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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Self Revelation

It is the very special (non dimensional) point-moment when the past, i.e. , reality in toto has fully acknowledged itself. The act of knowing is the act of self-revelation, the revelation of itself to the whole of itself. It is Duration at its purest and most comprehensive.

In theologies, what goes for revelation is in fact invention upon which simulation scenarios are constructed. Revelation is in need of the reality of what is revealed. If and when that which is "revealed" is a fiction or an autosuggestion, revelation is robbed of its content. That which is revealed is naught and what is left is the simulation of that which one wished reality would be.

 

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia