1.Knowledge
- Its Sources and its Value The
greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. - Leonardo da Vinci A good scientist has freed himself of
concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. - Lao-tzu
2. In the Realm of the Senses - The Modern
Paradigm It is a fact of
neuroscience that everything we experience is actually a figment of our
imagination. Although our sensations feel accurate and truthful, they do not
necessarily reproduce the physical reality of the outside world. - Foundations
of Misperception, Scientific American 20, 4 - 7 (2010)
3. It's Personal - Gnosis and the Intensely
Personal Experience There is a tendency
to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not
well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the
expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance. - Kinsey
4. Communications - The Social Contract and Peer
Pressure Every individual is
at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which
he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the
accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it
confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as
it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his
concepts for data, his words for actual things. - Aldous Huxley
5. Models and the Scientific Method - Truth or
Consequences! Paradigms themselves
are neither true nor false: they are either held by a given scientific
community or not held by that community:
Who Got Einstein's Office, p 217
6. System of Systems Engineering - The
Methodology of Choice There must be no barriers for freedom
of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free,
and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for
any evidence, to correct any errors. - Robert Oppenheimer Look at all
intellectual efforts, not just the sciences:
God and the New Physics, p 225
7. The Yellow Brick Road - Institutionalizing Peer Pressure As in
political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher
than the assent of the relevant community:
Thomas Kuhn, Who Got Einstein's Office, p 216
8. A Preferred Observer - Thinking Outside the
3D Box Give me a lever long
enough, and a place to stand, and I can move the Earth. - Archimedes
9. Matter is Illusory - Consensus in Physics
and Theology Nothing exists but thoughts! The universe is composed
of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains. - Sir Humphrey Davy
10. A Useful Model - Life Is Like a Dream, but
Much More All speech, action,
and behaviour are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is
sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of
consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of
consciousness in motion. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
11. The Standard Model of Physics - A Complete
Description? The order, the
symmetry, the harmony enchant us…God is pure order. He is the originator of
universal harmony. - Gottfried Leibniz
12. A Standard Model of Theology - The Many Faces
of God For the kabbalist,
physicality does not exist in and of itself; physical existence is animated by
God, whose emanation is everflowing, and without whom all physical existence
would collapse in a moment.” Feldman, Jewish
Mysticism and Kabbalah, p 80
13. The Ineffable Mysteries of Physics - Two
Paths to Light When Eddington remarked at the dinner
table that electrons were very useful conceptions but might not have any
real existence, Rutherford replied, "Not exist, not exist,--why I can
see the little beggars there in front of me as plainly as I can see that
spoon." Dyson, Infinite in All
Directions, p 42
"And do you say,
‘god is unseen’? Hold your tongue! Who is more visible than god? This is why he made all things: so that through them all you might look on
him. This is the goodness of god, this
is his excellence: that he is visible
through all things." Corpus
Hermeticum XI, Mind to Hermes
14. A Systems Model of Reality - Can We All Just
Get Along? Science is a way of
thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan
15. A Unified Model Summarized - Its Foundations
and Implications Truth is
ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion
of things. - Sir Isaac Newton
16. Psychoanalysis & Lucid Dreaming - Light
on the Unconscious You wanted to know about the double. It begins in dreams. But then you asked, ‘What is the
double?’ And I said the double is the
self. The self dreams the double. That should be simple, except that there is
nothing simple about us. Perhaps the
ordinary dreams of the self are simple, but that doesn’t mean that the self is
simple. Once it has learned to dream the
double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one
realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. - Don Juan, in Tales of
Power, by Carlos Castaneda, p81
17. What's In It For God? - The Biggest Why Dr. Sandra Markowitz: … I don't have the vaguest idea who I am. Murray: It's just that
there are all these Sandras running around who you've never met before, and
it's confusing at first, fantastic. But damn it, isn't it great to find out how
many Sandras there are? It's like those little cars in the circus, you know?
This tiny red car comes out, hardly big enough for a midget, and it putters
around, and suddenly its doors open and out come a thousand clowns, whooping
and hollering and raising hell. - A Thousand Clowns, 1965
18. Magister Ludi
- Do Not Underestimate the Master of the Game We know there is intention and purpose in the
universe, because there is intention and purpose in us. People have said, "Where is this
purpose, this intention?" I say,
"It is here; it is in me; I feel it; I directly experience it, and so do
you, and you need not try and look as if you didn't."- George Bernard Shaw Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in
either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. - Buckminster Fuller
19. Fear and
Trembling - The Roots of Depression and Addiction Only just now awakening after years of materialism,
our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of
purpose and aim. - Wassily Kandinsky
20. The Path of
Obviousness - Waking Up One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the
messiah?" "No", answered Buddha. "Then are you a
healer?" "No", Buddha replied. "Then are you a
teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated. "I am
awake," Buddha replied.
21. All Roads
Lead to Home - The Core of All Science and Religions Withdraw into yourself and look; and if you do not
find yourself beautiful as yet, do as does the sculptor of a statue ... cut
away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all
that is shadowed ... do not cease until there shall shine out on you the
Godlike Splendour of Beauty. - Plotinus
22. The
Universe Talks Back - The Power of Listening Coincidences are spiritual puns. (G. K. Chesterton) Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws,
which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. (Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe) We all move on the fringes of eternity and are
sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I
feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the
wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence
in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman. (Ansel Adams) A warrior is always joyful because his love is
unalterable and his beloved, the earth, embraces him and bestows upon him
inconceivable gifts. (Don Juan, via Carlos Castaneda)
1. Useful
Insights from Mathematics.
With the Partial Derivative, we show how to envision a higher-dimensional system from a limited-dimensional perspective.
With the Laplace Transform, we show the example of the use of logarithms to solve a
supposedly unsolvable problem by moving to a different viewpoint. Then we show the example of the transform
from the time domain to the frequency domain to solve difficult problems, and
use this analogy to compare the scholarly approach, which is like an
accountant's audit trail, to the Laplace approach, independent of time, but rather based on
radical epiphanies, just like advances in science.
With Group Theory, we show that, just as usual
language enables us to conceptualize ideas about sensory inputs and abstract
emotions such as love, courage and altruism, Group Theory is a language that
enables us to conceptualize multidimensional spaces and interconnections.
2. Kubla Khan
This refers to the beautiful poem about Xanadu, by Coleridge. I provide a complete exegesis which reveals the actual
meaning of this, the most misunderstood poem in all literature. Its beauty and
truth shines forth when read and understood from the viewpoint of the Model
developed in this book.
3. Glass Bead Games
Chapter 18 described the stunning insight about the nature of reality and its creator within Hesse's Nobel Prize winning novel, The Glass Bead Game. The Game, as played by the characters, is never really described so that one could play it. But here I present several examples of Glass Bead Games which make sense...
