---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrius Kulikauskas <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:10 PM Subject: Andrius's book excerpt at P2P Foundation Blog The P2P Foundation Blog has posted an excerpt from my e-book, "The Truth:
From Relative to Absolute": http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-truth-a-map-of-deepest- values-by-andrius-kulikauskas/2014/09/27
P2P Foundation is a research institute led by Michel Bauwens to document and promote "peer-to-peer" (P2P) practices. It fosters awareness of the nature of our "network society" where each individual can include themselves in human networks and organize new ones as well. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about In my guest post, I write about the "deepest values" which I have collected from some 700 people. What is your deepest value, which includes all of your other values? I organized about 30 online groups at Minciu Sodas, each of which centered around an independent thinker and their deepest value. I list some of them in my post. Currently, I'm trying to make a map of deepest values which would make sense of the full variety. I believe that our individual values are personal reference points by which we might realize that all of our circumstances are similar or perhaps identical, in which case we can think of an absolute truth, at least pragmatically. Kevin Flanagan of the P2P Foundation alerted me to perennialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy This is the idea that each of the world's religious traditions share a single, universal truth. I think that there is a single, absolute truth which can make sense of each of our individual perspectives and how they all fit together. Our deepest values are the key to each of us. I'm realizing now that perhaps each of them links up our own perspective with a greater perspective. I think that each individual definitely has a personal testimony that is real and needs to be accounted for. I am interested in how different people say the same things. Still, people and religions can at times be right or wrong, and for understandable reasons, when they veer away from their personal testimony. That is why I think it is important to live one's own worldview wholeheartedly rather than learn about other worldviews at arm's length. Truth is a matter of life and not opinion. I believe that those who live wholeheartedly will be able to agree fundamentally as to the truth, regardless of what value they approach the world from and how they express their worldview. Please, I ask us to link to my post and, especially, to leave our comments there! Thank you! and best wishes from the Lithuanian countryside. P.S. I've been coaching Pamela McLean of Dadamac http://www.dadamac.net I look forward to writing about her research into learning from each other and working together in our peer-to-peer society. Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas [email protected] +370 607 27 665 http://www.selflearners.net -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/