ELUCIDATING

Holism minus Semiosis is laughable and Consciousness without God is incomprehensible. Knowledge that ignores this is incomplete.

Casting light on the above:

Holism is the whole of everything known and unknown. It is recognizing that we are part of a whole which we barely begin to comprehend. It is also a way of thought that takes into consideration the whole of any matter.

Semiosis refers to the web of communication that embraces all signs that are, in themselves, part of a universal, expanding, creation of information that can be assumed to have an existence independent of us. A holistic understanding, based on the foundational reality of consciousness, suggests signs have reality throughout the Cosmos. And that there is a coherent output of all communication.

Consciousness is the system of universal, mind-based existence. It is the observable reality we can explore according to interest, intuition, imagination, and desire. The ontological basis of Consciousness is an unspeakable Being we take to be a Source or Force of which everything is a part. To call this reality God is an inadequate way designating it. The understanding, “I am Who I am” has been suggested. Those who have seen this Force most closely say it is unspeakable and inexpressible. A common effort to suggest it is the phrase unconditional love.

To see these matters as tangental or false, is hardly an adequate response to their basic thrust. We are in a largely unfathomable Universe. We observe Semiotics in every expression we are aware of. Signs do become one language. It is possible that expressions of all sorts find their way into the universe. Perhaps they are Dark Matter. I don’t know.

We see Consciousness as as the means by which we know and understand. We know, if we reflect, that we are Souls and we are One.

All of us go too far when we suggest our understandings are more than we can actually take in via Conscious reflection

But as Souls — humans —experience suggests we draw ever closer to understanding who and what we are. And to Whom we give our service.