THE FRAGMENTATION OF BEING AND THE PATH BEYOND THE VOID

Speculations in an Emergent Onto-Mythology

Kent D. Palmer, Ph.D.

[Copyright 1994 Kent Palmer. All Rights Reserved. Not for Distribution.]

CONTENTS:

PROLOGUE SPECULATIONS IN AN EMERGENT ONTO-MYTHOLOGY 13

FRAGMENT 1 THE WANDERER 17

FRAGMENT 2 SEARCHING FOR A WAY OUT 49

FRAGMENT 3 FINDING A WAY INWARD 69

FRAGMENT 4 EMERGENT SYSTEMS PROCESS PHILOSOPHY 77

FRAGMENT 5 TECHNOLOGY AND EMERGENCE 115

FRAGMENT 6 BEYOND TECHNOLOGY 133

FRAGMENT 7 TECHNE ARISING 157

FRAGMENT 8 DEEP TEMPORALITY 179

FRAGMENT 9 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF TIME 207

FRAGMENT 10 THE WORKING OF THE WYRD 233

FRAGMENT 11 PRIMORDIAL BEING 255

FRAGMENT 12 UNFOLDING IMAGINARY BEING 291

FRAGMENT 13 THE ADVENT OF THE CONCEPT OF BEING 313

FRAGMENT 14 THE SAGE IN THE CITY 335

FRAGMENT 15 THE SOLIDIFICATION OF CONCEPTUAL BEING 351

FRAGMENT 16A FROZEN CITY OF IDEAS 373

FRAGMENT 17 DRUNKENNESS AND FRENZY ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND IN THE CITY 395

FRAGMENT 18S OBRIETY WITHIN THE MIDST OF DRUNKENNESS 423

FRAGMENT 19 UTTER DESTRUCTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE REAL CITY 443

FRAGMENT 20 THE INVISIBLE CITIES UNFOLDING IN SPACE AND TIME 463

FRAGMENT 21 THE COMIC’S CITY 489

FRAGMENT 22 AUTOPOIESIS 523

FRAGMENT 23 PLUNGING INTO THE FIRST WAVE 545

FRAGMENT 24 TESTING REVEALS THE INNER STRUCTURE OF BOTH POLIS AND INDIVIDUAL 573

FRAGMENT 25 THE SACRED CITY 587

FRAGMENT 26 THE INITIATION OF ODYSSEUS 603

FRAGMENT 27 SCHIERA 621

FRAGMENT 28 INTERTWINING IMMORTALITIES 643

FRAGMENT 29 ATLANTIS RISES FROM THE SEA 657

FRAGMENT 30 OECONOMICS 675

FRAGMENT 31 THE DISFUNCTIONAL HOUSEHOLD 703

FRAGMENT 32 THE OBJECT OF DESIRE 731

FRAGMENT 33 THE STRUCTURE OF TRANSCENDENCE WITHIN THE CITY 755

FRAGMENT 34 AUTOPOIETIC STRUCTURE 783

FRAGMENT 35 GOOD CITY FORM 801 \

FRAGMENT 36 EMERGENT CATEGORIES 823

FRAGMENT 37 THE FOUNDATIONS OF AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS THEORY 853

FRAGMENT 38 LOGIC OF THE GREAT DARK 893

FRAGMENT 39 THE ROUND DANCE 915

FRAGMENT 40 THE FRAGMENTATION OF BEING 917

FRAGMENT 41 THE PREHISTORY OF BEING 939

FRAGMENT 42 THE LOST PATTERN OF BEING 965

FRAGMENT 43 WISDOM OF THE LOST PATTERN 999

FRAGMENT 44 BACK TO THE UNCARVED BLOCK 1019

FRAGMENT 45 CELESTIAL TRANSFORMATIONS 1033

FRAGMENT 46 THE HEART OF THE MATTER 1063

FRAGMENT 47 STEPPING TOWARD THE PRECIPICE 1087

FRAGMENT 48 GAZING OVER THE RIM 1117

FRAGMENT 49 FROZEN IN TERROR 1143

FRAGMENT 50 THE HOUSE OF BAAL 1165

FRAGMENT 51 INDOEUROPEAN TANTRISM 1191

FRAGMENT 52 SUDDENLY FALLING 1215

FRAGMENT 53 THE FALLEN 1243

FRAGMENT 54 THE FATED 1269

FRAGMENT 55 CIRCULATION WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD AND INITIATION BEYOND THE CITY 1297

FRAGMENT 56 THE INNER LOGIC OF TRAMMA AND MAGIC: OEDIPUS 1321

FRAGMENT 57 WAISCHU 1359

FRAGMENT 58 MINIMAL EMPTINESS 1361

FRAGMENT 59 THE VOID 1379

FRAGMENT 60 BEYOND 1389

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Contenental Philosophy, especially various ontologies

Greek Mythology or Indo-european Mythology in general

Plato's Laws

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The manuscript was written between 1990 and 1994. It is incomplete by a few chapters and needs editing.

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