Unified Theory
a short introduction to
(metatheory)
Csaba Varga
Sociologist, H. Academic Reader,
President of the Institute for Strategic
Research (ISR), Hungary
Preconditions for creating Metatheory
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A neutral viewpoint
Momentary giving up of viewpoints (and every
later) scientific concepts, and an openness to
every new thoughts
Building on new paradigms and paradigm shifts
An ability to see the Whole (developing the
ability to overview the whole)
Unifying reality concepts or reality constructs
It is less possible to create a Unified Theory as
an personal endeavour than as a group work
From the new paradigms metatheories, from
metatheories concepts and from the concepts
new world strategies could occur
Developing the Knowledge and Knowledge
centred society
The Hungarian model
(Our approach at the Institute of Strategic Research)
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At the and of the 90’s we initiated two intellectual
programs:
a) a new unified understanding of man; b) and the
unity-society
Creating the new theory of knowledge and
knowledge-society
Between 2004-2005 we initiated an international,
transdisciplinary research program and published
books
From 2006 we organised metatheory (Unified
Theory) world conferences
From 2007-2008 we started a research project on
new paradigms
During 2000 and 2010 we started to work on
formulating the knowledge centred global-local
society models and we initiated the first local
experiments
Early Unified Theory initiatives
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Platon: Idea concept, the cave example, etc.
Aristotel: Wisdom is that form of science, which thinks
about the higher form of existences and about the divine
Saint Agustinus: Science deals with things happening in
time, however wisdom turns its attention to the eternal.
The two approach not necessarily exclude each other,
since scince could also lead to wisdom.
J. G. Fichte: Collision of the Self and the non-Self, later
showing the equality of the absolute I and the Divine I, a
new theory of science
G.W.F. Hegel: formulating the substantial concept of the
spirit (and age spirit), unity of God and the world, the
need for ontotheology
Ramana Maharsi: New explanation of the Atman and
Brahman concept
Ken Wilber: Integral approach, theory of the different
levels and states of consciousnesses
…. We could go on to enumerate other examples. In
short, the aim of Metaphilosophy to examine and unify
the different wisdom traditions.
What is Unified Metatheory?
Metatheory is a unified theory of all sciences,
religions and arts
The constituting elements of Unified Theory are:
 The unification of the theories of physics and
metaphysics
 A unified understanding of Matter and/or
consciousness
 Transnational and post-colonist theory
 Traditionalism and post-traditionalism together
 Unified philosophy (more than a theory)
„Usefulness” of Unified Theory :
 Metatheory offers a good chance to understand
new knowledge, the new reality, the new
states of consciousnesses
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Metareality/metaconsciousness model
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This is a basic, comprehensive, complex, unifying diagram
Expressing the sphere model in two dimensions; the inner
core (the depth) and the outer also infinite surface are
connected, joins to each other
Starting from within every holon contains the next one
The inner structure of the circular sections and the levels
of these sections are expressing Unity, the Whole
The objective and subjective realities are joined together:
duality, non-dual and which is above
Wholeness is the expression of the Absolute, which is the
totality of personal consciousness, the wholeness the
animate and inanimate reality
Matter and consciousness, being and spirit, physics and
metaphysics, life and transcendent „life” are expressed
together and separate, above and under, inner and outer
etc.
Circular sections: reality/consciousness sections; every
sections are the unity of two sides (all are Möbius strips)
Metareality/metaconsciousness model
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Levels of the circular sections: reality/consciousness
(see: inner reality, the outer reality of a person,
physical reality, spiritual reality, transcendent reality
and the reality of every consciousness levels
The sequence is not random: we can start only from
ourselves (brain, mind, consciousness, personal, two
Selves)
The consciousness created three dimensional realities
are followed by new circular sections, the spiritual and
the transcendent reality
These are also reality/consciousness steps
So every reality level is a circular section, two joined
reality – and this Wholeness structure is the multilevel
reality (expressed in three dimension)
If Being and consciousness, and the under and above
are expressible and understandable as a complex
structure then we have a chance for a complete
worldphilosophy
Metareality/metaconsciousness model
(3)
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Every dimension/vector change is also a change of
consciousness and vice versa
The change of levels of reality/consciousness (see
the borders where the arrows facing each other)
are necessarily secrets, unified metatheory aims to
offer explanation to these shifts
So inner starting point is: the brain (its two
hemispheres), the mind (two minds),
consciousness (one consciousness), (the unified)
unconscious,- the inner infinity
Every circular section level represents different
time and space
The outer starting point is the ONE, where all
duality disappears (non-dual) post reality, post
consciousness from where we could go inward
The diagram looks quite complex, however it
unifies at a glance the whole
metareality/consciousness
Metatheoretic examples: 1, 2, 3,
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To understand metatheory let’s see
some basic relationships:
A) The different alternatives to
understand Metahuman (the
multidimensional person) and the
personal metaconsciousness
B) The different alternatives to
understand Metasociety (the
multidimensional society) and the
collective metaconciousness
C) Building blocks of Metatheory
(extending the theory of
epistemology)
Two brains, two minds hypothesis
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Two brains: the two hemispheres; one is for the
present moment (the right side), the other for the
past and future (the left side)
The left hemisphere represents the outer I, while
the right side is the spiritual I, so the lift side
connects us to the under, the right to the upper
part
These are two personalities within us and are two
different perceptions, two different selfconsciousnesses,
The right side operates with pictures, the left with
words
So one is the brain of wholeness the other is of
the parts (all these differences disappear in
higher states of consciousnesses
The right side connects us to the cosmic energies,
this is Nirvana experience, the left to the
organising intelligence
Two brains, two minds hypothesis
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The left side represent rationality, while the
right spirituality; the two hemispheres are
experiencing and creating two different
reality,
The right side is love, the left is anxiety
The left side’s mind expresses normal
consciousness, the other (the right side’s
mind) expresses higher states of
consciousnesses
Metatheory connects and unifies these two
realities and consciousnesses
The two brains: are Unified, so in Unity
consciousness they are ONE, the two minds
are also ONE
Perfection means: to be in both sides at once,
to be in Unity
Two Selves (and hearts) and the Self
(Ramana Maharsi and others)
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The miracle in man that he has two I. For this is a
good analogy that have two hearts as well, one is
the physical, which carries the spiritual existence
the other hearts on the right side, which is not
material and physical
We can call it the seed of light, or white hole in
quantum physics, or the virtual home of the Holy
Spirit, which encompasses all of our atoms and
subatomic structures
This second heart is the higher Self, which is
transcendental. It is consciousness itself. The
God within – as Ramana said
Saint John of the cross expressed this question
as follows: „Why are you listening the thing, and
why are you waiting, since you could
immediately love God in your heart”
Two Selves (and hearts) and the
Self (2)
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Ramana Maharsi says: „This second heart is
not equivalent with the physical one, it is the
spiritual centre beside the physical heart.”
„Nobody denies that the physical is on the
left side, but this heart is found on the right
side o the body.”
Ramana Maharsi could experience this:
: „Therefore the heart is the centre of the
body.” „In truth, the body and everything is
contained in this centre.”
From this point of view the second heart is
the higher Self, which is Atman and Brahman
at the same time. The higher Self contains
within itself all the higher states of
consciousnesses.
Theories of higher states of
consciousnesses
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We differentiate normal consciousness
levels (waking, dreaming, deep sleep)
We also differentiate higher states, as well –
naming them differently – (pure
consciousness, cosmic consciousness, God-,
and Unity consciousness etc.)
The most important thing is the shift at the
borders: to „shift” from the normal sate to
the first higher state
The higher consciousness levels were kept
secret by the mystical orders (Brahmanism,
kabbala, Sufism etc.)
The cognitive development of a
person
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Jean Piaget’s cognitive development theory:
the main development sequence, which
could be divided into four subsections are
the following:
(1) Sensomotoric: it is expressed by
movements and situation solving;
(2) Before porcessing|This is viewpoint
driven (intuitive) thinking and it is still
characterised by egoism;
(3) Concrete processing|This sequence is:
internalised, characterised by reversible
thinking processes and movements;
(4) Formal processing|This sequence is
characterised by combinatoric thinking, it is
the formation of deduction and hypothesis.
The higher levels of consciousness
of individuals
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According to yoga: The mudha (torpid state of
consciousness ), the ksipta (diffused attention or
confusion), the viksipta (focused attention, or a
silenced torpid state), therefore beside the normal
concious states we have higher ones like: the ecagrata
(one pointedness, or concentrated awareness), the
nirrudha (stable concentrated attention)
According to A. Maslow: this is self-realisation, and
transcendental (on the top of the necessity pyramid)
According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: transcendental
consciousness, cosmic-, God-, Unity and Brahman
consciousness (?)
Ken Wilber viewpoint: occult (cosmic), subtle (divine),
causal (above form), non-dual, (?)
Stanislav Grof speaks about holotropic, wholeness
driven consciousnesses (Cosmic Consciousness,
Absolute Consciousness)
Etc.
The posing of the collective
consciousness
The term ‘collective consciousness’ was first introduced
by Emile Durkheim at the end of the 19th century
„There is two type of consciousness are living in us: the
states of the first of these is individual in each of us,
and typical only for us, while the other’s states are
common for the whole society
For a long time he regarded that the collective
consciousness is completely different, than the
individual consciousnesses, though it is realized or
manifested only in individuals.
‘Later on he got to the point, that he assumed the society
as a psychical entity, and thought that the religion is
nothing else than the thinking method of this
collective entity.
So here comes the recognition that the exterior
(compared with individuals) social consciousness
consist of not only those elements which are common
in all members of the group.
Society and the consciousness of the
society
Levels of
conscious
ness
Individual
consciousness (real
subject)
Sixth level
Collective consciousness
Society (unified
(unified consciousness
collectum)
field)
Absolute
Fifth level
Unity consciousness
Unified consciousness field
The society of unified
consciousness field
Fourth level
God-consciousness
Sacral humankind (and
multiversum)
consciousness
Sacral society
Third level
Cosmic consciousness
Pantheistic-universal
consciousness
Universal-cosmic
„consciousness
society”
Second level
Transcendent
consciousness
Transcendent collective
consciousness
Virtual (family, local,
national) communities
First level
Alert consciousness
(wakefulness, deep
sleeping and
dreaming)
Normal consciousness of
society (at all level of
society)
Structured, functional
society (and its
institutions)
Zero level
Unconsciousness
Social unconsciousness
‘Sub-society’
Personal and Collective
Consciousness Structure
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Unity consciousness
Unity-consciousness
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Supra-God one-consciousness
Absolute consciousness
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Sacral humankind consciousness
God consciousness
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Pantheistic consciousness
Cosmic consciousness
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Enlightened community
Pure consciousness
consciousness
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Community consciousness and
Semi-pure consciousness
its levels
Alert consciousness (+ sleep, Social consciousness and its
+ deep sleep)
levels (global, national, local)
Semi-alert consciousness
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Manipulated mass consciousness
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(half) losing social
Devoid of (alert)
consciousness
consciousness
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Social unconsciousness
Unconsciousness
Elements of Metatheory (1)
(new, united cognitive theory?)
1. Pre-scientific (everyday, direct personal
and collective experience.), Observer
exists inside Observed and vice versa
2. Scientific understanding (normal, postnormal science, and theology..) – the
Observer looks at the Observed
3. Understanding beyond science (frontiersciences, mystical knowledge's, etc.) – the
Observed gives signs to the Observer
partly unable to perception
4. Post-scientific understanding (new science)
– Metareality /Metaconsciousness shows
up simultaneously in the complex
interaction
Elements of Metatheory (2)
5. Understanding via arts (all old and new art,
post art) – this can be the manifestation of
self consciousness, or the impersonalpersonal metaconsciousness;
6. Artificial intelligence (sooner or later a selfcreating metareality and
metaconsciousness?)
7. God experience (prayer, meditation,
inspiration, etc.) – perceiving selfconsciousness, interiorizing the
transcendental viewpoint
8. Understanding through religion – the
metaconsciousness/MetaGod is perceived in
metahuman-consciousness
The elements of Metatheory (3)
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Understanding is limited or unfeasible –
looking is superficial, or limited, even
impossible.
10. The main characteristic of metatheory’s
method is the usage and construction of a
joint, complementary system of cognition
methods, in which parts mutually control
each other. (meta-supramethodology)
So it is to say that the Metatheory applies all
opportunities and means of cognition and
combines all the results of the different
cognitive ways, alternatives
Global Future Models
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At present, three potential future world model programmes are
identified for earthly civilisation and culture:
1. capitalism; 2. new capitalism; 3. post-capitalism (and what
comes afterwards);
The capitalism that has formed over recent decades is a money
market centred, manipulated capitalism, which the market (the
invisible hand) has been unable to regulate or control
The programme of new capitalism is nothing else but corrected
capitalism; correction is expected to be made by the visible
hand (i.e. the state), though today’s (functional) capitalist state
is also unable to regulate and control
Both capitalism and new capitalism are the world models of the
near past and reject social, ecological, knowledge, moral,
collective consciousness and sacral coordination
The survival of mankind is possible only through one of the
post-capitalist models or model combination – a precondition
being to raise the collective consciousness of mankind
Europe’s Main Future Scenarios (1)
(three capitalist-neo-capitalist and four post-capitalist models)
The actual and/or symbolic
names of the future models
The contents of the future
alternatives
Descriptions of the future
alternatives
(1)
- The first half of the 21st
century is primarily an era
of failures, this is a
complex hopelessness
alternative,
- the European Union
concentrates on avoiding
failure and on averting the
biggest threats,
- Tragic negative scenarios
may also take place: social
rebellions and world-civil
wars
- continuous and mutually
strengthening failures and
- Money market centred
capitalism will survive, perhaps
it will be more strictly regulated
and controlled, but the welfare
state cannot be reconstructed,
- a self-correcting but
fundamentally unchanging
world order
- The systematic supra
crisis of modernisation,
- Failure guardianship,
- The failure of the old
world order,
- The threat of the
emergence of quarter
and half dictatorships
- Etc.
(2)
- Improved capitalism
with continuous crises,
- Regulated cowboy
capitalism,
- Reinvented capitalism,
- Corrected liberal world
order, Etc.
- Social non-equilibrium will
increase,
- The European union is not a
confederation
bankruptcies, climate crisis,
economic crisis, etc.
- there is no solution to the
climate crisis,
- the principles and
institutions of modernisation
and post-modernisation can
handle the crises only in part
- a consequence of the failure
can be the emergence of some
sort of dictatorship model
- partly nationalised
capitalism
- regulated capitalism
- global and continentally
controlled money markets
- improved democracy
Europe’s Main Future Scenarios (2)
(3)
- Knowledge-centred
world model,
- Global knowledgecontrolled economy,
society
- Intellectual
capitalism,
- Etc.
- Post-information
capitalism, instead of
money, mainly
knowledge will be the
dominant means of
exchange,
- knowledge-poverty will
have to be eliminated,
- a knowledge integrating,
innovating and
utilising European
Union will be the aim
- knowledge-capitalism
or, in a better case,
knowledge-postcapitalism,
- the global knowledge
(4)
- Post-capitalism, new
economic world order,
- Post-market (and not
only capital-based)
economy,
- The era of sustainable
economy and society
- Etc.
- The essence of post-
- the aim is not profit but
the mutual coordination
of interests and values
(“win-win for all”)
- participatory state,
capitalism: a postcapital, post-market era,
- No longer a growthcentred paradigm,
- the united Europe is not
primarily a political or
economic but a value and
quality-of-life centred
integration
economy will mitigate the
inequalities between
continents (and within
continents)
- creative and innovative
intellectual capitalcentred (post-)capitalism
electronic and/or
participatory democracy
- the focus will be on
making the sustainable
world and development
possible and the
management of the climate
crisis
Europe’s Main Future Scenarios (3)
(5)
- Locality-centred
globalisation,
- Society-centred
state of the world,
- The era of direct
and/or indirect
democracy
- Etc.
(6)
Knowledge- and
collective
consciousnesscentred world order,
 Consciousnesscentred state and
society,
 Culture-driven
universal era,
 Etc.
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- the old world order will fall
into pieces and a dynamic
local network will emerge;
- the renaissance of the
local world, the system of
local „republics”,
- new types of nation states,
locality-based alliances,
- not profit or competition
oriented but setting the aim
of being self-caring
- self-sufficient, selfdeveloping small communities
- introduction of a local
economy and a local currency
that are of the same rank as
the global economy
- economy and politics will be
in the service of the society,
- participatory selfgovernance, comprehensive
participatory (and electronic)
democracy
the individual will be led
not by money, power or
prestige but a higher level
knowledge and
consciousness,
- societies will be driven not
by greed or the desire to
rule but the qualities of
collective consciousness,
- consciousness development
in the focus,
- successful mitigation of
poverty and defencelessness,
- successful protection and
reconstruction of nature and
the environment,
- the high quality culture is the
manifestation of high states of
knowledge and consciousness
- the new „world order” will
completely progress beyond
even post-capitalism
-
Europe’s Main Future Scenarios (4)
(7)
- Value- and/or
morality-centred
world order
- Value-, religion
and faith-oriented
state of the world,
- Global religious
peace,
- Post-secular state
of the world,
- Etc.
If man is not only a
physical, mental and
social but also a
spiritual being…
- it will create a world
inside and outside
which is value-,
morality- and religion(or spirituality-) based
- consciousnesscentred state and
democracy
-sacral democracy
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- not money, not
knowledge but –
together with
consciousness – the
values of ethics, religion
(etc.) will keep together
and rule the world (the
economy, as well as
society)
- in the focus are
religions, faiths and
spiritual experiences
that continue a dialogue
with one another
- a morality and faith
based „world order” is
born
Unity of Continents and Cultures
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The era is over in which the power centres of the
developed north export the future model to all continents
The ruling capitalist – new capitalist world model (global
manipulated – market economy, unipolar or multipolar
world order, liberal – party-based – quasi democracy,
etc.) cannot be maintained for long
It is no longer tolerable that the world’s society has
dramatically fallen into two: the rich (who possess the
integrated goods) and the poor (who have hardly any of
the integrated goods) (20-80 %)
Our planet’s new world order will offer each continent
the choice of an individual future way, while all
continents (and all states) are responsible for unity
Preconditions and guarantees of the „possible future”
are the equality-based living together and unity of
continents, cultures and religions
The aims of the World Conference
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We are getting closer to the formulation of the
elements and the wholeness of Unified Theory
It provides the possibility for the birth of the first
book dealing with World Philosophy in four to five
world languages at least in 600 to 800 pages
The other result of the Metatheory researches and
dialogues will be that the global/national/local
alternatives of the 21st century will be able to seen
more clearly
There is a new universal age coming, a special new
age, we are going to be the appreciative advocates
and those who are able to inspire others
The World Conference has the potential to raise
significantly the social and spiritual prestige of the
Swedish organizers
We can serve the mental world peace, which can be
only interpreted within a new context, without any
limitation
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
Varga, Csaba
www.vargacsaba.hu
www.metatheory.info
www.strategiakutato.hu
www.inco.hu
www.arcafolyoirat.hu
www.paradigmakutato.hu
vargacsaba@vargacsaba.hu
Institute for Strategic Research (ISR), Budapest, 2009