Finding order and unity in a crossdisciplinary and interfaith dialogue

Bernie Baars rightly reminded us a few days ago that human life is ever so full of basic principles which we learn in childhood, which we somehow fail to remember and apply exactly when we need them to get out of spinning wheels, useless conflicts between people and nations and other nonproductive activities.

There have been great discussions of some of those principles here, which do belong in and effective PSI education effort from K-12 to adult to over 90 to training subjects for brain data experiments. A crucial challenge here is how to ORGANIZE what we have learned and discussed, not only for education but also for ourselves and for research outreach. Good PSI education is NOT about indoctrination or telling people what to believe, but we donned a few basic principles to stay organized.

As one small step in that direction, I have just revised my personal web page on world religions to focus on a few points which I regard as fundamental:

http://www.werbos.com/religions.htm  

Since it must be brief, I did not even mention important work by Vaillant

(e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656699922432) or the great popular book by the neuroscientist Levitin

https://www.amazon.com/Organized-Mind-Thinking-Straight-Information/dp/0147516315/  which I talked about at the School of Management in Kathmandu in a session led by Varadan. That book by Levitin raises the question: is the our noosphere itself an organized mind yet? Last month, when I visited the oldest known temple/tomb of megalithic civilization, I was reminded of how the same practical issues we see in mundane life apply as well to many issues of the noosphere, of special importance to those of us older than 70.

The question of organization and structure is essential, at a level larger than any one brain.