I do not seek to understand so that I can believe,
but I believe so that I may understand;
and what is more,
I believe that unless I do believe,
I shall not understand.
What follows is unorthodox and subject to criticism. It reflects not “truth” (truth is beyond conceptualization), but my conceptual understanding of what must be in order for things to be the way they are.
To assign causes as an explanation of physical phenomena is to confess ignorance of
ultimates. Ultimate universe reality cannot be grasped by science, mathematics, logic, or philosophy. It comes as no surprise, then, that secularists almost always ask “what do you mean by Ultimate Reality?” or say “I don't know” as if that could be a source of wisdom.
Ultimate Reality is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it. Only when we cease to seek cognitive knowledge, that is, cease to seek understanding of a thing, we can gain conative knowledge of it. According to
Wikipedia, “Conation is a term that stems from the Latin conatus, meaning any natural tendency, impulse, striving, or directed effort. Conative is one of three parts of the mind, along with the affective and cognitive. In short, the cognitive part of the brain has to do with intelligence, the affective deals with emotions and the conative drives how one acts on those thoughts and feelings.” Other sources refer to conative knowledge as “experiential knowledge,” but it hardly a passive kind of knowing. One might even call it "faith."
Unity
is the Absolute and arises out of the Absolute: the I AM. From Unity there appears cosmic Duality: dynamic causation (Spirit-nature) and the static-reactive (physics). From such Duality, Mind springs forth into existence, and this Trinity—Father, Son and Spirit (to use the common religious vernacular)—is the primal source of all reality.
