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"Models of Development in Esoteric and Western Thought: A Summary" Discussion of Archetypal Cosmology and its implications based on the results of the two papers "The Transactional Developmental Model" (Parts One and Two) listed below and several other research papers not currently on line. |
"Form of Life" Discussion of the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a "Form of Life," with references to Wittgenstein's comment "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life." (Updated 1/31/2010) |
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"Transactional Analysis of Esoteric Systems: A Metaphilosophical Study" This paper consists in an analysis of certain concepts of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism under the parameters suggested by the transactional model of development. The material here presupposes a reading of "Models of Development in Esoteric and Western Thought" on this same web site. |
"The Cosmological Concept of Creation from Friction as Suggested by Sound-Meaning Relationships in Language: A Phenomenological Approach" This paper is a condensed excerpt from a much longer unpublished document based on research undertaken during the late 1960s to the early 1980s. That document details the results of my study of the possible relationship between a specific type of cosmological viewpoint and complexes of sound-meaning patterns as exhibited in, primarily, the Indo-European languages. A related paper is to be found in the next item listed below. |
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"The Transactional Developmental Model: Part One" In this first part the developmental models used by philosophers W. V. Quine, John Dewey, and Aristotle are analyzed. |
"The Philology of the Idea: An Essay in Eidophonetics" Discussion of possible archetypal influence in the development of language. |
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"The Transactional Developmental Model: Part Two" In this second part the traits of a number of esoteric and eastern religio-philosohical systems are explored and compared with those discussed in the first part. |
"The Philosophical Etymology of Hobbit" Essay applying eidophonetic theory to J.R.R. Tolkien's "invention" of the word hobbit and the story line and other characters in his book The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. (HTML file) |
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"The Coalescence of Minds" This paper discusses theories of telepathy and how telepathy might or might not relate to the concept of a group mind (a single personality having separate individuals as its functional components). Originally published in the book Philosophers Look at Science Fiction (1982). |