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Classic avenues of civilization are found the world over. But there is far more to these than meets the eye. For they are recurring orientations in and through which human beings live out their lives generally. As such, these are nothing less than fundamental modes of human becoming.

Here we explore them one by one — opening wide that particular gateway into the world which each represents — to better see its overarching aim as well as the formative endeavor it embraces, which results in specific ways of experiencing everything generally, and thereby of fashioning one’s life in the world.

— Gene Ruyle

These are classic avenues of civilization found the world over. But they are so much more. For they are recurring forms in and through which human beings go about making their lives more meaningful. As such, they are nothing less than fundamental modes of human becoming.

Here we look into them one by one — swinging open the particular gateway into the world that each represents — to clearly see the overarching aim of its ongoing endeavor, which results in distinct ways of experiencing people and things in general, and thereby of living out one’s life in the world.

— Gene Ruyle

Life is one big “Here I come, ready or not!” Always on the move, it is never where you left it last. To meet it is akin to coming in on a movie that has already started. You arrive late, make your way in the dark to an acceptable seat, have missed the title and start-off stuff, while a non-stop parade of scenes begins unfolding a tale on the screen before you. You have no inkling yet of who these characters are, where the depicted events are taking place, nor the foggiest notion of just what’s happening or what it really means. But ready or not, you find yourself here and have somehow become a fully interacting part of it all.

And — as with all human experiencing — it comes down to the same thing it always does in anyone’s life: We each make our own unique sense of every living moment, and then we live in the sense that we make.

But what also occurs to a person in this case, is that the matter doesn’t simply end there! In fact, it elicits a grand vision of all those conflicting “senses of the moment” loosed upon the world, and playing out in the individual lives of the millions of people concocting them — not just right now, but in the years and aeons yet to come!

bespeaking and the artistic experience of life

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton