Metattend: a phenomenology of wholeness

This is a training module for life coaches, care workers, health practitioners, and healers. We will focus on how to cultivate wholeness with in three ways through complementary niche, artistic style, and modesty. We will also practice a method of resolving the paradoxs of life. The methods of fasting, proper diet and wholesome behavior will also be covered. Please make a donation of $60 per session.

We will talk about what it means to have wholeness in our lives. We will also explore the various dimensions of wholeness.

Discriminating awareness is a way of seeing things as they are that honors our consciousness awareness. The popular ideal is an obscuring mental factor if the value placed in that domain. According to Schellers values we must above all else honor the wholesome. Placing our value in the domain of the popular is a degenerating mental factor, that leads to an inversion of values. We must see things as they are through dropping the natural attitude. This is away of vision or seeing, it is comprehension through the astetic sense. This was understood by Schopenhauer, that we must embody completeness through the development of astetics.

We will practice a meditation on breathing this is based on the movement of the body. It is best to have a knelling style bench for this. Please make a seggested donation of $30. Proceeds go to benefit widows like my wife and disabled children like my nephew and niece as well as benifiting the community of dharma practitioners.

In the game theory of economics there is the assumption that economic agents are selfish, however we know from research on altruism that people are fundamentally altruistic or utilitarian. The model of the selfish agent depends on the economic context of high or low trust. Who or what we make exchanges with makes a difference. People are naturally inclined to fairness. If people are fair then the trust levels of a region should be higher, if not then the trust levels will be lower. One important principle of fairness is to see others as they appear in fact and not according to our subjective perceptions and feelings. Economic exchange should reflect inner worth and not simply dollar signs. The currency sign is mearly an indicator, true wealth is an inner quality that develops from the equalizing principle of fairness. A fair and just society is an organic arrangement of economic being that honors a balance based on the phenomenology of necessity. This can be derived through Schellers understanding of value. An inversion of values will create low trust and economic disparity. A new game theory is purposed using the 7 fold logic of the Jains. An economic agent is then seen to be empty of essential nature on the one hand and on the other to have a nature of loving-kindness. By using this understanding we can create a society of universal flourishing.

Force Field Analysis was developed by Kurt Lewin. It is a way of analyzing social forces. Here we will understand that these are semiotic forces that are due to perception and the logic of attachment, aversion, and neutrality. We will see that this 3 fold logic can be expanded into a 7 fold logic where a person drops the natural attitude. We can then understand the value of astetics acts to create coherence among a group with an awareness of the wholesome. Coherent social fields lead to great states of trust and flourishing.

We will see how life is organized through the resolution of paradox. We will understand the methods we can use to resolve the paradoxs we encounter from day to day.

Populism has arisen periodically throughout history in different ways. It results from a preception of inequality or unfairness, it is marked by the emotion of Schadenfreude. It manifests as a kind of anti elitism which manifests from alienation. It happened in the time of world war 2. It manifests in 2 ways. In the form of nationalism and the form of communism. It usually takes the form of an economic dilemma. We will see how the work of E. F. Schumacher in his classic text Small is Beautiful solves the issue. Schumacher was heavily involved in the post war economic recovery in Germany and Japan. We need to pay special attention to what he has to say. Please bring a donation.

A Philosopher King/Queen embodies a principle of unity within themselves that is a unity within diversity. This is essentially an ability to instill modesty and respect, qualities that allow the populace to flourish. It is in a sense a form of universal hospitality. Please bring a seggested $10 donation.

We will talk about what it means to have wholeness in our lives. We will also explore the various dimensions of wholeness.