Author: Paul

As I indicated in a blog post last August, Erich Fromm said in 1976 that if humanity is to avoid psychological and economic catastrophe, science needs to break through its Life-denying dogmas to embrace an art and science of humanity, as the basis for social reconstruction. For while Simon Blackburn has edited a series of books on The Big Questions of Philosophy, Physics, The Universe, Mathematics, God, and Evolution, a book on the fundamental questions of what it truly means to be human is conspicuous by its absence.

The principal questions are, of course, Who are we?, Where have we come from?, and Where are we all heading at breakneck speeds? They are encapsulated in the most critical unanswered question in science: What is causing scientists and technologists, aided and abetted by computer technology, to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological development at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration?

Answering these questions through self-inquiry is utterly essential at the present time, as 13.8 billion years of bifurcating evolutionary processes have reached their Accumulation Point in the psychosocial chaos reported in the corporate and social media every day.

There is only one solution to this problem: evolution must turn its divergent tendencies into harmonious convergence, thereby healing our fragmented minds and split souls in Wholeness. But as we are all the products of billions of years of evolution, we specialize in various fields in the workplace, including academia, which maintains the splintered conceptual and linguistic framework of our divisive culture, where we are told to fight our fellow human beings for a slice of the finite financial pie.

Our specialisms and relationships with our social milieu thus inhibit our abilities to turn evolutionary divergence into convergence, leading to Peace on Earth. At best, we could intuitively feel into our Divine Essence as humans, helping evolution to become fully aware of itself, as Julian Huxley foresaw in 1957 in an essay titled ‘Transhumanism’, which some technocrats have misinterpreted.

This essentially is what has happened to me since my conception in England at the end of August 1941. So, the creative power of Life, emanating from the Divine Origin of the Universe, is guiding me to describe my Holoramic (Whole-seeing) vision, trusting that this could be of assistance to my fellow human beings, at this most critical point in human history.

In brief, to develop a coherent scientific method to study our evolutionary story – as both a species and my own – I have used the universal system of thought and several psychospiritual techniques to systematically map the nonmaterial patterns lying in the Cosmic Psyche – including the collective unconscious – as  I explain in a recent essay titled ‘Unifying All Models of God in Cosmic Gnosis’.

But such a semantic modelling method is more an art than a science, as we can see from the roots of these words. First, science derives from Latin scīre ‘to separate one thing from another; to know, discern’, from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) base *skei– ‘to cut, split’, root of schizoid. So, to heal science of schizophrenia, out of touch with Ultimate Reality, we need to use our artistic abilities to turn analysis into synthesis. For art derives from the PIE base *ar– ‘to fit together’, the root of order and harmony.

One particular weakness of conventional scientific method is that observations that might invalidate a theory appear to do so because the cognitive assumptions on which they are based are false. We can overcome this dilemma by integrating our specialist theories in and on the Cosmic Context and Gnostic Foundation of Wholeness.

This is especially relevant in quantum physics, where the observer and observer are one, as David Bohm noted. So, it is just as important to observe the observer without assumptions as the observed, as his friend and collaborator Jiddu Krishnamurti often taught.

Questioning our assumptions is vital today, for without such curious scepticism, humankind is not a viable species, as Bohm pointed out. For we cannot realize our fullest potential as humans by starting with the cognitive confusion the world is in today. Studying our traditions without critical thinking cannot tell us what it means to be human.

Accordingly, in 1985, Bohm proposed a social process of Dialogue with Donald Factor and Peter Garrett at the Emissaries of Divine Light, which states, “In Dialogue, a group of people can explore the individual and collective presuppositions, ideas, beliefs, and feelings that subtly control their interactions.” Lee Nichol then edited a posthumous summary of Bohm’s thoughts on Dialogue, saying in his foreword, “Such an inquiry necessarily calls into question deeply held assumptions regarding culture, meaning, and identity.”

Many communities around the world are today engaged in questioning our cultural assumptions in various ways. However, they are not generally following the advice of Vimala Thakar, who wisely said in the opening paragraph of Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach, “In a time when the survival of the human race is in question, continuing with the status quo is to cooperate with insanity, to contribute to chaos.” She therefore asks, “Do we have the vitality to go beyond narrow, one-sided views of human life and to open ourselves to totality, wholeness?” For, as she says, “The call of the hour is to move beyond the fragmentary, to awaken to total revolution.”

For myself, because my 3½-year-old brother was knocked down and killed by an army lorry about seven weeks after my conception, I did not become assimilated into the culture of my parents during infancy and childhood. Consequently, I spent my adolescence questioning all the assumptions of religion, science, economics, mathematics, and logic, as they were taught to me at church, school, and university. Despite being deeply depressed about the world I was living in, I managed to get a degree in mathematics, as the ticket to the world of work, but I have no idea how.

So, when I began to develop the art and science of humanity at the age of 38 – by starting afresh at the very beginning – I had comparatively little to unlearn. Rather, the radiant Light of Consciousness has enabled me to utilize Self-reflective Intelligence to cognitively map the Totality of Existence (TOE) with the Theory of Everything (TOE), which is a coherent, harmonious body of knowledge—ultimately indivisible and ineffable. This I call Panosophy, which Comenius, as the ‘father of modern education’, regarded as ‘Universal Wisdom’.

As a Panosopher, I relate to all humans in particular ways – from the mystical, through the mundane, to the mathematical – but to no one else in Totality. So, living in Wholeness at the Alpha/Omega Point of evolution can be rather lonesome. Nevertheless, I continue to seek a language by which we could share experiences and communicate with each other.

For, when we question all our assumptions, we need to change the meanings of many words. We can do so by studying what Bohm aptly called the ‘archaeology of language’, thereby revealing the true meanings of words. For etymology derives from Greek etumos ‘true, real, actual’. For myself, I have spent many years developing a hyperlinked and indexed Glossary of nearly 500 terms. For instance, in transcultural and transdisciplinary Panosophy, the words God and Universe both denote Ultimate Reality, exquisitely encapsulated in the Sanskrit word Satchitānanda ‘Bliss of Absolute Truth and Cosmic Consciousness’.

However, the website holding the Glossary was hacked to destruction in April 2024. Using my limited abilities, I have been able to partially restore it from backups on a subdomain of this eponymous website. So, if I could find a skilled Drupal web developer to help me, it could be updated and further developed for the enjoyment of many others.

But we have very little time to do so, because humankind is subject to exactly the same laws of the Universe as any other structure. This means that our species is not immortal, destined to survive and thrive for billions or even for thousands more years, as far ahead as the millennia since the first civilizations appeared on Earth. One day, a generation of children will be born who will not have children of their own.

When I first had this vision in 1982, I thought that if evolution could liberate us from our cultural conditioning, we could intelligently live in the Age of Light for a few more generations, until the 23rd century, at least. However, since meeting Guy McPherson, co-author of Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind, in 2017, I have realized that I have been far too optimistic. Reducing the aerosol masking of industrial pollution would further accelerate the exponential rate of climate heating, which is likely to destroy the habitat we rely on to grow our food within a decade or three.

But how we could help Generation Alpha and their parents and teachers at these end times we live in is the most critical question that I have been wrestling with since my twin granddaughters were born in 2010.

Fairly obviously, when humankind becomes extinct, banks and stock markets will also disappear. So, money will no longer act as a delusional immortality symbol. Under these circumstances, as we are all interconnected, the only intelligent and caring way forward for humanity is to share our skills and resources for the benefit of us all, knowing that there is no death in Ultimate Reality.

We can be much inspired to such Self-realization by those spiritual teachers who are engaged in helping their followers to transcend categories, classes, and concepts by answering the question Who am I? For, in the beautiful, wise words of the Sufi poet Rumi, “Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns.”

What is Ineffable in my experience is the Totality of Existence, which is ultimately indivisible into forms and structures that can be analysed as concepts, and hence designated with words or any other symbols.

I say ‘my’ experience, but even though I am a perishable structure with a name, in Ineffability, the pattern-seeking experiencer disappears as a distinct being—not separate from any other being, or, indeed, from the Immortal Ground of Being, as the Ineffable Divine.

The Ineffability of Ultimate Reality might seem a far remove from the practical challenges we all face in our daily lives—as the unprecedented rate of bifurcating evolutionary change in society accelerates exponentially in psychosocial chaos.

However, it is necessary to bring God the Creator into psychology to understand what is causing us to behave as we do and hence what it means to be human—compared to computing machines with so-called artificial intelligence (AI).

Most significantly, we need to apply our innate Self-reflective Intelligence to answer the most critical unanswered question in science: What is causing scientists and technologists, aided and abetted by computer technology, to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological development at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration?

The creative power of Life – emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe – has guided me to answer this question because I was not enculturated by the fragmented teachings of Western civilization during infancy, childhood, and adolescence, unlike most of my contemporaries.

Rather, to heal a cataclysmic prenatal trauma – and hence realize Inner Peace in Stillness – my entire life has been guided by the fundamental law of the Cosmos, which states opposites are not separate in Wholeness, where there are no divisions between what we have traditionally called God and Universe.

In contrast, deductive logic – used in mathematical proof systems – is based on conflict-ridden, either-or reasoning. This is most evident in the global economy, where the ruling authorities tell us to fight our fellow human beings for a slice of the finite financial pie. As money acts as a delusional immortality symbol for many, we are thus restrained from cocreating the life-enhancing Sharing Economy for the benefit of us all.

Yet, all is not lost, as I describe in a monograph that I wrote last month titled ‘Unifying All Models of God in Cosmic Gnosis’. As no one is ever separate from the Divine for an instant, it is quite possible that many could synergistically speak from the Ineffable Truth, which sets us free, thereby enlightening the planet.

We would then know that Consciousness is all there is, metaphorically illustrated in the Ocean of Consciousness – from which no one is ever separate, as ever-changing waves and currents – and the Light of Consciousness, brilliantly radiating through us all. Ineffability is then exquisitely encapsulated in the Sanskrit word Satchitānanda ‘Bliss of Absolute Truth and Cosmic Consciousness’.

So, before our inevitable demise as a species, all we need to know is “Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns,” as the Sufi poet Rumi reminds us, beautifully expressing Ineffability.

On 2nd September 2025, Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow to “promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system”, Putin having hailed Russia’s relationship with China at an “unprecedentedly high level”.

Yet, the very next day, these two world leaders were joined by Kim Jong Un and Masoud Pezeshkian, from North Korea and Iran, respectively, to witness a gigantic military parade along the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Beijing. They were celebrating the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1937.

These four leaders are seen as an emerging anti-American axis, as the basis of a China-led world order, counteracting Donald Trump, who seeks to Make America Great Again (MAGA), with the imposition of vindictive global tariffs, along with other divisive policies. China’s demonstration of military power followed a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which included Narendra Modi and Alexander Lukashenko from India and Belarus, respectively.

Yet, how can Xi and Putin construct a more just and reasonable global governance system? apparently solving a problem that has eluded human beings for more than 5,000 years, since the formation of the first civilizations during the patriarchal epoch.

The central problem here is that reason has traditionally been based on conflict-ridden, either-or thinking, derived from ego-, ethno-, and anthropocentric senses of identity, encapsulated in Aristotle’s laws of contradiction and exclusion. During the course of human evolution, very few communities have been based on a harmonious, both-and way of life, with the holistic ability to see both sides of any situation.

One who proposed such a peaceful way of living together some 2,500 years ago was Laozi (Lao Tzu) in China, the putative author of Tao Te Ching ‘The Book of the Way and of Virtue’, which begins, “Tao can be talked about, but not the Eternal Now. Names can be named, but not the Eternal Name.” Unifying all opposites in Ineffable Nonduality is popularly encapsulated in the classic T’ai-chi-t’u symbol or ‘Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate’.

Another exemplar and advocate of Inner Peace was Heraclitus of Ephesus, the mystical philosopher of change, who said, “The Hidden Harmony is better than the obvious” and “Opposition brings concord; out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”

Yet, their contemporaries did not comprehend or experience what they were saying. For instance, Heraclitus said, “People do not understand how that which is at variance with itself agrees with itself.” Similarly, Laozi said, “My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice: But the world cannot understand them nor practice them.”

Today, the principal impediment to the development of a harmonious system of global governance is people’s attachment to money, as the most divisive force on the planet. For many, money acts as a cultural immortality symbol, giving people a precarious sense of security. So, driven by the fear of death, the more money that individuals and nations accumulate, the safer they feel.

Accordingly, the authorities have set up a global monetary economy that demands that we fight our fellow human beings for a slice of the finite financial pie, often causing much suffering, as the dominant minority have much more money than they require for their daily needs. To protect people’s narrow, shallow senses of identity, economic ideologies, religions, and countries have fought each other throughout human history, leading to much death and destruction.

The Chinese were the first to use metallic artefacts as abstract tokens of value, such as symbols of axes, spears, knives, swords, hoes, and spades, made out of copper, bronze, and iron, illustrated here. Today, representations of money – as commodities with value – have been taken to the utmost level of abstraction, as bits of data in computer systems, increasingly replacing traditional coins and notes displaying sovereigns’ heads, as symbols of power and authority.

But in stored-program computers, such bits can also encode instructions to the central processing unit (CPU). So, could these binary digits act intelligently, creating novelty without human involvement? As I explained in my scholarly monograph ‘Revealing Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos’ in July, the answer is irrefutably NO! Whatever computers with so-called artificial intelligence (AI) are doing, this has nothing to do with intelligence—as the ability to read between the lines.

Rather, we humans have immense potential to awaken our creative intelligence far beyond machines, which I have demonstrated by using the semantic modelling methods of information systems architects in business to develop a coherent, non-deductive system of thought called Integral Relational Logic. In turn, this holographic method of reasoning provides the Contextual Foundation and coordinating framework for a transcultural, transdisciplinary megasynthesis of all knowledge, called the Unified Relationships Theory or Panosophy.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines pansophy as ‘universal or cyclopædic knowledge; a scheme or cyclopædic work embracing the whole body of human knowledge’. This word entered the English language in 1642 in A Reformation of Schooles by Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius), who regarded it as ‘Universal Wisdom’.

Panosophy is thus the Theory of Everything, which has eluded Albert Einstein and his successors for one hundred years, because they omitted the multitude of nonmaterial energies emerging directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe from their endeavours to create a unified theory of causality.

By starting afresh at the very beginning – at the Datum of the Universe, ‘that which is given’ – the creative power of Life – bubbling up from the Source, like an effervescent fountain – could then free us of all the delusions and misconceptions that have afflicted human affairs for millennia.

In Panosophy, the Primal Axiom for all our learning is the Principle of Unity, which states Wholeness is the union of all opposites, including contradictory ones, or the Cosmic Equation, thereby unifying science and spirituality, mysticism and mathematics, and East and West:

So, by abolishing money and understanding what is causing us to behave as we do through a life-enhancing work ethic, the solution to the ultimate problem in human learning could be theoretically used to implement a meaningful global economy in harmony with this fundamental law of the Universe.

By dispersing the almost impenetrable clouds of unknowing that prevent us from understanding what it means to be human, the radiant Light of Consciousness – enlightening our innate Self-reflective Intelligence – could enable a harmonious system of global governance to emerge, which the eco-philosopher Henryk Skolimowski aptly called lumenarchy.

However, with billions of years of bifurcating evolution rapidly driving humankind to extinction – along with countless other species – there is no longer sufficient time to cocreate a Panosophical system of global governance for the benefit of us all. At best, we could compassionately come together in what Guy McPherson aptly calls a ‘planetary hospice’ to help mitigate the panic that could arise as our earthly habitat exhausts its ability to feed us all through rapid global heating, principally caused by multiple self-reinforcing feedback loops, such as the accelerating release of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas.

To do so, the top priority is to heal our split souls by breaking the fundamental taboo of the Abrahamic religions, which asserts that God is separate from us humans and all other forms in the manifest universe. However, such a sublime awakening cannot happen through the action of any separate agency, for, as mystics have discovered by looking deeply into themselves, we live eternally in union with the Immortal Ground of Being. For instance, the pre-eminent Christian mystic Meister Eckhart said, “The eye with which I see God is the same as that with which he sees me.”

By intelligently and consciously living in union with the Divine in the Eternal Now, Life could then help us understand our evolutionary story a little better, free from our materialistic and mechanistic cultural conditioning. Although the mathematics is rather advanced, the basic picture of why the accelerating, exponential rate of accumulative evolution has recently passed into the psychosocial chaos we are witnessing today is quite simple:

Given that we are now living at the end of time, it makes little sense to continue to educate our children and conduct our business affairs in the way we have been doing for hundreds and thousands of years, not knowing that there is no future in Reality. In particular, as there will be no banks or stock markets on Earth following our imminent extinction as a species, the principal intelligent action we urgently need to take as communities is to pool our skills and resources in the support of us all.

In today’s global village, we especially need to care for the younger generations, who are destined not to grow old enough to have children of their own, or grandchildren, if they are already young parents. It will not be easy, because these youngsters have been greatly dehumanized by being educated in a grievously sick society, as The Matrix, a popular allegory of our times, graphically illustrates with its warmongering.

In contrast, community derives from Latin commūnis ‘shared, common, public’, originally in sense ‘sharing burdens’, from cum ‘together with’ and mūnus ‘office, duty; gift, present’, from mūnare ‘to give, present’. Community is also cognate with Sanskrit maitreya ‘friendly, benevolent’ and Pāli mettā ‘loving-kindness’, akin to Buddhist compassion (karunā) and love or charity (agapē) in Christianity.

And when our lives are based on Love, the Divine Essence we all share, we realize that kindness is our True Nature, where there are no enemies. For kind is the native English word for nature, the OED tells us, having the same root. As the Sufi poet Rumi beautifully put it, “Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns.”

The creative power of Life, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe, has revealed its innermost secrets to Paul Hague, identified both as a Cosmic Being and human being in a primary-secondary relationship. As I am the Totality of Existence – which some call Consciousness, meaning ‘knowing together’ – there is thus nothing and no one outside me.

Furthermore, any articulation of this Cosmic Being – in the form of concepts in the Cosmic Psyche or in outer expressions in signs or symbols – is not the Truth, which is ultimately indivisible and ineffable. This means that the Genuine Identity or Authentic Self of all of us is invisible to those who have primary ego-, ethno-, or anthropocentric identities.

In other words, we cannot identify as Cosmic Beings when we regard ourselves exclusively as human beings with cognitive bodies – with a multitude of different names, social security numbers, occupations, character structures, personality types or traits, and attachments to various ideologies and cultures – or even Divine Beings, living in Oneness with muddled minds.

For myself, I have become identified with the Cosmic Being because the convergent power of Life has carried me from the Alpha Point of evolution to its Omega Point, as its glorious culmination. By generalizing the semantic modelling methods of information systems architects in business, I have thus been led to develop the universal, paralogical system of thought that is necessary to integrate all knowledge into a coherent whole.

My occupation in the workplace has thus evolved into that of Panosopher, as a student of transcultural, transdisciplinary Panosophy, which is ‘Universal Wisdom’. As  Panosophy is based on the conceptual clarity and integrity of critical thinking, it is a megasynthesis of everything that humans have ever learned during thousands of years. So, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) aptly defines the word – with a slightly different spelling from 1642 – as ‘universal or cyclopædic knowledge; a scheme or cyclopædic work embracing the whole body of human knowledge’.

Panosophy simply shows that the underlying structure of the Totality of Existence is a multidimensional network of hierarchical relationships, which applies to human society and its traumatized unconscious, like all other structures in the Universe. So, as many intuitively know, we are all interconnected in Oneness, dependent on each other for our health, well-being, and even survival for as long as possible.

However, as Wholeness is beyond compare, it is a violation of Wholeness to compare Paul’s unifying, integrative experiences to those of others—until we realize that we are all, in Essence, Divine Cosmic Beings. We can see this in some expressions of teachers of mystical awareness, poets, musicians, artists, philosophers, psychologists, and even scientists through the ages.

But such specialisms are not the True Nature of all beings, human or otherwise, which is never separate from the Immortal Ground of Being. So, while the Transcendent Cosmic Being dwells in the Eternal Now – in union with the Immanent Divine Being – what is true of all beings in the world of form is that they are born or conceived to die.

There are no exceptions, including our bodies and our species, which we call Homo sapiens ‘wise human’, denoting that the innate quality of humanity is Self-reflective Intelligence, far beyond dehumanizing machines with so-called artificial intelligence (AI), dominating over human affairs today. But, even though Love is the Divine Essence we all share, there has long been much psychosocial chaos and cognitive dissonance, due primarily to our fragmented cultural conditioning, out of touch with Reality.

So, is it still possible that the convergent powers of evolution could enable us to live up to the name we have given ourselves before our inevitable demise? For this to happen, we shall need to become fully aware of our evolutionary story through profound self-inquiry, thereby answering the fundamental questions of human existence: Who are we?, Where have we come from?, and Where are we heading, at accelerating rates of accumulative, evolutionary change?

By making the most radical change to the work ethic since the invention of money some 4,000 years ago, we could be guided to compassionately pool our skills and resources for the benefit of us all, knowing that when humankind shortly becomes extinct there will also be no banks or stock markets on Earth to drive us apart. At these end times we live in, it thus makes no sense to fight each other for the largest possible slice of the finite monetary pie.

During the last 45 years, the creative power of Life, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe in the Eternal Now, has healed my fragmented mind and split soul in Wholeness. This means that there is nothing and no one outside me; nothing to fight for or argue about. There is just the Joy of Wholeness – as the union of all opposites – in the Stillness of Solitude.

Yet, I am still manifestly an ordinary human being, living in a world that is rapidly degenerating into psychosocial chaos, as the result of billions of years of bifurcating evolution. In particular, this widespread conceptual confusion is the product of fragmented human learning, out of touch with Reality, which has been passed from generation to generation in various cultures for thousands of years.

In my case, to heal a cataclysmic prenatal trauma in October 1941, I experienced an awakening, apocalyptic epiphany in April 1980, which has led me to use Self-reflective Intelligence to conduct a thought experiment that starts afresh at the very beginning. In this liberating manner, Life has led me to develop the Method that is needed to integrate all knowledge in all cultures and disciplines into a coherent whole.

So, all I can do for the remainder of my life is express Wholeness to the best of my ability, knowing that the incompatible contextual conceptions of God and Universe have been unified in Satchitānanda, the ‘Bliss of Truth and Cosmic Consciousness’. By making the most radical change to the work ethic since the invention of money, there is then just Peace, perfect Peace, beyond conflict and suffering.