This is a personal treatise on what a scientific curiosity and a spiritual awakening can lead a smart man to do: open up to the intuitive forces, identify his feminine side, become friend with time, and develop a humanistic philosophizing attitude to life. With a hypothesis of a philosophizing method in my mind I decided to act my innermost ideas and integrate them with a spiritual entity, beyond time and space. This holistic method was crucial for accepting the challenge to address the issue of World Peace. Yes indeed, the very creation of the World Peace Foundation was to be an illustration of a method on my attitude that I Am Philosophizing!  Can something of this be interesting to you? Let us get hold of the person claiming all this and ask how he managed it.

My life was rather predictable until the age of 30, when I got a major spiritual awakening. That woke me up to a world of experiences beyond the senses and rational thought. In a flash I realized that all information in books was derived from the past, and thus somewhat backwards in perspective. Then, forget about the books and open your eyes for the future! Through my systematic philosophizing, I got a glimpse of a time dimension beyond the span of my own life time. It stirred my curiosity. I started to search for a willing subject to test these wild ideas. It did not take long until I realized that I would not find such a person outside myself. I had to embark on my own wild ideas, integrate them in my personal lifestyle create my own future and take the consequences, without a safety net. Well, at that stage I pondered about the risk that these ideas would drive me crazy. I decided to take that risk. After all, a crazy world would easily absorb just another member to its flock. On the other hand, if my idea on a humane relation with the time dimension had some merits, it could help other fellow human beings, perhaps even help humankind. So, lets try it. Let us befriend time!

I promised myself to give my project idea on "humane time" a fair chance. I decided to give it a systematic free time research effort during the coming decades. I started to develop an active philosophizing as a method to bridge history, the present and the future. And now, after reaching the age of a senior citizen, my life has started to develop in a interesting way, far beyond what I could possibly plan on my own. What started as a great spiritual experience, had developed into a creative flow of ideas for the future, to be claimed by my opened mind, by my creativity and intuitive action. Furthermore, during the last two decades I had developed my philosophic insights into a scenario writing technique, by which I became able to reach out to the world around me. This whole home page  www.peace.se  is a result of such active philosophizing and scenario writing.

For many decades I was frustrated, unable to find a place for myself in any organization or professional context. Once I discussed my problem with a friend and businessman. Together we were starting an Institute on Industrial Ethics. He said: "You are so full of ideas. There is no position in society for you. As soon as you get a job that you dreamt of, you will start dream for the next one. That is your style and destiny. Write a diary. You will have an interesting life. Or, even better, write down your dreams.˛"

This book is a result of the advice above. After all I have the most productive years still ahead of me. At 30 I decided I had biassed my own life by concentrating entirely on my analytical thinking. Then, as a result of the spiritual awakening, I started to realize my backward approach to life, and decided to develop my emotional life and capacity to feel. Now, I am well into the third phase to test my will on the core issues and problems facing life on Earth. That is the duty of a philosopher to do. To take a clear stand, and propose the ideas, concepts and structural changes needed for a meaningful development of a consciousness for a future dynamic society and a sustainable life on this planet. This is the way philosophy can influence politics, economics, social behavior, the sciences, and eventually entire cultural epochs including the long term value systems behind. And as a philosopher I do intend to be active some decades more.

Scientific books sometimes end with an epilogue, where the author allows himself to be more personal. In my reading of scientific literature for my profession as long-range planner for an aerospace organization, and later as an energy forecaster I soon found out that some of the crucial pieces of information on the future of science, technology and the life sciences, was better explained in the epilogue than in the formal scientific text aimed to impress peers and fellow scientists! So in my job to define the research frontier, it was in the epilogues, that I found answers to my philosophical questions when, why, and on the meaning and value of new findings for the future.

So, I enjoyed it wholeheartedly when Professor Emeritus Henryk Skolimowski, an Oxford Doctor of Philosophy, in May 1999 suggested me to write this rather scientific treatise with my personal story in the beginning of the book. "Use your own language, because you have developed your own person into a philosophizing instrument. Help the readers understand your path to this. What you now are, is a result from the spiritual ideas you have got, internalized and acted out in your personal life. It is unusual to see such an integration of theory and practice on one person."

Thus the first half of this treatise on I AM Philosophizing illustrates my personal development from a dreamer, an aircraft engineer, a forecaster and scenario writer to industry and further on to a philosophizing humanist. Papers included in the chapter The Art of Philosophizing demonstrate my present talent. A treatise on Causes and Downward Causation for Evolution is included. I was invited to present at a Scientific and Medical Network Continental Meeting in May 2000. A concluding political scenario, envisions a major societal change in Sweden, in accordance with the spiritual awakening I experienced at age 30 and as a result of my active philosophizing ever since that event.

This treatise is an outline for an auto bibliography. It is a spotlight illumination of important turning points in my effort to control my own life in accordance with the feedback teories on time that I gradually developed. It is a shorthand diary of events, dreams, visions and philosophical reflections giving these events a time dimension of meaning for my life in total. These fragments from my life, when brought together, also comprise a meaningful start for the most important third part of my active life: A search for the 'Sound of Peace' at all dimensions of the concept. Please feel free to share my past, present and future path with me - just for the joy of finding the philosopher within yourself. Be friend with time. Come along! Don't be shy. Remember that a child can philosophize. Revitalize that philosophizing talent within yourself!

For some decades now a major paradigm shift has been seen possible, probable and perhaps even necessary for the survival of human societies on this planet. In my philosophizing mind the paradigm shift will appear as a spiritual awakening on a global scale. I believe that it will be as drastic as the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance put together!

Dear Reader, enjoy your time reading those parts of the documents below in the order, that your own intuition calls for.  Absorb, reject, discuss and digest. And remember, what you make of it is your own personal responsibility. The text is given to you without a guarantee of any kind. Let the texts inspire you to search for your own truths. That is the basic rule for Internet  documents on a web site. Enjoy life by sharing the ideas freely with others! If you feel for publishing your ideas and conclusions, it is polite to give a reference to me and/or the source address:  www.peace.se

Please, see this document as a first draft for a future handbook on practical philosophizing on issues beyond personal projects and human time limits.
Stockholm, summer 2004

Ove Svidén  
ove@peace.se
            

By clicking below, you can go deeper into my personal experiences from an inside life that be reached by using the credo:

I AM Philosophizing.

1. Young Dreams, Experiences and Smart Thinking    

2. Spiritual Awakening     

3. Consultant Years as a Scenario Writer    

4. Philosophical conclusions