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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: James Calladine who wrote (9145)1/3/2002 11:36:23 AM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
Since ultimate reality cannot be contained or expressed using language this invariably leads to communication problems and oddities. The technique which CWG uses to remind us of this is the "unless it is not" locution which keeps popping up in the narrative. When I first encountered it I found it very bizarre but it's become habit now and somehow seems "natural".

One of the key differences between "normal" and "ultimate" reality seems to be that the former is usually expressed in either/or terms while the latter is more both/and. It is the inherency of paradox which is what makes reality "real" and it is only when we fully accept this that a deeper understanding is possible. Science first found itself faced with this conundrum in the early 20th century when it discovered quantum physics and the full impact of this shift still hasn't fully sorted itself out. Bell's theorem, which states that "reality" is necessarily non-local is yet another aspect of this shift in understanding. CWG implies, strange as it may seem, that the so-called "many worlds" interpretation of quantum physics is somehow the closest model for how things are. At every instant there is an infinite branching which provides the field in which free choice operates.

I've no doubt that the deeper we go the more paradoxical things will become, for mind is dissolved in the infinite and paradox is the means of this dissolution. Yet note that dissolution is not the same as disappearance. Dissolution implies no longer attached or localized. Disappearance implies non-existence. I believe it is in this manner that we approach the divine.
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