Bøger af Edward Conklin Ph. D.

Original sin occurred when Middle East cultures ignored that life is a continuation of the environment, and instead imagined and artistically portrayed the word portrait of a first father god to be the origin of existence, and by so doing directed attention away from what animates life internally. Truth can be found in either/or explanations but is also just as often discovered midway between two alternatives. Such is the solution to the question, does a monotheistic first father god exist? The God-Soul Theory answers the conundrum by affirming yes, a first father does exist as a subjective imaginal idea in the cerebral cortex of the human brain but does not exist objectively as real and true. A first father god exists only subjectively and is therefore only half real. The God-Soul Theory advocates for a psychological view of partial-atheism. The theory asserts that a first father god is subjectively real to a sizable group of humans but the personal acceptance and belief of many is no guarantee that it is objectively real. A monotheistic god is a subjective and pre-scientific way of identifying an unknown beginning, and is an imagined artistic way of orienting to what is good and protective of humans. The first father god of monotheism is derived not from reasoning, as suggested and accepted in the past but is instead a product of artistic imagining and story, as an effort to know an unknown beginning of the environment and life. The God-Soul Theory also asserts that since a first father is an expression of human ability for artistic imagining and word art, a popular yet poorly conceived notion of a human soul cannot have been made by and has nothing to do with a human-like god. An animating soul is a continuation of the natural environment of energy and force and it is this factor that renders it resistant to destruction. The soul is a triune willing function of hunger for food and water, sex and reproduction, and aggression that enables life to survive, and is resistant to destruction.

This work discusses a God-Soul Theory. The theory advocates that a human-like god exists only subjectively and is not objectively real. A monotheistic first father god is a subjective way of identifying an unknown beginning and a way of orienting to what is good, caring, and protective of humans. The God-Soul Theory proposes that all gods, especially the monotheistic first father god of Middle East origin and Western culture is an artistic creation by word artists that occurs only in the cerebral cortex of the human brain. The God-Soul Theory further asserts that the human soul is real and yet, is not a shining divine presence within but is a triune forcible hunger for food, sex and reproduction, and aggression that forces life to live and survive. The soul is a continuation of the energy elements of the earth, and is a continuation of a cosmological force that moves the universe and ever exists on its own.

This work is a collection of brief essays that discuss metaphysical areas of inquiry such as the western concept of a human-like god and the soul. Since a religion cannot be classified as mathematics or as a science, then religion should be more properly classified as art. The term art is defined as, works created by human skill and imagination. Just as are tool-making, invention, and the creative arts of theater, film, literature, painting, and sculpture, the many gods and goddesses of religion, are also the result of artistic endeavor, the purely artistic subjective expression of creative talent. Religion must be recognized for what it really is, a creative craft and imaginative artistic expression. The human soul as that which survives physical death has long been associated with reason, ethics, morals, and goodness yet in reality is none these. The soul of life is a relative and triune force of hunger for food, sex and reproduction, and aggression that enable humans to survive life and also to continue after physical death.

The practice of meditation is a fixing of attention on a topic for the purpose of better comprehension. Most modern humans have little time to meditate and to investigate life, and even less time to realize what a god and a soul truly is. Instead, the average person settles for and relies on faith, belief, and tradition to provide meager evidence for the existence of a god and a soul. The meditations of this work serve to elucidate the long held conception of a human-like god and the soul.

Where has life come from and how is it connected to the origin of the universe? Does a human-like god exist? Do humans have a soul that survives physical death? This work explores the psychology of these metaphysical topics. In philosophy an argument is defined as, an attempt to persuade or convince another to a point of view or course of action. The argument in this work is that all human-like gods are the adult version of a childhood imaginary companion, and are further elaborated on by human artistic imagination. I also argue that the human soul is a real triune force that forces life to live, and that it is a continuation of a sole cosmological force that ever exists on its own.

The human soul is a triune force that forces life to live and to survive. Life is a continuation of the energy elements of the environment that in turn is a continuation of a cosmological force. The discovery of energy and the repeated confirmation and utilization of it is a scientific testament of truth. This objective testament of science sanely replaces any and all subjective testaments of a human-like god. Through time humans will eventually develop the comprehension that a human-like god is only a human way to speak of a cosmological force that shapes all that exists. In time the dim light of evolving comprehension will lift the veil of the dark shade of human ignorance to reveal a cosmological origin. Those who reach individual cognitive maturity, will realize that all references to a human-like god only compose an artistic word portrait that represents higher human potential and protection. It will also be realized that the soul does not need to be saved by a god as it is a continuation of an indestructible cosmological force, and is by default saved by a universal conservation of energy.

Based on three types of artifact remains circa 100,000-6,000 BP, there is evidence of religious thinking and behavior that suggests a concern by early humans for the origin of their existence as well as that of animal and plant life. The evidence is Neanderthal burial, European Paleolithic cave art, and female figures. All three areas are conjoined by a single developed and long lasting geocentric (earth-centered) and gynocentric (female-centered) religious view. While both religion and art surely had a long covert background, the two phenomena both appeared nearly simultaneously and overtly in Paleolithic Europe. Therefore in reality they are the same creative impulse, art as the external visual craft of engraving, painting, and sculpture, and religion as an internal artistic and conceptual creative way to identify and relate to where life came from by utilizing human-like attributes.