The basic paradigm for our cognitive studies of the world we live in is the fundamental law of the Universe, called the Principle of Unity in Panosophy, stating, Wholeness is the union of all opposites. This paradoxical paradigm, which Heraclitus of Ephesus aptly called the Hidden Harmony, denotes a peaceful, both-and way of life, in contrast to the conflict-ridden, either-or approach, which has dominated human affairs during the five or six thousand years of the patriarchal epoch.

A paradox occurs when an entity has dual attributes A and not-A, whatever A might be. Aristotle called such a situation the ‘Law of Contradiction’, saying, “It is impossible for the same attribute at once to belong and not to belong to the same thing and in the same relation … as some imagine Heraclitus says.”

Since Aristotle rejected Heraclitus’s both-and Hidden Harmony about 2,350 years ago, when establishing the either-or foundations of Western logic, it has been assumed that for reasoning to be valid, it must reject self-contradictions.

There is a well-known mathematical joke that illustrates the reason why conventional mathematicians and logicians do not allow paradoxes in their axioms:

In Panosophy, Parousia is a synonym of Presence, with the same Proto-Indo-European roots, literally meaning ‘before being’ or ‘prior to existence’, as the Absolute.