CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE AWE OF THE UNIVERSE -- The Euphoric Framing of a Worldview -- Cosmology vs. Cosmogony -- The Different Conceptions of the Universe -- Some Deep Questions in Cosmology -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Scientific Argument -- The Religious Argument -- The Metaphysical Argument -- The Esoteric Argument -- The Post-Cosmological Argument -- The Theory of Post-Cosmology -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- PART TWO The Contested Beginnings -- CHAPTER 2 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CONTESTED BEGINNINGS -- The Persuasion of Its Contested Beginnings -- Its Contested Beginnings-and the Mind -- Acosmism, and the Illusion in the Creation of the Universe -- Idealism, the Mind, and the Problem of Universals -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Nature -- The Big Bang Theory, and the Pre-Big Bang Alternatives -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Society -- Earth-Centric Cosmology, and the Politics of the Church -- Correlative Cosmology, and Empire Building -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Culture -- Theology, and the Cosmological Argument -- Hylomorphism, Ethics, and the Teleology of the Universe -- The Questionability of Its Contested Beginnings -- PART THREE The Speculative Ends -- CHAPTER 3 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SPECULATIVE ENDS -- The Wonder of Its Speculative Ends -- Its Speculative Ends-and the Mind -- Involution, the Mind, and the Cosmic Return to the Absolute.

The Esoteric Seven, and the Spiritual Evolution of the Universe -- Its Speculative Ends-and Nature -- The Scientific Debate about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe -- Its Speculative Ends-and Society -- Heaven's Gate, the End of the Earth, and Cult Suicide -- MRTCG, Apocalypticism, and Doomsday Deaths -- Its Speculative Ends-and Culture -- Eschatology, the End of the World, and Religion -- The Controversy of Its Speculative Ends -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY -- Beyond the Contested Beginnings and the Speculative Ends -- Other Relevant Principles -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4rd Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 15th Thesis: The Post-Human Odyssey -- Towards Post-Cosmology -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.