Why Do This?
Though many do not feel burdened to know metaphysical truths, many feel so burdened and I more than most. Like many my mind is divided between the sacred and the practical. I am deeply religious, spiritual, or metaphysically inclined, having had religious caliber dreams, visions, and experiences frequently. I have also had particularly important experiences of mystical union deep enough I understand many of the old mystics. I am also scientifically inclined, having a physics degree and having done National Science Foundation funded particle physics research in University. The religious side is stronger, more meaningful, and more satisfying while the scientific side is more exciting, alluring, immediately promising, and apt to current society.
Current society has issues relevant to my divide. The time’s religion is weak, over-focusing on morals and lacking in viable mysticism. It often obsesses over absolute obedience to a pseudo-pagan deity that got too big for its britches, falsely claiming to be God Himself, or trivialising itself to fit with a depraved culture. This circumstance’s particulars exceed our scope.
Science wins its battle with religion at great cost; reducing humanity, life, the universe itself to mere valueless accident. Having removed its meaning perception faculties partially via discarding formal and final causation, it’s blind to all meaning and purpose regardless of any depth of effort or insight. Old Islamic scholars warned of sapientia devoid scientia’s dangers - science ungoverned by wisdom. Speculate on the cost as you will, “ecological disaster” and “nihilism” come to mind.
So what problem must I solve? Probably something to the effect of:
Find a framework to express and relate science and religion without rendering science impotent or religion trivial.
Faithfully interpret my mystical union experiences within said framework.
Manifest some novel, practical scientific or technological application of said framework ideally replicable by ordinary men and potentially manifesting expression of mystical union.
Do these without killing the human experience
Explaining the human experience is unnecessary; only rigorously, mathematically, or meta-mathematically (re?)-unifying sacred and practical domains in principle.
Enter the CTMU, a meta-theory potentially satisfying the first criteria. It could be unsuitable but all alleged flaws quickly show themselves sound; Langan merely lightyears ahead waiting for me to catch up. So that’s why tackle the CTMU: it is the only serious, mathematically and philosophically rigorous, potentially viable meta-theory capable of bridging the sacred and practical.
From a Christian perspective this endeavor’s possibility hinges on general revelations limits suggested in Ecclesiastes 8:17, and Romans 1:20:
“then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.” -Ecclesiastes 8:17
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” -Romans 1:20
