A Question, Boris-
In a single world carved somehow out of emptiness by an existential tendency that we call "God" (although I often use the term "thermodynamics") and which is equally explicable in terms of phsyics as well as metaphysics, how could there be evolution?

The only possible answer is that the parts of the world must interact. And to do that, there will have to be many levels - from Planck size of 10^-35 meters long and 10^-44 seconds duration, right up to 28 x 10⁹ LY wide and at least 14 billion years old.

As early critics of moral philosophy used to complain, Nature is "red in tooth and claw". But how else could it be?

This way, everything that happens is brand new - never before seen, never before accomplished, and thus is a creative activity. We are the fingers and toes of God. We think the thoughts of God. We are the wavefront of creativity that acts to organize this fledgeling reality as it projects itself ever farther into the Void. Thus we are part of a wonderful cooperative effort through which we grow up through the ranks and pay our dues, and then go on, hopefully, as Edgar Cayce put it, to become "Co-Creators wth God".  There is no other outcome possible.

dave

Hi Boris-
I'm not arguing with you, but I'm especially looking at your recitation of the unmannerly beasties that lurk out there awaiting somebody to eat, bite, infect, or otherwise bother. My point is simply that if we were to "invent" this reality in such a state that it would be self-educating and self-developing, we'd wind up with essentially what we see today. All the partially aware scientific disciplines claim a part of the answer, as do religions, but as you have stated, in the end all of those "answers" turn out to be part of a much larger global expression of a single principle.

I can't think of a way to build a universe without mosquitos, worms, tiny biting flies and so on. However, I do think of several ways that in my present form I can protect myself from such pests. A fine mesh window screen seems to keep out anything that flies, and basic standards of purity and cleanliness reduce the tendency for parasites.

The same kind of filtration on a larger scale seems moderately effective in getting rid of unwanted door-to-door salesmen flogging the latest floor sweeper or  unwanted intruders in my study. By selection of my life style I manage to get rid of the majority of thugs, goons and crazies, including those who are compulsively absorbed in screaming about their own ideas of how life must occur.

But all of these seem to be necessary. I recall the objection that if God knew that these were unpleasant, then God would remove them. Otherwise, either God is malicious for leaving these things, or, being unable to remove them, God must be impotent. I disagree. I take the perspective that all of these are necessary, as we learn nothing by settling into a comfortable pattern of stasis. A rock can do that, and gets nowhere. However, the biting bugs can grow up to be pollinators of crops, the crazies can get sane, the intruders can become productive citizens etc. And even people like me can grow from ignorance to a substantially broader perspective.

This is the ultimate meaning of everything being everything else.  We have to allow a lot of "everything else" to occur.

Given that, I am with you in a search for a simple global perspective in which we can equally express the physics of plant growth, auras, Kirlian anomalies, partnered activities in the astral, and sub-atomic processes. This is just the next level of connection.

Interestingly, a few days ago I was reviewing the Kaluza-Klein theories from which "string theory" emerged. In essence, Kaluza took two different phenomena, gravity and electromagnetism, and asked how many more dimensions might be needed in order to reconcile the two in commensurable terms. He started with about 26 added dimensions, later whittled down to about 5 or 6 by Klein. The idea is rather like taking an article in Greek and one in Urdu and translating both into French so that you can study an English translation that analyzes the single French text.

This is also rather like taking all our psychic data, Juditha's world, Bruce's world, your world, Vajra's world, the physical world, Alysia's world, my world, and so on, and asking how many conceptual dimensions do we need in order to express all of these as a single theory in which all these subsets are commensurable. This would be the ultimate theory that defines what it means "to be connected all over the place".  And I strongly suspect that in this we will discover mosquitos, biting flies, door-to-door salesmen and parasitic worms. We will also discover window screens, effective door closures, and ear plugs.

dave