Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

  ✦🌌∞ THE GREAT TAXONOMY OF TRANSCENDENCE ∞🌌✦ A Grand Classification of the Ways Reality, Mind, Being, Meaning, Life, Spirit, Infinity, and the Divine May Surpass Every Given Horizon ✦ Foundational Thesis ✦ Transcendence is the principle of the Beyond. It is whatever: exceeds a boundary, surpasses a condition, escapes a closure, outgrows an identity, penetrates beneath an appearance, rises above a level, crosses into another order, integrates a contradiction, transforms the framework itself, or opens a horizon that the previous horizon could not contain. But the deepest form of transcendence is more radical still: Transcendence is the refusal of any finite configuration to possess final authority over possibility. A prison may be real without being ultimate. A wound may be real without being eternal. A system may be powerful without being absolute. A concept may be useful without being exhaustive. A world may be vast without being the only world. An i...