PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: It is for that reason I have come to you. Because of your understanding of the true nature of existence you realise how much there is to lose. The things we have been discussing, while mainly scientific and philosophical, have implications which reach every aspect of human life. Knowledge creates in the human mind a worldview. We relate to our world in ways which are largely determined by our worldview. As we have seen, the current worldview is incorrect in many respects. It is that wrong worldview which is responsible for the many social problems plaguing the human race. It is also the reason the human race has come to the very brink of species suicide. There is no solution to the problems facing humanity other than to gain an understanding of the true nature of reality. The spread of a more correct worldview will result in pervasive positive changes in our daily lives, in all aspects of human society, and in the future of the human race.
TINNY: I think I see where our discussion is heading at this point.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Where?
TINNY: It would be helpful to see how the current incorrect worldview is linked to the social problems we face in every aspect of human life. We could then contrast how the world is with how the world would be if all was in harmony with the natural order. The new more correct worldview provides a standard by which to know natural law and determine the right course for social change. Once we understand more fully our place in the natural order of material existence we will be better able to live in harmony with natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: That may be a very interesting part of our discussion.
TINNY: Considering the range of subjects we will have to cover it will probably be controversial.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Why is that?
TINNY: Because many of the causes of the social problems facing human society are not obvious. They are based on wrong beliefs held and sometimes cherished by great numbers of people. It won't be easy to objectively accept right and wrong based on natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: But we have to, don't we?
TINNY: We must to survive, but even that dire circumstance doesn't always seem to make truth any easier to accept when our thinking has been wrong. Even my use of the words right and wrong to describe human behaviour might cause some to find it difficult to accept these truths.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: So you don't expect everyone to agree with everything you say.
TINNY: I'm not that naive. Not only will some not agree with what I say, but probably some will even oppose these ideas.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Why would anyone do that?
TINNY: The things I will be saying will challenge the right of people to act in opposition to the natural order.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Wouldn't everyone want to act in accord with the natural order?
TINNY: Some of the things the human race will be asked to forsake will not be easy to give up. They are firmly entrenched in human society, and considered highly rewarding by many.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If those aspects of human life are so desired by many, is it really necessary for them to be given up?
TINNY: There is only one alternative to giving up those things which oppose natural law, no matter how rewarding they may appear to be.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: It's not a very pleasant alternative is it?
TINNY: It's a horrible alternative. If those beliefs and behaviours in opposition to the natural order do not cease it will mean the extinction of the human species.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Since extinction is the price which must be paid for opposing the natural order it would be pretty selfish for anyone to continue acting in opposition to natural law, no matter how personally pleasurable they might find those actions.
TINNY: It would be incredibly selfish.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Do you expect some people to continue acting in opposition to natural law after hearing the true nature of our existence?
TINNY: I'm sure some will. Hearing the truth is not enough to bring about change.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is needed to bring about that change?
TINNY: The true nature of our existence must be known, not just heard. By that I mean the knowledge of truth must be assimilated fully into our consciousness. As those truths permeate the collective consciousness of the human race, thoughts and behaviour will move toward greater harmony with the natural order.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is that collective consciousness?
TINNY: The mind of every person on this planet is part of the collective consciousness. The total consciousness of all those individual minds acts as the collective mind of the human species.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Does that mean every person in the world must hear and know the true nature of our existence to bring about a solution to the many social problems facing human society?
TINNY: The more people who hear, know, and live in accord with those truths the greater will be the movement toward harmony with the natural order, and the greater will be the chance of survival for the human race.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Well, considering the urgency, I guess we should get started. Say all that you think must be said. Don't hold back.
TINNY: Don't worry I won't hold back, there is too much at stake.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will you be talking about general problem areas in human society or will you be specific?
TINNY: I'll occasionally be general, but mostly I'll be specific. A set of very specific guidelines is needed to assist the human species achieve its destiny.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How do you know your ideas on right and wrong are correct?
TINNY: These are not opinions I'll be expressing. I will be basing the rightness or wrongness of each area of human behaviour totally on the body of knowledge contained in the unified theory of existence. In many cases I'll refer back to earlier parts of our discussion to show clearly the reasons, based on objective facts, why anything is considered right or wrong.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is there any one area of behaviour which is mainly responsible for the many problems facing human society?
TINNY: The cause of social problems seems fairly evenly distributed over all areas of human thought and behaviour, all are a result of the failure to know and understand the true nature of our existence. There is presently no area of human endeavour which could truly be considered right. Every area manifests the same basic flaw, which is a failure to be in harmony with the natural order. That failure is due to the lack of knowledge of truth.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How do you think we could best discuss those problem areas?
TINNY: I think the best way would be to talk specifically about the major problem areas of human society. There must be millions of areas of difficulty all together, but I'll try and be brief. I probably won't talk about more than a few of the major problem areas.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: I hope a few will be enough.
TINNY: It should only take a representative few examples to fully allow an understanding of what this more correct worldview means to human society when put into practice. Once the few problem areas discussed are well understood any person should be able to make similar observations about any of the many other problems facing our world. The influences from our past history and beliefs will be difficult to overcome at first. In the beginning there will be resistance to both acceptance and change. As this new worldview becomes more widely spread and strongly held that resistance will decrease until, like floodgates opening, the world will be immersed in and saturated by this new consciousness.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: And you say that is all which is necessary to bring about a solution to the critical social problems facing the human race?
TINNY: It sounds simple and it is, as an idea, but very complicated in practice. It won't be easy.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Before we go on in our discussion and talk about how the problems of the world can be understood on the basis of this new worldview, there is something I would like you to do which will clarify all that we have so far spoken of and make sure that you fully understand these truths.
TINNY: As I said at the beginning of our talk, I will do whatever it takes to ensure the survival of the human race, and to help bring about a beautiful future of peace and love. What do you want me to do?
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: I would like you to give a brief, clear, and simple summary of the aspects of the unified theory of existence which we have discussed so far.
TINNY: That's not going to be an easy task.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Perhaps I can make the task a little less difficult. Your summary can take the form of answers to some very direct questions I will ask covering aspects of the unified theory of existence which we discussed in detail earlier. This time I would like you to follow certain guidelines as you present your answers. As much as possible you should present these truths in words and concepts of everyday language, staying away from technical and scientific terminology. Do not feel the need to once again present the logical process by which you arrived at these truths; do not feel the need to present the scientific and philosophical proofs of the truth of this new worldview. Express these truths in terms of generalities, not getting caught up in minor technical points. Although we have acknowledged all truth, as seen from the material plane, is less than perfectly known, you may present this new worldview as if it was established fact. And finally, feel free to expand the scope of the implications of this new understanding of the true nature of existence beyond the limits of our original discussion.
TINNY: I hope I can achieve all you ask. To present the truths of existence in a brief, clear, and simple summary is a great challenge. I will do my best.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: No one could do more.
TINNY'S SUMMARY
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How was the physical universe created?
TINNY: In the beginning, before the physical universe came into existence, there was nothing. That absolute nothingness did not consist of empty space waiting to be filled by the creation of the physical universe. Before the creation of the physical universe there was no space, no time, and no matter. Suddenly light appeared; light beyond any intensity we can presently imagine. That original light was the beginning of the physical universe. From that creative light came all the matter which now fills the immensity of our physical universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How did that original light create all the matter which now fills our universe?
TINNY: As soon as the creative light came into existence that incredible multitude of light energy began to bump into each other because it was crowded into such a tiny space. As those light rays collided they began to form the basic material of the physical universe. Those colliding light rays, called photons, changed form becoming subatomic particles; the most commonly known subatomic particles being electrons, protons, and neutrons. From those original particles of matter came all the different expressions of physical form in our universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How did the original subatomic particles create all the more complex physical forms which now fill our universe?
TINNY: During the earliest times the physical universe was very tiny compared to its size today. The subatomic particles were at those early moments squashed tightly together, very hot and very dense. The universe was then, and still is, expanding. As the universe expanded it got cooler and less dense. When the universe was very hot and dense the subatomic particles all existed separately, but when the universe expanded and cooled sufficiently some subatomic particles began to combine with other particles. When electrons, protons, and neutrons join together they form atoms. The first and simplest groupings of those subatomic particles formed the two most common elements, hydrogen, and helium gas. More complex combinations of those same three basic particles later formed all of the other elements which now exist.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: At that point the early universe was filled with hydrogen and helium gas. Where did the stars and galaxies come from?
TINNY: The universe at that stage of development could be thought of as one gigantic cloud of hydrogen and helium gas. Since the universe was still extremely dense the effect of gravity was very powerful. That gravitational effect broke up the one gigantic mass of gas into many billion large clouds of hydrogen and helium. Those billions of large gas clouds which formed became the galaxies now existing throughout the universe. Within those galaxies gravity caused the hydrogen and helium gas to break up even further into many billion much smaller clouds. Those billions of small gas clouds which formed became the first stars which were spread throughout the universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If billions of galaxies formed, each containing billions of stars, the total number of stars must be enormous. How many stars are there throughout our universe?
TINNY: The total number of stars existing in our universe at any one time now would be perhaps ten thousand billion billion. That number, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is so large as to be beyond our present ability to comprehend. Some of that number of stars are presently ceasing to exist while others are only now beginning to form.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Were the first stars which formed like the presently existing stars?
TINNY: The earliest stars which formed were made up entirely of hydrogen and helium gas; they were called first generation stars. The second and subsequent generations of stars, while still consisting mainly of hydrogen and helium gas, also contain all of the one hundred or so other elements which make up the matter of our universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: You explained that the original hydrogen and helium gas formed from the basic subatomic particles created by the primal light. Where did all the other elements come from?
TINNY: When the first generation stars formed, made only from hydrogen and helium, many of them were so huge that they collapsed in on themselves. That collapse put the hydrogen and helium atoms under such great pressure that they fused together in combinations never before possible. Those new combinations became larger, more complex atoms, forming all the different elements which now exist throughout our universe. Carbon, oxygen, lead, gold, silver, and uranium are but a few of those newly formed elements. Those huge first generation stars could not continue to exist under the strain of their own mass so they flew apart in great explosions, called supernovas. It was those exploding stars which spread all the newly formed elements throughout our universe. Those newly formed elements, mixed with the already existing hydrogen and helium gas, creating a new mixture of elements from which the second and subsequent generations of stars could form. Our sun is one of the stars formed during the later generations, consisting mainly of hydrogen and helium but also containing varying amounts of all the other elements.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How do planets form?
TINNY: Planets form as a natural consequence of the birth of stars. As the gases and other elements come together by gravitational forces they form spinning balls of hot matter in the center of a revolving plane of less hot matter. It is that surrounding material which forms smaller spheres on a plane out from the equator of the star. Those spheres are the planets which surround stars. Stars similar to our sun will have small dense planets traveling the inner orbits and large gaseous planets traveling the outer orbits.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What are the planets like when they first form?
TINNY: At first planets are made up of boiling gases and other elements. These gases and heavier elements cool and change their characteristics. Our planet, Earth, was once a molten ball of gases and heavier elements. The heavier elements like iron tended to sink into the center while the gases and lighter elements rose to the surface and cooled. The gases formed an atmosphere and the other lighter elements formed a crust floating on the molten core. Although many more changes have taken place since then, our planet still consists of an atmosphere of gases above a floating crust of lighter elements covering the molten core of iron and other heavy elements.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How did biological life form on our planet?
TINNY: After the atmosphere and surface crust formed, some of the elements which had existed as individual atoms began combining with other elements. For example oxygen atoms combined with hydrogen atoms to produce water. That water evaporated when it came into contact with the still hot surface of the planet. That evaporating water forming clouds, raining down, and once again evaporating in endless cycles for many millions of years. Those rains scoured the surface of the planet, washing loose material containing all the different elements down to the lower areas of the earth's surface, forming mighty seas. In those seas the various elements continued to combine in an ever increasing complexity of great variety. Those new combinations of various atoms are called molecules. Those molecules which formed from the elements on the earth's surface included not only water, but salts and acids. Molecules became increasingly complex, expressing many new characteristics. Amino acids formed which allowed the creation of proteins. Proteins form the structures of all biological life and perform the necessary functions of all living organisms. At that level of molecular complexity DNA came into existence providing a means by which all biological life can develop. Actually, those very complex combinations of atoms form molecules so advanced that at their highest level they become hard to distinguish from the simplest forms of biological life. It is at that point the various combinations of subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules did become the first one-celled living organisms. This was the beginning of biological life.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Could that progression of matter have taken place in any other way?
TINNY: The path that matter will take as it becomes progressively more complex is fixed. That path is fixed by the characteristics imparted to matter by light.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: The development of biological life on our planet can then be traced back in an unbroken series of steps to the creative light at the beginning of the physical universe. Those steps from that beginning were light, subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, and finally biological life. Did biological life only develop on the planet Earth or did it develop on other planets throughout the universe?
TINNY: The creation of biological life is a natural outcome of the development of the physical universe. Biological life comes into existence in every place in the universe where conditions allow that level of life to form. Biological life has been created times without number throughout the physical universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Do you mean to say it is part of the nature of the physical universe that biological life must develop?
TINNY: The development of biological life is most basic to the natural progression of the physical universe. The development of biological life is partial fulfillment of the purpose of the physical universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is the purpose of the physical universe?
TINNY: The essential purpose behind the existence of the physical universe is for matter to attain perfection in every aspect. That purpose is achieved by simple matter progressing through increasingly complex combinations toward the more perfect expression of all positive characteristics of existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is there a name for the developmental process which all matter in the physical universe is undergoing?
TINNY: That developmental process, which is striving to attain perfection, is called envolution.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: The word 'envolution' is very much like another word, 'evolution', which has been used to describe the development of life. Is there a difference?
TINNY: Both words are attempts to describe the same process of physical development. Evolution was the name given to that developmental process when it has not well understood. That early theory of the process of physical development was based on some misinterpretations of the true nature of our existence. The new, more correct, understanding of the developmental process is now called envolution.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is the definition of envolution?
TINNY: Envolution describes the progression of matter from a simple deterministic beginning to a perfect transcendental culmination. This developmental process takes place through a successive series of small steps.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Would you define envolution more simply?
TINNY: The physical universe begins with simple subatomic particles which can do little else but act as the forces of physics determine they will act. As conditions allow, those original subatomic particles will, through a series of small steps, organise themselves so as to become more complex. The more complex those combinations become the closer they will approach perfection. Just as the primal light created subatomic particles, subatomic particles create atoms, atoms create molecules, and molecules create biological life. The process of envolution does not end with biological life but progresses onward, through human life to existence perfected in every aspect.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Could you make the explanation of envolution even more simple than that?
TINNY: When the physical universe was created it consisted only of the simplest forms of matter. Through a long series of successive small steps the simple material forms developed into more complex material forms. Major levels within this progression of matter are subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, biological life, human life, and the as yet unnamed levels beyond the human level. All of these different expressions of material form are striving to become more advanced. This advancement of all matter is dedicated to becoming perfected in every aspect.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Does the environment determine how life will develop?
TINNY: Material and biological development takes place according to the essential nature of physical existence. The environment does not cause any particular line of development to take place; instead the environment allows certain lines of development to take place. Matter will unfold according to its natural plan; matter will unfold according to that natural plan when and where environmental conditions allow.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is the natural plan followed by material development so invariable that it could be considered law?
TINNY: The path of development which matter takes from light to subatomic particles to atoms to molecules to biological life to human life and beyond is so firmly fixed that it must be considered natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Where does natural law come from?
TINNY: Natural law is laid down from beyond the physical existence. Beyond the physical plane lies perfected, absolute existence. Natural law emanates from absolute existence, beyond the physical plane.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How does absolute existence decide what is to be natural law?
TINNY: Absolute existence has an essential nature. The nature of absolute existence becomes natural law when the absolute expresses its relative characteristics as the physical existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: More simply, please.
TINNY: The characteristics of absolute existence show up as natural law at the material level of existence, our physical universe.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Does perfect, absolute existence have any other names?
TINNY: Perfect and absolute existence has been known by other names. Many people refer to perfect and absolute existence as God.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is this God the same as the God of many of today's religions?
TINNY: In the ultimate sense there is only one God. Those of different religions all have the same God whether they know it or not, or even whether they like it or not. Absolute reality is as it is, regardless of the many different ways we material beings perceive that reality.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is the physical universe a form of existence separate from the absolute existence?
TINNY: The physical universe is one of the many characteristics expressed by perfected existence. From our point of view, which is relative, the physical universe is separate from that which is perfect and absolute. From the perspective of perfected existence the physical universe is an inseparable part of one unified whole.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What does it mean for physical existence to be relative?
TINNY: All that exists within the physical universe is temporary and undergoing constant change.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What does it mean for perfected existence to be absolute?
TINNY: All that exists beyond the physical plane is permanent and unchanging.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If the material existence is only temporary and in a constant state of change, is our physical universe real or is it only an illusion?
TINNY: Reality has many levels. Natural law determines the characteristics each level of reality may express. Absolute reality is the perfect expression of all characteristics. Relative reality, our physical universe, may only express those characteristics which are temporary and changing. No level of reality is illusion; all reality is an expression of the true nature of existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How is the nature of absolute existence expressed as natural law in our physical universe?
TINNY: It is light which links the physical universe to absolute existence. It is the characteristics expressed by light which determine the nature of the physical universe. Light brings the characteristics of existence from beyond the material plane and expresses those characteristics as physical form. In the beginning of the physical universe that primal light produced the basic units of physical form, the subatomic particles.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Are the characteristics of perfect and absolute existence expressed at every level of relative physical existence?
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Light, either directly or indirectly creates all physical form, from the smallest to the largest, from the most simple to the most complex. The characteristics expressed by every level of physical form are determined by natural law. No physical form can exist outside the range of characteristics brought to our physical universe from the absolute existence by light.
TINNY: Each of the progressively more advanced levels of physical form expresses more fully the characteristics of absolute existence. Sub-atomic particles, being the simplest physical form, express the characteristics of absolute existence in the most simple way. Sub-atomic particles act in accord with their essential nature; they show activity, which in more complex physical forms is recognised as life, and they show appropriate reaction to environmental conditions, which in more complex physical forms is recognised as consciousness.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: When does life and consciousness begin in the physical existence?
TINNY: Life and consciousness are the essential characteristics of absolute existence, brought into our physical universe by light. Light transmits the characteristics of life and consciousness to subatomic particles. Sub-atomic particles transmit the characteristics of life and consciousness to atoms. Atoms transmit the characteristics of life and consciousness to molecules. Molecules transmit the characteristics of life and consciousness to biological organisms, the plants and animals. Beyond the level of plants and animals the characteristics of life and consciousness are expressed in the human level of existence. At each more advanced level of physical form the characteristics of life and consciousness are expressed more fully. Those same characteristics continue on, beyond the human level, until life and consciousness transcend the physical existence becoming one with the perfect and absolute existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Would it be true to say that the characteristics of perfect and absolute existence leave that exalted state, take on physical form, progress toward perfection, and return to perfect and absolute existence?
TINNY: From our point of view that is the true nature of relative reality. From the perspective beyond the material plane no separation between the physical and the absolute takes place. All is one, all has always been one, and all shall always be one.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Are the characteristics of perfect and absolute existence, which determine natural law in the physical existence, only expressed as physics, chemistry, and biology or does natural law also relate to human social behaviour?
TINNY: There is no aspect of the physical universe which lies beyond natural law. Human social behaviour is as responsible to natural law as atoms are to the fundamental principles of physics.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Can natural law be broken?
TINNY: The less developed the physical form the less likely natural law is to be broken. Sub-atomic particles and atoms follow natural law very closely because they have virtually no freedom to act other than in accord with natural law. As physical form becomes more complex the degree of freedom allowed becomes greater. At the human level our relatively high degree of free-will allows us to frequently violate natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is there any penalty for breaking natural law?
TINNY: Every action has its natural consequences. The natural consequence of breaking natural law is the termination of progression; while the natural consequence of following natural law is continued progression. When progression is terminated the individual or species involved eventually ceases to exist. Continued existence only comes from acting in accord with natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Human beings often break natural law, what is to be the penalty for those transgressions?
TINNY: If the human race continues on its wrong path there is only one possible outcome, the extinction of the human species.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If the human species were to change soon, and begin living in harmony with natural law, could we then survive?
TINNY: The choice is ours. We can continue to violate natural law and destroy the human species; or, we can change and begin acting in harmony with natural law, thereby bringing the human species to the fulfillment of its destiny.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is the destiny of humanity?
TINNY: The destiny of humanity is to progress onward, achieving a state of perfected and absolute existence,
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How are we to know the right path, the way by which we can achieve our grand destiny?
TINNY: At the less advanced levels of material existence natural law imposed its will on the developing physical forms. At the human level natural law is not imposed; we must choose whether or not we will follow natural law. To choose correctly we must know the true nature of our existence. If we fail to correctly understand the true nature of existence we will be unlikely to choose a path in harmony with natural law. We must be seekers of truth. The right path for continued human development is to be found by the acquisition of all knowledge. That which is right or good is that which enhances our progression toward the more perfect expression of all positive characteristics. That which is wrong or evil is that which inhibits our progression toward the more perfect expression of all positive characteristics. To accurately judge whether our progression is being enhanced or inhibited we must have a good and objective understanding of truth.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Since it is critical for us to know the true nature of our existence I will ask you several questions relating to areas of knowledge which have important implications in determining correct human behaviour. First, do absolute truths exist?
TINNY: Yes, there are truths which are absolute.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Can we know these absolute truths?
TINNY: At the human level of development our knowledge of truth will be less than perfect; absolute truth can only be known as a probability.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Should we act as if the truths of high probability are absolutely true?
TINNY: We should, but we must remain forever open to further knowledge which may effect our assessment of the probability of any particular truth.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Can a definite set of positive values be established for all people in all situations?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Who should decide what constitutes a right set of human values?
TINNY: Each person should make that decision for themselves. Natural law must be our guide.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If each person made that decision today would a universally accepted set of positive values be arrived at?
TINNY: No, there would presently be no possibility of universal agreement as to what values are positive.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Why would no agreement as to what are universal positive values be possible at present?
TINNY: No agreement as to universal positive values can be reached because there is no universal agreement as to the true nature of our existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: If there was a commonly accepted worldview would we then be able to arrive at a set of universal positive values?
TINNY: Yes, but only if that worldview contained a close approximation of absolute truth.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How far from truth is the present worldview held by the human race?
TINNY: The old worldview is so far from truth as to constitute a danger to the survival of the human species.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What can a person be called whose perception of reality is so far from truth as to constitute a danger to themselves or to others?
TINNY: Such a person would be called insane.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Since humanity as a whole has a perception of reality so far from the truth as to constitute a danger to the survival of the human race would you say human society is insane?
TINNY: Sadly I must say that is true. The human race is presently insane.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Could you fairly be accused of making an overstatement when you call the human race insane?
TINNY: No, the human race is not only insane, but is to a large degree suicidal.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Would it be correct to say the large number of social problems facing the human race are symptoms of the collective mental illness of humanity?
TINNY: Yes, all problems facing human society are symptoms of that collective mental illness.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is the cause of the collective mental illness of the human race?
TINNY: The mental illness of the human race is directly related to the failure to comprehend the true nature of our reality.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: What is the cure for the collective mental illness plaguing humanity?
TINNY: The collective mental illness that humanity suffers can be cured by a sudden influx of new knowledge, thereby correcting the mistaken beliefs about the true nature of our existence which presently prevail.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Would this new, more correct worldview be able to bring an end to the many social problems facing humanity?
TINNY: There is no problem facing humanity that cannot be solved by a society which has a good understanding of the true nature of existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Would you consider this new worldview, presented in the unified theory of existence, to be a form of societal therapy?
TINNY: The unified theory of existence is most definitely a therapeutic worldview.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is it important to know all of the unified theory of existence to receive the therapeutic benefits?
TINNY: To know any of this new worldview will bring benefits; the more that is known the greater will be the benefits received.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is there more to the unified theory of existence than we have discussed?
TINNY: There is much more to the unified theory of existence. The unified theory of existence links all truth, so there is nothing that exists which is not represented in this new worldview.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Obviously the members of a society who understand this new worldview would be very different from people in today's world. How different will those people of the future be?
TINNY: The time has come in the natural progression of human development for a new stage to be expressed. The human race is soon destined to experience a quantum leap of consciousness. The beings of our future will not be as human beings are at present. The new humans of expanded consciousness will be so changed they could no longer be classed as homo sapiens. The beings of new consciousness will constitute a new species, homo nouveau - the new humans.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: How much better will that world, peopled by beings of new human consciousness, be compared to today's world?
TINNY: Compared to our present condition the world of the near future will be a veritable utopia. It is the destiny of the human race to live in a world where all shall be good.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will the new humans be much more intelligent than us?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will the new humans be much more free than us?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will the new humans be much more peaceful than us?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will the new humans be much more loving than us?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Will the new humans be much more happy than us?
TINNY: Yes.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Many, probably most, people in today's world are willing to use force and aggression to get what they want or what they think right. Will the new humans continue to use force and aggression to achieve their goals?
TINNY: The new humans will turn from the path of force and aggression and follow the path of peace and love. It can be no other way.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Why do you say there is no other way for the future of humanity than for the path of peace and love to supersede the path of force and aggression?
TINNY: If we are to have a future it can only be a future of peace and love. The continued use of force and aggression does not allow a future for the human race. The path of force and aggression necessarily leads to the extinction of the human species. That is natural law.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Is there no possible way to use force and aggression to bring about a better world?
TINNY: There is no way a better world can be brought about by using force and aggression. Any gains which may be made in some areas will be more than outweighed by losses in other areas. That is the nature of negative control at the human level of existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Tinny my child, there is no need for you to go further with your summary. It is clear to me that you know the true nature of our reality; you understand the unified theory of existence.
TINNY: Many of the ideas we have discussed I knew already, but now I also see how those many and often seemingly unconnected areas of knowledge are interrelated. I can see all existence as one. I no longer can see the world the way I used to. I can see the potential in this knowledge to bring about a healthy and sane society. I can really believe it will be done.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: I'm sure there was much more you could have included in your summary, but, since it is now clear you have a good understanding of the unified theory of existence, it would be helpful if you could provide a much more brief overview of the essence of our discussion.
TINNY: In the beginning light created physical existence. Light became simple matter, the subatomic particles. From those subatomic particles emerged many different atoms, forming the basic elements of which our universe is made. Galaxies, stars, and planets formed from combinations of those original subatomic particles. As the groupings of subatomic particles became more complex, in numberless places throughout the universe, life of high consciousness developed. Human life is one example of this process of development, called envolution. Envolution describes a process whereby simple material existence, exhibiting few of the characteristics of life and consciousness, comes to exhibit fully and perfectly all characteristics of life and consciousness.
Our physical universe and all that it contains is created to reproduce the nature of perfected being, God. We human beings are the physical expression of God's nature. For billions of years natural law directed this progressive development of simple matter until human life came to exist. The major developmental levels to this point are light, subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, biological life, and human life. At our level, human existence, natural law no longer externally directs continued progression toward perfection. One of the characteristics being progressively expressed is free-will. Sub-atomic particles had virtually no free-will, atoms had a bit more, molecules still more, and biological life even more free-will.
At each of those levels of material existence, although free-will was constantly progressing, the external control of natural law had more influence than free-will. At the human level for the first time free-will has progressed to a point where it has the potential for greater influence than the external control of natural law. Natural law must still be followed, but we humans have the ability and the obligation to choose whether or not to follow that natural law. If we are to fulfill the purpose of physical existence, which is to attain perfection in every aspect, we can only do so by choosing to follow natural law. If we do not choose to follow natural law we will cease to exist as a developing life form. The future of humanity has only two possible paths.
We will continue to progress to a perfected and absolute existence or we will cease to exist as a species. The path to perfection is the way of harmony and beauty, a future of peace and love. The path to perfection is heaven on earth, a veritable utopia. The path to extinction is chaotic and destructive, a future of force and aggression. The path to extinction is hell on earth, a veritable nightmare. Ours are the generations which must make that fateful choice. While it appears obvious that given such a choice any sane person could only choose the joys of the path to perfection over the sorrows of the path to extinction, it remains an important truth that all lines of development progressing toward perfection do not attain that grand goal.
The human species as a whole cannot be considered sane. It is an unhappy fact that humanity may not choose the path to perfection, but instead may choose extinction. It is our collective insanity which could bring about that fatal error. It is the natural condition for humanity to be sane. We have diverged from the path of sanity due to our ignorance of the true nature of existence. We have based our beliefs and our behaviours on an incorrect worldview, a mistaken perception of reality. To become sane we must come to know the true nature of our existence. A new worldview is needed, and it is available. If we are to survive, if humanity is to have a future, we must soon come to know, understand, and live in accord with natural law.
Our future offers ecstasy beyond all previous experience. I want that beautiful future for myself, but I want that future even more for all humanity. I will work my whole life to help bring about that grand future, but it will take much more than my small efforts. It is my hope and my prayer that all members of the human race will join together, work together, and progress together toward our collective destiny, perfect and absolute existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: That has well said. Now, I would like you to present the essence of these truths even more briefly.
TINNY: Light brings the physical universe into existence. Matter begins as simple basic particles, the electrons, protons, and neutrons. Matter progresses through a series of more advanced forms, from subatomic particles to atoms, from atoms to molecules, from molecules to biological life, and from biological life to human life. The purpose of physical existence is to progress toward perfection. At the lower levels of physical existence natural law controls the path of development. At the human level natural law no longer controls development; further development must occur by choice, through the exercise of free-will. The path of force and aggression will not allow further development of humanity, but can lead only to the extinction of the human species. The path of peace and love is the only way humanity can attain perfection.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Once again please, still more briefly.
TINNY: In the beginning light appears in nothingness from the perfect and absolute existence. This original light forms the material of the physical universe. Matter following natural law becomes human. Human life when choosing to follow natural law approaches perfection in every aspect. Peace and love is the only path by which we can achieve our grand destiny, thus returning to perfect and absolute existence.
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST: Those are beautiful words, the brilliant light of truth radiates from your mind. Before we begin discussing how the world's problems are related to our failure to understand the true nature of reality, is there anything else you would like to say about the unified theory of existence?
TINNY: Occasionally there occurs in the progression of human knowledge a great leap forward in understanding. The unified theory of existence provides the impetus for the greatest single stride forward in the long development of the human race. The unified theory of existence is the culmination of modern scientific knowledge combined with the essence of ancient wisdom. The unified theory of existence is not simply a body of knowledge, no matter how significant. It is a body of knowledge specifically designed to alter the consciousness of humanity in a positive direction. This is to be accomplished by raising the level of consciousness of each individual who becomes aware of this new worldview. The unified theory of existence shall be the catalyst for a revolution in every aspect of human life. With this knowledge humanity shall survive the present threat of extinction and travel the path to perfection. This is the beginning of the utopian dream …
