Updated 4 July 2025
Introduction
The three questions of the Seeker’s Way are 1.) the nature of reality, 2.) our nature and 3.) our relationship with reality. The Anatomy of Consciousness Diagram below illustrates the Seeker’s Way. The first element of Layer 1 is Organizing Principles.
Just as physical principles appear to naturally emerge from the origin of the physical universe, so do the organizing principles of reality naturally emerge from First Cause.
Principles by Category
Given that there is a Source, then the following Principles logically follow as organizing influences:
Link to Reality Organizing Principles
Link to Formation Organizing Principles
Link to Personality Organizing Principles
Source
A hypothetical First Cause is visualized as a rudimentary life field composed of a Purposeful Agent (Personality motivated by curiosity), a Meaningful Agent seeking understanding and an Experiencing Agent testing understanding.
Source is not treated as a deity or a godly personality. It is treated as the top life field in a nested hierarchy of life fields. Conceptually then, the top life field.
Category 1: Organizing Principles of Reality
As our reality field, the life field of Source is a dimensionless singularity that is conceptually infinite.
The Organizing Principles of reality represent the most fundamental concepts that are considered formative “building block” in the Implicit Cosmology.
Collective
Sibling aspects of a common parent personality tend to cooperate as a collective to favor progression.
Entanglement
Entanglement
Purpose functions as an attractor to entangle life fields and thoughtforms.
Thoughtforms – A life field’s expression of an initial concept binds concepts with related characteristics as a cohesive gestalt-like thoughtform. Cohesiveness is a function of rapport. Concepts are expressed by life fields.
Life Fields – As the core element of a life field, personality binds functions as a binding influence
Aspectation – Child life fields inherit elements of their parent life field’s worldview.
Incarnation –Life Fields in a symbiont-avatar relationship share elements of their worldview.
Fields
Fields are a fundamental relationship of reality. Their structure includes an “attractor” concept that binds other concepts. Individual concepts may be thus bound in many fields. Entanglement is considered the binding principle. A common purpose defines the reason for entanglement.
Evolving Influence
Span of entanglement increases as life fields gain in understanding. Clarity of the thread of entanglement is described as lucidity.
Nested Hierarchy
A hierarchical relationship exists between Source, aspects of Source and subsequent expressions of those aspects. Child life fields inherit a subset of their parent life field’s worldview depending on their inherited purpose. Sibling life fields may have different worldview subsets while sharing the parent’s overarching purpose.
Organizing Principles
Reality operates according to a body of Organizing Principles that are implied by the expression of curiosity.
The expression of curiosity establishes the intended final state of reality as understanding. All else in reality are the fields and functions required to satisfy curiosity with understanding. Organizing Principles naturally emerge as influences to organize progression from curiosity to understanding
Progression
A question implies the potential for understanding and a process by which understanding might be achieved. Progression is the degree to which understanding is achieved. The change in state from potential to realization.
Purpose
Purpose is modeled here as the urge to gain understanding that is shared by all life fields.
Category 2: Organizing Principles of Formation
Intention acts on the Organizing Principles of Reality (Category 1) to express intended order. Formation is concerned with the creative process. The following group of Organizing Principles addresses the nature of that process.
Aspectation
Life fields can express child life fields with the purpose of experiencing an imagined characteristic of reality. Expressed life fields inherit a subset of their parent’s worldview and purpose. Child-parent life field entanglement assures “return” of acquired understanding.
Attraction
The degree of perceptual agreement or rapport determines the extent of mutual attraction associating aspects of reality.
Cooperative Communities
An effort to express understanding is necessary for progression. Collectives are inherently cooperative communities. A person is attracted to communities of like-minded people cooperating to facilitate progression.
Continuity
There is one reality, and it exists everywhere. Aspects inherit the perception of a subset of reality.
Emergent Order
Elements of a field tend to self-organize within the bounds of their inherited aspects of reality and according to Organizing Principles.
Evolution
Everything is subject to change based on history and current challenges. Consistent with the nested hierarchy architecture, change tends to be by way of “punctuated gradualism.”
Frame of Reference
An evolved hierarchy of meaning that defines a personality’s perception of reality. A collective worldview.
Life Field
A thoughtform that functions as the mechanism by which curiosity is satisfied with understanding by way of experiences. Life Fields have a core function representing inherited purpose and acquired understanding (Observer), an assessment function that expresses current understanding of experiences (Judge-navigator) and an experiencing function that “aims” the life field toward opportunities to gain understanding (Experiencer).
Perceptual Agreement
Personality must be in perceptual agreement with the aspect of reality with which it will associate.
The Creative Process, defined as “Changes in reality are expressed via personality’s attention on an imagined outcome with the intention to make it so,” is moderated by the Principle of Perceptual Agreement. The effect is that a life field can only create what it is able to imagine. What can be imagined is limited by our worldview.
Process
Reality is modified by way of ordered sequences of events.
Rapport
Personalities are interconnected by links shared purpose forming a matrix of relationships as a cooperative community.
One personality’s awareness of another personality manifests as a link of influence between the two fields, that is related to attention and intention. The nature of this link of rapport depends on the clarity (intensity) of awareness and the reason for the awareness. These links are dynamic and are thought to facilitate cooperation.
A life field’s attention on a thoughtform or other life field that is purposeful and informed by memory. Intentional influence exerted by a rapport network within a community of interest is thought to be cumulative with the potential of changing the community’s frame of reference.
Reciprocity
As personality influences reality, reality reflects that influence back to personality.
Thoughtforms
A thoughtform is life field’s expression of an initial concept in a rapport network that binds related concepts as a cohesive gestalt-like thoughtform. A life field expresses thoughtforms as experiencing agents (life fields) or meaningful thoughts. Thoughtforms are sensed by other life fields which in some cases may modify their meaning.
Category 3: Organizing Principles of Personality
As experiencer, personality expresses thoughtforms informed by inherited purpose to and acquired understanding.
These are the principles thought to moderate the behavior of personality.
Attention
The steering influence in the Creative Process.
Balance
The natural order is the middle way in which actions are in agreement with Organizing Principles.
Creative Process
Changes in reality are expressed via personality’s attention on an imagined outcome with the intention to make it so.
Curiosity
First Cause – The initial state of reality is modeled in the Implicit Cosmology as Curiosity. The expression of curiosity produces the potential for understanding and the urge to understand as purpose.
Life Field – Curiosity is the source of attention which motivates the formation of expression and perception based on worldview.
Discernment
Finding understanding in experience implies the examination of the implications of potential understanding.
Experience
Personality inherits the urge to seek experiences which might lead to understanding the nature of reality.
Expression
Reality is expressed via personality’s attention on an imagined outcome with the intention to make it so. The imagined outcome is a mostly unconscious function of personality’s Worldview.
Focus
The ability to manage expression is, in part, a function of how well conscious self is able to focus the expression of intention.
Intention
Intention is the motive influence of expression.
Local Reality
Reality is bound for a person by the limits of experience.
Perception
Personality’s conscious awareness is based on its mostly unconscious expression.
Personal Progression
As illustrated in the Temperament Mediated Perception Diagram below, left-to-right movement along the Lucidity Spectrum is considered a person’s personal progression toward greater lucidity.
Personal Reality
Perception of reality defines personal reality.
Point of View
Point of View is the underlying assumptions held by personality in Worldview when determining how to relate to its environment.
Self-Determination
Personality’s behavior is limited by the Organizing Principles and moderated by Worldview and the collective.
Temperament
Individual life fields exhibit personally unique ways of interacting with the environment.
Transition
Experience is gained in cycles which are delineated by periods of transition a different venue for experience.
Understanding
Understanding is perception of reality as it is and not as it is believed to be, with emphasis on underlying principles. Understanding is relative and is thought to be a quality of worldview that converges on perception of the actual nature of reality.
Visualization
Expression is based on the intention to express an aspect of reality based on informed visualization.
Worldview
Worldview is a functional area of mind; an information thoughtform of learned responses moderated by understanding. It functions as a database populated with frame of reference, memory and acquired understanding as they are moderated by temperament. For a person (incarnate personality), worldview includes morphogenic instincts and cultural influences as moderated by temperament. Worldview represents the formation of point of view.