The Divine Dilemma

von Sandeep Chavan

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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What exactly are we describing when we use the word God?A being? A creator? A lawgiver? A cosmic intelligence? The ground of existence? A human projection? A name given to an experience we cannot otherwise contain?After questioning reality in Cracks in the Known and turning the arena inward toward identity in The Human Game, Sandeep Chavan follows the finite human self toward its most persistent boundary: the divine.In The Divine Dilemma, the arena returns-but one chair remains deliberately empty.Around it gather reconstructed intellectual voices drawn from Krishna, Buddha, Newton, Spinoza, Freud, Jung, theology, scientific skepticism, philosophy, and contemporary structural thought. None is summoned to endorse the author. None is allowed to settle the argument by authority.The questions become increasingly difficult.Does continuity require a soul?Can consciousness exist without an eternal owner?Does karma describe consequence-or an invisible moral ledger?Why would a good and powerful God permit innocent suffering?What does an unanswered prayer actually establish?What survives death: the person, awareness, information, relationship, influence, consequence-or merely the desire that something must continue?If God already knows every future choice, in what sense do human beings choose?Does cosmic order imply an intelligence behind it, or does "intelligence" merely rename the order we are trying to explain?And when a person experiences awe, presence, unity, mystical silence, prayer, love, or the dissolution of ordinary self-boundaries, how far may that experience legitimately take us?Throughout the book, Chavan also turns the same pressure upon his own UED and Chavanian frameworks. Concepts such as resolution, persistence, consequence, alignment, and changed geometry may illuminate structural questions-but they are not permitted to become scientific proof of God, soul, reincarnation, cosmic purpose, or post-mortem consciousness.The result is neither religious apologetics nor an argument for atheism. It is an inquiry into the boundary between what human beings experience, what they interpret, what they can test, and what they may still not know.The Divine Dilemma does not end by declaring: You are divine. Nor does it conclude: There is no divine.Instead, it leaves the reader with a more demanding recognition:We know that human beings encounter something they call divine.We know far less about what, ultimately, that word is pointing toward.And the arena remains open.

• Reihe: The War of Thoughts
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein Religionsphilosophie
• ISBN: 9798230575337
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.03.2025
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: SANDEEP CHAVAN