Seeking Wisdom  
 
Combating nihilism, despair, and injustice. Charting the next steps in the human civilizational project.
Principles and Values
Seeking Wisdom is committed to the following principles and values:

Spirituality:

    Convivencia: We affirm the validity of plural spiritual ends and plural spiritual paths. We engage
    spiritual questions and spiritual paths from across humanity's civilizational traditions.

    Dialectics: We affirm the value of reason and its ability to contribute to resolving questions of
    meaning and value.  

    Justice: We seek transcendence through active engagement in the struggle for a just society,
    which stretches us towards full humanity --and beyond it, towards conaturality with God.

    Cataphatic Theology: We affirm the value of positive affirmations about the divine in guiding us through
    the first  dark night of the soul towards an understanding of Being which transcends reason.

    Apophatic Theology; We affirm that all such positive affirmations are partial and incomplete and
    that enlightenment comes only through a recognition that phenomenal reality is empty of inherent
    existence and that all things live in each other's embrace.

    Breakthrough: We affirm that beyond both mystical union and awakening to emptiness there lies a
    higher degree of spiritual development in which we know ourselves in and as Being.

Politics is a deliberation regarding fundamental questions of meaning and value as well as
civlizational ideal, social structure, public policy, and strategy. Vibrant political life is best advanced by:

    Democracy: Power, which is the capacity to collaborate to achieve civilizational ends, by its very nature belongs to
    the people.

    Authority,  which affirms the validity of popular decisions as valid expressions of natural
    or higher law, and belongs to the elders of diverse traditions who have mastered
    those traditions and who embody their principles and values in their own lives.

    Positive Law, which is always and only an interpretation of natural and higher laws in a particular
    situation, are made by the people and the elders together, at the lowest level compatible with
    service to the Common Good.

Economics: Economic structures must promote the full development of human capacities while
conserving the integrity of the ecosystem and the social fabric. This is best achieved through:

    Universal participation in the ownership of the means of production, whether as small
    private property or through the medium of cooperatives and other relatively small communities.

    Markets which are sufficiently open to allow for entrepreneurship and initiative as
    well as complex relations of exchange which allow individuals and communities to
    build on their comparative advantages.

    Regulating authorities which ensure that investment serves the Common Good and which
    centralize the surplus necessary for civilizational progress.

Technology: We affirm that technology should increase rather than degrade the complexity
and organization of the universe. This is best achieved through "hortic" technologies which
tap into and cultivate the potentials latent in matter rather than using combustion to release
energy and do work, which is the character of industrial technologies.