The philosophy of identifying moments of clarity through introspection and common understandings in order to promote flourishing. Only this core statement shall remain unchanged.
Why "Decohere"? This foundation's goal is to promote human flourishing by building a philosophy of purposeful, guided, and beneficial decoherence of the shadow.
The principles laid out here form the loosely held tenets which we believe could lead to human flourishing.
Not to be confused with collective consciousness or the collective unconscious, this principle lays out the idea that we are all here together, in different ways. Some of the effects of our actions may have varying impacts on individuals, groups, cultures, societies.
Probably one of the most distinct ideas of Decohere is the idea that humanity can align. "Come together" but with an explicit, study-able, recorded meaning. This alignment doesn't need to be one. It can be many under the umbrella of Decohere.
Because the core tenets through their alignment allow it, each of them may be "picked" for use in life as we need.
Through convention we must draw some lines in the sand, though some may be fuzzy, moving and evolving.
We accept the observational findings of the occultic and hidden knowledge traditions but reject the integration of the shadow as the final, or even as a necessary step in enlightenment. Enlightenment has many paths, who are we to judge? You are you to judge. Some common philosophies with overlapping potentially convergent philosophy:
Leadership is anarchic and any mantle is temporary.
For the purposes of organizational clarity, the authors of this document are the leaders of this philosophy, insomuch as a philosophy could have a leader other than by its amorphic identity.
Group sessions will be held through various telecommunications channels as needed. Event links and calendar events will be posted here.
This site will self-serve as a living archive. All updates will be time-stamped and previous pages will be accessible through clear links and access interfaces.
All changes to this page will be explained by the consensus arrived at by those who participate. Wiki might be a good technology for this (it must be evaluated).
To those who:
Although this philosophy has no intent to cleverly redefine any terms as a form of cultural spell-casting, it is nonetheless inherent in building a system of thought that key terms should be described with as specific, literal and semantic as possible. Although the common/plain American English definition du jour should be assumed if there's no definition laid out otherwise. If there is a definition, note that
The core work of the initial conventions will be to mold these definitions so that by introspecting upon them and our lived experiences we may contemplate our suffering and joy to contribute to the potential flourishing. If a definition is found to have too heavy a bias against this, or a flaw in its semantics, or a construction that breaks the core tenets, it will be revised for better contextualization or excised altogether if found to be untenable. Some words are better at being self-evident, that's just how it is.
Like so many ideas, commonality can be evaluated both as a spectrum but also stochastically when appropriate and useful.
Any action that results in increased joy and decreased pointless suffering, both overall and, ideally, approaching totally.
This is a tough one. Let's be careful.
One important question this philosophy seeks to answer is what is "human"? A very relevant concern is to consider these concepts within the scope of Machine Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Large Language Models, Agentic Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, and Artificial Super Intelligence, among other emerging phenomena.
This is messy, but that's life
This is not a cult
Anyone who seeks power over you does not have flourishing's best interests at heart
We are only an authority collectively