This book celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological
sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality the invisible
the sacred and the mystical. It examines the course of life through its ontopoietic genesis
opening the cosmic sphere to logos. The work also explores on the one hand the intellectual
drive to locate our cosmic position in the universe and on the other the pull toward the
infinite. It intertwines science and its grounding principles with imagination in order to make
sense of the infinite. This work is the first of a two-part work that contains papers presented
at the 62nd International Congress of Phenomenology The Forces of the Cosmos and the
Ontopoietic Genesis of Life held in Paris France August 2012. It features the work of
scholars in such diverse disciplines as biology anthropology pedagogy and psychology who
philosophically investigate the cosmic origins of beingness. Coverage in this first part
includes: Toward a New Enlightenment: Metaphysics as Philosophy of Life Transformation in
Phenomenology: Husserl and Tymieniecka Biologically Organized Quantum Vacuum and the Cosmic
Origin of Cellular Life Plotinus Enneads and Self-Creation The Creative Potential of Humor
Transcendental Morphology - A Phenomenological Interpretation of Human and Non-Human Cosmos
and Cognition and Emotion: From Dichotomy to Ambiguity. ?
