My investigation via reflection and meditation began with trying to come to terms with my understanding of The Trinity. The culmination of the meditation, reflections and contemplation of The Trinity was my composition, Three-thirds of One-Third Three Times. While Aquinas expressed his spiritualism concerning the sacred Wonder and Mystery of reality, Hawking described his scientific understanding of what is known, not known and theorized about the reality of the universe and I wrote about my understanding about what I have learned via the human communications from past, present, well educated, and every day good people living and sharing their beliefs about the events of their lives and what they believe is sacred, secular, wondrous and mysterious.
Three-thirds of One-Third Three Times is my understanding of the UCFC. While Aquinas states his understanding of the attributes belonging to the UCFC, God and humankind’s relationship with that God, I imply the attributes that I understand to be the spiritual characteristics of the reality investigated via scientific study (i.e. the origin and evolutionary process of our universe). I am in good keeping with Bohr’s attitude that on occasions science must rely on the arts (poetry) to convey what is scientifically understood.
My framework understands time as an abstract human construct, a tool, that facilitates our understanding of reality. Reality is events and processes. Some processes are intangible like fire. Fire is the process of oxidation, but it is intangible. You cannot hold fire in your hand but your hand can burn up. Your hand, which you can touch, has substance and that substance can go through the process of oxidation (to burn up). Humans can feel the oxidation of a pile of wood by sticking their hands over the top of that pile of wood that is in the process of oxidation. If the pile of wood is not oxidizing then nothing is felt when the hand is placed over that same pile of wood. “Meaning” like fire is intangible. The intangibleness of meaning is critical and is a foundation block, if not the cornerstone, of my worldview.