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It is time we as a species examine our true purpose for existing in earnest. Panentheism is an understanding of the whole of reality capable of providing us as individuals and as a species with the means of understanding our role within the whole of reality. Establishing the understanding and simply stating a belief, the belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by the Creator, are two entirely different things. What is different is the approach. For hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years, isolated pockets of humanity have professed the altruistic belief that individual rights are endowed by our Creator. The idea was always based upon an intuitive sense. The esoteric means by which a few select individual could understand the rationale for such an altruistic belief was little understood by the masses. As a species we have never focused upon building a rational model supporting the idea Society has not recognized the means of establishing the rationale for such rights. Building a simple model of reality, building a cross sectional two-dimensional drawing of the whole of reality begins with the use of four perceptual tools available to our species, namely: observation/science, rational dialectics/philosophy, universal teachings/religion and a universal language/mathematics. We, humans, are visual creatures and as such a drawing, a picture, of reality helps us understand the composition of reality, understand reality itself. As they say: A picture is worth a thousand words. A model of reality gives us a picture demonstrating where we as individuals stand in reality, which in turn leads us to understand our true essence. It is the understanding of our true nature, which then leads us to understand why we exist which in turn leads to the rational understanding regarding the significance of individual and regarding who or what granted us our individual rights. If our rights were endowed to us by other physical beings, be they human or otherwise, then said rights can rationally be ungifted by those that gifted them. If, however, The Creator of the physical universe endowed our individual rights, then only the Creator can rationally remove them. So it is the war between the secularists and the theists rages and the secularists, at this point in time, are winning. We are a species, which is losing its way. We are standing at the crossroads of humanity's journey into the third millennium and the beginning of our becoming space travelers, and we as a species have yet to make a decision as to which road to take. Are we spiritual beings or are we physical beings? This road is becoming less and less traveled by our species. This road says we are spiritual beings located within a physical universe which in turn is located within a non-physical 'location', located within a larger spiritual reality. Down this road, in the far distance lies potential, huge potential for the individual, huge potential for the human species and huge potential for other life forms we may encounter as we journey through space. ... The greatest philosophical minds throughout the East and the West have over the last two thousand years debated the validity of this esoteric knowledge within the arena of metaphysics (the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles and seeks to explain the nature of being or reality and the origin and structure of the universe - Webster New World Dictionary 3rd College Edition). As the debate began to unfold within the eyes of the public, secularists recognized the potential threat of metaphysics to their positions. Secularists sought and found the means, for all intents and purposes, to banish metaphysics to the far fringes of philosophy.

Panentheism A Model of a Universal Philosophy The Guide and Reference provides a tool for exploring the trilogy. It includes over 1,000 questions addressed, 100 flow charts, 750 thematic ideas and a complete glossary. Volume 1: Panentheism Addressing Humanity's Purpose In Reality outlines the basic model of creating a universal philosophy as well as its potential impact upon society and the individual. Volume 2: Panentheism Addressing Man Made In The Image of God explores twenty futuristic and ten present societal dilemmas and their possible consequences with - as well as without - a universal philosophy in place. Volume 3: Panentheism Addressing Validation By Science, Religion, Philosophy and Prophecy verify the benefits of a universal philosophy through the examination of science, religion, philosophy and prophecy. Welcome to the Cross Reference Guide & Index. This volume is intended as a companion to the trilogy; Volume 1: Panentheism Addressing Humanity's Purpose In Reality, Volume 2: Panentheism Addressing Man Made In The Image of God, and Volume 3: Panentheism Addressing Validation By Science, Religion, Philosophy and Prophecy This fourth volume has been included in order to assist the reader in exploring the trilogy. It contains five distinct sections; Flowcharts, Questions Addressed, Thematic Index and Index. These allow the reader to locate, through different means, particular points of interest within the volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the Panentheistic series. The subject of volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the Panentheistic seriec is the development of a universal philosophy. Particular emphasis is placed on symbiotic panentheism as one such philosophy, and how it could provide a perceptual shift for humankind. This perceptual shift could have enormous benefits for us as individuals, as members of society, and as an entity within the universe. Social dilemmas, both present and future, are addressed and the consequences of not resolving these dilemmas are explored. Many fields of enquiry are included within the discussion, including; religion, science, philosophy, and prophecy. The merits of each are examined and their historical conflicts with each other are addressed. Using the Cross With the aide of this guide and reference volume the reader is able to explore the benefits and disadvantages of these various belief systems. Consideration is given to a unification of these diverse beliefs in order to attain a particular goal - that of achieving a universal and constructive philosophy for humankind. Because volumes 1, 2 and 3 cover such a broad range of topics, volume 4 should be an invaluable tool in gaining the most from the series.

This volume examines the very relationship of time and distance whether it is in a form of direct proportionality, a form of inverse proportionality, a form of time multiplied by time, or a form of space multiplied by space. This is a process of stepping onto a surface of quicksand whose depth is indeterminable. The only tangible aspect of this volume is an intuitive sense that the depth of this 'quicksand' will go well beyond Einstein and his concepts of relativity as it applies to metaphysical thought. To avoid such a journey, however, is to turn away from the true nature of metaphysics, which is to explore regions yet to be theoretically examined by science itself. To avoid addressing potentially hypothetical challenges, which a new metaphysical system may 'encounter', to avoid addressing potentially hypothetical dilemmas, which a new metaphysical system may 'suggest', is to show no confidence in the new system itself. To avoid the inevitable is in essence to shut down the very concept of what a new metaphysical system is required by its very nature to address. So how are we to delve into such an immense project as attempting to understand the concept regarding: 1. Metaphysically understanding the direct proportional interrelationship of time and distance. 2. Metaphysically understanding the interrelationship of inverse time being directly proportional to inverse of distance. 3. Metaphysically understanding the concept regarding the square of the interrelationships expressed in #1 and #2. To understand the complexity of direct, inverse, and square relationships of time and distance, we will focus upon mathematics and mathematics' fundamental explanation regarding the relationship between time and distance. If I were a mathematician, the following concepts could be seriously considered for their mathematical soundness. Since I am not a mathematician, rather than the mathematical soundness of the arguments being the points to consider, one might better focus upon the metaphysical implications of what bits and pieces may emerge from the following examination of mathematics and what clues mathematics might conceivably provide metaphysics regarding an understanding of what lies outside the physical. Having established a defense for any irrationality which may emerge from the remainder of this volume, let's explore where reason, fused with mathematics, might take us in regards to metaphysics as we attempt to resolve the puzzling state existing between Zeno's 'i', Newton's 'i', and Einstein's 'i'. The new metaphysical perception which the individual acting within God creates regarding Zeno, Newton, Einstein, relativity, and the modern physics of quantum mechanics is an unusual one to say the least. Modern physics is immersed in the realm of the physical universe. This is as it should be. What should not be the case however is the perplexing abstractual state of existence within which modern mathematics (the language of physics) and physics find themselves existing. Mathematics and modern physics find themselves immersed within the realm of physicality with no sense of understanding the abstractual significance of the very physical reality they are examining. Mathematics and physics are in a state of abstractual confusion. This state of abstractual confusion was not 'created' by mathematics and physics but rather was created by the inability of metaphysics to break out of its state of uncertainty regarding the most fundamental of first truths: 'I am.' 'The universe is.' '1st cause is.' Until a theoretical goal is established by metaphysical ingenuity, mathematics and physics will have no beacon towards which they can advance. Without such a beacon, mathematics and physics will have no choice but to visualize each new advance as a step into the blackness of the unknowable which they find surrounding their reality of the physical.

Hegel's Theory... is a philosophical summit So it is 'a' summit appears to have been reached only for us to find, having attained such a summit, a new summit awaits beyond the one we just laboriously conquered. The climb towards Hegel's summit began with 'nothingness' and revealed stunning paradoxes great metaphysical thinkers such as Zeno, Aristotle, Boethius, Copernicus, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel himself attempted but failed to resolve. The gallant attempts put forward by these great thinkers led to metaphysical perceptions which temporarily satisfied segments of our species but never rose to the level of consensus required of a universal metaphysical model. A universal metaphysical model answers, at a minimum, three metaphysical questions: Where am I? What am I? And, Why do I exist? From such a model the term 'I' finds itself, naturally and with an ease of complete continuity, capable of being rationally replaceable with the terms: 'you', 'we', 'you and I together', 'humanity', 'life', 'the earth', 'the solar system', 'the galaxy', 'other life forms within the universe', 'all life forms within the universe', 'the universe', 'all universes'. Thinkers such as Zeno, Aristotle, Boethius, Copernicus, Leibniz, and Kant demonstrated the problems broad forms of substitution create when applied to the limited metaphysical systems these thinkers left in place. Hegel is no different just because we come to 'a' summit. There is always a summit to follow each summit we conquer. To state: 'Hegel's Theory... is a philosophical summit.' is not to imply there are no other summits awaiting us. Before we can begin our climb to the next summit, we need to understand the new perception Hegel displayed for us. It is Hegel's metaphysical system, which raises the question regarding the need of 'a creator of the universe', the need of' 'a primal cause', the need of 'a first Cause'. Kant's metaphysical system left us with an understanding regarding a perception of a second location existing: a location for the universe and a second location for 'God'. Such a perception did not emerge because Kant stated the need for a second location but rather such a perception emerged naturally as a means of resolving issues Kant's system brought to the surface of reason. It is panentheism which provides the answers to the questions raised by both Hegel and Kant and it is these answers which are fully explored within this volume.

The concept of a true void, nothingness, simply existing took thousands of years to be accepted in the West as well as the East. Strangely enough, the void is still not understood as being 'something' as opposed to existing as nothing. Paradoxically the void is 'nothing' and for that very reason it is, it exists, it is 'something'. Nothing is nothing. The void is the lack of matter, the lack of energy, the lack of space-time, the lack of God, the lack of any 'thing' as well as the lack of any 'abstraction'. ... Understanding the concept of 'nothingness', a perfect void being 'something' while simultaneously being what it is, nothingness, is a fairly new concept and as such the discussion of such a topic will seem alien at first glance. The void, nothingness, is a concept of our perceptions and as such nothingness is abstract in nature. Existence of abstraction is not an uncommon occurrence. There are many abstractions, which are purely abstract versus abstractions, which are abstract perceptions of the physical. An example of a pure abstraction is a 'point'. A geometric point is a location of no size and incorporating no time. Although a point technically does not exist, the whole field of geometry is built upon this elusive abstraction. Without the concept of a point, geometry would not exist. In fact, without the concept of the abstract, non-existent point, physics itself would not exist. The metaphysician deals with what comes before zero and after infinity. The physicists and mathematicians deal with what lies between zero and infinity. ...The movement 'towards' and understanding of the 'limit' zero in turn leads us 'towards' understanding what happens to the physical when the physical becomes 'zero'. In addition to not having examined zero-ness itself, Western mathematics has not looked in the other direction and examined infinite-ness itself. Western mathematics has not examined what happens as we move 'out' infinitely far beyond the endlessness of expansion. Western mathematics has not examined the totality of time and timelessness, has not examined the summation of time and timelessness. This volume leads to an understanding of 'nothingness', an understanding of how it is nothingness, something which does not exist, not only exists but exists dramatically in a dynamic active state upon which both the individual - individuality and God - the Whole, depend for their very existence. The process of understanding 'nothingness' existing in the 'active' state versus a 'passive' state requires an understanding of the actual limit of zero-ness/nothingness itself. ...It is Metaphysics, a subset of philosophy, which will lead the way towards understanding the functionality of zero, infinity, and nothingness. The demise of metaphysics has become starkly apparent beginning with the nineteenth century and culminating in the twentieth centuries. The shambles of metaphysics is so apparent its absence was noted by one of the great cosmologists of the twentieth century when he stated: "However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of the century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. What a come down from the tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant " Steven Hawking - A Brief History of Time But it is not the technicality of science, which has caused philosophy to draw up short of its objective and hesitate. It is the understanding of the concept of the existence and functionality of nothingness which this volume addresses in detail.