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- God belongs in heaven.
- But can’t she go wherever she darn pleases?
- God ought to have better things to do.
- Being a Creator is a big deal for God.
- She has put a lot of eggs in her Creation basket, and she will atte=
nd
to it carefully.
- There is no God.
- Ok, hold that thought, and we’ll get back to you in a jiffy.<=
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- If you were the Creator, would you not want to participate in your
Creation to a maximal degree?
- If Creation were truly important to you, would your not want to pour
yourself into it as fully as possible?
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- Modern science and technology are here to stay.
- Postmodernism provides only an incoherent pluralism.
- Many of us seek a higher synthesis in order to bring meaning and
coherence to our world.
- The pluralists rightly criticize any such move as being likely to
foster theocratic and totalitarian tendencies.
- There is only one way out of this bind:
- A rational, coherent synthesis of the various worldviews
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- Most everyone scoffs at this possibility.
- The last serious attempt was by GHW Hegel (1770-1831).
- But how will we know if we don’t even try?
- This dummy rushes in where angels fear to tread.
- I’ve spent at least thirty years on this synthesis, and I find
that the longer I work on it, the simpler it gets.
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A Logical
Synthesis:
Step by Step
- First comes a shift from the correspondence theory of truth to the
coherence theory of truth.
- This is the single most important and far reaching step.
- If you can grasp this, everything else will follow rather easily, a=
nd
it is actually very simple, even though its ramifications are
earthshaking.
- Correspondence theory of truth:
- Reality is simply a collection of facts.
- The facts need not cohere or have any other pattern except by accid=
ent.
- Coherence theory of truth:
- There is no such thing as an isolated fact, just as there is no such
thing as an isolated meaning.
- In as much as reality is cognizable, so must it be coherent.
- Epistemology and ontology cannot ultimately be separated.
- There is a reason for everything.
- This is true for physics, as well, with the possible exception of =
the
initial conditions, e.g. the Big Bang.
- The next step?
- There is no next step.
- Everything else is just an elaboration of this one paradigm shift.<=
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- The main point is that we didn’t put them there: they were alr=
eady
there.
- This is best seen from the perspective of mathematical physics.
- In physics, this coherence is known as the Unreasonable Effectivene=
ss
of Mathematics.
- This is why physicists can cogently speak of a Theory of Everything=
.
- This fact motivates us to seek a higher coherence.
- The main thing missing from the prospective physical coherence is the
mind.
- Our theory of everything must include the mind.
- The mind/brain problem is universally regarded as the greatest myst=
ery
in the world.
- It was over three hundred years ago that Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
announced the separation of mind and matter.
- This act of great intellectual convenience triggered the Scientific=
and
Technological revolutions and made Democracy possible by also
separating the Secular from the Sectarian realms.
- We can easily see why the Postmodernists are so reluctant to even
reconsider Descartes’ serendipitous act.
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- The postmodernists would like to see the present state of pluralism
continue indefinitely.
- In a world being shrunk by a rapidly expanding communication technol=
ogy,
all our disparate ideas and traditions are being thrown together int=
o a
disorienting, alienating cacophony.
- How can we hope to survive together on this crowded and shrinking pl=
anet
if we have no common ground for communication, no common worldview?<=
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- Nothing less than a quantum leap, an unprecedented paradigm shift, c=
ould
now bring coherence out of the present chaos of ideas.
- Nothing less than a cosmic vision will suffice.
- Let us consider the visions of coherence:
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- Ouroboros
- Primal psychic circuit, zodiac, bootstrap
- MDX/Z
- Matrix (primal potentiality), Dialectic, Logos/zodiac
- trinity of :: Mother,
Spirit, Son(s)
- e^i*pi =3D -1
- Mandelbrot
- AZO/X/QRP
- Alpha, Zodiac, Omega/Logos/Quantum, Reproduction, Pi
- Macrocosm/microcosm connected by the Logos
- Mb:S::An:X
- Mandelbrot set : Srinivasa Ramanujan :: Anthropics : Christos
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- In immaterialism the archetypes replace atoms as the foundation of
reality.
- The main thing to remember is that coherence demands an organic unit=
y of
the archetypes.
- We aspire to a Pythagorean harmony rather than a Platonic absolutis=
m.
- This is essential to teleology and restitution.
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- The organic unity of the archetypes is ensured by keeping in mind th=
eir
essential relations to each other and to a common source or ground of
being.
- The Matrix is that Source.
- It is potentiality.
- The BPW is the realization of that potentiality.
- The dynamic element is the dialectic.
- It is the source of multiplicity.
- It is the cosmic bootstrap, which we also experience as love.
- The christos/logos is the original thesis and archetype.
- It is necessarily the Alpha and Omega, Creator and Telos.
- In some strong sense, Creation is the antithesis, and the
eschatological restitution of Creation, i.e. apokatastasis, is the
cosmic synthesis.
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- "The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful
hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
- Perhaps the theory in question was not sufficiently coherent.
- Yes, we do have to tough it out.
- One needs a mustard seed of faith and confidence.
- Cosmology is not for the faint of heart.
- Scientific materialism has been on a roll for more than three centur=
ies.
- There are many signs, however, that its grip on our minds is waning=
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- We can sit on our hands, or we can start figuring out how to transce=
nd
its increasingly obvious limitations.
- Will it be revisionism or revolution, i.e. a paradigm shift?
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- No point in rolling back the clock into dualism.
- We’ve been there, done that!
- The only way forward is into a non-material monism.
- This quantum leap forward will necessarily have a spiritual content =
and
so will impact every religious tradition.
- As such, it will come as a revelation of ‘biblical
proportions’.
- There will surely be a significant messianic component.
- This vision will not emerge from a committee.
- Once again, the faint of heart need not apply!
- Fools rush in? Yet,
according to Google there are not many who are rushing down this
particular path.
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- This is a hard pill to swallow, especially for us in the western
tradition.
- We have taken matter more seriously than others.
- Ironically, this is due in no small part to the Incarnation.
- Materialism, in a dualist context, is almost a part of our catechis=
m.
- How can we give up that absolutism without devaluing the world and o=
ur
lives?
- This is too often the case with pantheism.
- We replace pantheism with coherentism.
- Then we replace atoms with archetypes, taking care to treat the
archetypes as part of a Pythagorean harmony, and not as Platonic
absolutes.
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- If we can choose the archetypes to be robust, the rest of Creation w=
ill
spin itself off.
- God does not have to place every hair on every head, or every star =
in
the sky.
- The same is true for the Mandelbrot.
- It operates under its own internal logic and coherence.
- God sets the example.
- The example is to love and to strive for perfect understanding thro=
ugh
time, knowing that perfection is never absent.
- Mainly it is in this sense that time is an illusion.
- It is mainly our understanding of perfection that is to be perfect=
ed.
- The Second Coming triggers the final quantum leap in our
understanding.
- God calls the tune. G=
od is
the tune.
- Creator and Creation are mutually essential.
- We cannot understand the part without the whole, nor the whole wit=
hout
the parts.
- One hair cannot be disturbed without disturbing the rest, as with =
the
Mandelbrot.
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- The critical idea here is apokatastasis.
- This is the restoration/restitution of all things in God. This is universal salvatio=
n.
- This is now a heresy.
- Originally it was the orthodoxy of the Orthodox.
- All dualisms and paradoxes are transcended.
- This is the temporal completion of Creator, Creation and history.
- The Omega is the beginning of eternity.
- Eternity is not endless time.
- It is the dimensions beyond space and time.
- It is a timeless ending/beginning.
- It is the ouroboros in its entirety.
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- The BPWH envisions pre-millennialism.
- The Best Possible World hypothesis envisions the completion of
God’s salvific, sacrificial errand into Creation.
- This enables the establishment of God’s eschatological kingdo=
m,
traditionally to last a thousand years.
- The actual time frame is likely to be substantially shorter rather =
than
longer.
- And what may we expect of the Millennium?
- It is a period of realignment between our hearts and intellects, af=
ter
the long drought of materialism.
- We finish our business here and prepare to transcend the barriers of
space and time.
- This may include the return of unprepared souls.
- There will be a gradual breaking down of barriers between our
individual egos, and between our separate states of consciousness.<=
/li>
- Codified society gives way to organic community.
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- By all accounts the prophetic tradition remains unfulfilled.
- The pantheist traditions envision an eventual collapse followed by a
return to a golden age inaugurated by an avatar.
- The fulfilling of the prophesies is the prerequisite of the Millenni=
um.
- The christocentric hypothesis is essential to the incarnational
requisite of rational monism and its concomitant of an eschatological
restitution.
- The illogic of a dualistic monotheism had its historical purposes, =
but
now we are poised to transcend dualism.
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- Rationalism demands a teleology.
- Teleology requires a OWH.
- Teleology is a concomitant of monotheism.
- All four of these concepts should be treated as virtually synonymous=
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- All of these are essential to Coherence.
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- Remaining topics
- Explanation of the archetypes
- Matrix and bootstrap
- Dialectic
- Immaterialism & physics
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