The Cosmic Cathedral of Consciousness
The emergence of extraecclesiastical studies—the philosophical inquiry into religious consciousness beyond Earth—marks a necessary evolution in both theology and astrobiology. To confront the possibility of extraterrestrial consciousness meaningfully, we must anticipate how spiritual systems might arise from non-human material and astronomical conditions. This text suggests that such an inquiry can be grounded in the materialist metaphysics of George Santayana, the cosmic pluralism of Giordano Bruno, and the intercultural methodology of Arthur Schopenhauer. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If, in the future, the existence of extraterrestrial species and civilizations becomes common knowledge, we may come to know the cultures, histories and traditions of life-forms whose home worlds are separated from us by the immense all engulfing infinite void. This recognition necessitates the creation of frameworks capable of addressing not merely ...