Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

wegh-

PIE base ‘to go, move, convey, especially by wheeled vehicle’. See also kʷel-, root of wheel.

Other derivatives include wagon, vehicle, envoy, deviate, devious, trivial, always, away, convex, via, vector, and weigh.

This root explains how Proto-Indo-European languages spread so widely. As David W. Anthony explains in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European used the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior’s chariot to turn the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. See also *yeug-, PIE root of ‘yoke’ and ‘unify’.

[Pokorny u̯eĝh-, ‘to move, carry, drive’, pp. 1118–1120.]

Third Way

The Third Way is a both-and way of life, like the Dao (Tao), which begins and ends in the Eternal Now, with what Aurobindo called ‘Supermind’, which is indivisible, inseparable into parts.

In contrast, ever since the ancient Greeks, the predominant approach in the West has been based on either-or reasoning, where people are identified with one side of a pair of opposites, rejecting the other, leading to much conflict and suffering.

way

All of us are following our own unique ways in life, according to our lights, often constrained by our religious and economic environment. Based on our everyday experience, the assumption is that we are following a path from conception and birth to the death of our bodies, in the horizontal dimension of time.