Simply enough, I am a fellow seeker. This blog exists so that I can share experience gained on what is now a twenty year quest to explore the questions “Who am I? Why am I here?” Pretty standard stuff for any seeker. Because my route has been more scholarly, or say — intellectually centered rather than emotionally so, working out my path in-the-world has taken a turn into writing.
My primary concern is to put forward a clear and pragmatic general theology for seekers. The twist is, of course, that seeking can be either theistic or non-theistic. But here, instead of taking the Divine out of the equation (which I could have done by reducing the discussions to entirely sociological forms) I have chosen to focus on the arguments as fully theological. Anywhere, in any discussion, humanists are welcome to see “Ultimate Concern” as humankind’s greatest good.
Secondly, and most importantly, I want to talk about how seekers understand ethics. In the world today we are, as seekers, attempting to find our way under the ascetic paradigms of a religion led culture. Ethically, for the religious, the ends justify the means. But for seekers the paradigm is reversed: the means are all important — if the means are true then the ends will create themselves. We see the clash of ethics, between means and ends, all around us today. While this will start with a look at how the seeker perspective changes translation and interpretation of spiritual texts, I will eventually take that new view into the everyday world. What I hope is that by engaging these issues with a seeker’s perspective we will gain a new way to work for solutions in the world; this is because nearly all of us are struggling as seekers-in-the-world. We are not fleeing to caves to contemplate self-realization. So ethics, or right action, is really the place where “know thyself” occurs.
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On The Path of the Adept 