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.