Endeavour's Origin

Introduction

Endeavour emerges from a single cell: the Root Cell (R) or Origin of THEE. This Root Cell, whatever it may represent, is personal. So what emanates from it must also be personal. Personal endeavour is therefore the source of endeavours of the more impersonal variety—organizational, governmental &c.

What about «creative» endeavour?

The term «creative» is redundant, because all endeavours are created by us. «Being human» requires us to constantly foster creative potentials. However, emphasizing «creative» is potentially unbalanced, because it could be viewed as one pole of the duality: «creative v destructive».

Without the potential for both creation and destruction, endeavours are not fit for human participation. Such mechanical work is better performed by machines. So endeavour is always assumed to demand «creative» development and to be under threat from «destructive» developments.

It is difficult to grasp and name this Origin. It has been assigned the THEE-name: Will. Will is postulated as the source of all elements of endeavour and of all directed personal energy. We can appreciate, philosophically, the existence of Will: the Root Cell. However, we can never properly comprehend it.

Comprehension properly begins with a simple-looking but mysterious hierarchical framework which emanates from this origin. This hierarchy is a framework for a person's endeavour.
Ways to refer to this structure:

Hierarchy of Personal Endeavour
Hierarchy of Endeavour OR Endeavour Hierarchy
Levels of Endeavour
Levels of Will

So the framework of Personal Endeavour (RH) is the Root Hierarchy. Unlike Will-R, it is understandable as the progenitor of the whole taxonomy. Yet it is mysterious in the way it generates the "ten thousand things" that constitute psychosocial reality. Its own elaborated structure, certainly not fully understood, is distinctive and more complex than any other hierarchy within THEE.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955): "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science." From: The World as I See It: An Essay.

Architecture

Below is a diagrammatic representation of the Root Complex as currently understood. Trees are not shown. Most of these frameworks are now posted: details here.

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• Some conjectures about Will.
• How the discovery emerged.
• Continue to the levels of personal endeavour in the Root Hierarchy.

Originally posted: 27-Jan-2011; Last updated: 15-Feb-2014