A Reality Beyond Science; Intention, Purpose and Choice in the Cosmos

We are also learning that trillions of non-human micro-organisms inhabit our skin, genital areas, mouth, and intestines with essential roles in supporting and regulating our bodily functions as members of a high-functioning living community. Each is integral to a larger whole of which no part or sub-system can exist on its own.

The cells lining the human stomach have a turnover of only five days. Red blood cells are replaced every days or so. The surface of the skin recycles every two weeks. Most of this cellular and molecular activity occurs far below the level of our personal awareness. So long as we provide the essentials of nutrition, hydration, rest, and exercise, our bodies' cells fulfill their responsibilities to maintain our healthy function without specific instruction from our conscious mind. Cells can and do go rogue, with terrible consequences. Within limits, the body has mechanisms to eliminate such threats.

If those mechanisms fail, the body dies and the rogue cells die with it. The Grand Machine story says no; the processes are mechanical. The Integral Spirit story says yes—the capacity for conscious choice is a defining quality of life and indeed of all being. Probably not, but we may never know, because with the exception of mystics who have developed a capacity to bridge the barrier between themselves and the meta-consciousness, we have no recognized means to experience a consciousness other than our own, and least of all the consciousness of a single cell.

What seems evident is that intelligent choice-making is a hallmark of living organisms at all levels. Similarly, although the biosphere self-organizes on a global scale and is subject to external influences from other celestial bodies, the locus of agency is everywhere local. The dynamic consequences of local choice-making play out through the biosphere's fractal structure and create global dynamics that in turn shape local choice-making with no evident central authority. Buddhism teaches that this illusion of separation is the cause of humanity's self-inflicted suffering.

Photo by Nadezhda Bolotina. Exactly how it all works may forever remain a mystery beyond our human understanding. Based on what we do know, however, our bodies, the biosphere, and the cosmos all express as fractal structures that self-organize from the bottom up rather than from the top down—exactly the opposite of what the Distant Patriarch story suggests. To the contrary, we are only a tiny element of an expression so grand as to be beyond our perception and comprehension. This is pure conjecture on my part, but I believe there may be clues in the relationship between the individual cells of our body and our conscious mind.

I may care deeply about their good health, yet I cannot discern the condition or function of any individual cell—let alone consciously intervene to save an errant cell from the consequences of its bad choices. Imagine the distraction if our minds attempted to track details of the life of each individual cell in our bodies. It is for good reason our minds are highly selective in the information to which they attune. It seems similarly unimaginable that the living Earth is conscious of my individual existence or behavior as a human cell in its larger body.

If we scale this logic to the cosmic level, it would suggest that the living cosmos is unlikely to be conscious even of the Living Earth as one of the countless celestial entities that comprise it. There is no necessary contradiction here with the reports down through the ages from spiritual mystics who experience the melding of their human consciousness with an undifferentiated consciousness that transcends all of material reality. If all creation is a manifestation of undifferentiated Integral Spirit, then the system of distributed intelligence discernible in a living, evolving cosmos is derivative of the undifferentiated meta-consciousness.

Perhaps the individual human consciousness, with proper training and discipline, has the capacity to penetrate the illusion of separation to experience a temporary reunification with the undifferentiated spirit. Perhaps we all have the ability through meditation and prayer to tap into the wisdom of the higher levels of consciousness from which we manifest, and thereby tap into and experience the beauty of its creative wisdom in a very personal way. It does not, however, follow that the undifferentiated meta-consciousness has the intention, desire, or capacity to attune to us individually, to intervene in our individual or collective human lives, or to change the operant rules of the self-organizing processes of the differentiated consciousness that shape the unfolding of the cosmos or its individual elements.

This is not to suggest that the cosmos is indifferent to our existence. It may care deeply with the love that some believe to be the binding force of the universe. Consider also that as manifestations of the Integral Spirit, we are instruments of its agency. Similarly, when we pray for divine intervention to save us from the consequences of our individual and collective choices, we in effect appeal to ourselves as agents of the Integral Spirit. The important point is that, right or wrong, our choice of creation stories has real world consequences.

If we choose to believe our fate lies with purely mechanistic forces beyond our control in denial of our own agency and responsibility, we then resign ourselves to the outcome of forces beyond our control. If we assume that a parental overseer—whether it be God, the market, a new technology, or compassionate space aliens—will save us from our foolish behavior, we likewise absolve ourselves of responsibility for our actions as we await divine intervention.

Recall the Buddhist teaching that the illusion of separation is the source of human suffering. As manifestations of the spirit, we humans are instruments by which the spirit God expresses its agency in the material world. Thus, our appeals to God for salvation from our suffering are in effect appeals to ourselves.

The earlier assertion that evolution has hard-wired cooperation, service, and compassion into the healthy human brain does not negate our capacity for free will. Free will and the illusion of separation are both essential to our human potential to contribute to the creativity, adaptability, and resilience of a living Earth and thereby to the whole of creation.

If we lose sight, however, of the interdependence behind the illusion, the sense of separation can become so terrifying as to overwhelm our predisposition for cooperation and lead to us to use our free will in deeply self-destructive ways. Free will conveys creative responsibility, not individualistice license. Whether specific details of our chosen story are right or wrong is less important than whether its overarching narrative awakens us spiritually; inspires cooperative, mutually beneficial relationships; supports a way of living that recognizes the wonder, beauty, goodness, ultimate meaning and value of life; and puts us on a path to a viable future.

Most important at this moment in the human experience is that our chosen story calls us to accept adult responsibility for the consequences of our choices for ourselves, one another, and a living Earth. Consequently, on purely pragmatic grounds, the Integral Spirit story in its many variations is the obvious choice. If wrong, we lose nothing. A clockwork cosmos could care less.

A loving parent God will be pleased with our progress toward mature adulthood. If right, we avoid self-extinction, our lives take on profound meaning, and we unleash yet unrealized capacities for creative expression. The Integral Spirit and a New Economy Both the Distant Patriarch and Grand Machine cosmologies contribute to a sense of detachment from life that leads to a devaluation of nature. They also lend legitimacy to an undemocratic centralization of institutional power and authority. Further, the social Darwinism of the Grand Machine cosmology lends moral authority to flawed economic theories that instruct us to value money more than life and actively celebrate the behavior and ethics of the psychopath as a cultural ideal.

Whether or not the stories themselves are the cause of the deep, self-inflicted social and psychological pathology expressed in our self-destructive relationships with one another and Earth, their broad cultural acceptance poses a serious barrier to healing. In our confusion, we forget that the only true wealth is living wealth , pay more attention to financial deficits than social and environmental deficits, and assume that the economy and business exist to make money rather than to serve life.

The living systems perspective of the Integral Spirit cosmology provides a framing story to guide our path to a planetary system of local bioregional living economies aligned with the needs and realities of the Ecozoic Era. The foundational insights of the Integral Spirit cosmology hold the conceptual key to our collective passage to what cosmologist Brian Swimme and eco-theologian Thomas Berry call the Ecozoic Era, the fourth in the succession of life eras identified as the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic, and the Cenozoic.

In The Universe Story , they note that our passage to this new era depends on a fundamental shift in the human relationship to Earth grounded in four foundational insights:. Because of its organic quality, Earth cannot survive in fragments…. The integral functioning of the planet must be preserved. Although the Earth is resilient and has extensive powers of renewal, it also has a finite and nonrenewable aspect…Once a species is extinguished we know of no power in heaven or on Earth that can bring about a revival.

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To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity. The Earth economy can survive the loss of its human component, but there is no way the human economy can survive and prosper apart from the Earth economy…. There is no such thing as a human community in any manner separate from the Earth community. The human community and the natural world will go into the future as a single integral community or we will both experience disaster on the way.

However differentiated in its modes of expression, there is only one Earth community—one economic order, one health system, one moral order, one world of the sacred. In an act of collective insanity, we have created a global civilization that depends on a non-sustainable fossil fuel subsidy to work in direct defiance and opposition to the natural structure and forces of the biosphere. Greene is an awesome writer. He's funny and he describes this complicated shizz really well he likes to make Simpsons analogies.

There are few parts that are mind-bending to the point where I got a headache. Greene will outright warn you to skip ahead if its getting too dense, which is nice. As to the actual content? Fuck, it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. I'll just say, I came out of the book feeling and sounding smarter. I can rap about three-branes, the Many Worlds hypothesis and impress my friends with my knowledge of the eleven spacetime dimensions.

All-in-all, satisfying, funny, and informative.

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Jul 24, DJ rated it really liked it Shelves: If mathematically challenged aliens who had somehow acquired a spacecraft landed on Earth and requested a single book to sum up our species' understanding of space, time, and physics, we would do best to give them The Fabric of the Cosmos.

Pop sci books on physics have a nasty habit of either aiming too general and leaving the reader with only a fuzzy sense of awe or aiming too specific and leaving the reader with a few random facts and a general confusion over how scientists can get so excited If mathematically challenged aliens who had somehow acquired a spacecraft landed on Earth and requested a single book to sum up our species' understanding of space, time, and physics, we would do best to give them The Fabric of the Cosmos.

Pop sci books on physics have a nasty habit of either aiming too general and leaving the reader with only a fuzzy sense of awe or aiming too specific and leaving the reader with a few random facts and a general confusion over how scientists can get so excited about algebra and atoms. This is hands down the best popular intro to modern physics I've found. Even with half a B. Two unique aspects of this book I haven't found elsewhere are 1 its focus on space and time and 2 its enthusiasm. As for 1 , most pop sci books on physics focus on trying to convey one or more specific theories quantum theory, special relativity, string theory, etc and may discuss space or time in the context of one of these theories but don't make connections between them.

Greene actually makes space and time the main character of this story and follows them throughout history and across theories. As for 2 , not since Richard Feynman have I found a physicist whose writing makes me shiver with childish delight at the wonders of the universe.

Some might find his poetic geeky gushes cheesy, but others like myself will spend the next several evenings lying outside on their lawns, staring at the stars, and just basking in the awesomeness of it all. That said, don't expect a book without mathematics to convey a full picture of our current understanding of physics. Nature seems to be written most naturally in the language of mathematics and that is the language in which she must be read. Hopefully though, if you haven't gotten over a particularly frightening encounter with mathematics as a young impressionable child, this book will convince you that it's worth doing.

Apr 11, Wayne Barrett rated it really liked it Shelves: After all, trying to understand quantum physics is something my brain just isn't wired to do. I love science, and even though volumes like this can be a task to get through, I am always left enlightened and amazed at the facts and philosophies of existence and all that it encompasses.

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This is not a book I would recommend if you are only wanting to be entertained, but I will say this; several times during this read I snapped out a stupor and realized I had been staring off into space, lost in those thoughts of time, space, and reality. Dec 26, Mike rated it really liked it. This is a great book that does an excellent job of explaining some of the toughest ideas in modern physics.

My only criticism is that Greene can't figure out who his audience is: Most of the esoteric stuff is banished to the footnotes, which are well worth reading--and I suppose I should be happy that it's there at all, since most books on modern science are written with Hawking's Editor's Law in mind: Dec 24, Tony rated it really liked it Shelves: I admit that I skimmed over those parts that I was familiar with, and also skimmed over those parts that were beyond my understanding. Greene attempts to present the current burning questions in his field using simplistic examples drawn from our daily lives.

It turns out, however, that the items in question are not so simple. There was a program developed and presented as a Nova episode that I was able to check out from the library. It will be next up on my agenda. Sep 24, Derek Davis rated it it was amazing. Once again, as in "The Elegant Universe," Greene has done an exemplary job of presenting a "popular" explication of deep science particle physics and cosmology that is neither condescending nor watered down.

I've been amazed both times than anyone could pull this off, since it's been attempted so often but left the subjects either impenetrable or eviscerated. Greene's salient attribute is clarity: He can find and present the basic contours of just about any scientific discipline in clear, disci Once again, as in "The Elegant Universe," Greene has done an exemplary job of presenting a "popular" explication of deep science particle physics and cosmology that is neither condescending nor watered down. He can find and present the basic contours of just about any scientific discipline in clear, disciplined, open outline.

He employs several simple, elementary approaches to make this happen. Beautiful writing with little waste. His use of analogy to elucidate arcane concepts is spot on even when especially when the comparison seems initially off the wall. I can't, in any way, overestimate the worth of this ability. Bertrand Russell made a hash of explaining relativity with a raft of confounding, muddying analogies. Greene presents an idea and its details from several different but complementary directions that both reinforce the underlying principles and keep them continually in mind.

And he doesn't assume that once he's outlined a concept, you will automatically recall its ramifications three days later. Instead, when he refers to it again, he summarizes it quickly, as if reminding a friend walking with him down a forest path. Greene has his biases mostly in favor of string theory and its near relatives , which he never denies. But he gives full credit to the other theorists down the block, admits the failings of the theories he loves and the positive side of the others.

Any enterprise can create a corporate worldview where what you're doing assumes a centrality that the rest of humanity might consider either scary or amusing. Greene is an insider, to different degrees, in the enterprises of mathematics, physics and string theory. Yet he does a pretty complete job of balancing the committed insider against the more objective outsider.

He speaks equally well for himself, for the wider theoretical community, and to you, looking through the window. Greene's writing and willingness to share himself have grown since "The Elegant Universe. He kept it under tight rein in the first work, but here it wanders out to laugh in the sun. Some of the elements I'd regretted being missed from "The Elegant Universe" are here in detail, in part because of the intervening half decade between publication, but I think more because that's what he's chosen here to add on.

You've got dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs field prior to the way-too-recent discovery of the Higgs boson , inflationary cosmology.

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I'm looking forward to reading his still more recent work. I wish I could say 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is an easy read which makes clear a subject that only geniuses understand normally about what classic physics and quantum mechanics have to do with understanding the mysteries of cosmology, particularly the theories regarding what the universe is, how it began, what made it function the way it does and why there seems to be an arrow of Time. Physics is too hard for me. However, Brian Greene is a brilliant man with a teacher's magic talent of I wish I could say 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is an easy read which makes clear a subject that only geniuses understand normally about what classic physics and quantum mechanics have to do with understanding the mysteries of cosmology, particularly the theories regarding what the universe is, how it began, what made it function the way it does and why there seems to be an arrow of Time.

However, Brian Greene is a brilliant man with a teacher's magic talent of sussing out how to simplify and explain difficult complexities of scientific thought. His book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' did not lose me until the final six chapters! Gentle reader, I highly recommend this book. Physics is not only about observations and experiments, it is mostly about interpreting horribly complicated maths. Fortunately, Brian Greene leaves the math for the 'Notes' section in the back of this book while describing through analogies and simple-as-possible, and logical, well-written historical vignettes about the key physics discoveries by famous physicists which illuminate the nature of space and time.

Each step of increasing scientific knowledge important to cosmology is described in a logical procession of conclusions, facts and theories, chapter by chapter. I finally understood many much briefer and out-of-context explanations in science articles which I have occasionally read.

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However, I think I will not remember much of this enlightenment in a few weeks, alas. The newest theories and guesses, described in chapters , about three-branes and brane splats, extra dimensions, string theory holograms, super-symmetry particle spinning, potential energy bowls, free will yes, I said free will , five-string theories, two 'Big Bang' theories, and loop quantum gravity, by these genius scientists are the hardest of all to understand by this ordinary mortal, gentle reader, but perseverance with 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' DID make a small collapse of probabilities in the jittering mass of my excited brain particles so that this cat was radiant with more intelligence upon exiting the ebook.

Unfortunately, though, I have a feeling this enlightenment is but a moon's dim reflective glow, gone as soon as the sun rises. Dec 12, David rated it liked it. This is a nice overview of modern physics, including implications of relativity specific and general , quantum mechanics and string theory, together with a discussion of the implications for cosmology.

My own objection to this book is that most of this material has been written elsewhere -- for starters, Greene's earlier book "The Elegant Universe" was an excellent introduction to string theory and its implications. That's a problem with writing a great book -- it's hard to match the same level of excitement in the next book. The other criticism that one might raise is that string theory and the multiverse, in particular, remain highly controversial in the field. Indeed, some scientists such as Lee Smolin are saying out loud that string theory has been given too much rope for too long, and it is time to face the reality that it has not produced any crisp, testable hypotheses nor is it likely to for a while.

For the same reasons, many are opposed to the notion of the "multiverse", not just for technical reasons but also for philosophical reasons -- how can the hypothesis of an infinity of companion universes, whose existence can only be indirectly suggested, even in principle, qualify as empirical science?

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I finally finished Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos and I am more confused than ever about string theory, M-theory and the nature of spacetime. I feel as though I should read the book again.

I guess at least now I am familiar enough with the concepts which confuse me to be able to sound like I know something about general relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory over beers with friends, and that's the important thing, right? Greene uses lots of pop cultural referenced examples to illustr I finally finished Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos and I am more confused than ever about string theory, M-theory and the nature of spacetime. Mar 13, Melinda rated it really liked it Shelves: Well I finished this book. That aside I thought this was a beautifully written book.

Well researched, interesting and well written. I think I learnt some things Lots of really interesting things in this book. I didn't realize physics had progressed so far in finding a unification theory. What I found most interesting would probably horrify the author because, while he didn't say so in so many words, he apparently really believes that physics is, or can be, the answer to everything.

I, on the other hand, believe there is a God, the Christian God, who has a hand in our existence. I have always thought it curious that descriptions of God or angels appearing Lots of really interesting things in this book. I have always thought it curious that descriptions of God or angels appearing to people seem to be accompanied by bright light and that the supernatural being just appears out of nowhere. Upon reflection this seemed to me very much like them coming out of another dimension.

So, what to my surprise, some of the current notions coming out of physics is that reality consists of more dimensions than we currently are able to experience. Score one for angels appearing out of nowhere because they can move from another dimension into our 3-dimensional existence. Then there's the issue of God being omniscient, i. OK, He's God, so I suppose he can know all that, but it seems kind of difficult to figure how He can know the future when it hasn't happened yet. So, what to my surprise again, I learn that physics suggests that space and time are not independent but should be considered spacetime.

And from page "that moments--the events making up the spacetime loaf--just are. Each moment--each event or happening--exists, just as each point in space exists. Now what about free will or agency? Christians believe that people can choose to do good or do evil and are therefore responsible for the consequences.

On the other hand from page , "The laws of classical physics are deterministic. The equations are indifferent to the supposed freedom of human will. But then along comes quantum theory and one view is from page , " We might one day find, as some physicists has speculated, that the act of conscious observation is an integral element of quantum mechanics, being the catalyst that coaxes one outcome from the quantum haze to be realized.

Those who have faith that God exists don't, or shouldn't, need science to back Him up. But I've got to admit that it is nice when it does. Of course, as Greene points out, much of what physics proposes is theory that has not been experimentally verified. Some of the above may be supplanted in the future by other theories, but for the time being it is interesting that science seems to verify some of the attributes of God as understood by Christians.

Did Greene plagiarise a section of his book? More on that later. Oh, god, I'm surprised I finished it. For the most part, I enjoy theoretical physics. I'm not sure if I believe everything that theoretical physics proposes but then again, I'm not one for blindly allowing myself to be pulled along by an entity I can't see , but I enjoy it nonetheless.

And I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did. Greene offers some thought provoking ideas, and he even mentions at one point the author of one of my Did Greene plagiarise a section of his book? Greene offers some thought provoking ideas, and he even mentions at one point the author of one of my favourite theoretical physics books, Lisa Randall. Unfortunately, Greene is unable to translate all his ideas into legible text. I was able to understand some of what he was saying, but after a while, my eyes started to glaze over and I was left puzzling my own existence.

Greene tends to throw ideas out there such as cracked eggs becoming whole again, or ice forming in a glass of warm water and then melting once more without giving a warning, that leaves the reader wondering if perhaps Greene has lost his marbles in the search for truth. Furthermore, and this may be more a publisher's error, but the book promised discussion on black holes and the like- my favourite of all astronomical topics.

However, black holes are only mentioned in depth in the last twenty odd pages. However, there was a chapter on time travel, wormholes and alternate universes, but that was only a short chapter in of itself. There was one segment I did catch that made me sit up and laugh. Sawyer shortly before this book. Greene and Sawyer both use the same analogy of Gone With the Wind as a way of describing looking through time, in exactly the same manner. Seeing as Sawyer wrote his novel first back in and The Fabric of the Cosmos was written in , I can only suspect that Greene was, er, inspired if you will to use it.

Still, I'm sure Sawyer would appreciate the credit. Jun 28, Brilliant Hope rated it it was amazing Shelves: I have not finished it yet: Brian greene ,I admire his resilience in explanation ,this feature is extremely rare with other cosmologists, he could show me another realm away from my own perspective I acquired many remarkable transformations in my ideas about the universe which I used to think it No longer had to be altered More profoundly talking I believe now that I have not finished it yet: Brian greene ,I admire his resilience in explanation ,this feature is extremely rare with other cosmologists, he could show me another realm away from my own perspective I acquired many remarkable transformations in my ideas about the universe which I used to think it No longer had to be altered More profoundly talking I believe now that much we perceive about the universe is wrong ,,really lying just beneath everything reality is a world taking breath ,, dark energy which till now no one knows whats it?

Aug 21, Mel rated it it was amazing Shelves: The book focused mainly on the concepts of space and time, and how they build the universe around us. Starting with the concept of space and how that's changed over the years, then time and how that's changed and now the concept of spacetime, and then the universe itself. A large part of the book was used trying to explain, "time's arrow" why things go forward but never backwards, why entropy is always greater in the future and never the past. It was all very interesting. At times I did get a bi The book focused mainly on the concepts of space and time, and how they build the universe around us.

At times I did get a bit lost, though not that often, but I feel now I have a much better understanding of a lot of modern physics concepts and ideas, for example I know understand Pbranes user name! I never really understood the big bang, that the universe was expanding, not that things were just getting flung further out into space. I think inflationary cosmology is neat. The chapter I enjoyed the most I think had to be looking at the teleportation and possibilities of time travel in the future. It was definitely more on the what if end of physics, but it was very interesting and I really enjoyed his explanations for why there would be no paradox.

But it's definitely a book I'd recommend to anyone who is interested in learning how the universe might work, and how in a lot of ways it does. It made a nice change for me to read a book about a subject I know so little about. While I cannot therefore give an expert opinion about it's accuracy, it was fascinating and I feel like I understand the world a lot more now.

Mar 12, Sandra rated it it was amazing Shelves: Author Brian Green is to be commended for his brilliant attempt to communicate the intricacies of particle physics, general and special relativity, the Big Bang, quantum mechanics and, yes--even string theory--to the interested lay person.

It is a monumental effort ,since these topics are not easy for most people to grasp. This sovereign effort will unify all seven of the evolving superuniverses of time and space culminating in the realized Deity of the Supreme Being. The grand universe creation of the seven superuniverses will become a perfected reflection of the perfect Havona pattern. The spirit influence of God the Supreme, previously only to be found from Havona, will now effect the dominance of Supreme perfection throughout all the superuniverses in the grand universe.

Because God the Supreme is experiential in nature, we will all be able to share in our own experience of God the Supreme. The emergence of the Supreme Being will be a unified embodiment of evolved deity on the grand universe scale. In the current grand universe age of the evolving Supreme Being, the seven superuniverses of time and space are kept in isolation from one another in order to maximize their diverse potentials for growth. Each superuniverse reflects a different portraiture of various combinations of the three personal Deities of the Paradise Trinity as these are influenced under the immediate supervision of one of Seven Master Spirits.

Upon the settling of all seven superuniverses in the attained stages of light and life, the imposed boundaries dividing these seven superuniverses will be lifted and there will follow an unprecedented surge of supreme coordination on all levels of spirit, mind, and matter.

The evolving and experiential Supreme Being will at the same time experience an accelerated factualization of personality-sovereignty. The four outer space levels that complete the boundaries of the master universe around the nuclear core of the grand universe are destined to eventuate-evolve the Deity level of Ultimacy. This absonite level of the Ultimacy of Deity transcends the time-space constraints that characterize the finite grand universe.

That is to say, the absonite transcends the time-space constraints of the finite. This superfinite level is both antecedent to and consequent of the finite progressions of the time-space Deity level of Supremacy. It pre-dates and influences the current universe age of finite Supremacy, and it is post-Supreme responsive to those significant events occurring within the seven superuniverses of the grand universe.

God the Ultimate is the transcendental power-personalization of the directionization of the entire master universe. The completed eventuation of the Ultimate implies the completion of the master creation and connotes the full emergence of this transcendental Deity. Just as God the Supreme is both spiritually and personally present in Havona, God the Ultimate is also present in Havona in an absonite superfinite and superpersonal sense.

Whereas God the Supreme is exerting a spiritual influence on the time-space creation of the grand universe, God the Ultimate effects his influence in transcendence of time and space to the outer borders the four outer space levels of the master universe. In the same sense that the emergence of the Supreme Being is the culmination of all evolutionary-experiential reality, the Ultimate is the fulfillment of all transcendental-eventuating reality.

God the Ultimate is power-superpersonalizing throughout the master universe. The Deity level of Ultimacy provides both a guiding blueprint as well as a destiny-controlling objective for the finite creations of Supremacy. In this way, the Ultimate functions to relieve and resolve reality tensions that inevitably occur when existential Deity purposes to create sub-absolute creations.

The Ultimate acts as a tension-releasing buffer between the finite creations of the Supreme and the absolute reality of eternity. The Ultimate is more than a simple projection onto the transcendental field of the super-Supreme. The Ultimate is self-projecting and time-space-transcending Deity; the Ultimate is an eventuation of new phases of Deity realities. The transcendental level of Ultimacy both precedes and follows the expression of the finite level of Supremacy. The downstepping of the absolute reality of the eternal infinite into the finite realm of time and space must always first pass through the transcendental Deity of Ultimacy, and the elevation of supreme ideals and values to the consummational status of divine perfection must always traverse through the transcendental level of Ultimacy.

While we present this narrative as a sequence and portray the historic appearance of the finite as a direct derivative of the absolute, it should be borne in mind that transcendentals both preceded and succeeded all that is finite. Transcendental ultimates are, in relation to the finite, both causal and consummational. Transcendental ultimates are subinfinite and subabsolute, but they are at the same time superfinite and supercreational beyond just a time-space sense.

Evolutionary change in the transcendental sense comes about by the process of eventuation. God, as a superperson, eventuates. Transcendental realities eventuate the integration of absolute supervalues with the maximum values of finites. From the finite time-space perspective, transcendentals appear to eventuate as a consequence of finite influence.

However, from the eternity viewpoint, transcendentals anticipate the emerging manifestations of the finite realm. For example, when the absonite Architects of the Master Universe eventuate a universal plan, the Supreme Creators act to bring it into existence throughout the realms of time and space. Transcendental ultimates eventuate universe functions that exceed the simple sum of their component members. Systematic eventuation of multiplex compositions results in more than just a direct relationship of complexity for its component parts. The systematic coordination of the total composition results in an enhancing synergy that eventuates in the revealment of ultimate values and meanings.

The Ultimate is a supersupreme eventuation of Deity and a superexperience and superfinite manifestation of God the Ultimate.