Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary menus

culture

One way of defining culture is the ‘shared patterns of behaviours and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization.’ “Thus, culture can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group.”

For myself, from seven years of age, I did not feel that I belonged to the culture I had been born in, even though I enjoyed the universality of mathematics and music in adolescence, albeit with rather limited spatial and aural intelligence. Because I was born in a world at war with itself, I was destined to seek Peace through a transcultural worldview, grounded in the Love of the Divine.

By questioning the assumptions of European culture, Life has guided me to cultivate a creative life for myself, feeling much closer to the ancient wisdom of the mystics than the mechanism of modern science. As a Holoramic visionary, I am thus able to see the accelerating pace of evolutionary change more deeply and broadly than most of those around me.

My one remaining task in life is to communicate what I see within so that others might benefit in some way from the solution to the ultimate problem in human learning. It is an immense challenge, for in today’s postmodern, multicultural society, it is generally believed that such a grand narrative is impossible.

See also: 

Etymology

Probably 1440, ‘the tilling of land, act of preparing the earth for crops’, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra ‘a cultivating, agriculture’, past participle stem of colere ‘to cultivate, till, tend’, figuratively ‘to take care of, attend to; study, practice; pay respect to, honour’, from PIE base *kʷel-.

The figurative sense of ‘cultivation of the mind or body through education or training’ is first recorded about 1510, perhaps influenced by the works of Cicero. This was followed in 1805 with the sense of the ‘intellectual or artistic side of civilization’.

Common ancestor(s):