Daniel J Shepard

Panentheism Addressing the Physical and nonPhysical Daniel J Shepard

Panentheism is the only cosmological and ontological system capable of demonstrating the interrelationship between the physical an the nonphysical. Zeno is where the perception of physical distance split from abstract distance, where the physical split from the Eternal. Zeno, and for that matter philosophers throughout the past two thousand five hundred years, were not aware of what it was they were on the verge of understanding. The understanding eluding philosophers was not to reveal itself until after Einstein and his concept of 'relative' time was verbalized. Even then, even with the concept of 'relative' time being verbalized, the potential understanding regarding the relationship of the individual, God, and 'acting within' was not to be immediately understood. And why would understanding the relationship of the individual, God, and 'acting within' not be understood when Einstein revealed the concept of relative time? It was not understood because philosophers had proclaimed the demise of Metaphysics and having done so, buried Metaphysics deep within the most inaccessible realms of the philosophical subconscious. As such, the tool needed to understand the concept of individuality/the individual, the whole/God, and action, process/reality/being (vb) was to languish until the time when Metaphysics was once again brought forth from the dark sub-sub conscious realm of philosophy. After all Metaphysics is by its most primal definition, the understanding of fundamental, universal, truths and their interrelationship in the active sense of their coexisting as opposed to the previously perceived passive sense of their coexisting. And where does all this 'the individual', God, the universe, the demise of Metaphysics, Metaphysics resurrection, incrementalism, abstract functionality, concrete functionality, ad infinitum begin? It begins with Zeno because Zeno expressed a good point from which we can begin the discussion. Zeno verbalized the long and arduous task of understanding the development regarding the technicality of a radically new metaphysical perception. Zeno initiated a discussion regarding the multiplicity of distance vs. the seamlessness of distance, which, after twenty-five hundred years of philosophical debate, has lead us to the development of a new metaphysical perception. It was Zeno who established an excellent beginning point from which the most primal understanding of the universe, our home, could begin. It is through the paradoxes of Zeno that we were to learn the difference between the abstract and the physical, the concrete. So who is this solitary man standing at this point we call a beginning rather than the beginning of the journey traveled by this thing we call humanity, this thing we call 'a' human? There were many Zeno's in Greek history. This Zeno is Zeno of Elea. This man is like you and I, a simple human with a simple idea which when added to ideas, perceptions, emerging over the next twenty-five hundred years would create a metaphysical picture capable of answering three questions which were to trouble our species since time began: 'Where am I?' 'What am I?' And, 'Why do I exist?'