ULTRA SCIENCE
Mental Explorations
by Iona Miller
A Collection of Iona Miller's Websites & Writings on Future Science
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
JCER - Vol. 5; Issue 3; April 2014
Sub-quantum Phenomena & Brain-Mind Problem
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/issue/view/43/showToc
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
JCER - Vol. 5; Issue 3; April 2014
Sub-quantum Phenomena & Brain-Mind Problem
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/issue/view/43/showToc
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
SCIENTIFIC GOD JOURNAL
SGJ Vol. 5 No 3, 2014
On the Quantum Aspects of Mind-Body Problem, Iona Miller
http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/303/350
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
SGJ Vol. 5 No 3, 2014
On the Quantum Aspects of Mind-Body Problem, Iona Miller
http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/303/350
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
DNA DECIPHER JOURNAL
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
SUBJECTS
SPIRITUAL PHYSICS
Iona Miller's Essays on
SPIRITUAL PHYSICS & BIOPHYSICS:
http://spiritualphysics.50megs.com/
~Our Deep Nature~
An anthology of Iona Miller's writing on spiritual physics and biophysics and what they mean for our worldview of self, others, nature and cosmos.
Empty Awareness * Microphysics * Helix to Hologram * My Zero Point * Nonlocal Mind * Whole Sum Infinity *Good Vibrations * Glisten Up * Photonic Body * Photonic Brain * Invisible Ground * Illumination * Consciousness * Soma Sophia * Biophysics * Field Body * Virtual Physics * Sacred Geometry * Neurotheology * Psi Research *Multiverse * Pineal DMT * Deep Field I Deep Field II * Emergent Healing * Holographic Paradigm *Chaos Consciousness * Chaosophy * Multiverse * Tensegrity * Energy Medicine * Resonance * Demiurgic Field *
"If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... How would I be? What would I do?" — R. Buckminster Fuller
SPIRITUAL PHYSICS Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature.
Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Spiritual technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification, virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex illusion - what we have come to understand as a hologram. Mystics have also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in numerous ways.
SOMA SOPHIA
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
Form is not other than Void; Void is not other than Form.
(from the Heart Sutra)
Life is fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical, the DNA blueprint functioning as a biohologram which serves as a guiding matrix for organizing physical form.
FROM BIOCHEMISTRY TO BIOPHYSICS
What is DNA? Where did it come from? How does it function to create life,to create us? We have some of the biochemical answers, but we can look deeper into biophysics for our models. We propose that DNA functions in a way that correlates with holographic projection. DNA projects a blueprint for the organism that is translated from the electrodynamic to the molecular level.
Furthermore, research strongly suggests DNA functions as a biocomputer. This DNA wave biocomputer reads and writes genetic code and forms holographic pre-images of biostructures. We are more fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical beings.
We all have a metaphysics – a worldview – whether we are aware of it or not.Science can and should contribute to that worldview of how things are and work, but should not monopolize it.We should locate scientific understanding within a wider view of knowledge that gives equally serious consideration to other metanarratives and forms of human insight and experience.
Perhaps we must learn to respect both domains to understand fully the world in which we live.We can conveniently call the scientific perspective “physics” and the stereoscopic view “metaphysics,” which goes beyond (“meta”) the purview of science alone.Both provide what we can call a “working” knowledge of reality for getting things done, whether they are an entirely accurate reflection of Reality, or not.
There is no unique way to go from physics to metaphysics.Although the reductionist scientific view does not determine the full nature of the existential field, it imposes certain requirements and restrictions on it.Both systems function as socially-structured language games.But even the most reliable map reveals virtually nothing about the detail of the terrain.
Both scientific and metaphysical theories or models must be beautiful: elegant, economical, and coherent, despite any application of their criteria.Metaphysics must explain the entire set of phenomena fundamental to human experience.This can be done, as in physics, from a top-down or bottom-up approach.
In science, top-down means from the cosmological to the subquantal level of observation.In metaphysics, we work from the biological/emotional/mental to transpersonal or archetypal levels of experience and expression.In physics, matter/energy is foundational, while metaphysics considers consciousness even more fundamental.Quantum or nonlocal mind models also reflect the later.We can examine a wide or narrow view of the nature of Reality and our own nature, both scope and detail.
SPIRITUAL PHYSICS & BIOPHYSICS:
http://spiritualphysics.50megs.com/
~Our Deep Nature~
An anthology of Iona Miller's writing on spiritual physics and biophysics and what they mean for our worldview of self, others, nature and cosmos.
Empty Awareness * Microphysics * Helix to Hologram * My Zero Point * Nonlocal Mind * Whole Sum Infinity *Good Vibrations * Glisten Up * Photonic Body * Photonic Brain * Invisible Ground * Illumination * Consciousness * Soma Sophia * Biophysics * Field Body * Virtual Physics * Sacred Geometry * Neurotheology * Psi Research *Multiverse * Pineal DMT * Deep Field I Deep Field II * Emergent Healing * Holographic Paradigm *Chaos Consciousness * Chaosophy * Multiverse * Tensegrity * Energy Medicine * Resonance * Demiurgic Field *
"If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... How would I be? What would I do?" — R. Buckminster Fuller
SPIRITUAL PHYSICS Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature.
Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Spiritual technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification, virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex illusion - what we have come to understand as a hologram. Mystics have also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in numerous ways.
SOMA SOPHIA
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
Form is not other than Void; Void is not other than Form.
(from the Heart Sutra)
Life is fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical, the DNA blueprint functioning as a biohologram which serves as a guiding matrix for organizing physical form.
FROM BIOCHEMISTRY TO BIOPHYSICS
What is DNA? Where did it come from? How does it function to create life,to create us? We have some of the biochemical answers, but we can look deeper into biophysics for our models. We propose that DNA functions in a way that correlates with holographic projection. DNA projects a blueprint for the organism that is translated from the electrodynamic to the molecular level.
Furthermore, research strongly suggests DNA functions as a biocomputer. This DNA wave biocomputer reads and writes genetic code and forms holographic pre-images of biostructures. We are more fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical beings.
We all have a metaphysics – a worldview – whether we are aware of it or not.Science can and should contribute to that worldview of how things are and work, but should not monopolize it.We should locate scientific understanding within a wider view of knowledge that gives equally serious consideration to other metanarratives and forms of human insight and experience.
Perhaps we must learn to respect both domains to understand fully the world in which we live.We can conveniently call the scientific perspective “physics” and the stereoscopic view “metaphysics,” which goes beyond (“meta”) the purview of science alone.Both provide what we can call a “working” knowledge of reality for getting things done, whether they are an entirely accurate reflection of Reality, or not.
There is no unique way to go from physics to metaphysics.Although the reductionist scientific view does not determine the full nature of the existential field, it imposes certain requirements and restrictions on it.Both systems function as socially-structured language games.But even the most reliable map reveals virtually nothing about the detail of the terrain.
Both scientific and metaphysical theories or models must be beautiful: elegant, economical, and coherent, despite any application of their criteria.Metaphysics must explain the entire set of phenomena fundamental to human experience.This can be done, as in physics, from a top-down or bottom-up approach.
In science, top-down means from the cosmological to the subquantal level of observation.In metaphysics, we work from the biological/emotional/mental to transpersonal or archetypal levels of experience and expression.In physics, matter/energy is foundational, while metaphysics considers consciousness even more fundamental.Quantum or nonlocal mind models also reflect the later.We can examine a wide or narrow view of the nature of Reality and our own nature, both scope and detail.
Holographic Archetypes
Parapsychology
http://mankindresearchunlimited.weebly.com/
PSI HAPPENS. The Supernatural, the Paranormal, the Unknown. Mankind has always been fascinated with dreams, intuitions, imagination, inspiration, charisma, otherworldly experiences, spirituality, psychoenergetic phenomena, extraordinary abilities, and the Transpersonal. The first rituals related to great cycles -- seasonal celebrations, healing, birth, death, rebirth. Beliefs are contagious (memes). But psi can affect us unconsciously, whether we "believe" in it or not. Few will deny that mind is mystifying.
Psi culture is not a subculture, but something we all inhabit unconsciously and notice at certain points in our lives when the uncanny or numinous intrudes on our everyday world. Jung (1961) said, "To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly; all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of life for better or worse."
There are several subcultures who's worldviews embrace psi phenomena as Reality, or react as if they do from governments to tribal people to new agers and neo-pagans to leading-edge researchers. Even the most skeptical scientist can be superstitious sometimes. But psi may prove to be more than just an artifact of primitive belief.
The distinction between "true believers" and skeptics comes at the point of interpretation of phenomena, attributions of the source of events or perceptions, whether one's model is psibernetics, "magical thinking", external agents, holistic mysticism, or physicalism. A theist will tend to attribute positive expectations to God, a pagan to nature, a humanist to self, and an atheist to complex dynamics, or randomness.
HARNESSING REALITY
The fashionable term for mind/matter interaction is now "intentionality", as if that explains anything. You may as well call it free will, or True Will, like the magicians do. Yet to name it intentionality doesn't make it so. It is a fantasy of intentionality, a subjective hypothesis that human intervention at the subtle level perturbs outcomes PHYSICALLLY in some desirable manner. Which is not to ignore psychosocial effects or mobilization of immune function.
People often mystify their experiences unnecessarily when they don't have a more plausible explanation. The notion that the all-knowing nonlocal field identity exerts some influence over environment and personality may simply be mythopoiesis. The real question is why do all cultures engage in mythopoeisis? Identification with the field body may just be another way of being attached to a belief to explain the Unknowable.
ITS NO SECRET
The notion "we create our own reality" is a relative truth with origins in the existential philosophers of the 19th Century. It can also be motivated by control issues - as a control fantasy rather than a proper characterization of lived reality. From a Jungian point of view, any "intentionality" we could exert would be subject to the competing agendas of autonomous archetypal forces and dynamics that don't give a fig about your personality needs. Whether we think we are changing reality through a focused act of will or even by "broad-beam" self-transformation the whole scenario may be a self-delusion cast in pseudo-scientific terms.
If it bothers or offends you to think otherwise, this is more likely true. There is emotional attachment there, not clarity. If you think you can do it by "aligning" yourself rather than manifestation, why are you harboring fantasies of misalignment? It makes little sense that the particle "intends" and the field "corresponds"; in Nature, the reverse leads to manifestation. Is this notion harboring a God-complex, a control fantasy in an otherwise uncontrollable world?
PSI HAPPENS. The Supernatural, the Paranormal, the Unknown. Mankind has always been fascinated with dreams, intuitions, imagination, inspiration, charisma, otherworldly experiences, spirituality, psychoenergetic phenomena, extraordinary abilities, and the Transpersonal. The first rituals related to great cycles -- seasonal celebrations, healing, birth, death, rebirth. Beliefs are contagious (memes). But psi can affect us unconsciously, whether we "believe" in it or not. Few will deny that mind is mystifying.
Psi culture is not a subculture, but something we all inhabit unconsciously and notice at certain points in our lives when the uncanny or numinous intrudes on our everyday world. Jung (1961) said, "To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly; all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of life for better or worse."
There are several subcultures who's worldviews embrace psi phenomena as Reality, or react as if they do from governments to tribal people to new agers and neo-pagans to leading-edge researchers. Even the most skeptical scientist can be superstitious sometimes. But psi may prove to be more than just an artifact of primitive belief.
The distinction between "true believers" and skeptics comes at the point of interpretation of phenomena, attributions of the source of events or perceptions, whether one's model is psibernetics, "magical thinking", external agents, holistic mysticism, or physicalism. A theist will tend to attribute positive expectations to God, a pagan to nature, a humanist to self, and an atheist to complex dynamics, or randomness.
HARNESSING REALITY
The fashionable term for mind/matter interaction is now "intentionality", as if that explains anything. You may as well call it free will, or True Will, like the magicians do. Yet to name it intentionality doesn't make it so. It is a fantasy of intentionality, a subjective hypothesis that human intervention at the subtle level perturbs outcomes PHYSICALLLY in some desirable manner. Which is not to ignore psychosocial effects or mobilization of immune function.
People often mystify their experiences unnecessarily when they don't have a more plausible explanation. The notion that the all-knowing nonlocal field identity exerts some influence over environment and personality may simply be mythopoiesis. The real question is why do all cultures engage in mythopoeisis? Identification with the field body may just be another way of being attached to a belief to explain the Unknowable.
ITS NO SECRET
The notion "we create our own reality" is a relative truth with origins in the existential philosophers of the 19th Century. It can also be motivated by control issues - as a control fantasy rather than a proper characterization of lived reality. From a Jungian point of view, any "intentionality" we could exert would be subject to the competing agendas of autonomous archetypal forces and dynamics that don't give a fig about your personality needs. Whether we think we are changing reality through a focused act of will or even by "broad-beam" self-transformation the whole scenario may be a self-delusion cast in pseudo-scientific terms.
If it bothers or offends you to think otherwise, this is more likely true. There is emotional attachment there, not clarity. If you think you can do it by "aligning" yourself rather than manifestation, why are you harboring fantasies of misalignment? It makes little sense that the particle "intends" and the field "corresponds"; in Nature, the reverse leads to manifestation. Is this notion harboring a God-complex, a control fantasy in an otherwise uncontrollable world?
SYNDEX
Number Dynamics, Auric Key, Mandalogs, Sacred Geometry, Synergetics
http://syndex.weebly.com/introduction-ii.html
Syndex I & II are about the spiritual and universal beauty of numbers. They reflect the order and beauty of nature, but also of psyche. According to Jung, number unifies the physical and psychic (as in "realm of the psyche", not fortunetelling) worlds through synchronicity. Jung's basic ideas about the unity of knowledge and existence are in principle synonymous with the Platonic tradition, alchemy, Qabala and Gnosticism. Plato treated the end product of the evolution of mathematical concepts, (a fixed system of idealized objects), as an independent beginning point of the evolution of the "world of things."
This concrete form of philosophy was determined by the nature of Greek mathematics. These philosophies seek to reconcile the actual condition with a hypothetical distant ideal, which expansively incorporates both personal and universal dimensions. It is an inward-oriented epistemology. By intuitive perception we can consciously reiterate the laws of Nature and mind which are equivalent to the archetypes themselves. Belief in the essential aspect of the mathematical as a real world, a "last reality" underlies the surprising efficiency of mathematics in the natural sciences and technology.
But are numbers really abstract entities existing independently of the human mind? What is the nature of mathematical truth, and how is it translated into mathematical knowledge? If it exists in another "ideal world", how can we know anything at all about the subject-matter of mathematics? What collective criteria determines the nature, terms and rules of this world?
In the Jungian view, numbers (like other archetypes of the collective unconscious) are contents and patterns of behavior which are not personally acquired in experience but are inborn. The Platonic Forms are the objects of knowledge, which is regarded as innate. They can emerge dynamically as well as imagistically. The essential nature of the Forms is dual: unity and multiplicity, finitude and infinitude. "The One" is the origin of Forms in the same way that the psyche is the origin of the archetypes.
Because they form a primary conceptual language, numbers have heavily influenced the development of culture, philosophy and myth as well as sciences such as cosmology. 'Number is All' was the Pythagorean motto. Numbers were symbols representing cosmic principles. The whole philosophy of numbers came from distinctions created by the primordial division of the One into multiplicity. Because of their archetypal essence, their mode of articulation is essentially mythic and radically symbolic.
Syndex I & II are about the spiritual and universal beauty of numbers. They reflect the order and beauty of nature, but also of psyche. According to Jung, number unifies the physical and psychic (as in "realm of the psyche", not fortunetelling) worlds through synchronicity. Jung's basic ideas about the unity of knowledge and existence are in principle synonymous with the Platonic tradition, alchemy, Qabala and Gnosticism. Plato treated the end product of the evolution of mathematical concepts, (a fixed system of idealized objects), as an independent beginning point of the evolution of the "world of things."
This concrete form of philosophy was determined by the nature of Greek mathematics. These philosophies seek to reconcile the actual condition with a hypothetical distant ideal, which expansively incorporates both personal and universal dimensions. It is an inward-oriented epistemology. By intuitive perception we can consciously reiterate the laws of Nature and mind which are equivalent to the archetypes themselves. Belief in the essential aspect of the mathematical as a real world, a "last reality" underlies the surprising efficiency of mathematics in the natural sciences and technology.
But are numbers really abstract entities existing independently of the human mind? What is the nature of mathematical truth, and how is it translated into mathematical knowledge? If it exists in another "ideal world", how can we know anything at all about the subject-matter of mathematics? What collective criteria determines the nature, terms and rules of this world?
In the Jungian view, numbers (like other archetypes of the collective unconscious) are contents and patterns of behavior which are not personally acquired in experience but are inborn. The Platonic Forms are the objects of knowledge, which is regarded as innate. They can emerge dynamically as well as imagistically. The essential nature of the Forms is dual: unity and multiplicity, finitude and infinitude. "The One" is the origin of Forms in the same way that the psyche is the origin of the archetypes.
Because they form a primary conceptual language, numbers have heavily influenced the development of culture, philosophy and myth as well as sciences such as cosmology. 'Number is All' was the Pythagorean motto. Numbers were symbols representing cosmic principles. The whole philosophy of numbers came from distinctions created by the primordial division of the One into multiplicity. Because of their archetypal essence, their mode of articulation is essentially mythic and radically symbolic.
PHOTONIC HUMAN - My Zero Point
http://photonichuman.weebly.com/
FLUX & LUX
"Nonexistence is eagerly bubbling in the expectation of being given existence....For the mine and treasure-house of God's making is naught but nonexistence coming into manifestation." ~Rumi
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
What IS-IS, and it is Radiant. The Universe is a flow of light. In the Now there is something Brilliant. Fathomless numbers of transforming scintillating points of light outnumber the stars.
Non-luminous photons are upstream from luminous photons. Virtual photons compose the Zero-Point field and mark the boundary where nothing becomes something.
The deep nature of the Photonic Body, the energy body, is this same Light. We all have a light-filled body and are coming to realize our truly fundamental nature. That nature is pure potential. It is our nature to express it. Its optimal state is flow.
We can embody the evidence of that Brilliance. We are nothing but Brilliance; "Nothing," but Brilliance. Transformation is real-I-zation at ever-deeper levels of hyperdimensional existence. Yet psychological resistance is as real as electrical resistance.
Absolute space is the womb of creation and the physics of virtual photon fluctuation reflects not only Nature, but our bioelectronic nature.
Since the dawn of human history, spiritual traditions have spoken about Illumination and emanation as a creative flow of light. There are four worlds or levels of emanation (virtual photon flux/radiant energy), creation (holofield, holoflux), formation (geometrical template) and matter (electromagnetic, photonic).
Photons are light quanta. There is an information transfer between matter and light. Photons transduce from virtual (nonordered) to normal (ordered) photon energy through photon/antiphoton pairs.
Matter is different frequencies of "frozen light," codified in the EM spectrum. Matter resonates with sound and forms patterns. All matter is a complex field phenomena. The basis of wave theory is a complex form of energetic matter. Living forms of energy are standing waves rather than "solid objects." Mass/particles are actually dynamic processes. Mass attracts photon flux from the vacuum.
Our biophysics is bioelectronic and electrochemical as well as quantum. Our DNA expresses and directs matter through quantum bioholography, using sound and light. We are composed of, feed on and emit light. Our body uses light to coordinate its processes. We are a flow of light...a virtual photon geyser.
Only now are we learning just how literal this experience of Light is, engaging interactive mechanisms in our holistic psychophysical Being. The very core of ourselves deep within our Photonic Body, Inner Light is the Effulgence of its Brilliance, and we are That. Our subatOMic nature is Pure Radiant Light with no separation from Cosmos.
Come lift the electromagnetic Veil of Isis and gaze on that radiant Face. Show me the photons.
In the end there is only Brilliance.
FLUX & LUX
"Nonexistence is eagerly bubbling in the expectation of being given existence....For the mine and treasure-house of God's making is naught but nonexistence coming into manifestation." ~Rumi
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
What IS-IS, and it is Radiant. The Universe is a flow of light. In the Now there is something Brilliant. Fathomless numbers of transforming scintillating points of light outnumber the stars.
Non-luminous photons are upstream from luminous photons. Virtual photons compose the Zero-Point field and mark the boundary where nothing becomes something.
The deep nature of the Photonic Body, the energy body, is this same Light. We all have a light-filled body and are coming to realize our truly fundamental nature. That nature is pure potential. It is our nature to express it. Its optimal state is flow.
We can embody the evidence of that Brilliance. We are nothing but Brilliance; "Nothing," but Brilliance. Transformation is real-I-zation at ever-deeper levels of hyperdimensional existence. Yet psychological resistance is as real as electrical resistance.
Absolute space is the womb of creation and the physics of virtual photon fluctuation reflects not only Nature, but our bioelectronic nature.
Since the dawn of human history, spiritual traditions have spoken about Illumination and emanation as a creative flow of light. There are four worlds or levels of emanation (virtual photon flux/radiant energy), creation (holofield, holoflux), formation (geometrical template) and matter (electromagnetic, photonic).
Photons are light quanta. There is an information transfer between matter and light. Photons transduce from virtual (nonordered) to normal (ordered) photon energy through photon/antiphoton pairs.
Matter is different frequencies of "frozen light," codified in the EM spectrum. Matter resonates with sound and forms patterns. All matter is a complex field phenomena. The basis of wave theory is a complex form of energetic matter. Living forms of energy are standing waves rather than "solid objects." Mass/particles are actually dynamic processes. Mass attracts photon flux from the vacuum.
Our biophysics is bioelectronic and electrochemical as well as quantum. Our DNA expresses and directs matter through quantum bioholography, using sound and light. We are composed of, feed on and emit light. Our body uses light to coordinate its processes. We are a flow of light...a virtual photon geyser.
Only now are we learning just how literal this experience of Light is, engaging interactive mechanisms in our holistic psychophysical Being. The very core of ourselves deep within our Photonic Body, Inner Light is the Effulgence of its Brilliance, and we are That. Our subatOMic nature is Pure Radiant Light with no separation from Cosmos.
Come lift the electromagnetic Veil of Isis and gaze on that radiant Face. Show me the photons.
In the end there is only Brilliance.
Virtual Physics
ZERO POINT CENTER OF ORIGIN:SEEING THE WORLD IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT
In the beginning was the Void. Sound waves [the Word] originated in the first instant of the universe’s life, when the cosmos underwent an extraordinary expansion. No one really knows what drove it, but by stretching the very fabric of space, it magnified a weird subatomic phenomenon that is known today as the spontaneous materialization of particles from a complete vacuum. Vacuum fluctuation underlies both cosmology and quantum processes.
Vacuum-spawned particles are constantly flickering in and out of existence around us, arising from and sinking back into the void. During inflation, this process like everything else in the universe, was magnified tremendously. The rapidly expanding early universe imparted enough energy to these particle wannabes that instead of quickly subsiding into the vacuum, they remained in the real world. The sudden influx of countless particles from the vacuum was like a stone thrown into the dense particle pond of the early universe, sending out ripples--pressure waves. And pressure waves rippling through a gas are nothing more than sound waves. The entire universe rang like a bell.
Those reverberations were abruptly silenced 13 billion years ago, when the universe became transparent. Once photons were traveling freely through space, [“Let there be Light!”], there was no longer enough pressure to support the sound waves. But before fading forever, those echoes of creation had left their mark on the cosmic microwave background. When sound waves were still spreading through the universe, they compresssed the particle soup in some regions of the cosmos and rarefied it in others. Pressure changes cause temperature changes--increase the pressure in a gas and the temperature increases. Microwave photons coming from these various regions have slightly different temperatures. The temperature patterns show the universe just as it was when the particle fog--and the sound waves--vanished.
Patrick Cornille, "Inhomogeneous Waves and Maxwell's Equations." Chapter 4 in Essays on the Formal Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory, Aklesh Lakhtakia, Ed., World Scientific, New York, 1993. Cornille clearly shows that Maxwell's equations are directly created by scalar potential interferometry. As he states, this means that EM force field wave s are created by the interference of sound-type scalar potential waves, or "sound creates light." This strongly supports Tesla's original statement that EM waves in the vacuum are actually EM sound waves, much like sound waves in a gas. Further cosmology supports this because before the universe became transparent and radiated light, it rang like a gargantuan bell.
ZERO POINT PHYSICS: There is No Time to Waste
VIRTUAL PHYSICS is a quantum field theory (QFT) of the energetic vacuum -- primordial field interactions beyond our current observability. We need to reexamine the nature of the groundstate in the light of new theories and postulates rather than irrelevant mathematical vaguaries and flawed conventional theories. Mathematics should follow, not preceed observation and inference. The ramifications of plausible alternative theories must be worked through to separate the lead of the unviable from the gold of new insights on the nature of reality. In the Continuous Creation, the center of the universe is everywhere, the seething cauldron of potential. Interaction of time and negative time extracts "massergy" from the Dirac Sea, manifesting the temporal potential of force and form in every instant, everywhere, all the time. The all-pervading field of infinite potential and its energetic subspace entities are virtual yet quite real. It can be perceived indirectly with conceptual "over the light horizon radar."
Time is quantized. Time energy is transduced into dynamic spatial energy as cosmic jitter (ZPE; zitterbewegung), cosmic acceleration, radiant energy, and mass. Only material entities are subject to light's speed limit, not the formation of materiality itself. Bell's Theorem shows there is a wholeness to reality, underlying the quantum connection, which is not bound by the speed of light, but propagates influences instantaneously.
Research suggests we may eventually be able to tap the flow of time, itself. Some speculate that in a scale expanding cosmos (SEC), radiant energy is time or close to it and non-EM. The engine of the universe runs by feeding on negentropy. This is difficult to see in standard quantum mechanics (QM), which describes stationary quantum states. The holistic view is dynamic so it involves time.
In the beginning was the Void. Sound waves [the Word] originated in the first instant of the universe’s life, when the cosmos underwent an extraordinary expansion. No one really knows what drove it, but by stretching the very fabric of space, it magnified a weird subatomic phenomenon that is known today as the spontaneous materialization of particles from a complete vacuum. Vacuum fluctuation underlies both cosmology and quantum processes.
Vacuum-spawned particles are constantly flickering in and out of existence around us, arising from and sinking back into the void. During inflation, this process like everything else in the universe, was magnified tremendously. The rapidly expanding early universe imparted enough energy to these particle wannabes that instead of quickly subsiding into the vacuum, they remained in the real world. The sudden influx of countless particles from the vacuum was like a stone thrown into the dense particle pond of the early universe, sending out ripples--pressure waves. And pressure waves rippling through a gas are nothing more than sound waves. The entire universe rang like a bell.
Those reverberations were abruptly silenced 13 billion years ago, when the universe became transparent. Once photons were traveling freely through space, [“Let there be Light!”], there was no longer enough pressure to support the sound waves. But before fading forever, those echoes of creation had left their mark on the cosmic microwave background. When sound waves were still spreading through the universe, they compresssed the particle soup in some regions of the cosmos and rarefied it in others. Pressure changes cause temperature changes--increase the pressure in a gas and the temperature increases. Microwave photons coming from these various regions have slightly different temperatures. The temperature patterns show the universe just as it was when the particle fog--and the sound waves--vanished.
Patrick Cornille, "Inhomogeneous Waves and Maxwell's Equations." Chapter 4 in Essays on the Formal Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory, Aklesh Lakhtakia, Ed., World Scientific, New York, 1993. Cornille clearly shows that Maxwell's equations are directly created by scalar potential interferometry. As he states, this means that EM force field wave s are created by the interference of sound-type scalar potential waves, or "sound creates light." This strongly supports Tesla's original statement that EM waves in the vacuum are actually EM sound waves, much like sound waves in a gas. Further cosmology supports this because before the universe became transparent and radiated light, it rang like a gargantuan bell.
ZERO POINT PHYSICS: There is No Time to Waste
VIRTUAL PHYSICS is a quantum field theory (QFT) of the energetic vacuum -- primordial field interactions beyond our current observability. We need to reexamine the nature of the groundstate in the light of new theories and postulates rather than irrelevant mathematical vaguaries and flawed conventional theories. Mathematics should follow, not preceed observation and inference. The ramifications of plausible alternative theories must be worked through to separate the lead of the unviable from the gold of new insights on the nature of reality. In the Continuous Creation, the center of the universe is everywhere, the seething cauldron of potential. Interaction of time and negative time extracts "massergy" from the Dirac Sea, manifesting the temporal potential of force and form in every instant, everywhere, all the time. The all-pervading field of infinite potential and its energetic subspace entities are virtual yet quite real. It can be perceived indirectly with conceptual "over the light horizon radar."
Time is quantized. Time energy is transduced into dynamic spatial energy as cosmic jitter (ZPE; zitterbewegung), cosmic acceleration, radiant energy, and mass. Only material entities are subject to light's speed limit, not the formation of materiality itself. Bell's Theorem shows there is a wholeness to reality, underlying the quantum connection, which is not bound by the speed of light, but propagates influences instantaneously.
Research suggests we may eventually be able to tap the flow of time, itself. Some speculate that in a scale expanding cosmos (SEC), radiant energy is time or close to it and non-EM. The engine of the universe runs by feeding on negentropy. This is difficult to see in standard quantum mechanics (QM), which describes stationary quantum states. The holistic view is dynamic so it involves time.
Neurotheology
Neurotheology, also known as biotheology, is the study of the neural basis of spirituality. Neurotheology deals with the neurological, psychobiological and evolutionary root of subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual. Aldous Huxley introduced the term neurotheology in his utopian novel Island. It was adopted in the last decade for a new scientific discipline. The term is also sometimes used in a less scientific context or philosophical context. Keywords include 'deity', soul, Self, neurophysiological bases, meditation, self-transcendence, spirituality, mysticism, EM and acoustic brain manipulation technology, resonance phenomena, neurotransmitters.
Neurotheology covers spiritual experiences of phenomena which are the basis of beliefs, built from four key interconnected components: perceptions, emotions, cognitions, and social interactions.
The Spectrum of BioRapture
However, the methods of scientific investigation can be applied to the taxonomy or spectrum of consciousness without dismissing the phenomena studied. The fact that certain experiences, such as the disappearance of space/time orientation, can be correlated with cessation or activation of certain brain regions doesn't invalidate their human values.
The mind tends to interpret these psychophysical events and processes in terms of pre-programmed cultural beliefs and sociocultual memes. Many of these attributions to our experience are trendy imaginal wormholes: Near death experience, astral projection, nonlocal healing. Neurosomatic rapture is preparation for the next step in our evolution - transhumanism.
Once you know the brain neurology and the resonant nature of the mindbody connection, you can make up your own mind about this complex interaction which doesn't come out of nowhere. It is our evolutionary legacy; we are the product of our environment and precisely tuned to it. The holistic nature of the body reflects the Nature of the Cosmos; our nature is not separate from Nature. There is great value in discipline, practice, and service which exercises the full spectrum of our human potential.
Ecstasy & Bliss Are there things we should not know? We are innately geared to crave ecstasy, “escape reality,” and seek extraordinary or novel experiences on our way to wisdom. The history of mankind recounts the stages of that journey. Religions and mysticism arose from the accounts of spontaneous spiritual experiences. In shamanism, our ancestors sought them in an instinctual or animalistic way. In art, myth and ritual we sought them in a human, if narcissistic and self-expressive reactionary way.
In creativity and meditation we seek in a fully conscious way, willfully cooperating and facilitating the process not only of connecting with God, but experiencing oneself in the process of “becoming” god. The ego no longer perceives itself as a separate expression of consciousness, but as the same essence as All.
Of course, we can never fully complete that process. No one can fully embody God, but we can move toward it. The succession of conscious states is toward higher integration, not toward lower dissociation. The process of integration in growth toward positive values has the complementary virtues of being obvious in fact and transcendental in implications. It means we evolve from reactive creatures into an integrated part of the spiritual dimension.
The God Spot: Where in the Brain Can We Find God?
Spirituality is inherent in mankind's nature. Shamanism, the prehistoric spirituality is over 50,000 years old. Neurotheology is the marriage of brain science and theology, which systematically studies the relationship of God and the universe. Religion is the expression of theological attitudes and actions. Tradition says God created the heavens and earth, and God created man in his own image.
But did God create man and the brain, or does the brain create God? Measurements of electrical activity in the brains of test subjects indicated a specific neural center in the temporal lobe that flared up at times when the subjects thought about God. Revelation is the act of God manifesting, disclosing himself, or communicating truth to the mind. These subjective experiences are the basis of mysticism. Perhaps God hid mankind’s spirituality where we would least expect it and be least likely to look -- within ourselves.
When stimulated the God Spot creates hallucinations that are interpreted as mystical or spiritual experiences. This temporal lobe 'spot' is stimulated during meditation and prayer and is affected by electromagnetic fields and epilepsy. The resulting hallucinations may be the cause of mystical, spiritual and paranormal experiences as they can give feelings such as a presence in the room or an out of body experience. The transcendental feeling of being one with the universe results from decreased activity in the brain's parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. The amygdala and hippocampus are involved in the experience of visions, profound experiences, memory, and meditation.
Meditation increases activity in the front part of the brain and decreases activity in the area of the brain that orients our bodies in space. This increased frontal activity is found not only during meditation, but also during any attention-focusing task. Explanations of these influences come from personal beliefs; a visit from an angel or lost loved one, an extraterrestrial encounter, a higher plane of consciousness or a visit from God.
The religious element of our nature is just as universal as the rational or social one. Could altering brain chemistry by playing some visual and pleasure circuits, while quieting those governing self-image, cognition, orientation, and time sequencing give rise to a transcendental bliss, a god-experience? Can they give rise to the electrochemical supercharge described as kundalini, the serpent power that rises up the spine in self-transcendence or illumination? How can we journey along the continuum from pleasure to enthusiasm, to joy, ecstasy and enlightenment?
However, this human study of the phenomenology of the God-experience doesn’t reductively negate the possibly of a divine creative force. Rather, this transdisciplinarian science simply seeks to describe the mechanisms involved in that process. It explores how the divine is translated into the human realm, from the archetypal to the material world. It combines aspects of religion, psychology, and neurology. This new paradigm synthesizes the truths of both science and religion -- giving birth to “neuroshamanism.”
EVOLUTION OF BELIEF PARADIGMS
Stage 1: Archaic: Survival, the Ground Zero of Existence. Self-preservation, isolation; antisocial. Paranoid or idiosyncratic beliefs.
Stage 2: Tribal: Truster/Trickster. Social; love, belonging. Self-sacrifice vs. selfishness. Transgression; taboo. Ethnocentric magical and superstitious beliefs.
Stage 3: Egocentric: Power; Esteem; Autonomy, heroic. Unscrupulous Competition/Hero. Shame vs. honor. Exploitation vs. Respect. Mythic beliefs.
Stage4: Moral/Patriotic. Rules; Initiative. Shame and guilt vs. conformity and conventionality; purpose, virtue. Systematized truths. Emotional, nostalgic beliefs.
Stage 5: Materialist. Reasoning; mental analysis. Rational beliefs, truth; goodness; consumerism, greed. Head vs. heart. Progressive if rewarded, compulsive, workaholic. Perspective. Rational beliefs.
Stage 6: Wise Empath. Service, rapport, intimacy, empathy. Politically correct.. Inner wisdom, meaning. Self-actualization. Intuitive, mystical beliefs.
Stage 7: Distancer/Self. Paradoxical; individuated, reclusive; universalist. Deconstruction and Synthesis, gestalt, the big picture. Integral, synergetic beliefs.
Stage 8: Global Village. Complex Dynamic Beliefs. Post-Metaphysical Integrative Spirituality. “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue.” (Graves) Integrative Sustainable beliefs.
"The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness."- Marshall McLuhan, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: The Extensions of Man, Ch. 7 (Challenge and Collapse), pp.70-1, 1964, SIGNET BOOKS, New York
MEDITATION The task of meditation is essentially letting the body fall as deeply asleep as possible while the mind remains focused. In fact, if it were not for the opposite function’s presence, even in the mystical state, we would fall asleep. The REM or dream state is similar: there is extreme cerebral excitation, even though muscular activity is inhibited. Hemispheric synchronization producing long, slow alpha and theta brainwaves with high amplitude is another factor. The deeper the meditation, the slower and stronger the waves.
The energy “rush” of meditation comes when either the arousal or quiescent state “spills over” into stimulating its complementary system. When both parts of the autonomic nervous system go online simultaneously, the limbic system goes wild with emotion, absorption and oceanic bliss. This is reflected in the gender based, male-female imagery of the kundalini serpent power and the yin and yang of the Tao.
When both systems go into maximal discharge, this neurochemical flux is subjectively perceived as Absolute Unity of Being, boundlessness, timelessness, and sacredness. Our relationship to humans, earth, and cosmos is one of a relationship to the Other. Our first formative influence is the experience of empathy. And empathy needs a face. If we find that face in our personal experience of God, who shall say nay? Beyond that lies only the yawning infinity of the Void.
Neurotheology covers spiritual experiences of phenomena which are the basis of beliefs, built from four key interconnected components: perceptions, emotions, cognitions, and social interactions.
- The perception that space/time orientation ceases; "spaced out"
- NDE; ego death
- Fear, alienation and self-consciousness dissolve
- Nature mysic experiences or spiritual awe; bliss
- Creativity and connection with Source
- Ego submits to will of Self
- DNA memory coiling back to the dawn of life
- Sense of immortality and interspecies symbiosis
- Oneness with the universe
- Ecstatic trance; self-transcendence; psychophysical rapture
- Sudden enlightenment, stabilizing over time
- Altered States of Consciousness; temporal lobe visions
- Pure Awareness; Illumination
- Increase of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine DMT levels in the 1000 Petalled Lotus or Pineal Gland.
The Spectrum of BioRapture
However, the methods of scientific investigation can be applied to the taxonomy or spectrum of consciousness without dismissing the phenomena studied. The fact that certain experiences, such as the disappearance of space/time orientation, can be correlated with cessation or activation of certain brain regions doesn't invalidate their human values.
The mind tends to interpret these psychophysical events and processes in terms of pre-programmed cultural beliefs and sociocultual memes. Many of these attributions to our experience are trendy imaginal wormholes: Near death experience, astral projection, nonlocal healing. Neurosomatic rapture is preparation for the next step in our evolution - transhumanism.
Once you know the brain neurology and the resonant nature of the mindbody connection, you can make up your own mind about this complex interaction which doesn't come out of nowhere. It is our evolutionary legacy; we are the product of our environment and precisely tuned to it. The holistic nature of the body reflects the Nature of the Cosmos; our nature is not separate from Nature. There is great value in discipline, practice, and service which exercises the full spectrum of our human potential.
Ecstasy & Bliss Are there things we should not know? We are innately geared to crave ecstasy, “escape reality,” and seek extraordinary or novel experiences on our way to wisdom. The history of mankind recounts the stages of that journey. Religions and mysticism arose from the accounts of spontaneous spiritual experiences. In shamanism, our ancestors sought them in an instinctual or animalistic way. In art, myth and ritual we sought them in a human, if narcissistic and self-expressive reactionary way.
In creativity and meditation we seek in a fully conscious way, willfully cooperating and facilitating the process not only of connecting with God, but experiencing oneself in the process of “becoming” god. The ego no longer perceives itself as a separate expression of consciousness, but as the same essence as All.
Of course, we can never fully complete that process. No one can fully embody God, but we can move toward it. The succession of conscious states is toward higher integration, not toward lower dissociation. The process of integration in growth toward positive values has the complementary virtues of being obvious in fact and transcendental in implications. It means we evolve from reactive creatures into an integrated part of the spiritual dimension.
The God Spot: Where in the Brain Can We Find God?
Spirituality is inherent in mankind's nature. Shamanism, the prehistoric spirituality is over 50,000 years old. Neurotheology is the marriage of brain science and theology, which systematically studies the relationship of God and the universe. Religion is the expression of theological attitudes and actions. Tradition says God created the heavens and earth, and God created man in his own image.
But did God create man and the brain, or does the brain create God? Measurements of electrical activity in the brains of test subjects indicated a specific neural center in the temporal lobe that flared up at times when the subjects thought about God. Revelation is the act of God manifesting, disclosing himself, or communicating truth to the mind. These subjective experiences are the basis of mysticism. Perhaps God hid mankind’s spirituality where we would least expect it and be least likely to look -- within ourselves.
When stimulated the God Spot creates hallucinations that are interpreted as mystical or spiritual experiences. This temporal lobe 'spot' is stimulated during meditation and prayer and is affected by electromagnetic fields and epilepsy. The resulting hallucinations may be the cause of mystical, spiritual and paranormal experiences as they can give feelings such as a presence in the room or an out of body experience. The transcendental feeling of being one with the universe results from decreased activity in the brain's parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. The amygdala and hippocampus are involved in the experience of visions, profound experiences, memory, and meditation.
Meditation increases activity in the front part of the brain and decreases activity in the area of the brain that orients our bodies in space. This increased frontal activity is found not only during meditation, but also during any attention-focusing task. Explanations of these influences come from personal beliefs; a visit from an angel or lost loved one, an extraterrestrial encounter, a higher plane of consciousness or a visit from God.
The religious element of our nature is just as universal as the rational or social one. Could altering brain chemistry by playing some visual and pleasure circuits, while quieting those governing self-image, cognition, orientation, and time sequencing give rise to a transcendental bliss, a god-experience? Can they give rise to the electrochemical supercharge described as kundalini, the serpent power that rises up the spine in self-transcendence or illumination? How can we journey along the continuum from pleasure to enthusiasm, to joy, ecstasy and enlightenment?
However, this human study of the phenomenology of the God-experience doesn’t reductively negate the possibly of a divine creative force. Rather, this transdisciplinarian science simply seeks to describe the mechanisms involved in that process. It explores how the divine is translated into the human realm, from the archetypal to the material world. It combines aspects of religion, psychology, and neurology. This new paradigm synthesizes the truths of both science and religion -- giving birth to “neuroshamanism.”
EVOLUTION OF BELIEF PARADIGMS
Stage 1: Archaic: Survival, the Ground Zero of Existence. Self-preservation, isolation; antisocial. Paranoid or idiosyncratic beliefs.
Stage 2: Tribal: Truster/Trickster. Social; love, belonging. Self-sacrifice vs. selfishness. Transgression; taboo. Ethnocentric magical and superstitious beliefs.
Stage 3: Egocentric: Power; Esteem; Autonomy, heroic. Unscrupulous Competition/Hero. Shame vs. honor. Exploitation vs. Respect. Mythic beliefs.
Stage4: Moral/Patriotic. Rules; Initiative. Shame and guilt vs. conformity and conventionality; purpose, virtue. Systematized truths. Emotional, nostalgic beliefs.
Stage 5: Materialist. Reasoning; mental analysis. Rational beliefs, truth; goodness; consumerism, greed. Head vs. heart. Progressive if rewarded, compulsive, workaholic. Perspective. Rational beliefs.
Stage 6: Wise Empath. Service, rapport, intimacy, empathy. Politically correct.. Inner wisdom, meaning. Self-actualization. Intuitive, mystical beliefs.
Stage 7: Distancer/Self. Paradoxical; individuated, reclusive; universalist. Deconstruction and Synthesis, gestalt, the big picture. Integral, synergetic beliefs.
Stage 8: Global Village. Complex Dynamic Beliefs. Post-Metaphysical Integrative Spirituality. “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue.” (Graves) Integrative Sustainable beliefs.
"The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness."- Marshall McLuhan, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: The Extensions of Man, Ch. 7 (Challenge and Collapse), pp.70-1, 1964, SIGNET BOOKS, New York
MEDITATION The task of meditation is essentially letting the body fall as deeply asleep as possible while the mind remains focused. In fact, if it were not for the opposite function’s presence, even in the mystical state, we would fall asleep. The REM or dream state is similar: there is extreme cerebral excitation, even though muscular activity is inhibited. Hemispheric synchronization producing long, slow alpha and theta brainwaves with high amplitude is another factor. The deeper the meditation, the slower and stronger the waves.
The energy “rush” of meditation comes when either the arousal or quiescent state “spills over” into stimulating its complementary system. When both parts of the autonomic nervous system go online simultaneously, the limbic system goes wild with emotion, absorption and oceanic bliss. This is reflected in the gender based, male-female imagery of the kundalini serpent power and the yin and yang of the Tao.
When both systems go into maximal discharge, this neurochemical flux is subjectively perceived as Absolute Unity of Being, boundlessness, timelessness, and sacredness. Our relationship to humans, earth, and cosmos is one of a relationship to the Other. Our first formative influence is the experience of empathy. And empathy needs a face. If we find that face in our personal experience of God, who shall say nay? Beyond that lies only the yawning infinity of the Void.
PARAMEDIA ECOLOGY http://ionaparamedia.50megs.com/
THE GUERRILLA INFORMATION WAR
“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the status skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools converge in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of "Web 2.0" and other non-compliant media and distribution channels.
DIY Media: Paramedia, including desktop cinema, is the medium of the "Naughties." Arguably, it is the single most important factor in current social evolution, light years beyond the offerings of dry pedagogy and endless Power Point presentations. It penetrates deeply into the gaps of conventional culture, rigidity and atrophy, bursting it apart at the seams, like overripe fruit. It is a chaotic factor mirroring the criticality of our times, and magnifying its influence through the butterfly effect of info-memes.
Infowars: Taking its message directly to the people who either actively seek it or come upon it synchronistically, it is a new way of teaching and learning that suits our busy lifestyles and our infolust for concise, up to the minute reportage, analysis and applcation. As with all media, once you digest the content, you are invited to make up your mind for yourself.
Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, YouTube, and the next thing we haven't heard about yet but will soon all be doing.
• Paramedia is a form of media that applies the training that has been largely restricted to journalists, artists and storytellers by limited access to the tools and channels for making and distributing messages;
• Paramedia operate beside, between, above and below the traditional practitioners of media and the paramedia channels enjoy an increasingly similar access to audiences through distribution channels.
• Paramedia can be dysfunctional; the assumption by established media is that paramedia is essentially flawed by a lack of professionalism. Paramedia people, likewise, believe the conventional media they supersede is dysfunctional. (Ratcliffe).
"McLuhan believed that electronic environments were molding people on a scale that was greater than any artwork, and that, therefore, artists should embrace the technologies of the future," says Paramedia Ecologist, Bob Dobbs."By this, he meant that in mass media environments, people are molded not only by the content but by a sensory bias specific to the medium," says Dobbs. For digital media, he adopted a different adage, that the "user is the content."
McLuhan's "put on" is the mysterious process of continual mutual transformation, resulting from a reciprocal dynamic whereby a reader's perceptions are altered by putting on a mask or poem, and a writer or maker puts on the reader, having to project his own image as the mask of the user or reader. McLuhan would later note that the "complexity of this process is such that even literary critics have despaired of ever unravelling it. Critics of the press, on the other hand, are accustomed to label the whole thing as degrading…" given that in the commercial sphere, the process can be referred to as "giving the public what it wants." He continues, "this process is at the very heart of any communication activity…It is certain to remain the central issue so long as readers are human and not merely robots." -Andrew Crystall
STAY TUNED
Now, it's time for the TAKE OFF, as we all GET REAL, online or off, once again ~ what is called in media ecology, the ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHYSICAL (AP), the physical body - not just the chip-body.
The audience is US, the users, the DOWNLOADABLE HUMANS.
MYTH IS the pattern of information/culture/community/technology and words/archetype/story/passion. Previously myth was imposed, now it is evoked. Instead of ruling people by controlling their passions, we rule through their passions. Myth is passion and under the electric myth all passions are retrieved and recycled simultaneously as software "form" (to live in on a long-term basis) and as hardware "content" (short-term and temporary lifespan). In terms of communication, which is what a medium is - it's shared information, it's community - shared communities and archetypes are talking, living out loud.
"We are polluting Art as fast as we are tidying up Nature. The people of the Earth are encouraged to engage in an experiment of utmost urgency. We must turn off the electric environment for a period of one week to perform a cleansing of mass-man's mind, body and spirit. We must get back to our bodies, lest we forget they are still there! Imagine the freedom to be experienced as the top-down cultural control of civilization is eradicated for even the briefest period! If everyone did participate in the media Fast, how would we know it happened? Stay tuned..." ~ Bob Dobbs
Who are we?
What we need is a new existential paradigm, a design pattern for putting knowledge into action. Doctors tell us we don't know the simplest things like how to eat or sleep properly. Psychologists tell us we don't know how to behave and politics shows us we don't know how to get along. Pundits and talking heads tell us we don't know how to think critically. We don't know what to believe, and fall victim to mind control, the spiritual supermarket, memes, agitprop and propaganda, and our own outworn childhood scripts.
We need a new Participatory Wisdom for how to be and how to get along in our rapidly changing world. We need to change the architecture of our participation with self, others and world for a richer user experience, an attitude not a technology. Science isn't the panacea. Soon it will make us Borg, transhumans with bioelectronic supplementation. Science still doesn't know what energy, matter, electricity, life, or the cosmos is, but the secret of the Universe is that IT's ALIVE! And so are we.
Calm Passion
It is that very nonmechanical liveliness, the joi de vivre of passion that best communicates our holistic Presence to others, to the world. In ancient times, wisdom was thought of as the type of knowledge needed to discern the good and live the good life. It was one of the four virtues, including justice, moderation, and courage which comes from the heart as the root couer shows. The pursuit of wisdom comes from a willingness to expose the pretenses of wisdom wherever we find it, even in ourselves. It gives us the infallible judgment to discern what is worthy of pursuit.
The "courage to be" -- what we potentially are, our mission and raison d'ete -- is essentially an ethical act of affirming our identity despite any shortcomings or the possibility of dreadful outcomes. It is embodied in two basic life strategies, which can be summed up as, "Say it then play it" or "Play it and then say it."
In the former we declare our intent. We begin with an inspiration, fantasy or desire, name it then go about the process of making it so. In the later, we place ourselves in the matrix of spontaneous events and find ourselves living larger than life, and then maximize that fortune to parlay it into further opportunities for fantastic experiences. Wisdom is developed through experience, insight and reflection -- the common sense of foresight, or "connecting the dots."
Philosophy as the love of wisdom is a metaphysical pursuit which opens the depth dimension. Sure, each of us can be wise in our craft, but that is merely a steppingstone to the greater accomplishment of a well-lived life, optimizing our talents and opportunities for expression. Knowledge is the basis for making good choices. Without the right information, we are stuck in the "garbage in/garbage out" modality.
Participatory Wisdom
Practical wisdom, then, means the disposition and skill to use knowledge in the right ways -- fully actualized power. Skepticism toward rigid dogmas and even our own beliefs helps us stay quietly open to the opportunities which might otherwise be lost. In this mode, faith comes from a solid connection with the nurturing Ground of our Being, the inherent power of self-affirmation, despite the threat of nonbeing.
Faith in oneself pragmatically confronts and transcends both theism and mysticism with a skeptical eye toward their limiting content. In this regard, it affirms radical freedom. This is a freedom to simply be what we are, more fully, without cultural or "imported" conditioning. Insecurities remain, but are no longer paralyzing. When the inner aim is true, we cannot help but be drawn forward toward our own Truth. Aligning ourselves with others who appreciate the fundamental interconnectedness of life helps us thrive. It opens the door to both learning and mentoring others.
Courage in the face of the unknown is a gift of our Spirit. This strength of mind and heart is our Essence, our essential nature, which can neither be taught nor learned, but is a grace. It means power over oneself to muster and self-regulate inspiration, mood and creativity. It gives us the will to surpass ourselves, and joy in doing so. Without courage, we can tolerate neither failure nor success. With it, we can face the prospect of setbacks, guilt, condemnation and even death, for our lives are not empty nor meaningless...but a grand work of art, an artfully lived life with the acceptance that what IS-IS.
Thus, seeking and promoting wisdom means the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides that is the domain of aesthetics - Art with Heart.
“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the status skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools converge in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of "Web 2.0" and other non-compliant media and distribution channels.
DIY Media: Paramedia, including desktop cinema, is the medium of the "Naughties." Arguably, it is the single most important factor in current social evolution, light years beyond the offerings of dry pedagogy and endless Power Point presentations. It penetrates deeply into the gaps of conventional culture, rigidity and atrophy, bursting it apart at the seams, like overripe fruit. It is a chaotic factor mirroring the criticality of our times, and magnifying its influence through the butterfly effect of info-memes.
Infowars: Taking its message directly to the people who either actively seek it or come upon it synchronistically, it is a new way of teaching and learning that suits our busy lifestyles and our infolust for concise, up to the minute reportage, analysis and applcation. As with all media, once you digest the content, you are invited to make up your mind for yourself.
Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, YouTube, and the next thing we haven't heard about yet but will soon all be doing.
• Paramedia is a form of media that applies the training that has been largely restricted to journalists, artists and storytellers by limited access to the tools and channels for making and distributing messages;
• Paramedia operate beside, between, above and below the traditional practitioners of media and the paramedia channels enjoy an increasingly similar access to audiences through distribution channels.
• Paramedia can be dysfunctional; the assumption by established media is that paramedia is essentially flawed by a lack of professionalism. Paramedia people, likewise, believe the conventional media they supersede is dysfunctional. (Ratcliffe).
"McLuhan believed that electronic environments were molding people on a scale that was greater than any artwork, and that, therefore, artists should embrace the technologies of the future," says Paramedia Ecologist, Bob Dobbs."By this, he meant that in mass media environments, people are molded not only by the content but by a sensory bias specific to the medium," says Dobbs. For digital media, he adopted a different adage, that the "user is the content."
McLuhan's "put on" is the mysterious process of continual mutual transformation, resulting from a reciprocal dynamic whereby a reader's perceptions are altered by putting on a mask or poem, and a writer or maker puts on the reader, having to project his own image as the mask of the user or reader. McLuhan would later note that the "complexity of this process is such that even literary critics have despaired of ever unravelling it. Critics of the press, on the other hand, are accustomed to label the whole thing as degrading…" given that in the commercial sphere, the process can be referred to as "giving the public what it wants." He continues, "this process is at the very heart of any communication activity…It is certain to remain the central issue so long as readers are human and not merely robots." -Andrew Crystall
STAY TUNED
Now, it's time for the TAKE OFF, as we all GET REAL, online or off, once again ~ what is called in media ecology, the ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHYSICAL (AP), the physical body - not just the chip-body.
The audience is US, the users, the DOWNLOADABLE HUMANS.
MYTH IS the pattern of information/culture/community/technology and words/archetype/story/passion. Previously myth was imposed, now it is evoked. Instead of ruling people by controlling their passions, we rule through their passions. Myth is passion and under the electric myth all passions are retrieved and recycled simultaneously as software "form" (to live in on a long-term basis) and as hardware "content" (short-term and temporary lifespan). In terms of communication, which is what a medium is - it's shared information, it's community - shared communities and archetypes are talking, living out loud.
"We are polluting Art as fast as we are tidying up Nature. The people of the Earth are encouraged to engage in an experiment of utmost urgency. We must turn off the electric environment for a period of one week to perform a cleansing of mass-man's mind, body and spirit. We must get back to our bodies, lest we forget they are still there! Imagine the freedom to be experienced as the top-down cultural control of civilization is eradicated for even the briefest period! If everyone did participate in the media Fast, how would we know it happened? Stay tuned..." ~ Bob Dobbs
Who are we?
What we need is a new existential paradigm, a design pattern for putting knowledge into action. Doctors tell us we don't know the simplest things like how to eat or sleep properly. Psychologists tell us we don't know how to behave and politics shows us we don't know how to get along. Pundits and talking heads tell us we don't know how to think critically. We don't know what to believe, and fall victim to mind control, the spiritual supermarket, memes, agitprop and propaganda, and our own outworn childhood scripts.
We need a new Participatory Wisdom for how to be and how to get along in our rapidly changing world. We need to change the architecture of our participation with self, others and world for a richer user experience, an attitude not a technology. Science isn't the panacea. Soon it will make us Borg, transhumans with bioelectronic supplementation. Science still doesn't know what energy, matter, electricity, life, or the cosmos is, but the secret of the Universe is that IT's ALIVE! And so are we.
Calm Passion
It is that very nonmechanical liveliness, the joi de vivre of passion that best communicates our holistic Presence to others, to the world. In ancient times, wisdom was thought of as the type of knowledge needed to discern the good and live the good life. It was one of the four virtues, including justice, moderation, and courage which comes from the heart as the root couer shows. The pursuit of wisdom comes from a willingness to expose the pretenses of wisdom wherever we find it, even in ourselves. It gives us the infallible judgment to discern what is worthy of pursuit.
The "courage to be" -- what we potentially are, our mission and raison d'ete -- is essentially an ethical act of affirming our identity despite any shortcomings or the possibility of dreadful outcomes. It is embodied in two basic life strategies, which can be summed up as, "Say it then play it" or "Play it and then say it."
In the former we declare our intent. We begin with an inspiration, fantasy or desire, name it then go about the process of making it so. In the later, we place ourselves in the matrix of spontaneous events and find ourselves living larger than life, and then maximize that fortune to parlay it into further opportunities for fantastic experiences. Wisdom is developed through experience, insight and reflection -- the common sense of foresight, or "connecting the dots."
Philosophy as the love of wisdom is a metaphysical pursuit which opens the depth dimension. Sure, each of us can be wise in our craft, but that is merely a steppingstone to the greater accomplishment of a well-lived life, optimizing our talents and opportunities for expression. Knowledge is the basis for making good choices. Without the right information, we are stuck in the "garbage in/garbage out" modality.
Participatory Wisdom
Practical wisdom, then, means the disposition and skill to use knowledge in the right ways -- fully actualized power. Skepticism toward rigid dogmas and even our own beliefs helps us stay quietly open to the opportunities which might otherwise be lost. In this mode, faith comes from a solid connection with the nurturing Ground of our Being, the inherent power of self-affirmation, despite the threat of nonbeing.
Faith in oneself pragmatically confronts and transcends both theism and mysticism with a skeptical eye toward their limiting content. In this regard, it affirms radical freedom. This is a freedom to simply be what we are, more fully, without cultural or "imported" conditioning. Insecurities remain, but are no longer paralyzing. When the inner aim is true, we cannot help but be drawn forward toward our own Truth. Aligning ourselves with others who appreciate the fundamental interconnectedness of life helps us thrive. It opens the door to both learning and mentoring others.
Courage in the face of the unknown is a gift of our Spirit. This strength of mind and heart is our Essence, our essential nature, which can neither be taught nor learned, but is a grace. It means power over oneself to muster and self-regulate inspiration, mood and creativity. It gives us the will to surpass ourselves, and joy in doing so. Without courage, we can tolerate neither failure nor success. With it, we can face the prospect of setbacks, guilt, condemnation and even death, for our lives are not empty nor meaningless...but a grand work of art, an artfully lived life with the acceptance that what IS-IS.
Thus, seeking and promoting wisdom means the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides that is the domain of aesthetics - Art with Heart.
CLIMATE CHANGE
FACT, FANCY & MYTHOLIZATION
SUPER-ERUPTIONS, MANIC SUN, RISING SEA & MEGA-METHANE
No one would argue against the fact that Earth's climate is a complex dynamic of multiple factors, both known and unknown. Until recent times we believed in an evolutionary arc to the inhabitability of the planet's surface. But more recent research shows a history punctuated by a variety of cycles and even catastrophes, which contribute to massive extinctions. The eruption of a supervolcano, Toba, in Sumatra, around 74,000 years ago squeezed the human gene pool down to a population bottleneck of perhaps as little as 5-10,000 survivors by creating a volcanic winter. Clearly, we are in Nature's hands, and she is not always a kind mother.
THE MAYAN CONNECTION: Beginning or End?
Human beings have a propensity for setting Doomsdays and their optimistic counterparts. We've seen The Millennium, Harmonic Convergence, Comet Kohotek, and other portentious dates for Apocalypse Now come and go. Now the mytholization of the big event has been pushed back to 2012 in the popular imagination. The Maya knew that 2012 marks the end of one and beginning of another Precessional cycle of 25,765 - 26,000 years.
The precession of the equinoxes, zero-point of the cosmic clock, is caused by the differential gravitational forces of Sun and Moon (torque vector) on the gyroscopic Earth. The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth's axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth's axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. The tilt of the Earth's axis affects the intensity of seasons.
The Milky Way Galaxy represented the Great Cosmic Mother from which all Life came. They saw our Galactic Mother stretching out across the night sky and somehow recognized the place where we all had come from. They recognized the great central bulge at Her center as the Cosmic Womb. Within the central bulge there is what looks like a dark corridor, known as the dark rift. The Maya called it the "birthing place".
2012 specifically points to a period of time when the December Solstice Sun aligns with and arises out from the backdrop of the dark rift, the "Galactic Birth Canal" in the central bulge. It's as if the Sun is actually being birthed anew from the Galactic Womb. If so, it's being reborn with an angry fit of manic depression in the process of a solar heating cycle.
We may have entered the cycle already. The Mayan calculation wasn't exact but targets a 20 year cycle of transition.According to the most recent astronomical calculations the Solstice Meridian actually coincided most precisely with the Galactic Equator between 1998 and 1999. The Millennium, which was considered an 'arbitrary' calculation may have thus been a better marker than the similarly-heralded Mayan date.
2020 VISION
Why has climate become such a political and psychological hot potato? Don't believe either the Right or the Left on global warming? What if BOTH ARE TRUE, but potentiating an unstoppable 1500 yr. solar warming cycle that coincides with Stonehenge, Bronze age, Mayan drought, Dark Ages, Little Ice Age and more - influencing major epochs of civilization. Inside sources say the exact cycle is 1538 years. Whether we believe the Cassandras of pop culture, or not, there are sound scientific reasons to predict we are in for a bumpy ride in the near future. Early warning storms have already begun.
Only that number 1538 matches EVERYTHING, from astrophysics to cultural history and climatology. It only makes our efforts to control greenhouse gases MORE critical and necessary. Maybe that is why NASA is attempting to block solar melting of methane tundra, and explains the urgency of chemtrails and tiny sparkles.
Edward Teller, the real Dr. Stranglove, developed the seeding of thousands of tons of microparticles of aluminum in the upper atmosphere to try to increase the albedo reflectivity of the planet to avert global warming. This is only one attempt at geoengineering, whch is also one capacity of the HAARP Project and its sister ionospheric heaters around the globe.
But solar activity is the real problem. This cycle begins strong and abruptly and the rest is a 1500 year reverberation.
What's All the Flap About 2012?
This same cycle may have impacted the Maya. Do the math. Lots of people are predicting vast changes for the year 2012, but what about thinking just a little beyond that. How can we develop "2020 Vision" to make the best of an unavoidable situation? We have to widen our field of view from plausible if unlikely scenarios of meteorites or comets and pollution to grasp the Big Picture of Earth's climate in terms of deep time cycles.
To really comprehend just how delicately balanced our fragile planet is we need to consider the astrophysics converging on our region of space. Then it becomes easier to see how the slightest perturbations to our atmosphere can cause dramatic rifts in the course of our geophysical destiny. Many complex forces are already impacting the Earth, particularly our global weather patterns.
Galactic Cycles & Precession
Looking at the broadest scale, the solar system is passing through the densest portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, a roughly 30-million-year cycle. This dense molecular cloud and fluctuating galactic tidal forces of distant matter can destabilize comets in the Oort cloud and send them hurtling toward the planets and sun. This rain of small comets called impact surges, (2/3 from disk tides and 1/3 from distant matter tides), is influential in the pulsing and advancing of ice sheets over millennia and implicated in mass extinctions. It affects the oceanic heat pump that acts as a global ocean conveyor. This salt pump moves warm water into northern climes, like the eastern seaboard and Europe, keeping them habitable, while cooling the tropics. Its collapse would mean that warm, salty Gulf Stream water would no longer move north, facilitating another Ice Age.
Solar Max and Minimum
The sun is warmer now than for the past 11,400 years.
Research has suggested that the sun itself has been in a heating cycle and may be a significant component in global warming, (1 degree F. per year since 1880). Limited results suggested the sun produced .05% more radiation per decade since the late ‘70s. The sun’s alleged increasing output means stronger solar winds sweeping across the upper atmosphere, exciting and ionizing it with charged particles. Sustained over decades it could lead to dramatic climate fluctuation, as in the historical past,
The big question is can we get through this cycle without a catastrophic 'die off' or another human Dark Age? Only time will tell, but we have new tools at our disposal for both prediction and attempts at prevention or survival. Vast extinctions are already underway in ocean life, plant and animal life that doesn't adapt to changing conditions.
SUPER-ERUPTIONS, MANIC SUN, RISING SEA & MEGA-METHANE
No one would argue against the fact that Earth's climate is a complex dynamic of multiple factors, both known and unknown. Until recent times we believed in an evolutionary arc to the inhabitability of the planet's surface. But more recent research shows a history punctuated by a variety of cycles and even catastrophes, which contribute to massive extinctions. The eruption of a supervolcano, Toba, in Sumatra, around 74,000 years ago squeezed the human gene pool down to a population bottleneck of perhaps as little as 5-10,000 survivors by creating a volcanic winter. Clearly, we are in Nature's hands, and she is not always a kind mother.
THE MAYAN CONNECTION: Beginning or End?
Human beings have a propensity for setting Doomsdays and their optimistic counterparts. We've seen The Millennium, Harmonic Convergence, Comet Kohotek, and other portentious dates for Apocalypse Now come and go. Now the mytholization of the big event has been pushed back to 2012 in the popular imagination. The Maya knew that 2012 marks the end of one and beginning of another Precessional cycle of 25,765 - 26,000 years.
The precession of the equinoxes, zero-point of the cosmic clock, is caused by the differential gravitational forces of Sun and Moon (torque vector) on the gyroscopic Earth. The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth's axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth's axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. The tilt of the Earth's axis affects the intensity of seasons.
The Milky Way Galaxy represented the Great Cosmic Mother from which all Life came. They saw our Galactic Mother stretching out across the night sky and somehow recognized the place where we all had come from. They recognized the great central bulge at Her center as the Cosmic Womb. Within the central bulge there is what looks like a dark corridor, known as the dark rift. The Maya called it the "birthing place".
2012 specifically points to a period of time when the December Solstice Sun aligns with and arises out from the backdrop of the dark rift, the "Galactic Birth Canal" in the central bulge. It's as if the Sun is actually being birthed anew from the Galactic Womb. If so, it's being reborn with an angry fit of manic depression in the process of a solar heating cycle.
We may have entered the cycle already. The Mayan calculation wasn't exact but targets a 20 year cycle of transition.According to the most recent astronomical calculations the Solstice Meridian actually coincided most precisely with the Galactic Equator between 1998 and 1999. The Millennium, which was considered an 'arbitrary' calculation may have thus been a better marker than the similarly-heralded Mayan date.
2020 VISION
Why has climate become such a political and psychological hot potato? Don't believe either the Right or the Left on global warming? What if BOTH ARE TRUE, but potentiating an unstoppable 1500 yr. solar warming cycle that coincides with Stonehenge, Bronze age, Mayan drought, Dark Ages, Little Ice Age and more - influencing major epochs of civilization. Inside sources say the exact cycle is 1538 years. Whether we believe the Cassandras of pop culture, or not, there are sound scientific reasons to predict we are in for a bumpy ride in the near future. Early warning storms have already begun.
Only that number 1538 matches EVERYTHING, from astrophysics to cultural history and climatology. It only makes our efforts to control greenhouse gases MORE critical and necessary. Maybe that is why NASA is attempting to block solar melting of methane tundra, and explains the urgency of chemtrails and tiny sparkles.
Edward Teller, the real Dr. Stranglove, developed the seeding of thousands of tons of microparticles of aluminum in the upper atmosphere to try to increase the albedo reflectivity of the planet to avert global warming. This is only one attempt at geoengineering, whch is also one capacity of the HAARP Project and its sister ionospheric heaters around the globe.
But solar activity is the real problem. This cycle begins strong and abruptly and the rest is a 1500 year reverberation.
What's All the Flap About 2012?
This same cycle may have impacted the Maya. Do the math. Lots of people are predicting vast changes for the year 2012, but what about thinking just a little beyond that. How can we develop "2020 Vision" to make the best of an unavoidable situation? We have to widen our field of view from plausible if unlikely scenarios of meteorites or comets and pollution to grasp the Big Picture of Earth's climate in terms of deep time cycles.
To really comprehend just how delicately balanced our fragile planet is we need to consider the astrophysics converging on our region of space. Then it becomes easier to see how the slightest perturbations to our atmosphere can cause dramatic rifts in the course of our geophysical destiny. Many complex forces are already impacting the Earth, particularly our global weather patterns.
Galactic Cycles & Precession
Looking at the broadest scale, the solar system is passing through the densest portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, a roughly 30-million-year cycle. This dense molecular cloud and fluctuating galactic tidal forces of distant matter can destabilize comets in the Oort cloud and send them hurtling toward the planets and sun. This rain of small comets called impact surges, (2/3 from disk tides and 1/3 from distant matter tides), is influential in the pulsing and advancing of ice sheets over millennia and implicated in mass extinctions. It affects the oceanic heat pump that acts as a global ocean conveyor. This salt pump moves warm water into northern climes, like the eastern seaboard and Europe, keeping them habitable, while cooling the tropics. Its collapse would mean that warm, salty Gulf Stream water would no longer move north, facilitating another Ice Age.
Solar Max and Minimum
The sun is warmer now than for the past 11,400 years.
Research has suggested that the sun itself has been in a heating cycle and may be a significant component in global warming, (1 degree F. per year since 1880). Limited results suggested the sun produced .05% more radiation per decade since the late ‘70s. The sun’s alleged increasing output means stronger solar winds sweeping across the upper atmosphere, exciting and ionizing it with charged particles. Sustained over decades it could lead to dramatic climate fluctuation, as in the historical past,
The big question is can we get through this cycle without a catastrophic 'die off' or another human Dark Age? Only time will tell, but we have new tools at our disposal for both prediction and attempts at prevention or survival. Vast extinctions are already underway in ocean life, plant and animal life that doesn't adapt to changing conditions.
UFO MEME
This is the report no one wants to read. For those skeptical of the UFO phenomenon, it is far too permissive of the possibility of a different reality than that dictated by the official reality of scientific reductionism. For the True Believers, it won't go far enough to serve anyone's confirmatory search. While admitting the possibility that some people may experience UFO-ET contact, this report speculates that it is a contagious notion which has invaded the collective imagination, and many individual psyches. Therefore, it is useful in evaluating the whole scenario to take a look at both sides of the argument.
1). UFO-ET phenomenon emerge from fauly cognitive processing, folklore and pseudoscience, or 2). "They're here." As of this writing (4-95), Disney has begun the promotion of a new experiential novelty, which will blur the distinction between fantasy and reality even further. "Tomorrowland" is set to offer a virtual reality experience of alien abduction open to all comers. It seems as if this "psychic implant" might have emotional repurcussions which are as yet unknown, and color or condition future "contactee" reports. As if we have not been permeated enough with visual and auditory images of this experience, we can now partake of it recreationally, in the theoretically "safe," multisensory, full-immersion environment. As entire generations partake of this imaginative experience and it becomes embedded in their consciousness, it can condition any subsequent dreams and experiences, real or imagined.
Disney's presentation is based on the premise that "they are here," and the government is suppressing this fact from public knowledge. We can only speculate on why one of the most powerful forces in Hollywood would make a choice to take such a political stand in regard to this phenomenon. The paranoid might ask "What if it is some kind of sick desensitization project? And what about that short, humanoid "mouse" with the big cranium and slight body?" Are you ready for "Hybrid Mickey?" MEMES [2000 update]. Since this book was originally written there has been an increase in interest and literature about the notion of social contagions, as originally described by psychologist Carl Jung.
The books out now (1995) include Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society, by Aaron Lynch, The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme, Richard Brodie. These books don't specifically analyze UFO phenomena, but some of these authors, such as Blackmore, have discussed it elsewhere. So have the scientists who support CSICOP and its organ The Skeptical Inquirer. This literature attempts to show a predictable expansion-contraction pattern to the social spread of ideas.
A meme is a self-propagating idea, a unit of cultural imitation that, much like a biological or computer virus, effectively programs its own retransmission. They spread through motivating their "host population," novel configurations of old ideas, and by proselytizers. Popular beliefs spread like contagions--cognitive viruses. But where do the original notions originate? Does it come from our cultural paranoia about invasions ingrained from the cold war? Does it come from a quasi-religious yearning for contact with something greater than ourselves? Neurologist Michael Persinger has put forth a "Temporal Lobe seizure" theory based on his electromagnetic experiments with subjects at Laurentian University in Toronto, Canada. See his hard-to-find, expensive, but excellent book, The Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs. He also has investigated the relationship between UFO sightings and fluctuations in the local conditions of the earth's magnetic fields and their relationship to luminous bodies generated by tectonic forces, called Earth Lights or free-floating plasmas.
1). UFO-ET phenomenon emerge from fauly cognitive processing, folklore and pseudoscience, or 2). "They're here." As of this writing (4-95), Disney has begun the promotion of a new experiential novelty, which will blur the distinction between fantasy and reality even further. "Tomorrowland" is set to offer a virtual reality experience of alien abduction open to all comers. It seems as if this "psychic implant" might have emotional repurcussions which are as yet unknown, and color or condition future "contactee" reports. As if we have not been permeated enough with visual and auditory images of this experience, we can now partake of it recreationally, in the theoretically "safe," multisensory, full-immersion environment. As entire generations partake of this imaginative experience and it becomes embedded in their consciousness, it can condition any subsequent dreams and experiences, real or imagined.
Disney's presentation is based on the premise that "they are here," and the government is suppressing this fact from public knowledge. We can only speculate on why one of the most powerful forces in Hollywood would make a choice to take such a political stand in regard to this phenomenon. The paranoid might ask "What if it is some kind of sick desensitization project? And what about that short, humanoid "mouse" with the big cranium and slight body?" Are you ready for "Hybrid Mickey?" MEMES [2000 update]. Since this book was originally written there has been an increase in interest and literature about the notion of social contagions, as originally described by psychologist Carl Jung.
The books out now (1995) include Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society, by Aaron Lynch, The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme, Richard Brodie. These books don't specifically analyze UFO phenomena, but some of these authors, such as Blackmore, have discussed it elsewhere. So have the scientists who support CSICOP and its organ The Skeptical Inquirer. This literature attempts to show a predictable expansion-contraction pattern to the social spread of ideas.
A meme is a self-propagating idea, a unit of cultural imitation that, much like a biological or computer virus, effectively programs its own retransmission. They spread through motivating their "host population," novel configurations of old ideas, and by proselytizers. Popular beliefs spread like contagions--cognitive viruses. But where do the original notions originate? Does it come from our cultural paranoia about invasions ingrained from the cold war? Does it come from a quasi-religious yearning for contact with something greater than ourselves? Neurologist Michael Persinger has put forth a "Temporal Lobe seizure" theory based on his electromagnetic experiments with subjects at Laurentian University in Toronto, Canada. See his hard-to-find, expensive, but excellent book, The Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs. He also has investigated the relationship between UFO sightings and fluctuations in the local conditions of the earth's magnetic fields and their relationship to luminous bodies generated by tectonic forces, called Earth Lights or free-floating plasmas.
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