Steven Kubacki
From Re-Thinking God and Existence
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Ambling Through the Books Chapters
Exercises and Mind Challenges
Author’s Confession
SECTION I THE FATHER: INITIAL BLESSINGS
INTRODUCTION: A BOLDER PLAN
NINE GENERAL METHODS OF REASONING
1. Authority
Exercise #1 On Authority
2. Revelation and Faith
Exercise #2 Having Your Own Revelation
3. Scientific Method
Exercise #3 Thinking Like a Scientist
4. Reductionism
Exercise #4 Experiencing Reductionism
5. Hermeneutics
Exercise #5 On Hermeneutics
6. Phenomenology
Exercise #6 On Phenomenology
7. Inclusivity
Chaotic Reasoning, Congeries, and Extreme Relativism
Exercise #7 On Inclusivity
8. Dialectics
Dialectic Summary
Exercise #8 On Dialectics
9. Mathematics and Logic
Exercise #9 On Mathematics
Some Concluding Reflections
WHY TRADITIONAL APPROACHES HAVE FAILED
TO EXPLAIN GOD AND EXISTENCE
Discrediting Materialistic Reductionism
Discrediting God as a Reductionist Explanation of Existence
Examples of Ontological Silliness
Radical Inclusivity as the Only Logical Explanation of Existence
Everything as Nothing
Boundaries Create Order
Not Tired of the God Thing?
The Dialectics of Inclusivity
Exercise #10 Merging
God Must Exist, But Not as You Thought
God and Evil
Summary of God and Creation
Exercises #11 Communicating with God or Incomprehensibles
SECTION II: THE SON—PROOFS OF INCOMPLETENESS, TOTALITY,
AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
Introduction
Math Defining Reality
Axioms: The Guts of Logic
Goedel: Inconsistency and Incompleteness Theorems to the Rescue
Applying the Principles of Incompleteness and Inconsistency
Applying Incompleteness and Inconsistency to God
The Kubacki-Blackmore Theorem of Boundary Conditions: Making Reality Real
Summary So Far
The Utility of Boundaries
Encapsulation
Applying the Theorem of Boundary Conditions to God
Kubacki-Blackmore Theorem of Totality: The Only Answer to the Origin of Existence
The Proof for God’s Existence
The Mathematical Proofs of Dialectical Reasoning: A Summary
Existence is a Never-Ending Dialectic
III THE MOTHER: THE PRINCIPLES OF EXISTENCE
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF EXISTENCE AND GOD (OR SECULAR INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES)
1. Totality of Existence
Exercise #12 Making Sense of the Totality of Existence
2. Secular Incomprehensibles or Forms of God
Exercise #13 Dreaming
3. Boundary Conditions
Exercise #14 Exploring Boundaries
4. Interconnectedness in a Probabilistic Universe
Exercise #15 Changing
5. Imagination and Boundlessness
Exercise # 16 Loving and Hostile Worlds
6. Certainty as Illusion
Exercise #17 Exploring Decisions
7. Joy in Reality
Exercise #18 Reality as Best Friend
8. Completeness and Certainty Cause Abuse and Suffering
Exercise #19 Exploring Vulnerability and Invulnerability
9. Peace through Connectedness
Exercise #20 Exploring Childhood Influences
10. Love is Incomplete and Boundless
Exercise #21 Love as Anti-Certainty
11. Limitations and Choice
Exercise #22 Choosing A Variety of You’s
12. Surrendering to the Infinite
Exercise #23 Acting Impeccably
13. Engineering Reality
Exercise #24 Co-engineering Reality
BALANCING ABSTRACTION AND IMAGINATION: STRUCTURE AND FREEDOM
14. The Reductive Power of Abstraction
Exercise #25 Abstracting the Real
15. Imagination and Co-imagination
Exercise #26 Gender Shifting
16. Reality as an Abstraction-Imagination Dialectic
Exercise #27 Different You’s Through History
17. Co-engineering Abstractions and Imaginations
Exercise #28 Engineering and Co-Engineering Redux
THE DELUSIONS OF COMPLETENESS, CERTAINTY, AND THE ONE TRUTH
18. The One Truth is a Delusion
Exercise #29 Absolute Power
19. Invulnerability is an Illusion
Exercise #30 Exploring Vulnerability and Invulnerability
20. The Negative Emotions of Certainty
Exercise #31 Negative Emotions as Parasites
21. Fear versus Engagement
Exercise #32 Fear and Love
22. Mental Disorders are Illusionary Certainties
Exercise #33 Expanding Memories
23. Illusions of Permanence and Certainty are Death
Exercise #34 Immoral Acts as Acts of Certainty
24. Co-Certainty as Reality-Resistant Illusion
Exercise #35 Co-delusions and Co-imagination
25. Certainty is the Cognitive Root of Evil
Exercise #36 Reflections on Evil and Immorality
26. Certainty is Anti-Democratic
Exercise #37 Explorations in Democracy
27. The Ethics of Incompleteness
Exercise #38 Forgiveness and Punishment
28. Ideals as Tyranny of the Unrea
Exercise #39: Differentiating the Real from the Ideal
SPIRITUALITY, INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES, AND IMAGINATION
29. Language and Spirituality
Exercise #40 Spirituality and Language
30. Spirituality and Miracles
Exercise #41 Not-Doing
31. Personal and Impersonal Spirituality
Exercise #42 Differentiating the Personal and Impersonal
32. Spiritual Interventions—Wishful Thinking or Real Effects
Exercise # 43 Separating the Wishful from the Real
33. What Happens in the Spiritual World Often Stays in the Spiritual World
Exercise #44 Spiritual Causality
34. Imagination, Consciousness, and Quantum Consciousness: Emergent States
35. Democratizing Spirituality: Accessibility to All
Exercise #45 Spiritual Practice
SECTION IV THE HOLY GHOST: The Dialectical Trinity or We Are Always Complete In Our Incompleteness?
Speculations on a Better World
Performance and Knowledge Based Decision-Making
Increasing Democracy and Freedom of Choice
Imperative Environmentalism
Balancing Science and Spirituality
The Infinite Personality
Last Hurrah
DESCRIPTION OF PRINCIPLES
Fundamental Principles of Existence and God or Secular Incomprehensibilities
Balancing Abstraction and Imagination: Structure and Freedom
Delusions of Completeness, Certainty, and the One Truth
Spirituality, Language, and Imagination
Appendix
Kubacki-Blackmore Theorem of Boundaries for the Mathematically Inclined
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READING