User:M Alan Kazlev

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I'm an autodidactic metaphysician, esotericist and integral philosopher who has so far made a few pathetic attempts at Integral yoga, an armchair palaeontologist, futurist, science fiction writer and fan, worldbuilder, geek, and all round eccentric. Here is my website, blog (on Blogger.com and blog on zaadz. Also I am the co-founder of and the main force behind setting up Orion's Arm; am co-author of Palaeos, and initiated the Palaeos Wiki.

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[edit] Wikipedian Philosophy

In terms of Wikipedia editorial philosophy I am an Inclusionist and an Eventualist.

Ignoring the fact that there is no such thing as a true "neutral point of view", because everyone has their own biases and sees the world through their own filters, so that the best we can hope for is an "aperspective" (sensu Gebser and Wilber) approach that includes as many diverse povs as possible; I strongly support a Wikipedia that honours diversity and is free of bias. This means adhering to a policy of neutral point of view which gives equal weight to both sceptical physicalist and "metaphysical"/esotericist perspectives, and balancing out physicalist biases in wikipedia entries dealing with non-physicalist topics, and for that matter addressing, balancing, and giving counter points of view for any other biases.

[edit] Contributions

Apart from dabbling about two years earlier, I first contributed on 2 February 2005, and signed in under my name a few weeks later (13 February, which also happens to be my birthday). I have been an enthusiastic wikipedian ever since. Indeed, Wikipedia is so adictive that it means often I am doing stuff here when I should be writing my book!

[edit] Wikipages - Esotericism and Integral Paradigm

[edit] Esoterica, New Age, Alternative, Meditation, etc

Esotericism is a vast and fascinating topic that is rather under-represented on the Wikipedia. I've started adding some pages, and expanding and correcting others. Also some New Age entries would go here as well. In fact this section just seems to get broader as more stuff is added.

Pages I've Created:

General: Causal body - Causal plane - Divinization - Esoteric cosmology - Etheric body - Etheric plane - Gross realm - Kama (Theosophy) - - Mental plane - Neo-Theosophy - Non-physical entity (stub) - Physical body (Theosophy) - Physical plane - Round (Theosophy) - Septenary (Theosophy) - Spiritual philosophy (stub) - Subtle realm - Universal mind (stub)

Biographies: Wouter Hanegraaff - Ainslie Meares - David Spangler (stub) - Diane Stein - David Wilcock

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Astral body - Astral plane - Barry Long - Involution (philosophy) - Plane (cosmology) - Spiritual evolution - Subtle body

[edit] Eastern Philosophy

Pages I've Created:

Anandamaya kosha - Divine Mother - Linga sarira - Loka - Sukshma sarira (stubby) - Shuddhashuddha tattvas - Category:Vedanta - Category:Gurus

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Niyati (stubby)

[edit] The Theon Tradition

A little known esoteric tradition that had a formative influence in late 19th and early 20th century European occultism. Many of these ideas were adopted by The Mother (Mirra Alfassa).

M. J. Benharoche-Baralia - Cosmic Movement - Cosmic philosophy - Cosmic Review - Cosmic Tradition - Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor - Pascal Themanlys - Alma Theon (stub) - Max Theon

Category:Max Theon

[edit] Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

If I choose as personal preference one spiritual teaching and system of yoga over others, it is that of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The current project here is not just to elucidate various elements of their teaching, but also mention a few individuals associated with them. In addition I have completely rewritten the previous wiki biography of the Mother

Pages I've Created:

Topics (various): The Advent (journal) - Arya (journal) - Central being (rather stubby) - Chit-Tapas (stubby) - Delight (Sri Aurobindo) - Gnostic being - Inner being - Integral education - Integral psychology (Sri Aurobindo) - Integral yoga - Intermediate zone - Letters on Yoga - The Life Divine - Mental (Sri Aurobindo) - The Mother (book) (stub) - Mother's Agenda - Mother India (journal) - Outer being - Physical (Sri Aurobindo) - Psychic being - Psychicisation - Record of Yoga - Spiritualisation - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Sri Aurobindo Circle - Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual - Subtle physical - Supermind (rather stubby) Supramentalisation - Vital (Sri Aurobindo)

Biographies: Amal Kiran - Champaklal - Rod Hemsell (stub) - Nirodbaran - Nolini Kanta Gupta - Sisir Kumar Maitra - Ram Shankar Misra - M.P. Pandit - Pavitra - Sujata Nahar (stub) - Satprem - Indra Sen - Luc Venet (brief stub) - Georges van Vrekhem (stub)


Templates: Template:Sri Aurobindo - Template:Triple transformation

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Biographies: Sri Aurobindo - Mirra Alfassa - The Mother

[edit] Integral Thought, etc

Some overlap with the preceding, but then all these things overlap anyway (also includes Peer-to-Peer, and Integral theory)

Pages I've Created:

Topics (various): Integral art - Integral psychotherapy - Integral World - Integralwiki (stub) - P2P Foundation wiki (stub) - Peer-to-Peer (meme) - Pluralities-Integration (stub) - Unified Science (stub)

Biographies: Michel Bauwens - Roland Benedikter - Elliot Benjamin - Brant Cortright - Matthew Dallman - Edward Haskell - Robert A. McDermott - Thomas J. McFarlane - Bahman Shirazi - Frank Visser (stub) - Joseph Vrinte - Johannes Wallmann - Timothy Wilken (very stubby) - Michael Zimmerman (stub)

Books and websites: Full Circle (book) - The Self-Organizing Universe - Peer to Peer and Human Evolution (stub)

Categories: Category:Integral art - Category:Integral theory (should be deleted) - Category:Ken Wilber

Templates: Template:Integral thought

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Integral psychology - Integral theory - Integral thought - Ken Wilber (critique section)

[edit] Award

The Original Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for your many excellent contributions to esoteric and spiritual articles. - Solar 12:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipages - Life through Time

[edit] The Phylogeny of Life

It is impossible for any one (or two or ten or a hundred) people to write up the "family tree" of life, with its millions of clades and species. The following entries concentrate on a few branches, nodes, and twigs of the great Tree of Life. These include both extinct and recent taxa (so far I've been covering only the molluscs and the vertebrates). I have had fun and a great deal of satisfaction, from doing write-ups on various prehistoric organisms; so far mostly Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic amphibians and reptiles (also a few insects from this time), as this represents my favourite time in the history of the Earth. Yeah yeah I know, I still use those old Linnaean terms a lot, as I like them and theya re easy and convenient. But nowadays instead of "reptile" you should technically say sauropsid or synapsid ("mammal-like reptile"); while early primtive amphibians are now referred to as basal tetrapods.

Pages I've Created:

Vertebrates : Adelospondyli - Aetosauria - Aïstopoda - Anomodont (stub) - Anteosauria- Anteosauridae - Archosauriformes - Archosauromorph - Anthracosauria - Biarmosuchia - Batrachomorpha - Batrachosauria (stub) - Bradysaurus - Brithopodidae - Cacops (stub) - Carboniferous tetrapods - Caseidae - Chilgatherium - Cistecephalus - Crocodylomorpha - Crurotarsi - Diadectes - Diadectidae - Diadectomorpha - Deinotheriidae - Dicraeosauridae - Dicynodon - Dicynodon trautscholdi - Dinocephalia - Dissorophidae (stubby) - Dissorophoidea (stubby) - Dvinosauria (stubby) - Edaphosauridae - Eothyrididae - Eryopidae (stubby) - Eryopoidea (stubby) - Erythrosuchidae - Estemmenosuchidae - Estemmenosuchus - Eupelycosauria - Eureptilia - Gorgonops - Ichthyopterygia - Indricotheriinae - Jonkeria - Kannemeyeria - Kannemeyeriidae (stub) - Lepospondyli - Lethiscus - Lissamphibia - Lysorophia - Neodiapsida - Nigersaurus - Paraceratherium - Parareptilia - Pareiasaur - Permian tetrapods - Phytosauria - Plesiosauria (originally redirect page) - Plesiosaurus (originally redirect page) - Poposauridae - Prestosuchidae - Procolophonia - Procolophonomorpha - Prodeinotherium - Proterosuchia - Proterosuchidae - Pseudosuchia - Rauisuchia - Rauisuchidae - Rebbachisauridae - Reptiliomorpha - Rhynchosaur - Robertia - Sauria - Sphenacodontia - Sphenacodontidae - Sphenacodontoidea - Syodontidae - Tapinocephalus - Temnospondyli - Trematosauria (stubby) - Trematosauroidea (stubby) - Trilophosaur - Zatrachydidae (stubby)

Technical terms (Vertebrates) (all these are stubs): Fourth trochanter - Postcrania - Triradiate pelvic girdle

Insects : So far all pretty stubby: Diaphanopterodea - Palaeodictyoptera - Palaeodictyopteroidea - Protodonata - Protorthoptera -

Molluscs : Bellerophon (mollusc) - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae - Chippewaella (stub) - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae - Muricidae - Muricoidea - Nautilida - Strepsodiscus (stub) - Thais (gastropod)

Technical terms (Molluscs): Body chamber - Body whorl - Camerae - Orthocone - Phragmocone - Sculpture (mollusc) - Septa - Spire (mollusc) - Varix (mollusc) - Whorl (mollusc)

Systematics: Autapomorphy (stub)

Books, Journals, Websites, etc: Evolution of the Vertebrates - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (stub) - Mikko's Phylogeny Archive - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Tree of Life Web Project (stubby) -Vertebrate Palaeontology (Benton) - Vertebrate Paleontology (Romer) - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Templates: Template:Paleo-stub

Categories: Category:African dinosaurs - Category:Anomodonts - Category:Canadian paleontologists - Category:Carboniferous animals - Category:Mesozoic life - Category:Paleontology books - Category:Paleontology stubs - Category:Paleontology websites - Category:Paleozoic animals - Category:Paleozoic_life - Category:Parareptiles - Category:Pareiasaurs - Category:Pelycosaurs - Category:Permian animals - Category:Permian life - Category:Temnospondyls - Category:Sauropterygia - Category:Science websites

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Genera and Clades: Archosaur - Baluchitherium - Caseasauria - Deinotherium - Dicynodont - Edaphosaurus - Ichthyosaur - Jobaria - Nautiloid - Nemegtosauridae - Orthoceras - Pelycosauria - Prosauropoda - Rhopalodon - Sauropsid - Synapsid - Thecodont - Thecodontosaurus - Therapsida

Projects: The following are WikiProjects I am (sporadically) involved in:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cephalopods - Wikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

[edit] Naturalists and Palaeontologists (stubs)

The great task of the classification and tracing the evolutionary relationships of life on Earth is the result of the combined and tireless efforts of tens of thousands of naturalists, paleontologists, biologists, and others. I have decided to write stubs on any not listed in wikipedia, as pertinant. e.g. the author of the scientific name of an organism or group or clade, or the author of a book or monograph or article. Note that all of these pages are stubs, and some are extremely stubby.

Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (stub) - Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra (very stubby) - Frank M. Carpenter - Kenneth Carpenter - Robert L. Carroll - Edwin H. Colbert - Emanuel Mendez da Costa - Kristina Curry Rogers - Michael S. Engel - Mikael Fortelius - Peter Galton - Jacques Gauthier - John Kappelman - Gillian King - Oskar Kuhn - Spencer G. Lucas - Andreas V. Martynov - Pierre Denys de Montfort - A. Morley Davies (very stubby) - Paul E. Olsen - Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf - Otto Schindewolf - William J. Sanders - Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim - Edward Oscar Ulrich - Peter J. Wagner - Wilhelm August Wenz - Jeffrey A. Wilson

[edit] Institutions (stubs)

Likewise the museums and institutes that house the specimens

Paleontological Institute

[edit] Earth History and Geological Timescale

Pages I've Created:

Aalenian (stub) - Beaufort Group - Chitarwata Formation (stub) - Early Cretaceous (stub) - Karoo Supergroup - Middle Jurassic(stub) - Early Ordovician (stub) - Guadalupian (brief stub) - Late Cretaceous (stub) - Late Ordovician (stub) - Middle Ordovician (stub)

Pages I've Contributed Substantially To:

Early Jurassic (needs more work) - Geologic timescale

[edit] Wikipages - Other

Wikipedian categories I created: Category:Esotericist Wikipedians - Category:Transhumanist Wikipedians - Category:Wikipedians interested in paleontology

[edit] Geography

Pages I've Created: Bugti Hills (very brief stub)

[edit] Futurism, Transhumanism and Sci Fi

From the past and present to the future...

Pages I've Created:

Topics: Archailect - Transapient

Biographies: Anders Sandberg - John Smart (futurist) (stub)


Pages I've Contributed substantially to:

Topics: Dyson tree

[edit] Other

Miscellaneous stuff that doesn't fit under the other categories

Pages I've Created:

Topics: AK Comics

Biographies: Jonathan Huebner - Michael L. Benton (disambiguation stub) - Theodore Modis

[edit] Deleted entries

The following (mostly shortr) entries I wrote were considered non-notable or invalid, and have been deleted:

Arvan Harvat - Sri Aurobindo Association - Geoffrey D. Falk - David Grimaldi - Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet - Theory of everything (philosophy)

[edit] Wikipedia Style

(notes and references to self)

in the preferred order:

  • Quotations
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Useful pages:

[edit] CC License

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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