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aim of the realizations, so far as it is good, is to know and realize all being (introduction
below). Sources. The essential process is direct learning in thought, experience and action and indirect learning from the words and dramatizations of others. Some sources are listed in an in process document of details. Navigation. Here is link to a map of the site. |
INTRODUCTION TO THE REALIZATIONSPreliminary comments | Brief introduction | Extended introduction Preliminary commentsThe introduction is an orientation to the aim and content of the site. Refer to the linked pages above for a complete development (arguments, objections and responses, interpretation, consequences, implications for action and so on). The introduction is presented in two stages, first a very brief one and then a longer one with remarks and elaboration. The short introduction presents the aim and a general description of the approach or means. The longer version contains some demonstrations, elaborations, and material of academic interest. Brief introductionAimThe AIM of the realizations, so far as it is GOOD, is to know and realize all being, immediate and ultimate. A practical rendering of the aim: to be on the way to knowing and realizing what is good in all immediate and ultimate being. An apparent deficiency in the aim is that it says nothing about possibility or feasibility. However, something that is impossible or really infeasible may seem good but cannot be so. That said, remember that an assessment of possibility is relative to what we know and so knowledge of the universe is an essential component of the aim. PrinciplesThe first principle that that the universe is the realization of the possible—i.e., only constraints on the realizations of the universe are fact and ‘reason’. An outline of proof is as follows. Since natural law pertains to existing things it does not pertain to the void (nothing). There are therefore no laws of the void. Consequently the void is equivalent to every possible state for the contrary would be a law. All states emerge from the void. Since the void is equivalent to every state (e.g. a physical object or a person) every such state is equivalent to every other. Consequences of the first principle include (1) The universe is limitlessly greater than it is seen to be in our common modern secular and trans-secular conceptions of it; (2) The manifestation of form and identity of being in the universe are without limit to their extension, duration, power, and variety. (3) Individuals inherit this limitlessness (the contrary would be a limit to the power of the universe; that two individuals cannot both be simultaneously limitless is resolved in that in becoming limitless they become identical to one another and to the universe)). Further proof, meaning, and consequences of the first and the following principles are given in the essentials. The second principle is a consequence for individuals while their form is limited: while the form of the individual is limited realization is endless process (even when limits are lifted it turns out that the greatest peaks of realization cannot be eternal but that every peak is followed by dissolution and then greater—and lesser—peaks). The cosmology and identity of the universe are without limit (from the identity of the void to every possible state). The form and identity of the universe recurs endlessly in manifest and non-manifest states (‘something from nothing’). The variety and recurrence of cosmological systems and variety of physical laws is without limit. These are in eternal give and take with the void-transient background. We normally experience limits; yet limitlessness is latent in this ‘normal’ experience. The third set of principles concerns means of effective realization. The first principle concerning limitlessness of the universe is developed in the essentials into a universal metaphysics for which the following emerge as true:
RealizationThe essential way of realization is and cannot be beyond our limited form. We do not realize the ultimate in our limited form; realization then must be by exceptional process in ‘this life’ or in ‘normal process’ beyond. Realization of the ultimate is given. Since the void is equivalent to the universe a permanent ultimate would be a contradiction of the absence of laws of the void. Therefore realization is ever in process; peaks are followed by dissolutions which are followed by still greater (and lesser) peaks. Paths of realization therefore do and must mediate the immediate and the ultimate. The way of realization is analysis and synthesis of being. Knowledge and internalization of the nature of the universe is on the way but is not ultimate realization. Extended introductionThe extended introduction is under development. Here is a version of this page with a tentative version of the extended introduction. |