Article 8

Metaphysics for the 21st Century

Location of Comprehension

































Pre-Existing Potential

SCIENCE OF SPIRIT
A human now has an ability to comprehend a reflective awareness of awareness or an advanced second reality as well as at least intellectually comprehending a third reality paradigm shift which includes a human’s transcendent aspect justifying a pre-existing potential. A human being is now able to practice change or replacement of old habits with new habits that better serve the individual and his or her world.

James P. Pottenger

ARTICLE 8

WHY GOD CANNOT KNOW EVIL OR DUALISM

We speak of people, places and things in the plural as if there exists more than one object that is being referred to regarding our subject of discussion. This other is believed to exist in a space-time reality that is other than me.

This language use seems harmless enough on first glance, and in fact it would seem irrational to speak otherwise when we’re referring to more than one person, place or thing.

This dualistic form of speaking and thinking however, is not harmless. Speaking and thinking, when understood with a second reality reflection capability or location of comprehension (LOC), reveals that one’s comprehension can never be plural.

Comprehension is a mental or subjective aspect of one’s brain that produces the meaning and feeling we recognize as reality, whether or not there is conscious awareness of this brain process.

In the level of understanding that HP/SOS names first reality, conscious awareness describes a conceptual acceptance indicating a separation between the outer world of person, place or thing and the meaning and feeling experienced about that world. For example: “I love or hate _______.”

Yes, there certainly is a physical separation between you and me, however, the comprehension of that separation is not separate from the brain that is describing you and me.

Ignorance of this first reality awareness produces a world-view of dualism in which humans believe they are perceiving their world directly in a space-time reality that is external to the comprehension’s meaning and feeling.

This ignorance of location of comprehension (LOC) produces a reality that is based on a person being separated from his/her own belief system, that s/he is describing as a reality that is based on the pair of opposites.

People in dualistic world-views use a language model that is based on words describing a subject/object world of things or objects as if their description or definition is the actual person, place or thing being described.
It is this dualistic language model that has been used for centuries to justify the pair of opposites in which people love or hate, are sick or well, rich or poor, happy or sad, and so on.

Until reflective second reality awakens to the subjectivity of language and its meaning and feeling in one’s conditioned brain, there is no way for one to be responsible or empowered over one’s own beliefs.

Until one is aware that s/he is dealing with his or her own beliefs and not an empirically-based outside world, s/he has no clue in first reality as to how s/he is comprehending input from that outside world via his or her five senses.

The subject/object nature of first reality’s language model makes it quite impossible to grasp words beyond one’s definition of a person, place or thing. This language model makes universal word definitions such as omnipresence, omnipotent or omniscience conjecture or suspect to one’s currently held word meanings.

This is why words used to describe the nature of God (in first reality religions) as omnipresent (everywhere present), omnipotent (all power) and omniscient (all knowledge) can never be other than definitions of something that is supernatural and/or separate from the limited and finite first reality person (a body with a brain) doing the describing.

This is not a case of right or wrong when using words that describe individual things, it is a case of an individual operating with extreme limitations imposed on both themselves as the describer and as the object or thing being described when using first reality understanding of person, place or thing.

The major problem with subject/object language is that it is based on a limited scope that keeps a human from comprehending as well as experiencing the transcendent. An individual’s self-image determines his/her scope.

Subject/object language is also unaware of the process language needed to describe universals when a human is still living and understanding in a first reality world-view of individual limitations. I can _______. I cannot _______. I have _______. I have not _______.

Can I be both individual and UNIVERSAL?

HP/SOS is a science exposing universal philosophies as multiple dimensions and parallel universes.

Until LOC, an individual is unable to separate words from what they represent (the belief that thoughts are things). Until there is the capability (an awakened second reality reflection) to separate a belief from what it is claiming to describe or justify, a human is incapable of using awareness of awareness in which s/he has both the responsibility and the empowerment to replace an unacceptable description or belief with a more acceptable one.

In first reality humans believe that they are reacting directly to an external world of person, place or thing. It is only after the awakening of reflective second reality that one is aware that they are not reacting to an external world but to an internal or subjective belief system.

HP/SOS did not become a science of three different realities or cosmologies until the combined schools of psychology exposed the different levels of understanding that humans awaken to. Then, and only then, is a human’s understanding evolving and experiencing consciously his or her physical, mental and spiritual nature where each level produces a different world-view (cosmology).

For centuries mystics have been utilizing higher levels of understanding (cosmic consciousness) but were unable to describe feelings and meanings of a different level of understanding in a first reality language model of person, place or thing.

HP/SOS is also unable to explain definitions that are of a different level than a person is currently experiencing. This is because the person hearing or reading material is limited by his or her current definitional meanings, having no awareness that it is his or her definitional meanings (beliefs) that are determining his or her current reality.

Learning in the science of HP/SOS means using a structured cosmology (world-view) of multiple levels of understanding of an infinite nature (a mystic-in-the-making).

Dr. Ernest Holmes spent his entire life awakening to his universal nature.

Both he and his brother Fenwicke attempted to establish a spiritual philosophy/psychology based on a universal mind rather than individual minds or individual brains.
As promised to both of these metaphysical giants, I have preserved but further developed their initial works by integrating into HP/SOS some of the massive research that has taken place in the last fifty years justifying what they started.

For the individual awakening to his or her infinite nature, HP/SOS (Holographic Psychology or Science of Spirit) further develops a continuation of the science of mind. It is the miraculous realization of life in a school of unlimited potentials awaiting actualization.

Science of mind is a first step to reflective analysis in which a person uses personal responsibility and empowerment over his or her currently accepted beliefs. S/he is now potentially capable of opening his or her personal belief system to the freedom of an awakening Universal Nature or Ground Of Being (HP/SOS‘s third reality).

This is because science of mind or any other form of second reality requires an awakened self, ego, person or I to be reflective of his or her current brain’s conditioning, along with the motivation to desire as well as to practice change.

Self-help systems require someone (a thinker) to be responsible and empowered in order to practice change.

There is no such self, ego, person or I in first reality’s body with a brain.

That is why a first reality’s body with a brain continues to be at war with differing definitions before there is an awakened responsible and empowered self, ego, person or I to be aware of this ignorance of making one’s definitions one’s reality that has been practiced for countless centuries.

In first reality, the individual mistakes a statement by an authority as being true or false.

The accepted knowledge or authority definition is then the truth for the individual that has accepted the knowledge.

This is first reality’s belief where thoughts are things rather than second reality’s reflective awareness where one’s current beliefs are expressed in words that only represent one’s beliefs about those things being named.

Words are never the actual thing or object they represent.

Without the second reality step of reflective awareness and the birth of a self, ego, person, thinker or I, a human when experiencing bliss is probably reverting back to his/her instinct level of understanding or a pre-first reality that is prior to understanding concepts and language.

Second reality is an individual awakening to his or her self mastery.

There can be experiences of bliss long before there is a personal reflection capability that is giving those experiences meaning and feeling descriptions. We often see examples of blissful experiences in our pets.

An instinct-level human will often require that s/he is taken care of by others because there is no personal self, ego, person, thinker or I to be responsible or empowered.

Decision-making of second reality requires a self, ego, person thinker or I to have awakened and to have located subjectively in his or her brain, as his or her current comprehension (LOC), the meaning and feeling that s/he is using to justify his or her personal reality that is producing his or her behavior.

After LOC, s/he is both responsible and empowered over the consequences of current meanings and feelings being experienced and practiced. It is the levels within the transcendent itself that expose why humans can be unaware of the part they play in their own life’s journey.

The graph below gives us a clue to how and why these levels control our realities and the part they play after reflective second reality awakens.

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Today, in the twenty-first century, we are able to explain this seeming mystery of multiple realities with the help of research into philosophy, psychology, physics, biology, anthropology and linguistics.

Other evidence is given to us by giants of the past and present that discovered these different realities. They have surfaced in every culture throughout history.

Whether we name this evolutionary process of awakening to a human’s pre-existing potential teleology or involution producing evolution is not relevant because both concepts carry the same meaning:

There is a pre-existing potential (creative pattern or Spiritual DNA) within all of creation that is self-actualizing as an evolution.

The individual self is motivated to dream (as an idea) of having a million dollars in his or her bank account. The UNIVERSAL SELF has a million dollars in ITS bank account. The individual self dreams of having a gold medal from the Olympics. The UNIVERSAL SELF has a gold medal from the Olympics. The individual self dreams of being creative in multiple areas of expression. The UNIVERSAL SELF is expressing excellence in multiple areas of creativity. The individual self is an “asleep” UNIVERSAL SELF.

All of humanity is born with an unlimited potential to awaken to as his or her eternal nature expression. HP/SOS research exposes these levels of understanding in which every human awakens as s/he is motivated to express these levels in his and/or her individual life.

The Eastern Teachings have given us an awareness of the transcendent nature of a human being. The Western Teachings have given us an awareness of why and how an individual actualizes his or her transcendent nature through the learning of individual responsibility and empowerment as one’s awesome creativity actualizes.

Levels of understanding do not change God.

Levels of understanding explain the changes that happen to a human being as s/he awakens to GOD AWARENESS or COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS.

All of creation is GOD IN ACTION, however, a blade of grass, a dog or a cat, a planet or a galaxy represent enormous differences in intelligence and design but they are ALL GOD. A human in first reality learns a dualistic language to express his or her individual world of person, place or thing.

Second reality learns about the subjectivity of language with its description of the world and the person doing the describing. Third reality has accepted and is open towards experiencing an ETERNAL IDENTITY OF ONENESS.

This is why God cannot know evil or dualism.

The language of dualism of first reality is replaced with a process language of an awakening infinite nature as the universal I AM awakens.

In the first reality level of understanding a human is unaware of the part his or her belief system plays in the reality s/he is living.

After a self is born in second reality everything starts changing.

Conscious participation in one’s decision-making begins in a second reality and in a third reality an unlimited nature starts awakening to ITS SPIRITUAL or UNIVERSAL SELF. Word meanings and feelings are determined by the levels of understanding that justify them.

Self-image psychology is a major tool in helping one deal with his or her current belief system exposing the reality level of identity beliefs produce.

All levels are important because they all play an important part in the world they produce. This was why Dr. Holmes often stated that “the universe can only say yes”. Identity feelings (of levels) must and do validate.

When God is realized as a UNIVERSAL SELF, oneness replaces the dualism of early levels of understanding. Love, joy and happiness replace the unacceptable habits of a believed-in separate self where identity ignorance justifies suffering and limitation.

As second reality awakens, one’s spiritual nature begins to consciously express ONE’S ETERNAL NATURE.

Each level is just a beginning of the AWESOME GIFT given to every human to awaken to at some point in his or her existence.

The I am of a finite human changes to the I AM of an unlimited nature consciously involved in ITS own actualization ETERNALLY.

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