Qigong Teacher Bill Douglas, author of the Idiot's Guide asks me a question about noncommutativity

 Hi Bill, thanks for the question. I am honored to be communicated with the author of the "Idiot's Guide..."  I also have a self-published "Idiot's Guide" as a pdf - it's linked as my first upload (as a free training manual compilation of my research into neigong and neidan and qigong). The Noncommutativity concept is actually much deeper than just the particle/wave duality or Copenhagen Interpretation. I got into qigong through my music theory training when I was in high school as I had noticed a logical paradox in music theory (it turned out I had discovered noncommutativity but I didn't realize it). 

So in 1995 in St. Paul, MInnesota I saw a poster on a telephone pole - advertising Effie P. Chow. I was very skeptical and so I called the number to ask if I could have "half off" the admission price. I heard Effie's voice in the background agreeing with the lady who was talking to me - that yes I could, so it was only $10 each for me and my girlfriend. I felt a very strong magnetic force pushing my hands apart after Effie said she had filled the room with qi energy - and she had us practice making "qi energy balls." Then when most people had left, a security guard wandered in, at St. Mary's University in Minneapolis, asking, "I was just wondering what's going on in here, since the fuse got blown in the room behind you." Effie didn't really say anything at this point and we just left at that point. haha. It was very mind-blowing to be sure.

So anyway then qigong master Chunyi Lin did a presentation to my "spiritual healing" class in 1999 when I was getting a master's degree in Liberal Studies at University of Minnesota. So to finish my master's degree I did "self-directed research" through the African Studies Department in Pythagorean nonwestern philosophy (on the assumption or claim that Pythagoras had studied in Egypt).

 

OK this brings us to noncommutativity. In Egypt the ratio 2/3 is sacred (in ancient times) and so 2/3 was not simplified. In music theory the Perfect Fifth is Yang as 3/2 but also as 2/3. Dr. John Beaulieu's book Biosonics explains how Yang is the Perfect Fifth and Yin is the Perfect Fourth. I discovered his book in 1996 when I went out to San Francisco to try visit Effie P. Chow. I didn't have enough money to see her for an appointment but my friend drove me up to Portland where I found John Bealieu's book at Powell's bookstore. So that's how I realized that Pythagorean music theory was the same as qigong training.

 

See in Western music theory the concept of frequency is actually the origin of logarithmic mathematics as irrational geometry. So 2/3 as the Perfect Fifth is NOT allowed in Western music theory even though empirically it is true that 2/3 as C to F undertone is also the Perfect Fifth just as 3/2 is the Perfect Fifth but as C to G overtone. And that is the secret of noncommutativity in its simplest form. I was calling this "complementary opposites" as nondualism. 

 

It was not until I discovered Fields Medal Math professor Alain Connes' talk on youtube on "Music of Shapes" that I realized my music theory analysis was precisely the same as the noncommutativity analysis that unifies relativity and quantum physics.

 

So in Neidan this is called the "Single Perfect Yang" - Michael Winn in one of his papers mentions how from the Tao Te Ching, chapter 42, the yang is 3 and the yin is 2 and how this is from music theory. For example in Indian Yoga the "three gunas" is also based on music theory with Sattva as the octave and Rajas as the Perfect Fifth and Tamas as the Perfect Fourth. 

So in terms of particle/wave complementarity - the Copenhagen Interpretation assumes that until the probability of the whole is measures as the "collapse" of the wavefunction" then there is an inherent "indeterminateness" of reality. But I've corresponded with quantum mechanics Professor Basil J. Hiley about noncommutativity - and also math professor Louis Kauffman who worked with Eddie Oshins (at SLAC). 

So my pdf, "Music as Meditation" gives more details - the final chapter is on noncommutativity. It's on my academia dot edu site as "drew hempel" with the book title as "Strange Vibrations" or you can email me at eco echo cultivation - all one word - at gmale (spelled correctly) and I'll send you the pdf directly. thanks

 Yes Alison McDowell mentioned how she was reading Michael Talbot's book "The Holographic Universe" (on David Bohm and Karl Pribram) and qigong master Chunyi Lin said he also had read that Talbot book ( at the recommendation of a philosophy professor at the community college when grandmaster Lin first started out in the U.S. in 1995 or so). But Eddie Oshins points out that Karl Pribram was completely wrong about the claim that a holograph is quantum due to Karl Pribram not understanding noncommutativity. So also Basil J. Hiley, the collaborator of David Bohm, emphasizes this key understanding of noncommutativity. This is my big point - that Westerners are projecting the wrong symmetric based math onto nonwestern philosophy and so lack this true understanding of noncommutativity. I just posted a response to Bill Douglas on his youtube channel as he was having a discussion with qigong and yoga teachers on how to spread the philosophy and practice of qigong/yoga worldwide. So he asked me what I meant by noncommutativity and is it the same as wave/particle dualism. Well it's definitely related. haha.