Total Nested Holarchy of Ideals

At the absolute top of the Total Nested Holarchy of Ideals is ØNE — the Ultimate Ideal that orders all other Ideals within Itself. Within It is All. In between are the categorical structures we use to Perceive and Navigate Reality — and at the center of every Category, at every level, stands an Ideal.

Reality is inherently One. To function within it, we differentiate the highest-order unity into Categories, arrayed across a total nested holarchy of abstraction — and each Category is defined by the Ideal at its center, with a wide diversity of manifestation arrayed around it. The relative Value of any individuated aspect of Creation depends on its depth in the holarchy, its Conformance To The Ideal of the Categories it inhabits, and its Relative Potential — each read as a gradient, never a box (The Living Gradient).

This holarchy, processed through a Narrative Framework, is essentially the Map we use to perceive and navigate the universe. It is the companion of the Total Nested Holarchy of Goals: the Holarchy of Ideals holds what perfection looks like at every scale; the Holarchy of Goals holds what we intend to realize at every scale.

Because every Ideal below ØNE is a rendering made by minds (Essences, Renderings, And Ineffable Referents), the holarchy is held as Current Best Understanding: a north star at every altitude, never a totalitarian judge at any (Ideal). How an Ideal at the center of a category becomes embodied reality is traced in The Creative Cascade.

Discussed in: 11.19 The Total Nested Holarchy of Ideals · 11.18 Conformance to the Ideal · 3.9 The Ideal