During the thousands of years of human learning, evolution has been primarily divergent, as we see in religious demarcations, academic specialization, and the division of labour in the workplace.

Since Aristotle rejected Heraclitus’s both-and Hidden Harmony about 2,350 years ago, when establishing the either-or foundations of Western logic, it has been assumed that for reasoning to be valid, it must reject self-contradictions.

There is a well-known mathematical joke that illustrates the reason why conventional mathematicians and logicians do not allow paradoxes in their axioms:

In Panosophy, Parousia is a synonym of Presence, with the same Proto-Indo-European roots, literally meaning ‘before being’ or ‘prior to existence’, as the Absolute.

We can merge the original literal and figurative senses of profound by recognizing that to understand what is happening to humanity at the present time, we need to dive into the utmost depths of the Ocean of Consciousness; without drowning, of course!

A paradox occurs when an entity has dual attributes A and not-A, whatever A might be. Aristotle called such a situation the ‘Law of Contradiction’, saying, “It is impossible for the same attribute at once to belong and not to belong to the same thing and in the same relation … as some imagine Heraclitus says.”