Transcendental Idealism: A Form of Enlightened Cognition

                          Chapter 9- Transcendental Idealism: A Form of Enlightened Cognition The God is No-Thing An Apophatic Assertion: An Introduction for Humankind’s Transpersonal Actualization– revised -. Copyright Rodger Ricketts Psy.D.,2025. All rights reserved. Protected by international copyright conventions. No part of this chapter may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, without express permission of the Authorpublisher, except in the case of brief quotations with due acknowledgement.            

Apophatic theology highlights the transcendence of the divine or the natural force that unites all things – that it is beyond the limits of human comprehension – in its ineffable nature. Apophatic theology —via negativa— acknowledges that human language and concepts are inadequate to fully describe the divine, so it focuses on what the divine is not. It acknowledges the vastness and mystery of the divine, ultimately allowing for a profound sense of unity with all of existence and a transcendence of ordinary dualistic perceptions of self and other.