Hi Rick,
I have been following the very thoughtful ideas in this thread with interest. More than a few helpful insights have been expressed. Your question about the difference between cosmic philosophy and super-philosophy is intriguing, because it asks after the possibility of a higher perspective than the philosophical. In a general sense, everyone has a philosophy about reality, a worldview, since it is impossible to think without this.
Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame in which to think. (115:1.1)
Philosophy determines the universe frame in which the individual (philosopher) locates, orients, and understands his personal existence. The existential ground of the philosopher determines the nature of the things, meanings, and values of personal experience, because existence necessarily precedes and underlies experience. The question of existence – being – at the root of philosophy is always a metaphysical one. Metaphysics is the effort to identify differing levels of reality. Aristotle called it “first philosophy” with good reason: Philosophy cannot begin before establishing the nature of existence and the levels of being. Unfortunately, neither human reason nor logic can satisfactorily answer metaphysical questions. Instead, philosophy is forced to begin with unprovable axiomatic assumptions about what is real, which leads to different variations of materialism, skepticism, and idealism. Only revelation can resolve this existential confusion by authoritatively validating certain insights into the reality.
“Mota is a supermaterial reality sensitivity which is beginning to compensate incomplete growth, having for its substance knowledge-reason and for its essence faith-insight. Mota is a superphilosophical reconciliation of divergent reality perception which is nonattainable by material personalities…” (103:6.7)
“Metaphysics has proved a failure; mota, man cannot perceive. Revelation is the only technique which can compensate for the absence of the truth sensitivity of mota in a material world.” (103:6.8)
“The highest attainable philosophy of mortal man must be logically based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the truth insight afforded by revelation.” (103:6.15)
The written word of epochal revelation can compensate for the absence of the super-philosophical reality perception of mota. As I understand it, cosmic philosophy attempts to harmonize the scientific facts of the outer world of the universe created, controlled, and upheld by God with the inner world of religious truths arising from the personal realization of God’s infinite spiritual love. Another way of looking at this is as the joining of the immanence of God with the transcendence of God.
If the superphilosophical reality sensitivity of mota is unavailable to us, is there, nevertheless, some relationship between morontia mota and the inherent insights of the cosmic mind?
“These scientific, moral, and spiritual insights, these cosmic responses, are innate in the cosmic mind, which endows all will creatures.” (16:6.9)
“In the local universe mind bestowals, these three insights of the cosmic mind constitute the a priori assumptions which make it possible for man to function as a rational and self-conscious personality in the realms of science, philosophy, and religion.” (16:6.10)
In particular, I wonder how mota might be related to the unification of these three cosmic insights into objective reality?
“Aside from these three inalienables of human consciousness, all human experience is really subjective except that intuitive realization of validity attaches to the unification of these three universe reality responses of cosmic recognition.” (16:9.1)
