Category: The Logos Weave
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Experience, Speculation, and the Space Between
There’s a tension I’ve lived with for years: the gap between the mystical experience I actually have and the metaphysical systems I enjoy constructing. They coexist, but they don’t meet. One is lived; the other is intellectual play. My spiritual experience is modest and quiet. What I actually feel is a unitive ground of being,…
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The Thin Metaphysics of the Steely Age
Triangularism For years I carried too much metaphysical weight: hiraeth, land‑mysticism, ancestral echoes, perennial philosophy, the ache for unity and eternity. All of it stirred something in me, but none of it changed how life actually works. None of it strengthened discipline, clarified duty, or stabilised a household. It enriched thought, but didn’t improve behaviour.…
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From Ontology to Political Philosophy – a category error?
It is often said that relating ontology to political philosophy is a category error. Metaphysics deals with being; political theory deals with institutions, laws, and collective decision‑making. The two domains, it is argued, should not mix. But this objection only holds if political concepts are treated as pure abstractions. My argument is that nations are…
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Holons, the Block Universe, and the Omega Point
My metaphysical outlook rests on three complementary ideas: panpsychic nested holons, the Block Universe, and Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point. Each offers a different angle on the structure of reality; together they form a single, coherent picture. 1. Panpsychic Nested Holons At every scale, reality can be understood as a holon: a whole that is…
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Reframing God: Personal Deities in Context
In many religious traditions, the idea of a personal deity is taken to mean a supernatural being who thinks, chooses, plans, and intervenes in the world. But there is another way to understand this experience — one that neither dismisses it as fantasy nor treats it as literal metaphysics. In this alternative view, the personal…
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A Comparison Chart
Category My Metaphysics Evangelical Christianity Ken Wilber Dawkins‑Style Humanism 1. Ontology One reality, three resolutions. God–creation dualism. Nondual Spirit. Materialism only. 2. Ultimate Reality Absolute as depth, not a being. Personal God. Spirit as consciousness. No ultimate reality. 3. Structure Archetypes as real constraints. Created order. Developmental structures. No archetypes. 4. Cosmology Dynamic emergence. Linear…
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Explaining the Axiom
“To act well is to increase coherence without diminishing presence.” This axiom captures the ethical centre of a metaphysics built on dynamic balance. It proposes that good action has two simultaneous obligations. First, it should increase coherence: the degree to which relationships, meanings, and patterns fit together in a way that supports flourishing. Coherence is…
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Compassion and Coherence: A Path to Justice
1. Ethics begins where the part recognises it is not the whole. 2. To act well is to increase coherence without diminishing presence. 3. Every being has the right to unfold without coercion. 4. Freedom is the Infinite expressed responsibly within the Bound. 5. Humility is the part remembering its scale. 6. Pride is the…
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Understanding the 20 Core Axioms of Existence
(Three expansions for each of the 20 Core Axioms — unpacking, clarifying, and deepening.) Axiom 1 — The Real is single, but disclosed in three resolutions. 1.1 Unity is not simplicity; it is depth refracted. 1.2 The three resolutions are perspectives, not partitions. 1.3 Confusion arises when one resolution is mistaken for the whole. Axiom…
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THE TWENTY CORE AXIOMS
1. The Real is single, but disclosed in three resolutions: the Absolute, the Archetypal, and the Actual. The foundational architecture. 2. The Absolute is depth without form; the Actual is form in motion; the Archetypal is the bridge between them. The three resolutions in dynamic relation. 3. The One does not divide; it refracts. Non‑dualism…
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