5. The Eleatics – Q2: What is reality?
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… he attempted to demonstrate the absurdity of the idea that the world is constantly changing. …Zeno used these paradoxes to demonstrate that by accepting the idea of motion - and change of any kind – we arrive at absurd conclusions. We should therefore reject “change” as a natural part of the world. How can there be unity in a world that appears to be multiple?
S: The new metaphysical model demonstrates how and where it is possible to have change occur without change taking place. Such a location occurs where there is a lack of a universal fabric of time and thus in essence a lack of change. (See Tractate 6 see www.panentheism.com library - The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception)
The new metaphysical model also demonstrates both how and where it is possible to have change emerge out of the very seed of this ‘thing’ called nothingness. (See Tractate 6)
In essence both the Eleatics and Heraclitus were correct for each had a piece of the puzzle regarding the nature of reality.
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The point: The great thinkers of the past, who represent humanities journey to understand reality and our function within reality, have been in conflict not because their intuitive instincts were incorrect. The deep thinkers of the past were in conflict with each other because they rejected each other. The thinkers of the past perceived reality to be ‘either’ physical in nature or ‘abstractual’ in nature when in truth there is a third possibility: The new metaphysical model demonstrates reality can be literally both abstractual and physical in nature simultaneously. When one stands in physical existence the physical is real while the abstract is a real illusion. When one stands in abstractual existence the abstract is real and the physical is a real illusion. (See Tractate 1)
There are many existing pieces to the puzzle regarding the complete picture of reality and we cannot, must not, throw away any of them if we are ever to complete the entire mosaic of reality.