To Eternity and Back is life-transforming. It shows us the ultimate fabric of reality by connecting the dots linking cosmic and human history to the infinite and the eternal. It reveals the purpose of life and makes sense of our everyday experience. We begin at the end. Death. In its light, our priorities have to be aligned with our true destiny. To discover that destiny, we explore all of existence: the different kinds of realities-the physical, the psycho-physical, and the non-physical; and the different kinds of destinies-the plenitude of perfection and the void without end. Our voyage takes us first to Mission Control-Eternity, the God Algorithm and the Ultimate Theory of Everything. Eternity is not endless time. It is the possession of the fullness of life in one act without beginning or end. Time-history-is an interacting web of causes and effects, agents and acts, events and processes. This "web" is known and willed from all eternity. But who possesses "the fullness of life in one act?" The greatest thinkers of the golden age of human thought had a unanimous answer to this question: things exist only because there exists One that cannot not-exist, that exists without beginning or end or any conceivable limitation. The primordial religions--Judaism in Israel, Zoroastrianism in Persia, Hinduism in India--captured this truth with a description of the One that may be called the God Algorithm: "I AM." The "proof" for this Self-Existent Source is indisputable once all the relevant data points are recognized. The molecules in our neurons change thousands of times during our lifetimes but our identity (the "I") remains the same. So, what is it that stays the same? It is clearly not something physical because the physical--for instance, the neurons--is in a constant state of molecular flux. Where did this non-physical dimension come from? Not from the physical because physics has no room for the creation of the non-physical from the physical. Its source has to be non-physical and, in fact, the source has to have always existed because it could not pop out of nowhere and nothing. But if it always existed, then it exists without any limitation. It is limitation-free which is what we mean by the word "infinite." It is, thus, both eternal and infinite. This "it" is what we call God. But what do we know about the Self-Existent? Our starting points are right before us: the nature of God as infinite perfection hence infinite love; our experience of ourselves; our discovery of the nature of the world; and, ultimately, the witness of the world religions. Taken together, these lead us to the ultimate Theory of Everything: the startling truth that within the one Godhead there are Three Infinite Persons. Hence, across diverse cultures and untold ages, humanity has recognized God as tri-personal: Being, Knowing, Loving. From the nature of the Infinite, we turn to the finite. The cosmos is a network of networks. A procession of social media platforms and users. This is the picture painted by modern science. Science also shows it to be a Metaverse of Mind. We ascend from the MindCloud (quantum fields and the laws and constants of nature) to Mind-bots, Mind-pods, Mind-lings, Mind-lets, Mind-forms and Minds (Homo sapiens). The mindishness of the cosmos was recognized by the mystics of modern science, the pioneers of relativity and quantum physics, and the great mathematicians. The appearance of the world of mass-energy (the cosmos) is followed by that of the world of autonomous, self-replicating, goal-seeking agency (microbes, plants); then by the world of consciousness (animals); and, finally, the world of the language-using self (humans). The only framework that makes sense of the emergence of these worlds is an Infinite-Eternal Reality operative at every level of the world from quarks and galaxies to genomes and agents to consciousness and mind.
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