Introduction to ((The Logos Institute))

Identifying the Global Paradigm for the 21st Century
The Key to Decoding the Universal Patterns of Life
by Dr. Ashok K. Gangadean

All through the ages, across cultures and worlds, in all fields of human inquiry, there has been a perennial quest to discern and decode the fundamental patterns of Nature and the primal laws of existence. From the dawn of philosophy thinkers have intuited that there must be a universal and primal Form that is the origin of all realities, of all life, thought, language, experience, cultures and worlds. The diverse global traditions of first philosophy may have named this Primal First Principle differently, but it is abundantly clear that the Primal Form must be infinite in scope and power and hence must be one and the same source of all possible realities and worlds. And in the light of this global insight it is not surprising that the greatest minds throughout the ages in all fields of inquiry should be in quest of the fundamental patterns of reality.

The founders of the great religious and spiritual traditions, like Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and others have recognized that the Infinite Primal Form has a lawlike structure that at once shapes the laws of nature and issues in moral and spiritual laws which have universal jurisdiction over all human life. Whether we speak of the Laws of God, the Mandate of Heaven or the Universal Dharma it is clear that these diverse formulations have a common source in the primal pattern.

Similarly, the greatest philosophical minds have recognized that there must be a Universal Form whence all possible forms arise. The traditions of First Philosophy were born in the intuition that there must be a First Principle that generates all that appears. This is at the source of the Vedic teachings that all possible names and forms arise from the Infinite Symbol – AUM. It is also the force of Plato's insight that the universal form of Goodness is the form of all forms. The Buddhist tradition teaches that the primal form is Absolute Emptiness (Sunyata) and this principle issues in a boundless Unified Field wherein all this co–arise in dynamic creative process.

Again, logicians, ontologists, theologians and cosmologists in diverse traditions have sought to decode the ultimate laws of thought, the ultimate structure of language, the fundamental grammar of existence (Consciousness, Word and Being). It was recognized from the start that if we could decode the ultimate structure of thought and language, this would be the key to unlocking the diverse range of laws and patterns that appear in nature and experience. This is because all that appears, all that exists, must show itself through the medium of thought and language so understanding the ultimate patterns of thought would be essential in revealing the deep structure of all derivative laws and patterns.

More specifically, logicians through the ages have sought to decode the fundamental grammar of thought, to tap the universal logic of primal field. From Aristotle through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Frege, Russell and Whitehead...formal logicians have attempted to decode the universal pattern. There have been monumental advances such as the logistic thesis developed by Frege and Russell in proving that all of Mathematics derives from postulates of formal logic. In other fields, linguists like Chomsky sought to formulate the deep–structure of all languages. Biologists made headway in decoding the ultimate structures of life in discovering the patterns of DNA. Einstein and others sought to ground physics in the missing "unified field," and so on.

Thus, in diverse fields, thinkers have gravitated to universal and fundamental structures or patterns in their respective fields. My own work over the past three decades has been to build upon the advances, east and west and other, in the quest to access the fundamental missing logic that is at the heart of all fields. This research has resulted in the publication of two companion volumes in the "Revisioning Philosophy Series" of Peter Lang Press – Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar and Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason. In these books I have attempted to demonstrate that there is and must be a primal common ground or Logos underlying all cultures, worldviews, ideologies and fields of inquiry. I attempt to demonstrate that human reason is grounded in the fundamental Logos out of which all human experience arises. And I attempt to tap the missing universal logic of this fundamental Logos and show that it is essentially global and dialogical is its scope and power.

This is the context in which I reflect on decoding the fundamental pattern. One of the main lessons that we learn from this global reflection on the perennial quest in diverse fields to access the ultimate structures and patterns of reality is that it all turns on how we are conducting our minds. It has become clear that egocentric thought patterns create dualistic barriers which block access to the primal field and patterns which are essentially holistic and nondual in nature.

The meditative traditions have realized that egocentric minding with its patterns of fragmentation and reduction and objectification cannot access the field of Logos. Indeed, it is apparent that the greatest minds have been restrained by the dualistic structures of egocentric reason and have been frustrated in entering the Unified Field and the Universal Logos. In my own work I attempt to develop two forms of symbolism to signal when we are thinking in egocentric patterns – /x/, and when we are proceeding in the nondual patterns of the Unified Field of Logos – ((x)). Any sign or concept may be processed in the ego technology of /x/ or in the holistic technology of ((x)). We shall see that the key to reaching the fundamental and universal patterns of ((logos)) is the logistic process of ((....)). Here we see that the Infinite structure of Logos is the source of both unity and diversity. Thus, the key to decoding the ultimate patterns of Logos is the dynamic process of ((........)).

In this spirit ((The Logos Institute)) focuses on facilitating the global ((awakening))™ of mind in all aspects of our cultural lives. This ((awakening)) technology is the key to entering the ((Unified Field)) of Logos.

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