5 hours agoPart 7 (episode 3): The Ever-Present Nature of Beginning…The words Cosmos, Universe and Creation are sometimes used interchangeably. However, I want to suggest that they represent three distinct values each value becoming overlord to a spectrum theology in the historical development of cosmology. …8 min read8 min read
5 days agoPart 7 (episode 2): The View from Afar…Astronomers point their instruments into the night sky because of a particular idea about light, which is that the light now being received on Earth from all regions of deep space preserves coded information about cosmic entities and the events that have occurred throughout the whole history of the universe. …4 min read4 min read
Jan 26Part 7 (episode 1): Configuring CosmologyAs far back as historical records go there are signs of the human need to fashion for itself a cosmology; a meaningful picture of the World that is fitting to the needs of the time. …6 min read6 min read
Jan 20Part 6 (episode 3): It’s a Question of Scale…Being about the Universe at large as well as Planetary Life in small the microcosm of inner measurement would have to take into account the fact of the scale difference, universe-to-human, which science demonstrates is a scale difference that is so enormous that it is virtually incomprehensible. Against such a…5 min read5 min read
Jan 15Part 6 (episode 2): Value and MeasurementThe quintessence interpretation of the Agency Diagram (see here especially the section ‘To Speak of the Value’) is the groundwork of the house of coded value (5) but what about the microcosm of inner measurement (6)? Placing them together in the main title of Part 6 is suggesting that value…5 min read5 min read
Jan 9Part 6: The Microcosm of Inner Measurement (6) and the House of Coded Value (5)Episode 1: The Inner Configuration of the Double Triad (3:3) The 6-pointed star shown above can easily be recognized, appearing as a symbol in both east and west. As a modern image it has a strong connection to Jewish tradition being known as the ‘Star of David’ which has historical significance but also as the ‘Seal of Solomon’. …7 min read7 min read
Dec 30, 2022Part 5 (episode 5): A Cosmology of AgencyAgency as Bio-Spiritual Quintessence What has been referred to in previous episodes as the spiritual directive represents the graduated emergence of an ongoing spiritualizing process in the augmentations of Life. In the human case it proposes a radical shift in the kind of ‘Masters of Nature’ identity resultant from a state of occupancy usage…12 min read12 min read
Dec 29, 2022Part 5 (episode 4): The Claiming and Re-claiming Power of IdentityAgency and the Question of Choice Within the limitations of its species each organism is born with the freedom of scope to explore the world and its various environments by one pathway or another and by this gift of mobility find new possibilities and advancement as an outcome. …9 min read9 min read
Dec 28, 2022Part 5 (episode 2): Agency and the Activation of Ground…In an earlier episode given the title ‘Facets of a More Comprehensive Cosmology’ (Part 3), the physical world, the living world and the spiritual were deemed to be three facets of one cosmology, each facet integral to needs of a Self-Realizing universe. But if it’s true that the universe is…7 min read7 min read
Dec 21, 2022Part 5: The Enigma of Self-Presence…Expanding on the topics and concepts introduced in the previous four essays, Part 5 continues with a re-framing of cosmology through structural principles; a re-framing that treats the Universe not just as an observable object but as a reason to be discovered in which human life is a yet-to-be determined…9 min read9 min read
