What does the cumulative tradition tell us about the Universe and our place in it?
	First we must ask what is that tradition? It is science and scientific humanism, the myths and religions
What do they tell us? Define two limits--what they require and what they allow
	Science requires only a local cosmology but beyond that infinite freedom (except paradox)
	The myths and religion require no cosmology and allow infinite freedom
	The myths and religion are witness to suggestion and possibility--to the magnitude of spirit understood
		metaphorically. They lack all demonstration. They are products of an earlier phase
	However, in their modern--and other--interpretation as definite viewpoints the myths and religions are sick
	For instead of encouraging exploration in that infinite space of freedom they encourage an
		occupation of an infinitesimal space without foundation
	Because science (and reason) are the only demonstrative forms, secular humanism is the modern paradigm
		However, it is incorrect to think that it should altogether displace the mythic
		We think it should because we naively equate what is required by demonstration with what there is
			(because we have no further demonstrative paradigm)
	For matters of the space in between what is required by science and reason and what is allowed, and in
	our lack of imagination we substitute existentialism
		I.e., we have an imagined but not demonstrated emptiness
		We regard this undemonstrated emptiness as real
		We think of ourselves as heroes because we face this emptineness with courage and honesty--so we think
		Therefore, we think, we are honest, courageous heroes--and so we congratulate ourselves, feel superior
			Yet existentialists know not what they claim and may well be buffoons, pawns of the delusions of
				reason
In summary, then, tradition requires a specific local cosmology but infinite freedom beyond that. Religion, art, myth and their modern counterparts require nothing; they paint pictures of possibility in the area of infinite freedom and they paint pictures of the nature and hopes of the 'spirit'




Here enters the Universal metaphysics
	1. It asserts infinite freedom consistent with the local cosmology
	2. It shows that such freedom is maximal--the Universe could not be a place of greater freedom
	3. It explores this space of freedom with regard to the variety of cosmologies and the variety of human experience
	4. It shows that the variety of experience and being occupies the variety of cosmology
	5. All claims are demonstrated--even the modes of demonstration
	6. The modern paradigms above are characterized by poverty of imagination, poverty of reason and poverty of
		construction
	7. The metaphysics in combination with the disciplines suggests ways of exploration of the resulting infinite
		adventure


Summary
	Prior thought and experience requires little but allows infinite variety without end
	The universal metaphysics defines this variety, shows its unlimited magnitude, provides demonstration, shows and
	suggests ways of exploration

	1.  Science requires certain aspects of the local cosmology (particles, perhaps big-bang	and bubble 	    		    universes...)
	2.  Science allows much more as consistent with it. Logic is the only further constraint. The universe has the 	   		    greatest possible variety
	3.  Religion and myth require nothing because they are preempirical and prererational
	    However, religion, myth, literature, art, imagination partially fill in the space between scientific necessity 		    and possibility
	4.  But this space is still infinitely more. However, since we confuse scientific necessity with the real (this is
	    positivism) we moderns tend to not go there
	5.  Universal metaphysics shows that the true picture is the picture of Logic within which the picture from
	    science (and art and religion where not violations of Logic) form a single point
	6.  This picture is demonstrated rather than posited
	7.  This suggests true religion as exploration of the infinite region of all being by being in all its
	    aspects
	8.  The tools used to demonstrate the Universal metaphysics are the initial tools of the exploration in ideas
	    and with common sense enhancements of exploration in the transformation of being
	9.  The initial steps of this picture are also illuminated by personal experience and imagination as well as
	    the ideas and experience of the tradition
	10. The cosmology which is part of the metaphysics illuminates but does not show the entire journey which therefore
	    requires thought and experiment
	11. The journey is an unending adventure