Panentheism: ... clarifying ... Man made in the Image of God As certainly as science has brought society to a new level of sterility, it has just as certainly brought us, as individuals and as a species, to a potentially higher level of self-perception. This self-perception is so dazzling that even a reversal of the big bag, the implosion of reality itself, could not reduce our individual contributions to eternity. Science is not at fault for our lack of progress in the field of self-perception. Science has accomplished its purpose magnificently. we are the ones that have fallen behind in our...

With the scientific understanding of the sun being the Cartesian point of origin, the point (0,0,0) as opposed to the individual being the Cartesian point of origin, the individual was literally put into motion. By moving the concept of the center from being a man, to the center being the sun, Copernicus in essence created the perception of humanity having lost its sense of being the center. Such a perceptual development introduced two concepts into our understanding of the universe. First: we now perceived the universe to have a center, scientifically speaking. Second: Philosophically...

Panentheism is a new metaphysical system finding its way into Western Philosophy Passive observation elucidated by the Aristotelian Cartesian System of Cause and Effect was examined in some detail within Tractates 1-6 of this work. The Cartesian system emerged as a means of answering question regarding 'reality' as we perceived it to be. As to be expected when examining the progress of humanity's philosophical development, the philosophical development emerging from the foray of the initial questions led to the system of reality being elucidated as Cartesianism. Cartesianism, the concept of...

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

In the end, the individual acting within God, is simple to understand. This volume will begin where we, humankind, have led ourselves as we attempted to slash our way through the jungle of life's seemingly endless paradoxes. These paradoxes, which life has persistently thrown across our path, are signposts for us. Paradoxes are indicators that we do not have all the answers. Paradoxes warn us to beware. They warn us there is something wrong with our perception of life; there is something wrong with our thinking. They have a function of their own, they direct us towards a state of...