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Cover of Gospel of Being
First published
2024
Publisher
John I. Mackay
ISBN
9780648098324

Gospel of Being

The outer archives are busy

by John I. Mackay

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Historically, philosophers have grounded their ontologies in one of three foundations: **substance** (Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza), **process** (Buddhism, Heraclitus, Hegel, Whitehead), or **difference** (Deleuze). In contrast, _The Gospel of Being_ offers a fourth path—one that does not merely describe existence but _reveals_ it as a **conference of difference**: a condition of _bearing together_ that transforms the condition of _bearing apart_. This is not a theory of everything—it is _everything_. From quantum fields to the structure of the cosmos and the emergence of meaning itself, the conference of difference is the generative principle that sustains and transforms existence. It is a process not only of being but everything related to it. This ontology is formalized as the **equation of existence**: ∃ = {Δ} where existence is nothing less than a continuous conference of difference. Through this first principle, all other dimensions of being emerge—**meaning, power, and salvation**—not as metaphysical add-ons, but as natural consequences of differences-in-conference. This vision reframes ontology not as a system of classification, but as a living pattern of reciprocal unfolding—a grammar of being in its truest, most generative form.

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