Researching Ourselves

Jeremy Horne

Education, research, and methodologies form an organic unit that is the essence of human identity. Education is the object (which also is a process); research is the domain of process in which knowledge is to be found; methodology is the manner in which a person is to bring information into the mind that is to be transformed into knowledge. Education etymologically stems from conducting or leading, that is knowing oneself. It is transdisciplinary, recursive, and second-order cybernetic, all aspects of organicity, or life, itself. It is not enough to realize these things; we need to apprehend the context in which these are set, i.e., our universe, itself, conscious and organic, as we are. Did not God make us in his image, as the Biblical saying goes? Along the way, we need to be cognizant of innate processes in the universe, such as the most fundamental law known since ancient times and expressed by GWF Hegel, the unity of opposites, as well as organicity, itself (as opposed to static entities). These factors implicitly describe transdisciplinary access to knowledge. Anatomically, the Universe is both deductive and inductive, the former as descending from the outer limits of our knowledge to the center (ourselves), the latter inductively, reaching outward to find what is there to be known. These “ends”, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, describe the domain of research. Our method of investigation is contradiction, employing the unity of opposites, the most extreme form of critical thinking. Permeating the Universe is Plato’s realm of the ideal, consciousness, the transcendental, represented by the words of Buddha, Christ, Mahoma, Aristotle, and Plato, among others. Truth characterizes the Creator, and so is the object of search in education, and so it is, we must realize authenticity, both in ourselves and the world around us. Training as deduction, validates it through virtue (internalizing behavior exhibiting our values, or meaning). Truth, itself is a function of order. A disordered identity compromises a person’s being, and conversely. Two methods of identity location are neurocorrelation and deep personal questioning (as with an authentic method of self-discovery). I will merely reference the former and describe in more detail the latter, a representative being Authentic Systems, showing specifically why it is educative.

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