MetaMagazine ProjectLog

About this Site
Change not the mass but change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. (V. Lindsay)

Introduction
In 1996 I made my first homepage with several links to a very broad variety of themes and subjects. I tried to order all these links and 'useful' resources by sorting it theme-wise and putting it in functional rooms. I did get some remarks about it but I guess I never really got hold of my target-group (if I had any) and my personal goals with the site were not so clear.

Just like other things in life, you need to practice and learn from mistakes to understand the possibilities and know what to expect. Although wisdom comes with the years, and opinions and reflections change depending on life-experience, I want to share some of the sources that were inspirational to me and life-lessons I learned, witnessed, or came across.

Direction
My general goal in life is to make the world a better place by inspiring, helping and facilitating others to become all they can be in a loving way. I think my way of achieving this goal is by communication. Not all kinds or forms of communication might be fit for delivering the full message. And besides that, different people have different triggers for insight and understanding. With this textual form of communication I want to supply a theoretical and conceptual basis for universal and personal growth within the 'vital' areas of Life: health, family, financial, intellectual, professional, social, and spiritual.

Vision
Any social interacting Society needs Vision to grow. A Vision never just comes out of the blue. A new Vision is build on previous concepts, thought-models or modules if you will. These thought-models and modules were traditionally presented by philosophers, great thinkers and after the industrial revolution by inventors (technological products) and later through the mass-media (as a result of these technological products).

Libraries have always been the preservers and (re)sources of knowledge. In my opinion has the importance of the libraries long been undervalued. Any library is a gateway to knowledge. Systematic categorization, added meta-codes and descriptions, abstracts and classification combined with present-day technological digital advances like full-text searching and analyzing creates unlimited new content-knowledge possibilities.

Why?
Alright, in essence I do this for myself. Sharing knowledge and idea's makes me feel good. The vision of inspiring others and sharing this with a meaningful system of shared (public) resources which can become the modular building-blocks of future knowledge, learning and education, is so powerful that I have to research the possibilities. This website is an active presentation of this research.

What?
You will find visions, reflections and problem-solving methods mostly presented in linear written educational-narrative form but thematically clustered. My idea is a framework or outline through which others can present idea's, dreams, visions which inspire and help put our civilization on a higher level. In a next phase this might become a facilitating infrastructure for sharing knowledge and learning. This development is a process (as life itself) which has in its form no limits to its extend. If you share this vision (or a similar one) feel free to share your resources by suggesting content, sharing links to content or contact me personally.

I wrote these initial pages [metamagazine.com] in English (even though my primary language is Dutch). I choose to use English on this site because this makes it easier to instant automatic translation to other languages, and because classification is mostly done in English. Although I am reasonably fast in translating my thoughts into English words, some grammar or writing-style might not be appropriate or correct. Please feel free to comment on this, especially if it will improve automatic translation to other languages. You can use Altavista Babelfish to translate.

Some related material is written in Dutch. I will try to find a method of translation. If possible I will add an English explanation, abstract or English references.

How?
This concept phase website (under the name of META-Magazine) offers the raw texts and presentation of various themes and subjects as linked sources related to concepts of META-research. These pages are meant for people who are interested in the matter. The contents and structure of these pages are likely to change in time. A combined publication based on the content of the META-Magazine website will follow, but this will be a next step in the research-process.
Features I'd like to include on this website are forum & feedback possibilities and a database-driven link-submission to related content. Help on implementing these features is very welcome.

Classification
My initial research effort could generally be described as Esoteric Philosophy.
The word “esoteric” traditionally refers to spiritual, initiatory, or inner knowledge. The primary emphasis is the scholarly investigation of esoteric spiritual traditions, with a special emphasis on Western esotericism. Western esoteric traditions are of a remarkable variety, ranging from Gnosticism and Hermeticism to alchemy, magic, Christian mysticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and other secret or semi-secret societies. Investigation in this field is by nature transdisciplinary, drawing upon such diverse disciplines as history, religious studies, and literature, without belonging solely to any of these. [Explanation taken from: Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies]