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NOTES FROM THE OVERSOUL
(Confessions of the Undersoul)

Noel C. Ice
E-mail: teleice@earthlink.net
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Copyright 2003
Noel C. Ice
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NOTES FROM THE OVERSOUL
(Confessions of the Undersoul AT The turn of the MILLENNIUM)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 Prelude and Preview... 5

1.1       Introduction to the Introduction. 5

1.2       What I Really Mean. 6

1.3       When You Have No Publisher You Can Say Any Damn Thing You Please. 6

1.4       Meta-Ethics is Really What this Treatise is About. 6

1.5       Preparation. 7

1.6       Teleology or Not Teleology, That is the Question. 7

1.7       Designed?. 8

1.8       God. 9

1.9       A God’s Eye View –. 11

1.9(a) All I am Really Asking is For a Little Empathy. 11

1.9(b) If Not a God’s Eye View, at Least an Eye View Where the Misplaced Self-Interest of the Decision Maker is Not Affected by the Decision. 11

1.10     The All Important Doctrine of No-Self. 15

1.11     Lucid Dreaming as a Possible Paradigm For the Generation of the Universe. 18

1.12     Free-will and Unjust Desert. 19

1.13     Recognizing Our Limitations. 23

1.14     East and West and Their Twain. 24

1.15     The Sum of the Parts. 25

1.16     This World is Not of Our Making. 25

1.17     Do We Participate in The Madness or Not? Krishna Says Yes. I am Not So Sure?. 27

1.18     The Fundamental Absurdity of the Human Condition. 30

CHAPTER 2 The MeaniNg of Words. 33

CHAPTER 3 A Meta-Ethics. 36

3.1       What is Metaphysics. 36

3.2       The Proper Metaphysical Perspective —Your Own or Someone Else’s?. 36

3.2(a) What is the Self Anyway?. 36

3.2(b) Self-Interest. 36

3.3       A God’s Eye View. 37

3.3(a) Is a God’s Eye View Possible?. 38

3.3(b) The Human Ability to Empathize is the Key to a Proper Meta-Ethical Perspective. 39

3.3(c) Utilitarianism. 39

3.3(c)(1) Do You Have a Better Idea?. 39

3.3(c)(2) The Greatest Good For the Greatest Number of Ubermensche?. 40

CHAPTER 4 For WhoM Would You Give Up Your Life and Why.. 41

CHAPTER 5 Poverty of the Spirit. 43

CHAPTER 6 GOD.. 45

6.1       What is meant by the word “God”?. 45

6.2       What’s in a Name? God’s Name by Any Other . . . . 47

6.3       What Does the Word “God” Mean; Is it Even Coherent?. 48

6.4       The First Question. 52

CHAPTER 7 TELEOLOGY AND DESIGN.. 54

7.1       Teleology or Not Teleology, That is the Question. 54

CHAPTER 8 Free-will. 57

8.1       Free-will and Our Predilections. 57

8.2       Is the Term “Free-will” Coherent. 58

8.3       Determinism and Choice?. 60

8.4       Determinism and Consciousness. 60

8.5       Could Have Done Otherwise (If?).