Abelard's Ontology As Pivotal Context

The foregoing Ontological Argument affords therefore a response to the troubling solipsism implied previously. Abelard originally offered it in the middle ages for "proof" that God exists as dreamed up by humans. A modern version is that human cognition takes actual shape as projected onto a surrounding medium—presumably the Aesthetic (ethereal) Continuum—such that cognition itself literally makes reality; according to both occult lore and an astonishing 60's book by Joseph Peirce (THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG).

As accordingly suggested previously in the "Abstraction" essay of this website—subtitled "New Paradigm"--our old tests for what is "real" could be conceptually withdrawn, for simplification, from confusing externalities to internally existential experience. Whatever appears from this mind-focusing context could then be regarded as real enough to support further (inductive) inquiry: including dreams or even "hallucinations" and—in Jungian terminology—archetypal "memories" about metaphysical matters.

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Variations on Van Gogh's Bridge
(Physicists could learn from originally "metaphysical"swirls)

Note (December 3l '03): These writings are bridged together by John Dewey's advice to focus our thinking more pragmatically around situational contexts. (RECONSTRUCTION IN PHILOSOPHY ((enlarged ed. 1948).) Consider also the advanced "situation sense" allowing some especially smart Indians to readily identify and resolve trouble in the tribe. (Llewellyn & Hoebel, THE CHEYENNE WAY (1941).) I have been writing accordingly in a stream-of-consciousness style grounded (contextually) in my own experience of writing. A "mind game" is thereby designed for the consumer by preserving maximal indications of how this website has been developed—step by practical step—as a self-demonstrative flow of thought-within-thoughts unleashing my penchant for pragmatic metaphysics.

Mind Game