Plotinus: The One (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Friday, March 28, 2014, 14:14 (3894 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Since my arguments based on Stenger's ideas of the universe originating from a void don't seem to have been understood, I've been looking for other ways of expressing similar ideas. Maybe these ideas of Plotinus go some way to bridging the gap between reason and mysticism:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinos#One
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> Maybe this is a way of reconciling all our views.
> One instead of Nothing!-Now we are into philosophy. Good, and thanks for showing us this approach. Havng biefly reviewed the Wiki, Plotinus seems close to my own thoughts that come from Einstein and Spinoza. Their approach was that God is everything in nature and in the universe, and cannot ever be fully understood. I am a panentheist who believes God is a universal consciousness, both within and without the universe, and our consciousness is a tiny portion of the universal. thus there has always been an eternal something.