The origins of this outline of personal design, based in knowing and self-awareness, dreams and vision, are in the development of my own sense of purpose. As this sense became varied and at the same time more explicit, I felt a need to center it and at the same time give it organization and unity

My interests and passions have included beauty and service. Beauty: in nature, humanity, the inner or psychic world, and the universal or sacred - representing four fundamental areas of relationship; and in human knowledge of these dimensions - science and humanities. Service: to these dimensions through exploration, adventure, discovery, unification, application, and through transmission of which education is an aspect

Among my interests have been philosophy, psychology and design. The unity, or inseparability, from a functional viewpoint, of philosophy, psychology, and design becomes clear--a problem of academic specialization. These interests provide some main threads of the centering and unity. Philosophy does so by showing the dimensions of experience, relationship, knowledge, and by providing an essential unity; psychology by showing or mirroring this unity in humans and by pointing to human will to the miraculous, to our highest being, and by showing the blocks to this development. Design by providing an efficient method to organize and unify the multifold aspects of my development and to provide an approach to choices for the future. To a significant degree, the philosophy, psychology, and design me personal

1.2 Objectives

The purposes of this outline are:

· Unify and organize my personal design: the main areas of content and method me stated in Chapter 1.t; to these 1 add the necessity of self-knowledge and growth

· Provide the initial design in outline; provide implementation for projects and priorities

· Provide a philosophy of personal design: in outline this will include the philosophy, psychology and method: this is inherent to this outline article. Further development may be appropriate. A partial basis is my essay “Life, Unity, and Meaning”

1.2.1 Outline of basis, method, and priorities of design

Philosophical basis: chapter 2

· The basic dimensions of being are the natural, social, inner w physic, universal w sacred. The basic processes of personal, social and universal transition are awareness [vision --> values --> needs and wants] --> knowledge [process] --> design and planning --> action --> control --> evaluation --> feedback

· The unity of basic dimensions and processes are seen through necessity [humans, unitary beings, are of the universe], through structure and hierarchy, and through evolution. Implications for the individual are that for full health all dimensions of being are essential: humans art healthy when we attempt to be our highest being

Psychological basis: chapter 3

Based in philosophy, and also empirically, for full health humans must integrate the dimensions of being for these are manifest in our environment and mirrored in our self. The progression of growth is natural --> social --> inner --> universal. These reflect the dimensions of human need, wants, values, and vision

A process of transition is the cycle of awareness -->,...,--> feedback. Awareness is fundamental and there are many traditional systems. Essentially, awareness is openness to truth and centering of the self in creation. The dual process is of opening the sell to its highest potential and of working with blocks to openness

The universal includes what is unknown and the realm of the unknown exceeds the realm of the known. So, openness to the universal is highly practical

There is value in dissipation and play

Method and design: Chapter 4

There are appropriate balances of ‘be”-ing and design [method]: and appropriate diversities. These me consequences of philosophy and psychology

The method is a system of priorities, which includes a hierarchy of needs spanning the natural...to the...universal. This system naturally includes “be”-ing, awareness, play and so on. The basic process awareness --> knowledge -->...is a priority. Control in the sense of centering is also a priority. The priorities are hierarchized, but only partially--because of the unknown: this could be formalized

A separate, practical, compact and portable lilt of active priorities is kept, their hierarchy implied. Also included: centering: and noting new thoughts

Where appropriate, action will Imply] be specified

Priorities: Chapter 5

Categories of project according to philosophy, psychology, and method and design

A partial list/hierarchy of priorities: more complete list of ongoing [including currently inactive] projects in “projects” Tile

Urgent/emergency situations...could be an implicit/explicit part of the hierarchization

These projects and priorities are mine: their organizations reflect my needs--specifically my interests are diverse

2 Philosophical Basis for Design

2.1 Basic Dimensions of Being

The basic dimensions of being those humans can recognize are:

Natural

Social or artifactual--and secular

Inner or psychic, and

Universal or sacred

These dimensions represent stages in evolution. The natural presents the material nature of things: physical, chemical and biological. Thus the “brain” is natural. The social level is an outcome of the natural but is most conveniently described, not in terms of material properties, but in terms of hierarchic-emotional-cognitive interactions within a group of organisms. Such interactions have a basis in the natural, no doubt: but such a basis of description would be enormously complex and of little value. A hierarchy of intermediate descriptions could provide a convenient unity. The distinction is, in part, one of convenience and appropriateness of description

Since the relationship and structures within the social world, and the byproduct8 of the social world are created, are products of the social interactions and invention: this world can also be called artifactual. The artifacts, natural and institutional, have value and this value is highly dependent on the nature of the social individual

The inner or psychic world is, to a significant degree, an artifact of society. The child begins to absorb cultural meaning at a pre-symbolic/analytic stage of development, thus the individual’s sense of being is not merely cognitive-emotive but highly organismic, and, so, the artifactual nature of reality is largely hidden from the symbolic self. Additionally the individual’s stability is dependent on this artifactual sense of self and reality, therefore difficult to question

2.2 The Universal

Despite the highly artifactual sense of sell of individuals in society, the individual can attempt to decipher what is real. The dimensions of reality include the reality of nature including the real nature of the organism--the body; the reality of social meaning and interaction; and the reality of the self. One of the reasons why such a reality is valuable is that the entire structure of artifactual meaning is context dependent. The context is the inner or the relationships within society, and the outer w environmental. Changes in context undermine the artifactual. But this is why emergence from artifactual reality is so difficult. Because social structure is so dependent on the individual’s absorption in social meaning, this meaning must have a firm hold on the individual. The universal provides a base for reality. Meanings of the universal include:

Physical universe,

Truth behind artifactual or created meaning,

Transcendence of the social self,

The unknown in nature, humans, self, and cosmos

In the sense of the unknown, the universal is neither good nor evil. It is unknown not only in the sense of ignorance but in that it represents as yet unfulfilled evolutionary pathways and so there is no individual, species or organismic basis for its knowledge. And because there is more unknown than known, openness to the universal is good. This is not a contradiction, for the use of good and evil in the first sentence of this paragraph is in an artifactual sense

In the sense of the truth behind created meaning, the value is in critical choices for society and individual

The physical universe is our home. Here were we created and here is our final meaning and destiny. When the world fails, this remains

Transcendence of the social-self is the path to the universal, first in the self and then through transcendence of the true self to the universal in the cosmic

2.3 The Basic Processes

The basic processes of personal, social and universal transition me:

Awareness [vision: visions and dreams --> values --> wants and needs] --> knowledge [processes] --> design and planning --> implementation or action --> control --> evaluation --> feedback

2.4 Unity

I have written the essay Life. Unity, and Meaning as a philosophical basis of [personal] decision. This essay shows the basis of the basic dimensions [2.l] and processes [2.3] in evolution. The basic dimensions correspond to the fundamental structure of evolution, and the basic processes are the adaptive processes of these structures. The processes of Chapter 2.3 correspond to human [social], personal [inner, self], and universal levels

Since evolution builds by differentiating basic structures, adaptively specializing and integrating. There is an organic, evolutionary unity to the basic structures and processes. A philosophical basis is in the fact that humans [life] is unitary and therefore the universes of perception and being must be identical, and this single universe must be a web of interconnections. The essay [LUM] discusses, more fully, foundations and details of this unity and its value

A vision [value] related question I have considered is that of design in the universe. The argument, in outline, is: the origin of life and human consciousness is in evolution; humans do play a role in our own design--if limited and “imperfect”: for design and purpose on large scales, no new concept is needed--only new scales of time and space; we may be[come] a part of a larger scale: consciousness is a necessary agent of life’s independence from its own evolutionary past--the conscious individual is being in microcosm. The probabilities of these arguments are to be based in the unitary nature of the universe

2.5 The Value of Integration

The essential value is the reduction of alienation. Humans are aware of, live in, and appreciate the full dimensions of being. Our use of resources is balance and contained

The individual has free choice in determining which realms he wants to identify with and assign reality status. I felt it worthwhile to offer him the insight that his personal design for life should include designs, as far as his power permits, for his wider system: and information, as far as his knowledge permits, of that wider system. I also felt it valuable to offer for his consideration the idea of search for the broadest and highest of all possible views. I offer only a search, for the view in this essay is not a detailed one of the universal but an abstract of it..

When each individual fills in the details of the dimensions of being according to their own true vision, they fulfill themselves and contribute to the adaptive potential of the community

2.6 An Organization of The Dimensions Of Being

Corresponding to the interactions for humans, the four levels of being--nature. Society. Psychic. And universal--are four levels of relationship--humanity-nature. Human-human, human- self, and human-universe. The order of evolution and the order of development [Chapter 3] correspond to the order stated here

An organization in terms of levels of inclusiveness is:

Universal-sacred [humanity and cosmos]

Vision

World-secular [human and human; human and nature]

Social [and psychological]

Technical [technology]

Environment

Values

Individual-personal [human and self]

Material, biological, and psychological

Needs and wants

I do not distinguish between needs and wants. Values are needs and wants at the world level. By vision I mean needs, rants, values and knowledge at the universal level...at this level then is no distinction between values and knowledge

A possible misinterpretation of self-focus is “selfishness’. A human’s first sense of self is social, and focus on this self is focus on social meaning. Focus on further development of self. Though not always successful, is the essential source of insight for society and individual. And if the individual becomes trapped in the vicissitudes of this transition, it may be that the organismic “indoctrination” is too complete. When the transition is complete the individual is free--their vision is true--and. though the individual may be perceived as a threat to the established order. They are a source of true freedom. Their source of freedom as a free being is their vision into the universal or appropriately, the sacred

3 Psychological Basis For Design

Philosophical considerations have shown the basic dimensions of being and the process of growth dong these dimensions. Psychological considerations will show us [1] the meaning of these dimensions of being for humans and the basis of the natural progression of growth of our psychology [and biology], and [2] the psychodynamic problems of the growth process--giving insight int