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King, C., What Is Resplendence? 

 
ISSN: 2159-046X DNA Decipher Journal 

Published by QuantumDream, Inc. 
www.dnadecipher.com 

 

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Guest Editorial 

What Is Resplendence? 
 

Chris King
*
 

 

 ABSTRACT 

Resplendence is an innovative concept and nascent social movement, complementing science 

and transcending religion, with the wisdom of conscious insight and motivation, to reflower the 

planet as a living paradise, abundantly resilient over evolutionary time, and ultimately, to reach 

to the stars. 

Keywords: Resplendence, social movement, science, religion, transcendence, paradise. 

 

Resplendence is both a revolutionary, world-transforming concept and a nascent social 

movement to reflower the planet. If you like this presentation, you are invited to make contact at 

the e-mail address below. 

 

Resplendence complements the knowledge of nature and the universe provided by science and 

the powers provided by advanced technology with the wisdom of what to do for the future, so 

that all the living generations of humanity and the diversity of life can continue to prosper, and in 

the process we will discover our true calling as guardians of all conscious life in the universe. 

 

The discoveries of science have unveiled a story of our origin and future far more challenging 

and exciting than any archaic tales of God's creation. We know the universe is vastly more 

inscrutable and confounding than simple ideas of creation by God's breath, manufacture, or 

verbal command. We also know the universe is capable of supporting stars and planets and that 

the gas clouds around young solar systems contain the very molecules of life that we find have 

spawned life on our planet. We now know beyond all doubt from molecular genetics that life has 

evolved from single celled organisms to bootstrap itself into conscious organisms, who in our 

case can ponder our fates and wonder at the enormity and sheer depth in complexity of the 

universe of which we are a part. 

 

Science deals with the discovery process of how nature and the universe work, resplendence 

provides the wisdom to enable us to creatively express this knowledge, in reflowering paradise 

on Earth - the ultimate manifestation of wisdom in action. Resplendence is both an attitude of 

mind and a social dynamic attuned to bringing Earth back to a state of full and abundant 

resplendence, sustainable and resilient over evolutionary time scales, to ensure our own survival 

and the survival of the diversity of life. 

 

Since the dawn of history, we have needed to develop both practical knowledge of the natural 

world - which plants are safe to eat, or medicinal and which are poisonous, how to make arrow 

poisons, to master fire and toolmaking. We also have a deep need to make sense of our conscious 

                                                           
* Correspondence: Chris King  http://resplendence.org    E-Mail: dhushara@gmail.com  



DNA Decipher Journal | December 2017 | Volume 7 | Issue 3 | pp. 140-142 

King, C., What Is Resplendence? 

 
ISSN: 2159-046X DNA Decipher Journal 

Published by QuantumDream, Inc. 
www.dnadecipher.com 

 

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existence to give us the confidence to approach the world with a sense of meaning and purpose - 

a sense of "having to believe". 

  

The practical knowledge, which we have to treat sceptically, to make sure we get it right and 

survive, became science. Traditional religion has sought to complement our practical knowledge 

in human history with a sense of meaning and moral purpose, but has done so at the cost of a 

heritage of enforced doctrines, moral imperatives, subjugation of women and scorched-Earth 

attitudes, in which nature can be discarded for the false promises of celestial realms, amid dire 

threats of hellfire for disobedience to the religious path. Subjective conscious experiences, both 

of the world around us, and of the inner realities of dreaming and visionary states. are integral to 

the spiritual quest of who and what we are as sentient beings, but religion has tended to distort 

this discovery process, by asserting fearful and incorrect descriptions of our existential condition, 

designed to make us subject to the religious imperative. 

 

Resplendence transcends religion, by providing untramelled direct first-person avenues towards 

enlightenment, complementing the objective science of the physical world with the subjective 

science of consciousness research - a true discovery process of conscious meaning and existence, 

so that human society can discover the deeper inner dimensions of conscious experience, fully 

exploring the conscious realms that religions aspire to in a way we can verify in the first person, 

through our own discoveries, engaging meditative and contemplative vigils and the agency of 

entheogenic species to make a voyage of discovery together, complementing scientific discovery 

of the physical world, with a living account of our evolving collective experience, without 

depending on second or third-hand religious doctrines to distort the nature and integrity of the 

first-person contemplative condition. 

  

In this process we shall come to fulfill the central hope of the true religious quest, in the 

flowering and deepening of sentient consciousness in the universe. Just as the scientific world 

view has shown us a vastly more complex and challenging view of the universe than religious 

creation myths, so the collective exploration of the conscious condition unfettered by social 

taboo is likely to lead to conscious experiences, utterly different from, and vastly transcending, 

those of traditional religious doctrines. 

 

The word resplendence means many things. We usually think of it as a state of glorious natural 

splendour, but its root meaning re-splendere is to "shine brightly" or "shine again". It is thus both 

the overflowing abundance of paradise shining forth in splendour, and as a global consciousness, 

it is the illumination of our conscious discoveries into an enlightenment gained in the 

regeneration of the living world. 

  

But it has a deeper meaning, as the immortal condition of humanity and is hence the natural 

paradigm successor to religion, whose name re-ligio means to bind together, thus inducing social 

compliance with bondage to the established order and its obedience to doctrine. 

 

Instead of leading to the social dominion and physically unrealizable imaginary scenarios of 

religions, such as heaven, hell and a triage in the the day of judgment, resplendence leads to a 

real and positively awesome outcome - the reflowering of Earth in natural abundance, through a 



DNA Decipher Journal | December 2017 | Volume 7 | Issue 3 | pp. 140-142 

King, C., What Is Resplendence? 

 
ISSN: 2159-046X DNA Decipher Journal 

Published by QuantumDream, Inc. 
www.dnadecipher.com 

 

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democratic culture empowered by climax technology, medicine and science based on principles 

of ecosystemic diversity. 

 

We all want to find meaning in life and want it to have a meaning that extends beyond our own 

lifetime. We also want the security that we are living in a world that has a viable future for our 

offspring and the future generations. The critical source of our angst that many of us turn to 

religion to alleviate, is that we are living in a world which is not only teeming with injustice, 

violent conflicts and weapons of mass destruction, but is lurching towards an uncertain future as 

a result of human impacts on the world's living habitats, climate and resources which could take 

us to an irreversible tipping point, undermining the future of unborn generations. These are 

problems we need to deal with and heal in this life to have a sense of fulfillment, not just pass 

them on to future generations, or to an imagined afterlife. 

  

We already have a good understanding of how the universe comes into being, of how the forces 

of nature are shaped, how they can produce atoms and molecules and the complex structures 

making up cell organelles and the tissues of living organisms. We are discovering the 

neuroscience of consciousness. But this is not the end of the road. We urgently need to act as 

good guardians of the planet, so that consciousness can continue to flower and new horizons can 

be discovered by future generations, so that the consciousness of human culture becomes a great 

tapestry - a living brocade over space time. 

 

The key meaningful contribution we can make to the future comes through several avenues - the 

good life we bequest to our offspring, our own first-person vision quest into the mystical depths 

of the conscious condition, our contributions to deeper understanding in culture and society, in 

the humanities, science, technology, art and music, through innovations we bring to society 

which produce lasting benefit, though compassionate social justice, and through actually 

protecting the living planet through our actions to guard the diversity of life. This way we 

become a true perennial expression of intelligent planetary life, which over time can reach to the 

stars and find our place in the consciousness life permeating the galaxies. 

 

You can find a more detailed explanation of the whole inspiration and thrust of resplendence as a 

game-changing world view in the keynote articles below. "Conscious Existence and the Fate of 

the Universe" provides an explanation of how resplendence fulfils the existential quest in a 

primary exploration of the conscious condition that transcends religion and complements 

scientific discovery. "The Origin of Sex" shows how evolution has given rise firstly to sex, then 

multicelled organisms and conscious brains, explaining why female reproductive choice is key to 

the emergence of our super-intelligence. "Planetary Ecocrisis" is a real time research reference 

overview of damage being done to biodiversity and the biosphere as a direct evidential call to 

action. It speaks for itself. Science, Resplendence and Existence gives the previous overview, 

with a poster and video introduction. Together these articles account how and 

why consciousness, sexuality and biodiversity are the three keys to the survival of the living 

planet. "Resplendence: A Cosmological Theory of Knowing" looks at resplendence as a 

subjective theory and method complementing objective science. 

http://resplendence.org/conscuniv/conscuniv3.htm
http://resplendence.org/conscuniv/conscuniv3.htm
http://dhushara.com/origsex/origsex.htmhttp:/dhushara.com/origsex/origsex.htm
http://dhushara.com/Biocrisis/biocrisis.htm
http://resplendence.org/resplendence/srr.htm
http://resplendence.org/conscuniv/Gnosis.htm

