What is your Minimum Working Hypothesis?

Hello everyone,

I am reading a book by Alduos Huxley, the first essay of which is called "The Minimum Working Hypothesis". To read online, please see the link here: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Horizon-1944sep-00176.

I'd like to pose a question: "what is your minimum working hypothesis?"

Hmmm, well I have an experiential idea on a concept of "clear light of the void", which to me represents the points where awareness emerge into some spatial representation whence the temporal frame is set (based on the conditions of that awareness). The path then becomes about understanding the ground if emerges from, and the factors associated with its manifested form. To relate it to Buddhism I might say the ground is dharmakaya, and the experience of clear light is sambhogakaya, with nirmanakaya being the distortion of sambhogakaya as it relates outwards and thus becomes 'relative truth'. This then starts to inform the 'shape' of the phenomena I call awareness and what might exist beyond our familiar senses, to help cut away counter-productive habits, beliefs or practices.

Minimum Working Hypothesis: Breathe

From the Latin root: spir. This leads to Inspiration, Spirit, a modest aspiration, a little perspiration, and an inclusive conspiracy (breathing together)

From the sanskrit root brh: inferring to swell, grow. enlarge and expand. Not of the superficial and hallucinatory ego, but of the Brahman or what me might call The Force

Humanism and nature are sufficient for me; even so, my life/path has always been an investigation into the nature of the sacred.

Religious/mythic persons often are working with their sacred texts and myths in their search for the best way to live the revelations and mythic expressions.

There are academic definitions of myth that provide a minimum working hypothesis.

Myth:
narrative embodiment of an idea
narrative about origins
narrative about the nature of the sacred
narrative account of the origin of a symbol of the sacred
narrative of sacred history
symbolic expression of primal experience.

Myth is a culturally specific verbal narrative describing a form of life that is felt and lived.

I find Huxley's assertion of a "final end" unnecessarily reductive.

My minimum working hypothesis is precisely that: there are no ends, only a functionally endless and massively chaotic web of translation, transformation, transmutation, on and on and on.

tzb wrote: I find Huxley's assertion of a "final end" unnecessarily reductive.

My minimum working hypothesis is precisely that: there are no ends, only a functionally endless and massively chaotic web of translation, transformation, transmutation, on and on and on.

Excuse me what what do you mean by that?