The 7 Metacognitive Guides That Kept My Contemplations On Track
My intent in this article is to tell you a little about my life as it pertains to this work.
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Introduction
I want to present seven metanoic guides that have helped me to keep from going astray on my contemplative journey along this path. I call them ‘metanoic guides’ because they guide my thoughts and understanding overall, and therefore are metacognitive in nature, and stand as inviolable standards for me. The word metanoic is a neologism formed from the prefix meta-, meaning of a higher order, and the Greek word noein, meaning thinking or understanding, which is itself derived from the word nous, meaning mind, plus the suffix -ic which makes it an adjective.
I adopted these guides as a result of decades of contemplation on the insights that I gained through my meditation. These troubled me greatly because they didn’t fit our modern mechanical materialist worldview, with which I had been inculcated.