I am Randy Dible; and I myself am the living Holy Dible, and I am also the idea that will become the book with that title, and a whole host of other material for The Ultimate Reality Show. I’m not quite sure how long I had the notion of there being a reality show-form of the revelation of ultimate reality, but the idea for The Holy Dible has been in the works for decades. At forty now, I have decided to wait no longer, because the world needs this highest teaching.
For a more direct, immediate expression of The Holy Dible as a metaphysical system, see this page of diagrams: Diagramming the Holy Dible.
On this page I intend to say something about the personal history of this idea of The Holy Dible. As of now, it is still only an idea and not a published book, but keep following my progress!
Here are some ancient folders containing schematic outlines of this conception of The Holy Dible that I created when I was a teenager—uncovered decades later, from a box of old papers in the dankest corner of the basement:
My brother Dexter Dible designed the cover, and he also helped me produce T-shirts, all back in 2003 or so. the T-shirts read “SUBJECTIVITY” and “PROFUNDITY” on the front and back, and also “DIMENSION” and “DISTINCTION.” These notions expressed certain of the key ideas that the earliest versions of this stuff considered important. My friend Justin Haynes, with the handle ZenBones, made a video of me talking this stuff way back in 2006, when I was 22: https://youtu.be/iMztnOK9wP0?si=NNSyZ2Q11UFCT7aP
But since then I got an education in philosophy, including a BA, an MA, and I’m currently a Ph.D. student who has been teaching since 2018. I have learned many diverse things, studied and published material about things I never knew before, yet despite all this development the central teaching that came to me spontaneously has remained the same. Since my most recent spiritual landing in late August 2024 everything has come full circle, full infinite sphere. Now all the things that have remained the same, as well as all the new philosophical things I am passionate about, and generally everything in my life, including my favorite philosophical classics that populate my syllabus, have landed upon a profound new economy in my very being and in the totality of my expression. Concretely, this means that while I teach the things on my syllabus, like Plato and Huxley and so on, it is all a means to the highest end: the deepest and highest teaching, the doctrine that is no doctrine, the doctrine of all doctrine, and so on. It is the completion of the mathesis universalis, philosophia perennis, etc., but it has a new form: the paradigm of the sphere.
More exactly, the adherence to the formal-ontological paradigmatic “structure” (it is a systemasystematon: an agapistic metaphysical architectonic openness grounded in the Absolute Infinite) that remains the same is something that came to me through George Spencer-Brown’s 1969 mathematical text called Laws of Form, which I learnt through the context of John Lilly’s use of it in the flotation tank. This was a paradigmatic shift centered on Spencer-Brown’s idea of “the first distinction” in the “unmarked state,” which I found in 2001. I then contacted Spencer-Brown, we became friends, and after his passing I went on to be a founding member of the society dedicated to his work, The Spencer-Brown Society.
In 2015, to the same old metaphysical system I added the idea of the infinite sphere, which came to me through an immersion in the work of Peter Manchester. Peter was one of my professors, a dear friend, a sage phenomenologist, brilliant scholar of Ancient Greek philosophy, and founding member of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS). Peter passed away in 2015, and I archived his work. I read his 2005 book The Syntax of Time, which traced Edmund Husserl’s diagram of inner time-consciousness back to ancient precedents in the relations of time and eternity that placed limited things in the frame of the Sphere of the All. in this idea of the infinite sphere I found the perfect housing for the first distinction of Spencer-Brown. While the addition of the infinite sphere framework was new and revolutionary, the paradigm of the sphere is still the same old formal-ontological paradigm as the original metaphysical system of the first distinction from 2001. Here are some of the pages from the sketch of The Holy Dible from around that year:
More to come soon! Stay tuned to this page!
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