The Third Way
12/31/2019
The universe is composed of electro-magnetic energy which creates a bi-polar world. That is, magnetic energy attracts and repels causing two polar opposites (e.g. light and dark, good and evil); the yin and the yang of life, so to speak. Political ideas also polarize around two opposites (e.g. capitalism vs socialism, globalism vs. populism etc.). This duality creates conflict in the world as people are attracted to one of the two polar opposites.
For any one person, the “truth” is whichever polar opposite that they have selected. They often even hate the other polar opposite creating even more divisiveness. Of course, another person will select the other polar opposite as their “truth.” The thing is, the truth can only be a combination of the two. There literally has to be what I call A Third Way. A Third Way, of course, is always rejected by people of either polar opposite. Arthur Schopenhauer understood this best. He coined the expression about the three stages of truth which is as follows: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
I’ve had any number of people ask me for clarification of The Third Way. I like to give the example of deism vs. atheism – God versus no god. Anyone who has followed my writings knows that I don’t believe in the god of religion. However, as Louis Pasteur proved (the Law of Biogenesis), life must come from life. Life can’t just appear from nowhere and out of nothing. No such reality exists, or as George Wald, an atheist himself, said, “When it comes to the origin of life on this earth, there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation (evolution). There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved 100 years ago….”
So, as Pasteur and Wald said, life has to be “created”. It has to have a source, and I refer to this source as the Creator. The Creator is not the god of any religion, but simply the source of life. This source, by definition, has to lie outside of space and time as both space and time are what Einstein referred to as “constructs.” That is, they are part of what was created. In his book, The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot described it this way, “Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately projections from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond both space and time.”
The Third Way infers that life is an illusion where the truth is obscured by duality. As for the human race, we came here to experience this illusion of life, although not necessarily understand it. As the Australian aboriginals put it, “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home.”