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The Nordan Symposia is inspired by the capacity demonstrated by persons in every time and place when they host the wonder leading them to inquire more deeply into the nature of being human. While such questions, along with their ensuing dialogues, may become enshrined in the celebrated literature of any civilization acting then as inspiration to further inquiry, too often these can be found serving the illusions of power wearing 'authoritative' answers more than a genuine authority showing the need for deeper inquiry. These foreclosures upon what remains forever an uncertain but intriguing process of discovery only underscore the value of learning that exhausts the boundaries of space.
To mitigate the inevitable tendency implicit in cultural formation, the Nordan Symposia eschews presumptions upon authority even as its participants seek to identify, incorporate, and integrate what are found to be the most helpful resources freely available throughout this world that is slowly becoming a real cosmopolis. Through the means of this Open Source platform, it is hoped that the common threads of inquiry woven through every field of human endeavor might become more vivid and seen as they are in truth, meaningfully related to the enduring question of "who am I" or "who are we" to have taken upon ouselves the name - homo sapiens? [1]
One result of discovery in the course of this Symposia is the Nordan Corpora that is comprised of a Primary and Secondary Corpus derived from the editorial work conducted within The Daynal Scriptorium [2]. The Scriptorium being a workspace serving as a virtual counterpart to the dialogue transpiring beyond any observable range as well as the more familiar methods of everyday 'matter of fact'. Otherwise, the Primary Corpus contains work attributed to divine sources while the Secondary Corpus features work of human origin.
Of course, finite distinctions between the human and divine can be somewhat arbitrary given our limited experience of the divine living within humanity and the human dwelling within the Source of all that is divine. Indeed, it is the expanding consciousness of an evolving and indivisible union of humanity and divinity that is the primary objective of this endeavor knowing that as we engage in sincere and sustained inquiry, an expanded revelation of truth unfolds. It is from such dialogue that the varied bodies of written work emerge that may be found in either one or both the Primary and Secondary Corpora.
Welcome as we learn the greatest of lessons - working together!
