‘Beyond within’ — a definition

If something is beyond, then we do not know it. If we come to know it, then it is within. Anything unknowable remains forever beyond. Anything forever beyond is pointless to us. Only if we come to know it in some way is it in any way relevant. Anything we come to know is always within.

1. There are certain things that necessarily we cannot know — things which it is logically impossible for us to know. For example, in life, we cannot know ‘heaven’ which is a place reserved for the spiritual existence of the dead. It is reasonable that logical impossibility precludes things from our knowledge of them, as logical possibility appeals to a deep inner common sense and appeals to what we feel intuitively to make sense.

2. There are other things which we do not know but which we may know at a future present time. It is logically possible that we may know these things, but may not be: (2.1) practically or technically possible, (2.2) empirically possible or (2.3) possible on common sense grounds, at this time. For example, we may not know any entity, context or form which is beyond our comprehension, but this is not to say we will not know such things at a future present time when (2.1.1) technical difficulties are overcome, (2.2.1) if there is a change in the universal ‘laws of nature’, or (2.3.1) when there is a change in the way ‘common sense’ is defined and appeals to our intuition. We may not today comprehend the form of another universe but that is not to say we will not be able to comprehend it in a future present time though it remains at the moment that the universe which we ‘cannot logically comprehend’ must remain unknowable (1).

3. Because we do not know these things now but may come to understand or comprehend their nature in a future present time there is a sense in which such understanding is ‘within’ us as potential — nothing logical has precluded us from knowing these things so they can be part of us at any such time that they become possible. Anything logically possible in this way cannot be ruled out from actually possible in the future. So, although beyond us in one way (presently not possible), these things are also within us (potentially within us), they are ‘beyond within’ — they are beyond our knowledge but within our logical potential. We do not already know them but they are not ‘beyond’ our potential.

4. Although there is a category of things which are beyond us (those things which are logically impossible), all other things outside that category are possible and therefore cannot be said to be ‘beyond’. Because something is beyond us in place (we cannot see, touch or otherwise sense it), or beyond us in time (we have not yet experienced it but may do so at a future present time) this does not lead to the conclusion that it is beyond us.

5. This sense of within can be thought of as a potential which is available to discovery in any part of the near or distant future.

6. Such things (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) are not absolutely beyond and cannot be part of what we consider ‘beyond’ the person — they are always ‘beyond within’. This means, for example, that a revelation, does not come from ‘beyond’ but is somehow ‘unlocked’ as part of what is within us but not previously known.