Nothing Is Real

By Kenneth Finton

Ken Finton's astonishing new e-book describes dimensions as the building blocks of existence and explores in depth the double meaning of the title. Shockingly original ... "mentally challenging, one of the most important works of the century." (A New Zealand Reader.)

This book has the power to shape and change your world view by questioning the very nature of being and existence with fresh logic, penetrating wit, astute observations and perceptive writing.

Beginning with the source in zero dimension to the infinite 1st dimension (the point), to the second dimension of the universal plane, to the third dimension that observes the height and shape of an object in space, to the fourth dimension of spacetime where we view our world ... the perception dimensions create our material universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Finton
• Release date: Jan 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781892977120

Kenneth Finton

Former staff writer in New York City, performer for 50 years, publisher, blogger, philosopher, poet, and photographer, I have done most everything that interests me for many years.

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NOTHING IS REAL

© 2016 Kenneth Harper Finton

FIRST EDITION

ISBN: 9781892977120

‘1.Non-fiction / Ontology / Philosophy—Metaphysics /

Body, Mind and Spirit / New Thought

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means––electronic or mechanical (including photocopying and recording)––or reproduced in any information storage or retrieval system without the written permission of the Publisher.

Book and cover design by Kenneth Harper Finton

Editorial Consultant: Chaya Lucette Thompson

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PROLOGUE

Our brains are wired for ideology from childhood.

The way we think is established at an early age.

Most of us grow up thinking like our parents did.

Our selves are combinations of that which

society forces upon us, our genetic wiring

and the influences from those closest to us.

If atheist, agnostic, theists and true believer

could come to comprehend a basic truth

would the world itself change?

Important social issues have room for debate.

There is often more than one answer to a problem.

Our brains decide which to choose,

but our brains are wired differently.

I began again at the beginning,

speaking to atheists, theists,

agnostics and true believers.

There is much room for disagreement

in common issues that have a temporal urgency,

I turned my attention toward the basis of nature itself.

the lack of purpose that depresses modern visions,

the pessimism that grips so many about me.

What I found surprised me.

Prepare to be surprised

Chapter 1

METAPHYSICS

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being in the world. The word comes from the Greek metá, meaning beyond and physiká, meaning physics. Metaphysics is concerned with that which is beyond physics. As such, it is not easily defined or put into words.

A metaphysician tries to clarify the fundamental ways that people can understand the world and the universe about them. They are concerned with existence, objects that are brought forth by existence, space and time, cause and effect and the new possibilities of understanding that these concepts can raise.

Metaphysics attempts to clarify two basic questions that have bothered thinkers since man became self-aware: 1) what is existence? what is really there? 2) what is this ultimate existence like?

The central branch of metaphysics is called ontology. Ontology tries to determine the nature of being itself. It asks questions such as: What does exist? What are things? What are events? What is the meaning of being? And how may being itself be classified?

Metaphysics predates both physics and science. Originally the term science meant knowledge, but came to be seen as empirical knowledge––learning that can be deduced from outside sources such as experiments and whose results can be duplicated. Empirical knowledge is different from rational knowledge where reason alone is considered evidence. Empirical knowledge takes an idea, a hypothesis, and performs experiments to prove the idea, reviews those experiments with others (peer review that includes adversarial opinions), then publishes these findings so that others may duplicate the results.

One would think that the scientific and empirical method of seeking answers is the most correct method, but some questions and ideas cannot be subject to experiments and data. These are called a prori, meaning from the earlier. Findings based on experimentation and scientific methods are called a posteriori, meaning from the later.

AWARENESS AND THE SENSES

The senses are the source of our information about objects and ourselves. This sensory input is calculated and organized to form the basis of conception. Much of this is unconscious phenomena. If conceptions were not a tool of awareness there would be little of which to be cognizant.

Let us define awareness. It is the state or quality of being aware of an external object––something other than the self. Awareness is the ability to experience and be affected by an outer force other than the self.

The above is an a priori statement. It is not dependent upon scientific experiments or methods, but on reason and logic alone. One cannot prove consciousness or awareness. It is inferred from itself and made obvious by its own presence.

This idea has mighty implications. It places awareness before or simultaneous to the material aspect of ‘things’, acknowledges that awareness existed before or at the same time that things appeared, and places the senses as the method for interpreting the being of the objects. At that moment, being is conceptualized, and thereby exists.

We may, I believe, assume that this happens at the very birth of existence itself. We deduce that the world is composed of geometric patterns that have mathematical properties. This pattern of birthing repeats continually through nature and the universe. It happens from the most primitive levels of elemental attraction to the most significant birthing of organisms. This has happened to each of us as we gradually became aware of the world outside ourselves. We know within ourselves the world that comes rushing in at birth.

Gnosis is the Greek noun for knowledge, from which we developed the English word ‘know’. It is the word ancient Greeks used for the personal knowledge that we can deduce and come to know within ourselves, rather than intellectual knowledge that comes from learning from that outside ourselves. We can deduce––because it has occurred within each of us––that this gnosis (this knowledge of the self) exists in every existent thing. We have no choice but to deduce this, as we are the only existent things that we can prove to be real. If that gnosis is in us, then it must occur everywhere because we cannot prove there is anything but our own self. This is where logic takes us.

The idea makes us expand the idea of the self to include all gnosis. Knowledge exists in every existent thing because it is an element in the basic building of existence. Awareness, no matter how primitive or formative, is knowledge.

Logic and pure mathematics are a priori. They do not depend upon empirical facts to exist. Mathematics and logic exist outside of the perceived and provable methods of scientific experimentation. This does not mean that logic and mathematics are inferior to scientifically objective findings. Both are used to point to findings that scientific methods cannot probe. The two methods operate in their own distinct realms, as different from one another as the sense of sight from the sense of