Dec 17th 2011 at 12: 02 PM by Allan Ralph Andrews, born
Long Beach, California, Sept 13th 1939 at 4:03 AM,
written by Allan Andrews in Bakersfield, CA. Posted to
mythicmind website.
John Gribbin’s “In Search of the Multiverse” is a book
that expresses much of my point of view. I basically
believe in a world that is scientific. I believe in the
science of string and M theory, of quantum mechanics
and thermodynamics, and mathematics, and relativity. I
believe in the standard models of chemistry and biology
and anthropology and sociology. I believe in Newton and
Darwin and the Periodic Table and Continental Drift and
DNA and RNA and the neurochemistry of the brain. I
believe in the History described by Arnold Toynbee in his
studies of the rise and fall of human civilizations.
But my notion differs from the standard notion of
complementarity, an electron is both a particle and a
wave, the universe is both a hologram and not a
hologram, etc., in the extension of complementarity to
all major issues of philosophy and metaphysics, the
universe is both the product of designing gods and the
designing gods are a product of the universe. God both
exists and does not exist, is both one and many, the soul
both exists and does not exist, is immortal and mortal.
Astrology and ESP are both true and false, depending on
which way you look at them. This goes back to the
philosopher Kant who said that all metaphysics comes
back to unresolved antimonies between infinite and
finite and determinate and free, between necessary and
contingent, between simple and complex. I believe that
these antimonies are not resolved because the universe
emerges from an infinite everything that is so large and
so expansive that all deep truths become complementary
and are generate polar opposites depending on how you
view them.
For example, the ancient notion of four basic
elements, I think symbolizes these tendencies. If Fire
Element symbolizes freedom, it has a determinate
opposite I call “Water Bowl.” If Earth Element
symbolizes the finite, it has an infinite opposite
symbolized by “Heaven.” So Water Element symbolizes
the complex and “Salt” symbolizes its simple opposite.
Air Element symbolizes the necessary and “Dust” its
contingent opposite. Now, I also use the lines of the
Chinese I Ching as symbols of these polarities. The I
Ching has eight different stacks of three broken (or
unbroken lines) called “Trigrams.” I use Heaven Trigram
for “Heaven Element.” And Earth Trigram for Earth
Element. I use Wind Trigram for Air Element and
Thunder Trigram for Dust. I use Lake Trigram for Water
Element and Water Pit Trigram for Water Bowl and
Mountain Trigram for Salt. I use Flame Trigram for Fire
Element, resulting in four pairs of complementary
opposites, as with the philosopher Kant: Infinite Heaven
to Finite Earth, Simple Mountain to Complex Lake,
Necessary Wind to Contingent Thunder, Free Flame to
Determinate Water Pit Trigram.
So the Romantic Temper in Art is Heaven Trigram and
the Realistic Temper is Earth. Cubism is Flame Trigram
and Baroque Absolutism is Water Pit. Impressionism is
Mountain and Post-Impressionism is Lake. The Classical
is Wind and the Expressionist is Thunder. So the
Supernatural is Romantic Heaven and the Natural and
Scientific is Realistic Earth. The Existential is Flame and
the Astrological is Water Pit. The Empirical is Mountain
and the Dialectical is Lake. The Idealistic is Wind and the
Practical is Thunder. It is all complementary opposites
within the one everything, so that scientific knowledge of
the simple prevents dialectical knowledge of the
complex, existential knowledge of freedom prevents
rational knowledge of fate.
So I am into atheistic science as long as we are in the
finite and the simple, when things start to involve moral
issues and astrological symbols, I no longer use the
simple and the scientific, because I have left the here and
now realm where they can apply. I believe that nature
has given me a brain with a fact oriented left hemisphere
and a symbol oriented right hemisphere because that is
the calculation system that works in a universe of
complementary polarity.
Several works explain this. Gribbin does well with the
scientific part. Richard Tarnas in “Cosmos and Psyche,”
and Arnold Mindell in “Quantum Mind” explore the
supernatural aspect. It begins with the Heaven Trigram,
as infinite flux makes the improbable probable. The
improbable that is made probable is the pi of the endless
curve of the inclusion of everything in circle with an
infinity of sides in which these infinitesimal sides become
the imaginary number root of minus one, of a universe
turning inward and concentrating in the integration that
changes into pleasure and the disintegration that
changes into pain, the inward creative essence that is
eternal novelty spreading out threads of primal time
from which the complex time of the visible world is
woven, as energy becomes passion and information
becomes reason from within. This sphere of an
imaginary number times pi becomes the power of “e” as
the natural log base. Now “e” becomes the root of the
mathematics of the cosmic mind, of Nous, and the
expanding pi curve includes everything in the hen one
through the medium of the private jiva Pneuma Atman
monads that are the imaginary number of the creative
spirit. This is the ultimate ideal, the necessary ideal that
is the Wind Trigram essence that serves as the deep
center of all integration, of the realm of the precious and
the improbable, the Kingdom of Heaven, of Paradise.
This core paradigm, symbolized by the yin and yang lines
and trigrams of the Chinese I Ching, extends itself
thorough all things and becomes the central model of
their organization. In nature it is Heaven as mutation
and Earth as phenotype, Wind as genetic ideal in an
adaptive peak and Thunder as its opposite in
maladaptive expressions of genes. Mountain is genetic
isolation, speciation, and input of information and Lake is
its opposite in recombination, hybrid formation, sexual
reproduction, population genetics, and gene pools.
Flame is extinction, competition and natural selection,
and Water Pit is homeostasis and feedback mechanism
that maintain homeostasis. The movement of energy
toward entropy, driven by the expansion of the universe,
generates energy dissipative structures that compete
and evolve, driven by the Darwin selection described
above cause the emergence of level after level of
organization: particles into atomic nuclei into atoms and
molecules and macromolecules and cellular structures
and primitive cells and cell nuclei of complex cells, the
emergence of tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms
and tribes and populations of organisms (humans) with
speech, communities with writing, ecosystems with
mechanical systems, biospheres filled with electronic
broadcasting, planets with computer programming, solar
systems organized by robots, star clusters by androids,
galaxies explored by super minds and galaxy clusters
organized by creative intelligence, universes and
multiverses control and created by gods and supergods.
Elsewhere, I have shown how these systems can emerge
in cycles. I have created a system of spread sheets,
pictures, and diagrams that show the patterns of some of
these evolving supersystems and I have posted the
results to my mythicmind@Yahoo.com website. In some
of my writings, I have attempted to discuss these systems
in some detail.
As John Gribbin points out in his works, some of these
systems are probably created by intelligent beings, some
emerge from dissipative structures, see Daniel R. Brooks
and E. O. Wiley in “Evolution as Entropy,” and some is
just the factor of chance in an infinite flux in a everything
multiverse where whatever is not prohibited is required
to be by probability considerations. “The Shape of Inner
Space,” by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis and “The
Cosmic Landscape,” by Leonard Susskind show how the
multiverse can be unexpectedly productive. Gribbin give
solid evidence for the real existence of the multiverse.
But, I postulate a reality more in accord with the old
beliefs of Theosophy and Spiritualism in a world of higher
and higher levels of “vibration.” I suggest that variant
amounts of energy going into a multiverse, relative to
other multiverses, and various possible planck lengths of
the universes that make up a multiverse, can generate
and infinity multiverses, at various levels of energy
investment, relative to each other, and refinement in
respect to the basic length constant that makes up the
quantum structure of the system involve, that is an
infinity of various of the planck length going down to the
infinitesimal and generating all possible degrees of
refinement of the particular multiverse quantum
structure.
Furthermore, I postulate that the private interior of
consciousness does not occur at the quantum level at all
but at the infinitesimal monad of the now Pneuma jiva
level and that the infinitesimal monad communicates and
interacts with the finite quantum planck constant public
world through an infinity of intermediate astral body
compounds, a ghost world that provides the deep
substrate to the shadow that we call real. To postulate
such things violates Occam’s razor of parsimony, except
that mathematics has banished the razor and parsimony
in favor of the rich complementary reality that is the
multiverse described in M theory and String Theory, and
Brane Theory and “The Cosmic Landscape.”
Out of the infinity of infinitesimal souls, and
improbable, and boundless emergence that is the
Heaven Trigram of the gods and demons emergence the
openness and the natural selection that is the hells of
Flame Trigram and the refinement and integration that is
the paradise of Wind Trigram. An astral world emerges
where the souls attach to bodies at various levels of
complexity and planck length refinement quantum
relations. Out of this emerges the visible realm of our
multiverse in the Earth Trigram, and its expansion into
the entropy as evolution of Thunder Trigram. In between
Heaven Earth lie a Hindu Buddhist Muslim Christian
Taoist panoply of Heavens and Purgatories, the Water Pit
Systems of punishment and reward symbolized in Dante
in “Purgatorio.” Supporting the systems of astral soul
purgation in Water Pit trigram, is samsara, is the cycle of
birth and death, the astrological order, in synchronicity
of Lake Trigram. Lake Trigram is the complex time and
space that emerges from the simple time that is
Mountain Trigram, as the astral ghosts of Mountain
Trigram become trapped in the complex cycles of Lake.
It is freedom from this entrapment that is the salvation
offered by Christ, and Mohammed, the release from
rebirth offered by Krishna and Buddha.
The Buddha Atman Christ Krishna Spirit is an eternal
sattva guna state of salvation, conservation of the soul,
that integrates it in the Nirvana Brahman, Elohim, Hen
Allah One that is pure love and joy and bliss and peace.
This endless interaction of the jiva atman pneuma souls
and the Hen One through the medium of the Nous has
created the e to the imaginary root of minus one x pi plus
one = zero that is the perfection of all things in the trinity
of imaginary root Pneuma and e Nous and pi Hen One
infinite circle expansion though the extension of the
circle to the infinite in an infinity of dimensions. This is
symbolizes in the Paradisio of the Divine Commedy of
Dante. God as Vishnu, Jahweh, Father Mother, Allah, is
the archetype generated by this infinite interaction of
the ultimate with the infinity that is nirvana and the
infinity of infinitesimals that is the Creative Spirit
Pneuma. There is no boundary to the creative power
that the infinite pours into the infinitesimal, that the
Father gives the Son, the Holy Mother givers her Child in
this eternal archetype of the divine. It is the final
salvation of all things precious and good from the
wreckage of our attachment to the no self of broken
disintegration and suffering in the endless flux driven by
unsatisfied desire. So the Water Element of Astrology is
true, and the Earth Element of Science is true and the Air
Element of Platonic and Buddhist and Taoist and Muslim
and Hindu Metaphysics is true, along with the Fire
Element of Animism and Shinto and Shamanism and
Existentialism and Aboriginal systems of belief as well.
All are true in the larger multiverse realm of “all things
not logically impossible are compulsive,” and many of the
logically impossible are impossible in limited contexts
only and become possible once that limited context sets
them free. So in the end we have the simplest possible
explanation of the observed, that, to the extent the
observed is everything, it is indeed everything, and thus
our theory of the systematic unification of everything is
simply that you systematically unify everything, without
qualification or exceptions. Qualifications and
exceptions belong to Earth and Thunder, to the
contingent and the finite, not to the necessary and the
infinite, where anything mathematically possible, hence
mathematically necessary at some point, is possible in
infinity to an infinite degree. This is what John Gribbin
makes plain in his book “In Search of the Multiverse.”
Significant here is “Infinity, New Research Frontiers”
Edited by Michael Heller and W. Hugh Woodin,
Cambridge, 2011, see page 285 of the above and the
discussion of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Hegelian notion of
the infinite, which emerges from a plurality of integrated
persons. 3:35 pm Dec. 17th 2011 A. R. Andrews,
Bakersfield, CA.
Why does complementary polarity work for the
description of the deep nature of everything one,
because the boundless extends into the infinitesimal as
well as the infinite and the private as well as the public,
the fluid as well as the fixed and the inclusive as well as
the exclusive. This means, in mathematics, rational as
well as irrational numbers, complex as well as real
numbers, imaginary as well as natural numbers, negative
as well as positive numbers, known as well as unknown
numbers, variable as well as constant numbers, summary
as well as factor numbers. It means algebra as well as
statistics, and calculus as well as arithmetic, trigonometry
as well as group theory, topology as well as set theory.
Any unity and integration of boundless everything will
pull to the very edges of disintegration and plurality in
the process of inclusion, will bend inward and turn the
objective subjective and the observed into an observer.
Anything else would not be a real theory of everything.
How theoretical physics thought it could use the
mathematics of the infinite and the infinitesimal and still
avoid these problems is something I do not understand. I
know that Newton gave them a false hope. The old
thinking was that Newton was the realistic one and
Leibnitz was the one dishing out the slop. Someone did
not read Newton very carefully and failed to understand
Leibnitz much at all. So the tables have turned again. No
surprise for me. I do not find the quantum world to be
odd at all, what I find odd is that physics seems to be
shocked and unbelieving. Poor physics, good for
metaphysics. Metaphysics, at least Socrates and Plato,
had the details all wrong, but Plato and Socrates were
right in their reliance on mathematics as the critical
piece. But, then my bias is obviously toward Pythagoras,
just as theirs was.
I believe, with the Buddhists, that what seems to be the
soul is a compound complex astral body that eventually
decomposes just like the physical body. Thus, what
seems to be a self is a no self. However, I agree with the
Jains and the Hindus that does not die because it is an
infinitesimal spark of the boundless one. I agree with the
Buddhists that this is really not a self in the ordinary
sense, but it is an atom of existential inexistence of
phenomenological inward bending privacy. I agree with
the Buddha, though, that the real meaning, the deep
meaning of this imaginary number reality belongs to the
infinite number of sides bending into the circle defined
by pi, that will include all things in the Brahman nirvana
Allah Hen One. So although the Jain is right about the
atom of inexistent phenomenology, the Buddhist is
correct as to its deeper significance. The infinitesimal
has no true power, no meaningful existence, short of its
total integration into the everything harmony of all
things. All the powers of Christ and Buddha come from
their union with the everything one that is Allah Elohim
Brahman Nirvana Dao Yoga Infinite Cosmic Mind Force.
A. R. Andrews, Bakersfield, CA Dec 17th 2011 8:00 pm.
The Earth and Thunder Trigrams are attractive because
they alone have definite shape and appearance. The soul
knows what to expect, what it is attaching to. But, these
are the realm of the broken and the particular and they
bring limitation, pain and suffering. Yet when the soul
pulls away, it must wander separate and alone, or form
its own hell, this regions is symbolized by Dante’s
Inferno, the realms of the Mountain and the Flame
Trigrams. The alternative, the wheels of birth and death,
of reincarnation, the realms of Purgatory in Water Pit
and are a living death, the soul knows pleasure, but has
no freedom, no creativity, is a slave to the systems that it
is attached to, to the astral bodies in which it has
involved itself and with which it has formed complexes
with other souls. There is only one true salvation and
that belongs to the Heaven and Wind Trigrams, it
involves the alliance of the infinite and the infinitesimal,
of both information systems and energy is generating the
ultimate harmony, the ultimate divinity, and the ultimate
good
1:30 am A. R. Andrews, Bakersfield, Dec. 18th 2011.