Physicists, Chemists, Engineers, etc. … the individuals who make the discoveries and write the theories/books/papers about the physical world, the individuals who teach us and influence decision-makers about the exploration and exploitation of Nature … what do these individuals think is the Primordial Force behind the self-determined movement of Nature towards Complexity and Order? What do they think is the Primordial Force embedded in all of us that urges us to consume, transform, and turn energy into the making of Existence? What do they think is the Primordial Force behind the engineering feat which built their own bodies … cell by cell … into a cohesive and relatively intelligent human being? What do they think is the Primordial Force we call Life/Spirit/Soul/God that rules our instincts and drives us to bond and recreate ourselves into ever newer forms? What do they think is the Primordial Force that encodes a miniscule pair of cells with the instructions to create a whole new being? What do they think is the Primordial Force that creates a mind that can reflect upon itself and envision the Future?

Or do they think about it at all?

If they do, they cannot of course say it has anything to do with a spiritual Force because it goes against the dominant materialistic paradigm that gives them jobs and pays their salaries; and if by any chance they do they get shunned, mocked or immediately fired. They might safely say that the Primordial Force is the Life Force, but they have no clue what Life is. They might know a bit about some of Life’s ongoing processes, but they have no idea why Life self-generates and self-perpetuates. And thus we have lost a sense of our connection with the past, with our Source, with our History, with what has brought us into being. Under their theories we cannot conceive of our bodies as part of a thriving progression that has been in the making for eons and eons of time.

It is a lot easier to ignore our primordial past altogether and focus instead on the things that can be measured, the things that can be observed, the things that can be neatly fit into theories. This is highly irresponsible. It is the main reason why we have become so detached from Reality; it is the main reason why the physical and the biological Sciences seem to be in two different universes. By ignoring the Primordial Force behind our existence, the physical Sciences are obliterating knowledge about the most intrinsic part of our nature; they are ignoring the Source of our most primal needs, urges, fears, emotions. And so to live with the denial of the most fundamental, terrifying, beautiful, exciting and fascinating part of us, we demean ourselves accepting the horrible idea that we are nothing but expendable numbers in charts and computations.

And thus, instead of being intent on learning about the Primordial Force that bonds every atom, every molecule, every cell, every organ in our bodies into a self-reflective and visionary being, we are inciting division and hate and the destruction of our environment, while those who make the decisions for us are irrationally accelerating the potential to end civilization as we know it.

But then how do we even begin to look at the Primordial Force? We certainly can begin by looking at the Fact that, since the Primordial Force is embedded in each one of us, we have a first hand shot at understanding it through common characteristics:

The Primordial Force is obviously developing.

It is incredibly ingenious and resilient.

It is creative and destructive, tenacious and pliant, violent and tender.

It clearly knows how to build and organize.

It has the capacity to self-generate and multiply.

It manipulates and is manipulated by environments.

It is a catalyst for transformation.

It learns from the past to shape the Future.

Doesn’t it thus astonish to realize that, although we don’t know The Source nor how it became a self-determined Force, we share some of its characteristics?

“And the motion of the body comes from the spirit like a waterwheel that’s held in a stream.” Rumi

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To be in touch with Beauty we have many, many ways … music, poetry, Nature in splendor, falling in love, creating something beautiful … but the Powers-that-be drive us to be in touch with Dread instead … wars, vengeance, fear, hate, anguish … Why?

We wish to claim to be the ‘darlings’ of Creation … the only ones that can Self-reflect and admire Beauty, feel Beauty, create Beauty … and yet we are ravaging our world … Why?

Nothing in the world today … no educational system, no organized religion, no scientific method … tells us the Truth about us.

We are told that our capacity to Self-reflect is a unique Human trait. It is not. The capacity to Self-reflect is Universal.

The proof that Self-reflection is Universal is Einstein’s greatest legacy. E=mc2 is one of the deepest insights into the nature of our Universe. E=mc2 fundamentally means that, notwithstanding size or complexity, the mass content of any natural system MUST EQUAL (=) its energy content … and vice versa … for the system to be functional in a continuous, persistent way. This is the yet-to-be-acknowledged meaning of the symbol = in the equation. In Einstein’s own words: “The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.” And no natural system can balance and re-balance its own contents to keep them in constant equilibrium as it changes and develops without a degree of Self-reflection.

But Science, afraid to rock established dogmatic beliefs, shies away from the exploration of the Self-reflective element of the equation.

The equation has proven without doubt that no natural system in our Universe can have a continuous form of existence without a sustained equilibrium between its mass and energy contents … greater mass equals greater energy, less energy equals less mass … and sustained equilibrium cannot exist without a degree of Self-reflection.

This degree of Self-reflection, although mostly instinctive, is evident in the sustained equilibrium of the human body: We consume energy sources (oxygen, foods) to build mass and exert the energy as action and motion, but our level of consumption is a reflection of our level of exertion … and vice versa … and thus we always are in relative equilibrium as we grow and develop and remain functional and dynamic. Once we cannot sustain this equilibrium, we either restructure or cease to exist altogether.

Instinctive equilibrium is the primordial form of Self-reflection. Self-determined equilibrium … the conscious, thoughtful affecting of equilibrium … is a highly evolved form of Self-reflection. And as far as we know homo sapiens are the only ones evolved enough to have developed the latter.

Our individual survival is completely dependent on self-reflective equilibrium, and so is the survival of the Human Species. But because Humanity remains so fragmented, we have not been able to expand our heightened capacity for Self-reflection to the level of the entire species. And thus we fail to see how far out of equilibrium we have gotten: Increasingly billions of us are consuming and releasing energy sources way beyond the replenishing and reabsorbing capacities of our environment. We are throwing off the natural equilibrium of the planet and accelerating sweeping and possibly extreme deviations.

To be in touch with Beauty we first need to know what Beauty is, and although Beauty is about impossible to define … “It is in the eye of the beholder” … we know that Beauty is not Hate nor Fear nor Imbalance nor Dread.

To be in touch with Beauty, to create Beauty, to begin to turn Dread into Beauty there is something we all can do: We can concentrate our heightened capacity for Self-reflection to turn the mighty global reach of the Internet into empowering and giving direction to an organ … like the United Nations, for example … to assume the same self-reflective, thoughtful and visionary role for our entire species as our brain is for our body.

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• We cannot be alive without the pliable membrane, the sensory boundary that enfolds us into self-organized, self-motivated, self-emergent systems.

• We cannot be alive without the ongoing primal cycle that mandates us to consume energy, transform it into the mass of our bodies, then release it back as motion and action and determination.

• We cannot be alive without the innate capacity of our bodies to conserve a steady temperature level notwithstanding the fluctuations of our internal and external environments.

• We cannot be alive without the power … the Mind … generated by all of our components working together, wittingly or unwittingly, to support our growth, our development, our interactions, our determination.

• We cannot be alive without the relative degree of self-reflection that impels us to constantly balance … while we change and unfold … how much energy to consume and how much to expend.

• We cannot be alive without the constant re-generation and re-organization of our own components, while we continue to preserve the same fundamental self.

• We cannot be alive without our primal ability to construct and direct an environmentally-fit-structure, self-regulating enough to comply with natural rules yet free enough to explore new possibilities.

• We cannot be alive without the support and the limitations of an environment that physically directs our evolution yet allows us to become forces of transformation.

We cannot exist as a living system without these essential pre-requisites, but neither can

cells,

the earth,

the atomic elements,

solar systems,

galaxies,

our own Universe

… you can prove this yourself by going through the list above  and applying to each one of them the complete list of pre-requisites … thus re-asserting the Fact that we all are alive because we exist in a living Universe.

But limited not only by organic senses that do not physically allow us to perceive the self-directed emergence of the Universe in which we ourselves self-emerge, but also limited by the ignorant and vicious ideologies of greed, control and ravaging consumerism of dominant cultures which constrict our education systems and subjugate the power of the human mind, we have been almost totally inhibited from exploring the Fundamental Fact that, like you and I, our Universe is a living system.

As there are undeniable connections between each one of our cells and us … they all know the color of our eyes, the type of our blood, the pigment of our skin … there are undeniable connections between us and the emerging, powerful, fragile, destructive, cruel, unruly, cohesive, creative, tender, ingenious, living creature we call our Universe. Isn’t it thus a tragedy that, instead of creating a world in which we would open doors to the exploration of these connections, we are closing the doors to our chances for survival?

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This set of old questions … immortalized by Paul Gauguin in one of his most beautiful and enigmatic paintings [1] … have always held my fascination. To me they are the most profound questions ever posed to the human mind. It is thus a humbling exercise even to attempt to answer them, but they demand answers. So years ago I began to try. The answers below are very incomplete … to say the least … but I have learned much in the attempt. I will continue to work on them and periodically update them.

Where do we come from?

We emerge into life out of a primordial, creative and unfolding Source. Some of us call it Evolution, but Evolution is just the process of its unfolding. Some of us call it God, but we call God what we don’t understand. Some of us call it Nature, but Nature is just one of its manifestations. Some of us call it the Big Bang, but the Big Bang is just the birth of our Universe.

And even if this ancient Source is unfolding within us and all around us … in the primal flow of our blood, in the increasing complexity of our brains, in the creativity of the changing earth … we are not developed enough to comprehend it.

What are we?

I do not know. But I do know that we are born with the main purpose of regenerating and perpetuating the unfolding of the ancient Source; that we emerge out of this ancient Source endowed with a relative degree of freedom to adapt, to act according to our needs and desires, to transform and be transformed; that we are cohesive organizations of myriad elements working in symbiosis with our environment to originate the mystery of the Mind; that from the dimension of the stars we are infinitesimally small and from the dimension of the atoms we are immensely immense; and yet, like the stars and the atoms, we are sources of Transformation.

Where are we going?

We forge ahead to meet the unknown, mostly driven by primal instincts and limited by the constraints of our internal and external environments, and yet we are pregnant with Possibility. We forge ahead until we no longer can. And so we dissolve into cells and molecules and atoms. But Death is just a door that,  in equal measure to the significance of our lives … what we have done, what we have created, what we have imagined, how we have transformed ourselves, how we have transformed our world … opens up into the ancient Source so we can re-emerge in new and more complex forms of existence.
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Although there are many salient examples of individuals in Human History (Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus, Socrates, Rumi, Da Vinci, Einstein, Beethoven; to name a few) from whom the legacy of their accomplishments re-emerged in new and more complex physical and dynamic forms of existence, and although their legacy is a physical and dynamic force affecting human development … in religions, philosophy, science, the arts … this kind of re-emergence is very difficult for us to conceptualize under our current Paradigm.

Centuries ago, misled by the limitations of our organic senses, the human mind was under the misconception that the earth was the center of the Universe. Today, still misled by the limitations of our organic senses, we are under the misconception of a Paradigm in which our minds are perceived as separate from our bodies and our bodies as separate from their Source. And thus, like our ancestors centuries ago, we question undeniable Facts: We question the Fact that we physically emerge out of the same primal Source into which we all ultimately return. We question the Fact that as the significance of the teachings of a prophet, or the inquisitiveness of a philosopher, or the visions of a poet, or the insights of a scientist, or the passions of an artist have re-emerged in more complex forms of existence … organized religions, philosophical methods of inquiry, scientific theories, a body of art … so we too can re-emerge into the unfolding of the ancient and creative Source, but only in equal measure to the significance of our actions, our creations, our ideas.

The realization of these Facts will change the course of Humanity.

[1] A photo of the painting can be found at the bottom of the Pictures page. Click on it to expand.

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There are mysteries in our Universe our minds may never comprehend, but this does not stop us from trying.

Einstein, Galileo, Darwin and others tried, and they unraveled some.

Amidst the destruction and decay and death we constantly witness in our world, there is the unresolved mystery of the creative and self-organizing tendency towards complexity, cohesion and order in the unfolding of Nature. This ingenious and mysterious tendency is evident, especially to us today with the advances in technology, in the symmetry and intricacy of most natural systems; in the astonishing cohesion and self-generative organization of our own bodies; in the relentless self-stabilization of the earth-system; in the self-sustained synchronization of planetary systems; in the preeminence of the spiral and globular shapes of galaxies in our Universe; in the austere and tidy rigor of the Periodic Table of the fundamental atomic elements; in the encoding of the DNA molecule with the blueprint of an entire human being.

It is a mystery to us how we happen to come into existence out of two miniscule cells which, driven by powerful and mostly unexplored natural forces, start a process so ingenious, so intricate, so visionary as to end up with a creature like you and I, loaded with emotions and feelings like Ecstasy and Awe and Joy and Bafflement and Horror in the presence of our own creative and destructive powers; a creature so utterly unique as to hold a mind like no other in the entire Universe and yet so common as to have an organic structure like millions and millions of other creatures; a creature so fragile as to be easily wiped out of existence by our internal and external environments and yet so strong as to be able to influence the unfolding of our evolutionary process.

It is a mystery to us how a Universe the size of which we cannot even yet determine, can so thoroughly impart on all and every one of its component elements/systems/creatures the uncompromising rules to self-organize, to self-regulate, to self-generate, to self-preserve, while at the same time endowing us … all of us … with a relative degree of freedom to adapt.

It is a mystery to us how, driven by the primordial and inciting instinct to copulate, we release specialized cells unconsciously created and imprinted within our own bodies with the instructions to bring into existence whole new beings, thus enabling the continuity of our species.

It is a mystery to us how, driven by primal and mostly unconscious instincts we fall hopelessly in love with someone or something, and changing ourselves or trying to change the recipient of our love we become catalysts for transformation.

But enabled by us, the authoritarian forces of Science, Consumerism and Organized Religion obstruct our capacity to Discern the unconscious in us: Science by constricting Knowledge, Consumerism by twisting it, and Organized Religion by owning it.

And yet we have the power to break their hold on us and begin to realize that what we call the ‘unconscious’ … the call of Nature that drives the sperm to meet the ovum; the call of the Universe that drives us to self-organize and reproduce and imagine … is a physical Universal Force within us that allows us to build an increasingly conscious organism so we can meet our Destiny as the progenitors of self-awareness.

We have the capacity to unravel the mystery of our own mystery.

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Common sense tells us that we perceive our world through the input of our organic senses … the sounds we can hear, the sensations we can sense, the smells we can smell, the things we can see. These senses, we now know quite well, are developed only to perceive a tiny fraction of Reality.

But we are able to expand our perception through the ingenuity of the instruments we invent and through the imagination of our highly evolved and visionary brain … the organic brain that not only creates the phenomena of the mind, but that also reflects on itself and envisions worlds smaller and grander than our senses can fathom.

Survival, especially in the early stages of our evolutionary development as social creatures, depended mostly on seeking steady nourishment, shelter and protection from predators by belonging to a group. This dependence made us vulnerable, and submissive, to the stronger and more aggressive individuals in the group. And thus social castes were created, establishing a Paradigm of submission and elitism were a strongman came to make the decisions and control the distribution of goods. These strongmen held power by force and, as they grew older, by institutionalized fear. Amazingly enough this continues to be the foundation of our dominant Paradigm … just more sophisticated.

Institutionalized fear is now more subtle and begins at a very early age in our lives. Our natural curiosity and inquisitiveness are bent, under the threat of retribution, to promote and reinforce the ancient Paradigm of Submission and Separation. The senses are trained to focus outward, to perceive Nature as other than us, as something lesser than us to be dominated and used. And introspection, and imagination, are constrained in great part by the search of a ‘happiness’ dictated by material possessions and the morals, if any, of the controlling political-economic-scientific-religious castes – what we now call elites.

And thus our perception of the world in which we exist, the world from which we come into existence, the world without which we could not live, is so estranged from Reality that we cannot even conceive the obvious Fact that … as the atoms and molecules and cells we are made out of, and as the planet and the solar system in which we exist … we are deftly put together by primordial forces which organize us into a sensory and cohesive congregation of elements that grows, and matures, and bonds, and self-generates, and self-perpetuates, synthesizing and focusing energy and information with a relative degree of freedom to adapt and choose; nor can we accept the obvious Fact that, as no other creature or system we know of, we have been allowed by a relatively stable and favorable environment to become the advancing pioneers in self-awareness.

The human mind is the result, and the synthesizer, of all the input received from our internal and external environments. Our mind’s perception of the immediate world is received through our organic senses, and our perception of the world beyond the reach or our organic senses is constructed through our susceptible capacity to self-reflect, to conceptualize abstract ideas, to store enormous amounts of information, to imagine new possibilities, to take chances.

But the doors of perception are held closed by our current Paradigm, with only two exceptions, the doors that lead to Consumption and Division.

And thus the doors that open our perception to the obvious Facts that we are intrinsic elements of our Universe, that we come alive inside of it, that we are alive because of it, that we are made out of it, that we are ruled by it, and that even though it defines our development, it also endows us with the evolving awareness of our relative degree of freedom to change, to choose, to create our own Future … these doors have not been opened, yet.

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Organized religions, stubbornly ignoring the common primal ancestry of our nature … our instinctive urge to bond and seek pleasure, to inhale, to exhale, to consume other living things in order to survive … continue to promote their dogmas of Division without regards for the hostility and ignorance they incite; and Science, stubbornly ignoring the common spiritual ancestry of our nature … our inherent need to understand what is greater than us, to comprehend the intangible yet defining forces that bound and steer our lives … continue to promote the limiting dogma that Life and the Universe can only be understood by reducing them to measurable pieces, while the immeasurable … the mind, our sense of wonder, the self-determined direction of Nature towards complexity and order … does not merit scientific significance.

These two inhibiting powers, battling for supremacy to control human perception, hinder our knowledge of the obvious fact that, although highly evolved, we are regulated and confined and open like any other natural system in Nature.

It is thus uncanny to realize that Science, possessing already a catalog of Theories that incontestably prove the common characteristics that link all natural systems, continues, in a bizarre concurrence with Organized Religion, to treat the human system as if we were not a natural system.

According to Science, some of the common characteristics of natural systems are:

Congregation of interconnected and dynamic elements into a cohesive whole (Bell’s Theorem).
Innate tendency to attain, and sustain, optimum states of relative equilibrium (Relativity).
Synthesis of seemingly opposing yet complementary properties – particle-like and wave-like, unique and common (Complementarity).
Inherent drive to unfold into a relatively pre-determined structural design amidst an uncertain and infinite set of probabilities (Uncertainty & Probability).
Survival is completely dependent on consumption and dissipation of energy sources (Dissipative Structures).
Self-containment, self-generation and self-perpetuation of component elements while the system maintains a fundamental yet pliable organization (Autopoietic Systems).
Self-organization and continued restructuring of component elements is attained through the reiteration of an overruling yet pliable prototype (Mandelbrot Set).
Relatively pre-determined by internal and external environments yet the system is endowed with a relative degree of freedom to adapt and manipulate not only its own evolution but the evolutionary movement in which it exists (Evolution).
Catalyst for transformation (Quantum Field Theory).

And so are some of our common characteristics:

We are a congregation of elements that gather together to form the dynamic yet cohesive structure of our bodies (Bell’s Theorem).
We are constantly, although mostly unconsciously, seeking equilibrium between our energy needs and the changing weight of our bodies (Relativity).
We are a blend of seemingly opposing yet complementary properties – good and bad, unique and common, conscious and unconscious, destructive and creative (Complementarity).
We develop, mostly by instinct, into a more or less pre-determined bodily configuration amidst uncertainty and chances (Uncertainty & Probability).
We survive by consuming other living things as sources of energy; we then transform the energy into the weight of our bodies, and then release the energy back into the environment as waste and action and thought (Dissipative Structures).
We instinctively perpetuate the structural configuration of our bodies by constantly re-generating our own elements within the envelope of our sensitive and pliable skin (Autopoiesis).
We self-organize into a constantly changing yet cohesive whole by embedding every cell we generate in our bodies with a prototype set of instructions (Mandelbrot Set).
We evolve and adapt mostly by following the mandates of our internal and external environments, but also by exercising the relative degree of autonomy we possess to manipulate our own development (Evolution).
We are catalysts for Transformation (Quantum Field).

And thus we are natural systems.

But because we are, as far as we know, the most highly evolved natural system in Nature, we have developed a brain that generates the mystery of the mind, a brain that can conceptualize the Universe, that can reflect upon itself and KNOW it is self-reflecting, that can look at Nature and see its splendor and its openness, its ingenuity and its cruelty, its gentleness and its monumental power, its order and its complexity, its mystery and its surprises; we have developed a brain that has come to wonder, that has come to think.

It is thus we have Science and Religion. And whether or not they irrationally continue to inhibit the knowledge of what we are, there is no rational way to deny the Fact that we are highly evolved natural systems, imprinted, as we imprint our cells with our DNA code, with the common characteristics of a universal blueprint that steers our unfolding and endows us with a degree of freedom to understand and see the Connection … the undeniable Link.

The true purpose of Religion is to promote Bonding, Understanding, Tolerance, Love. The true purpose of Science is to promote Openness, Learning, Knowledge, Vision. But in their stubborn dogmatism they are inhibiting their fundamental purpose.

Self-transcendence in Evolution, even with its mystical connotations, is clearly evident in the seasons of the earth … in the re-emergence of Springtime after the fiery ending of Autumns and the cold embrace of Winters.

Self-transcendence is a primal and transforming Force, unfathomably ancient, inexhaustibly new, encompassing more than the entire Universe … and we are a part of it.

We … with our capacity to learn form the past and plan for the future … are highly evolved elements in the constant self-transcendence of form into energy and energy into form, which is the hallmark of Evolution and the source of transformation.

Watch a new born baby taking its first breath … watch it gasp for air … self-transcending from a fetus in liquid placenta into an oxygen breathing mammal, following lessons imprinted in its cells to perpetuate the species.

Watch a butterfly egg self-transcend into larva (caterpillar), and larva into pupa (chrysalis), and pupa into a new butterfly, following lessons learned in the past to perpetuate its species.

Self-transcendence is the primal universal Force that transforms the flow of Evolution, constantly re-emerging into new and novel forms of Existence. This is the blueprint of the Universe imprinted in each one of us, as we imprint each cell in our bodies with our DNA code.

We are a re-emerging and self-transforming Force that creates new lives, new forms of existence, new ideas; a Force that learns from the past and leaves a mark on the world, transforming our world, transcending ourselves.

Most of the men and women making the decisions that affect our survival are refusing to acknowledge … either by silence or negation … the destructive impact on the environment 1- of our unhealthy population growth 2- of the unsustainability of economic systems based on unbounded consumerism and 3- of the hate-promoting divisiveness of religious dogma.

These people are getting richer and richer while watching most of humanity struggle and suffer under their destructive decisions … decisions that are made selfishly and purposefully to promote increased instability and inequality.

These are the people supposed to create a better world for Humanity but are instead actually destroying it. How irrational is this! You and I won’t destroy – not if we are rational – the world that feeds and sustains us. And yet this is exactly what these people are doing.

The signs of our impact on the environment are unpredictable and impending. Everything we do that involves combustion is increasing the acidity of the oceans and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which already are, according to Wikipedia, higher than any time in the last 800 thousand years. These are colossal changes we are inflicting on the chemical constitution of the environment that supports all of us on earth.

Yet the profitability of multinational corporations continue to demand a growing number of consumers, and the livelihood of most organized religions continue to depend on an increasing number of followers. So by continuing to promote our abnormal growth and our unsustainable levels of consumption, these two Forces are accelerating a crisis of unprecedented dimensions.

But although the catastrophic signs are imminent, these guys won’t change. Our current systems of governance allow them, without consequences, to annihilate rationality, to assume power by deception, to let corruption and predatory greed go unchecked, to incite conflict for ideological or profitable reasons … and all done without regards for the devastation it oftentimes inflicts on human life. These guys are drunk with Power and won’t let go, even if it destroys us all.

But crises are the cauldrons of change. There is, especially amongst young people, an emerging level of higher rationality and a growing empathy for our world rebelling against the greed, the ignorance and the irrationality of our leaders.

An intellectual revolution is brewing amongst the millions that are being oppressed, or cannot find jobs, or are faced with the dismal opportunities of a stolen Future.

“There is a change in consciousness, the intuition that something big is possible; that a great change in the world’s priorities is within people’s grasp.”[1]

[1] From “Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions” by Paul Mason

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Our minds are not yet capable of conceiving the complex and beautiful organization of the atomic particles that form our bodies; nor can we yet comprehend their constant and balanced transformation from energy into mass and from mass into energy; nor can we yet perceive the Primordial Forces that drive atoms … like musical notes in the continuum of a melody … to construct our bodies, molecule by molecule, enabling us to unfold under the constraints of environments and giving us a relative degree of freedom to play our own music.

Dominated by a Reductionistic scientific methodology, we have come to believe that the Essence of Nature can be understood by isolating and reducing it to its elementary constituents … atomic particles, genes, cells … thus we find ourselves desperately searching for the ultimate of all particles … the one scientists are calling the ‘god’ particle … believing that we will be able to understand everything once it is isolated. But while we are focused on this approach we have lost our capacity to perceive the ancient natural Forces … Bonding, Self-organization, Self-generation, Self-perpetuation, Self-reflection … that bind our bodies together and allow us to come alive as fleeting yet relatively significant elements in the continuum of Existence.

It is like trying to understand the Essence of a Melody by isolating a musical note, while in the process losing The Melody.

Atomic particles, or genes, or cells can be physically isolated to understand their characteristics, constitutions, propensities, interactions. But by doing so we not only remove them from their natural domains, more importantly, we overlook the primordial Forces that Bond them together to form complex and emerging organizations.

The methodology of Reductionism, by itself, gives us an incomplete understanding of Reality. The Essence of an atom, a gene, a cell, a human being, or a musical note for that matter, cannot be wholly comprehended by Isolation or Reduction. Therefore, complementing Reductionism with a harmonizing methodology … the Theory of Complementarity[1], for instance, with its foundation on the impossibility of fully understanding phenomena by separating it from the conditions from which it emerges … will give us a more truthful and complete view of the world form which we emerge.

All natural phenomena are composites of two or more seemingly opposing sides. As atoms, or molecules, or cells, we are unique and common, destructive and creative, predator and prey, folding and unfolding, instinctive and self-determined, transient and relatively permanent, significant and insignificant, a component part and a complete entity. And although seemingly opposing, the two sides complement each other; one cannot exist without the other. Thus by focusing on only one of the sides, we not only fail to see its co-dependence on the other, but we fail to see the complete phenomenon.

Whatever side of Nature we find ourselves … whether it is our choice or the choice of Nature … we all have a destructive side and a creative side, a primal side and a self-determined side, an ugly side and a beautiful side, a ‘bad’ side and a ‘good’ side. Therefore we cannot further the understanding of our own emergence nor of the natural world from which we are emerging, until we accept the Fact that, like everything in Nature, we are synthesis of opposites, indivisible from Nature.

[1] See posts 19,20,23 & 24 on Complementarity.

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