Our Place in the Universe
The
Bootstrap
Theory is the scientific explanation of the theory that all natural phenomenon
are ultimately interconnected, and in order to effectively change and
understand our human condition we need to incorporate and understand all the
others.
Recent discoveries in the field of
Quantum Theory reveal a radical new biological paradigm, that on the most
fundamental level, that the human mind and body are not distinct and separate
from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting
in a vast sea of energy
"The bootstrap philosophy represents the
culmination of a view of nature that arose in quantum
theory with the realization of an essential and universal
interrelationship." The "interdependence of all things" that can
also be found in many ancient spiritual traditions.
Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity also speaks of the
"oneness" and interdependence of the universe. Jung states,
"Peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well
as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers".
Jung was also heavily influenced by the "new" scientific physics
dawning age of which he wrote; "Physics
has now demonstrated...that in the realm of atomic magnitudes objective reality
presupposes an observer, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory
scheme of explanation possible...This means that a subjective element attaches
to the physicist's world picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily
exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-time continuum."
These discoveries confirmed what
Jung already recognized intuitively: that
matter and consciousness are, in fact, interconnected in an essential way.
Quantum theory and synchronous events along with matter and consciousness
function as complementary aspects of a unified total reality.
(* following excerpts are taken from the Atlantis Rising
web site, please see the attached Links)
Essenian philosophy speaks of "the spaces between, the
silences or between the pulses of creation" which relates to quanta, the
small pulses of light that creates our reality of time. There must be a
"pause" in between the pulses. This pause is the "NOW" moment. This "NOW" moment is the crux of
the "Stalking The Wild Pendulum" by Itzhak Bentov.
"The momentary pause in every
heartbeat is a link with the still centre of the Overself.
Where the rhythm of activity comes to an end—this may describe a man's heart beat
or an entire planet--its infinite and eternal cause is there. All this vast
universal activity is but a function of the silent, still Void."
Brunton
"By
fusing mathematics and Jewish mysticism, Stan Tenen,
a physicist, has demonstrated that the first verse of Genesis in the Hebrew
Bible generates mathematical Torus". It goes on to say, "letter forms
themselves have intrinsic geometric and mathematical properties that point us
to a profound knowledge of life and the nature of human consciousness". In
some other cultures and ancient histories, Hebrew was and is regarded as the
Language of Light because of its mathematical properties.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist scholar,
relays the ongoing message with "things have molecules, atomic particles
held by forces with empty space of perpetual moving energy..One
is All, All is One".
"The Tao of
Physics" is a book filled with incredible information regarding scientific
concepts paired with consciousness in the practice of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Some of the chapters in the book are: The Unity of All Things, Space-Time,
Quark Symmetries and interpenetration. In the last mentioned chapter Capra
writes, "the universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events..that all follow from the properties of the other parts and
the overall consistency of their mutual interrelations determines the structure
of the entire web."
An amazing parallel to the above statement can be found in Chief Seattle's
wisdom of "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread
within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound
together. All things connect."
A grain of sand, a star, water drop
or a person, a proton of a hydrogen molecule is the same regardless of form.
The only difference is the way the materials are organized and their
"consciousness" properties. "conscious
atomic sea..extending out from this sub-atomic
reality, all of material creation may also be said to be conscious."
According
to an essay by Gerhard Adler titled "Reflections on "Chance" and
"Fate" - "This interconnectedness manifests itself in so many
ways that one has to accept it as undisputable reality."
Arthur Koestler, a twentieth century
philosopher, refers to the capacity of the human psyche to "act as a
cosmic resonator" and in his book, "The Roots of Coincidence",
presumes the "fundamental unity of all things," which transcends
mechanical causality, and which relates coincidence to the "universal scheme
of things."
Koestler also refers to "the universal
hanging-together of things, their embeddedness,
in a universal matrix." Many ecologists and scientists commonly report,
this sense of interrelationship in and of the objects and living elements of
the physical world.
The Great Sufi Master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, devotes most of his book
"Awakening" to the illumination of our Oneness with the Divine as a
being of pure light. Khan includes the idea of the pendulum of consciousness
and compares it to the ocean and the wave of time dynamics. Sufism is about
"knowing" that all things operate as One.
In "Secrets of Hebrew
Letters,"..Letter sequence of B'reshit (the Hebrew text
of Genesis), a text which underlies and is held in common by the spiritual
traditions of the ancient world. This metaphor models embryonic growth and
self-organization. It applies to all whole systems, including those as
seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to
physics and cosmology." and "represent fundamental directions in a
hyper dimensional space."
When
one takes into consideration the correspondence between the scientific paradigm
of the interconnected universe and life force , and the parallel ancient
mythical and religious traditions of the
sacred oneness of universal energy and awareness. The relevancy of this revolutionary change in
our understanding of both science and human consciousness becomes immense.
"Call
it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame
God."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5
BC-65 AD
Suggested scientific references for further
study;
The Philosophical Impact of
Contemporary physics; Van Nosrand 1961
The Tao of Physics; F Capra; 1992
The Book of Nothing; J.D. Barrow 2000
The Inter Connected Universe; Conceptual Foundations of Transdisciplinary
Unified Theory; E Lazlow; 1995
Can the Vacuum be engineered for Spaceflight Applications; Hal Puthoff
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Physics
and Consciousness
Physics Post
Aetherometry
Wave-Particle
Duality and Diffraction
Forty Laws of Sympathetic
Vibratory Physics
SVP
Universal Cosmology
Physics and Astronomy
Physics News Updates
Molecular
Expressions: Power of Ten
Psychology
Today: Science of Laughter
The
Laughing Brain
Laughter
and The Brain
Laughter:
Girls Giggle and Guys Grunts
Dr. Patch Adams
Gesundheit Institute
Heartmath Institute
Consciousness
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Physics
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Theory
of Consciousness
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Music Sequencing
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The Music of Protein Sequences
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Music: An Annotated Source List
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Gnosis
Music:
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The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
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Heart's Code
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