Welcome to William Schnack's Ambiarchy Academy!

Do you like to learn? Have a yearning for the truth? Perhaps you want to make the world a better place to live in, or to develop some strength of character. You have come to the right place. Ambiarchy Academy is a series of courses over the new philosophies of Ambiarchy and Ambitheism, and how to put them to practice. Together, Ambiarchy and Ambitheism compose a comprehensive worldview, which has application in the real world. Learn about the Universe! Study humanity’s place in it. Learn to relate to one another!

About

Ambiarchy, a combination of ambi- meaning “both,” as in “ambiguous,” and -archy as in the meaning of “ruler.” It refers to a state of rulership which is ambiguous, because appearing to blur the lines between archy, or the state of having a ruler, and anarchy, the state of lacking one. As a result, an ambiarchy can be described as a government, as an anarchy, or even a panarchy.

Participants are emersed in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary study that spans topics in metaphysics, natural theology, cosmology, evolutionary theory, history, social sciences, philosophy, and self-help, to name a sampling. In a certain respect, this course is of equivalent philosophical significance to a work like The Holy Bible with regard to its depth and span, but is much more like an encyclopedic philosophical treatise with regard to the style of contents, which span from the Beginning to the End of Time. The general goal is for participants to come away with a more-or-less complete picture of the workings of the natural world that answers deep philosphical questions such as what the purpose or meaning of life is and what it takes to live a good one, as well as why and how evil exists and what to do about it. The specific goal is to convey a working understanding of 1) pantheism, the view that God and Nature are one and the same and 2) mutualism, the view that people should stive to work for mutual benefit-- both within the context of competing worldviews that will also be supplementally learned about--, as well as 3) my solutions for the world's problems built upon the premises of these when interacting with a postmodern social climate, which I call paleo-mutualism, or mutualism from a “conservative” lens, geo-mutualism, or mutualism as understood to be consistent with community collection of land values, or ambitheism and ambiarchy, which will need to be explained on their own! Ambiarchy and ambitheism together compose a theory of everything. You can utilize this theory of everything as a new, social operating system of sorts, which helps you to sort phenomena/noumena and navigate the world and our universe according to your own, enlightened conscience. If you find a better one, you can update your operating system, just like you do on your computer! I am confident this is the best you will get. Give it a test. No need to wipe the current drive, we'll be referencing the apps you currently have installed. And remember, you can always remove this operating system. It is intended to compliment, rather than replace, your current one. It adds, without taking away. Atheists should come away loving God, and theists should come away loving Nature. Communists should find equality in money and nationalists find liberation in equality. Statists should take up the black flag of anarchy, and anarchists hoist the banners of good government. All should find consensus in common sense, rational, and pragmatic ambiguity.

Pre-requisites

1. Basic comprehension of the concept of God
2. Basic comprehension of the Big Bang theory
3. Basic comprehension of Biblical geneaology
4. Basic comprehension of Darwinian theory of evolution by mutation and natural selection
5. Basic comprehension of ideas like monarchy, democracy, communism, capitalism
6. Basic comprehension of the idea of anarchy and the ideological camp of anarchism

Course Structure

Ambiarchy Academy has a degree structure, but this is not to be confused for “degree” in the sense of an accreditted degree from college or anything, such as an Associates, Bachelors, Masters, or Doctorate. You can't get those here. Rather, our “degrees” are descriptive references to the degrees of a circle, and only have a coincidental resemblance in name to the other kind owing to the two being homonyms. In Ambiarchy Academy, one earns up to 120 degrees in one of three Realms. When each Realm is completed, one has achieved 360 degrees, and is considered complete (a graduate). Upon completion, opportunities made available only to graduates may present themselves.

Coursework is constructed into three Realms.

• Red is the Realm dealing with knowledge having in some way to do with the past or with foundations. In courses for Adepts and Disciples, this just marks the earlier stages of the course. For Apprentices, it is the area dealing with sciences such as cosmology, biology, anthropology, sociology, political economy and areas of metaphysics such as theology, ontology, epistemology, meta-ethics, and history.
• Blue is the Realm dealing with knowledge having in some way to do with the future or with projections. In courses for Adepts and Disciples, this just marks the middle stages of the course. For Apprentices, it is the area dealing with approaches to the humanities, ideologies, comparative analysis, synthetic philosophy, ethics, and strategies.
• Yellow is the Realm dealing with knowledge having in some way to do with the present or with applications. In courses for Adepts and Disciples, this just marks the later stages of the course. For Apprentices, it is the area dealing with processes, procedures, system design, skill, practice, administration, and so on.

Text material will be accompanied by videos presenting a short overview of the section or material, with important vocabulary terms. A Certificate of Completion for the version of the course taken will be presented to those who can score better than 75% on a long exam. A Certificate of Proficiency will be granted to those who can score 90% or better.

Ambiarchy Academy is held at William's Center for Ambiarchy, located in East Texas, between Tyler and Canton, the exact address to be made available to students.

Freedom of Thought and Expression

Participants are expected to:

• Learn Ignorance – Admit your inability to know all, and allow yourself to become an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge claims
• Actively Listen – Read, watch, or listen with the intentions of being able to paraphrase what has been said. This helps to ensure that what has been said is well understood, enough that one may repeat it.
• Suspend Judgment – Before criticizing or dismissing, grasp what is being said in its own context, and what is meant by the speaker. Don’t look immediately for flaws, but focus on comprehending what is being said and what the intentions of the speaker are.
• Critically Think – Consider what has been said, and whether or not it is in line with those things understood to be more fundamental. If so, decide where the adjustment should be made to your beliefs, whether the thing is truly fundamental or not, and if the other thing is right or wrong because of it.
• Maintain Golden Silence – Be impeccable with your word. Don’t share half-baked ideas that will earn you disrespect. Speak only that which is fully fleshed out.
• Make Good Faith Arguments – Address matters as they actually are and as they were intended to be read by the author.
• Constructively Criticize – If you think there is something wrong, criticize with the intentions to be constructive, and offer an alternative to the position you are criticizing. Ask yourself if you are fairly applying your criticism, and if it would also be true if used against you.
• Nonviolently Communicate – Communicate in manners that are not aggressive or attacking toward the individual, but which are open, polite, and considerate, and that address the content instead of the individual.
• Practice Conagnition – If proven wrong, move past the shame, admit it to your own benefit, and allow the new knowledge you replace your old knowledge with to enhance your power and increase your potential.

Debate and disagreement is not only tolerated but encouraged after full comprehension of the ideas.

The Academy is interested in exploring the intersections of worldviews, and in establishing a syncretic, integral, and compatibilistic approach to their differences, while also applying a strong dose of discerning judgement. Ambiarchy and ambitheism take influence from as many worldviews as is possible. In many ways, the main goal of ambiarchy and ambitheism is to understand the reconciliation of the parts and the whole. Each worldview has a part, but not the whole, of the Truth. To know as much as we can of the Truth, we must balance our conflicting truths. In doing so, we become completed. As a result, some worldviews are more complete than others. These can only be known if we discern which of them these are. Ambiarchists and Ambitheists discern mutualism and pantheism to be the most complete of existing ideologies, without disparaging the freedom to disagree (but generally finding disagreement to result from a lack of wholeness).