Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

Glossary index

A (33) | B (9) | C (42) | D (20) | E (38) | F (12) | G (27) | H (22) | I (26) | J (5) | K (4) | L (13) | M (27) | N (7) | O (13) | P (37) | R (12) | S (61) | T (26) | U (9) | V (5) | W (7) | Y (3) | Z (1)

aggregation hierarchy

In Integral Relational Logic, aggregation hierarchy indicates ‘part-of’ relationships between members of classes, as entities.

A familiar example is an organization chart in business, where humans are members of sections, which are parts of departments, as parts of divisions, as parts of companies, and as parts of conglomerates, each with their own leader.

alone

To be alone is to be ‘all-one’, living in Oneness, in solitude. As such aloneness is a truly beautiful situation, which can turn sour if there is any longing for the situation to be different, when aloneness becomes loneliness, a mental disturbance.

Alpha

Alpha denotes ‘beginning’, the Divine Origin of the Cosmos, the Ultimate Source of Life. The Alpha Point of evolution is thus the Datum, denoting the starting point of all creative growth processes, not at some point in the distant past, but right Now, beyond space and time, as the two dimensions of time indicate.

ambivalence

Ambivalence was coined to mean ‘the coexistence in one person of contradictory emotions or attitudes, such as love and hatred, towards a person or thing’. Such ambivalent feelings can feel very uncomfortable, leading to indecision and so-called weakness as the opposites flip-flop in the mind. One way of dealing with ambivalence is to repress one or other of these opposites, pushing it into the unconscious, where it nevertheless continues to influence behaviour unless brought to the surface and carefully examined in the brilliant light of Consciousness.

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