The Holographic Principle: My Big ‘I’ Idea (after Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE)

            Every Theory of Everything (TOE), in the sense of unifying consciousness and matter, seems like the right one, until another, better one comes along. Just as every camera, car, television, weapon, tool seemed like the best one, until it was replaced by a more up to date version. The question is, whether we are inventing …

Blue In Green: Where Sky Meets Earth

All space contains a horizon of some sort, like the first such distinction in the early universe, cleaving one infinity from another, introducing an upper and a lower. A water element and an air element, or an earth and a water or an earth and an air, without which there is only an undifferentiated oneness.

Education, Mysticism and the Phenomenology of Place

            The mystical tradition is the link, the middle distance between the humanities and the sciences. It is the addition of this source knowledge that results in a greater understanding of each sub-system of epistemology. Like mercury or the 'philosopher's stone', it joins science + mystery school, philosophy + mystery school, psychology + mystery school. Taken …

Consciousness and the Measurement Problem, part. 1

Meaning is a state of consciousness and consciousness is what gives life and thus matter=energy (the stuff that keeps us alive), meaning. There is no upper limit to how much consciousness a physical system can have, or the number of entangled particles within that system (limited only by the number of particles). Therefore it is conceivable that the entire universe is entangled in a conscious system “only the inanimate universe and living bodies are observers” (Kastrup 109:2019).

Meaning in Adversity in Relation to TOE (Theory of Everything)

            Meaning comes through adversity, where traumatic events (as well as fortuitous ones) lead to breakthroughs, realizations; timeless, ecstatic revelations that structure the crystal of one’s life in the same way that similar events; collisions, explosions structure the universe. Each event being a node in the crystal. The purpose to life is a life of purpose, …

Purpose in Place: Meaning, Work and the Relationship to the Absolute

            Purpose and meaning are often used interchangeably, but are in fact quite distinct. Purpose suggests a more pragmatic or active approach, while meaning resides more in the realm of thought, idea, theory.      Meaning is mental, it includes beliefs, ideas, worldviews, theoretical positions etc. while Purpose is physical and takes the form of an occupation, …

Northwestern: Theory of Place

The importance of Meaning and Purpose in one’s relationship to Place              To illustrate the points to follow, it will be useful to consider the mythological symbols and analogies used by mystics and indigenous cultures to rationalize and explain the peculiarity of the world and its creation:             A snake with its tail in its mouth, turtle …