“Commutative versus noncommutative lies at the heart of causality itself.”
Peter Pesic, Abel's Proof: An essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability (M.I.T. Press, 2004), p. 142.
https://www.docdroid.net/d9MEKrk/alchemy-of-rainbow-heart-music-pdf
I have that quote in my 2012 book that I wrote based on a book contract I signed for Trineday. I knew the book was a behemoth that was a hodge-podge compilation of introductory investigative research leads... interdisciplinary and highly speculative. Too much to ask of a "publisher." haha.
Noncommutative quantum gravity physicist Shahn Majid also recognizes this fundamental problem in science – what he calls the Hole in the heart of science. “I think we are in the middle [of the Hole] because we built the edifice of physics around ourselves (related to a left-right symmetry).”249 Majid even states that a return to Aristotle's definition of negative infinite as incompleteness (a double negative) is
necessary.250
Shahn Majid, “Aristotle May Provide the Key to Quantum Gravity,” CambridgeBlog, December 2, 2008: “This is not an apple or an orange” is equivalent to “This is a not-apple and a not-orange.” Even among material things it might not be so clear cut. For example, spacetime is all pervasive and in geometry we tend to speak in terms of points where a common property of spacetime is not true, such as where the curvature is singular. So we could imagine an alien race of people who use language in a reversed way to us and at the level of Aristotle and logic, they will have a transformed but equivalent view of the world....Clearly this complementation-symmetry of logic is lost in more advanced theories of physics. It was lost as soon as Newton discovered gravity, because real apples cause gravity (curve spacetime as we say these days) while not-apples need not.So I did not have the full Alain Connes secret of how the inner products of the Matrix are the equivalent of the "Neither A nor Not-A" logic that Eddie Oshins acknowledges as the true basis of free will (due to the inhibition of the prefrontal cortex back into the nonlocality ether power or Yuan Qi of the pineal gland and the pyramid neurons.
(D) was taken after the meditating prayer (D)
shows three huge changes: 1-the frontal lobe is less active due less
thinking during the meditational prayer, 2-the basal ganglia is more
active which is associated with reward system, compassion, and positive
feelings, and 3-the parietal lobe is less active due loss of sense of
self and the connection with God during worship.
Neuroimaging Role in Mental Illnesses
Fascinating!
The famous TV show called “Khawatir” presented by Ahmed Al-Shugairi on different channels in the Arab world about meditation during prayer showed a huge difference between focusing and meditating during a prayer on the brain. Ahmed did this experiment and it was reordered for the TV show “Khawatir”. Basically, Ahmed experiment was to undertake a SPECT scan then pray very fast without focusing, meditating, or connecting with God during the prayer then undertake a SPECT scan. After that, Ahmed went for a second prayer, but this time he was focusing, mediating, connecting with God, and thinking about nothing. The result on SPECT scans was astonishing.thalamocortical neurons to pyramidal neurons...Cortical pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex
So the pyramidal neurons are the connection between the thalamus and the prefrontal cortex neurons...
The primate cerebral cortex is characterized by regional variation in the structure of pyramidal neurons, with more complex dendritic arbors and greater spine density observed in prefrontal compared with sensory and motor cortices.
Compared with chimpanzees, the pyramidal neurons of humans had significantly longer and more branched dendritic arbors in all cortical regions.
So the key for humans is as Stuart Hameroff explains - to activate the tubulin-microtuble nonlocality protoconsciousness in the pyramidal neurons...
Pyramidal cells, or pyramidal neurons, are a type of multipolar neuron found in areas of the brain including the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, and the amygdala.
So this is what makes us "different" than Chimpanzees - it's the microtubules of the cytoskeleton!!
the spread of the dendritic skirt of pyramidal neurons or specializations within other cortical layers, may underlie the relatively increased neuropil in human prefrontal cortex. While being similar to humans in sharing the same pattern of relative regional differences in dendritic morphology, chimpanzees differed in exhibiting pyramidal neurons with dendritic arbors that were absolutely smaller and had fewer spines across all regions of interest.
Dendritic Arbors = microtubule cytoskeleton
We describe how several molecularly distinct microtubule organizing center (MTOC) mechanisms function during neuron differentiation to generate and arrange dendrite and axon microtubules.
Back to my 2012 book:
An equidistant frequency distribution is not a good match to the human hearingPeter B.L. Meijer, The vOICe Learning Edition, http://Seeingwithsound.com.
system, but more appropriate distributions such an exponential frequency scale
are subject to the same considerations on spectral leakage, as is illustrated by the
spectrographic reconstructions in the figure below.
So there can be an effective localization in both time and frequency under the
limitations imposed by the frequency-time uncertainty relation: the product of the
uncertainty-in-frequency times the uncertainty-in-time will always be at least one
over two pi (i.e., about 0.15915). This same relation lies at the heart of quantum
mechanics, where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies to energy and
time, because energy is, via Planck's constant, proportional to the frequency of
probability waves.262
So now that I understand the math better - then since Planck's Constant inherently relies on the amplitude squared already - for the Joules conversion of energy as symmetric density - then the intensity of energy is due to the sound as being noncommutative from the exponential frequency scale and it's noncommutative "inverse frequency" as Connes reveals. Thereby the quotient is the subtraction of the inverse frequencies due to the noncommutative phase as the imaginary number "Negative frequency" axis or Aristotle's negative infinity potential as per von Neumann's Type II factorization!
It is the relative position of the formants that are important. Each vowel sound canPrograms of the Brain (Oxford U Press, 1978) by JZ Young, FRS
be produced at any pitch of the human voice. The vowel sounds are thus the result of the balance of higher and lower frequency components irrespective of pitchshifts.
There may be an analogy here with Land's discovery that colours are
reported as the psychophysiological products of contrasts of higher and lower
wavelengths irrespective of their position in the frequency spectrum (1959).
Perhaps we shall find brain mechanisms that respond to such relationships in all
the sensory fields (He 1962).
So this takes me to the book I was reading a couple days ago:
Quantum Paradoxes: Quantum Theory for the Perplexed
by Yakir Aharonov and Daniel Rohrlich (2005).
Why does the color of light change?
"only the intensity of the light from a kiln changes with temperature, not the color....If we integrate to obtain the overall energy of the radiation field, we find that the integral diverges...The factor kT [Boltzmann's equipartition average] includes the average of both kinetic and potential energy. These are equal for electromagnetic radiation as they are for harmonic oscillators....Since statistical mechanics and electromagnetism together imply this divergence, statistical mechanics and electromagnetism together contain a contradiction."
So why does the color of light change? We can guess that it changes to avoid the divergence. .. Planck's Law - implies that the color of light changes with temperature.pp. 13-14.
So we know from Peter Pesic that Planck was directly inspired by equal-tempered music tuning for his constant! We know he was also relying on Boltzmann's equipartition priniciple!!
We also know that the noncommutative time-frequency energy intensity is thus the Nothingness beyond Color!! Fascinating to be sure.
We thus know that OM as a sound is also beyond the Vowels as formants of language that then create the Bouba-Kiki effect.
Right - so this is what the Metamaterials are all about - the Tubulin and Microtubules!!
Wild - I didn't remember this quote from Reiser:
Wow - the FINAL article of Oliver L. Reiser!! Amazing discovery:
https://ia600704.us.archive.org/0/items/dli.bengal.10689.12152/10689.12152.pdf
FROM SUPERPHYSICS TO ASTROBIOLOGY
Oliver L Reiser
I. From Greek Atomism to Holistic Electronics
The beginning of what is sometimes termed the "new physics" is dated by the dis¬
covery that the supposedly indivisible "atom" of ancient Greek philosophy and early modern
chemistry and physics is not in fact simple and indivisible, but as a unit of the material
world is a quite complex system which is constituted of negative charges of electricity
(electrons) and positive charges (protons) held together by fields of force.
Following upon the discoveries toward the end of the nineteenth century physics—by
Marie and Pierre Curie, Sir J. J. Thomson and others—which culminated in the "electron
theory", twentieth century physics advanced at a breathtaking pace as it piled discovery
on top of discovery. One of the early dividends of the new electrical theory of matter was
the recognition that the flow of an electrical current is nothing other than the migration of
electrons along the surface of the conductor. The construction of a model (about 1900) to
explain the electrical properties of metals was then undertaken by H. A. Lorentz and others.
This was a theory of how electrons can detach from atoms and roam about, these migra¬
tions occurring in response to applied fields of force.
As originally presented, this model had its limitations—especially when faced with
new facts that came to light. Among these, later on, were the phenomena subsumed under
the categories of superconductivity and superfluidity. These novel phenomena defied the
explanatory capacities of earlier electron theories. Accordingly an entirely new formulation
was called for. This brings us to what may be termed superphysics.
Oliver Leslie Reiser passed away in June 1974 at the age of seventy-eight. Professor of
philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for forty years, he developed the system of
thought termed "cosmic humanism". Albert Einstein commented that Dr. Reiser "by
means of rich and varied knowledge had overcome ... the paralyzing relativism that so
many dear thinkers of our times feel themselves forced to accept, because they have re¬
stricted themselves to a purely logical-causal approach". Dr. Reiser's works include The
Integration of Human Knowledge, Cosmic Humanism, and Cosmic Humanism and World
Unity, as well as many articles in books and periodicals—several of which have appeared
in World Union since 1968. This article—provided by his colleague, Robert A. Smith, III—
is one of the last papers prepared by Dr. Reiser before his death.
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II. SufNirphysics
Under this rubric we subsume that astonishing set of phenomena that are now
covered by the terms "superconductivity" and "superfluidity". Superficially these two cate¬
gories of phenomena are not the same. However, they are analogous, though on different
levels of behavior. At a deeper level of understanding, as we shall see, a synthesis is possi¬
ble. This, in turn, augurs well for a wider unified theory.
These two classes of phenomena—Gemini twins, as it were—are now objects of
intensive research. Some beautiful generalizations are presently available, especially since
the formulation of what is termed the BCS theory, about which more In a moment.
The superconducting state of matter was discovered by the Dutch physicist, Heike
Kamerlingh Onnes, in 1911. The term now refers to the property of some metals, when
cooled to a sufficiently low temperature, to carry an electric current without resistance. The
phenomenon is illustrated by the fact that if you take a ring of superconductive metal, such
as lead, and induce an electric current in it, this current will run of its own accord for weeks
or months. This means that certain metals, when cooled to the vicinity of absolute zero
(minus 273 degrees Celsius) lose their electrical lesistance—the flow of electrical current
win continue indefinitely. This remarkable phenomenon was once described as a "ghost
current" (not to be confused with the "ghost wave" of wave mechanics). It has been
recognized as the "closest thing to perpetual motion" that there is and as such has no
counterpart in other domains of physical science.
The discovery of the second fundamental property of "superphysics"—after the dis¬
covery of superconductivity by Kamerlingh Onnes—was not long in coming. It was W. Meisner
and R. Ochsenfeld who found that such superconductive metals as just referred to would
repel outside magnetic fields.i This means that if a magnetic material is placed over a super¬
conductor, it will remain suspended there in a state of "levitation". These two sets of phe¬
nomena, namely, the abrupt disappearance of resistance to the passage of an electric current
and the tendency toward the exclusion of a magnetic field from the interior of the super¬
conductor, thus apparently fulfilled the dreams of these visionaries who sought the goals of
perpetual motion and levitation. Prior to that, the dreams of the alchemists for the transmu¬
tation of the base metals to gold had already been achieved. So all we need now to turn
"magic" into sober science Is the discovery of the "philosopher's stone" -the secret of eter¬
nal youth.
Some philosophers of science, especially the followers of Buckminster Fuller, are prone
to cite these "superphysical" phenomena as examples of what is termed synergistics. Here
the properties of the whole are more than the mere summations of the properties of the parts.
In the older terminology, "synergistic" effects were referred to as "emergent" or "gestalt"
effects. But no matter what the label, in the above instance one electron of the metal may
pair with another in the superconductor, provided they have the same momentum and speed,
with spins in opposite directions. Here the attraction between electrons is greater than the
1. On thesa mattars see tha articia by Uwa Essman and Hermann Traube, "The Magnetic Structure of Super*
conductors". Scientific American 224 (March 1971): 75.
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mutual electrostatic repulsion and this net attraction leads to the pairing that is responsible
for the superconductivity. This is a most intriguing phenomenon, especially when, in living
systems, this smooth flowing migration of electrons takes place along chains of giant DNA
macromolecules. But more of that in a moment. Next let us consider what might be termed
subsidiary effects within the more general characterizations.
III. Vortex Behavior in Superconductors
Under certain conditions (i. e., presence of a strong magnetic field) vortices exist.
In effect, a vortex is a cylindrical hole in a superconducting body. The magnetic flux that
passes through a vortex must be quantized. There is no longer any question that quantized
vortices do exist in superconductors. This is seen in superfluid heiium.2 As Fritz London
has argued, both superconductivity and superfluidity are macroscopic quantum phenomena.
This implies that there are long-range correlations among electrons in superconductors; that
is, as just noted, many electrons act in unison.
It is now clear that in superfluid helium, reached when a critical transition tem¬
perature has been attained, a vortex can be created, and that this is the response of the
electrons in the helium atoms to applied magnetic fields. This is an empirical fact. But the
behavior of vortices in superfluid helium raises many questions yet to be answered. How
are the vortices created? How do they move? How do they interact with each other? What
is the role of the superconctuctive film in relation to the superposed magnetic field? And for
us the important problem: do we have here an example of the more general phenomenon
of a supervenient or organizing force (a "super-current") exercising guidance over
inferior micro-forces? If so, is this control of micro-forces by macro-forces in any way
comparable to the intervention of a hyperspace medium in an inferior space matrix?
Answers to these questions are still to be found.
IV. The Faces of Helium
Several times we have referred to the unique behavior of helium. It is for this reason
that we have previously developed the concept of the Helium Psychosphere. Helium is a
strange substance. Above a critical temperature it is helium I; but liquid helium, cooled
to 2.2 degrees above absolute zero, flows without friction and is designated as helium tl.
For this reason I once proposed that it be baptized BveUum, According to the "two-fluid"
model of liquid helium, there are two fluids which can move independently of each other;
that is, helium II has a superfluid type of motion and can flow without friction and exhibit
superfluid vortices and "second sound waves" (to distinguish them from ordinary acoustic
waves). The thermal waves which are transmitted are called "phonons", thi^ time by
analogy with photons of light radiation.
Helium can exist as a gas, a liquid, or a solid. Solid helium is obtained by compres¬
sion of liquid helium as liquified by cryogenic methods. Superfluid helium, whether solid
2. Cf.: F. R«if, "Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium". Scientific American (December 1961);
and, R. D. Parka, "Quantum Effects in Superconductors", Scientific American 213 (October 1965); 57.
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or liquid, exhibits the "second sound waves" mentioned above; but solid helium thus far is
the only solid in which these waves have been observed to occur.3
Now for the next step.
V, Superconductors and Helicons
The story we are here recounting is quite amazing. Some of it bears repetition. We
have seen that whereas an electron at one point in a metal moves independently of another
electron at some other point, in a superconductive state the motions are correlated. This is
illustrated by a superconducting ring where electrons are forced to rotate around the lines
of force of a magnetic field.
In solid state physics the waves trace a spiral path, and this wave motion is termed a
helicon. In solid state plasmas- and plasmas are found everywhere in nature, in solids,
liquids and gases—the curling of conduction electron trajectories into cyclotron orbits is
accompanied by resonances that have their harmonics.4 When we turn to the "semi¬
conductors" with crystal lattices, these novel developments take on a special significance
for us, especially when information that is transmitted as a helicon film begins to resemble
the DNA double helix of biology—an example of a kind of "information bearing crystallin¬
ity", to employ the language of Professor P. W. Anderson.5 This, we propose, prefigures
a fundamental phenomenon of living systems.
VI. ''Broken Symmetry” and the BCS Theory
From the viewpoint of Cosmic Humanism one item of philosophical consequence In
the discoveries about superfluidity and superconductivity is that they call attention to
the fact that there are levels of action patterns, in this instance the level of internal particle
behavior and the level of whole structures—there is a "broken symmetry" of holism of
synthesis. This type of "transcendence" is embodied in what is termed the BCS theory. The
theory already has many impressive achievements to its credit, so much so that in 1972 the
Nobel prize in physics was jointly shared by John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and John R.
Schieffers for their cooperative development of the theory of superconductivity (now
therefore designated as the BCS theory).
This theory has had an impact on ideas in fields as diverse as nuclear structure, quan¬
tum mechanics applied on a macroscopic scale, crystal lattice structure, solid state physics
(e.g., transistors), the amazing behavior of liquid helium at low temperature, in astrophysics
relative to the liquid cores of neutron stars, and in the "Josephson effect", where we have
two superconductors separated by a thin conjunction. This last phenomenon, dealing with
macroscopic quantum phenomena, is also observed in the behavior of atoms in superfluid .
liquid helium, which is now understood in terms of wave functions of eiectrons in super-
3. Cf.: Bernard Bertram and David J. Sandiford, " 'Second' Sound in Solid Helium", Scientific American
222 (May 1970): 92>101.
4. Cf.: W. M. Walah. Jr.. "Magnetic Resonance and Waves in Metals", Science 117 (1971): 36-42.
6. Cf.: P. W. Anderson, "More is Different", Science 177 (1972): 393-396.
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conductors. This deserves another word.
Or. Brian Josephson, while still a graduate student at Cambridge University, established
the fact that pairs of electrons can "tunnel" through an electrical insulator if the insulator is
thin enough and layered between two superconductors. This Josephson effect, as it was
designated, has wide applications in laboratory measuring devices. Also it is now clear that
the effect can be adapted to computers that will function at normal temperatures, and this
wilt help in designing high-speed electronic brains for our high-speed electronic civilization.
It is important to note that Josephson's work is an application of BCS assumptions con¬
cerning superconductivity. Homo E/ectronicus is on his way, and after he arrives—Astra/
Vil. The Conceptual Synthesis
The conceptual synthesis of superfluidity and superconductivity—treating them as
parts of a unified doctrine—was made possible when both were thought of in macroscopic
terms as manifestations of matter waves.6
As we have seen, superconductivity represents the frictionless flow of electric charges,
while superfluidity represents the frictionless flow of matter—both representing the behavior
of matter as postulated by quantum mechanics on the subatomic and atomic levels. To
achieve this unification, it is necessary to utilize matter-wave fields, on these levels, as they
(the charges and particles) attain coherence in terms of amplitudes, frequencies, phase
relations and direction of tTie matter-wave fields. For us, of course, on a still higher level,
the non-linear quantum mechanical sequences should throw light on the biological basis of
consciousness in living systems. This provides us with the next step in the movement toward
the emerging synthesystem.
VIII. From Holistic Physics to Holistic Biology
We have already made the point that when the new phenomena of superconductivity
and superfluidity were discovered, modifications of physical theory were called for. This is
especially the case when attention was directed to the higher level of the field of optically
active molecules which contained electrons that were coerced into helical paths by electrical
fields.7 Here again holistic ways of thinking turned out to be helpful. A kind of preparation
for this new viewpoint was provided when it was noted that when a superconducting ring
with a current flowing through it is cut, the structure as a whole loses its properties. This
holistic functioning of the ring previews the nature of a living system in its wholeness,
except that the living organism is sometimes able to repair the damage to its structure when
the inorganic analogue (ring) is not. A "life field" seems to enter as a superior organiz¬
ing force.
For us these developments have an added interest, for as we now know, investigations
have indicated that a properly conceived molecule can function as a superconductor if
6. Cf.: Th» tditorial, "Coharent Matter Waves", Scientific American 212 (June 1965): 61.
7. Cf.: T. H. Geballe, "New Superconductors", Scientific American 225 (November 1971): 22-30; aee also.
F, Hoyle end J. V. Nalikar, "Cosmolegy and Quantum Electrodynamics", Nature 219 (1968): 339-341.
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there is "an interaction between positive charges oscillating in side chains and electrons
moving along the spine of the molecule".8 Ail this seems to border on the esoteric
and the occult. The total range of developments is so remarkable as to justify our term
superphysics.
It is certainly evident by this time that the developments that are taking place in the
"new new physics" are opening up novel patterns of ideas in biology and psychology. The
examples we have surveyed of the holistic viewpoints in physics amply support the expec¬
tation that analogous modes of thought in the field of psychic phenomena will soon be
forthcoming. Even now research is in progress which is moving from "Solid State Physics"
to "Solid State Biology".9 Most important for us, the above properties of "superphysics"
as embodied in the DNA helix will function in the morphogenesis of Cosmic Man, as I
shall seek to show as the argument proceeds.
One of our inescapable assignments is to show how these newly emerging ideas,
coupled with concepts of hyperspace influences, can be integrated with the forces of
toroidal vortices, and perhaps even circumversions of pyramid energies, to yield an under¬
standing of how nature can transform nucleic acids in the space between the sun and the
earth into the DNA helices that enter the earth fluid (ocean) medium in the form of simple
living organisms, in some manner we must visualize how the Cosmic Lens focuses the flow
of field energy into the double helix spiral with the 3-D Yin-Yang pattern in the vortex, as
pictured on the left in Diagram III (page 14).io
The field energy we refer to as coming from extraterrestrial sources is carried by the
helical component of the magnetic field of the spiral arm of the galaxy, at least in the
region of the sun. I have no information on the metagalactic energies, but of course there
are intergalactic fields. Then, closer to home, there is the field of the solar wind, and here,
too, we have a spiral configuration. The solar wind is a plasma spiral consisting of highly
ionized particles, negative electrons and positive protons. As we have indicated, plasmas
exist in solid, liquid and gaseous states and are under the control of electric and magnetic
fields subject to a variety of wave manifestations that include the toroidal motions we
invoke in the vortices of the Life Lens (see Diagram I). Our diagram already indicates that
electrons and protons enter into the composition of the solar wind. But beyond that, there
is evidence that high energy electrons and protons issue from a pulsar in the Crab nebula.n
8. See th« editorial. Scientific American 211 (August 1964).
9. See the article by that title in Physics Today 24 (1971); 15.
10. This diagram of the 3-D Yin-Yang vortex pattern is one of several sent me by Miss Roseann Millin of the
Canadian Institute of Psychosynthesis. She describes it as an archetypal image which pictures the movement of
psychic energy as it flows through a 3-D double helix with a Yin-Yang pattern in the vortex. I believe that image
can be related to my own picture of the toroidal circumversion vortex I have called the Life Lens. Miss Miiiin's
diagram is published with her permission and that of the institute.
11. Cf.: “Physics and Astronomy in 1972 (Summary)*', Scienco 179 (1973): 67.
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If these both are examples of the Yin (electrons) and Yang (protons), we do indeed have
the complementarity of the / Ching philosophy.
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SUN-EARTH-ORGANISM HOOK-UP
Of course, when we consider the role of electric and magnetic fields of force in
biomagnetism—and this for us Includes "orgone energy" and "bioplasma"—we realize
that relative to life on earth this brings in the role of the iron>nlckei core at the center of
the earth. It also brings in the role of hydrogen and, further out, the role of helium in life
and mind patterns. We have constantly stressed the role of the hydrogen bond in what
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has been called "cooperative phenomena" as something to be reckoned with in organic
and inorganic systems.
Another example of such "cooperative phenomena", but in a wider context, is il¬
lustrated by the presence of the ferromagnetic grains in interstellar space which not only
have to do with the polarization of starlight but also, as a consequence, with biological
phenomena. For the physical scientist the metals-to-hydrogen ratio may only be an example
of the fact of nucleosynthesis; but for Cosmic Humanism the philosophical implication is
that we have here evidence of a telic (orthosynthesis) factor in cosmic integration.
Returning to the topic of the role of hydrogen, we recall that Andrija Puharich considers
that the vehicle of information transmission resides in the proton and the nucleus of the
hydrogen atom. The proton—treated both as particle and a wave-system—functions in the
brain like a three-dimensional pattern entering into resonance with other proton wavesJ2
Accordingly the brain appears to Dr. Puharich as an integrative set of interference patterns
of waves generated by proton precession frequencies. The theory assumes that the protons
serve as the universal bearers of information in thOesense that "information" is encoded in
quantum magnetic and electrodynamic resonances. This means that proton-proton bonds of
harmonic reactions emerge in mind because consciousness and brain wave states-such as
the alpha frequency—are synchronized or locked into phase in some manner. Indeed the
globe's geodynamic capacitor is strangely like the brain capacitor, in frequency range at least.
Dr. Puharich's ingenious theory is highly speculative. But I doubt that we should
think of "biological information" as being carried by single (or coupled) protons, since
information, like "temperature" is not a function of single entities; they are results of
interactions of entities of statistical ensembles. The "interference waves" that arise from
cortical patterns are, I believe, manifestations of holographic images that emerge on the
molecular level, not atomic. Protein molecules thus are the constituents of gene helix syn¬
theses and also the source of cortical gestalt processes such as holistic brain states.
IX. The Mind-Matter Complementarity
The mind-matter cinerama is captivating. There seemingly are various possible versions
of the nexus. Professor Keith Floyd, a psychologist interested in brain physiology, has
suggested to me that the midbrain, posterior to the optic chiasm, may be the locus for the
holographic plate that functions as the "screen" of human consciousness where percep¬
tions are registered and in which memory images are stored for retrieval processes. In this
scheme, he proposes, it would be possible for the thalamus to radiate neural energy to
opposing cerebral hemispheres and serve also as the locale of brain waves and the source
of the scanning mechanism. For Professor Floyd the pineal body occupies a midpoint for
energy fields of opposing spirals of a "double double helix", where conscious mind emerges
as the locale of brain waves that appear in sequential, spheroid "bursts of light", as it were.
12. The material in this section is abstracted from the paper of Dr. Andrija Puharich titled ' Protocommunlcotion''
presented at the Twentieth International Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation at St. Paulde Vance.
France, on August 27,1971.
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My collaborator even seeks to fit the Cosmic Lens into the organism through a window
opening up to the psi-layer enveloping the globe somewhat like Teilhard de Chardin's
noosphere!
In the spirit of such synoptic vision, let me close with a restatement of how this fits
into the Hierarchical Cosmos.
X. The Hierarchical Cosmos
Those who have some familiarity with the philosophy of Cosmic Humanism know that
this speculative synthesis is presented as a hierachical system—it is pictured as an eight*
dimensional cosmology that rises in levels of inclusions and perfusions of the "lower" by
the "higher". The difficulties confronting this synthesystem have been recognized and
dealt with so far as possible.
It is admitted that aside from occasional glances at the virtues of a hierarchical
cosmology by Gerard de Vaucouleurs and the statement of some seemingly parallel ideas by
Dr. John A. Wheeler In his theory of "superspace" and "connecting universes", there has
been little defense of this cosmoconception. Now, however, we find Professor Thomas Gold
seriously considering the properties of a closed or nearly closed universe in which "sub¬
universes" may exist. In his article, "Multiple Universes", Professor Gold refers to "clus¬
ters of galaxies" and "patterns of quasars" as providing possible evidence for his view.ts
Some mathematical suppc^t for the idea may also be found in the role of "singularities" in
general relativity theory. The point that I would want to make apropos this problem is that,
so far as I can see, whether (a) we regard the present universe (the one we live In) as having
"sub-universes", or whether (b) we regard our universe as a "sub-universe" in a much
vaster eight-dimensional hierarchical cosmos is a matter of how one focuses his vision.
In my own most recent cogitations I have been experimenting mentally with the idea
that these higher dimensional universes may be related to Dr. Wilhelm Reich's Cosmic
Superimposition (see his fascinating diagrams in his book by that title). This homomorphism
could be made more plausible if the four dimensions of the space-time manifold of relativity
theory could be regarded as being made "manifest" through mirrored superimposition. That
is to say, the successive levels of depth (height) seem to be such because we are observing
them "from this side" (linearly) and failing to realize that the successive levels of the
paradigm for the symmetrical eight-dimensional cosmos are reflections of a mirroring by our
own minds. What kinds of frequencies would be required by what kinds of fields or plasmas
for such laserlike holography is a problem I have not studied.
But the possiblitites of this cosmoconception need to be explored. It may be that
this cannot be done by inventing better telescopes to "look" farther out into supergalactic
spaces (a la Allan R. Bandage's space probes via quasar distances), but by looking into the
depths of one's own inner being. A diagram of this cosmology was provided some while
back in Cosmic Humanism (see Diagram II) and this may now take on additional value. Be
that as it may, we Cosmic Humanists still aspire to climb the Jacob's ladder of the hierarchy.
13. Thomas Gold. "Multiple Universes", Nature 242 (1973): 24-26.
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Further reflection on this cinerama suggests the thought that, to complete the picture,
we must superimpose the previously noted Yin-Yang picture and its mirror image in our
Diagram 11 of the Cyclic-Creative Cosmology. As Keith Floyd has pointed out to me, with
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this superimposition we see the double double helix manifesting itself (Diagram Hi).
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THE CYCLIC-CREATIVE COSMOLOGY
It raquiras eight diinensions to make the Cosmos: (a) four in the Manifest
Universe of material systems evolving toward higher rungs on the ladder of emer¬
gence, and (b) four in the Unmanifest Universe which provides the invisible guiding
fields (archetypes) for emergence. There is a symmetry between the two universes,
i.e., they interpenetrate and each has its complementary or folded-over image in
the other universe. This provides the basis for what Jung t«tms synchronicity.
With this superimposition we have at one and the same time a spiraling in and a spiraling
out as a single simultaneous process. This recalls Evelyn Underhill's thesis in her book on
Mysticism, where she speaks of two modes of mystical consciousness as a spiraling in and
a spiraling out. But note that in our mental image these two are not "two". Observe also
that at the central apex point we confirm Meister Eckhart's intuition that the eye with which
I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Here there are no longer two eyes
(lenses?); there is only one seeing in the mysticism of the Pantheist—only One Being. The
two spirals are circumversible and in a trice the one is seen as the other—no split, no
interface any longer. The Cosmic Lens becomes a "zoomlens" and the same goes for
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consciousness—both reaching simultaneously for each other. At that point of meeting,
Cosmic Humanism is transmuted into Cosmotheism. See Diagram IV for a cinerama of this
cosmic cycle.
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AN ALTERNATE PICTURE
An alternative pictunzation of this nosmoconception appears in the above
Diagram. In this projection the Cosmic Lent can zoom in on either apex, in either
direction. Our "ordinary ’ state of consciousness is but our habitual fixated adjust¬
ment of the zoom lens on the mirror that appears to us as "objective" and which we
interpret as the "material world". But if we focus on both apexes in both directions
at once, we invoke the state of consciousness that is variously known as ' enlighten¬
ment", "setori". "samadhi", and so forth.
Is it possible that in this case the lens brings itself into focus as it focuses
upon Itself? Can it be that the cerebral lobes, viewed "sidewise", can be envisaged
as a brain functioning so that the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm?
XI. (^tmic Humanism's Unfinished Symphony
It is quite obvious that a number of problems in the development of the philosophy of
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Cosmic Humanism are stilt unresolved. Some critics may urge that the present cosmology
raises more questions than it answers. But of course the same could be said of contem¬
porary astrophysics and cosmogony. However that may be, here are some of the gaps that
still remain in the piesent synthesystem.
1. If Cosmic Humanism is irrevocably committed to a cosmos of eight dimensions,
how is it possible to "round the curve of dimensions" whereby the human thinker, no less
than the multidimensional cosmos itself, escalates and de-escalates from one dimension to
the next? This is a problem on the level of thought and on the ontological (existential)
levels from physics to biology to psychic sciences.
I can only say here that some part of the mathematics of hyperspace thinking and
differential geometry has already been presented in my earlier book. The Integration of
Human Knowledge (Chapter X), and in Cosmic Humanism (Chapter XIII). More will be
offered in my subsequent publications.
2. Does not your view presuppose the truth of the now discarded Lamarckian doctrine
of the "inheritance of acquired characteristics"? The reply is that if you employ the traditional
two-valued Aristotelian mode of thought, we are trapped by the dualism of "heredity" and
"environment"—an inner-outer dichotomy which invalidates the kind of synthesystem that
Cosmic Humanism aspires to. But long ago, indeed as far back as my book, The Promise
of Scientific Humanism (1940), I discussed this problem of Lamarckian inheritance versus
the opposite doctrine of tlTe "continuity of the germ plasm" of A. Weismann and indicated
the non-Aristotelian way to an escape from this Hegelian opposition of heredity (thesis)
versus environment (antithesis). We proposed a transcendence of the thesis-antithesis con¬
flict into the synthesis provided by the doctrine of "parallel induction", as this was outlined
m my book, The Promise of Scientific Humanism (pp. 199-202). In the non-Aristotelian
mode of thinking this interface of "inner" and "outer" does not necessitate the either-or
disjunction of the two-valued logic. The same point of view has been set forth in Cosmic
Humanism (pp. 54-71). It is interesting to note that Arthur Koestler has dealt with the view
of Paul Kammerer whose biological doctrine rested upon Lamarckian foundations. Koestler's
reopening of the problem in his book, The Case of the Midwife Toad, should help to fortify
the present view.
3. How can thought patterns—the mental guiding fields of human beings—causally
influence the morphogenetic field of your postulated Life Lens somewhere out in space,
between the sun and the earth? I can only reaffirm the answer which, hopefully, will become
more convincing with the passage of time.
The mechanism for the creation, embryogenesis and evolution of living forms is what
has been described as the "Great Experiment", in one of my more recent publications, Cosmic
Humanism, the projected mental field was pictured as an involvement of a circumversion
by a toroidal vortex of field energy via the Life Lens. In this latest unfoldment, I am now
seeking to utilize Roseann Miilin’s "archetypal image of the 3-D double helix with the Yin-
Yang pattern in the vortex". This image was pictured in Diagram III. in a moment I shall
take another step toward integrating this into the toroidal vortex of the Life Lens. This
brings us to the next movement of the unfinished symphony.
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4. How do you propose to give substantive content to your beautifully vague phrase,
"discover and utilize the laws of harmonic synthesis" whereby, as you put it, "we convert
the power of resonant thought into a guiding field for the emergence of the Psychophere"?
The answer at this point seems to reside, in part at least. In the anticipated progress in the
field of psychical research. My article, "The Psychosphere: A Holistic View of Psychic
Phenomena", appearing in the symposium volume. Psychic Exploration: A Challenge to
Science (by Edgar D. Mitchell), should help to clarify and strengthen the present point of
view. Prior to that, however, much preliminary groundwork for the coming development has
already been provided in my earlier book. Nature, Man and God (1951) and in Cosmic
Humanism. This proposed development has always been described as the "Great Experi'
ment", and we have hitherto elaborated the theory in terms of hyperspace notions. Now, In
this present volume, the "experiment" is pictured as requiring the mirrored visualization of
"man's new image of man"—a lasered collective human thought-form which, with the help
of the Psychospheric feedback through a toroidal vortex, will focus the energy field that
will guide the holography of the coming Cosmic Man.
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