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APPENDIX H: “The Spiraling Collective”

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APPENDIX H:

“The Spiraling Collective”

The outwardly-spiraling

COLLECTIVE-vortex-unity

potentially incorporates the following

interlaced layers, among others

Spirituality

ConSCiouSneSS

intelligenCe

love

life–forCe

energy

equationS

potential

Taking-a-stab at a
more schematic representation of

the current state of our little Quest for
Potential

∞

dynamic,

we respectfully offer the
schematic on the left.

“The Spiraling Collective”: an industrious and
ultimately

spiritually-driven ‘collective,’ which has a habit of creating

solar systems and life forms, and is even rumored,
via its

GODHEAD, to have parted the Red Sea once, a long
time

ago…

– D. Birnbaum

APPENDIX G : Pushv. Push & Pull

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APPENDIX G:

Push

Push & Pull

Classic Western and Jewish philosophy*

(call them both Model #1) each has –

the “Concrete subject” –

God –

“pushing” Creation forward –

in the moment.

Whereas my metaphysics

(call it Model #2) has –

a) Q4P

∞

/Extraordinariation

“pushing” Creation forward inexorably

as well as

b) the future perfection
goal-point –

Innite Divine Potential –

“pulling” and igniting Creation –

from the future.

Thus, these are 2 very different
“models”

– on multiple levels.

Kabbalistic Jewish philosophy diverges from
mainstream Jewish

APPENDIX F2: The Suffused Divine

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APPENDIX F2:

The Suffused Divine

Rav Chaim of Volozhin*

(b.1749, Volozhin,
Belarus;

d. 1821, Volozhin,
Belarus) elucidates Hashem (the Divine)

as lling – and surrounding – all worlds.

“It says in many places in the Zohar that ‘Hashem

lls all worlds’ and ‘surrounds all worlds.’ This

means that from Hashem’s
perspective, He lls all

worlds, and we, from our Torah-oriented vantage

point, see Hashem as surrounding all worlds.

The meaning of the concept of ‘Hashem lling all

worlds’ is concealed from us.

The truth is that from Hashem’s perspective, even

after creating the world, He lls all the worlds
and

all existence; literally,
‘There is nothing else beside

Him’ (Devarim 4:35).”

Meaning, as per Summa, the Divine is not “over
there”

and we are “over here”;
Rather, the Divine suffuses all.

And, parallel to our metaphysics, wherein Quest
for

Potential

∞

is the core of the Divine, and the Divine drives

the cosmos….

Rav Chaim of Volozhin,
Nefesh Hachaim, The Judaica Press, Inc. Brooklyn, NY,

APPENDIX F1:* Hasidic v. Kabbalistic

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APPENDIX F1:*

Hasidic v. Kabbalistic

BAAL SHEM TOV (founder of Hasidism)

(b. 1698, Sara, Ukraine; d. 1760, Medzhybizh,
Ukraine)

(“The Besht”)

“The foundation-stone of
Hasidism as laid by Besht

is a strongly marked
pantheistic conception of
God.

He declared the whole
universe, mind and
matter,

to be a manifestation of the Divine
Being; that this

manifestation is not
an emanation from God, as is

the conception of the Kabbalah, for nothing
can be

separated from God: all
things are rather forms in
which

He reveals Himself…”

Jewish Encyclopedia Online, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

view.jsp?artid=18&letter=B
(accessed October 5, 2009)

BASIC IDEAS OF HASIDISM

Creator and Universe

“‘The hasidic leader R. Menahem Mendel of Lubavich

observes (Derekh Mitzvotekha (1911), 123) that the

disciples of the Ba’al Shem Tov gave the “very profound”

turn to the doctrine of the oneness of God so that it

means not alone that He is unique, as the medieval

thinkers said, but that
He is all that is:…there is
no other

existence whatsoever apart from His existence, blessed

be He. This is true unication…just as there
was no

existence apart from Him before the world was created

so it is even now.” …as a corollary of
hasidic pantheism

(more correctly,
panentheism)…’”

(author’s note: there are no extant writings
of the Besht)

As noted in
Encyclopaedia Judaica on Baal Shem Tov {1997} [CD-ROM]

Author’s editorial comment / perspective on
the

classic and historic
‘dispute’ between Lurianism
and

Hasidism on the subject:

As the gemorah might say,

“Eylu v-aylu divre’ Elokim Chayim”

i.e. Both (exegesis)
positions stand valid

side-by-side eternally

and, indeed, in this case,

both philosophical propositions:

The Lurianic

***

[The universe as EMANATION
from God] –

and the Hasidic position

[The universe as MANIFESTATION of God]

Both tether different (intertwined) aspects of
the

proposed Quest for
Potential

∞

paradigm.

***Lurianic is a thrust of Kabbalistic

Meaning, philosophical thrust
#1 does not exclude

philosophical thrust #2,
as the respective theological /

philosophical camps supposed;
On the contrary, BOTH

philosophical thrusts must
be true side-by-side in
order

to explicate and outline – in even the most general

terms – the contours of an all-embracing
metaphysics.

APPENDIX E: Potential-Impacted Evolution

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APPENDIX E:

Potential-Impacted Evolution

Conceptually, Evolution is correct. However, Evolution

is heavily impacted
by the mandates of Quest for

Potential

∞

The “entrenched orthodoxy”
on the subject is:

Randomness, then “natural
selection”-guided evolution.

The mechanics of “natural selection” are in-dispute by

the academic/scientic community. It was originally

thought that “survival
of the ttest” was the driver of

Evolution – with “survival of the ttest”
incorporating the

optimal ability to propagate and pass on
genetic coding.

From my speculative
perspective as a so-to-speak

Conceptual Theorist, as
opposed to a scientist,
“survival

of the ttest” is necessary but not sufcient. The grander

and more accurate
concept is that Q4P

∞

impacts the

evolutionary process via
its Macro-Holistic Optimization

tool.

[ See section MU above: “The cosmos OPTIMIZES and

EVOLVES & MORPHS as it seeks OPTIMIZATION, an

iterative macro–holistic–optimization of eco–systems

towards the ultimate
goal of INFINITE DIVINE

EXTRAORDINARIATION presumably incorporating

vanguard species….” ]

Local imperatives and
considerations receive the

most “weight” in the Macro-Holistic Optimization

calculation.

Q4P

∞

= ( Survival-Traction ( Panoply
of Potential

( Extraordinariation

Meaning, Survival-Traction
is necessary-but-not-

sufcient “bedrock consideration,”
but far from the

only consideration.

Summa maintains that
Q4P

∞

is signicantly impacting

both the “mutations”
and the natural selection.

Indeed, to a very great extent Q4P

∞

is choreographing

multiple facets of Evolution and related.

“Evolution itself, moving upwards coordinately and undeviatingly

from the lowest to the highest, demonstrates most
clearly

a prevision from afar – a
preset purpose for all existence.

Divine greatness is thereby
enhanced and all the goals of faith

conrmed, and trust in and service of the Divine is
all the more

justied – since all strives upwards and man has it
in his power

to improve and perfect himself and his world, he is
manifestly

thereby doing the will of his Creator. Spiritual perfection is thus

seen to be in the center of all existence.” Rabbi Abraham Kook,

Orot Ha-Kodesh (c.1920)

APPENDIX D: Consciousness Connection?

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APPENDIX D:

Consciousness Connection?

Consciousness remains a
vast unknown.

Above, in the main body of the book, I posit a

“cumulative consciousness”. And this speculative

conjecture is an
integral part of my
philosophical

construct.

Now, we know from Astrophysics that

approximately half-a-billion years

after the Big Bang (with the Big Bang
currently calculated

at 13.7 billion years ago), Supernovas (collapsing hi–

mass stars) started
‘creating/manufacturing/cooking’ the

so–called heavier elements
(elements heavier than #26

Iron) in their
cores,

and then projected them
outwards to the far
reaches

of the universe.

These heavier Elements
were, in turn, necessary

building–blocks for LIFE.

Meaning, without the
DEATH of the supernovas,

there would be no LIFE.

Meaning, on some level, from DEATH,

emerges (fuller and
fuller) LIFE.

Now, we posit as a consistent theme throughout

SUMMA,

that: the human parallels the cosmic.

The question is just exactly how.

So, we see from Astrophysics, that DEATH
can

profoundly yield LIFE.

The question is:

Is there a parallel
in human death?

So, perhaps, perhaps,

(individual) human death
enhances the

cumulative cosmic consciousness.

This is fragile and dangerous terrain,

and I simply do not have a good intuitive feel here.

Hence, placement in
an Appendix.

However, intriguingly,

Maimonides, Guide to
the Perplexed,

from Friedlander’s
translation,

Part I, 74, 7th argument:

“Amr, and therefore the souls of all the departed

form only one being as has been explained by

Ibn Bekr Ibn Al-zaig, and others who ventured to

speak on these profound subjects. In
short, such

intricate disciplines, which
our mind can scarcely

comprehend, cannot furnish
any principles for the

explanation of other
subjects.”

Meaning, on some level, from DEATH,

emerges (fuller and
fuller) LIFE.

Now, we posit as a consistent theme throughout

SUMMA,

that: the human parallels the cosmic.

The question is just exactly how.

So, we see from Astrophysics, that DEATH
can

profoundly yield LIFE.

The question is:

Is there a parallel
in human death?

So, perhaps, perhaps,

(individual) human death
enhances the

cumulative cosmic consciousness.

This is fragile and dangerous terrain,

and I simply do not have a good intuitive feel here.

Hence, placement in
an Appendix.

However, intriguingly,

Maimonides, Guide to
the Perplexed,

from Friedlander’s
translation,

Part I, 74, 7th argument:

“Amr, and therefore the souls of all the departed

form only one being as has been explained by

Ibn Bekr Ibn Al-zaig, and others who ventured to

speak on these profound subjects. In
short, such

intricate disciplines, which
our mind can scarcely

comprehend, cannot furnish
any principles for the

explanation of other
subjects.”

Somewhat cryptic, for
sure, but positing that,

post-Death – all souls merge into one.

Now, Souls are certainly not necessarily

Consciousness.

But, then again, maybe they are (very) closely

inter–related…

Thus, perhaps, the Death of an individual,
somehow

enhances the cumulative
consciousness – on some

level, however profound.

Perhaps, we should respectfully leave this particular

matter (Consciousness) at
that (for this
treatise)…

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THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMICAPPENDIX C: Extraordinariation ( E+)

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APPENDIX C:

Extraordinariation ( E+
)

To our readers:

Summa Metaphysica proposes
the concept of

Extraordinariation.

This concept is proposed and elaborated upon
in

the chapter

Mu: Cosmic Tool Kit- Shelf #2 above

(in the rst section of this book, Cosmic Womb

of Potential)

The following is a nalé commentary piece
on the

theme.

by DANIEL N. KHALIL:

EXTRAORDINARIATION

To say that the feeling in the listener’s soul at the climax

of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is ‘perfect’ is drastic

and degrading understatement.
The meta-emotional

human response to this
piece of art (and it is not alone)

is outside of perfection as it is outside of language.

It is transcendent,
extra, extraordinary.

It has been said that God is the ultimate artist,

creating a world-dynamic
with all the idiosyncrasies

of complex art. To praise His work as being merely

‘perfect’ or ‘efcient’
is to miss its creative essence. It

is to embrace the engineer while
neglecting the artisan.

This is a neglect bolstered by science
and mathematics,

disciplines whose unique
understanding of the universe’s

exactitude has been
used to turn the focus from its

delicate elegance. The
cold progression of evolution

engenders an appreciation
for the lion’s strength,
for the

cheetah’s speed; the precision of physics
provides a

window into the awlessness of our cosmos;
but there is

more.

Darwinian evolution need
not have yielded the frail

buttery, the vulnerable dove; the
Earth’s orbit need

not have yielded the grace of changing seasons,

snow-decorated forests. Indeed
laws of nature and

principles of physics
need not have yielded
complexity

at all. Nevertheless,
complexity permeates our
world

from subatomic particles
to cosmic galaxies. It is
this

complexity that allows
for the sophisticated
beauty that

stands in wait of our perception daily.

Yet the paradox of this complexity surfaces as we
probe

it more deeply. Structural biologists have
shown that

fundamental biology depends
on predictable chemistry.

Quantum mechanics has
shown that chemistry, in turn,

can be dissected into the physics that underlies it.

Einstein showed that
even within physics
separations

are an illusion. His special theory of relativity (1905)

revealed that the
division between space and
time is

articial. His subsequent
general theory of
relativity

(1915) showed the same of the distinction between

space-time and matter.

Thus, the broad
perspective reveals our world’s

complexity while the
deep, penetrating perspective

reveals its unity. Stepping back, we appreciate worldly

complexity, stepping close we are
astounded by its unity.

Such is the paradox. Complexity and
unity challenge

one another as they each thrust forward
expanding

their respective scopes
simultaneously. New species

are discovered as unied
theorems are developed. This

duality teases us with its plainness: we can only watch,

spellbound, as our cosmos’ singularity and its
nuance

develop and unfold,
hand-in-hand, before us. Herein

lays the irony of our world’s progression: a
relentless

trajectory towards unbounded
extraordinariation.

APPENDIX B: Schematically

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APPENDIX B:

Schematically

(as introduction to this
particular appendix, rst
let

us take one more quick look at the Baal Shem Tov’s

philosophy…..

see lead paragraph

on the Baal Shem Tov’s doctrines

(a.k.a. the BESHT’s doctrines)

Elements of Besht’s
doctrines

Jewish Encyclopedia Online,
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

view.jsp?artid=18&letter=B
(accessed October 5, 2009)

“The foundation-stone of
Hasidism as laid by Besht

is a strongly marked
pantheistic conception of
God. He

declared the whole
universe, mind and matter, to be a

manifestation of the
Divine Being; that this
manifestation

is not an emanation from God, as is
the conception of

the Kabbalah, for nothing can be separated
from God: all

things are rather forms
in which He reveals
Himself…”

* * * * * * * * *

Now, having the BESHT’s doctrine noted above for
easy

reference, to schematically outline
what is happening

as regards our formulation,

juxtaposed against other
formulations

* * * * * * * * *

let

A = God

B = Man

AB = GodMan

* * * * * * * * *

Maimonides:

encapsuled one core
proposition:

God created Man
(Aristotelian)

A created B

Lurianic Kabbalah:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

Man is an emanation from God

(sort of, from WITHIN
God);

GOD WITHDRAWS to create Man

(tzimtzum)

B comes from WITHIN
A

Baal Shem Tov:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

All is a Manifestation OF God

(panentheistic)

A and B are part of AB

SUMMA / Birnbaum:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

Holy Quest for Potential (to the innite
recursive power)

drives GOD, MAN and the COSMOS ever-forward

towards EXTRAORDINARIATION.

Now, Summa Metaphysica lays the
FORMULATION

out in

18 multi-faceted propositions:

9 in the rst book, God and Evil

9 in the second book, God and Good

But, let’s give you the “Monarch notes’

‘test-prep version’ here

on Summa / Birnbaum

Thus, to attempt to outline SUMMA in 6 quick

propositions:

QUEST FOR POTENTIAL

∞

is on a journey from

POSSIBILITY through METAPHYSICAL

REALMS through REALITY, then towards

PERFECT FULFILLMENT &
REALIZATION

(‘EXTRAORDINARIATION’)

(the rst part of this proposition has components

in-common with RASHI
(‘na-asheh adahm b ‘zalmenu’

–

Let us make Man in our Image – Genesis), and with

Lurianic Kabbalah (En Sof…Serot) and Plato’s Forms…

aside from being
anchored in ‘Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh’ –

Exodus)

Innite Potentialities at
the end–of–the–rainbow

(‘EXTRAORDINARIATION’),
retroactively ignite

Creation – and the Divine ‘spark’

We are ALL part of HOLY QUEST FOR POTENTIAL

(this is ~panentheistic,
parallel to the BESHT)

We are all part of a grander, evolving COSMIC

Consciousness.

(this has components
in common with the BESHT and

with Teilhard, the Jesuit philosophical renegade)

Divine consciousness (the
Godhead of the cumulative

consciousness) withdraws to give greater freedom

to MAN

(an anchor of the proposed solution to theodicy in

Book #1)

(this has components
in common with the Torah’s

Hester Panim (Hiding of the Divine Face) and with

Lurianic Kabbalah tzimtzum)

ALL (AB) are on an ongoing journey towards

EXTRAORDINARIATION.

(components, almost in
common with ‘Messianic era’)

* * *

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APPENDIX A: Metaphysics Analysis

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APPENDIX A:

Metaphysics Analysis

One can never PROVE a metaphysics.

By denition.

Because one would have to stand outside the entire

cosmos to view it all –

and simulate Creation
itself – to test it all.

However one can certainly ASSESS different

metaphysics.

Metaphysics is always
hypothesis. But, hopefully
very,

very intelligent hypothesis.

One can, indeed, analyze different metaphysical

constructs with a consistent set of questions.

Now, some of the questions involved in assessing

various metaphysics might
be the following: (These

THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC

questions tend to overlap, but have different
thrusts

and nuance.)

Is the metaphysics overarching? All-embracing?

Does the metaphysics
handle the key questions

in philosophy? (re-capped
in the INTROS and

FOREWORDS of the three books of this series)

Does the metaphysics
have a fatal aw(s);

a major gap(s),

– or does it essentially legitimately
‘stitch-together’

all the key issues

To what extent is the metaphysics
TETHERED to

classic works or spiritual texts?

Does the core of the metaphysics RESONATE within

us?

Is the case made exclusively “in an
Ivory Tower” –

– or is the case somewhat
brought-down-to-earth,

as well?

Is the presentation some
sort of miasma (murky,

obscuring vapor)

– or is it actually fairly
articulate and systematic?

Are the themes, however
allegedly profound,

articulated in a totally obscure manner –

– or in a generally intelligible
manner?

Do we grasp the CREATIVE ESSENCE of the

presentation?

Does the proposed
metaphysics gently ‘tip-toe around

the garden’ –

or does it attempt to get to the very core of the cosmic

code?

Does the proposed
metaphysics primarily concern itself

with playing with SEMANTICS and DEFINITIONS –

or does it actually provide an overarching
INTEGRATED

FORMULATION for the cosmic order?

A proposed metaphysics
must be assessed, as well,

by these not inconsiderable – and,
frankly, non-

negotiable, demands, as
well:

35 APPENDIX

THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC

Does the proposed
metaphysics truly embrace all

known dynamics – in all elds?

Does the proposed
metaphysics embrace our

experiences and accumulated
wisdom over the

centuries?

Does the metaphysics
embrace all that we scientically

believe to have occurred – and the
overwhelming great

bulk of what we hypothesize to have occurred – since

the dawn of time?

Does the particular
proposed metaphysics – about
our

most extraordinary universe
and profound existence –

run at and dry

– or does it, on some level,

actually, touch our soul?

* * *

ELABORATION – “Platforms of Potential”

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Thus, some salient ‘platforms’ of the post-Big Bang cosmic order

(some more directly relevant to us than others) –

13.7 billion years ago: The Big Bang

At 13.7 billion years ago minus one micro-second:

quarks and gluons congealed into protons and neutrons

At 13.3 billion years ago: electrons and nuclear particles combined

into atoms

At 13.2 billion years ago: gravity exerts its pull

At 12.95 billion years ago: supernovas…and the consequent 98

(discovered) natural terrestrial elements ultimately necessary for

humans. (My conjecture is that the nal number might be precisely 100.)

At 12.7 billion years ago; galaxies

4 billion years ago: life on our own planet

3.9 billion years ago: photosynthesis

3.5 billion years ago: rst strand of DNA makes-an-appearance

1.5 billion years ago: organisms with cell nucleus containing DNA

1.2 billion years ago: sexual reproduction

1.0 billion years ago: multi-cellular life appears

540 million years ago: Cambrian Explosion

460 million years ago: life moves ashore

390 million years ago: amphibians

335 million years ago: the rst forests

300 million years ago: reptiles

275 million years ago: Large mammals Take # I

200 million years ago: dinosaurs

150 million years ago: birds

114 million years ago: owers

65 million years ago (post Dinosaur extinction): Large mammals Take #2

4 million BCE: First hominids

1.8 million BCE: Homo Erectus

130,000 BCE: Neanderthal Man

120,000 BCE: Homo Sapiens

13,000 BCE: agriculture

7,600 BCE: Zhenpiyan, China, culture

3,250 BCE: Hieroglyphics

3,100 BCE: 60 place-value mathematics in Babylonia

2,500 BCE: Stonehenge

2,400 BCE: precise astronomical calendar, Egypt

1,250 BCE: Monotheism codied in Ten Commandments

Mind and consciousness have emerged and advance ongoing. Then,

roughly speaking, culture and love (in each case, we’re focusing-on

the genre of Mankind’s predilection) manifest.

Ongoing, consciousness – and its ever higher-level platforms –

advances. Consciousness – in its manifold aspects – seems to be

the arena where the next platform(s) will play out. Presumably this

is already underway on some level. Note that there is no reason to

assume that we have reached the end of ‘platform building’.

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