Understanding self: Three first truths - The Absolute exists, the self exists, the temporal exists

A Primer For The Fourth Way: Workbook: Understanding Self

Politics & Social Sciences

Shepard, Daniel J

Philosophy

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It is time we as a species examine our true purpose for existing in earnest.Panentheism is an understanding of the whole of reality capable of providing us as individuals and as a species with the means of understanding our role within the whole of reality.Establishing the understanding and simply stating a belief, the belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by the Creator, are two entirely different things.What is different is the approach. For hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years, isolated pockets of humanity have professed the altruistic belief that individual rights are endowed by our Creator. The idea was always based upon an intuitive sense. The esoteric means by which a few select individual could understand the rationale for such an altruistic belief was little understood by the masses. As a species we have never focused upon building a rational model supporting the idea Society has not recognized the means of establishing the rationale for such rights.Building a simple model of reality, building a cross sectional two-dimensional drawing of the whole of reality begins with the use of four perceptual tools available to our species, namely: observation/science, rational dialectics/philosophy, universal teachings/religion and a universal language/mathematics.We, humans, are visual creatures and as such a drawing, a picture, of reality helps us understand the composition of reality, understand reality itself. As they say: A picture is worth a thousand words.A model of reality gives us a picture demonstrating where we as individuals stand in reality, which in turn leads us to understand our true essence. It is the understanding of our true nature, which then leads us to understand why we exist which in turn leads to the rational understanding regarding the significance of individual and regarding who or what granted us our individual rights.If our rights were endowed to us by other physical beings, be they human or otherwise, then said rights can rationally be ungifted by those that gifted them. If, however, The Creator of the physical universe endowed our individual rights, then only the Creator can rationally remove them.So it is the war between the secularists and the theists rages and the secularists, at this point in time, are winning. We are a species, which is losing its way.We are standing at the crossroads of humanity's journey into the third millennium and the beginning of our becoming space travelers, and we as a species have yet to make a decision as to which road to take. Are we spiritual beings or are we physical beings? This road is becoming less and less traveled by our species. This road says we are spiritual beings located within a physical universe which in turn is located within a non-physical 'location', located within a larger spiritual reality. Down this road, in the far distance lies potential, huge potential for the individual, huge potential for the human species and huge potential for other life forms we may encounter as we journey through space. ... The greatest philosophical minds throughout the East and the West have over the last two thousand years debated the validity of this esoteric knowledge within the arena of metaphysics (the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles and seeks to explain the nature of being or reality and the origin and structure of the universe - Webster New World Dictionary 3rd College Edition). As the debate began to unfold within the eyes of the public, secularists recognized the potential threat of metaphysics to their positions. Secularists sought and found the means, for all intents and purposes, to banish metaphysics to the far fringes of philosophy.

Panentheism Addressing the Whole of Reality

This volume examines the very relationship of time and distance whether it is in a form of direct proportionality, a form of inverse proportionality, a form of time multiplied by time, or a form of space multiplied by space. This is a process of stepping onto a surface of quicksand whose depth is indeterminable. The only tangible aspect of this volume is an intuitive sense that the depth of this 'quicksand' will go well beyond Einstein and his concepts of relativity as it applies to metaphysical thought. To avoid such a journey, however, is to turn away from the true nature of metaphysics, which is to explore regions yet to be theoretically examined by science itself. To avoid addressing potentially hypothetical challenges, which a new metaphysical system may 'encounter', to avoid addressing potentially hypothetical dilemmas, which a new metaphysical system may 'suggest', is to show no confidence in the new system itself. To avoid the inevitable is in essence to shut down the very concept of what a new metaphysical system is required by its very nature to address. So how are we to delve into such an immense project as attempting to understand the concept regarding:1. Metaphysically understanding the direct proportional interrelationship of time and distance.2. Metaphysically understanding the interrelationship of inverse time being directly proportional to inverse of distance.3. Metaphysically understanding the concept regarding the square of the interrelationships expressed in #1 and #2.To understand the complexity of direct, inverse, and square relationships of time and distance, we will focus upon mathematics and mathematics' fundamental explanation regarding the relationship between time and distance. If I were a mathematician, the following concepts could be seriously considered for their mathematical soundness. Since I am not a mathematician, rather than the mathematical soundness of the arguments being the points to consider, one might better focus upon the metaphysical implications of what bits and pieces may emerge from the following examination of mathematics and what clues mathematics might conceivably provide metaphysics regarding an understanding of what lies outside the physical.Having established a defense for any irrationality which may emerge from the remainder of this volume, let's explore where reason, fused with mathematics, might take us in regards to metaphysics as we attempt to resolve the puzzling state existing between Zeno's 'i', Newton's 'i', and Einstein's 'i'. The new metaphysical perception which the individual acting within God creates regarding Zeno, Newton, Einstein, relativity, and the modern physics of quantum mechanics is an unusual one to say the least. Modern physics is immersed in the realm of the physical universe. This is as it should be. What should not be the case however is the perplexing abstractual state of existence within which modern mathematics (the language of physics) and physics find themselves existing. Mathematics and modern physics find themselves immersed within the realm of physicality with no sense of understanding the abstractual significance of the very physical reality they are examining. Mathematics and physics are in a state of abstractual confusion. This state of abstractual confusion was not 'created' by mathematics and physics but rather was created by the inability of metaphysics to break out of its state of uncertainty regarding the most fundamental of first truths: 'I am.' 'The universe is.' '1st cause is.' Until a theoretical goal is established by metaphysical ingenuity, mathematics and physics will have no beacon towards which they can advance. Without such a beacon, mathematics and physics will have no choice but to visualize each new advance as a step into the blackness of the unknowable which they find surrounding their reality of the physical.

Panentheism Addressing Einstein and Imaginary Numbers

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Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers.Volume one addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by Zeno, Aristotle, Boethius, Copernicus, Leibniz, and Kant from the vantage point of a new metaphysical perception. Although all the great thinkers are not recognized as philosophers, there is little denying they each profoundly impacted our perception of reality.

The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, Volume I (Global Academic Publishing)

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Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers. Volume two continues the progression of the work into the recent past regarding perceived irresolvable paradoxes as presented by Hegel, Einstein, Russell, Heidegger, and philosophy itself. Concepts such as active observation, time/distance interrelationships, exclusionism, and nothingness are considered and their relevance explored as a foundation for new metaphysical perceptions.

The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, Volume II (Global Academic Publishing)

A futuristic examination of metaphysical systems, responsibility, understanding, conceit, continuums, and history’s vector. Volume three moves the work into a futuristic examination of metaphysical systems, responsibility, understanding, conceit, continuums, and history’s vector. In addition, this volume examines three new categories of metaphysics which emerge from this metaphysical model. These three categories are Metaphysical Engineering, Practical Metaphysics, and Theoretical Metaphysics.

The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, Volume III (Global Academic Publishing)

A "universal philosophy" intended to unite humankind and help us discover the meaning of life.

You & I Together: Have a Purpose in Reality

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