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The Way of Being
Anil Mitra © February 11, 2020—March 27, 2020
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The Way of Being
A question asked by many
persons for themselves and for civilization is of what is possible, what
is of value, and how to achieve it. This leads to the question of how
to know and achieve what is of the highest value.
What can we know?
This is the greatest of all
possible universes.
This is the key to a ‘real
metaphysics’, developed below, as proven knowledge of the universe as
ultimate.
There is and must be exactly
one universe.
This is a resolution
of the problem of why there is Being at all.
The ‘cause’ of the existence
of the universe is necessity.
The universe has no creator.
The universe has identity. The
universe and its identity are limitless in extension, duration, variety,
peak, and dissolution of Being. For example there are cosmoses and physical
laws without limit—all in transaction with one another and the void. The
individual and civilization inherit this power.
The universe is spiritual
in that there are higher phases that are not yet known to some beings and
civilizations. It is not spiritual in the sense of a non material realm. From
the real metaphysics there are no fundamentally distinct modes such as matter
and mind.
There is a path—are
paths—from our world to the ultimate. Living well in our world
includes being on a path to the ultimate; but living well does not imply denial
of our world. It means just living well in the universe as whole.
There are and will be ennui
and pain; they are unavoidable. But the limitlessness of variety and
peak and dissolution is also ever fresh.
All Being is ever phasing
between peak and dissolution, experiencing both repetition and ever
freshness.
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