Explained

Transcendent Reality purposely integrates science, philosophy, religion and governance into a consistent, coherent, and complementary paradigm which is founded in reality and relevant to our environment. Transcendent Reality seeks to enhance our collective chances for survival, continuance-in-kind, and prosperity well beyond random chance. Transcendent Reality symbolizes a new awakening of our capabilities as individuals within an aligned society, and a revelation of our common purpose and destiny.  In Transcendent Reality, religion assumes its natural roll as the social conscience of governance - defining governance as the system by which a human society or culture regulates or unifies itself into a recognizable social entity.

Reality
Absolute Reality is all that exists everywhere, regardless of whether we know about it or not. Absolute Reality is what we seek knowledge of through our science. Reality is that part of absolute reality that we collectively know.

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Environment
We do not exist separate and apart from Reality, but are part of it and have a relationship to it. Our Environment describes our relationship with Reality. The Environment is that part of Reality that affects us.

Our environment both supports us and constrains us. It is both a haven and a danger. We are both predator and prey in our environment. We are in competition for scarce resources with other creatures, and even others of our kind.

We must continually seek knowledge of our Environment, and how it works, so that we may both modify our habits, and modify our environment to better insure our survival, protect our young so that we continue our kind, and increase our prosperity.

Transcendent Reality requires that each generation improve our environment so that with each succeeding generation our kind becomes more successful and more prosperous.

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Science
Science and the scientific method are our tools for separating truth from perception and deception, and for gaining knowledge of Reality. Our first glimpse of Reality is through our senses. But they reveal only a small portion of Reality. So we construct scientific instruments to probe and measure and test. Our scientific instruments are extensions of our senses. The scientific method is a special philosophical construct that insures our fidelity to truth in our scientific investigations. Science and Philosophy are related through our scientific models.

Transcendent Reality requires that our knowledge gained through science be continually examined and questioned in the light of new discoveries.

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Philosophy
In science we quest knowledge. In philosophy we quest understanding. Our Philosophy contains tools that help us construct models of the systems we perceive in Reality. These models aid us in understanding, arriving at conclusions, and making predictions. In philosophy we have constructed models of logic, including inductive reasoning (generalizing from a few specific examples to whole classes of things), and deductive reasoning, (concluding the specific example from a general class.) In Transcendent Reality we consider Philosophy to include mathematics, as it is a collection of models of numerical systems. Philosophy is our collection of models of systems in Reality.

Philosophy and Science intertwine when we build scientific models representing our knowledge of Reality. These models help us visualize the systems in Reality, and allow us to make predictions and to manipulate our environment to better serve us. Our brain is limited in capacity to store and manipulate complex models, so we build computers that extend the capability of our brains.

Transcendent Reality requires that our theoretical models constructed through our philosophy be continually examined, improved, and replaced when new discoveries and alternate models achieve more accurate results.

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Religion
Religion is a special philosophical construct that defines, protects and promotes human morality.  Morality governs the conduct of individuals and groups within a culture or society that can, does, or may affects its collective welfare.  A moral choice is one that promotes or serves the greater social good.  The greater social good is measured by how well the moral tenet promotes or enhance our collective chances for survival, continuance-in-kind, and prosperity.  

Philosophy and religion intertwine when we build models of laws, ethics, morality and choice. Our moral strictures must promote the greater social good by increasing our collective chances for survival, continuance-in-kind, and prosperity. Transcendent Reality requires that our moral strictures continually be examined, and revised when the guidance from them no longer furthers the greater social good, measured by our collective chances for survival, our collective chances for continuance-in-kind, or our collective chances for prosperity.

For a deeper discussion visit our Religion web page.

Governance
Governance is a system of promoting unity and enforcing common action in a group of humans.  Governance may be barely discernable, as in loosely aligned primitive family group or clan with infrequent gatherings or interface.  Governance may be very pronounced and complex, as in a modern state with multiple levels of political systems, extensive bureaucracies, and codified laws and regulations. Our system of Governance must be responsive to, and interactive with, our Science, Philosophy and Religion if it is to guide us in directions that serve the greater social good, and lead to greater chances of survival, continuance-in-kind, and prosperity for the greater social unit.

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Complementary, coherent, and consistent
Science, philosophy, religion and governance intertwine in reality, and it is often difficult to discern where one begins and another ends.  We discuss these four aspects of human culture as if they are distinct and separate disciplines. But in reality one discipline cannot be effectively employed without some or all of the other three contributing and supporting.  For example, we cannot have an effective science without the philosophical construct of the scientific method.  Nor can a useful philosophical model be constructed unless it is grounded in reality and fed factual data.  Science and philosophy without religion may lead us to create our own destruction, as when we deliberately contaminate our food with poisons to keep them looking fresh while the poisons wreck havoc on our internal systems and fertility. Religion, itself is a special philosophical construct, is useless unless it positively affect those who govern to act in the interest of the greater social good, and not in their own special or vested interests.  And the entire paradigm of Transcendent Reality is an exercise in futility if it does not actually increase our collective chances for survival, continuance-in-kind, and prosperity.