for existential inquiry
Welcome to Project IOAL—intended to become a participatory project for existential inquiry. How can we make sense of the fact that existence is? What's the nature of existence? What further questions must we take up any time we take up the question of existence? The objective isn't to foreclose our questions by providing answers but to keep them open and alive. It's in keeping existential questions open and alive that we engage in existential inquiry.
In an effort to provide a suitable mode of discourse for conducting the inquiry, this project posits an original framework of 26 perennial questions interrelationally-arranged, where each question is kept open by placing it in dialogue with all the others. (The images to the right diagram two views of the framework's 3D relational logic in its full, fractal form.)
The goal in keeping the questions open and alive is one of transformation—of oneself and, together with others, our world. Project participants are intended to contribute to the project by engaging in a process akin to the gameplay Hermann Hesse describes in his novel The Glass Bead Game.
Current (2026) project status: What follows is a work in progress aimed mainly at developing an Intro to Philosophy course. The presentation begins with a slide-show introducing the project's inherent visual language system. If any of this interests you, please reach out. I'd love to hear from you. Find my email at the bottom of each page.