Atheistic Platonism

Table of Contents

1. Renewing Atheism

• 1. A Cave Filled with Shadows
• 2. A New Approach to Platonism
• 3. Twilight Atheism
• 4. Abstract Objects and Possible Universes
• 5. Cosmological Explanations
• 6. Objective Moral Laws and Values
• 7. The Meaning and Purpose of Life
• 8. Souls and Life after Death
• 9. Atheistic Religion and Spirituality
• 10. Beyond Twilight Atheism

2. Starting at the Bottom

• 1. Starting with Nothing
• 2. Why There is Something rather than Nothing
• 3. How the One Gives Existence to the Beings
• 4. Altars of Stone Shining in the Sun
• 5. How the One Avoids Contradicting Itself
• 6. How the One Maximizes Positive Existence

3. The One Emanates the Forms

• 1. A Relation Grows from the One
• 2. The One Emanates an Empty Object
• 3. The Self-Amplifying Power of the One
• 4. The One Emanates all Finitely Complex Objects
• 5. The One Emanates all Infinitely Complex Objects
• 6. The One Emanates an Unsurpassable Structure of Beings
• 7. An Ontological Argument for Nature

4. The Cosmic Forms

• 1. The Physical Forms of Universes
• 2. Building Geometrical Structures
• 3. Adding Causality: A Cosmic Computer
• 4. Adding Physical Things: The Game of Life
• 5. The Form of Our Universe
• 6. All Possible Universes Have Forms
• 7. The Library of Cosmic Forms
• 8. The Treasury of Bright Cosmic Forms
• 9. Lineages of Ever Better Cosmic Forms

5. The World Tree

• 1. From Abstract to Concrete
• 2. How the One Animates Forms
• 3. How Animated Forms Manifest Images
• 4. The Animation of the Treasury
• 5. The Treasury Manifests Concrete Relations
• 6. The Emergence of the Great World Tree
• 7. The Selective Power of the Good

6. The Emergence of Value

• 1. The Directionality Argument
• 2. The Laws of Logic
• 3. Value is Distance from the One
• 4. Intrinsic Value is Complexity
• 5. The First Universes
• 6. Simple Physical Things
• 7. Complex Physical Wholes
• 8. From Particles to Molecules

7. The Emergence of Life

• 1. Self-Organization
• 2. Self-Maintaining and Self-Adapting Systems
• 3. Self-Regenerating Systems with Functional Parts
• 4. Proto-Biological Systems
• 5. Living Cells and their Minds
• 6. Societies of Cells and Multicellular Organisms
• 7. Cooperative Relations among Organisms
• 8. Societies of Complex Organisms
• 9. Our Universe

8. Platonism as a Way of Life

• 1. To Become Divine
• 2. The Ascent of the Soul
• 3. Degrees of Functional Excellence
• 4. Matter is Impairment
• 5. Strategies for Transfiguring Souls
• 6. The Iterative Method of Transfiguration
• 7. Transfiguration is Reprogramming the Body
• 8. Lifting Yourself up by Your Own Bootstraps
• 9. Do-It-Yourself Transfigurations
• 10. Gaining Superhuman Virtue
• 11. Transhumanist Theosis
• 12. Ecstatic Theurgy

9. Multiverse Rebirth

• 1. Bodies beyond Bodies
• 2. The Libraries of Universes
• 3. The Growth of Complexity
• 4. Multiverse Reincarnation
• 5. The Soul is the Form of the Body
• 6. Progressive Karma
• 7. The Plotinian Higher Universe
• 8. Your Tree of Lives
• 9. Universes Beget Universes

10. To Call the World Tree

• 1. Casting a Circle of Reasoning
• 2. Water: The Original Nothingness
• 3. Earth: The Emergence of Existence
• 4. Air: The Totality of Forms
• 5. Sky: The Structure of Nature
• 6. Light: The Best of All Possible Worlds
• 7. Sun: The Good Illuminates the Best World
• 8. Fire: The Tree of Universes
• 9. Sex: The Andretor and the Gynetor
• 10. Ecstasy: The Stars in the Sky
• 11. Uncasting the Circle of Reasoning

11. Atheistic Mysticism

• 1. Interpreting Mystical Experiences
• 2. Features of Mystical Experiences
• 3. Eleven Atheistic Mystical Experiences
• 4. The Five Themes in Atheistic Mysticism
• 5. Atheistic Mysticism and Relational Structure
• 6. Atheistic Mysticism and Ego Dissolution
• 7. Atheistic Mysticism and the Good

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Index