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Modern physics and math struggle with fundamental inconsistencies. The problem rests with something deeper and even more fundamental – our faith. And, to paraphrase Socrates, “the unexamined faith is not worth believing.”

 
From the study of emergence, causation and intention, we learn that a cosmic intentionality guides the emergent cascade and has given us life, beauty, joy and consciousness – it has loved us. We should love it back, with humility and gratitude for its many gifts, including the gifts of our imperfect and necessarily limited empirical understanding.

Science is the engine of human progress, but the tip of the spear, our primary intention, must be the human empathic values of trust, humility, mutual respect and shared commitment: in a word, love.

In pursuing fundamental questions on the nature of creation, of logical order, and of consciousness, we are led inexorably to the infinite void, one that we cannot cross without a transcendent metaphysical guide.

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Exploring the limits in physics, complexity theory and mathematics. The empirical tenets of faith contradict our shared personal experience and deny the obvious mystery and intentionality of the universe. A new symbiosis of spiritual and empirical inquiry as pathways to knowing is needed.

 
We journey through life on a pathway of interweaving threads of experience, each thread fixed in the determinate past yet flowing into the open, infinite future. The emerging tapestry links the physical, emotional and spiritual into a coherent, meaningful whole, from which faith in beauty, joy, love and the transcendence of life can arise.

Hard limits on the empirical frontier demand a reassessment of our obsession with material reality. Understanding the world requires both empirical knowledge and an exploration of faith, which governs the other side. Complexity science points towards faith in a purposeful world guided by intentional, flowing love.