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Judaism, the eternal soul and panentheism

4/28/2016

160428 Judaism, the eternal soul and panentheism

Judaism, our significance in eternity and panentheism

What do the Judaic concepts of monotheism and the soul imply about our significance in eternity?

Eternity existing outside our universe (panentheism – our universe lies within eternity) implies the possibility of significance beyond the universe.

The concept of the soul being tied directly to this eternity implies we may have a significance tied directly to eternity itself.

Humans, as far back as 1500 BC (see within free books this site: Panentheism Addressing Validation by Science, Religion, Philosophy and Prophecy - Hinduism), expanded the possibility of their significance into eternity itself.

Judaism played a key part in providing the bridge for the concept of monotheism to spread to the other half of the world, to the West.

The concept of significance being directly tied to eternity elevated our perception of our importance, expanded immensely our view of existence, for now existence was no longer confined by the boundaries of our universe.

Now humankind was able to begin thinking in terms of belonging to the whole universe rather than just our planet or our solar system.

Through an understanding of the source of the soul and the place to which a soul travels after death, we provided a view of ourselves capable of withstanding any discoveries we might make through the field of science which was to evolve later in history.

Science was not to become a significant influence in our society for over 2,500 years after the birth of Judaism. Why the need to prepare now for the concept of monotheism, the soul existing in eternal existence and panentheism?

The concept of monotheism, the soul, and eternal life were ideas that would need time to expand throughout the western world.

These concepts would need time to marinate in a kettle of tradition and culture.

Tradition and culture themselves needed time to evolve and age.

The concepts, traditions, and culture needed time to become an integrated part of our society worldwide.

The direction we took as a species in terms of the perception we had of ourselves, our universe, and a Causative Force was just one of many that could have taken place.

Panentheism, monotheism and an eternal soul provided a continually expanding perception of the size of the Causative Force as well as a continually expanding perception of our potential both individually and as a species regarding life in our universe as well as beyond the boundaries of our universe.

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Finding your soul, the silence and panentheism

4/24/2016

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160424: Finding your soul, the silence and panentheism

Looking to find your soul?

It most probably isn’t going to happen.

The soul can be found within the silence but entering the silence to the degree required to have one’s soul emerge is no small task. (See Panentheism Addressing the Journey of a Soul found within the free book section within this website – PDF format)

The journey requires constant daily exercises of mediation, sacrifice including celibacy, deep introspection recognizing the physical egos hiding the soul, etc.

But why celibacy?

It is not celibacy itself which is the issue rather it is the fact that sexual experiences lead to pleasure which causes one to constantly want more and thus constantly occupy one’s mind with overpowering desires/needs.

The same applies to social interactions.

Social interactions lead to the preoccupation of one’s mind regarding the desire for future social participation and worry about rejection, ostracism, dominance, control, …

The multitude of physical needs and desires, emotional needs and desires and obsessions, the mental running of the mind which cannot be shut down – all lead to the interruption of the silence.

Do the above mean one loses one’s soul?

Does the fact that most individuals never come face to face with their soul mean such individuals are condemned to eternal purgatory or even more disturbing condemned to eternal hell?

The answer to the above is: In terms of the panentheism model of Whole of Reality, absolutely not!

The panentheistic model of the Whole of Reality demonstrates one’s purpose for existence is to aid the Creator of the physical universe avoids eternal recurrence and one means of doing so is through the process of traveling within a physical machine, the human body.

The process of each individual is unique unto themselves and as such adds unique new knowledge of personal experiences never before found within the summation of all knowledge found within the All Knowing.

Panentheism establishes the rational dialectic capable of establishing the significance of every individual and the very reason all individuals needed to be treated as we would treat the Creator of the physical universe itself.

Panentheism – a truly revolutionary concept capable of acting as a common foundation for all religious, scientific and philosophical organizations, fundamentals, …

Panentheism – a concept capable of elevating our species and we as individuals to a new and higher evolutionary behavioral plane.

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Why does the universe go to the bother of existing and panentheism

4/23/2016

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160423: Personal thoughts: Why does the universe go to the bother of existing?

“Stephen Hawking adds, “Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” - The Skeptics’ Guide to Eternal Bliss (2nd ed), Steve J. Williams, Lulu Press, 2009

Within the model of panentheism, it is not the universe which goes to ‘the bother of existing’ for the universe mathematically and scientifically is demonstrated to have a beginning and thus a first cause.

If the universe at one point was non-existent (we will explore in future Saturday blogs) then the universe did not go to the ‘bother’ to exist but rather some first cause went to the bother to ‘create’ the physical universe.

Panentheism is the only model of reality which clearly and simply explains why this non-existent existence would go to the bother to create a physical universe and produce a cosmological model demonstrating not only the reason why but specifically the mechanism of creation ex nihilio. (See book Panentheism Addressing the Whole of Reality found within the free books icon located on this site – all books free for down load in PDF format)

Simplistically put: The Creator of the physical universe created the physical universe in order to provide the mechanism to avoid ‘eternal recurrence’ and did so using via ex nihilio and symmetry.

It is panentheism and only panentheism which provides the answer to Stephen Hawking’s question as well as a myriad other questions science, religion and philosophy have been unable to resolve. (Again see books found within the ‘free books’ section of this website.

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Buddhism, reducing suffering and panentheism

4/22/2016

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160422: Buddhism, reducing suffering and panentheism

What does Buddhism reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

Buddhism gives us the understanding that the significance of life and the impact it generates is so important that we must focus upon reducing suffering, the negative aspects of life.

The idea of all humans having a soul is tied to eternity and provides a whole new way of looking at the individual.

Now the individual is not important because they are alive, but rather the individual is important because the individual is tied to eternity.

This idea of being connected to eternity changed the direction of our behavior.

A tie to eternity meant we needed to consider our action because our actions now might affect our state of existence later.

Why this was so was not totally understood, but Buddhists sensed this to be true.

As such, Buddhists further opened up the idea that life was significant and allowing suffering in life would have a major impact upon existence in eternity.

In short, Buddhism further advanced the concept that life had value, significance.

As we increase the idea regarding how big our universe is and in turn how big our Creator is, we enlarge what we view as the potential of existence.

It is panentheism which rationalizes how it is the physical universe can be limited to infinite space and time while being immersed within infinite knowing/infinite ethereal timelessness since time is found within the physical, within the physical universe and thus is where it is eternity is found to exist.

The Buddhist ideas were very significant, therefore, in terms of reinforcing the significance of life.

Now suffering, a part of life itself, was no longer to be taken lightly or just ignored for its existence impacted upon eternity and it is panentheism which provides the rational model of reality capable of reinforcing Buddhistic concept.

Life under Buddhism took on a greater significance and one aspect of life, suffering, became a focal point and it is panentheism which significantly reinforces Buddhism’s principle of reducing suffering.

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Blacks, reparations solution and panentheism

4/21/2016

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160421: Blacks, reparations solution and panentheism

Panentheism, a social solution generator for the future.

So you are black and think you deserve reparations because your great, great grandfather and great, great grandmother were slaves.

So you’re black and think only ‘black livers matter’.

Wow where is the recognition of the tens of thousands of Caucasians who fought to free you from slavery? Where is recognition of the trillions of dollars spent for implementing the Great Society leading to no advancement of people of color raising themselves out of the ranks of the poor? Where is the recognition of the annual expenditure of $15,000 per student for K – 12 educations only to be rejected by a majority of black culture as the Caucasian attempt force education upon a black culture? Where is the outrage of blacks against blacks for the horrific violence of committed by black brother against black brother? Black scholarships, black comedy clubs black magazines, black sororities and fraternities, black congressional caucuses, black this and black that as nausea ….

You were not the only ones affected by inhumane atrocities.

Slavery runs rampant even today – yellow child slavery, white sexual slavery, Asians working as forced laborers on shrimping fleets, blood diamond miners - global slavery in a modern age.

But that is today. What about the past?

If you deserve reparations what about descendants of the American Indians killed off by the tens of millions, the descendants of the white indentured servants, the descendants of the Chinese laborers building the railroads, the descendants of the Japanese forced into the detention camps during WWII, descendants of the Irish immigrants who faced segregation and humiliation …

Just who deserves reparations first and who deserves reparations second? There is no answer to the issue of past harm committed by humanity. Harm committed by humanity has been taking place since the beginning of human history be it recorded history or human history preceding a historical record.

Only panentheism is capable of resolving the issue of reparations facing our species.

Panentheism rejects the concept of human diversity being measured by physical characteristics of the human machine.

Panentheism identifies the true essence of the individual being ethereal in nature. One is not black, yellow, white, tall, short, fat, skinny, Chinese, European, African, intelligent, mentally challenged, … these are simply characteristics of the physical machine.

Each soul found within the machine is unique, is what matters, is independent of the machine’s past.

Reparations are not due from the soul of one to another soul for the father’s or mother’s sins.

Panentheism establishes each soul exists independent of the actions of past souls.

Panentheism provides the resolution to the issue of reparations.

The solution presented by panentheism regarding reparations may not be what many individuals want to hear but it is the only solution capable of resolving the issue of who gets reparations first, second, third – how much is fair for one group over another, how far into the future reparations are paid, …

Panentheism, the means of resolving the issue of diversity which emerges from the vast differences found from one human machine and another human machine.

Panentheism, a social solution generator for the future.

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Taoism, the whole/Whole and panentheism

4/20/2016

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160420: Taoism, the whole/Whole and panentheism

How do the concepts of Taoism reinforce the concept of panentheism?

‘…Taoism began in China, probably around 300 BC; a life in harmony with nature; the word is also used to mean reality as a whole, which consists of all the individual ways.

–World Book Encyclopedia, p. 27

‘… reality as a whole, which consists of all the individual ways.’

Taoism is simply saying the whole is the sum of its parts; total awareness is nothing less than the summation of all awareness.

The concept of panentheism is nothing less than Taoism yet more than Taoism for panentheism also accepts the potential of the Whole verses the whole being the summation of its parts PLUS the addition of its discrete parts remaining intact within the whole or summation of parts.

At a minimum panentheism holds to the concept of the whole being composed of its many parts.

As a minimum, total awareness is the summation of individual pieces of awareness.

The perspective of the size of the universe may be somewhat larger than it was around 300 BC when Taoism first began but the principles are the same.

We may now be thinking in terms of the universe being a part of what it is immersed within but that in no way makes the concept of the whole being composed of its parts any less meaningful.

Panentheism is not a concept of the 20th century. Tillich, Northrop, and Whitehead had no monopoly on this concept.

Hinduism and Taoism embraced the basic concept long before the word panentheism existed.

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160419: Entropy, an end to the very nature of our physical universe and panentheism

4/19/2016

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160419: Entropy, an end to the very nature of our physical universe and panentheism

What does the conceptual framework of entropy have to offer us in our examination of panentheism?

Entropy: In a wider sense, entropy can be interpreted as a measure of disorder; the higher the entropy the greater the disorder. …the entropy of the universe (if it can be considered a closed system) is increasing and its available energy is decreasing.
–Oxford Concise Science Dictionary, p. 255

Entropy sounds complex, but it has a simple idea to offer. It states that within a closed system, a system that is located within a boundary, the system will eventually die. The more science learns, the more it appears that the life of the universe may be temporary. The life of the universe may be billions upon billions of years old, but it appears to have a beginning as well as an ending, just as Hindus have always believed.

But how does a universe die? Entropy tells us energy is the means by which work is done in our universe. 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 level to a lower level. In other words, a hot item (high energy item) can warm up a colder item (lower energy item) or one could say, a colder item “steals” heat from a hotter item. As this transfer of heat takes place, work is done.

When heat has finally been spread out equally (everything is the same temperature), no heat can transfer from one item to another because everything would then be the same temperature. If no heat can transfer from one place to another, then no work is able to occur. If no work occurs, no motion, no change, no life would occur within the universe.

What then of a physical universe which has reached a state wherein energy is equally distributed throughout the bounds of the physical universe?

Only panentheism offers a solution to this puzzle.

Panentheism states the physical universe is located within its creator and as such existence goes on within the creator of the physical universe despite the physical universe having met its demise through the equal distribution of energy and the cessation of all change within the physical universe, despite the demise of all motion within the physical universe for the ethereal goes on since the ethereal is non-physical comes to an end.

Pantheism/Atheism/… the concept of God/Brahma/Jehovah/the All/... simply being Mother Nature, falls short regarding their ability to modeling what would happen with the attainment of entropy as a final state of the physical universe.

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Rational dialectics, a universal philosophy and panentheism

4/13/2016

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160413: Rational dialectics, a universal philosophy and panentheism

Philosophy is the attempt to understand the function of the universe in terms of what lies within it and what lies outside it. The perception of the physical lying within the ethereal, panentheism, leads to a rationally defensible explanation of the whole of reality. (See Panentheism Addressing the Whole of Reality found within the free books made available to you, the reader within this site – see icon: Free Books)

By doing so, it leads us to an understanding of what we may be, what our function is, within the universe as well as to what lies outside the universe.

This process is accomplished through an attempt to establish a unified view of the universe.

Many great thinkers have left their mark upon the field of philosophy over the last 3,000 years. But just as surely as they have left their mark, they have left their doubts about the ability of philosophy to accomplish its task of developing a unified view of the universe.

This is not a negative statement; rather, it is a statement of growth, for just as a human grows through self-examination, so do specialty fields of knowledge grow through self-examination.

Knowledge we gain as a species is nothing more than perceptions we gain based upon our efforts as individuals to understand what it is we perceive through faith, observations, and reason.

It is no wonder our basic fields of study go through similar stages of development as their architects. There is little doubt that humans are the most soul searching life form on this planet.

Since humans are the engineers of their own fields of study, it only follows that philosophy would go through much soul searching in terms of its ability to accomplish its own function. But eventually, one has to stop searching and get on with life, and so it is with philosophy.

Self-doubt, soul searching, hesitation, fear of failure, whatever excuse one wishes to place upon the lack of success of philosophy to accomplish its goal, the fact still remains that philosophy has not developed a unified view of the universe.

It is time for philosophy to stop worrying about being condemned to ‘hell’ by religions and being ridiculed by science.

It is time for philosophy to have faith in itself and use what it has observed as being successful for science.

It is time to build a model of a unified view of the universe.

The mere fact that we perceive the universe exists should be enough for philosophy to understand it can be modeled.

It is the perception of panentheism which is capable of generating a unified view of the whole of reality capable of merging the physical examined by science and the ethereal examined by religions into a model of the physical immersed within the ethereal, into a model of one within the other.

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160412: Eternity, responsibility and panentheism

4/12/2016

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160412: Eternity, responsibility and panentheism

Under panentheism, no one controls the keys to the gate to eternity, for one does not have to enter eternity; one is already in eternity.

Panentheism sets life free of the oppression generated by the few who profess to hold the keys. But just as wonderful as this may sound, it has its drawbacks, for now you must take responsibility for creating your own form of eternity. You are responsible – not someone else.

You will truly reap what you sow.

Our species is not responsible for itself. Our species does not have its own awareness.

The effect our species makes is only a summation of each individual. You are responsible for the species.

You are responsible, not some individual that attempts to dictate.

Panentheism may set you free from the tyranny of others but just assuredly as panentheism sets you free from the tyranny of others, panentheism burdens you, the individual, with the responsibility of one's own actions.

Panentheism may allow you to establish your own heaven and hell in eternity, but it also makes you responsible for having done so.

So what does the above have to do with science?

Panentheism establishes the role of science and mathematics. Science and mathematics are now relegated to the role they do best which is to examine the physical universe not eternity, not the ethereal.

This does not suggest science and mathematics should not attempt to find the ethereal for such explorations do nothing but expand the scope of physical reality which in the end helps us to understand the parameters of the ethereal, understand the very essence of the individuals true essence, true bein

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160410: The silence, the soul and panentheism

4/10/2016

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160410: The silence, the soul and panentheism

The silence: the only place to find one’s true essence

The silence: the soul does not appear just because one enters the silence but it is always there

The silence: a place to dwell while one awaits the soul’s appearance

The silence: the lack of all physical desires

The silence: the lack of all emotions including fear

The silence: the lack of all thought

The silence: the lack of all expectations

The silence: the lack of all ‘waiting for’

The silence: a place that takes much effort to find

The silence: a great void

The silence: the state of existence between the physical and the ethereal

The silence: a state of existence which becomes easier and easier to establish each time one reenters the state

The silence: a ‘location’ with much to offer if one is patient,

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