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This concept map describes the arising of conscious agency and that which it is able to apprehend, as well as best case scenario for how it may interact with the world, and what this may give rise to. It is an 'individual' in relation to 'collective' agency map. As with all maps in this project the aim is to transcend the limitations of linear text by representing the relationships between concepts diagramatically. 

"We (and the rest of humanity) will be creating new versions of the thought structure as we go, because this is a major evolutionary step beyond current library and internet categorizing schemes."

Whole Systems, Information, Self and Groups are some places in the diagram to which we may be able to appropriately link other concept maps. This diagram is existential in nature, in the specific sense that it portrays the nature of existence and process, and humanity's potential role as inspired and empowered by spirit, from Source (aka God). It is not so much linked by hard descriptors to specific nodes and links on other maps, as describing what infuses all life, all work product at this level, and that which brings people to this work, in the deepest sense.

In the Chinese concept of humanity bridging Heaven and Earth, this diagram would be a 4-dimensional map of the relationships and processes among these three levels of being, and among and within humans.

In the practical organization and presentation of concept maps, I would put a short preface or introduction to what the website is about, to get people mentally geared up to be able to confront (apprehend and contemplate) and digest the diagram. Then the diagram. Below it, a simple acknowledgement of its immense scope, and that viewers may want to dwell on it and share about it before proceeding, and links to a place for sharing and contemplating life in light of what it teaches, and to the the more material content of the knowledgebase that needs to be built. Most of our concept maps, and detailed content, can find a home there. And this diagram could be there again, as the highest layer of (or hovering over) a taxonomical structure of knowledge layers, mapped to a literal map of the eco-regions and their ecosystems, and of the cultures of humanity.

One's ancestral eco-region and ecosystems, and culture, within the deeper context of spirit, are and have always been the ground of being for most of humanity. This kind of mapping, using Geographic Information Systems and digital earth imaging (e.g. Google Earth), seems to me to be the best way to hold wisdom, knowledge, information and data so that we may bridge the gap between it, and whatever part of the ground of being it represents, most gracefully. Put another way, we start by seeing where we are, by looking around and within us. Then we find the representation of where we stand in a map of heaven and earth, and of the structure of thoughts within it. Then we place our thoughts about the natural and social world around us, and from or about spirit, in the appropriate space in the digital representation of the map / thought structure.

We (and the rest of humanity) will be creating new versions of the thought structure as we go, because this is a major evolutionary step beyond current library and internet categorizing schemes. In addition, it will lead to a convergence of description, analysis, conception, planning, transformation, stabilizing, operating, maintaining, and recycling of resources in the world, which was isolated from humanity at large during industrialization, carried out by government, military, and business, from their zones of control. Time to bring it to the grass roots!

Commentary by Mark Roest.