I decided that for purposes of developing history, I needed to rearrange my priorities from the largest peoples, to the oldest peoples. Oho! Aha! This works a lot better in giving me a way to begin at the beginning and coordinate my attempts at writing with my research in the knowledge base.

This does not mean that all is solved. Although I begin with African peoples, These are not as well as developed as I need, and there are still reasons to examine Asiatic peoples and Western Civilization first. But now I have a better reason for examining it besides “that’s the next thing on the list.” The single biggest obstacle to my studies at present is still connecting peoples of the world to particular cities. I now have links to almost all the cities of Western Civilization.

Now, for the beginning in prehistory. I find that my links to periods of later history are deficient, so I need to do some catching up and connect periods of classical and medieval history and antiquity. This should allow me to follow the role of different peoples in the study of prehistory better.

This also gives some new direction to my reading. Instead of just my own personal preferences in recreational reading, I need to learn more about the peoples I will be writing about. Using Goodreads as a reference source for fiction or nonfiction about Kenya, I have picked “Petals of Blood” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. This would never have been my free choice, but as long as I am addicted to reading anyway, I might as well use it for educational purposes. Right? Right??

No, I’m not starting over again, but I did shift from the “up an down the stairs” to the straightforward historical approach. This time, I have made it through the early 3rd millennium BC. This approach tends to be tedious and slow, because there is a lot of overhead: I am pulling subjects back through later centuries.

History in general is still being connected to particular religions. By now I am mostly through pagan religions, and before long, I should be able to move on to other topics. I am still connecting modern history to psychology, and the 21st century to particular states of the US. For peoples of the world, I have finally finished connecting Anglic cities. Although Antiquity deals chiefly with Asiatic peoples, for now it seems more useful to bring back Western Civilization through centuries of classical and medieval history. As I work forward through periods of history, there will more and more detail to bring in.

Two posts in one day!

I must confess that I do not have a natural love for the study of psychology. This is in part because the modern “scientific” approach is not really scientific at all. It’s not really possible. We can sort of detach ourselves from birds, bees, plants, and rocks, and it’s easier to get different observers to agree on what they are seeing. It’s much harder to study ourselves. There is also the fact that modern scientific study is so highly secular and has become detached from religious experience, which is an even bigger mistake. Nevertheless, it must be done. Some years back I had made a subdivision of social psychology, which I am going to keep for now. I have a somewhat bigger problem with studies of personality and mental illness. For personality, I’m just going to go with major theories and label them as theory, although I don’t fully agree with any of them. I don’t have a proper classification of mental disorders, I could look at the DS-M, but there are hundreds of them named, and I need better categories than that. Over the next few days I am going to come up with a few. This may be a rather rough and fluid approach, but it will be a start. I was going to skip over these and subdivide them later when I have more perspective, but at this point, that feels like an evasion.