Table of Contents

Foreword................................................................................................vii
Preface..................................................................................................ix
Author's Comments...............................................................................xiii
Introduction...........................................................................................xix
Prologue...............................................................................................1
On the Ultimate Essential, Consequential ...............................................3
On Relative "Reality," Realization and True Awareness...........................7
On the Nature of Things and On Essential Nature..................................15
We are All Sinners................................................................................21
On the God Concept.............................................................................25
On the Physicist's Equation....................................................................27
On Subconscious Awareness.................................................................33
On Original Thought, Ultimate Knowledge and Understanding................37
On the Province of Human Judgment, Horizon and Philosophy................43
On Imperfection and the Perfect State....................................................49
On Our Time.........................................................................................51
On the True Maker - Deity or Impostor?................................................57
On the Condition of Religions.................................................................59
On Man's Shame...................................................................................61
On Eternity and the Temporal.................................................................63
On the Necessity and Esoteric of the Inquiry...........................................65
Reflections.............................................................................................71
On Nature and the Object World...........................................................79
On the Categorical Judgment on the Non-Cognizant Worlds...................81
Concluding Remarks..............................................................................85

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ON THE ULTIMATE ESSENTIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL

 In search of the ultimate criterion for finding true purpose and rationality in physical being and existence — toward understanding what it’s all about — there are mighty few disciplines to turn to, really. There are Science, Religion, Philosophy (reflecting, reasoning, deducing, cognizing, concluding); and then there is Hocus-Pocus, and -- can you think of any other discipline that might cloister life's ultimate secrets, purpose and promise?

 We might start by deliberating the gamut of science’s findings, or by going into exhaustive religious discussions -- but let's first take an overview of what we are trying to accomplish. In ultimate ends, should we really expect our answers to come from science's deep-seated last secrets, or from near-perfect delusion and edicts of religious rites and traditions? Or, all considered, would it not be more appropriate and important for us to find up front whether it all is – very basically, fundamentally – rational, of good purpose, right or wrong, adequate or inadequate, in true essential nature? I opt for the latter.

 If all the stuff of science, whatever it may yield for us, were not to measure up to 'good, adequate, moral and right', then we would surely have to ignore that discipline as one of our appropriate means of exploring the deep mysteries of existence. For in our proper, correct judgment, most assuredly an ultimate good and right purpose must be a paramount consideration, a prerequisite to any valid finding on the adequacy and rationality of being and existence. Science certainly has helped us like no other discipline toward understanding our tangible, physical worlds, but can it be the one to give us ultimate (metaphysical) answers? It is doubtful that it could deal with right or wrong, or even with rationality, as it appears very much in a class with inanimate phenomena, having no subjectivity of its own. It will do anything you want it to do, even in negative demonic patronage. Is the true ultimate criterion, then, an ethical, a moral question – in judgment over right and wrong, over error, ignorance and sin versus bliss and enlightenment? For us, an emphatic YES — and with the right awareness it is clearly a question of rationality as well.

 Shall we go fishing on the lake this afternoon, or shall we go hunting in the woods? Is it a moral, ethical question? No, not for most. Instead, it is likely a question of preference, mood, or choice – of rationale only. But now ask the same question of a conscientious vegetarian. Rationally, reason might tell that vegetarian that it would be more fun paddling on the lake than to tramp through the bushes hunting. But to him, it cannot be a question of choice or preference in deciding between one and the other. It is, instead, an engulfing, overwhelming matter of conscience either way: killing another creature for his own physical sustenance – repugnant! The moral question, then, determines if he should engage in either activity at all – if in fact he would need any of science's knowledge, say, for the fishing gear, or for the hunting guns. Having decided beforehand on moral, ethical grounds that he has no use, no necessity for either, he can -- in fact he must do, rationally, without the heavy hand of science altogether in keeping with his ultimate objective.

 Rightfully then – in ultimate consequence – the moral, ethical issue, right or wrong, good or evil, adequacy versus inadequacy, emerge as our final and rational determinants. The circle is complete when morality is in accord with rationality. Moral and rational, the correct combination – the way it ought to be, and is, when things are right.

 It is my sure sense that it is this simple way with our life's last consequence -- the ultimate criterion being a question of the rationality, of the morality, the adequacy of the nature of our being in light of highest universal principles – as the brief encounter with consciousness that is human life struggles toward its full self-realization.