Saturday, July 25, 2009

On P-Theory

P-Theory[1] is a scientific method for examining and cataloging all phenomena as they appear in the world.

 

P-Theory involves the very careful and minute examination of phenomena.  It takes nothing for granted and does not rely or build upon the research of others.  P-Theory is open to any and all subjects without prejudice.  With the aim of finding out new facts, subjects of inquiry are thoroughly investigated, no matter how absurd they may seem.

 

P-Theory is not about creating or devoting oneself to a set of beliefs.  It has nothing to do with wishing that particular events, conditions or objects were true.  It is not about having faith in a set of events, conditions or objects.  P-Theory is not concerned with finding out the truth of things.  P-Theory is the use of scientific experimentation for the gathering and cataloging of facts as regards the nature of things.  P-Theory relies on facts because facts are undisputable.

 

P-Theory is a practice for opening one’s mind to the world.  As people move through life, they naturally develop ways of thinking that severely limit their experience of it.  It is like the child who put a box over his head and let it remain there for the rest of his life.  Though an amazing world of events, conditions and objects played itself out all around him in every moment, life for him was limited to the inner world of the box.  We separate ourselves from life in the same way, though not perhaps to such an extreme degree.



[1] P Theory = Pliny Theory.  In brief, a most splendid method of scientific inquiry by which the researcher takes nothing for granted in his/her dogged examination, recording and setting forth of proven facts concerning the nature of the world.  The aim of P Theory is to inspire a unified experience of being within the researcher through an opening of the mind to nature.

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