[Editor: Poor and looks barren]
This is probably antithetical to the goal
Not happy with this.
Plan:
- Opening room for hope
- [Optional section, dry but makes methodology justified – how to test belief systems
- [Optional section: cleaning the board; religion vs Judaism, and implications for approaching a test here.
- Marking targets for pilot investigation in principle
- Specific example route & how viability/success to be measured
- Fin
- [Coda: Hatikva]
Marking targets:
- Adumbrate points, by placing within a framework of methodology (of the previous section). Tell why this is “how this is tested”. Note compromises, and divide into sceptical vs wanting faster test result.
- Maybe say something about “irregular dependency networking, comprising of necessary engagements that are necessary for their dependencies, viz engagements which are the products”. The value of this is (a) theoretical integrity, (b) comprehension of options for this nature of investigation, and (c.) commentary on class to which Judaism belongs (along with some Eastern religions, however some of their valued practices can be isolated without defect [eg meditation]) unlike belief systems which require faith as a principal step for testing (and thus convince by hagiography/pedigree, or aesthetics).
- What are the major experiential claims?
- An expanded reality that places the self as a meaningful participant, keystone to reality’s design; it’s unfolding amenable to being followed like a thread in a maze; an optimistic endeavour, that reveals the mundane to be spiritual, and a spiritual beyond too.
- Torah as communication from infinite AND living source, that is engageable by all persons. Fruits of this are unknown in specific.
- Cleaving to Infinite
- What are the desirable claims?
- The possibility of greater reality without losing old
- Unknown via Torah
- What is considered sufficient protocols for achieving these?
- Honesty to self
- Reminders of Infinite
- Shabat
Specific examples:
- Explain how to estimate the required investment by comparison with known analogues. Explain for each point why it was chosen.
- Eg Compare with claims for meditation – 10min daily contemplation = xyz payoff (can explain cogsci[I] principle for the potency of repeatedly pinged new patterns)
- Kabbala is said to evoke more etc
- On Shabat read parashah as if sitting with Author, allowing hope and denying fear of hope.
- Further possibilities re-exploration, and other measures, e.g. sheep’s footprints.
