Balanced Living Magazine Fall Issue

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Fall 2009 Issue

In his famous existentialist essay Being and Nothingness, John Paul Sartre attempts to answer a question that had eluded philosophers such as Descartes, Kant, and Leibniz, and to a lesser extent Heidegger and Bergson: “How does being relate to nothingness?”

Now, in the 21st Century, I am attempting to answer the question, “How does wellbeing relate to somethingness?”

It is not an easy thing to do. But it is certainly worth the attempt. I believe wellbeing creates somethingness, but the challenge is, how do you successfully cultivate wellbeing? It has been suggested that the collusion of mind-body-spirit is the basis for wellbeing, but I am here to suggest that this does not go far enough.

I believe there are seven dimensions of human experience, as opposed to the three (mind-body-spirit) that we have heretofore been focusing upon.

We do indeed have a mental, physical and spiritual dimension of human experience, but we also have an integrated-human, or social dimension; a non-human dimension that takes in animals and technology; an ecological dimension that is our link to the earth; and a dimension of larger cause that encompasses the extent to which we identify with a specific tribe or group.

In this issue, we begin the journey to bring greater clarity to how to embrace these seven dimensions of human experience, to evolve the wellbeing that with an almost mathametical certainty, drives “somethingness.”

Stay tuned.

Mark S. Kuhar, publisher/editor