Hello duality

[davidv]

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Infinite nothingness certainly is spiritual; It is the transcendent God.

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Yppop

Please explain how “nothing” can be something. God is a being, not nothing.

 

[cpayne]

Please explain how “nothing” can be something. God is a being, not nothing.

So far in this thread I’ve figured out that nothing is actually something, that nothing can be infinite but remain nothing, that nothingness has duration and is divisible, but is still nothing, that nothing is spiritual but exists in the physical universe but still remains nothing, and that God Who is the Ground of all being is actually nothing.

Maybe the book will help, but for now I am departing.

 

[Psychotheosophy]

I use the terms implicate and explicate much in the same way as David Bohm, a highly respected Physicist and companion of Einstein’s, talked about the implicate order and the explicate order. The explicate order is the reality that we experience and science describes. It is a fragmented order in which individual units behave according to the well described relationships, often mathematical laws. The implicate order is a reality that we don’t experience, but it is reality at a deeper level, how things really are. The implicate order began to reveal itself with the invention of relativity and especially quantum mechanics. The word implicate is used in its meaning of “to enfold”, which implies a reality which is a single whole in which everything is interdependent on everything else. Bohm was one of the founders of what sometimes is called, the emerging paradigm, in which phenomena like consciousness, holograms, information, and other concepts not part of the current scientific paradigm are being discussed.

I hope this is what you were looking for.

Maybe…

Implicate (implies or is or both implies and is) a reality which is a single whole in which everything is interdependent on everything else.

A full understanding of a Possibility, Probability, and Actuality, as an ongoing process, entails a need to expand the scientific definition of reality from the narrowly restricted “objective reality”, to which the materialists pay homage, to also include subjective, rational, and transcendent reality. Then we can talk about tangential and radial insight and how possibilities are actualized in the creation of the universe, the earth, life, the mind, and soul.

Then,
Maybe we can discuss both realities simultaneously.

Actualization is primarily an act of God for most of the history of the universe when only possibility and actuality existed. It wasn’t until the appearance of the human mind that probability appeared as the third realm of reality.

And,

Since,
Not everything Possible is Probable,
And
Not everything Probable is Actual,
Then,
What is the principle that governs this filtration?

So,
If “God” governs this filtration,
Then
“God” creates by,
Subtraction and Division,
Not
Addition and Multiplication?

Tangential insight is the (name removed by moderator)ut of ideas revealed through knowledge and learning from the collective mind of humanity. Radial insight is the (name removed by moderator)ut of ideas revealed directly from the realm of possibility through revelation, creativity, and inspiration.

I imagine by now your eyes may be glazing over, as often happens when I am philosophizing with my children and grandchildren, so please accept my apology.

Best regards,
Yppop

Are you saying that “tangential” and “radial” insights are different?
(name removed by moderator)ut of ideas into what, specifically?