We are each surrounded by a "Mystery" whose essence defies description. We use language to make sense of this mystery by extracting meaning and then structuring that meaning into models. We label and classify the mystery. Our labels have the potential to be categorized in fantastic matrixes of meaning.

Mystery's Idea Pyramid is a hypertext-based evolving ideological infrastructure where concepts are linked together using interlocking web pages each containing an idea-class. The elements (units) making up an idea-class are used to generate meaning. These elements gain meaning in relationship to each other (their contexts) with the goal being to create large interconnected webs of meaning that represent 'the great mystery' that lies beneath all. The purpose of an idea pyramid is to connect the dots between these islands of meanings by providing channels of communication where isolated meanings can join to form larger more integrated systems of meaning. Within the human mind, meanings too often lie in isolated islands of ideas without clear paths to each other. An idea pyramid is a structure for creating order among ideas by associating one idea with another, in a cascading fashion, from a central point or apex.

The premise of the Mystery's Idea Pyramid is that everything is either an idea or can be represented by an idea. Those ideas can be labeled and organized in categories called idea-classes. These idea-classes can be linked together in a larger structure called an idea pyramid hierarchy with an apex idea at its pinnacle. An idea pyramid hierarchy is the central structure in an idea pyramid.

Idea Pyramids:

An infinite number of idea pyramids are possible as labels and narratives are applied in an attempt to make the unknown known.

An Idea Pyramid Hierarchy:

An idea pyramid hierarchy is an integrated group of cascading idea-classes. Ideas within it are labeled and expressed as concepts. At its apex is a master idea-class. An idea pyramid hierarchy provides the structure for an idea pyramid.

An Idea-String:

An idea-string represents a group of cascading idea-classes starting from a master idea-class cascading into more and more specific idea-classes (subclasses or child classes). In the other direction, you travel from an idea-class into the superclasses (parent classes) of which it is a member. In the hypertext format of an idea-string most of these idea-classes can be selected leading to web pages revealing their member ideas.

 (Mystery > Bed of consciousness > Community of beings > My being > My soul > My incarnations > My current incarnation > My psyche > My fate)

An Idea-Class:

An idea-class is a group (or set) of ideas organized as concepts.

Concepts are labeled ideas that belong to categories, as well as, have subcategories.

The central idea of an idea-class becomes its label or name. Beneath this central idea are member ideas which frequently become the central ideas in the next level of idea-classes (subclasses). Above an idea-class is the superclass it belongs too. The page displaying an idea-class often also contains a description or commentary on it.

 To understand an idea-class you need to look at its main components:

A description or commentary on an idea-class is found here (below its main components).

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An example of an idea-class:

My world [my subjective world; my self-centered world; my surrounding world; my umwelt]
(Mystery > Bed of consciousness > Community of beings > My being > My soul > My incarnations > My current incarnation > My psyche > My presence > My world)

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