The Reality & Metaphysics Series continues the work begun in the Reality & Cosmology Series, while moving from ontological structure toward metaphysical interpretation.
Where ontology asks:
What must reality be in order to exist?
metaphysics asks:
Why does reality unfold through process, openness, becoming, transformation, participation, and meaning at all?
The essays gathered here move from the ontological grammar of Embodied Process Realism (EPR) into broader metaphysical questions concerning:
- temporality,
- novelty,
- consciousness,
- continuity,
- rupture,
- participation,
- cosmology,
- identity,
- meaning,
- divine relationality,
- and the unfolding depth of reality itself.
Taken together, this emerging framework may provisionally be described as:
Open and Relational Process Metaphysics (ORPM)
or more dynamically,
Open and Relational Process Becoming (ORPB)
While deeply indebted to Alfred North Whitehead and the broader process tradition, the present series also seeks to move beyond mere commentary upon classical process philosophy.
Accordingly, the architecture developed throughout these essays gradually becomes:
- post-Whiteheadian in development,
- EPR-oriented in structure,
- metamodern in sensibility,
- and increasingly participatory in existential scope.
While Whitehead remains foundational - as he must - the framework that is emerging here will increasingly develop its own rhythm, symbolic ecology, philosophical tensions, and modes of inquiry.
The result is intended not as a closed metaphysical system -
but as an open and evolving processual exploration of -reality, becoming, meaning, and participation.
- R.E. Slater
Philosophy → What does it mean?
Metaphysics → Why must reality be?
Ontology → What must reality be?
Cosmology → How does reality unfold?
Consciousness → How is reality experienced?
Identity → How does continuity become self?
Meaning → Towards what does reality move?
Theology → How is the whole understood?
Ethics → How shall we live within reality?
PHASE I - Reality & Ontology
The Ground of Being - What Reality Must Be
PHASE II - Reality & Metaphysics
PHASE III - The Sacred Cosmos
PHASE IV - Civilization & Participation
Though this series may be read linearly, it may best be understood recursively - using each layer to deepen and reinterpret the essays before it.
Series Note
The essays gathered within this series are not intended to function as a finalized metaphysical system. Rather, they represent an evolving process of inquiry into:reality, becoming, consciousness, meaning, participation, and the sacred depth of existence.
Accordingly, many essays remain exploratory rather than conclusive. The series is therefore intended to be developmental, recursive, and participatory rather than dogmatic or closed.
This opening section explains why the series must move beyond ontology without abandoning its discipline.
👉 Introduction through narrative, imagination, existentiality, and philosophical transition.
These gateway essays introduce the existential and narrative dimensions of becoming.
👉 Narrative as threshold into metaphysical participation.
This section develops the foundational grammar of process-relational metaphysics.
👉 Foundational metaphysical structures emerging from ontology.
Temporality, persistence, memory, futurity, and becoming.
👉 Time becomes the condition of becoming itself.
This section reconstructs Whitehead’s metaphysical vision through EPR and contemporary relational realism.
👉 Reconstruction rather than repetition of classical process philosophy.
This section examines how reality becomes knowable without collapsing into reductionism or relativism.
👉 Knowledge emerges through participatory disclosure rather than detached certainty.
This section explores interiority, feeling, mind, selfhood, and experiential participation.
👉 Movement from structural ontology toward lived interiority.
This section extends process metaphysics into cosmological and dimensional frameworks.
👉 Cosmology interpreted through relational becoming rather than static mechanism.
This section develops metaphysical theology emerging from process-relational becoming.
👉 Theology emerging from metaphysical openness rather than doctrinal closure.
This section explores religious expression, symbolic consciousness, and constructive theological formation.
👉 Theology reframed through openness, participation, and becoming.
Beauty, harmony, creativity, and aesthetic participation.
👉 Beauty becomes a metaphysical feature of reality itself.
This section confronts limitation, suffering, loss, death, and existential fragility.
👉 Mortality intensifies rather than negates meaning.
This section explores contemplative awareness, symbolism, transcendence, and spiritual participation.
👉 Mysticism becomes intensified participation rather than escape from reality.
This concluding section explores civilization, ethics, AI, ecology, democracy, technology, and future participation.
👉 Ethics becomes the lived embodiment of participatory becoming.
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