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NON-MATERIALITY:
FIRST PRINCIPAL OF REALITY
All things material pass away. Ultimate reality never is lost. It may morph in appearance, but it is forever present in spirit.
In order to be a fact, materialism is not required. A material fact is a temporary fact. A spiritual fact is eternal.
Materiality is not unimportant in this life journey. It serves real and necessary purpose, even if temporary.
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THE EXPLORERS -
ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE
From jungle depths to ocean depths there are vast areas calling for exploration on our home planet. Then there is waiting for us unlimited outer space.
But, most important of all is the opportunity, indeed the compulsion, to explore inner space, the psyche of man. There reside the greatest treasures to be found.
Our cultural fixation on materialism is thoroughly embedded everywhere we look.
For instance, a dictionary definition of metaphysics proclaims that it refers to that which is not real, even after defining it as the first principal of things. They of course are referring to not physically factual, ignoring the foundation of all reality which is spiritual, psychic, non-material, implying anything non-material is not real. They should now be asked, “Is love not real”?
In order to keep things balanced, we must remind each other that materialism has its level of reality, it just is not as real as it seems. It serves a…