"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

R.E. Slater - The Ontology of Being


The Ontology of Reality, of Beingness, of Becoming


The Ontology of Being

by R.E. Slater


"We are of the earth, the skies, the heavens.
All that we are was already present."
- re slater


Reality is as indefinable without event
as Time and Conscience are as byproducts
of particulate forces dancing around
interacting with each other
as the unreal consequences
of relational event.

Event depends upon relationality to be real.
Each, taken together, create
a cosmic processual organism in
intra/inter-relational complex of
panexperiential,
panrelational, and
panpsychic
transient processes...
all in motion...
all in intricate dance...
all dependent on one another.

Processual reality,
like processual events,
are incomplete in themselves alone.
Each require the other,
and without the other,
there is neither event nor reality.

These insubstantive elementa
we may call particle, force, or quanta,
are the building blocks
of creation,
the cosmos,
the world.
One cannot simply say the
fundamental forces of the cosmos
are the foundational structures of reality.

No. That was yesteryear.
These quanta bits of
forces,
energies, and
matter,
whizzing around
smashing into one another
mixing chaos with wonder
must interact which each other
else they are not,
ever,
not even alone. 

Nor may the form of our universe,
or relational world,
or that of nature itself,
possibly form the structures
we know as the cosmos today
invested in momentary motion
giving life to that which dances.
without a nature of beingness
devoted to dance.


R.E. Slater
March 22, 2022

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Process philosophy, as described by Alfred North Whitehead, might be stated as the "Metaphysics of ontology in the process of becoming." Or, more simply, the state of relational processualism resulting from events in motion" moving from states of being-ness to states of becoming-ness- R.E. Slater