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Clyde G. is a respected thinker and Neo-Buddhist who has been acknowledged for his ability to ask questions going to the heart of issues regarding metaphysical models of reality. 

Dan;

 

Hello.  I hope all is well with you.

 

In writing to someone to ask them about their understanding of reincarnation/transmigration I wrote something that caused me to think of you and your search for something personal that was born and would live eternally.  I wrote, “I can understand transmigration (metaphorically) as the eternal continuity of the consequences of our actions.”  So the something personal is our action; that was born because it came into existence with our doing, and would live eternally because the consequences are endless.

 
View Article  How does classical/traditional theism help us understand what life is? Part I of II

How does classical/traditional theism help us understand what life is?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Classical/traditional theism introduces into the West the idea that life in this universe is only a part of what life is.

 

Life now becomes a part of eternity.

 

Life goes beyond this universe into eternity itself.

 

 

Under atheism, life begins at day one and life ends on the last day of your life.

 

What is life?

 

Life is existing.

 

What is the purpose of life?

 

Life’s purpose is to exist.

 

What happens during life?

 

Many things, some “good,” some “bad.”

 

Why does life happen?

 

“Just because.”

 

That is enough explanation for atheism.

 

In essence, life has no greater purpose than being just what it is, “life,” something that begins and ends.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: Classical/traditional theism takes a step beyond...
View Article  What does entropy imply about our significance in eternity? Part II of II

What does entropy imply about our significance in eternity?

 

Part II of II

 

...Some Causative Force had enough awareness to begin the process.

 

This awareness is considered total omniscience.

 

Total awareness implies totally embracing everything which leads to the concept of all presence.

 

Together, all knowledge and all presence adds up to total power.

 

Total power means having enough power to change.

 

The mechanism for change is changing awareness itself.

 

Our awareness changes.

 

Our awareness is knowledge.

 

Knowledge cannot be destroyed.

 

We may very well be the mechanism by which total awareness, the Causative Force, changes. Entropy begins the process of understanding the significance of change.

 

Entropy begins the process of understanding our significance to eternity.

 

 

Eternity is existence beyond time. Awareness is a concept; it is not physical.

 

Physical items are connected in terms of the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimensions of time.

 

Awareness appears to transcend all four of these dimensions.

 

You have awareness.

 

You have a part of you that is not connected to these four dimensions.

 

Your awareness is unaffected by time.

 

You are thus a part of eternity.

 

 The Causative Force is a total awareness – omniscience.

 

Since you are a part of the total awareness, you are a part of the Causative Force.

 

And where does the logic of all this begin?

 

It begins with the understanding that the universe may die.

 

It begins with entropy.

 

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View Article  What does entropy imply about our significance in eternity? Part I of II

What does entropy imply about our significance in eternity?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Entropy implies our universe will die once the heat within it is evenly distributed throughout.

 

With the death of the universe will come the death of our physical mind and body.

 

Therefore, entropy would suggest, if there is any long term reason for existing, it must lie somewhere other than ourbphysical body.

 

 

Entropy provides the basic understanding regarding why our universe is not eternal.

 

Action takes energy.

 

Heat, in turn, is the basic means by which energy is transferred from one item in the universe to another.

 

Basically heat can only pass from a higher to a lower level.

 

The whole idea behind the mechanism of our universe, the symmetry needed to create our universe, the intricacies of our universe, is absolutely wonderful.

 

But where did the idea of this mechanism, the idea of symmetry, and the idea of different heat levels come from originally?

 

To be continued: Part II of II: Some Causative Force had enough...
View Article  How do the concepts of palaeomagnetism reinforce the concept of symbiotic panentheism? Part II of II

How do the concepts of palaeomagnetism reinforce the concept of symbiotic panentheism?

 

Part II of II

...As far as the legacy we may wish to leave behind, what better legacy than an understanding of a relationship the Causative Force may have to the universe, to life, and to various species.

 

Symbiotic panentheism would do just that.

 

But symbiotic panentheism is not what is important here; what is important is what symbiotic panentheism represents.

 

Symbiotic panentheism represents the first intense effort to develop a model of a universal philosophy.

 

This is not a religion; this is a philosophy, a universal philosophy.

 

This is a model which would act as a foundation to religions, science, and philosophy.

 

Palaeomagnetism shows us we should not take life for granted.

 

We should prepare for the inevitable.

 

Our planning should start with the thought that the unexpected could occur tomorrow.

 

In addition, we need to do some long term planning.

 

If we move into the coming centuries and begin dispersing into the heavens, what is it we would take with us?

 

What is it we would be offering and what is it we would like to offer other life forms in the heavens?

 

What human legacy  would we like to leave behind as we travel throughout the heavens?

 

What would make us proud to leave behind?

 

 

What better legacy to offer than an understanding of a universal philosophy embracing all life in the heavens.

 

Why not finish what we had been working on throughout our history?

 

Why not complete the Magna Carta embracing all life forms and reaching into eternity itself?

 

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View Article  How do the concepts of palaeomagnetism reinforce the concept of symbiotic panentheism? Part I of II

How do the concepts of palaeomagnetism reinforce the concept of symbiotic panentheism?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Change can happen quickly; we must prepare psychologically, morally, and physically for major catastrophic events if we are to leave a legacy for life in the future.

 

 

We must prepare not only to survive, but we must prepare what we wish to leave as a legacy should we not survive.

 

We may be satisfied to leave a legacy of fossilized bones, concrete office buildings, ribbons of asphalt, and idle TV sets as our legacy.

 

If that is our desire, a large meteor striking earth tomorrow would grant our wish.

 

But if we wish to leave life forms a loftier legacy, then we had better startworking on it.

 

Palaeomagnetism is one concept that shows life is unpredictable.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: As far as the legacy we may wish to leave behind, what better legacy than...