Navigate

To Navigate is to move consciously FROM where we are TO where we are going — by a map, toward an aim, through real territory.

Navigation is the second half of every quest; the first is fixing the Aim. Having chosen The Goal, the whole work of Governance, of a life, of the Meta Project, is to Navigate FROM Where We Are TO Where We Are Going — honestly locating the present position, clearly holding the destination, and choosing the wise right next steps between them, again and again.

Every navigator steers by a Map of Reality — and the map is not the territory (Perception). So navigation is a double discipline: moving through the Territory, and continuously correcting the map as the Territory answers (Updating Our Map). The falls and surprises are not interruptions of navigation; they are its best data.

The deepest compass points are already given: away from Pain and Suffering, toward Potential and flourishing; away from Hell, toward Heaven — read anew in every moment (The Living Gradient). And the truest heading of all is Navigate Towards Truth: following the Golden Thread wherever it leads, no matter what it costs the current map.

Discussed in: Navigate Towards Truth · 4.2 How To Navigate And Move · 4.1 The Navigation Issue · Map of Reality