Rediscovering the Integral Cosmos

c o n t e n t s
Introduction  1
PART I: PHYSICS AND VERTICAL CAUSATION:
THE END OF QUANTUM REALITY
by Wolfgang Smith
Preface  11
1 The Origin of Quantum Theory  17
2 The Quantum Enigma  21
3 Finding the Hidden Key  27
4 Three Vertical Powers of the Soul  41
Free Will as Vertical Causality [44]—The Verticality of
Visual Perception [46]—The Verticality of Intellect [49]
5 The War on Design  53
The Theoretical Basis of Einsteinian Physics [56]—The Empirical Argument Contra Einsteinian Physics [67]—Unmasking “Anthropic Coincidence” [74]
6 The Emergence of the Tripartite Cosmos  79
7 The Primacy of Vertical Causality  91
Postscript  97

PART II: IS SCIENCE THROUGH WITH GOD?:
A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY
by Jean Borella
Preface  103
1 How Science Became Atheistic  105
2 Scientific Physics and Philosophical Fiction  109
3 The Question of Being and Creation Ex Nihilo  113
4 The Being of “There Is”  119
5 Laplacian Determinism and Newtonian Platonism  123
6 It Was a Small Ship…  127
7 No Freedom for the Friends of Free Will  131
8 Meaning Has Disappeared  137
9 Why Is Science Officially Atheistic?  141
10 Idealist Blocking and the Realism of Substantial Form 145
The Idealistic Interpretation of Quantum Physics: Still a Prisoner
of Cartesian Bifurcationism [145]—Reality of Substantial Form [147]—The Triple Nature of the Form [151]
11 The God of Reason and the Grace of Faith 153
God as a Question of Reason [153]—God is Known by Unknowing [156]—The Sense of “God” Dwells in Every Man [158]—The Witness of Modern Painting [160]—The Era of Dead Ideologies, or the Dictatorship of the Nothing [163]—An Understanding of Faith [165]
Conclusion  169