Chinese Tai Chi Symbol And The Logic Of Existence

God Connection paper continued
April, ‘81

Fortunately, the Tai Chi symbol is sufficiently rich to express the
relationships implicit in God's freedom, a freedom that represents
the functional reality, which ultimately, develops into the relationships
that human analytical thinking takes for granted-- space, time, and number.
To simplify, here’s my own interpretation of the Tai Chi symbol.
God’s freedom, in terms of 1) human consciousness on the one hand, and
2) God's freedom to be on the other, may be conceived symbolically
in the Chinese symbol Tai Chi, or what is commonly recognized as the
yin/yang symbol. The line dividing the circle into two parts symbolizes
the freedom of God not to be God (while, at the same time, logically implying
God’s existence). In other words, all possible realities are grounded in this duality.

The logical operator “And,” in my interpretation of the Tai Chi symbol, becomes the analogue to duality—the ground of all possible realities. Reasoning, in terms of logic, is grounded in the logical operators And, Or, and If/Then. Since humans are distinguished by their reason and ability worship a creator, and, since the nature of God's freedom already manifests one of the key logical operators that contribute to reason, then God's freedom, we may speculate, is profoundly tied to the logical operators which union, in then, permits human behavior. The remainder of this paper will explore this possibility and the inevitable consequences that follow.

Life Is God’s Freedom In A Higher Dimension

Freedom is not static; while preserving duality, freedom unfolds more expressive, dynamic, and stabilizing possibilities of itself, thus giving rise to a new dimension of itself. Life—energy far from equilibrium, becomes God's "being of passage" within
a spatial environment, and the “Or” logical operator—the homeostasis of an organism is maintained or it dies—co-evolves with life. In the Tai Chi symbol this experience is represented by the complementary back and white colors (historically these colors were red and black) In this sense, the black (or white, depending on your preference) represents the negative space of God's freedom (death), while white represents the awareness of this space!

The nature of freedom is such that it must move forward into new
areas of experience or cease to exist. If you pick up a book on
ecology you will find that there is hardly a space on this planet
where some organism has not gained a foothold. In this sense, freedom
is spatially extended, but freedom is not limited by space.
As the complexity of freedom increases, new
dimensions of experience become possible. Life, once
again moving in a direction not contained in itself, after achieving a sufficient complexity, gives rise to a new dimension of reality, the human dimension.
This experience is especially interesting because we, the
human species (the dividing line separating species is always a gray area),
is this experience. Here, in the human dimension, we
are the experience of the experience of the experience of God's freedom.