September trip

document status
Inactive, all elements addressed; maintained as a record

DAILY NOTES

Day 1 9/18

Return – prioritize and sequence

Planning – next trip | life //// needs now | Min trip ready (min weights)

All notes

Forest service (Ripstein), weather

No peanut butter

Cook week’s meals early; eat main meal early

Replenish / get – headlamp batteries, hiking pole tips, paper, ibuprofen, vitamins and meds, scouring pad; pack ready

tcrcd.net for big map

All return notes

Aging… think!

Losartan, hctz, and muscle loss

Aging and unknown or suppressed side effects of long-term use of meds for chronic conditions

Sugar and blood pressure

Day 5 9/22

Protection and strengthening of self

.isolation

.boundary

.emotional—not just physical self

.strengthening activities

.diet (essential foods, quantity, quality, routine)

.sleep

.exercise

.respect others

.avoid weaking

.alcohol

.sugar

.etc

.excess

Protein regimen

Access McKenzie gulch trail

about 40 min from Red Hill on Highway 299

just after a pile of rocks on the left and a sign on the right that says, “Slower Traffic Keep Right”.

Day 6

On moving

if I move where it is some distance to the essentials, get an e-bike; the essentials—

medical and dental services

groceries, bike stores, clothing, and general retail stores

nature, community, church, entertainment

work, money

Take control of essential aspects of life

medicines, health

people (where negative; where no positive input)

TWB OUTLINE

the elements of this document

.for all sections—summary

.for all concepts—what, why, how; relation to other meanings – ordinary and philosophical; and greatest depth of present meaning; the essential concepts (small capitals; lesser concepts are italicized and in brackets; comments are in regular font)—

exploration (of the real), worldview (and worldviews), history, abstraction, being (the verb to be—most inclusive and neutral form of; and existence; significance), a being (plural: beings; real, as if), the void (for which, to be is not to be; contra-diction, contrareal), natural law, the universe (its limitlessness), the ultimate, experience (and meaning and knowing; as essence of significant being; as extending to all being), the immediate (and the concrete), real metaphysics (with emergent epistemic-significant criteria; tradition), pathways (to the ultimate in and from the immediate; principles and practices; ways, traditional vs rational-empirical), becoming (has being)

Into the way of being

.what (it is)

.why (motive)

.human nature

.contentment

.pain

.seeking

.combinations

.limits of common and historical views of nature, human nature, and the human endeavor (worldviews)

.kinds of view

.common (putative)

.tacit

.science

.religion

.metaphysics

.conceptual

.active

.seeking (vs stasis)

.seeking is always nascent, at the beginning (in the world of the spirit)

.always needs refreshment (risk, retreat)

.overview

.the essentials (center → out, not top → down or bottom → up)

.the order (and why)

into the way (looking in) → being (what and why)→ metaphysics (the ultimate) → experience (global means, but need specific means) → the real metaphysics ← path principles → paths and ways → postscript (looking out, seeing the world afresh)

.descriptions

.summary

.on definitions

.on reading the way

.difficulties

.remedies

Being

.bareness of being

.what

.why

.neutrality

.metaneutrality

Metaphysics

.the fundamental principle and its meaning

.intimations of the ultimate

.on truth

there is a difference between (i) what is true for empirical, immediate, and practical or pragmatic purposes and (ii) what is true for absolute and ultimate purposes

…and the difference in principle is profound – even on empiricism; and it is shown that the difference is profound in fact

.on constructing metaphysics

.re the limits of imagination—not just human but of our being—about the question of whether we are limited to human form… we are not: we are absolutely limitless being even though we might not see it

.you cannot prove limits to our being or imagination without at least tacit assumption of some limits

Experience

.roughly the same as consciousness but more—i.e., not just ‘experience of’ things but

.awareness (felt)

.the structure of experience

.the experience (the concept)

.pure experience as experience with object as empty or null

.the experience itself (as relation, intention)

.the experienced (object)

.extension to the root of being

.motive and base of reasoning—the inadequacy of strict materialism and dualism

.possibility

.necessity

.consequent theory of meaning

.the theory

.necessity

.sufficiency

.application

.theory of being, problems of paradox and dialetheia

.nonexistent objects

.possible and impossible objects

.not as in “the candidate has thirty years of experience”

.problem of illusion

.problem of materialism (and idealism)

.the ‘main way’ – experiential → meditative, yogic, the way of science (experience so far)

The real metaphysics

The ultimate

.reasoning to the ultimate

.imagination

.imagining, allowing even the absurd

.metaimagination

.Wittgenstein

.David Lewis

.combinatorics

.science

.the imaginative literature

.stories

.wordplay; examples

.take away the object nothing and you are left with the object

.nothing has no law and therefore everything

.with nothing there is no thing, but everything and something

.questions

.are these just wordplay

.are they puzzles about the real

.are they clues to the depth of the real

.poetry

.framework

.guide

.proof

.forms of logic

.all is logic

.description

Pathways

.principles

.tradition (ways, religion, philosophy, schools such as existentialism)

.pathways

.everyday and immediate (this world)

.universal and ultimate (the universe)

.dedication and affirmation

Postscript

.attitude

.certainty and demonstration constitute one of the attitudes

.may and will have combinations (no purism except as it emerges), each assigned weight and resources

.risk

.don’t need science type contact with the real