The Philopsychy Society

Overview of this page:

IV. Activities
III. Membership I. Introduction
II. Founding Principles

To join the Society:
After reading through this document, simply fill out a PPS Member's Profile Form. Before doing so, you might also want to read some of the Profiles submitted by current PPS members.


I. Introduction

The Philopsychy Society is a global, internet-based community of writers who have published their own books (or hope to do so) and of others interested in supporting (or discussing issues relating to) the Society's founding principles. The name "philopsychy" is composed of the two Greek words phileo and psyche, meaning "love" and "soul", respectively. This term provides the fundamental idea around which the Society is established. If, after reading the following description of the founding principles, you would like your name added to the list of members (see below) and/or if you wish to comment on the founding principles in their current form, please contact the Society's initiator, Steve Palmquist. There are no plans to charge a membership fee of any kind. If any financial support is necessary, the Society will depend on donations (e.g., from its sister organization, Philopsychy Press).


II. Founding Principles

All members should be able to affirm (or at least respect those who affirm) each of the following four founding principles (organized here according to the basic fourfold pattern established by the Geometry of Logic):

Taken together, these four principles form the following map:

love
community human soul
care

Feel free to comment on these principles or to suggest others you would like to see included.


III. Membership

The Philopsychy Society began in early 1996 with about 15 founding members linked together on a home-made discussion list. Since then it has been seeking out suitable members from around the globe (see the membership list for up-to-date details), mainly by sending notices to scholarly e-mail discussion groups and encouraging book-trading between self-published authors. During the summer two discussion lists (GAP-L and PPS-L) were formed, but remained dormant until a membership drive was launched in October. Nobody interested in joining the Society or the e-lists is turned away; but the membership consists mostly of persons who fit into at least three of the following four categories:

Taken together, this gives us the following map describing the "average members":

philopsychers
active supporters author-publishers
internet users

How to join the Society.


IV. Activities

The following list is a brief description of some of the activities that are (or are likely to be) sponsored by the Philopsychy Society. Please make your own suggestions if you have other ideas.


Send comments to: StevePq@hkbu.edu.hk

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