Thelema: Mystical Cultivation	Ipsissimus = Non-dual Unlimited Source	Silent Higher Self = Holy Guardian Angel	Magus = Potent Transformative Wisdom	Magick = Potent Accessible Formulae
Conspiracies: Illuminati Hierarchy	White Brotherhood	Special Positions	Hierarchy Level	Anarchy Level
Theosophy: Domains in Spiritual Hierarchy	Highest Nirvana	Great Cosmic Solar Orb	Alpha = Heavenly Father	Omega = Heavenly Mother

Buddhism and Taoism
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Buddhist Paths	Bodhi, Buddha = Enlightenment, The Enlightened One	Vajrayana, Tantrayana = Diamond Vehicle, Tantric Vehicle	Mahayana = Large Vehicle, Universal Salvation	Hinayana = Small Vehicle, Individual Salvation
Four Steps to Nirvana	Arhat = Conqueror of Foes, Nirvana	Anagami = Non-Returner, Balance	Sakridagami = Once-Returner, Progress	Srotapanna = Stream-Enterer, Neutralization
Theravada Buddhist Practice	Parinirvana = Ultimate Cessation	Nirvana = Cessation of Being	Vipassana = Perceptive Meditation	Samatha = Tranquilizing Meditation
Arupa-Jhanas: Four Formless Meditative Absorptions	Fourth = No Perception, No Non-perception	Third = Perception of Infinite Nothingness	Second = Perception of Infinite Consciousness	First = Perception of Infinite Space
Mahayana: Four Axioms of Heart Sutra	Sunyam Sunyam = Emptiness is Emptiness	Rupam Rupam = Form is Form	Rupam Sunyam = Form is Emptiness	Sunyam Rupam = Emptiness is Form
Yogacara: One Mind	Citta-matram = Cognition Only	Alaya-vijnana & Tathagata-garbha = Seminal Consciousness / Buddha-Womb	Manas = Dynamic Mind	Klista-manas = Afflicted Mind
Zen: Enlightenment Orientation	Daigo = Absolute Enlightenment	Shogo = Glimpsing Enlightenment	Satori = Sudden Flash of Enlightenment	Kensho = Subject-Object Union, Buddha-Nature Insight
Vajrayana: Four Prime Wisdoms	Tathata-jñana = Knowledge of Suchness	Adarsa-jñana = Mirror-like Knowledge	Pratyaveksana-jñana = Investigative Awareness	Samata-jñana = Awareness of Sameness
Vajrayana Ösel: Levels of Prabhasvara Radiance	Od-gsal = Pure Radiance	Bardo = Threshold State	Lam-gyi Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of Path	Gzhi'i Od-gsal = Inner Radiance of Ground
Vajrayana: Six Yogas of Naropa	Ösel (prabhasvara) = Yoga of Clear Radiant Light	Phowa (samkranti) = Entrance to Buddha-Fields	Milam (svapna-darsana) & Bardo (antarabhava) = Dream Visions & Transitions	Gyulu (mayakaya) & Tummo (candali) = Magical Body &; Low Mystic Heat
Buddhism: Bönpo Dzogchen Mysticism	Rang Bzhin = Ultimate Unaltered Nature	Ngang, Kun Gzhi, Ka Dag = Condition, Basis of All, Primordial Purity	Gnas Lugs = Way of Beings, Pure-and-Perfect Mind	Gzhi, Lhun Grub = Potentive Field, Spontaneous Accomplishment
Taoism: Singular and Bipolar Cosmogeny	Wuji = Without Ultimate, Without Ridge-Pole	Taiji = Supreme Ultimate, Great Ridge-Pole	Yang = Positive, Dynamic	Yin = Negative, Static
Taoism: Neidan Internal Alchemy	Xian = Celestial Immortality	Qi = Natural Energy, Flow of Being, Breath	Shen = Spirit, Consciousness	Jing = Essence, Density, Genes

Classical Indic Religions
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Vedas: Principal Theogenesis	Soma = Mythic Nectar of Gods	Rita = Cosmic Order, Wheel of Existence	Brahma, Prajapati = Fullness, Divine Father	Aditi, Vac = Limitless Mother, Mystic Sound
Vedas: Sacrificial Theogenesis	Sahasra-Sirsa-Purusha = Infinite Being	Breaking of Purusha = Derivative Division	Yajna Purusha = Pervasive Being	Viraj = Born Reality
Vedas: Primal Cosmogeny	Ajayamana = Unmanifest	Hiranyagarbha = Cosmic Egg	Svarga = Heaven	Prithivi = Earth
Modern Hinduism: Triune Divine	Brahman = Universal Spirit	Vishnu = Sustainer, Balancer, Pacifying Knowledge	Brahma = Creator, Dynamizer, Expanding Knowledge	Shiva = Destroyer, Neutralizer, Contracting Knowledge
Puranas: Primal Cosmogeny	Para-Brahma = Highest Being	Srishti-Lila = Cosmic Sport of Creation	Isvara, Shaktiman = Energetic, Operator, Inseminator	Maya, Shakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer
Puranas: Universal Cosmology	Paravyoma = Supreme Light	Martya-Loka = Middle-World	Svarga-Loka = Heavenly Bright Worlds	Bila-Svarga = Subterranean Dark Worlds

Specific Indian Religious Traditions
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Shaivism: Primal Theogenesis	Mahadeva = Great Divinity	Ardhanarisvara = Synthesis, Half-Female Deity	Shaktiman = Energetic, Operator, Inseminator	Shakti = Energy, Supporter, Bearer
Shaivism: Tantric Cosmogeny	Sadashiva = Omni-Shiva	Maha-Yoga = Cosmic Union	Linga = Masculine, Phallus	Yoni = Feminine, Womb
Vaishnavism: Tantric Theogenesis	Maha-Vishnu = Great Creator	Karanarnava, Yoga-Nidra = Ocean of Causes, Cosmic Dream	Sambhu = Masculine Inseminating Glow	Ramadevi = Divine Consort-Nature
Sri Chaitanya: Descent of Devotion	Bhagavan = Adored One	Bhakti-shakti = Potency & Goddess of Devotion	Bhakta-bhagavata = Devotee as Person	Grantha-bhagavata = Devotee as Message
Sri Chaitanya: Divine Love	Mahabhava = Ultimate Emotion	Prema = Union of Love	Krishna = Adored God	Radha = Adoring Goddess
Sri Chaitanya: Divine Manifestation:	Lila = Infinite Wheel of Pastimes	Hladini-shakti = Bliss Potency, Radha	Samvit-shakti = Cognitive Potency, Krishna	Sandhini-shakti = Existential Potency, Primal Sattva
Tantric / Sahajiya: Path of Cultivation	Sahaja-Siddhi = Natural Perfection, Cosmic Union	Laya, Maithuna, Nada = Absorption-Dissolution, Polarity Union, Sound in Ultimacy	Shaktiman = Potent, Masculine	Shakti = Potency, Feminine
Tantric / Sahajiya: Field of Cultivation	Apana = Attainment	Aropana = Superimposition of Divinity	Surati, Japa = Passion, Love-Making, Spoken Prayer	Nirati, Ajapa = Dispassion, Detachment, Silent Prayer
Sikhism: Primal Cosmology	Nirankar = Shapeless	Hukam = Will and Order	Vahiguru = The Great Teacher	Ek Onkar = One Primal Syllable

Classical Indic Philosophies
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Internal Advaita	Ajata = Unborn Nonduality	Atman is Brahman = Nondual Unity	Brahman is Spirit	Atman is Spirit
External Advaita	Brahman = Nondual Spirit	Paramatman = Supreme Self	Ishvara = Supreme Deity	Jiva = Sentient Being
Kashmiri Shaivism	Anuttara = Unsurpassed Ultimate	Svatantrya = Self-Dependency, Action-and-Freedom	Spanda, Shiva = Masculine, Primal Consciousness	Aham, Shakti = Feminine, Heart Space
Vedantic Ontology	Jagat = Brahman = World is Spirit	Ananyatva = Non-difference	Karana = Cause	Karya = Effect
Vedantic Attributes of Spirit	Advaya-para-tattva = Nondual Supreme Strata	Ananda = Endless Bliss	Cit = Cognitive Luminescence	Sat = Existential Foundation
Raja-Yoga: Ultimate Consciousness	Nirvikalpa, Adrasta = Undifferentiated, Unseen	Savikalpa, Dristi = Differentiated, Seeing	Atma, Drasta = Self, Seer	Prakriti, Drishya = Nature, Seen
Raja-Yoga: Five Root Poisons	Avidya = Ignorance	Asmita = Egoism	Raga = Attachment	Dvesa = Aversion
Vedanta: Ladder of Liberation	Videha-mukta = Unembodied Liberation	Jivanmukta = Liberated While Living	Guru = Potent Teacher	Sisya = Receptive Student
Natya-Shastra: Foundations of Experience	Santa = Tranquility, Source of Emotions	Sadharani-karana = Relish by Reflective Generalization	Rasa = Culmination of Rapture	Sattva = Clear Reflective Heart
Sankhya: Fundamental Principal Analysis	Moksha = Liberation	Satkarya = Cause-in-Effect	Purusha = Masculine, Spirit, Effector	Prakriti = Feminine, Matter, Ingredient

Indic Cultivation Methodologies
Reference	[∞] Singularity	[±] Balance	[+] Dynamis	[-] Neutralis
Four Paths of Yoga	Jnana = Wisdom, Cognitive Liberation	Raja-Yoga = Great Mystic Union	Bhakti = Devotion, Spiritual Zeal	Karma = Service, Dispassionate Action
Vedanta: Cultivation of Wisdom	Jnana = Wisdom	Nididhyasana = Absorbed Contemplation	Manana = Contemplation	Sravana = Hearing
Tantra: Basic Mechanisms	Siddhi = Perfection	Tantra = Weaving	Mantra = Invocation	Yantra = Pattern
Hatha-Yoga: Kundalini Energy Dynamics	Sahasrara, Maha-Siddha = Union at Crown Lotus, Great Immortality	Siddha = Emergent Union, Rising Kundalini	Kundalini = Serpentine Current of Power	Chakras = Energetic Lotus Centers
Hatha-Yoga: Energetic Nadi Conduits	Siddhi = Perfection, Immortality	Susumna = Balanced Breath, Medullar Link	Pingala = Solar Serpentine, Right, Red, Positive	Ida = Lunar Serpentine, Left, Pale, Negative
Yoga: Contemplation Objects	Nirguna Brahma = Unqualified Spirit	Turiya-bhagavat-sabda = Transdimensional Sound-with-God	Mahati atma = Great Soul in the Fabric	Avyakta-mahat-sutra = Undecaying Thread of Fabric
Yoga: Mystic Perfections	Kamavasayita = Termination of Desires, Supreme Bliss	Vasita = Mastery and Dominion, Root Nature	Prakamya = Fulfillment of Desires	Tri-kala-jñatva = Knowledge of Past, Present and Future
Yoga: Spiritual Attainments	Parama-ananda = Supreme Bliss	Turiya narayana = Transdimensional Abode	Avyakta-janma = Undecaying Existence	Sarvajñatva = Temporal Omniscience
Jainism: Process of Liberation	Nirvana = Final Release	Arhat, Jina = Victorious State	Avipaka Nirjara = Ascetic Practice	Savipaka Nirjara = Submission to Fate

While there will invariably be diverging nuances in the interpretation of the exact relationships between the four basic elements of Singularity, Balance, Dynamis and Neutralis, their fundamental principles are identical enough to justify a level field of agreement. There are, after all, countless differences in the interpretation over levels of apotheosis and scopes of relationship and identity even within traditions themselves. Such disputes and disagreements tend to fall within the domain of theological pedantry and elitistic sophistry, and have little to do with the heart of the matter; the basic patterns tend to be relatively simple and elementary.

Sometimes the principal roles in formulations such as these are seen to mirror each others' qualities, because Dynamis always holds a seed of Neutralis and vice versa. They are both rooted in the same Primal Unity, and reveal different emphases in accordance with the observer's perspective and projections. This easily turns Good into Evil, Gods into Demons, Messiahs into Antichrists, filtering through the narrow human lense unable or unwilling to contextualize against a broader perspective. Despite this, the direct and elementary reality underlying names and forms — once experienced and immersed — is eerily identical in nature. The experience itself naturally points to a fundamental underlying unity in all archetypes and purposes.

In advancing this quest for unity, symmetry and synergy in reconciling human perspectives, the above opening four-part grid should provide a useful starting point of general correlations in making headway towards a better reconciled world. This model is presented in the spirit of open-source conceptual development and evolution. The intention is not to introduce artificial universals or forced correlation; the model aims to serve in accurately reflecting the fundamental principles of diverse traditions of thought. Therefore, it should be subject to critique and revisions wherever necessary.

"Venus Dancing in Light and Shadows" — A fresh winter morning perspective
in a composite picture of the Morning Star, Planet of Reconciled Polarities.

Poetic Conclusions: Call for Balance and Feedback

The groundwork for this paper began with inspiration on the 10th of October, 2010, gazing at the skies through the crisp night air in late autumn of Helsinki. It was a beautiful clear sky, and Venus was particularly bright that night — almost frozen in her twinkle at the sky with her two horns raised, her two arms spread, and skirt of rays flowing below. Like the Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks knew Venus as both Phosphoros, Morning Star and Bringer of Light, as well as Hesperos, Evening Star and Son of Dusk. The Hellenistic world realized their unity and named the planet after Aphrodite, their goddess of love. It's hard to argue against a Bipolar Planet of Love on the need for balance on 10-10-10 at 10 PM on a tranquil night.

Then, Venus is Love and Balance with Dynamis and Neutralis married; Hesperus is Phosphorus, Form is Emptiness, One Father is One Son, One Allah with One Will, while Yin and Yang dance on the plateau of Singularity. It does not have to be awfully complicated, if only we are willing to take a step beyond our complicated and entangled perspective, reaching for the fundamentals of our existence — whether the Four Directions, Four Interactions or Four Archangels, whether for the Father and Son, for the God and Goddess, or for other primal symbols of our preference. We are all after the same universal aims; let us make the most out of our collective human potential, seeking to unify more than diversify. Unification leads to Singularity, and Diversification leads to Entropy.

Readers interested in the concepts and models of this paper are cordially invited to provide liberal feedback — critique, compliments, contributions and clarifications are all equally welcome. More detailed explanations of the variables and relations in Table #1 will be available in an interactive model at the Systemic Spirituality website. Upcoming overviews of Wisdom Singularity Flow Model will discuss the 4x and 8x spheres, the four cardinal levels and the eight principal spokes of the Wisdom Wheel, exploring many (but certainly not all) of the systems of thought referenced in this paper.

Until the next installment in the phenomenal derivation of the Wisdom Singularity Flow Model, readers interested in more angles into this model are welcome to follow the Systemic Spirituality page at Facebook or join our LinkedIn discussion group for more in-depth exchanges on many of these themes, along with a general platform for discussing anything Beyond, Between, Above or Below and that may be relevant. More on "BBAB", linear molecules and the rest in the course of next week.

Broadband Existential Body and Experience

Exposure to the potentials of Multiple Dimensions of Existence provides you with a wide array of diverse experiences of your existence. Our particular experience of existence is the sum total of everything we are and the ultimate framework and point of reference for all our cognition and action. Cogito ergo sum — a fair starting point for a basic reality check.

Below is an illustration of the key layers of existence I have grown to feel and conceive of as the foundation of my existence and experience of reality, following diverse more and less successful attempts to cross and warp the boundaries of space and time by employing any and all meditation and cultivation methodologies I've come across and found as relevant and applicable enough for me to seriously pursue.

Illustration of a Broadband Existential Body   ·   Click to Enlarge

Fields and Patterns: The Human Existential Totality

This is a generic gloss on the aspects of a broadband existential body or a more holistic experience of diverse material and spiritual realities, enumerating some of the central planes and factors of possible experience, potential, cognition, and holistic human evolution.

Light Plateaus Above, Middle and Below: Non-dual field of absolute cognition and interconnected existence. This is the dimension of ultimate peace and resolution, transcending by its nature the range of diversified cognition, eluding the attempts of the human mind to contextualize it as one or the other.

Middle Plateau: The united cognitive plateau is experienced as the ultimate abode of consciousness and being in the cavern of the existential heart. This ultimate self or non-self is non-different from and intrinsically connected to the collective plateau of non-dual cognition.

Plateau Above and Below: We are connected with the plane of universal cognition through the principles heaven (above) and earth (below), or the fundamental polarities of positive and negative. Their balance creates the harmonic flow and rotation (Tao/Rta/Wyrd) of our existence.

Four Major Lotus Fields: The cognitive crown field above the head (depicted as a pattern lotus) is the ultimate platform of consciousness, the seat of cognitive and existential ascension, and the matrix that translates universal patterns into an individual experience of reality. The heart field is our ultimate ground of existential being, the source of our expansive expression and response to the world, the location of the singularity of being and the center of existential gravity. The navel field is our base of specified existence, a fort of defense and inner power that supports and nourishes us. The sole field is our link to the earth polarity and its power, connecting the universal circuit with the above and the below.

Pattern Body: The ultimate existential body of patterns and principles (dharmas or formulae), the field that gives form and continuity to all individual phenomena, and the dimension of ultimate harmonization and existential logos.

Pattern Field: The super-pattern blueprint underlying all structures of reality, the universal patterns and principles of existence that govern the interdependent flux of phenomena across all planes of material and immaterial existence.

These are the basic factors and planes of a syndicated experience of reality with the "fundamentals" of diverse traditions of cognitive and energetic expansion and refinement integrated. There are no doubt a great many variants to this model, reflected through individual experience and insight, perspectives equally valid and legitimate for the individuals at the heart of their perceived existence.

Whatever the details in each individual's subjective sphere may be, I believe it's fair to say that extending one's sphere of existential cognition and experience yields a rich repository of new human potentials. The exact dynamics of these basic planes and fields of existence deserve to be studied in further detail in upcoming articles.

The Rainbow Body of Padmasambhava / Guru Rinpoche

Buddhist Model of Trikaya and Body-mind, Mind-stream and Heart-mind

The Buddhist system of Trikaya explores the totality of the being of a Buddha or a Tathāgata — an awakened and enlightened fully experiencing entity — in three divisions of bodies and three overlapping layers of existential dynamics.

These layers also embody the totality of the potentials of each sentient being, providing us with a working general frame of reference for the psychophysical and ultimate dimensions of human experience. Many individual aspects of the Trikaya totality have already been introduced in more generic terms under broadband existential body.

Nirmaṇakāya: This is the physical or corporeal body made of matter, the vehicle of consciousness in the human world, and the plane of material existence. The physical form of a Buddha is the ultimate Nirmanakaya.

Sambhogakāya: Known as "body of enjoyment", "deity dimension" or "astral body", this is the body or plane containing the totality of our energetic experience, culminations, and powers. Sambhogakaya is the energetic operative means for realizing the ultimate field of the Dharmakaya.

Dharmakāya: Containing the ultimate nature and essence of the uncreated enlightened mind, this body or plane is free from conceptual projection, infinitely spaceous and naturally radiant, transcending duality and cognizable patterns, woven with infinite correlations as the ultimate sheat of existence.

Dharmakaya is characterized by great purity, great realization and great mental expanse. Thence the saying, "He who sees the Dharma sees the Buddha" and vice versa — dharma being the "constituent factors of the experienced world" and their natural flux and combinatorics in our collective experience of reality. Dharmakaya is the ultimate bridge into the nondual plane.

These three bodies operate on three overlapping planes of existence, namely the body-mind (nāmarūpa: "name and form"), the interconnecting mind-stream (citta-saṃtāna), and ultimately the heart-mind (bodhicitta).

Complete harmonization of the three kaya planes and their operative dynamics leads to the holistic realization and manifestation of a Rainbow Body, also expressed and experienced as "deity dimension" of the sambhogakaya, a synthesized and fulfilled energetic body.

When the physical and energetic bodies implode and become absorbed into the dharmakaya, and as the residual patterns of the dharmakaya resolve into themselves, diversified consciousness collapses and is naturally absorbed into the underlying and ultimate non-dual plane, now emerging as the entirety of extant reality.

This existential totality is experienced through the mind-stream flowing and oscillating like a caleidoscope across the diverse planes of cognizable existence, touching their respective potentials while animating and operating the plane of matter and forms.

The totality of the experience is contained within dharmakaya and experienced directly through the heart-mind (bodhicitta) as an enlightenment-body cognizing and transcending universal patterns. These teachings are prominent in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition (Diamond Vehicle, Esoteric/Tantric Buddhism).

There are numerous other traditions with similar detailed models and methodologies that deserve to be studied in further detail. Upcoming articles will feature Taoist Mysticism and Neidan Internal Alchemy, Consciousness and Vedantic Layers of Being, Kriya Yoga of Mahavatar Babaji, Hatha Yoga and Levels of Kundalini, and many more oriental and occidental systems of internal and holistic transformation yet to be analyzed and assimilated.

A Holistic System Definition: Spirituality and Wisdom Grid

Wisdom is an abstract and elusive concept in a footnote under Fixing Mind, Life and Existence in that missing unprinted manual we're all longing for, much like the evasive spark of lucid consciousness defying our attempts to fully comprehend our own brain and cognition. I have come to equate spirituality with a quest for this elusive wisdom, a magical key for harmonizing the human situation.

This is a working draft for a generic definition and model on the dynamics of wisdom and spirituality in the human society. It is intended as a step towards parsing the totality of the human situation into a general model covering environment, society, universe, and the depths of the mind. Over time, it will evolve into an abstracted model for cross-referencing and contextualizing diverse fields of thought in generic terms.

We can distill abstract patterns of wisdom from diverse traditions by filtering away external elements derived from the human society. The clarity and energy of the sun of wisdom keeps the system well-powered and free of friction. The degradation of the system is in direct proportion to the amount of wisdom lost to confusion in the choice transitions along the life circuit.

Every individual paragraph in this paper focuses on an individual segment or relationship of the above system flowchart. They will be elaborated on in more detail as time permits, accompanied with more illustrative diagrams. In the meantime, if you have feedback or contributions to the big picture, please connect at www.SySpir.com and get in touch with the project facilitator or join our friendly and informative online discussion group.

12/Nov/2010 - Text updates in factor relation clarifications and better concept segmentation and flow. Some elaborations with parallels to the flowchart pointed out. I will splice up this paper and lay it over the flowchart as interactive segments to help take it in one mouthful at a time.

06/Feb/2011 - Flowchart and text updated to complete the Big Picture - Causality - Foresight - Introspection quad under Balance, the integrating element of the four fundamental perspectives.

Wisdom: The Patterns Behind Knowledge and Ignorance

Wisdom is neither ignorance nor knowledge. Wisdom is generated in the oscillation of knowledge and ignorance as a cognition of the emerging patterns. Arising from observation, introspection, analysis, and conquest of the finite mind, wisdom creates a platform for neutral and well-rounded assessment of situations. A holistic and symmetric understanding of the world, accumulated by attention and clarity of perception, are essential for the health and evolution of the human society.

When information and knowledge are absorbed and then applied in a holistic manner for the fair benefit of everyone and everything, we observe the external component of wisdom in action. When we see an individual at peace and above the urges of his mental patterns, we observe the internal component of wisdom in action. Wisdom is the art of turning life into a win-win scenario for yourself and everyone else at the same time.

Wisdom is active in understanding the factors of a situation and responding optimally to advance everyone's natural interests. Wisdom is broad systemic thinking with an agenda in tune with the interests of the collective system — increasing harmony, clarity and progress through the reconciliation or mitigation of all conflicting factors. Wisdom is also in understanding your ignorance, and in becoming adequately informed to be in a position to apply wisdom in tune with the needs of your environment.

Wisdom is neither good nor evil — regardless of how people with good and evil traits may perceive it. Wisdom is an apt and neutral observation of the natural course of existence, leading to the individual's behavior functioning as a symmetric and non-entropic part in the symmetric cycles of existence.

When these cycles are understood, both in the world of objects and the world within, the emerging course of action will naturally be good — because it does not seek to infringe, and carefully analyzes to avoid fundamental infringement on any other part of the system — which is the ultimate ethical code of every benevolent system.

The broader the perceived system, the greater and more universal the expanse of potentials and the available patterns of wisdom. The narrower the perspective, the greater the scope of ignorance and the capacity to inadvertently damage the system. The greater the difference between the expanse of perspective and the position of an individual, the greater his capacity to abuse and damage the system — in absence of a wholesome perspective, or in failing to exercise a universally fair model of ethics.

Kathleen Farago May: Celebrate
If the orchestra plays out of sync or stops playing, the celebration fails;
If the four tiers of the holistic system are out of balance, the systems of life fail.

A Four-Tier System: Nature - Society - Universe - Mind

Hard material sciences can explain the technical workings of the physical world in remarkable detail. Despite all these advancements — or possibly because of them — an excessive focus on the material and physical necessities has compromised the more holistic and natural way of living seen in the millennia of the past.

A human being with wisdom has a well-rounded and unbiased understanding of the dynamics of the mind-matter relationship and the role of the individual in a symmetric and harmonic totality of existence.

The totality of our system encompasses the ecosystem, the human domain, the broader universe, and the vast inner space within — the depths of the human mind and the many potential spheres of conscious existence.

As a consequence of the increasing external confusion and out-drawn focus of attention, our collective understanding of the human psyche has taken but infant steps in providing a platform of generally accessible and practicable holistic wisdom. Access to wisdom should be a basic human right — not a luxury hidden behind layers of obtuse and cryptic jargon, idioms, and idiosyncrasies.

The lack of available information and education on the essential patterns and principles of reality — whether a result of depriorization or an absence of understanding — has resulted in a situation where a sizable portion of the human society depends on diverse chemical medications to keep the ever-increasing cacophony and disarray in their minds at a blurred distance.

Escalating disarray in the surroundings leads invariably to an escalating state of internal disorder, especially when combined with the decreasing availability of natural and therapeutic environments. It's clear that the current system has failed to adequately facilitate and stimulate the psychological well-being of the humanity at large amidst the rush for industrialization, technology, and external creativity and enjoyments.

The narrow-sightedness and neglect over the totality of the system has resulted in countless human and natural catastrophes, throwing the world into an escalating spiral of disorder and internal disintegration. It's hard not to watch the news and notice the obvious signs of a system gone defunct — clearly a corporation well past its prime and on its way towards the bitter end of its natural life-cycle.

Only a holistic understanding of the entire four-tier system of nature-society-universe-mind can return Humanity Ltd Inc. — living true to its commercial suffixes: limited and incorporated — back to its energetic prime of mental, physical and spiritual evolution and journey deeper into the universe .

There's s an undeniable trend of deterioration despite advances, and without a doubt we humans have been quite efficient as the architects of the escalation of our own demise — for nothing but our screaming lack of a broader perspective in our thought, speech and action.

Kathleen Farago May: Find Your Way Home
Wisdom of the patterns of existence shrinks the system to the size of your palm,
making the grid of the world considerably easier and smoother to navigate.

Synthesis: Cross-Systemic Integration of Wisdom

Many systems and models of thinking and living, aiming for advancing individual equilibrium or a universal good, are formally labeled as spirituality. Many other systems of thought deal with similar variables, principles and patterns — directly or indirectly, knowingly or unknowingly — but are not normally considered within the domain of spirituality, owing to their focus on a specific and more narrow field of interest.

In reality, the sum total of our systemic spirituality can gain immense benefits from every field of thought that has ever sought to understand the patterns of existence, seeking to better relate to the future and the emerging situations. They can all be abstracted to patterns and generic models that are applicable across contexts. When information is available in a generic associative framework, it is faster to access and easier to put into practice.

Modern science has exposed us to a wealth of new phenomena and theories. Many of them run in parallel to the systems found in mystical and spiritual traditions that explore the domains of the subconscious mind, the inner dimensions of cognizance, and ultimately our deepest existential questions. Modern physics and the causal and existential models of mystic traditions deserve to be studied in tandem for new perspectives.

Modern philosophers have unveiled and formulated a vast array of new concepts and models of reality. Some have formulated new models in contradiction the older, others have synthesized existing views into a bigger picture, and yet many more have debated over existing views only to prove them wrong. Even so, the larger part of our modern wealth of understanding is well beyond the reach and capacity of less educated audiences.

The pages of history and the vast collective mythos of humanity also provide us with an ocean of universal patterns and demonstrative examples. Ancient and classical philosophical traditions have already invented a large array of conceptual wheels with remarkable functionality, all but forgotten to many a modern mind, as we race for innovation and reinvention in ignorance of the lessons and discoveries of our past.

If the calculations have already rolled on for millennia, starting the computations from a scratch is hardly an optimal way forward. Keeping the bigger picture in mind while moving into the future, we would gain the benefit of a vastly broader array of associative patterns and wisely handled precedents to work with as we struggle to solve the questions and problems of today.

The scientific validity or invalidity of the details in diverse systems of thought is irrelevant for this purpose. There's the fact that scientific opinion is in constant flux for one — and generic abstractions are the objective of universal systemization to begin with.

Analysis of marginal details is of trivial and supporting interest only. It is useful in terms of wisdom when it provides generic variants to a recognized pattern, and less useful when for all practical purposes it's an isolated idiosyncrasy in the larger patterns of reality.

By extracting the patterns and principles from amidst the external specifics of bodies of categorized knowledge and demonstrative narrations, we improve our signal to noise ratio and gain increased clarity over its exact generic contexts. Imagine if every country in the world had used diverging protocols and standards in information technology networks — our dream of a global free information society would hardly be an option!

This same process of informative globalization and universalization is long overdue in the world of religion and ideological traditions. As long as science and spirituality remain unreconciled and desynchronized, so long the system has to struggle with the stress of conflicting prime imperatives. The better the shared patterns and dynamics of the diverse fields of human interest are understood and reconciled, the smoother our lives here on earth will be.

Like clouds envelope a mountain and become a very real part of its dynamics, so the clouds of religion envelope spirituality, decreasing availability and clarity of actual wisdom in the process.
Dhading valley, Nepal, July 2008.

Mountain ∝ Clouds = Spirituality ∝ Religion

Religion is an umbrella for diverse fields of activity, and nothing in particular on its own. Religion can include holistic spirituality — for example in teaching about:

• A) the upholding of a natural equality and symmetry (balance). 
• B) the greater picture of our human situation and relations (big picture).
• C) the adverse effects of actions infringing on the rights of others (causality),
• D) the need for foresight and goal beyond one's immediate needs and desires (foresight), 
• E) the self-analysis and abandonment of harmful attitudes (introspection).

Most religions are initially founded to act as practical vehicles to a concept of wisdom and spirituality.

Causal understanding, broad foresight, symmetric balance and honest introspection are obvious elements of wisdom. They are crucial both to the attainment inner peace, and to the formation of well-rounded and symmetrically benevolent systems of ethics. Wisdom is also the source of the primary solace one finds in religion.

The greater part of religious art and narrative is dedicated to depicting situations expressing the archetypal wisdom of the prophet, the guru or the messiah. The history is full of remarkable men and women who taught a system of larger holistic symmetry in an attempt to heal both the human world and the human mind and spirit.

Spirituality is to religion like a mountain is to clouds. Religion can also include ritualism, politics, culture, nationalism, industrialism, administration, commerce, and many other fields of activity, exchange, and influence.

When spirituality is combined with other fields of interest under the collective label of a branded system of beliefs or an organized religion, the original components of wisdom often become diluted, and even shunned in practice from the broader public in the interest of advancing accessory agendas.

Whenever this conglomeration of diverse fields of interest gains enough momentum to assume clear structures and hierarchies, organized religion is formed. Formal religion is therefore by definition a mixed bag of goods, advancing a number of accessory agendas.

These supporting agendas frequently undergo apotheosis and are elevated on a pedestal equal or exceeding the original wisdom. In metaphorical terms, the devil has then taken control of the religion, enticing and confusing the minds of its leaders with the pleasures of flesh and power.

Errae humanum est: "To err is human." This is an universally accepted principle. Considering the history, it's fair enough to then conclude that "religions are human", as are everyone of forming them — pending an assembly of perfectly enlightened systemic entities. Hieronymus continues, et confiteri errorem prudentis — "...and to admit the error is prudent." Seneca completes the cycle, sed perseverare diabolicum — "but to persist in doing it would be diabolical."

This is a good working formula for evaluating the balance of wisdom and wickedness in a collective of people, whether religious or otherwise. To err is human, to grow wiser is divine, and to persist with mistakes is patently evil. Depending on how much wisdom your local "spiritual grocery" holds, and how influenced it is by interests conflicting with wisdom, you may or may not have a spiritually rewarding encounter with a religion or while living as a religious adherent.

Whatever the current wisdom demographics of a given religion may be, we have much to learn from the heritages of wisdom they have preserved over the millennia. This is particularly the case with textually rich religions, where countless scholars and scribes have sought to systematize and reconcile the original wisdom of the tradition, often elaborating at great length based on their subsequent ponderings.

While religion has undeniably oppressed science and culture on countless occasions in advancing their accessory agendas independent of the original wisdom of the faith, it has also given immense and undeniable support to cultures and sciences throughout the course of the better part of known human history. Monastic traditions in particular have provided a cultural and spiritual benefits in carrying wisdom across the ages.

A spiritual seeker climbing the mountain of wisdom to comprehend and master
the ultimate system. Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, South India, March 2008.

Spirituality ∝ Wisdom = Climber ∝ Mountain

Spirituality and wisdom are inherently interconnected, vital components in holistic systemic thought that advances the collective interests of the humanity. Spirituality is a quest for wisdom, and wisdom is the action (or inaction) of mature spirituality. When I speak of systemic spirituality, this is the definition of spirituality I intend to convey — not the peculiarities of the countless colorful, curious and idiosyncratic traits that spiritual systems are fond of upholding as a part of their heritage.

A climber at the foothills of the mountain of holistic spirituality, the systemic seeker is on a quest to live in harmony with the four-tiered totality of existence. Aiming for the wisdom of universal and complete patterns at the wisdom peak of the mountain, the ultimate systems seeker navigates through countless layers of clouds,

These layers are the obfuscation of organized religion, the society at large, and finally the intertwined layers of the conditioned human mind. Unraveling the mind's compulsive patterns and emerging with a clear and perceptive awareness, one would be in a real position to understand the big picture and act accordingly.

Research into systemic spirituality must be done in freedom from the corollary agendas introduced around the core principles of wisdom and spirituality by religion and the externally evolving society. Where they offer natural synergy, they are welcome to join for the ride powered by wisdom.

When ulterior agendas infringe with the symmetry and natural harmonics of the systemic wisdom of natural good practice, they are better kept confined within their respective individual domains. Battling with the interfering externals of spirituality for the better part of my adult life, I am fundamentally allergic to a spirit of stagnated dogmatism and adulterated agendas.

The objective of systemic spirituality is in examining and cross-systematizing the insights of all noteworthy and beneficial holistic models of thought. These patterns and principles of existence should be cross-contextualized and presented in as abstract terms as possible to allow extensive room for generic application of wisdom. Otherwise, we have but the lost and buried treasures of ages bygone to show as the assets of our past.

With an increased grasp of the movements of the human mind and the dynamics of the flux of its external environment, our perception becomes brighter in understanding what was, what is, and also what's likely to be — for a part of the future is heard as an echo of the past and the actions of the present, the remainder written in the practically invariable basic patterns of humanity and existence at large.

Revisiting some of the assumed basics of our current system may be in place.
If the premises of an equation neglect sets of fundamental principles and variables,
the underlying basic errors will cast a destructive reflection over future results.

Pondering: Modeling the Big Picture, Its Causality and Its Balance

This is an attempt at a working abstract definition and general model on the big picture. I have intentionally omitted mention of any particular affiliations of thought to better illustrate these principles on their own. They will each be studied in due time in more detail, both individually and comparatively, and placed to a larger grid allowing automated online comparisons, abstractions and two-way derivations.

These verbal expression in these texts is for the most part segmented into clear data-logical objects and relations to ease systematic and structured concept-formation and make them directly convertible into diagrams and databases. While this has been a relatively free-form draft for a definition, I intend to be more algebraic in the future — definitions need to be formulaic, well categorized and typed to allow for maximum ease of comparability and further computation.

The exact systems and models developed for this initiative revolve in perpetual state of beta, so expect the charts to grow, squeeze, bob and weave as they reach into the yonder sky. Further essays, schemas and flowcharts will be published in this journal whenever I find further time to commit into expressing abstract patterns and concepts in intelligible and universal terms and structures.

Let's collect every available wisdom pattern known to mankind on a universal and cross-referencing grid — towards a tomorrow with less confusion and conflict, equipped with a more universal access to the massive totality of our collective wisdom.

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