Elements of my Unified Quality Theory the Quality and Quantification of Perception and the assumption of my basic principles necessary:
I've spent a fair amount of time on this over the years, and watching paint dry might be more fascinating to some; its a passion of mine and hopefully at the end of the day it doesn't end up beginning another "Oral History of the World" ... Here are the elements I draw upon while watching the quality of light change at dawn and dusk.
Understanding that Oriental Philosophy is not eastern religious dogma ...where to begin ... after a honors economics seminar with Dr. Hunt and his gracious hospitality I guess my brain started working ... a very real 'personal problem'. Basically I was majoring in altered states, frisbee golf, racquet ball, ex-cheerleaders, and abnormal psychology. I stumbled across the 'traditional gaps' or pot holes in the collective reality that general western traditional philosophy filled in quite nicely. I was exposed the Classical Westerns (Greek, Roman, European, and near modern dead guys) and caught a glimpse of my first oriental's chop ducking around a corner ... Two universities later the 'personal problem' as it had become was further obscured by anthropology, Islamic mystics, and almost all of eastern recorded knowledge. For the purposes here I will define Eastern Philosophy as originating in Pan-India, migrating into post-prehistorical China, and later flooding back over and into the greater Orient and into its religions.
It should be noted that Philosophy and Religion are often merged and occasionally mired in an interdependence of screwy dogma and ritual - but I still ain't no Buddhist, American or otherwise; and my Jesus is not "some white guy with a tan ..." I regret not being able to illuminate this and the general existence of God to Sheila but hope that in the pursuit of hard science and the necessary dogma and ritual required in the pursuit of its secrets eventually illuminates its origins; if merely by its unique singular occurrences. Monkey Boys, the finite can not know the infinite - without some help or the attraction of your attention - so following the bouncing, nee 'jumping' ball. (I didn't buy a 250.00 ticket to listen to the Dalai Lama, nor did I elect to pony up a few Gs to have a private session with the reincarnate one! I guess this means Steven Seagal won't be inviting me to his next seminar, or letting me be in his next movie - cause now he wears wires - I think its funny. Dali-wanna-do-da-day Steve don't hurt me!)
On the usefulness of Zen - the philosophical construct from pan India - via China after the last mini Ice Age. NOT American Buddhist zen (the new age baby boomer 'generation of swine' popularized low culture garbage can definition of popular opinion this week). May I express a special FU for all you failed Catholics and hacks everywhere for garbaging zen up with ABz! Or simply making it up - Gott im Himmel - its not a drink recipe; or a line, gees. Just get a tattoo instead and call it a day! Ok?!! And if you must chant, at least make your own zaffu instead of buying it at Target; and use a fiberglass tray on the forehead with both hands please (I recommend you steal one from Saborros). And please remember the Zen Meditation Center needs your check book cupcakes.
Transcendentalism of Perception to include the west's blend.
Absolute in Neo-Vedenta - an interesting and required tangent.
Not Ayn Rand - we need to be clear on this - not Rand ok.
Enlightenment (enlightenment.supersaturated.com) is an organization launched in spring 1999 whose mission "is to discover, encourage, develop, publish, and promote Objectivist scholars and scholarship." Take a gander.
Transcendentalism in America
Dr. Constance Noble Stockton, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, directed me to do a paper on whether or not it could be that Emerson got his hands a copy of the Bhagavadgita. As it turns out he did ... and the rest is American philosophy history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Key statements of his doctrine include:
Nature (1836)
The American Scholar (1837)
The Divinity School Address" (1838)
The Transcendentalist (1842), and "Self-Reliance"
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Mary Moody Emerson
Understanding of Cultural Factorization:
"After spending an evening with partially educated, drunk Catholics, trying to communicate on a specific apples to apples basis of common definitions - in order to argue successfully - it occured to me that these college educated drunk Catholics didn't have the basic information needed to succeed in their viewpoints through the wall of a wet paper bag" Dean Chapman October, 2003.
Before we can delve into psychology, philosophy, religion, or politics successfully we need to understand the fundamentals of the human nature - physically, socially, and culturally. Here is my outline regarding that research:
Anthropological concepts
* Behavioral modernity * Colonialism * Culture * Ethnicity * Exchange and Reciprocity * Family * Gender role * Kinship and descent * Marriage * Political systems * Race * Religion * Subsistence * Transculturation
Digging a little deeper into Anthropological fields and subfields
* Biological anthropology (also Physical anthropology) * Forensic anthropology * Paleoethnobotany * Cultural anthropology (also Social anthropology) * Applied anthropology * Radical Anthropology * Cross-Cultural Studies * Cyber anthropology * Development anthropology * Environmental anthropology * Economic anthropology * Ethnomusicology * Medical anthropology * Psychological anthropology * Political anthropology * Anthropology of religion * Public anthropology * Visual anthropology * Linguistic anthropology * Synchronic linguistics (or Descriptive linguistics) * Diachronic linguistics (or Historical linguistics) * Ethnolinguistics * Sociolinguistics * Archaeology
