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<<Notice how easy it is for us to utilize the word being and to suggest exotic philosophies that exploit the expression without having a real sense of what the expression means or signifies.>> Precisely. The same point applies to the term consciousness. Thought is infinitely malleable; you can cut it and shape it in infinite ways, however you wish. And if it is elegantly constructed and appears to address the necessary concepts for any particular enquiry, then it is adopted and then discussed by everyone else in the academic tradition. However, what I say, think or speculate about 'being' makes no difference to its fundamental fact. And if I don't adopt this kind of stance at the very beginning of any enquiry I make, then my philosophical enquiry is deeply flawed. It is, in fact, a kind of intellectual hubris with an illusory sense of the significance of intellect.