Transcendental Ontology

Everyone needs ontology, and uses it every day; but few people know what an ontology is. An ontology is simply a reality map: a conceptual guide to categories of being or reality. Ontologies usually take the form of a collection of data and stories that help us model life, the universe and everything. We all use ontologies to evaluate the meaning of our experience.

Ontology saves time and effort. By providing a collection of ready-made evaluations we can apply to common experiences, ontologies save us the trouble of reconsidering and reinterpreting the meaning of everything each time we encounter it. Without ontology we would have to evaluate each experience as if seeing it for the first time.

Familiar examples of ontologies are dictionaries and encyclopedias, religions and cultures, arts and sciences, languages and other systems of meaning and value, representation and communication. Everyone needs, has and uses ontologies, whether they realize it or not.

Ontologies are valuable in practical matters. If we are playing music, for example, we can think in the language or ontology of music. Thus, instead of having to reinvent the laws of harmony, scales and rhythm each time we play, we simply reference the ontology of the particular style of music we are playing.

Transcendental ontology or transontology is a special type of ontology that describes transcendental objects and phenomena. Are you conscious? Then you are a transcendental entity, and as such, to understand yourself requires transontology.

Ordinary materialistic ontology and logic cannot account for transcendental phenomena such as consciousness, individuality, personality, desire, choice, intention, initiative, imagination, creativity, love and other human qualities we experience every day.

Transontology is rare because most ontologies are developed to support materialistic ways of looking at the world. Transontology helps us correctly evaluate the immanence of spirit, consciousness and the inner life of the soul.

Transontology is important because it is the only way of giving appropriate meaning to the transcendental aspects of human consciousness, experience and life.

To understand ourselves as spiritual beings, make tangible advancement in spiritual life and develop our consciousness, we need to learn transontology and apply it in our lives. The Esoteric Teaching is the most ancient comprehensive and complete transontology known. The teachers and students of the Esoteric Teaching find that it provides many benefits in their daily lives:

• Relieves stress and anxiety

• Removes confusion and misunderstanding

• Increases intelligence and reasoning power

• Expands awareness and purifies consciousness

• Enhances self-confidence

• Removes fear, especially fear of death

• Helps cultivate a satisfying personal relationship with the Supreme

There benefits reflect the fact that transontology accurately represents the phenomenal world as it is: a combination of transcendental and mundane entities. The Esoteric Teaching is the best known and most complete instance of transontology in the world, for it puts all types of entities into their proper relationship.