Site Orientation

WELCOME TO EMERGENT CULTURE

Emergent-Culture.Com (EC.Com) is organized in the form of an online book and magazine blog.  EC.Com tells a story about humanity as a whole and of its  journey up to the present moment.

It’s a big-picture perspective where I view humanity as a single super-organism emerging from the darkness of ignorance and into the light of knowing itself as single entity. It’s a story about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we might go.

I’ve spent the last 26 years studying the world humans have created and the humans the universe has created. The contents of this site are a record of my ongoing studies as I have come to understand the human-planetary condition from a whole systems perspective.

For more information about Emergent-Culture.com, it’s philosophy, mission and its founder please visit our about page.

The rest of this article is intended to help you understand and navigate the organizational schema of EC.Com.

READABILITY: If the sites colors and fonts make reading a challenge then use the readability tool to customize your reading experience here and anywhere on the web.

Site Navigation

The are ways two way to navigate the site. One way is orderly and the other is like chasing a rabbit. The information contained herein will help you navigate in an orderly way and for those who like to chase rabbits no instructions are needed.

NAVIGATION BAR: UPPER-HALF LINKS

The upper links on the navigation bar link to pages pertaining to:

HOME: Self Explanatory

ABOUT: Find about Emergent-culture’s philosophy, mission, more about the sites layout and founder.

CONTACT-SOCIAL MEDIA: Where and How to connect with me.

HDW ADVISORY: A regularly updated listing of dates and events related to Hyper-Day phenomena

RSS-EMAIL ALERTS: How to subscribe to automated notifications of newly posted content

SITE ORIENTATION: The page you are now reading.

NAVIGATION BAR: LOWER HALF LINKS

EC.com is divided into 8 sections as defined by the category names in the lower of half of the navigation bar.

2012, Current Events, Emergent, Featured,
Global Crisis, Know Your Culture, Synchronicity, X-Files

Clicking on a category will take you to that section. In each section you will find a listing of articles.

Special Note about the Synchronicity Section. The articles in the Synchronicity Section are listed from oldest at the top to most recent at the bottom.

The Art and Science of Synchronicity is a very involved and elaborate subject and so I begin with introductory material that becomes more intensive with each new article. To make the most sense of and gain the most from the Synchronicity section I strongly urge you to read the articles in the section from top to bottom.

SIDE BAR NAVIGATION

SEARCH THE RABBIT HOLE:
The search feature will only search the content found on Emergent-Culture.

EXPANDING COLUMN:

Directly under the search box you will see 3 tabs. Hover over them and the column is extended to reveal it contents. Hovering over ALERT tab will retract the column to its default and most compact size.

ALERT: The first tab is activated by default. Clicking on the RSS image or the RSS-Email Alerts link will take you to a page where you may sign up for automated notifications of newly posted content.

POPULAR: Hovering over the second tab will show a listing of the most viewed articles.

LATEST: Hovering over the third tab will display a listing of the most recently published articles.

MEMBER LOGIN:  Future use


SIDE BAR NAVIGATION Continued

RECENT VISITORS:

The thumbnail map of the world displays the location of recent visitors from around the world. Clicking on the map will open a scrollable page with a larger version of the map and a percentage listing of visitor by country and listing of the most viewed articles .

META:

REGISTER: Registering yourself enables you to receive email notifications of newly posted content.

LOGIN: Takes you to login page to enter into your email notifications account page.

ENTRIES RSS: If you have a RSS enabled newsreader set up, then clicking on this link will activate your newsreaders prompt to connect to EC.Com’s RSS feed.

COMMENTS RSS: Click on this link to receive comments posted to EC.Com articles.

(Un) Subscribe to Posts: E-mail subscribe to receive notifications of newly posted content.

BIRD FEED:

Here you will find the latest posts from my Twitter account. Each headline is linked.

Review the side bar whenever you want to review the days most important and cutting edge stories in the areas of emerging culture, national and global politics, science, national-international current events, health, personal tech, art, humor, nature, and other interesting stories.

Home-Page Navigation:

The Home Page serves as an index of the sections listed on the lower half of the navigation bar.

Each section is represented by a bordered area with an image, a small excerpt from the first article in each section and a short listing of other articles found in that section.

Clicking on the top link in each bordered section will take you to the section itself where all the articles under the section heading in question are to be found.

Clicking on any one of the other links in the bordered section will take you directly to the article page.

Other Site Features

EC.Com is enabled for ease of reading and navigation on smart phones, iPods and iPads

Simply visit EC.Com from your mobile device and you will find it automatically formatted for a mobile device. If you prefer the standard format, scroll to the bottom of any EC.Com page on your phone and deselect Mobile Theme.