REVOLUTION  IN  COMMON  SENSE

OR

QUANTUM  METAPHYSICS

Figure 1. 2-D world.

Figure 2. Sphere penetrating 2-D world.

If we penetrate the plane with a billiard ball, moving it

through the plane until it leaves on the other side, the 2Ds

would experience the birth, growth, declination, and death of

some phenomenon that constantly changes its size (Fig.2). The

2D population has some philosophers who believe that this

phenomenon did not really die, that it continues to exist in

some mysterious realm that they call 'spiritual', without having

any visible evidence of this in their 2-D world. But most 2Ds

follow the prevailing paradigm of scientific materialism and

ignore such unscientific notions.

Now let us cut a nail into small pieces. We get little

cylinders that we throw on the 2-D plane (Fig.3). Some

cylinders land on their side, the others on their ends. This

event creates great excitement among the 2D scientists. They

investigate this matter and observe that two different kinds of

bodies have appeared in their world, some are circles, the

Figure 3. 3-D cylinders seen from the 2-D world.

David Bohm has suggested another analogy that describes the

quan-tum physics duals (28)(29). Supposed one observes a fish

tank with two TV cameras. One camera views the tank from the

front, the other from the side. Two TV monitors placed side by

side display the two images. A fish facing the front appears

different on one monitor compared with the other. A child too

young to understand the setup, will not even realize that the

two images come from the same fish. In this analogy, as in the

previous one, two separate 2-D aspects of a 3-D object are

observed, and the observer is challenged to form a mental image

of the 3-D object. In the same manner we are challenged to

imag-ine M-D objects of which we see 3-D aspects in our world.

Plato in his famous cave allegory (30) compared the appearances

of our world with shadows that are thrown on a cave wall by the

real things. We as cave dwellers cannot see the real objects

because we cannot look in their direction. We see only the 2-D

shadows of the invisible 3-D bodies, creating the illusion that

the shadows are the real thing.

In our attempt to understand M-D space, it is probably

misleading to assume that the additional dimensions must be

geometrically perpendicular to our three space dimensions. Our

3-D space is probably meaningless in an M-D environment, and

geometric right angles between dimensions have only symbolic

meaning. The term "degrees of freedom" describes the situation

better, meaning possible directions of development that do not

coincide with existing directions. Perhaps it is better to

imagine how our thoughts can take off in directions that have

nothing to do with space and time. We are talking about

Figure 4. Crystal form.

HOLON PRINCIPLES

HP1. *The whole has more dimensions than each of its constituent parts.*

In our simple example, the whole crystal form has three, the parts only two dimensions.

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HP2. *Each part is an aspect of the whole, seen from a lower order.*

When we put our mind into the frame of the 2-D order, then we

perceive each plane as a separate, individual part.

HP3. *The whole encompasses all its parts.*

The 3-D crystal form encompasses all its 2-D side planes.

HP4. *The whole is invisible from the orders of its parts.*

To the 2Ds, the whole crystal is not visible, because they do

not perceive 3-D space. They don't even know about the

existence of their fellow 2Ds in the other planes of the crystal.

HP5. *The whole is an undivided and homogeneous entity, while its

parts appear as separate individual entities in their order.*

The 3-D space within the whole crystal form is continuous and

homogeneous. In contrast, the parts exist as discrete 2-D entities.

HP6. *The whole and its parts are one and the same, viewed from

different dimensional orders.*

From the 3-D point of view, we see the whole crystal, and we

consider its surfaces as mere aspects of the same thing. From a

2-D point of view, we have discrete, individual planes. Another

analogy for HP6 is David Bohm's fish-tank with TV cameras. The

important point in holistic thinking is to distinguish carefully

between observations made from different orders.

HP7. *Both the whole and its parts are real, but the whole has a

more profound reality.*

There should be no disagreement that a 3-D form is more

profound than a 2-D plane.

HP8. *The parts are wholes in their own right at a lower order.*

Each plane is an entity of its own in the 2-D order. In turn,

the lines are 1-D aspects of the 2-D planes, yet they are

entities in their own right within the 1-D order. And so are the

points aspects of the lines, but they can also be seen as

entities in their 0-D order.

HP9. *The whole is immanent in each of its parts.*

Our 2-D creature analogy is more representative if we picture

the 2Ds as crosscuts of billiard balls, as figure 2 shows. They

still have 2-D "bodies", but their real self is invisible to

them in 3-D space, as ours is for us in M-D space. Asked about

the location of their real selves, they would say that they are

inside their bodies but transcendent to them. The term used

for inside while simultaneously transcendent is "immanent".

HP10. *A change of any part goes simultaneously with a change of

the whole, and a change of the whole goes with changes in its parts.*

A change of any crystal plane goes with a change of the whole

crystal form, including other planes. One has to be careful

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here not to assume too easily a cause and effect relationship.

From the lower-order environment of the parts we might conclude

that one part pushes its adjacent parts around, causing them to

change. But, viewed from the higher dimensional order of the

whole, the whole is undergoing a change that is reflected in its

aspect-parts, perhaps without us being able to say where the

change originates. From the whole's point of view, there is no

difference between the whole and its parts (HP6). It makes no

sense to differentiate between a cause coming from a part or the

whole. For instance, when faced with the problem of fitting a

crystal into a non-yielding mounting, it makes no difference

whether one changes the length of lines, the shape of planes, or

the form of the crystal. All goes together simultaneously.

More will be said about causality within a holon in section 4.

It is very important to understand how change is transmitted

within a holon. Suppose one part changes in some way. This is

associated with a corresponding change of the whole. Now, since

the whole is immanent in all its parts, they are all affected,

their inner disposition is changed, affecting their future trend.

The communication between the parts via the whole occurs because

the whole is homogeneous, undivided.

HP11. *It is impossible to perceive simultaneously more than one

aspect of a whole undistorted from a lower order.*

Assume that we take a photo of a crystal, with the camera film

parallel to one of its planes. Only this plane appears with its

correct shape on the photo, all other aspects appear either

distorted or not at all. The 2-D photo is in a lower order than the 3-D crystal.

HP12. *The holon principles 1 through 11 apply to all dimensional

orders.* The reader may want to verify each holon principle for the

case that the crystal planes are the wholes and the lines their

parts. Then repeat the same for the lines as wholes and the

points their parts. (Note that points can change only their

positions). Having established that the principles are valid for

all three transitions from 0-D through 3-D, the best assumption

we can make is that they are also valid for all higher

dimensional orders. HP12 is postulated as a reasonable hypothesis.

HP13. *The holon principles 1-12 are aspects of one master holon principle.*

The holon can be experienced directly, without passing

sequentially through the principles 1-12 one at a time. This

writer had this experience spontaneously as a young person. It

was impossible to describe the holon directly without braking it

down into discrete, individual principles. Even then, something

is still missing: the homogeneity, the depth, the integrity, the

vitality of the holon. The holon principles are an interrelated

group. A mathematician might be able to formulate a single

expression for the holon, from which the individual holon

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principles can be derived. We shall apply the holon principles

as a "holistic logic" to research the M-D reality.

HOLON EXAMPLES

The holon principles have been stated above using only one

simple example. Other examples are those listed in section 2

for the discussion of common sense limitations. Each pair of

space-time, energy-mass, etc. forms a holon with its respective

whole. As far as this writer can determine, each pair fulfills

the cited holon principles, subject to verification by

physicists and psychologists, thus extending the validity of the

HP's to four dimensions.

An example for holon principle (HP11) is the Heisenberg

uncertainty principle, an important cornerstone of quantum

physics (34)(35)(36)(37). It states (in one of its versions)

that it is impossible to measure both the position and the

momentum of an electron simultaneously. (The momentum is a

measure of motion). Assuming that the electron exists in

a higher order than 3-D, holon principle HP11 makes this same

statement. It appears that the Heisenberg principle is a

special case of holon principle HP11.

The holon principles provide a plausible explanation for the

so-called double-slot experiment that has puzzled quantum

physicists. The experiment is well described in popular

literature (38)(39). We will explain it here highly simplified.

An electron gun shoots electrons against a target screen at

some distance, similar to a rifle practice range. Now we place

a shield between the gun and the target screen. The shield has

two slots next to each other. We shoot only one electron at a

time towards the slots. If we cover one slot, the picture on

the target screen beyond shows the spot where one electron has

hit, as expected. The same thing happens if we cover the other

slot. However, if we leave both slots open, the target screen

shows a broad interference pattern from two electron waves that

come from both slots. We know that electrons can show up as

waves. The surprise is that we get two waves from a single

electron. How can a single electron go through two separated

slots simultaneously? It is like shooting a billiard ball into

two pockets simultaneously.

The answer suggested by holistic logic is that the electron is a

holon with its parts in our 3-D space, but its whole in 4-D

space. Using a 2-D/3-D analogy, suppose two persons observe a

low flying airplane through two widely separated holes in a

roof. As the plane passes in close proximity, both persons take

photos of it simultaneously. Each developed film shows the

airplane clearly and unmistakably. But, if we view both

negatives together, one on top of the other, there is

interference between the two images.

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Similarly, the screen in the experiment shows clear pictures of

a single electron when viewed separately, but an interference

pattern when viewed simultaneously. As the airplane flies by in

the third dimension while we are watching it from two positions

on the 2-D ground, so the electron flies by in the 4th

dimension, while we are trying to figure out how it passes

through both slots arranged in 3-D space. We see only two

different aspects of the electron, not the electron itself.

True to holon principle HP11, no 3-D analogy can accurately

describe all aspects of a 4-D situation. The example does not

convey that the part and the whole are not separated (HP3, HP6),

as the photo and the airplane are. It ignores also that one can

change the whole by changing its part (HP10).

Another holon example may be seen in the colors of a rainbow,

which are integral parts of white light. When white light is

sent through a prism, it fans out into different beams of light

with the colors of the rainbow, from red through violet. White

light as a whole appears physiologically uniform and

homogeneous. In physics terms, it covers a certain frequency

range of electromagnetic waves. Its individual parts, the

perceived colors, have different frequencies and are enfolded in

the white light. If one sends the same colors back through the

prism in the opposite direction so that they merge properly, one

obtains pure white light again. In physiological terms, the

prism provides a transition from the whole (white) to its parts

(colors) and vice versa. White light has two degrees of

freedom: ranges of color and intensity. The individual colors

have only one degree of freedom left: a range of different

intensities. This example suggests also how quantum physicists

"collapse" quantum wave-packages from M-D space into particles

(40), as discussed later under Multiple Worlds, Section 4.

Other holon analogies can be taken from the field of

information. The words on this page represent holons with the

letters of which they are composed; so do the sentences with the

words as their parts, the sections with their sentences, and the

whole paper forms a holon with its sections. A symphony as a

whole transcends its parts, the melodies, and in turn the

melodies are holons with the notes in them. In visual arts, a

painting from a good artist expresses dimensions far beyond the

assembly of its colors on the canvas. One can distinguish the

quality of an art piece by the degree with which extra dimensions

are expressed through its constituent parts, be it with colors, marble

tones, or words. Thus some modern "works of art" that are produced

through an arbitrary mixing of elements cannot qualify as real art.

Another example of holons in communication are TV pictures. The

electrical signals thatappear in time sequence on the screen represent

the separate parts of the TV picture as a whole.

The reader may want to select his or her examples from the

infinite range of holons in our world, from subatomic particles

up to the myriad of galaxies (41). It is better not to start

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with man-made holons, such as machines or organizations; they

often do not represent true holons. The following sections will

show how the holon principles lead logically and naturally to a

model of the universe that encompasses harmoniously the

seemingly conflicting world views of science and religion, of

Western and Eastern thought, of matter and mind.

4. THE HOLISTIC UNIVERSE

GROUP ENTITIES

The whole of humanity encompasses the characteristics and

capabilities of all humans (HP3). Holistic logic tells us that

the entity of humanity forms a holon with all humans. Therefore

we assume that a humanity-entity exists in M-D space, with much

superior reality and capability than ours. We cannot perceive

it, yet it is immanent in us. Humanity-entity includes all our

characteristics, therefore it has the characteristic of a single

individual that pursues its own interests. It is more

intelligent than the smartest people throughout history

combined. From its M-D environment, humankind-entity perceives

interrelationships and potentials that are impossible for us to

fathom. It is aware of our thoughts, because its consciousness

includes the consciousness of each human (HP3). As it

implements its decisions, it carries us along as we do the cells of our body.

This does not mean that we are not free as individuals. Moving

along with the humankind-entity is our inborn desire, because

the humanity-entity is immanent in us. The humanity-entity is

our very essence, our source, our root cause. Expressing it is

what we live for. It means unfoldment of our innermost

potentials. The desires of humanity are in our hearts. We want

what it wants, and we are free when we can do what we want.

From the humanity-entity's point of view, it and we are one and

the same (HP6). Humanity-entity's will is our inner drive.

That is unless we confuse some erroneous notions of ours with

the will of our real innermost self. (This is when we begin to

lose our freedom). One must distinguish between independence

and freedom. We depend on humankind-entity for our very

existence, yet we are totally free to express our own true

nature, which is the nature of humankind.

The conscious decisions of the humankind-entity dwell in us

unconsciously and we experience them as instinct, as impulses.

Thus, unless we have cluttered up our mind with wrong ideas, we

can trust our instincts and act spontaneously. Then we take

advantage of the superior knowledge and intelligence of our

inborn humankind-entity. It is like our fingers doing the

bidding of our will. They follow the impulses of our nervous

system, initiated by our decisions. We can say that they act

instinctively, on impulse, spontaneously. Their instincts are

aspects of our conscious decisions. They can trust their

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instincts, because we are vitally interested in their welfare. We

can say the same for our own relationship with humanity-entity. This

does not absolve us from using our mind and do our best. Humanity-

entity depends on us, as we depend on our fingers to do their job.

A change in any human, for instance from experiences, goes with

a change in the humanity-entity (HP10), and since it is immanent

in all of us, we are all affected through our inner disposition,

the mind of humanity-entity. The transmission from one

individual to the others occurs because the humanity-entity is

undivided and homogenous (HP9). Such interchanges are more

pronounced for people who are closer to each other, because they

form M-D wholes on a more intimate scale. Because of our

immanent interdependence, we carry responsibility for others as

well as for us, whether we are aware of it or not. A drug

abuser hurts us all. On the other hand, positive efforts of a

few can elevate all society, even if their deeds are not known.

The concept of group entities is not new. As mentioned before,

Plato believed that transcendent forms exist from which the

multitude of appearances come into our world (42). The Swiss

psychologist Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) concluded that humans

share one collective unconscious that lies deeper than the

unconscious of each individual (43)(44)(45). He had observed a

surprising similarity between deeply seated ideas of widely

separated peoples. Similar basic concepts exist in the psyche

of all of us, revealed by recurring dreams and subconscious

ideas expressed spontaneously, without prior knowledge that they

are shared by others. Jung called these concepts "archetypes",

which can be seen as the unconscious images of our instincts.

Typical archetypes are "mother" and "hero". He stated: "To my

mind it is a fatal mistake to regard the human psyche as a

purely personal affair and to explain it exclusively from a

personal point of view. Such a mode of explanation is only

applicable to the individual in his ordinary everyday

occupations and relationships" (46). Sigmund Freud had voiced a

similar opinion: "I have taken as the basis of my whole position

the existence of a collective mind, in which mental processes

occur just as they do in the mind of the individual . . ."(47).

Carl Jung claimed that ancestral experiences accumulate as

archetypes in the collective subconscious of humankind.

Individuals "inherit" archetypal propensities much like Plato

saw appearances in our world come from transcendent "eidos". In

holistic logic terms, Jung's collective subconscious is the

consciousness of humanity-entity living in the M-D environment.

Biologists are used to viewing animal societies as entities,

especially colonies of insects such as bees, wasps, ants, and

termites. The British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has generated

much interest in this subject. He postulates the existence of

hidden, nonphysical forms beyond space and time that, he claims,

underlie biological phenomena. He calls them "Morphogenetic

Fields", or "M-Fields" (48)(49)(50). Sheldrake brings a

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multitude of convincing examples for the existence of these

transcendent entities. He describes for instance how beehives

are organized with an intelligence that far exceeds the capacity

of any individual bee. Honeybees maintain the internal

temperature of their nests within 34.5 and 35.5 degrees from

spring through fall. They do this by carefully sealing off all

uncontrolled drafts and by warming the interiors with their body

heat by huddling together, more or less as needed. In hot

weather they carry water into their nest, spread it out, and

enhance its cooling evaporation by fanning air over the water

with their wings. Another example describes the mounds made by

compass termites in Australia. These tall mounds are very

narrow in the east-west direction, but broad in the north-south

direction. In this way they are least exposed to the sun at

noon, when its radiation is most intense.

Sheldrake also reports what appears like a mysterious

communication between members of a species. The communication

occurs although individuals are too much separated for direct

contact. He explains this phenomenon with what he calls

"Morphic Resonance". By this he means that individuals resonate

their information with the transcendent collective M-Fields,

which in turn resonates with other members, unimpeded by space

and time. Sheldrake's M-Fields have the character of our holon

principles. Morphic resonance is the same as holon principle HP10.

The most widely known anecdotal evidence of morphic resonance

type communication is the so-called "hundredth monkey effect".

The biologist Lyall Watson reported it in his 1970 book

"Lifetide" (51)(52). The event occurred on a Japanese island

where researchers had fed sweet potatoes to monkeys. For the

monkeys this was a new, unknown staple. They liked the

potatoes, but they did not like the beach sand that covered

them. One monkey started to wash the potatoes in the ocean

before eating. This also added a desirable salty taste. After

a certain number of monkeys had copied the technique, it was

suddenly and spontaneously practiced by the entire community, as

if a "critical mass" of potato-washing monkeys triggered this

behavior spontaneously in all their group members. Shortly

after that, monkeys on other islands practiced the same

procedure, although there was no communication between the islands.

Such mysterious communication was also observed under laboratory

conditions. Rats were put into a maze and had to find their way

out, and later generations did this task with successively

increasing speed. As more rats had become familiar with the

maze, even untrained, genetically unrelated rats showed higher learning speeds (53).

The M-Field effects have been observed even with inanimate

objects. Mineralogists know that crystals are often very

difficult to grow initially for a new substance. Once

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accomplished, however, it can be repeated more and more easily,

even on other continents without any known reason (54,55).

Other M-Field examples include flocks of birds, migrating animal

herds, and schools of fish acting like single entities.

Sheldrake's hypothesis has been tested with positive results.

One test involved Japanese nursery rhymes. British and American

groups who could not speak Japanese were given two rhymes, a

traditional one known to virtually every Japanese, another

nonsensical one composed for the test. After chanting each of

them a given number of times, the old rhyme could be recalled

significantly better than the artificial one (56). Similar

tests were done with Hebrew and Persian words, with Russian

typewriter keyboards, and with the Morse code (57). Results

showed invariably that people who have never been exposed to the

correct versions can learn them much easier than the artificial equivalents.

David Bohm stated that "the energies involved in M-fields may be

very similar to the energies that allow subatomic particles to

communicate nonlocally, regardless of space and time," (58) and:

"on some level that is beyond ordinary subjective experience,

the human race may really be one organism" (59). Harvard

biologist Stephen Jay Gould and his collaborator, paleontologist

Niles Eldredge, propose to treat the whole of species as

analogous to individuals, so that the whole of the species homo

sapiens is considered an entity, as John Doe is an entity,

according to Briggs and Peat (60). F. Capra states: "We may say

that groups of people, societies, and cultures have a collective

mind, and therefore also possess a collective consciousness. We

also may follow Jung in the assumption that the collective mind,

or collective psyche, also includes a collective unconscious" (61).

With these collaborating comments, we shall assume that M-D

entities do indeed exist, more profoundly than the physical

appearances of its members, but invisible to us. Consequently,

Darwin's theory of evolution, even in its present "Neodarwinism"

version (62), would have to be revised. What is thought of as

natural selection through "survival of the fittest", is in

holistic reasoning the expression of the conscious will of the

species-entity that lives in M-D space. The selection of the

best genes from a "gene pool" explained by Neodarwinism is in

holistic terms a projection of M-D activity into our 3-D world

(refer to Causality, Sect.4). It is not that gene selection

does not occur, but it is influenced by the will of an M-D

entity as it appears in our 3-D world. To cite an analogy, we

can explain our body movements by the brain sending commands

through our nervous system, causing appropriate muscle

contractions. We also can say that our body moves because we

decided so. The anatomical explanation corresponds to the

evolution theory of gene selection. Our decision to move our

body corresponds to the species-entity's decision to evolve in a

certain direction. It is important to distinguish the order

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levels from which observations are made (HP6). As the physicist

Paul Davies states in his article (63): "Orthodox Neodarwinism,

while correctly identifying the basic mechanism of evolutionary

change, fails to capture the organizational element that

generates the progressive arrow of time."

THE TOTAL SYSTEM

Multidimensional Pyramid

The holon priciples lead to the assumption that each animal

species has a group-entity that exists in an M-D environment.

We also must assume species-entities for the plants, and we

assume that physical matter is a projection from an M-D whole,

as modern physics suggests. Based on these assumptions, it is

logical that these group-entities are themselves parts of even

higher order wholes, forming holons of unimaginable greatness

and transcendence. One arrives at a single super M-D entity for

the planet earth, as some scientists suggest (64). Then there is

an M-D entity for our solar system, our galaxy, and so on.

Finally there is an ultimate entity that encompasses all that

exists, visible and invisible. We shall call it "All-Entity".

This view of the universe agrees with that of David Bohm, the

physicist mentioned before (Sect. 2). He makes the following

statements: "Physics has shown that the mechanistic order

doesn't fit experience" (65). Also: "the universe is an

undivided whole" (66). Bohm speaks of an "implicate order" and

an "explicate order" of the universe. The implicate order is

the invisible reality from which our visible reality, the

explicate order, emerges. He believes that life and

consciousness are part of the implicate order, and that they are

immanent in what we call inanimate matter.

Multiple Holons

Before we proceed with our journey into the M-D realm, it is

necessary to understand the relationship between multiple holons

that are stacked across several dimensional orders, where the

parts of one holon are the wholes of others, and so on. We

shall call the holon described in Section 3 a "simple holon".

It is useful to introduce the following two definitions.

a.) A "source-entity" is a whole at any dimensional order to

which a part belongs, regardless how many orders are in between.

A source-entity is like any ancestor, no matter how many generations ago.

b.) A "sub-entity" is any part that belongs to a source-entity,

regardless how many orders are in between, like a descendant

from any ancestor, no matter how many generations ago.

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With these definitions, the following holon principles for

multiple order transitions can be formulated.

MULTIPLE HOLON PRINCIPLES

MHP1 *All holon principles for a simple holon apply also to multiple holons.*

For instance for HP1: if entity "A" has more dimensions than

"B", and "B" has more dimensions than "C", then "A" has more

dimensions than "C". MHP1 means that we can make statements

about wholes and parts without knowing how many orders are

between them. For instance, we can apply the holon principles

for the humankind-entity and individual humans without knowing

exactly the subdivisions in between, such as different races or

different psychological character types.

MPH2 *Any entity of a higher order is invisible to another

entity of a lower order.*

This has been stated already for the simple holon (HP4). For

the sake of completeness, MHP2 points out that all entities of a

higher order are invisible, not just the source-entity, because

they all have more dimensions. For instance we cannot directly

perceive the selves of other persons, as we cannot our own.

MHP3 *The differentiation and separation between sub-entities

increases with the number of orders between them and their source.*

This is because each additional dimension of a

source-entity provides an additional degree of freedom with

which parts can differ from each other. For instance, the

members of one human race-entity differ less from each other than all humans.

MHP4 *The source-entities of all orders are immanent in a sub-entitiy.*

This statement is equivalent to HP9, except that it includes

also all source entities of higher orders beyond the immediate

whole. The logical proof of this is similar to the one given

under MHP1. MHP4 says for instance that immanent in a person

are humanity-entity, earth-entity, All- Entity, and whatever

source-entities are in between (see "Human Psyche", this section.)

MHP5 *A source-entity has simultaneous and direct access to

all its sub-entities at all lower orders, without the need to

pass through the intermediate orders sequentially.*

This is because of its added dimension. For instance we can see

in a crystal form all points, lines, and planes simultaneously

because we perceive in 3-D, the third being the added dimension.

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MHP6 *From a sub-entity's point of view, its source-entities

of progressively increasing orders appear stacked in asuccessive sequence.*

For a consciousness to proceed from a lower order to higher

orders, it appears necessary to pass successively from one order

to the next, because each higher order remains invisible before

every upward step. This is in contrast to MHP5, which allows

the source-entity to cross all lower orders in a single step.

MPH7 *Higher order source-entities are more deeply immanent.*

This statement amounts to a definition of "depth of immanence".

The more order levels exist between a source-entity and a

sub-entity, the more deeply immanent it is in an entity.

Psychologically this corresponds to the observation that the

humanity-entity is on a deeper subconscious level than the inner personal self.

MHP8 *Deeper levels of immanence correspond to lesser privacy.*

This is because the deeper immanent source-entity encompasses

more sub-entities. This principle seems to contradict

experience, because we tend to think that our most private

thoughts and feelings are most deeply immanent. But there is a

difference between individual and immanent thoughts. The deeper

the immanence, the more it is shared with others.

All-Entity

We can now make some definite statements about the nature of M-D

reality, beginning with All-Entity. All-Entity is the

source-entity of everything; all other entities in the universe

are Its sub-entities (HP3,MHP1). The entire universe is a holon

with All-Entity being the whole. All-Entity and Its parts are

one and the same, seen from different points of view (HP6).

All-Entity has an infinite number of degrees of freedom (HP1).

It includes in Itself all aspects, capabilities, and

potentials of everything that exists (HP3). For instance It has

all human aspects, but beyond these an infinite number of

others. All-Entity has no individuality, if we mean by

individuality to be different from others. There are no others

on that level to be different from. Being the source-entity of

everything alive, All-Entity is the very essence of life. It

transcends and resolves all differences between entities in the

universe (HP5). Thus All-Entity is ultimate harmony. Love is

harmony between living beings, therefore All-Entity is ultimate Love.

The lower the order from which All-Entity is viewed, the more It

appears differentiated into discrete individuals (MPH3). All

sub-entities, no matter what order, are equally close to

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All-Entity (MHP5). The dimensions of All-Entity provide a

direct communication path even to the lowest entity. So, while

we are aspects of humankind, we are also direct aspects of

All-Entity. There is no danger of being blocked by some "middle

management" in between. Therefore an individual can influence

its entire species through a "divine spark".

Since All-Entity encompasses everything, Its consciousness is

aware of everything, including every thought and deed. Every

thought and every deed is a direct part of All-Entity. There

simply is no division between All-Entity and us (HP5). A whole

and its parts are one and the same, just seen from different

points of view (HP6). We cannot be separated from All-Entity.

The only separation we may feel is due to our limited minds, our

common sense. Since we cannot be separated from All-Entity, we

are immortal. We shed our body as a tree sheds its leaves.

Fear of death comes from excessive identification with physical

reality, from lack of M-D understanding. Being immersed in

All-Entity does not deprive us of our individuality. Any part

maintains its uniqueness though it is totally merged with its

whole. The different levels of dimensional orders make this possible (HP7&8).

All-Entity is the root source within us. It is the reason why

we must trust our inner strength, the reason why we are entitled

to self confidence, no matter what our station in life. Since

All-Entity, the essence of life and consciousness, is immanent

in everything, there is no "dead" matter. There is

consciousness in every atom. What we call dead matter appears

so to our senses because we cannot sense the life within it. We

know that the molecules, atoms, and subatomic parts are very

active indeed in their world. This activity must be regarded as

a form of life. Our American Indian friends have always been

closer to this kind of understanding. We have good reason to

appreciate their tradition that has kept these ideas alive.

David Bohm, the physicist mentioned before, says that life is

implicit in what we call inanimate matter (67)(68)(69).

Philosophers had made such statements in the past. G.W. Leibniz

claimed that the same principle of consciousness that expresses

itself in the mind of man is active in inanimate matter, in

plant, and animal (70). The valiant effort by scientists to

determine the beginning of life on earth appears futile from a

holistic point of view, because everything that exists is alive,

period. Also in M-D terms, there is no beginning, because there

is no time as we perceive it, to be discussed in the next section.

Since M-D reality is immanent in all appearances of our world,

people who believe that our physical world is the only reality

have a good reason to think so. One can point to objects and

claim that they represent all the reality there is, because all

reality is indeed immanent in them. There is no higher reality

outside our world, no "heaven" beyond outer space. One approach

to Yoga enlightenment is to concentrate on an object, perhaps a

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flame, until one senses its inner reality, which eventually

turns out to be the inner reality of everything else. Another

approach is to concentrate on the present moment, because it

contains all reality. Every flower that emerges from its seed,

every birth of any kind, demonstrates the immanence of life.

The closest contact with the ultimate reality is within our

selves, as the great mystics of all ages have proclaimed (71).

Fritjof Capra, nuclear physicist in Vienna and publisher of

several books, draws compelling parallels between the findings

of modern physics and the religious philosophies of the East:

Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese thought, Taoism, and Zen (72). He

writes for instance: "Modern physics leads us to a view of the

world that is very similar to the views held by mystics of all ages and traditions" (73).

The above statements fall logically and naturally from the holon

principles. Beyond abstract thoughts they can have a profound

effect on an individual. It is possible to have an experience

of total unity with the entire universe. This occurs apparently

to an increasing number of people. According to Dr. Joan

Borysenko, polls show a surprisingly high and increasing rate of

extraordinary psychological incidences (74). Thirtyfive percent

of the American public are said to have felt very close to a

powerful spiritual force that seemed to lift them out of

themselves. Five percent experienced being bathed in a

mysterious light, such as Apostle Paul on the way to Damascus.

Dr. Borysenko has a PhD. in cell biology from Harvard Medical

School and is president of Mind, Body Health Siences, Inc..

Spontaneous transcendental awakenings have been reported

throughout history (75). The Canadian physician Richard Maurice

Bucke, M.D., published a book in 1901, titled "Cosmic

Consciousness" (76). In it he describes elevated states of mind

and brings fifty examples of specific personalities. Bucke

assumed that humankind is at the verge of developing a new kind

of consciousness, because he observed an increasing rate of

occurrences. The same thought was expressed by W.T. Stace (77).

This is also supported by the "New Age" trend, that is driven by

individual spontaneous spiritual or psychological

transformations (78). Marilyn Ferguson describes the increasing

trend towards enlightening transformation and lists nineteen

"intentional triggers" in her book "The Aquarian Conspiracy" (79).

Throughout the discussions in this paper, well known, long

standing philosophical concepts come to mind. One is compelled

to identify the All-Entity concept with "pantheism", the

doctrine that the divine is all-pervasive. This writer feels

uncomfortable with this term, because any theism, pan- or

otherwise, tends to have a certain limiting connotation. The

system described herein is neither theistic nor atheistic.

All-Entity simply IS, and it encompasses everything else that

IS. Any description of reality fails to convey true direct

experience. This applies also to this paper. However there is

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an intuitive knowledge that goes with it and existing philosophical

terms tend to divert attention from this knowledge. They have

attained a reality of their own in the human psyche, and name

recognition of them may be confused with understanding the

underlying reality. The whole is basically simple, as any whole is,

being only a single one. So this paper will use philosophical terms

very sparingly, asking experts to be forgiving.

The Nature of Time

As already stated, our concept of time does not correspond to

higher reality. Time is an aspect of 4-D space-time (Sect. 2).

Following our holistic logic: past, present, and future are

parts of space-time. They exist in it simultaneously (HP5).

Past, present, and future are present in space-time, now and at

any other moment of our time (HP9). We experience sequentially

in our time what exists actually simultaneously in transcendent

reality. It is like the light spot moving on the TV screen,

going through the picture one point at a time, because the TV

transmission system cannot handle all points simultaneously. Or

it is like driving in a car through a landscape. At any one

moment we experience the immediate environment around the car as

the present event. We do not see the stretch that we have

already travelled, or the one before us. Yet the entire route

exists simultaneously, in parallel, if seen from above. In

fact, the landscape does not only exist behind and in front of

us, but stretches out to all sides. Our decisions are like

turns that we take at intersections, choosing a particular

future course of events out of many possible ones. Instead of a

landscape with features such as trees, houses, etc., the

space-time landscape is composed of probable events, the closest

ones being most probable.

This concept of space-time is emerging from modern science.

John Gribbin describes in his book the hypothesis that many

worlds exist in parallel to, and intersect with ours, with

options to branch out (80). Gribbin also describes the work of

Feynmann, who showed mathematically that subatomic particles can

travel backward in time (81). "Both quantum theory and

relativity theory permit time travel, of one kind or another.

And anything that is acceptable to both theories, no matter how

paradoxical that something may seem, has to be taken seriously"

(82). Capra quotes Lama Govinda about Buddhist meditation

experience: "In this space- experience the temporal sequence is

converted into simultaneous coexistence, the side-by-side

existence of things . . . becomes a living continuum in which

time and space are integrated" (83). David Bohm believes that

time is enfolded in the whole, that time is an aspect of the

implicate order (84) (Sect.2). Professor Hawking talks about

"imaginary time" in his book "A Brief History of Time", with a

well defined mathematical meaning. He suggests "that the

so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what

we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations" (85).

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The assumption of an M-D landscape that holds all events,

including the ones that in our view were in the past, would

explain why scientists cannot find where in the brain memories

are stored. They are most likely not stored in the brain,

instead the brain has the function of reading information that

exists in a timeless M-D environment. Photographic memory can

be understood that way, also the reports that people with near

death experiences (NDE's) see their entire lives in an instant.

This understanding of space-time may explain the character of

dreams pursuing a psychological tale with utter disregard of

space and time. Holistic time and space could perhaps also

explain clairvoyance, precognition, and readings of past reincarnations (86).

Holistic logic tells us also that time has no beginning and end.

The limitations that we perceive in our order do not exist in

higher dimensional orders. A beginning of time implies a

separation from non-time. Separations do not exist at the level

of a whole (HP5). Physicists postulate that space-time runs

back into itself in 4-D space, like the surface of our earth in

3-D space (87). Parts tend to be symbolic for the whole they

represent, because the whole is immanent in the parts. The

celestial bodies are likely to be 3-D symbols of the M-D reality

whence they come. If there is no beginning and end of time,

then it makes no sense to talk about the start of the universe,

such as a "Big-Bang" explosion at "the beginning of time". In

this writer's opinion, the real "Big-Bang" is All-Entity, and

our 3-D physical world is constantly being created out of the

timeless M-D environment. In fact, we are the ones that create

it. It is our limited view of the multidimensional reality that

carves our aspect out of it. We are the ones that settle for a

subset of the total. Without us, that narrowing-down to our

reality would not exist. Of course the same goes for cats,

dogs, fleas, etc., with their own worlds.

The Human Psyche

We can draw also some interesting conclusions about our own

psyche. As we have already seen, it includes all source

entities, including humankind-entity and All-Entity, with untold

M-D layers in between (MHP4). They are all immanent in us. We

must assume that there are intermediate entities between us and

the humankind-entity, given the different races, nationalities

and character types that we observe. We can draw a simplified

map of the human psyche that corresponds to holistic thinking

(Fig.5). We shall bypass psychological definitions, such as id,

ego, and superego for the reason given for philosophical terms

(All-Entity, last paragraph). Figure 5 depicts the view from

our own, our sub-entity's position, with all higher entities in

series according to MHP6. From All-Entity's point of view, all

these entities appear in parallel (MHP5).

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