The Substrate
The Substrate
This book begins with a premise that most modern inquiry refuses: that science, philosophy, and sacred tradition are not in competition. They are different instruments pointed at the same thing.
That thing is reality. And reality, encountered directly enough, without the filters of inherited language and institutional frame, is what most traditions have called God.
This is not a theological argument. It is not an atheist argument either. It is an attempt to find what is actually there — by asking what every serious attempt to understand existence has in common, and what each reveals that the others miss.
The same question runs underneath all of it: what is the substrate on which everything else runs? And what does it mean that we are made of it?