APPENDIX Z25: Where is the Divine?
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APPENDIX Z25:
Where is the Divine?
Metaphysical challenge:
Choose from these multiple
choice options:
choice options:
a) Nowhere
b) Up there / Separate
from us
from us
c) Here
d) Here, and it encompasses
all / We are part of It
all / We are part of It
– and integral to It.
Summa rejects (a) and (b), agrees with (c) but embraces (d).
The author is dubious that any metaphysics, which
embraces (a) or (b) can present a viable
integrated,
integrated,
holistic and fully-satisfying option. Summa believes
that
that
the metaphysical debate needs to take place within
the
the
embrace of (c) or (d).
Atheism embraces (a)
Note that Aristotelianism (Aristotle was the student
of
of
Plato, who in turn was the student of Socrates)
and
and
classic mainstream Western (religious) thought classically
both embrace (b).
Taoism and much Eastern
philosophical/religious thought
philosophical/religious thought
embrace (c) or (d).
“We are made of light, and we are all
part of God’s mind. Most
part of God’s mind. Most
importantly, we are the universe itself having the experience of
knowing that.” (Fred
Alan Wolf, Time Loops and Space Twists,
Alan Wolf, Time Loops and Space Twists,
p. 232)