A Cosmology of Mononaturalism

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A Cosmology of Mononaturalism¹

Mono-naturalism is a belief that there can be only one all-inclusive ultimate nature or reality, which may contain divine beings (God, gods, demigods, saints…) but it is not a divine being itself.  This means that the mono-nature is beyond being a god, in this sense it is a Transtheism.

My personal position on Mono-naturalism is as follows; a simultaneous relativistic neutral freely existing perpetually changing natural monism:

It is a simultaneous monism nether the whole or parts have absolute priority over each other.  It is relativistic in that all things within it are relative to reach other and the whole.  It is neutral in that it has an absolutely simple single neutral fundamental relative substance, which is not completely given to being any one type of substance.  It freely exists in that it ‘just is’ without depending on something to cause it, it did not cause itself or was it caused by something other than itself.  It is perpetually changing in that change is the fundamental process of its existence, by changing into something similar itself.  It is a natural monism in that it is the only all-inclusive ultimate reality, which may contain divine beings.

Descriptive look at my Mono-naturalism, It is a simultaneous monism by holding the position that nether the whole or parts has absolute priority over each other; each is the source of the other.  This means that no whole (cosmos) exist completely absent of part(s) and no part(s) exist completely separate from a whole, the whole and the parts are impossible without each other.  Or stated simply, no cosmos can exist without parts and no cosmic parts can exist completely separate from the cosmos, both depend on each other for their existence simultaneously. If one accepts the big bang theory, the universe starts as an infinitely small singularity that expands into a universe with its own proper parts.  Simultaneous monism assumes that the parts and the whole are simultaneous reciprocal components of a single reality (monism); this view does not contradict the big bang theory. If on the other hand one accepts creation out of nothing theory, whether by divine being or as an occurrence of nature, the nothing is a simple or single reality where the whole and the part are simultaneously the same reality and equally what is created out of nothing is something that can have parts and a whole simultaneously as derived from its source, nothingness.  Simultaneous monism does not contradict the creation from nothing theory.

  It is relativistic in that all things within it are relative to reach other and the whole.  It is neutral in that it has an absolutely simple single neutral fundamental relative substance, which is not completely given to being any one type of substance.  It freely exists in that it ‘just is’ without depending on something to cause it, it did not cause itself or was it caused by something other than itself.  It is perpetually changing in that change is the fundamental process of its existence, by changing into something similar itself.  It is a natural monism in that it is the only all-inclusive ultimate reality, which may contain divine beings.

It has four categories of reality.  Fundamental reality is whatever the source reality is; in this case the monism itself as the genesis of all other realities.  Direct reality is whatever an actuality is, which in this case is anything in the temporal present.  Indirect reality is whatever is possible, which in this case is anything in the temporal past or future.  Abdirect reality is whatever a governing principle is, which in this case is anything’s propensity and or destiny.

Notes:

1.       Mononaturalism is a word that seems to fit the combined thoughts of Anaximander of Miletus, C. S.  Peirce and Albert Einstein.