Abstract:

"New Logic, New Science"

 For YASU Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September 21, 2002

 by Dr. Ashok K. Gangadean

Perhaps the deepest drive in the human condition since the dawn of civilizations is the quest to encounter and express the Primordial Force or Generative Principle of our living realities. And in this great quest science and philosophy arose together in the persisting attempt to articulate the fundamental cosmology of the universe – to provide an ultimate explanation of reality as it appears to us. A shared intuition in this universal quest is the recognition that there must be an ultimate cause or first principle that generates all existence.

However, diverse cultures of science/philosophy (east, west and other) have approached this Primal Principle in different grammars, narratives, strategies and often contrasting forms of expression. And when we stand back and seek to enter a global perspective on the spectrum of First Narratives – whether in the Language of Tao, or Aum or Sunyata or Logos, God, Energy... – striking patterns become evident that cannot be seen from more localized perspectives. It becomes evident, for example, that "What is First" must be an Infinite Force, that It must be infinitely Unifying, that it must issue in a Unified Field of Reality...But it becomes equally evident that there is yet to be uncovered a missing Universal Grammar and a Primal Logic to adequately process this fundamental field of Reality.

One of the great lessons from this global perspective on First Philosophy/Science is that we humans are as we mind – that we directly participate in co–shaping our living realities. Perhaps one of the greatest insights from Global First Philosophy is that how we conduct our mind – our thought process and how we process reality – is a decisive factor in our encounter with reality. Here it becomes evident that in the ongoing struggle of human evolution – in the evolution of consciousness – that certain patterns of thinking or minding generate fragmentation, discoherence, dualism...and fall short of the deeper integral logic that flows in the Primal Field of Reality.