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    The Dream of Universe: Philosophy essays
    The Dream of Universe: Philosophy essays
    The Dream of Universe: Philosophy essays
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    The Dream of Universe: Philosophy essays

    By Alexis Karpouzos

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    I am part of nature, and nature is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with all living things. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the web of life on the planet. Nature, the human community and the universe is connected with the Cosmos. We recognize the deep truth that I am the other. This expresses the concept from contemporary physics of “entanglement”, which is a quantum phenomenon. All atoms, all cells are connected, deeply.” The friendship is the connection we feel for each other, wherever he is, other people, animals, plants, stars. I am part of society, and society is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with my fellow humans.I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the community of humans on the planet.
    The separate identity I attach to other humans and other things is but a convenient convention that facilitates my interaction with them. My family and my community are just as much “me” as the organs of my body. My body and mind, my family and my community, are interacting and interpenetrating, variously prevalent elements in the network of relations that encompasses all things in nature and the human world. The whole gamut of concepts and ideas that separates my identity, or the identity of any person or community, from the identity of other persons and communities are manifestations of this convenient but arbitrary convention. There are only gradients distinguishing individuals from each other and from their environment and no real divisions and boundaries. There are no “others” in the world: We are all living systems and we are all part of each other. Attempting to maintain the system I know as “me” through ruthless competition with the system I know as “you” is a grave mistake: It could damage the integrity of the embracing whole that frames both your life and mine. I cannot preserve my own life and wholeness by damaging that whole, even if damaging a part of it seems to bring me short-term advantage. When I harm you, or anyone else around me, I harm myself. Collaboration, not competition, is the royal road to the wholeness that hallmarks healthy systems in the world. Collaboration calls for empathy and solidarity, and ultimately for love. I do not and cannot love myself if I do not love you and others around me: We are part of the same whole and so are part of each other

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    PublisherALEXIS KARPOUZOS
    Release dateAug 15, 2021
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      The Dream of Universe - Alexis Karpouzos

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      Copyright © 2021 by ALEXIS KARPOUZOS

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereofmay not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoeverwithout the express written permission of the publisher

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      About The Author

      Alexis karpouzos (born April 09, 1967, Athens city, Greece) is an Greek-born philosopher and psychological theorist. His work focuses mainly on creating an universal theory of consciousness in which the insights of eastern and Asian mysticism, the Hegel’s dialectical ontology, the post-philosophical thought of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, also the modern physics and the higher mathematics come together to form a coherent picture of the Cosmos. In 1998

      Alexis karpouzos founded the international center of learning, research and culture, a wisdom forum for studying issues of science and society in an integral way. He has been a visioner in the development of post-history sense of cosmic unity and the integral consciousness. I invite people to just remember that the world does not consist of subjects and objects, the subject and the object" are metaphysical abstractions of the single and indivisible Wholeness. Man's finite knowledge separates the Whole into parts and studies fragmentarily the beings. The Universal Wholeness is manifested in multiple forms and each form encapsulates the Wholeness.

      All beings and things, visible and invisible are interrelated and inseparable, are the same and different forms of open wholeness. You are not separate from that which you are intrinsically a part of, regardless of how distant other things seem to be from you. You are a part of all that appears to you, and they are all a part of you. You affect each other, because you are one another. The possibility of survival, passing through a generous and friendly relationship with the other man, with the other beings, the planet as a whole, the stars and the whole universe. Αs he says, 'We need a post-ontological poetic thought, we need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human person in their uniqueness'.

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      ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN SCIENCE

      HISTORICAL RECURSIOΝ: THE AWAKENING OF THE HOLISTIC SPIRIT WEST

      THE AWAKENING OF THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT EASTERN

      EARLY SIGNS OF SEPARATION IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

      SYSTEMATIZATION OF SEPARATION

      COMPLETE OF SEPARATION

      THE NEWTONIAN MECHANICS

      BEYOND THE SEPARATION: THE NEW COSOMOLOGICAL PARADIGM

      QUANTUM THEORY

      NEW CONCEPTS OF MATTER, LIFE AND MIND

      SCIENCE NOT SCIENTISM – BEYOND MATERIALISM AND IDEALISM: CONSIOUSNESS IS THE CONNECTION OF BEINGS AND THE WORLD

      DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EASTERN THOUGHT AND MODERN WESTERN SCIENCE

      ΟNE THOUGHT, TWO FORMS Of UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL (UNITY- DIVERSITY)

      DIFFERENCES IN WESTERN AND EASTERN THOUGHT

      CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND SELF-ORGANIZED SYSTEMS

      DISPERSING STRUCTURES

      BIFURCATION – WINDOW OF DIVIDED ROUTES

      SELF – ORGANISING AND LIFE

      COSMIC MIND AND CREATIVITY

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      The central teaching of mysticism is that Everything is One, whereas from the side of rationalism the universe is Multiple. The essence of the mystical tradition is not a particular philosophical system, but the simple realization that the soul of any individual/existence is identified with the Absolute. A special feature of the mysticism is the elimination of discriminations, i.e. the One and the Multiple are identical. On the other hand, in rationalism the One and the Multiple differ substantially. Mysticism aims at the Emptiness of Zero, whereas rationalism aims at the identification with the Infinite of Everything. Based on the ontology resulting from modern physics the One is also the Multiple and the Multiplicity is also a Module, also the Void and the Everything are complementary aspects of a single and indivisible reality. This means that mysticism and rationalism are the two sides of a Cosmic Thought, which is expressed through consciousness. We could say that this consciousness is the rhythm that coordinates any opposite.

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      ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN SCIENCE

      If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially holistic, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. It is interesting to follow the evolution of Western science along its spiral path, starting from the mystical philosophies of the early Greeks, rising and unfolding in an impressive development of intellectual thought that increasingly turned away from its mystical origins to develop a world view which is in sharp contrast to that of the Far East In its most recent stages, Western science is finally overcoming this view and coming back to those of the early Greek and the Eastern philosophies. This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. The parallels to modem physics appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching , or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments

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