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Coach BEAR Thomas Barry Gaunt  BIO
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Coach Thomas Barry Gaunt
Is best “BEAR”

Barry is a Mufon Section Director in Kentucky for Bowling Green and the surrounding areas in Kentucky, USA.
Barry is also a certified Mufon Field Investigator who has investigated over 30 cases in Kentucky.

Barry became interested in the UFO phenomenon as a youth at the early age of nine years. Barry had his first experience in Massillon, Ohio in 1964.
Barry in 1968 read the book Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the past. By Erich Von Daniken.
Barry began his personal search for knowledge and considers this the quest for the paranormal. In 1975, he was fortunate enough to meet Hanz Holzer and was able to accompany him of an investigation of the Franklin Castle in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Since then, Barry has been investigating and researching everything paranormal and supernatural in his continuous quest for the truth as the Kentucky Truth Seeker which he adopted as his name on the Internet as Kytruthseeker.

Barry attended Kent State University, majoring in Telecommunications with a minor in History; professionally he has held many titles including; Vice President, VP of Operations, Director of Central Area in Kentucky, and a Plant Manager in Production.

Barry has lived in several different states in the United States of America.
Barry is proud to now call Kentucky his home where he has resided for the past 10 years.

Barry also enjoys life as a researcher and historian studying the U.S. Civil War, U.S. Native American culture, and as hobbies he studies and researches antiquing, assists antique shop owners with identification of vintage year antiques.

Barry also enjoys as a past time repairing timepieces such as vintage clocks and pocket watches for his friends.

Barry became disabled after several medical problems caused by a serious automobile accident in 2000 which placed him in a critical state causing him to fight for his life. Barry found others who are disabled and they together now are working together in a Kentucky nonprofit corporation without compensation.

Barry is now the volunteer Executive Vice President for the Ace Folklife Nonprofit, Inc. a Faith

Based Community Initiative formed in Kentucky, USA and has global interests for peace, awareness, and education with emphasis on art, culture, education, folk life, and awareness.


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Theresa TJ (TARA) Thurmond Morris is a well known Author,  advisor, consultant, and Intuitive Counselor,

Founder of Ascension Faith Based Community Initiative.

Theresa is a contractor and freelance writer, consultant, producer, and lecturer.
Theresa is the President of Ace Folklife Nonprofit Corporation (KY 2007). Theresa is the former president of Civitan Nonprofit Corporation (KY 2005).Theresa has been a practicing ontologist and in Para-psychology since founding the Ascension Center and acting as President CEO, (HI 1993). Professionally became a psychic in Honolulu, Hawaii along with Psychic Network, Inc., a Spiritual World Network, and World Information Network, which included people synergistically involved (PSI) of which she graduated all courses. Theresa is also a graduate of other secondary professional courses in the Para-psychology and paranormal fields dealing in science, Akashic field and Ufology. Theresa began teaching classes, groups, seminars, and eventually was a co-producer and psychic lecturer at the Eco-Expo in 1993 in LA, CA and again in Whole Life Expos in LA, and San Francisco. Theresa appeared as a special guest at the Whole Life Expo in New York NY in 1993. Theresa has a background in investigations, private, legal, and professional holding a certificate from Illinois Academy of Business and Public Security and actually spent 1980 trough 1994 in investigations and worked in government service obtaining an honorable discharge 1993.
Theresa's official formal identity as an investigator was made known while forming her own business in Birmingham, AL (AL 1980), called Assured Confidential Investigative Reports (ACIR). The acronym she has always used since establishing her connections in the security, investigative field while working and attending college. Theresa has worked with many entrepreneurs all over America and Canada. Theresa now works on a contract basis only as a freelance writer/journalist, and part-time copywriter for website initiators concentrating on entrepreneurial web presence and offering production coordination while placing emphasis on niche markets. Theresa is presently the producer, publisher of over ten successful websites which she began in the second quarter of 2007. Theresa has published many websites and articles that have been published worldwide on other websites for syndication. Theresa has been on television and radio shows throughout her lifetime. Theresa sees herself as a journalist, historian, researcher and registers as a writer with the government. Anthropology and Folklife are the present fields of study academically although Theresa's major is criminal justice and psychology. Theresa is best known in the spiritual, metaphysical, world and prefers to be called an ontologist although her friends refer to her as a shaman, seer, oracle, and psychic. Although Theresa prefers to keep an eclectic point of view in her own life she is still considered a professional Ontologist which is one who studies the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. Many refer to her simply as a Folklorist. Theresa is always a motivator and promoter of the Ascension Center Educational (ACE) Folklife Project.Ontology is a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being. In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ??, genitive ??t??: of being (part. of e??a?: to be) and -????a: science, study, theory) is the study of being or existence and forms the basic subject matter of metaphysics. It seeks to describe or posit the basic categories and relationships of being or existence to define entities and types of entities within its framework.

Some philosophers, notably of the Platonic school, contend that all nouns refer to entities. Other philosophers contend that some nouns do not name entities but provide a kind of shorthand way of referring to a collection (of either objects or events). In this latter view, mind, instead of referring to an entity, refers to a collection of mental events experienced by a person; society refers to a collection of persons with some shared interactions, and geometry refers to a collection of a specific kind of intellectual activity.

As a philosophical subject, ontology chiefly deals with the precise utilization of words as descriptors of entities or realities. Any ontology must give an account of which words refer to entities, which do not, why, and what categories result. When one applies this process to nouns such as electrons, energy, contract, happiness, time, truth, causality, and God, ontology becomes fundamental to many branches of philosophy.[1]
Some basic questions
Ontology has one basic question: "What exists?" Different philosophers provide different answers to this question.

One common approach is to divide the extant entities into groups called "categories." However, these lists of categories are also quite different from one another. It is in this latter sense that ontology is applied to such fields as theology, information science and artificial intelligence.

Further examples of ontological questions include:
What is existence? Is existence a property? What does it mean to say something does not exist? Is existence properly a predicate? Are sentences expressing the existence or non-existence of something properly called propositions?
What is a physical object? Can one give an account of what it means to say that a physical object exists?
What could it mean to say that non-physical objects (such as times, numbers, souls, or deities) exist?
What constitutes the identity of an object? When does an object go out of existence, as opposed to changing?
What features are essential, as opposed to merely accidental, attributes of a given object? What are an object's properties or relations and how are they related to the object itself?
Why are we here? Why does anything exist, rather than nothingness? (Though, according to some, these questions may be more in the realm of cosmology.)
Concepts
Fundamental ontological concepts include:
Universals
Substance
Early history of ontology
The concept of ontology is generally thought to have originated in early Greece. Before Socrates, questions of being, stasis and change occupied Parmenides and Heraclitus. Parmenides is associated with the view that being must be affirmed and non-being avoided and denied.  Parmenides denied that there is any real change in the universe, and Heraclitus is diammetrically opposed to Parmenides in his affirmation of change as the ultimate nature of things.

After Socrates, ontology was very important for Plato and Aristotle. While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolph Göckel (Goclenius). The first occurrence in English of "ontology" as recorded by the OED appears in Bailey’s dictionary of 1721, which defines ontology as ‘an Account of being in the Abstract’. However its appearance in a dictionary indicates it was in use already at that time. It is likely the word was first used in its Latin form by philosophers based on the Latin roots, which themselves are based on the Greek.

Students of Aristotle first used the word 'metaphysica' (literally "after the physics" because these works were placed after his works on physics) to refer to the work their teacher described as "the science of being qua being." The word 'qua' means 'in the capacity of'. According to this theory, then, ontology is the science of being inasmuch as it is being, or the study of beings insofar as they exist. Take anything you can find in the world, and look at it, not as a puppy or a slice of pizza or a folding chair or a president, but just as something that is. More precisely, ontology concerns determining what categories of being are fundamental and asks whether, and in what sense, the items in those categories can be said to "be."

Ontological questions have also been raised and debated by thinkers in the ancient civilizations of India and China, in some cases perhaps predating the Greek thinkers who have become associated with the concept.[2]
Subject, relationship, object
"What exists," "What is," "What am I," "What is describing this to me," all exemplify questions about being, and highlight the most basic problems in ontology: finding a subject, a relationship, and an object to talk about. During the Enlightenment the view of René Descartes that "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") had generally prevailed, although Descartes himself did not believe the question worthy of any deep investigation. However, Descartes was very religious in his philosophy, and indeed argued that "cogito ergo sum" proved the existence of God. Later theorists would note the existence of the "Cartesian Other"—asking "who is reading that sentence about thinking and being?"—and generally concluded that it must be God.

This answer, however, became increasingly unsatisfactory in the 20th century as the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science and even particle physics explored some of the most fundamental barriers to knowledge about being. Sociological theorists, most notably George Herbert Mead and Erving Goffman, saw the Cartesian Other as a "Generalized Other," the imaginary audience that individuals use when thinking about the self. The Cartesian Other was also used by Freud, who saw the superego as an abstract regulatory force. '''
Body and environment
Schools of subjectivism, objectivism and relativism existed at various times in the 20th century, and the postmodernists and body philosophers tried to reframe all these questions in terms of bodies taking some specific action in an environment. This relied to a great degree on insights derived from scientific research into animals taking instinctive action in natural and artificial settings—as studied by biology, ecology, and cognitive science.

The processes by which bodies related to environments became of great concern, and the idea of being itself became difficult to really define. What did people mean when they said "A is B," "A must be B," "A was B."..? Some linguists advocated dropping the verb "to be" from the English language, leaving "E Prime," supposedly less prone to bad abstractions. Others, primarily philosophers, tried to dig into the word and its usage. Heidegger attempted to distinguish being and existence.
Anselm's Ontological Argument for the existence of God
Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world—e.g., from reason alone. In other words, ontological arguments are arguments from nothing but analytic, a priori and necessary premises to the conclusion that God exists. The first, and best-known, ontological argument was proposed by St. Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th century A.D.[3] In the seventeenth century, René Descartes defended a family of similar arguments.

Issues of an ontological nature become of concern regarding discussions about possible descriptions of God. Anselm's description of God is of "that of which nothing greater can be conceived." Anselm argues the 'a priori' argument for the existence of God, stating that if God is "that of which nothing greater can be conceived," he would have to exist for this description to be correct. Something which exists is greater than that which is imagined. God would necessarily exist, according to Anselm, as we could not possibly imagine something to be greater than God, for that would be imagining a virtual impossibility. Anselm argues that since things which exist are greater than those which are imagined, God must exist for his description to be accurate.

The counter-argument states that just because one cannot think of something greater than God does not mean that there is nothing greater, except by arbitrary definition: "God = That which nothing greater can be conceived."

This is a circular argument, using a definition that limits the possible answers (thus limiting God, which is then problematic); the cognitive powers of mind transcend actual reality all the time (contrary to the concept that something real is greater than something imagined).

One might also take the stance that God is something that is beyond Conception; World Religions in common practice define their God(s) as: without beginning or end, or Not Born, and therefore, Not Mortal.
Being and non-being
Many forms of existentialism regard being as a fundamental central concept. Heidegger had much to say on the matter of being. The verb to be has many different meanings in different contexts and can therefore be rather ambiguous. Because "to be" has so many different meanings, there are, accordingly, many different ways of being.[4].

Descartes argues that God is a 'supremely perfect being' and that existence is a perfection so therefore God must exist. This also links to Descartes cogito ergo sum 'I think therefore I am' stating that we are thinking things and therefore exist in some unarguable form.
Becoming
The first formal development of this notion within philosophy began with the pre-Socratic Heraclitus, where he posited agon ("strife of opposites") as the ontological basis of all reality in terms of this endless transformative conflict, which was later contrasted and dominated by the Parmenidean, or Platonic, notion of Being, until more recent philosophers began a reversion of this trend.

Notably and the first to make such an advocation since Heraclitus was the nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who used the expression "the innocence of becoming," a fundamental element of his philosophical thought grounded in the "will to power as pathos," as a means to describe the aesthetic qualities of existence, which pervades his thinking, including but not limited to ideas such as his "Dionysian world," "eternal recurrence," "amor fati," and "decadence." It was with this a-teleological view that he attempted to disgregate all views pertaining to the human condition, where "thingness" is ultimately characterized as a mere "hypothesis" in Nietzsche's phrase, and such a view, pertaining to the "inequality" of all "things," carries deep implications for ethics and the nature of knowledge.

Likewise, in his Logic, Hegel uses Becoming as a mediating force in his dialectical model of ontology. In this model, Being is, on the one hand, opposing to Non-Being and, on the other hand, "is the same as Non-Being." Becoming acts therefore as the process by which Being comes into itself, or "becoming is the unity of being and not-being." [1]
Process philosophy
Main article: Process philosophy


Process philosophy as developed by Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is a school of thought which maintains that reality is always in a process of "becoming."
Social science
Social scientists adopt one of four main ontological approaches: realism (the idea that facts are out there just waiting to be discovered), empiricism (the idea that we can observe the world and evaluate those observations in relation to facts), positivism (which focuses on the observations themselves, attentive more to claims about facts than to facts themselves), and postmodernism (which holds that facts are fluid and elusive, so that we should focus only on our observational claims).
Prominent ontologists
Anselm of Canterbury
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
David Malet Armstrong
Alain Badiou
Gustav Bergmann
Patricia Churchland
Paul Churchland
Gilles Deleuze    René Descartes
Jean Gebser
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Martin Heidegger
Heraclitus
Edmund Husserl
Roman Ingarden
Saul Kripke    Gottfried Leibniz
Friedrich Nietzsche
William of Ockham
Parmenides
Plato
Plotinus
Hilary Putnam
W. V. Quine    Bertrand Russell
Gilbert Ryle
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Duns Scotus
Barry Smith
Baruch Spinoza
P. F. Strawson
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ludwig Wittgenstein


See also
Applied Ontology
Category of being
Cosmology
Counterpart theory
Epistemology
Foundation ontology
Mereological essentialism
Mereology
Metaphysics
Modal logic
Multimedia Web Ontology Language (MOWL)
Nihilism    Personal Taxonomy
Ontological argument
Ontological security
Ontological perfection
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of space and time
Philosophy of mathematics
Schema
Ship of Theseus
Solipsism
Taxonomy
Theology       


References
1. ^ Formal Ontology definitions
2. ^ A history of philosophical development
3. ^ "Ontological Arguments," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Online: [2]
4. ^ A Discourse on Being
External links
Dmoz.org: Directory of links to Ontology
Ontology. A resource guide for philosophers
Ontologists of 19th and 20th centuries
Living ontologists
Buffalo Ontology Site
   
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