An Integral Noetic Allegory About Our Source and Mission
Some people find their meaning for life in beliefs founded on fiction, others on scientific evidence and logic. Still others find it in scientific evidence, logic, and intuition. Some call their belief system a theology, or some other –ology. In the latter vein, I am developing a ‘sourceology,’ a special term I coined for my study of our implicit Source, its awesome range of explicit manifestations in Nature, and our mission.
Having been heir from conception to an involuntarily conditioned faith in my family’s fiction-based belief system, I have come over many years of searching and exploring to find the more evidence-based integral natural sciences most meaningful and satisfying. However, when science and logic fail I find myself facing aspects of reality not yet amenable to scientific investigation. They can be experienced and known only through my biological senses, intuition, and reality-testing in the laboratory of my everyday life. Consequently, I bring into play a blend of scientific methodology, logical deduction, and intuition to construct an integrally healthful psycho-organic frame-of-reference for my personal and professional practice.
Thus, I wrote this allegory for a selfish reason, that being to give myself a story which I can use as a reminder of my most fundamental assumptions about my/our Source and mission. I find this document to be especially important when I encounter something unusual in life which causes me to rethink my basic assumptions and ‘working hypotheses’ on which I premise my decision making.
Further, I have found my story useful as a means for making full disclosure about my motives relative to the design and development of curricula in my field of self-management, creative leadership, and organization transformation and development. In a way more readable and interesting than a dry academic treatise, my story can provide interested people with my basic frame-of-reference relative to the ‘working hypotheses’ which underlie my utterings, writings, and workshops.
During your reading of An Integral Noetic Allegory About Our Source and Mission (attached), you may want to remember I base my sourceology on a blend of my interpretation of current evidence from the integral natural sciences, logic, and my intuition, reality-tested in the laboratory of my life. It is an introductory evolving story, a kind of ‘Sourceology 101,’ to be updated and revised as new valid and reliable scientific findings and reality-tested intuitions become available. Who knows, perhaps someday my consciousness may evolve sufficiently to write Sourceology 102.
