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Update 20 Sept 06 - Last week I finished the first draft of my essay "An Intregral/Holistic Metaparadigm", sent it off to a couple of guys to get their feedback before submitting it to Frank Visser's Integral World website. The process of writing it helped me develop my ideas some more (as writing generally does). So I now have some new ideas for my universal explanation of everything, which i want to add on my site. For a while I had let this go because i was feeling a bit disillusioned with over-intellectualism, but now I feel I can return to this subject with a better perspective.

Update 10 July 06 - The tentative title for my book is now Evolution, Metamorphosis, and Divinisation. I scrapped the old title because "Metaphysic" implies a mental conception, which in turn implies being limited to one's Mental Bubble or trapped in one's Mental Fortress.

Updates - old Index page, since rewritten

Update 10 July 06 (updated 20 Sept 06) The following pages were written some time back, and represent some tentative first steps at formulating a universal and unified esoteric science; one which works alongside and with scientific method. It is suggested that such a universal, or "integral", paradigm could constitute a wider framework into which human knowledge, in all its facets, can be placed.Currently this section is not being revised as my ideas have evolved further and some of these conceptual maps no longer reflect my current understanding. I am however busy on other projects, so have left these pages up for now, but will hopefully get around to revising them at some later point. My current projects include two essays - "Towards a Larger Definition of the Integral" (first essay in three parts -  part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, Integral World websiteand "Towards a Larger Definition of the Integral (II)", and a book, Evolution, Metamorphosis, and Divinisation. See also  my zaadz blog and  blogspot blog for occaisonal announcements of where my thinking is going at the moment, or reports of work in progress.

Contents:
(more to be added...)

(note: although the table of contents is arranged as if in a linear fashion (including chapter numbering), it is not necessary to follow any specific sequence. In keeping with the spirit of the Web, the pages represent a "democratic" network in which none is necessarily prior to or more important than another. The arrangement given here is purely provisional and simply for convenience. In addition, almost all these pages have links to elsewhere in the kheper website)

Update 23 Mar 06 - Work on this website is proceeding slowly, becaus eof priority being given to work on my book Towards an Integral Metaphysic. The book includes and revises the material on this site.

Update 26 Apr 06 - Once the manuscript of Towards an Integral Metaphysic is finished I will be radically revising some of thes epages, in keeping with my new insights. See also my blog for where my thinking is going at the moment..

Update 31 August 07 - Some of this material is being transferred to a new directory

Shorter Contents 

In a nutshell

• Related Essays
  • The Grand Synthesis - A brief historical overview (incomplete)
  • Esoteric Science (prequal to the present work)
  • Comment on "Theory of Everything"
  - comment by Steven Guth on my work and theory
• A New Integral Paradigm
  • Introduction
  • Basic Principles, Epistemology, and Methodology
  • Metaphysics - the nature of Consciousness/Reality
  • Basic Diagrams of Reality
  • The Absolute Reality - Philosophical Thesis
  • Cosmology, Involution, and Evolution
  • Individual, Social, and Spiritual Development
  • Spiritual Evolution and Transformation
• Appendixes:
  • Glossary
  • Links to Other (different) Attempts at Metaphysical Grand Unification

Unmanifest Absolute / Unmanifest Sachchidananda
Unmanifest and Manifest Absolute / Manifest Sachchidananda  Unmanifest <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Manifest includes the following realities: Sat, Chit-Tapas, Ananda, SupraMind
Sat / Shunya / Paramatman / Absolute Truth	Chit-Tapas/Shakti/ Transcendent	Ananda / Delight	Supra-Mind/ Truth-Idea-Will		Kalyptos / Hidden Depths
					Life / Love / Pathotism
	Cosmic Shakti				Mind / Essence / Archetype
		Divine Soul/Love	Divine Mind / Overmind / Atzilut / Relative Absolute
Levels of insight / self realisation	Intermediate Zone / Levels of siddhi / Between Cosmic and Individual		Universe of Spiritual Mind (Illumination / Revelation)
		Inner Being	Universe of Thought / Ideational Reality (Spectrum of Consciousness)
Avidya Samsara / Kleshas Relative Truth			Universe of Desire / Will (Higher and Lower Planes)
			Universe of Form / Structure - includes the following:
			Inner Physical Divine Being . . . .	Yang/Celestial Archetypal	Transpersonal	SupraCausal Physical
	Individual being Finite / Limited Self			Archetypal	Spiritual	Causal Physical
					Astral Etheric	Subtle Physical
		Outer Being / Desire Soul / Lower Self			Physical Etheric	Gross Physical (sphere of evolution)
				Yin / Chthonic Archetypal	Undersoul
					Negation / Inconscience

This thesis proposes that the nature, dynamics, and evolution of Consciousness and Reality can be mapped according to a number of specific parameters. Upon this grand canvas, all the more specific details about the nature of the individual and the cosmos, and the various fields of human knowledge, can be painted.

Update 26 Apr 06 - Once the manuscript of Towards an Integral Metaphysic is finished I will be radically revising some of thes epages, in keeping with my new insights. See also my blog for where my thinking is going at the moment.

Update 23 Mar 06 The following represents a provisional tabulation of my current position. Only some links have been added, and not all of these are consistent, because these pages need to be reorganised according to my new understanding. A complete revised version will appear on this site and in my book in progress - Towards an Integral Metaphysic - as time permits.

Note (10 Dec 05) - some of the metaphysical hypotheses currently presented in this section of the Kheper site will be comprehensively revised. Currently I am writing a book on my Integral Paradigm; and will also be revising some of the pages here. For one thing, I no longer accept the "Quadontological" Mandala diagram as an overall metaphysical diagram.

update 24 September 05: This project has undergone a number of dramatic changes in the process of writing it, regarding the metaphysics section and my attempt to formulate a "map of reality". As a result, my initial "Quadontology" has been relplaced

Longer Contents

1. Introduction
   • The need for a Universal Paradigm
   • What does "Integral" mean in this context?
   • The Changing Zeitgeist
   • A note about these tables
2. Basic Principles, Epistemology, and Methodology
   • What needs to be included
   • A Collaborative Approach
   • Basic Premises
   • A Definition of States of Consciousness
   • Phenomenology
   • Participative Epistemology
   • Means of Reliable Knowledge
   • Epistemology - what do we know about knowing
   • The Absolute and the Relative Reality
3. Metaphysics - the nature of Consciousness/Reality
   • The role of Metaphysics
   • Subdivisions of Metaphysics
   • The Metaphysical Alternative
   • An Individual undertaking
   • Paramology - The Nature of the Absolute Reality (parame - which means the the Supreme reality in Sanskrit).
     • The levels of Understanding
     • Paramology glossary
     • God is a Verb
   • Ontodynamics - the Dynamics of Being / Metaphysics of Process
     • Monadology
     • Emanation - the Emergance of the Many from the One
     • The Coaction Compass
   • Quadontology - understanding the "map" of reality and consciousness (here defined as fourfold)
     • The Hierarchical Ontology
     • "Epistemic" - Levels of Insight of Consciousness
     • "Emanational" - Levels of Consciousness as Emanation
     • Psychology and Mysticism - The "Concentric" Axis
     • Occultism - The "Vertical" Physical-Spiritual Axis
     • Holarchy - The Universal-Atomistic Axis
     • Noetics - Levels of Selfhood
     • The problem of Cartesian dualism
     • The Absolute Reality as the Center
       • The numerology of the Godhead
       • The Nature of The Absolute and the Nature of Reality
         1. Metaphysics and Theology - The Nature of "God" and the Nature of Reality
         2. The Absolute Reality
            • The Absolute Reality - Philosophical Thesis
         3. The Divine Hypostases:
            1. The Unmanifest Absolute
            2. The Manifest Absolute
            3. The Infinite-Eternal
            4. The Noetic Absolute
            5. The Original Archetypes
            6. The Noetic Worlds or Cosmos
4. Cosmology, Involution, and Evolution
   • The Prakritic Planes - the Spirit-Matter Gradation
   • Involution
   • Evolution - the whole picture
     • Evolution and Physical Reality
     • Evolutionary Stages - Six Singularities
     • Occult factors in Evolution
     • Individual and Collective evolution
   • Glossary of Evolutionary and Ontodynamic terms
5. Individual, Social, and Spiritual Development
   • An Interpretation of Human Knowledge
   • The basic "horizontal" (psychological) polarity
   • State-Specific Sciences
   • A "quadontological" map of knowledge and experience
   • Social/Collective Evolution and Praxis
   • Tikkunics - Soteriology and Divinization
     • Paths of Transcendence
     • Individual Spiritual Stages
   • Spiritual Evolution and Transformation

 An Earlier Version of this thesis, posted on Integral Visioning

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