The Universe of Experience: A World View Beyond Science and Religion

By Lancelot Law, Whyte

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061318213
• ISBN13: 9780061318214
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: HarperCollins (paper)
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.

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A World View on Human Imagination & its Organic Roots

"We don't know if our conscious perceptions accurately portray the external world,... In fact, the fundamental nature of reality remains as mysterious as the mechanism for our conscious perceptions." S. Hameroff, M.D., Anesthesiologist Existence and Experience' In 'Unified Reality Theory,' Steven Kaufman supports L. Whyte, by explaining the development or 'The Evolution Of Existence Into Experience.' He presents an original study, argued persuasively, philosophically profound, and presented a hypothesis that "reality is a state of existential self-relation." Consciousness and awareness is truly the source of physical reality, rather than a byproduct, and physical reality is merely one facet of a universal consciousness. Conscious Experience: Ben Goertzel suggests that, "No one is going to find an answer to 'why experience exists' any more than one can find an answer to 'why patterns exist.' These questions are too basic to be answered." He adds, neither, "an answer to the precise question Chalmers has posed, namely 'how do physical processes give rise to conscious experiences' - because in fact this is not what happens. Experience exists at a more basic level than physical systems, and experiences are associated with physical systems because of principles that have to do with the underlying nature of reality, at a level deeper than the level at which the physical/nonphysical distinction exists. Cosmic Awareness: Through Grace, Cosmic Awareness takes us back through the dense network of limiting assumptions, surface appearances and human manipulation, to the core of human existence. To paint, for the first time in human history, a definitive portrait of human nature. Cosmic Awareness now brings knowledge which reclaims the lost communicative strand between spirit, mind, and body. Knowledge of an undiscovered sense in the function and meaning of human emotion. Knowledge which can restore the utilization of free will to create desired reality. Knowledge which can restore the innate spiritual guidance and natural morality inherent in all humans. (CAC's Homepage) The Universe of Experience: In his 'The Universe of Experience,' Whyte's last and possibly greatest book, he sums up his aesthetic concept of the universal unity of human imagination, through its moral, philosophical, religious and scientific aspects. He claims his World view goes beyond science and religion, and hopes in the emergence of a human psyche, what he describes as a consensus of heart, mind and will. In his mystical vision, humanity harbors a single insight, in which its thought can rest. Whyte's Arguments: I. A world view overcoming nihilism II. Incomplete science and the universe III. Universal order and disorder IV. A World view beyond science and religion V. Organisms, pulsations to develop and sustain life VI. Man, and human imagination VII. Conscious aspirations and unconscious tradition VIII.Immediate future, A statement of conviction. Lance Law Why