Manifesto of Abiding

Manifesto of Abiding presents an ontological reflection on the relationship between Being, Experience, Consciousness, and Meaning. Drawing a distinction between what grounds existence and what merely describes it, the text argues that human consciousness tends to invert the original order of experience, seeking in attributes, achievements, identities, beliefs, or justifications what only Being itself can provide. This inversion gives rise to substitute forms of legitimation, referred to as Alibis, through which the subject attempts to ground existence in elements that can be acquired, demonstrated, defended, or lost. In contrast, the manifesto proposes a restoration of the original order in which Being precedes Meaning, Legitimacy precedes justification, and Belonging precedes production. The text maintains that human experience becomes inhabitable not through the attainment of a sufficient justification for existence, but through the abandonment of the need to justify what never required a foundation. As an ontological unfolding of the theses developed in Beyond the Alibi: Relational Ontology of the Soul and the Restoration of Life, this manifesto explores the existential implications of the distinction between foundation and attribute, proposing an understanding of Abiding as a return to the origin of experience.