Ultimate Reality: The Names Used for the Ultimate Concern, God, Buddha, the Great Mystery etc.

On the Universe Spirit website and in our new form of non-denominational meta-spirituality that we call Evolution Spirituality we use the words Ultimate Reality to describe the ultimate concerns of existence. There are many different ways of describing the various personal and non-personal "ultimate realities” humanity has described.

We use Ultimate Reality in the hope that it would be more comfortable common term that can be used by individuals coming from either the western or eastern spiritualities or the sciences or humanism. While you are exploring our website you can use any name that you are comfortable with for what you conceive the Ultimate Reality or Ultimate Concern of existence to be. On this page you will also find many of the different old and new names used by our omni-denominational members or by other organizations to describe their concepts of this Ultimate Reality or Ultimate Concern.

The Master List of Omni-Denominational, Spiritual, Humanistic and Scientific Names for Ultimate Reality, Ultimate Concern and Total Reality

If you can add to this master list or help us find a better way to express the concepts of Ultimate Reality in a way that is comfortable to ALL of the above diverse perspectives, please contact us and do so. We would love the help with this wonderful language challenge!

(The list below is in alphabetical order for easier perusing.)

1. Absolute Spirit, Absolute Consciousness, Absolute Inclusiveness or simply    The Absolute
2. Allah
3. Anima Mundi (World Soul, Gaia, Universal Soul)
4. Atman
5. Brahma
6. Buddha
7. Causal
8. Christ
9. Christ Consciousness
10. Cosmic Christ
11. Consciousness
12. Conscious Universe
13. Divine
14. Divine Feminine, Kali, Oya, Pele, Mary, Shakti, Black Madonna or any of the other many names for Goddess embodying Absolute Divinity in a female manifestation.)
15. Divine Mother
16. Divine Mystery
17. Divine Presence
18. Divine Providence
19. Ein Sof
20. Ever Present Origin
21. Evolutionary Spirit
22. God
23. Godde
24. Goddess
25. God/Buddha
26. Great Consciousness
27. Great Interconnectedness
28. Great Mother
29. Great Mystery (The name used most often in Open Source Spirituality and Evolution Spirituality.)
30. Great Spirit
31. Great Union
32. Great Unity
33. Great Unfolding
34. Great Radiance
35. Great Relationship
36. Higher Power
37. Highest Essence
38. Highest Self
39. Holy Spirit
40. I am Who am (a non qualitative personal Divinity)
41. Infinite Consciousness
42. Infinite Essence
43. Infinite Mystery
44. Infinite one
45. Infinite oneness
46. Infinite Source
47. Infinite Spirit
48. Infinite Wholeness
49. Integrative Consciousness
50. Integrative Spirit
51. Jehovah
52. Kosmos
53. Krishna
54. Larger Self
55. Love
56. Mother Universe
57. Nondual Awareness
58. Original Essence
59. Original Organizing Principle
60. Pre Big Bang Reality
61. Post Big Bang Reality
62. Shakti
63. Shiva
64. The Cosmos
65. The Great Oneness
66. The Source
67. The Evolutionary Absolute
68. The Flow of Life or Life Force (Chi, Elan Vital, Prana)
69. The Infinite
70. The Great Oneness
71. The Great Radiance
72. The Great Spirit
73. The Tao
74. The Great Unified Field
75. The Great Unity
76. The Force
77. The Tripartite Absolute, (a term used within Universe Spirit for the combined        Personal, Evolutionary and Impersonal absolutes of God)
78. The Absolute Trinity or TriUnity
79. The Supreme
80. The Universal One
81. The Ultimate
82. The Universe or Living Universe
83. The Universal or Universe Source, Spirit or Soul
84. Total Reality
85. Total Pre and Post Big Bang Reality
86. The Wholeness of the Universe
87. Ultimate Concern
88. Ultimate Reality
89. Ultimate Universe Reality
90. Ultimate Truth
91. Ultimate Unity or Oneness
92. Ultimate Wholeness
93. Universe Consciousness
94. Universe Entity
95. Universal Life
96. Universal Oneness
97. Yahweh
98. Wakan Taka

The above list is the most current omni-denominational and trans-denominational terms that are used by Universe community members from different backgrounds to convey their understanding of Ultimate Reality – either the absolute Allness of Eastern or Western non-personal and personal spiritualities and/or the Ultimate Concern of Science and Humanism. You may interpret the above names to mean or reflect any individual name or combination of names or states of a personal God, impersonal Ultimate or, science or humanistic Reality Totality concept that you would like to use.

Know that in the terms listed above we are speaking with awe, wonder and a forever an incomplete understanding of the origin and Great Mystery of the universe that we exist within --- no matter what we may call it or how we may describe it. If you are more comfortable with your current name for Ultimate Reality and your choice of name(s) best supports you, there is no reason to discontinue using what is most meaningful and powerful to you while involved with our organization.

Please also note that in addition to our most often used term Ultimate Reality, we also occasionally use several other different names like Universe Consciousness, Ever Present Origin, or similar terms for both the personalized absolute concepts of God (Yahweh, Christ, Goddess, Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, and the various Trinities, etc.) and/or for the non-personalized absolute concepts (Buddha, Buddhahood, Brahma, Consciousness, the Tao.)

For individuals who are humanist, science based, agnostic or atheist we use Total and Ultimate Reality concepts such as The Universe, Kosmos, the Great Radiance, Ultimate Concern, Ultimate Wholeness, Ultimate Unity, Total Existence, the Great Mystery, Total Post Big Bang Reality, etc. As you might imagine, integrating the absolute personal and impersonal Oneness concepts of both eastern and western spirituality with the Ultimate Reality or Existence Totality concepts of science and humanism has been a challenge.

What we offer above is our attempt to recognize the many ways the world's spiritual, humanistic and scientific traditions have acknowledged the ongoing great mystery of Ultimate Reality. We also believe that creating both a trans-denominational understanding as well as new omni-denominational usages for the name(s) of Ultimate Reality is inherently important to the omni-denominational Universe Spirit movement.

In part, this is because the journey to increasing your understanding of Ultimate Reality in all of its forms can help the personal and spiritual growth process. This is because when you are both learning about the infinite facets and qualities of Ultimate Reality and you are consciously evolving in partnership with Ultimate Reality, you are on the greatest, most rewarding physical and/or spiritual partnership in all of the evolving physical universe. This journey toward and with Ultimate Reality is the most primal and purposeful in all of existence that will:

1. create every single thing that is worthwhile to be or become,
2. help you to do every single thing worthwhile that could be done and,
3. eventually create every single thing that is worth having - both now and throughout a possible eternity!

Key Nuanced Definitions Relating to Ultimate Reality, Spirit, Spirituality, Religion and Universe When Used in Association with Evolution Spirituality

To understand the basics of what is the dramatically new and different emergence that we call Evolution Spirituality actually is, it is essential to first understand our key, nuanced and often unique new core definitions for spirit, spirituality, religion, universe and God/Ultimate Reality! When you have finished reading these key definitions you will begin to sense that we are not like any other religion or spiritual groups currently or previously existing.

a. To read the new definitions for spirit, spirituality, religion for the minimal foundation needed for understanding begin here. Click here now to go to these essential definitions for spirit, spirituality/religion. (B)

b.) Next, read our additional and more specialized definition of the Great Mystery, just God. (B)

d. Next, click here to read our foundational definition for the word universe and for how and why we connect the word universe within Evolution Spirituality. (B)

(We strongly recommend that you do not skip either the universe definition or the above definitions of spirit, spirituality and religion as they are rich in new meanings specific to Evolution Spirituality not generally seen before!

Now that you have read the above essential unique and nuanced definitions on what we mean when we use those key words in a spiritual context, you are ready for our most concise combined definition of what we mean when we connect the words universe, evolution and spirituality together to create the new meanings of Evolution Spirituality as a new form of meta-spirituality.

When you think Evolution Spirituality now know that it means and is:

1. spirit as the sustaining and vital essence and dignity of life.

2. Ultimate Reality and/or God, Buddha, Consciousness etc as concepts for the Origin of the universe and the totality of reality and that on a purely objective level is still the Great Mystery of life and existence.

3. personalized spirituality as a self-created and self-chosen way to live sustainably in the universe and in optimal well being through:

a.) understanding yourself as a vital essence and dignity of life and,

b.) alignment with others who are also essences and dignity's of life exactly like you and who are also striving to be in alignment with the unstoppable flow of the originating Essence and source of the dignity of ALL life (Ultimate Reality,) evolving within the universe (and possibly outside of the universe as well,) --- in partnership with us!

4. the universe itself and as it contains the post-postmodern understanding of the balance and appropriate roles of:

a.) the objective fact probabilities of science (as described in the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview and the Universe Evolutionary Principles of Sustainability,) grounded, balanced and wisely integrated with

b.) the subjective belief probabilities of your own self-evolving personalized meta-spirituality.  (This new self-created personalized spirituality of Evolution Spirituality is derived from an "open source" access to and exploration of --- all of humanity's life-affirming spiritual wisdom and tools that are grounded in and by science facts. (Our spiritual wisdom and tools from the Western spiritualities are drawn from women's spirituality, integral spirituality, creation spirituality, process theology, liberation theology, mystical Christianity as well as Open Source Spirituality. The spiritual wisdom and tools from the Eastern spiritualities are drawn from non-dual, mystical Buddhism, Mystical Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen.) Understanding the appropriate and complimentary roles and uses of objective and subjective reality is an essential element in understanding the unique effectiveness and relevance of Evolution Spirituality to today's challenges.

c.) the inter-subjective "we" shared agreements about reality.

Click here to learn the basic postmodern objective, subjective and inter-subjective understanding which is also essential to a full understanding our high emphasis on the objective science grounding integrated with personalized spirituality in the appropriate healthy balance discussed. We strongly recommend that you review this link now and learn more about the 3 postmodern perspectives of reality!