Design and Planning for The Way of Being

Anil Mitra, Copyright © March 4, 2026

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Contents

Summary

Aim of the summary

Realization – live the way

Publication and advertising

Realization and writing

Meta—design for design and this document

Live the way

Overview

General

My life and ground

Write

Preliminary

Sequence

Cyclic

Styles

Plan

The styles by significance

The styles in alphabetic order

Structure of the way

Ground

Origins of the way

Overview of the way of being

Experience

Its nature and structure

As the place of significance and out being

Value and choice

Linguistic meaning, knowledge, argument

Sufficient conditions for the universe to be an experiential field

Being

Existence, objects and beings, being

Beings (with a hint of mereology)

Metaphysics

What metaphysics is

Possibility, logic, existence of the void, dialetheia

Limitlessness and some essential consequences

Metaphysics ‘proper’

Becoming

Life trajectories

Design

Paths

Programs

Site structure and planning

Site

Home and other main pages

Essays on the way and pathways

Secondary resources for use and site development—documents and folders

Resources for site development

Currently important

Older

Versions of the site

External resources

The following is a brief set that may be useful

For surreal numbers

Possible worlds and possibilities

Ethics

Meaning

Reason, logic, knowledge

Politics and economics

Other topics

Plan

Net plan

Making the documents (essays)

Design and Planning for The Way of Being

Summary

Aim of the summary

Have (i) an accessible overview of the design (ii) a basis for a compact rewritten version.

Realization – live the way

Program.

Daily routine.

Dimensions (categories).

In the world – u-p-n-s-tech: immersive-instrumental + learn-experience-share-read-reflect-write-advertise-publish – cycle…

immersive – u-p-n-s, i.e., universe and experience, nature and society

instrumental – u-p-n-s, particularly, (i) social action and change and (ii) theory and technology for exploration of being, life, and space – as independent and co-agency

Publication and advertising

Realize, experience, share, read, reflect, write, advertise, publish cycle.

Site—essence, appeal, invite, image size, relinking.

Main works—this (design and planning), master, brief essence, informal, home.

Realization and writing

These are mainly author resources for developing and living the way. They may be useful to readers who are interested in sharing the way and in greater detail than in the previous section.

Meta—design for design and this document

Id all design docs, minimize, systematize (this doc being one of a few, after reduction)

Minimize and systematize this doc

Live the way

Overview

The cryptic below is for the author.

In the world – u-p-n-s-tech: immersive-instrumental + learn-experience-share-read-reflect-write-advertise-publish – cycle…

General

Site home > design and planning (this document) > essays (axiomatic, informal, brief, long) – see site home.

My life and ground

Begin with zero > my life > the world.dotm (pdf) > trips.

Living and activities that contribute to the way, its dimensions, sharing, and implementing.

Write

Write especially, open (it has its own plan), in the field. When developments in are complete, detail and remaining material will be imported here.

Preliminary

Carefully consider styles. Introduce ‘mini-only’?

Since long and mini are derived from open, styles should be implemented for at most three docs – d & p, open, and informal. This could be reduced to just one, if d &p were incorporated to open and informal derived from open.

Sequence

Mini and open – c-o > mini = semantic definitions and results (‘theorems’).

Then example / explanation / illumination / place in history of ideas / meanings.

Cyclic

To be combined with writing the documents in open

Minimize the cycle

Collapse

Sources

Reserve (excursions)

Open

Brief, long, informal

Live, experience, reflect, construct, write, synthesize, outline

“The world”

Home level pages

Design and planning – options (i) put this document in open (ii) import writing the documents from open to this document.

Styles

Plan

Absorb styles from this document to all functional documents..

For mini-print of essays use print\the way of being-print.dotm.

The styles by significance

Except for styles in character styles, all styles are paragraph.

Meta

Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Source or study topic – Alt + V

Site source – Alt + W

Source or study topic – Ctrl + 8

Essential

Paragraph styles

Central – Alt + M – material that is the center of the center – out approach – documents: all

Main-mini – Ctrl + 9 – core material – complements ‘Central’ – documents: all

Definition – Alt + F

Definition Informal – Alt + E

MiniOnly – Ctrl + 7 – documents: mini

Long – Alt + L – long – documents: long and open

Main – Alt + Z – important: documents: open and essential only (will be deprecated)

Open – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + O – documents: open

Character styles

Definition character – character style for defined and some important terms – Alt + K

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style – headings and content not to appear in short versions

DocOnly – Alt + D – character style

Hyperlink (hyperlinks may also be underlined)

LongOnly – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + L – character style – documents: long

OpenOnly – Alt + O – character style – documents: open – material that will not (necessarily) be retained for published documents

PrintOnly – Alt + P – character style

WebOnly – Alt + Y – character style

General

Title – Alt + T

Subtitle – Alt + S

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Normal Indent 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + J – for greater detail without purpose

Base – Alt + B – general comments

General – Alt + G – general comments, detailed

Personal – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + P – style for personal material – documents: optionally in open only

Right – Alt + Shift + R – for body text level content (Normal style with right alignment and light blue font)

Temporary – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + T – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Realization

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization – general reader

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – geared to realization – ‘advanced’ (a slant)

Academic

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader (a slant)

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 or Alt + Ctrl + @ – subsidiary concepts

Definition – Alt + F

Definition Informal – Alt + E

The styles in alphabetic order

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader (a slant)

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Base – Alt + B – general comments

Central – Alt + M – material that is the center of the center – out approach – documents: all

Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 or Alt + Ctrl + @ – subsidiary concepts

Definition – Alt + F

Definition Informal – Alt + E

Definition character – character style for defined and some important terms – Alt + K

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style – headings and content not to appear in short versions

DocOnly – Alt + D – character style

General – Alt + G – general comments, detailed

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Hyperlink (hyperlinks may also be underlined)

Long – Alt + L – long – documents: long and open

LongOnly – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + L – character style – documents: long

Main – Alt + Z – important: documents: open and essential only (will be deprecated)

Main-mini – Ctrl + 9 – core material – complements ‘Central’ – documents: all

MiniOnly – Ctrl + 7 – documents: mini

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Normal Indent 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + J – for greater detail without purpose

Open – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + O – documents: open

OpenOnly – Alt + O – character style – documents: open – material that will not (necessarily) be retained for published documents

Personal – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + P – style for personal material – documents: optionally in open only

PrintOnly – Alt + P – character style

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization – general reader

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – geared to realization – ‘advanced’ (a slant)

Right – Alt + Shift + R – for body text level content (Normal style with right alignment and light blue font)

Site source – Alt + W

Source or study topic – Alt + V

Source or study topic – Ctrl + 8

Subtitle – Alt + S

Temporary – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + T – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Title – Alt + T

WebOnly – Alt + Y – character style

Structure of the way

The aims of this structure – outline are

To present essential topics and concepts.

To have them be presented so as to easily reorder them from alternate perspectives, e.g., being v experience, ideas v action…

Ground

This section is informal. It is ‘the way into the way of being’.

Origins of the way

My experience, choices, and life trajectory

A search for insight, knowledge, beauty, and becoming

My learning in human endeavor, culture, and knowledge

Common views of the world and their limits

The secular, transsecular, and metaphysics, their valid and erroneous aspects; that they are mutually limiting

Errors in the common views of what is empirical and rational; how they are limiting

Overview of the way of being

Lifting the limits of the errors

Fundamental concepts, method, and use

Possibility and limitlessness

Essential consequences

Experience

experience, experience of or concept, relation, the experienced or object

significance

value and choice

concept, object, meaning, word, grammar, semantics, knowledge, argument (knowledge criteria, fact, inference or reason)

Its nature and structure

What it is

Experience

Experience of experience

Structure

Experiential relation

Quality, form, experiencing (time)

As the place of significance and out being

Significance as ‘meaning of life’, ‘well-being’

Value and choice

Primary and secondary value

The good, and the right

Linguistic meaning, knowledge, argument

Align / combine this with the discussion of possibility and logic in possibility, logic, existence of the void, dialetheia.

Meaning

Concept, object, meaning (meaning to word vs words having meaning), word, grammar,

Knowledge

Meaning realized

knowledge,

Argument

Fact and inference

Fact

Kinds

Necessary v observed

Certain v likely

Precise v rough

Establishment

Measurement

Experimental corroboration

Theoretical and logical corroboration

Inference

Kinds

Certain v likely

Deduction v induction / abduction / analogy

Nonampliative v ampliative

Logic v science

Establishing validity of inferential systems

Sufficient conditions for the universe to be an experiential field

Being

Existence, objects and beings, being

Beings (with a hint of mereology)

Metaphysics

What metaphysics is

Knowledge of the real

Metaphysics has already begun – and is therefore possible

But much more is possible – and metaphysics will be realized in two senses of ultimacy (but will remain in process while beings are limited)

Criteria for knowledge involve objectivity and value

There is a realm of objectivity – especially the ultimate framework

But within that framework, metaphysics is not merely optimized over precision and value, but value and knowledge have an essential integration (and, of course, there is knowledge of value)

Necessity of metaphysics

Science is metaphysics

Possibility, logic, existence of the void, dialetheia

Development of the ideas

The logic of the void is no logic or the zero logic.

Foundation in necessity

The foundation

Necessity over essence (e.g., substance) or regress (in time or things)

Limitlessness and some essential consequences

Metaphysics ‘proper’

The range of metaphysics

Ontology

Epistemology for metaphysics

The clearly and less clearly seen; bringing the latter into relief via focus and abstraction

Dual epistemology

Value and meaning

Categories

Cosmology

General

Cosmology of form and formation

Cosmology of experiential being

Physical cosmology

Becoming

Life trajectories

In and for the individual and the world

Aiming at the ultimate in, for, and from the world

Design

Aim

Inputs

Meaning and value

Knowledge base

The metaphysics, especially as culminating in the categories

Considerations

Quality and form

Paths and programs

Adequate address of the knowledge base

I.e., of the dimensions of being and becoming as rendered in the categories

Design for individuals, institutions, and society

Flexibility and adaptability to a range of personality types, contexts, and projects

Structure of the paths and programs

Paths

Programs

Generic

Program for my life and the way of being

Adaptable and flexible template(s)

Paths

Programs

Site structure and planning

This section lists main resources for (i) living (ii) developing the way. The emphasis is on interests of author and readers.

Site

Home and other main pages

Home, essays (with resources), author.

For mobile design, see mobile.

Essays on the way and pathways

Begin with master as is.

Add material on meaning such that it gives meaning and helps cultivate to a wide range of personal orientations).

Master

Current

The master will remain in open development. It is not primarily for publication. Rather, it is a document from with the following essays will be constructed (as in making the documents).

The open document will have definitions of important styles but most styles and source material is in the next document.

Rewriting… begin with the outline

How to write the outline… (i) Ab initio? (ii) Begin with a trial for paths and programs? (iii) Begin with main outline and c – o statements

The dimensions of experience

Static,

In a human life, over time.

Design and planning (this document)

This document. Also not an essay. After execution, some of its residual content may be absorbed to one of the other documents.

Mini or essential

The mini or essential version is ‘pure’—emphasizing definitions, derivations, and results.

From master, identify content emphasizing center – out presentation.

Second mini or essential

A second, newer, mini version has a newer arrangement, newer treatment of ethics (of which some is incorporated to the master) and other material, and newer sequencing of topics.

Informal

Begin with mini, following its structure more closely to reconstruct the informal version. Define styles for it.

Long

Import the remainder – including ‘Normal’ and relevant ‘Comments’ and fill out. This is long.

Possible essay slants

Realization and academic—consider appropriate styles.

Folders

Starting with 2024-a, identify main folders and content, and possibly transfer to 2026.

Secondary resources for use and site development—documents and folders

These resources enhance understanding and implementing the way of being. The resources for development, below, may also be useful.

Inspiration

Currently in the printables folder.

Topics

Currently in the stems, snippets, canonical material folder.

Printable versions of the way of being

Currently in the print folder.

Knowledge

The documents, (i) a system of knowledge.docm (html) (ii) a system of knowledge-supplement.docm (html) (folder).

Plans are in the documents.

Received or traditional ways of being, e.g., world religions

The document, received ways of realization.docm (html) (folder).

Planning is in the document.

World problems and opportunities

The document, world problems and opportunities.docm (html) (folder).

Planning is now in the document.

Dialetheia

The document, dialetheia.docm (html) (folder), may be useful as (i) informative (ii) material for a publication.

Planning is now in the appendices of the document.

Database

Plan

With optional sep.

Currently no main document.

Sources

the way of being.mdb.

Resources for site development

The following are site pages. For other resources, see external resources above.

These resources are intended for use in developing the way and the site—for me and others who want to contribute.

Currently important

The content folder has details for the main site documents.

The versions folder has some documents that may be useful, including outline of the way-January 27, 2025.docm and the way of being - essential-July 25, 2025.docm.

The document, the way of being-plain.docm (html) (folder), especially the preview.

The detailed document, journey in being.docm (html) (folder), resource version of 2021.

The detailed document, little manual.docm (html) (folder) of 2022 – 2024. It has material on dialetheia, the source of logic, and a language for metaphysics (vocabulary), and more.

Older

Documents of lesser importance to development and use of the way.

The documents may have intrinsic interest.

General

metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.docm (html) (folder).

what is philosophy.docm (html) (folder).

toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder).

necessity of being.docm (html) (folder) being founded in itself – in absolute necessity.

dimensions of being, experience, and the world.docm (html) (folder) dimensions and paradigms of being and experience.

language for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder) part of the little manual (html) (folder) (see above).

journey in being.docm#lexicon (html) (folder) [earlier lexicon].

Principles of Reason (html) (folder) has some thoughts toward method.

Journey in Being (html) (folder) has a lexicon and a history of the metaphysics, which may be useful to the lessons.

Realization--resource version (html) (folder) more on history and another lexicon.

The Way of Being (html) (folder) has a brief glossary.

fundamental paradigms for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder).

Special topics

abstract objects.docm (html) (folder).

the year.docm (html) (folder) ‘journal 2024’ has further material on dialetheia and planning an essay on dialetheia.

god.docm (html) (folder) a conception of god as (i) arising from the real metaphysics (ii) immanent (iii) a becoming of which all beings are a part.

the way of being – database.docm (html) (folder) preliminary to a database of concepts and more.

Historical interest

journey in being.docm (html) (folder) – original version of 2002 – 2003.

archive of old documents – folder.

Archived essays as of 2010—archive directory, index of archived essays

Versions of the site

Current—2026 (there will be no 2025 version)

Current / recent—2024-a

Archived home pages—1999, 2002, 2005, 13, 17, 19, 19+, 21, 22, 23, 24.

External resources

Current sources that may be used (i) directly (ii) to create a more complete listing (also see database).

The detailed document, little manual.docm (html) (folder) of 2022 – 2024 has an extensive list of external resources.

Suggested reading (2022).

Useful links and the compact daily links.

Main influences for the way.

The following is a brief set that may be useful

My influences, especially

Aristotle

Descartes

Hegel

Heidegger

Hume

Kant

Leibniz

Locke

Plato

Priest

Quine

Samkara

Spinoza

Some topics –

AI

dialetheism

emergence of first order logic

first order logic with substitution

god (hiddenness of and necessary beings)

Heidegger on Being

logic and logical calculi

logic and ontology

physical cosmology

set theory with ZF axioms (axiom of choice)

surreal numbers

universal logic and algebra

Also see

For surreal numbers

https://www.tondering.dk/download/sur16.pdf

https://www.whitman.edu/Documents/Academics/Mathematics/Grimm.pdf

Possible worlds and possibilities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibility_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_plenitude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_possibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/afterlife/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-ultimates/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-timaeus/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-objects/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-worlds/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simulations-science/

Ethics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

Meaning

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning-holism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/word-meaning/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning-normativity/

Reason, logic, knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Foundations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(logic)

https://iep.utm.edu/propositional-logic-sentential-logic/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/infinity/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox > Quine's classification

Politics and economics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/economics/ – philosophy of economics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/global-democracy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/world-government/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/

https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo - world economic outlook

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy

AI searches for “sustainable politics and economy for the world that focuses on stability and sustainability and quality life for all people” and “world political-economy for sustainability, stability, and quality of life”

Other topics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/categories/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience

Plan

Net plan

Mini > export to 2026, realization and writing

Making the documents (essays)

Master

the way of being - master.docm (html)

Planning for the master is in design and planning.docm (html).

Long

the way of being - long.docm (html)

Save open (docm) as long (docm).

Eliminate Styles Open and OpenOnly.

Format styles black.

Edit title at top of page.

Update style Normal as Indent 20px.

Format style Open as light blue (HSL 156,255,180)

Update tocs.

Format tables of contents black and all caps font size 13.5, everything not bold, and then Titles, Heading 1 and 2, and TOC 1 bold.

Deal with red font as needed.

Mini (essence)

the way of being - mini.docm (html)

Save open as mini.

Eliminate styles Long and LongOnly.

Eliminate red font or stars or both.

Update tocs.

Brief essence

the way of being - brief essence.docm (html)

thus far this is independent of the master

Informal

the way of being - informal.docm (html)

Current

Not currently made by reduction from open but by review of what’s relevant to general readers.

Tentative outline—

As it is

Intelligence

More on pathways

Action

More to be determined.

Next

Derive from open using, e.g., style ‘informal’ or ‘informal only.

HTML

Save as html using dedicated routine.