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Human Meta-culture
Metaculture is defined as the transcultural patterning of human civilization that is the metasystemic consequence of mainly progressive scientific technological development and the development of metaphysical and meta-ethical philosophy in regard to human social organization and the anthropological construction of reality.
We cannot overestimate or down-play the importance of achieving a realistic and vital perspective of contemporary humankind, as human behavior and belief present to us the greatest obstacles toward achieving a collectively more realistic and more adaptive framework in the world.
We are all completely steeped in one form of metacultural pattern or another, and often there are several metacultural frameworks and patterns overlapping and interacting with one another at the same place and time. We are involved in metacultural frameworks whether we realize it or want to admit it or not, and all our activities and notions and patterns of behavioral response can be said to consist of definite metacultural order or sense of pattern, even things and activities we do not normally consider being so, or even if this pattern is confusing or contradictory.
If we can self-consciously admit to reconceptualizing our behavioral and belief patterns, even in areas we consider mundane, or technically specific, etc., then we also open our selves to the possibility of imagining alternative metacultural patterns, or of alternation and of reconfiguration of our metacultural patterns, in all our modalities of belief and behavior, in ways that may in the larger sense be more adaptive and more conducive to human adaptation in general.
Lewis Meta-culture is dedicated to the promotion of human meta-cultural adaptation on earth, as a function of its larger metasystemic framework. Such metacultural adaptation is construed as a necessary teleological outcome of the historical development of human civilization within a global context, and rests upon the processes of transculturation and acculturation that accompanies the transitions of human societies with modernization and modern development.
Lewis Meta-culture seeks to preserve the old and traditional forms with the new, and to synthesize new forms that represent the syncretic fusion of new and old forms. The heart of creativity is the elaboration of deeply rooted symbolic forms in new patterns and configurations, adapted in an on-going need to new functional requirements.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
