A Hundred Years of Archetypes
When You Face Reality, You Know Nothing
by Iona Miller, 2012
A HUNDRED YEARS OF ARCHETYPES
By Iona Miller
ABSTRACT:
Jung's first mention of the term archetype was in the 1919 text Instinct and the Unconscious. We've had nearly a hundred years of archetypes, as such. However, ancient cultures, such as the Gnostics knew them under other names, such as the Archons. And we have our own modern concepts, frames, and terminology for nature's dynamics. We don't need to parrot Jung, or congratulate ourselves for climbing over the fence of his theories. When we face naked reality, we know Nothing. We need to extend these notions in a way that is relevant to our current experience, nomenclature, and ethos. Perhaps, with the right terms we can begin asking the right questions that open the way for a thriving humanity.
KEYWORDS: coherence, decoherence, resolution, virtual holograms, archetypes, holographic archetypes, liquid crystals, superposition, consciousness, quantum flux, zero point, ,
INTRODUCTION
Coherence, Decoherence & Resolution
"Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress." --Jung
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion." --Albert Einstein
First, what is an archetype? Archetypes can be understood and described in many ways, and in fact much of the history of Western thought from Plato and Aristotle onward has been concerned with this very question. But for our present purposes, we can define an archetype as a universal principle or force that affects--impels, structures, permeates--the human psyche and human behavior on many levels. One can think of them as primordial instincts, as Freud did, or as transcendent first principles as Plato did, or as gods of the psyche as James Hillman does. Archetypes (for example, Venus or Mars) seem to have a transcendent, mythic quality, yet they also have very specific psychological expressions--as in the desire for love and the experience of beauty (Venus), or the impulse toward forceful activity and aggression (Mars). Moreover, archetypes seem to work from both within and without, for they can express themselves as impulses and images from the interior psyche, yet also as events and situations in the external world.
Jung thought of archetypes as the basic constituents of the human psyche, shared cross-culturally by all human beings, and he regarded them as universal expressions of a collective unconscious. Much earlier, the Platonic tradition considered archetypes to be not only psychological but also cosmic and objective, as primordial forms of a Universal Mind that transcended the human psyche. Astrology would appear to support the Platonic view as well as the Jungian, since it gives evidence that Jungian archetypes are not only visible in human psychology, in human experience and behavior, but are also linked to the macrocosm itself- -- to the planets and their movements in the heavens. Astrology thus supports the ancient idea of an anima mundi, or world soul, in which the human psyche participates. From this perspective, what Jung called the collective unconscious can be viewed as being ultimately embedded within the cosmos itself. --Richard Tarnas
The Light of Nature
“By moving to a field model, Jung’s view of the archetypes of the collective unconscious can be reformulated. Each archetype can be seen as a node embedded within the larger context of a polycentric whole, with sets of links or connections weaving the archetypes into a network that has scale-free properties.” --Cambray, Synchronicity.
Virtual Holograms & Network Theory
Bootstrapping from Pribram and Bohm that both matter and consciousness are a single field of reality, we can revision archetypes as holographic projections of consciousness, fractal involved series of harmonic radiant energy fields -- holographic self-organizing nets, electrodynamic patterning. Everything responds to a consciousness field by becoming more ordered. The stronger or more coherent the consciousness field, the more the order is evident.
Such entities have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow. Every archetype is a hologram of all that exists. The whole reflects back to us ageless, collective wisdom grounded in countless individual experiences, as an unrelenting imaginal kaleidoscope of images.
Hub theory developed in network science but provides a viable metaphor for the psychic field and archetypes. Network theorists have discovered a new and unsuspected order within highly linked networks, one that displays an uncommon beauty and coherence. Arising as a complex network, such connections are not random. If if they grow large enough each node has roughly the same number of links as any other node over time. Highly linked nodes, or hubs, are the defining characteristic of the network, not just an anomaly but an organizing principle for engineered and natural systems alike.
The strongest connections (among symbols) are hubs, with less-connected nodes clustering around them like planets gather around a star. The new model reflects the existence of hubs in real-world networks, creating a tool for scientists to map and explore all manner of complex systems in ways they had never thought to before. Mapping a system, with its patterns and details, helps us understand its behavior and degrees of randomness or uncertainty in a system. (Barabási)
Engineers use control theory to predict how systems will respond to various inputs. Similar equations are used to map networks. Like prediction, control requires evaluating an object as a system with nodes of varying importance. If we can look at any network, not just engineered ones, we can find those control nodes. Among the thousands of proteins operating in a cell, researchers found the the steering wheel, the gas pedal and the brake:
Control nodes take instructions or signals from outside the network (for example, a foot on the gas pedal) and transmit them to nodes within the network (the fuel-injection system). To find them, Liu borrowed an algorithm, developed by Erdös and Rényi five decades prior, that acts as a signal moving through the network. It starts at one node and follows a random edge to another node, at which point it “erases” every other edge but the one it came in on and the one it will go out on. The algorithm runs through the entire network over and over until it finds the minimum set of starting points needed to reach every node in the system. Control these starting points, and you control the entire network. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/man-could-rule-world
They found that denser, more interconnected networks tended to have fewer control nodes per capita. For instance, the brain or network of genes control the system through such nodes. A small percent of connections control the network. The more data scientists feed into the model, the better they can map connections in the network and the fewer control nodes they might need to operate the system. Theory applies to total control of a network. Scientists who want partial control—say, to elicit a particular protein expression within a cell—would need to master far fewer nodes. As in the case of archetypes, finding the points of control is one thing. Actually exerting influence over a given network is an entirely different challenge.
The first breakthroughs will most likely take place in medicine. By identifying control nodes in cell growth systems, scientists could return mature cells to their embryonic state, creating a new source of stem cells. “Some diseases are all about lack of control,” Barabási says. “If you were able to gain control over them at the cellular or neuronal level, you might be able to cure the disease.” Jung claimed the gods have become diseases, so interventions at this level tap into the archetypal control system. Whether that is 'good' for us or not remains to be seen. Understanding how we operate probably is. Hermes encourages and inspires us to do so.
Holographic Memory
We retain memories as superpositions of possibilities. Both we and the entire universe also retain memory as dynamic structure. The whole body is memory.
The principle of superposition governs how waves interact. Coherent superpositions of optical wave fields include holography. Superposition of wave fronts and entanglement may be the holographic blur of potentials, a superposition of elemental holograms. We can learn to interpret the internally sensed holographic image data involving the so-called empathic and psychic capabilities. We all have and use that capacity, but usually without being conscious of it, let alone accessing it in an organized and consistent fashion.
How do receptive fields at the microdendritic processing level decode such information? An elementary form of perception is implicit in this field, due to its indivisible motion and holographic properties, when taken at the null scale of time. The hierarchical dynamics of the brain imposes the scale of time on this field. Scale implies quality. We can conceive of the brain as a reconstructive wave within a holographic field (Robbins, 2002). The brain processes information in wave-frequency patterns suggesting human memory could hold amazing amounts of information “in storage,” and, using the same holographic model, be able to access and recall a memory as a three-dimensional image.
Geneticist Mae-Won Ho says the memory of our body, inhering in the liquid crystalline continuum, exists in a quantum holographic form, distributed over the entire liquid crystalline medium -- the whole body. This brain-supported wave is specific to the past, i.e., to a composite of past "states" of the field taken at a certain scale of time. It is simultaneously a specification of the subset of the field relatable to the body’s action. Memory is delocalized not only across the entire brain, but throughout the entire body.
The liquid crystalline continuum may function as a quantum holographic medium, recording the interference patterns arising from interactions between local activities and a globally coherent field. Laszlo (1995) suggested that the "zero-point field" of the universe functions as a universal holographic medium, recording the experiences of all the particles, each of which is subject to influences from the rest of the universe as well as feedback from the particle's own activities on the universal medium. If the organism is coherent, then the conditions are there for a quantum holographic (distributed) memory stored in the liquid crystalline continuum of the body itself.
During this writing (Nov. 2011), Tamar Levin. in Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, Vol. 2, No 9 (2012), proposes an integrative framework for conceptualizing human consciousness and compliments it with existing research data. The framework is based on the holographic and trans-disciplinary worldviews and their implied implicate-explicate order and the holographic knowing-becoming-experiencing-valuing human being who interacts interdependently with/within different levels of reality. The implicate order is a domain of reality characterized by flux and potentiality, whereas explicate order is the order of stable phenomena and actuality.
The framework conceptualizes universal consciousness as a fundamental part of reality/universe that complements physical potentialities and brings them to actual physical states. It regards human consciousness as both structure and system, state and process, means and end, experience, information and energy, having a metaphysical /spiritual /implicit /implicate layer and a physical/ material /explicit and / explicate layer expressed via biological, chemical, and physical processes. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/174/197
It also considers human consciousness as incorporating inward-outward 'space' processes and a backward-forward 'time' system's view expressing/influencing different modes of thinking, feeling, and behaving, and personal and transpersonal elements. The framework focuses on the unique functions, and interactions in heart-soul and brain-mind relations and their effects on states of consciousness. The subjective nature of consciousness is conceptualized in terms of the essence of individuality manifested by the root of the soul, the genetic spiritual-DNA code, and the individual's historic evolution through different life-cycles.
Source Intelligence
Memory may also store in a nonlocal ambient collective quantum holographic field, accessible but delocalized from the individual in the virtual vacuum. A vacuum is not empty, but full of “virtual particles” that are continuously fluctuating in and out of existence. Lit up with coherence, the world appears as the infinite realm accessed by mystics, clairvoyants, and artists.
Stanislav Grof, a psychiatrist, links non-ordinary states of consciousness and archetypal experiences with the holographic model. The semi-permeable membranes of our cells exchange information with the interstitial spaces around them. In much the same way, the body as a unified and holographic structure exchanges information with its surrounding environment.
An image is encoded as the superposition of one main approximation. Holographic reconstruction results from the superposition of the spatial coherence wavelets that carry the marginal power spectrum. All fields of consciousness emanating and radiating from any zero-point singularity interpenetrate each other. Thus, they are essentially in the same place everywhere. The electron is not a particle that exists continuously but is something coming in and going out and then coming in again. The electron itself can never be separated from the whole of space, which is its ground.
Since consciousness is the fundamental quality of the zero-point center of spin momentum in absolute space, each such “singularity” is potentially conscious as is every zero-point center of all fractal involved information/energy fields radiating from it, ad infinitum. Spin creates interference in the form of spectral holographic projections of compressed energy in time, which manifest in the form of images. This image dimension underlies and supports the volume dimension. Different levels of reality correspond to different proportions and combinations of images and volumes.
The central spiral vortex crossover point (all adjoining toroidal fractal involved fields) is what physicists call a “twistor” or a “wormhole”. This conceptual synthesis unites psyche and matter in a dynamic holographic concept of archetypes and archetypal images as we move through the 21st Century.
A Hundred Years of Archetypes
The year 2012 marks the hundredth anniversary of "archetypes" as an evolving psychological model of the qualities and dynamics of our core existence. As early as 1912, Jung referred to 'primordial images' to describe motifs of myths, legends, and fairy tales that have a universal character and appear as images or perceptual patterns. Many myths are religions we no longer believe.
In 1917 he wrote of 'dominants of the collective unconscious' which he characterized as 'nodal points' of psychic energy. Jung compared psyche's luminous experiences with the light impressions described by the alchemists. Rather than looking to heaven, the alchemists searched for the divine in the earth, matter, their bodies, the feminine and sexuality.
Light itself is an archetype. The photon is a measure of mass because the observer is made of light. The photonic field is the attractor that cannot be destroyed because its function is to continually decay zeropoint into matter or change - nothing into something by evolving form through linear time.
Psyche is world; psyche is cosmos. It is the crucible in which we live. Archetypes are not separated or isolated from existence and being (like disincarnated souls or distant Olympians). They are deathless yet evolving. Archetypes are constellations that psyche and cosmos have in common, that inform our relationship to the whole. These archetypes then shape our common dreams, religious feelings and experiences with "godlike" forces in our life.
Jung's notions of a heroic, striving Self have been transcended with imaginal, nonlinear models of consciousness, archetypes as holographic strange attractors and healing fictions. Jungians have explored monist and polytheistic approaches to the psyche, becoming less interested in "heroic" control and conquering and more desirous of deepening interrelationship and finding soulful meaning.
When Jung began discussing archetypes, there was no neurology or DNA science. Brain physiology was unknown and quantum mechanics was just emerging, so he groped for words like 'heritability' and 'neural substrate' to describe his observations of pervasive patterns in both psyche and matter, intuitively recognizing them as different facets of the same phenomena. His collaboration with physicist Wolfgang Pauli linked his theory with those of quantum physics, and suggests we continue to mine that vein for its psychological gold.
In The Neurobiology of the Gods, Goodwyn asks, "Can 'spiritual' images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery?" His multicisciplinary approach includes, research in evolutionary psychology, neuroanatomy, cognitive science, neuroscience, anthropology, mental imagery, dream research, and metaphor theory, but lacks a necessary root or basis in physics -- particularly the vacuum physics of subspace or absolute space.
What the Flux?
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the unmanifest Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form.
The flow of mass, and our own mass, through time is generated by the ubiquitous interaction of photons with the mass. This is so for both virtual and observable photons. Mass moves through time by integrating virtual photons, and absorption/emission of observable photons/biophotons. The internal dynamic flow of time has infolded sublevels and engines that pump up the quantum field effects to breech the mystic threshold of observability.
The infolded nature of unconditioned space itself, the vacuum potential with its Zero Point Energy (ZPE) is the root metaphor of the 21st Century. ZPE fields radiate from the center of origin of all physical forms, beginning with the smallest sub-quantum particle and extending to the largest galaxy, as well as each human being. All such fields are also electrodynamic in nature.
Consequently, all structural, memory and mental information is carried as holographically encoded wave interference patterns on the surface of such fields. They are transmitted through descending hyperspace field phase orders to their common zero-point center of consciousness by phase conjugate adaptive resonance processes.
Jung may have intuitively foreseen as much when he called the gnostic void a Plenum of infinite potential. Subquantum ZPE fields surrounding the spin (angular) momentum causes quantum particles to oscillate in and out of the ZP foam at their positive and negative phase of their standing waves or solitons. Such waves have resonant fractal harmonics that extend all the way through the compacted hyperspace fields in the quantum foam down to the zero-point spinergy, as well as outward to the furthest extent of the spacetime continuum.
All fields are in constant oscillation between spacetime and the zero-point at their natural frequencies between zero and infinite. Energy fields are continuously expanding and contracting through their zero point singularity on every spiral vortex spin cycle of their individual radiant particle-standing waves. This accounts for the entanglement (or action at a distance) of split particles along any ray path, as well as the entanglement of consciousness.
The universal center is everywhere and its circumference nowhere. The cosmos and every manifest form within it is a hologram, composed of infinite holograms within each other, ad infinitum, with all the structural information of the whole and all its parts (forms in each fractal involved harmonic field in total cosmic spacetime) existing at every zero-point singularity at their centers of origin — with all such fields interconnected (on the informational level) by phase conjugate adaptive resonance. Since these ZPE fields are everywhere (in the Plack vacuum) and their ultimate extension, infinite — they interpenetrate each other in the vast sea of pulsating cosmic spacetime. Together, they constitute the basis of our holographic universe.
The universe is composed of an infinite number of frequencies. Some macroscopically large and some microscopically small. All exist in uncountable phase relationships with one another. The colors of light, the sound of music, the smell of flowers, the touch of velvet, all are made of combined frequencies. Some are in phase and adding to, some are out of phase and cancel from, a multitude of vibrations. Our five senses are capable of interpreting these particular waves and making them tangible to our perception. It takes subtle sensing to perceive the archetypes behind phenomena.
We are each 'called' to express the inexhaustible richness of the collective unconscious, each in our own individual way, with certain themes selected through our predilections and our consciousness of it -- a novel creative synthesis. That is co-creativity. Deep within comes this holy source-level urge to co-create in novel ways that makes each of us irreplacably unique.
Light in the Darkness
Often long before scientific discoveries and explanations, we have intuitive precursors, ideas rooted in symbols, which indicate the content remains just beyond the threshold of conscious understanding. The pseudoscience, metaphysics, and superstition of human history and culture is in this category, and examples are numerous. We live in an era when so much of what was formerly hidden is being revealed by drawing back Nature's veil. We've peered back into the Creation to our inception. We find that light is a measure of mass not velocity.
We've discovered the deep time of the Cosmos, the developmental history of our planet, and our entire species. We've learned that without radical cultural transformation, our species may be doomed. Our mandate, therefore, is to look deeply within ourselves, fearlessly, to find the next new way on, not by relying on or retrieving the atavistic past, but by extending our potential for living in new, emergent ways that light our future. The photonic field is a harmonic of the negentropy attractor.
New discoveries are changing the face of science and impact cultural dynamics. One of our greatest challenges is the move toward altering and augmenting our genetics and bodies with technology. It is already rewiring our brains in unknown ways when we haven't as yet become "fully human". Avatars, designer bodies and immersive realities highlight just how plastic our ideas of being have become. Yet, the archetypes remain as eternal patterns playing out through the nows of our lives.
What was formerly limited to the psychological domain is being experimentally demonstrated by physics. As I write this today (Nov. 17, 2011) Forbes runs a story, which I include to demonstrate its immediate relevance to our quest and to Jung's notion of scintillating light in the darkness beyond the threshold of the unconscious: "Physicists Create Light from Nothingness". In the beginning, the vacuum was without form, and void. Then the physicists said, 'Let there be light!', and nothing happened. Then the physicists built a superconducting quantum interference device. And then there was light.. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/11/17/physicists-create-light-from-nothingness/
In quantum physics, the vast emptiness of space isn’t actually that empty. In fact, what we think of as a “vacuum” is actually teeming with virtual particles – particles that flit in and out of existence constantly, existing for only tiny periods of time before they go back to nothingness.
This constant cycle of creation and destruction is the consequence of the mathematics of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and creates what is known as vacuum energy – a background energy that exists throughout space, even when there is no matter present. Its existence has been indirectly observed through experimentation, such as those which demonstrate the Lamb shift – a slight fluctuation of the energy of electrons in a hydrogen atom.
Over forty years ago, physicist Gerald Moore predicted that if you were able to spin a mirror at speeds close to the speed of light, then the mirror would convert virtual photons into actual photons (the particles that make up light and other electromagnetic radiation). Unfortunately, it’s close to physically impossible to spin a mirror at near-relativistic speeds, and so this effect had not been observed.
Until now, that is. In a paper published in Nature, a team of physicists has demonstrated the creation of photons from vacuum fluctuations. To do this, they constructed a superconducting circuit, which they’ve dubbed the superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID for short. SQUID is a superconductor that’s capable of oscillating at extraordinarily high frequencies – over 11 GHz. The SQUID is designed to effectively act as a mirror in order to replicate the theorized experiment.
Once the SQUID was ready, the team then passed a magnetic field through it, causing it to rotate at a speed of about five percent of the speed of light – fast enough to see the predicted results. And those results were obtained. After rotating the SQUID at those high speeds, the team were able to detect several real photons that were essentially created from nothing. These were the virtual transformed to the real. The photons that were created weren’t actually visible to humans – they were in the microwave range of the EM spectrum. However, there is a possibility that a similar technique could be used to create actual visible light.
Seeds of Light
Everything is made of Light. Only light matters. Nothing arises but standing waves from the seething zero-point field created by cosmic beings like ourselves. How we do so is a mystery to ourselves. But we are getting closer to non-religious descriptions of reality that curiously have profound mystical overtones.
The properties of mass, inertia, charge and gravity -- and those who observe them -- are the result of space resonances produced by zero-point scalar waves. At zero-point, waves pass through waves without interference. We come from, are sustained by, and are returning to to the radiant light of our mass. All electromagnetic force is mediated by virtual photons.
The generally accepted theory of light up until the mid 1800's, was Newton's assertion of light to be a stream of tiny particles. However, in the late 1800's, the particle picture was replaced by the wave theory of light due to the phenomena associated with light: refraction, diffraction and interference, which could only be explained using the wave picture.
This electromagnetic radiation, or light, may be viewed in one of two complementary ways: as a wave in an abstract electromagnetic field, or as a stream of massless particles called photons. This is known as the wave-particle duality and is true for all particles. This duality is the basis of a indisputable quantum law in which it is a thread that runs throughout the micro and macrocosm.
Light as a wave, has a wavelength associated with it, much like an ocean wave with crests and troughs. The frequency of light is measured by counting the number of waves passing one point at a given time. The energy is merely the strength or force the wave carries.
Since all things have an energetic duality we can convert and apply this to the DNA and RNA molecules which they in fact emit their own light/energy. Science shows this and mystics spanning many beliefs and philosophies throughout history speak of this wisdom in terms of The Language of Light.
The root of the soul is characterized as a sacred spark or central source of individual light/energy that helps regulate human consciousness and connects and unites human consciousness with universal mind. It connects human consciousness to the universe through its deeper subconsciousness component -- soul, our deepest nature and essence.
A background sea of [virtual or "dark"] light is the zero-point field of the quantum vacuum. The solid, stable world of matter is sustained every scintillating instant by this underlying sea of quantum light. The primordial infrastructure of existence is light. Holograms are a manifestation of the properties of light, the production and transmission of light, and the interaction of light with itself.
Considering the primordial nature of the psyche, Jung reflected on the 'seeds of light broadcast in the chaos' (Khunrath) , of the 'scintillae' (Dorn), soul sparks (Eckhart), of fish-eyes at the bottom of the sea, or images of luminous serpent eyes. He spoke of the virtual light of such luminous nodal points emerging from the abyssal depths, eventually including dynamical processes and all types of universally recurring patterns of behavior in the psyche. Jung did not begin to use the term archetype until 1919. At first he interchanged it with 'primordial image' and 'dominant'.
Preconscious archetypes are formative principles and structural elements, as well as typical modes of apprehension and action. Frey-Rohn characterized them as, "...not only the focal point of ancient pathways but also the center from which new creative endeavors emanated. "The archetypes, then being inherent in the life process, represented forces and tendencies which not only repeated experiences but also formed creative centers of numinous effect ."
The numinous arises from the autonomous level of the psyche. The experience of the numinous also lies at the heart of Jungian therapeutic practice. Without it no transformation takes place. Jung (1973) asserts, “But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology” (p. 377).
Archetypal images designate patterns, typical basic forms, prefigurative determinants, and the tendency to repeat the same psychic experiences. They conceal the unborn eternal archetype (unconscious nucleus of meaning) while they reveal particularized meaning and form. Such ‘oculi piscium’ (fishes eyes)” are fiery soulsparks of the World-Soul, the light of nature, divine sparks of the spirit.
Paracelsus perceived scintilla or sparks of this new light, calling it the Lumen Naturae. We might liken them to a quanta of the pleroma or void - a glimmer of the divine within. Holographically, each level of emanated creation contains within it a "spark" or "scintilla" of the divine, making it "like" the divine. Jung termed the nondual "Pleroma," where nothingness is the same as fullness"...an Absolute in which there is no division between subject and object. Jung intuited this nondual Pleroma to be a collective transpersonal reservoir, an ocean of collective unconscious. From this omnipotent universal Pleroma our individual psyches coalesce around "attractor archetypes." In this sense Jung echoed the axiom: "Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness."
The spark, or scintilla, which is placed in the human soul, represents the possibility of the psyche's reunification with the unconscious -- unification of a conscious, individuated personality with the full range of oppositions and archetypes in the unconscious mind. "Our aim," Jung tells us, "is to create a wider personality whose center of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego," but rather "in the hypothetical point between conscious and unconscious" (Jung, 1929/1968, p. 45).
It harks back to a deep connection to the fundamental rhythm of nature, to the death and rebirth of divine nature, and to the wonder of our own being which partakes of the same energy. Correspondingly, in the Western mandala, the scintilla or soul-spark, the innermost divine essence of man, is characterized by symbols which can just as well express a God-image unfolding in the world, in nature, and in man. (CG Jung:1972:p 5)
This 'solar' aspect of the Self is the centrum, the indwelling scintilla animae. Shekhinah descends to raise up the collective lights of the whole created world. Jung called this light the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness, the light of the darkness itself. Consciousness has always been described in terms derived from the behavior of light, so Jung assumed that these multiple luminosities correspond to tiny conscious phenomena.
Jung interpreted this imagery as symbolizing the emergence of consciousness. Jung noted, "Alchemy too has its doctrine of the Scintilla, the little soul-spark. In the first place it is the fiery center of the earth. For all things have their origin in this source." At the common root, matter, energy, light and consciousness share a metaphysical essence -- information.
Light does not always behave like a continuous wave. It is grainy because energy can be transferred only in quantum packages. Therefore, light has a dual character. Under certain circumstances, it displays wavelike aspects. In other circumstances, it may have the characteristics of particles. Referring to quantum theory, Bohm's basic assumption is that "elementary particles are actually systems of extremely complicated internal structure, acting essentially as amplifiers of *information* contained in a quantum wave."
Light is a form of transition from three-dimensional space, the aether, to the space with four dimensions. All forms of energy originate as light. We're beginning to understand what nature has been hiding beneath her mystic veil of non-observability. The zero-point field is a blinding light.
Since it is everywhere, inside and outside of us, permeating every atom in our bodies, we are effectively blind to virtual photon flux. It blinds us by its presence. The world of light that we do see is all the rest of the light that is over and above the zero-point field. We cannot eliminate the zero-point field from our eyes. The vacuum remains the simplest state of nature. Life takes refuge in a single space - absolute space - the luminous core of meaning itself.
Metaphysical space is the unconscious. Each form that is in each human mind is, in some sense, an archetype -- some more common than others. A self-replicating archetype that is kindled from the collective unconscious is kindled through a mechanism of unconscious levels of tuning.
Repetition pushes the human psyche toward a bifurcation. Psyche has the possibility of using repetition as a chaotic attractor. The progressive is suddenly punctuated by what is novel, and thrown into chaos. Archetypes also shape collective consciousness. They are coherent, complex, intelligible patterns of meaning and improvisational creativity, shaped by the multilevel unconscious tuning, caused by an unresolved conflict in the deeper unconscious layers. The Philosopher's Stone equates with Jung's notion of the mandala as a unifying symbol and the elusive Unified Field of physics.
Meaning is not an entity, not a creed, a doctrine, a worldview, also not something like the fairytale treasure hard to attain. It is not semantic, not a content. Meaning, where it indeed exists, is first of all an implicit or a priori fact of existence. It can never be the answer to a question. It is, conversely, an unquestioned and unquestionable certainty that predates any possible questioning. It is the groundedness of existence, a sense of embeddedness in life, of containment in the world.
Creativity is the principle of novelty. Unity with cosmos and the groundstate of Being reveals what IS. Everything pulses with the same luminosity - a magnificent light of unparalleled brilliance. The "holographic experience" is one of being simultaneously cosmos and individual self. Archetypes act as the fundamental dynamical patterns characterizing all processes, whether mental or physical.
The luminous consciousness of the worked on soul arises, self-existing unlimited awareness, or self-existing awareness, unlimited, unconditioned, unborn. -
The holographic paradigm suggests the brain is like a television receiver and we're receiving things through it. If something happens to the receiver your image is going to get blurred. But it won't hurt the program. Anyone with a good set can still receive it, as you could if you got a new television set. So the real you (the operator who is using the neurons in the brain to come through) is like a television program and the body is like a set that receives it, and has static (noise), a refresh rate, and coherent signals of varying resolution. Our DNA functions as a projector of the quantum biohologram, our existential blueprint.
Mind is emergent sparkling awareness, an existential hologram interpreting a holographic universe. Twinkle is evidence of the "filling in" process. The luminosity is the radiance of our own minds. Archetypes' numinous luminosity attracts and holds us like a gravity well. Archetypes function like strange attractors. Not archetypal in strictly the same sense as used by Jung; the term refers to principles so primordial that they underlie the fundamental shaping of all structures. Attractors bring coherence to various signs and symbols. Symbols themselves -- words, pictures -- point to the deeper structure of things, including the deeper structure of time.
Numinous experience is the urgent emergence of Mystery. Light is the archetype of the revelation of ultimate reality. This source effect is the root of the religious drive. Due to religious undertow, mankind never ceases trying to personalize the awe-inspiring and fascinating numinous element. Jung called the "numinous element" the collective unconscious and Clear Light of the Void. The numinous experience can lead to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and/or the transcendent. But it is a phenomenon, not contact with a "separate" "divinity", per se.
Activated archetypes are often compensatory in nature, and associated with trance, art, and creativity. Trance (awe and dread of the uncanny) is a dissociative way of escape; art is a way of personal expression; creativity brings cognition, universality, and compassion into the process. There is above the celestial fire an incorruptible flame, always sparkling; the spring of life, the fountain of all being.
Holographic Hyperchannel
In 1994, the Gariaev (Garyaev) group proposed a theory of the Wave-based Genome where the DNA-wave functions as a Biocomputer. They suggest (1) that there are genetic "texts", similar to natural context-dependent texts in human language; (2) that the chromosome apparatus acts simultaneously both as a source and receiver of these genetic texts, respectively decoding and encoding them; (3) that the chromosome continuum acts like a dynamical holographic grating, which displays or transduces weak laser light and solitonic electro-acoustic fields.
The distribution of the character frequency in genetic texts is fractal, so the nucleotides of DNA molecules are able to form holographic pre-images of biostructures. This process of "reading and writing" the very matter of our being manifests from the genome's associative holographic memory in conjunction with its quantum nonlocality. Rapid transmission of genetic information and gene-expression unite the organism as holistic entity embedded in the larger Whole. The system works as a biocomputer -- a wave biocomputer.
Are there holographic hyperchannels? Information in a field is holographic and the propagation of holographic interference patterns is quasi-instantaneous. Every part of the field contains the whole informational content, just in lower resolution. “Each particle of mass in our bodies represents one closure of the entire universe yielding a holographic reality and deeper communication with ourselves is identical to communication with the universe, including any part of it, at any distance. Furthermore, in hyperspace the future and the past are all present.
Leon Maurer proposed a model he called Astro Biological Coenergetics. ABC is a scientifically philosophical holographic, fractal involved field theory of cosmogenesis, mind, memory, information and consciousness—based on the fundamental propositions that subjective consciousness (awareness, will) is an a priori quality of the underlying, unconditioned absolute space—located everywhere in relative space-time... And that the entire cosmos is a hologram—with all structural information contained in every absolute zero-point "singularity" (infinite absolute space) at the origin of all fields and forms in finite relative spacetime... Where all such fields' fractal harmonics steps down octavally in frequency phase orders ranging between zero and infinite.
This theory further postulates that total relative gravitational/electrodynamic spacetime, including the higher orders of fractal involved cosmic hyperspacetime fields and all their mass/energy fields (em & gravitational radiation) and forms (particle-standing waves)—both in sub-quantum hyperspacetime and in our lowest frequency phase order physical/material quantum spacetime—are generated from the spin momentum (ZPE) of the “singularity” surrounding each proto-conscious zero-point of primal or absolute space located everywhere throughout total hyperspherical spacetime.
This holistic theoretical framework (physics, biology, philosophy) includes the idea that we are light-enabled technology, Photonic Humans. The mass of the physical body exists because there is some informational code of access to an unlimited source of energy mediated by Light. Light comes from the subspace holographic blueprint, a subtle field that allows the flux of virtual photons to spontaneously appear and disappear in the vacuum so quickly they cannot be individually observed.
All mass is interaction but in the vacuum waves pass through waves in superposition without interference. Virtual photons are literally clear light. The fundamental nature of the energy body is clear light.. Related photic phenomena are described using the informational, material and energetic characteristics of existence, plus the complexity and entropy characteristics of dynamic development. Technically, quantum fields have an infinite number of possible energy states, all of which should contribute virtual particles to the vacuum.
Holography stabilizes the vacuum energy. The foundations of fields overlap and reverberate in a holographic frequency domain. Matter is induced by resonant holographic resolution. In holography, three-dimensional illusion results from a dense network of interference patterns. These patterns reflect the wave character of light. A small piece of the hologram can be used to reconstruct the whole three-dimensional image, but the resolution can be fuzzy.
With selective tuning and kindling, any part of this holographic reality is accessible. However, because of the smallness of a single selective signal in the midst of the totality, the channel is quite noisy. Are standing waves picked up and carried by the Schumann Resonance, or transmitted by scalar waves or a gradient in the vacuum potential? Are brains entrained on a resonant frequency?
Does DNA function as a multi-mode antenna regulating growth, evolution, and perhaps psi? Mind is a dynamic function of the entire organism at all levels of self-organization. Constantly fluctuating local parameters are embodied and amplified through the body’s electromagnetic control hologram. Mind/body modulates our sensitivity to external and internal information.
The organization of any biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which is, in part, determined by its subquantal components. This field, in turn, determines the behavior and orientation of of psychophysical being. DNA is our antenna. This dynamic is mediated initially through wave-based genomes where DNA functions as the holographic projector of the psychophysical system, a quantum biohologram. Supersymmetry points to a deep link between the quantum realm of particle physics and the quasi-classical realm of protein assembly.
Science now understands no objectivity is possible because of uncertainty, indeterminacy. Absolute space beyond the subatomic threshold of dynamic vacuum fluctuation is unobservable or measurable, and therefore metaphysical, beyond physics. Infinite energy density pervades the whole universe.
The emergent paradigm of self-organization permits the elaboration of a vision based on the interconnectedness of natural dynamics at all levels of evolving micro- and macrosystems. A new sense of meaning springs from such interconnectedness of the human world with overall evolution. It is leading us toward complex quantum biology and quantum medicine.
This theoretical framework includes the idea that we are light-enabled technology. The mass of the physical body exists because there is some informational code of access to an unlimited source of energy mediated by Light (subspace). Related photic phenomena are informational, material and energetic characteristics of existence, plus the complexity (chaos theory) and entropy characteristics of dynamic development.
Paradigms serve important integrative psychological and social functions. They help us read the sacred pages in the Book of Nature. The previous page of pre-scientific wisdom traditions explored the same territory with spiritual technologies. Virtual photons and photons are the key to biology. Photons bridge the gap between physics, biology and philosophy. Such sparks of virtual light are the glimmerings of consciousness itself.
DISCUSSION
Archetypes, Holoarchy & Meta-Genetics
We suggest extending Jung's argument. Self-organizing holographic archetypes, excited manifolds in the psychoid field, exert both top-down and bottom-up control of phenomenology. There are as many approaches to archetypes and phenomenology as there are people. We intensify our efforts when we find what doesn't fit.
Old definitions, speculation on heritability, static snapshots, extracted symbols, stereotypes, qualitative correspondences, and galleries of gods and goddesses fall short of full descriptions of nonlinear dynamic process. As ever, the map is not the territory. "Mental illness" is only a medical model of the archetypes. Philosophical, theoretical, and spiritual assumptions are colored by archetypes. We are all touched by archetypes. The only question is how much of our lives is consumed by them.
We may readily see that language, number, geometry, grammar, and DNA are basic patterning forces of human life and culture. But we have new archetypes, aka Old Wine In New Bottles, to deal with in the 21st Century, some disguised as trends or memes, such as holography, "Ascension", conspiracy, quantum mind, "Occupy", catastrophe, sustainability, global warming, NWO, "transcendent man," and other tropes of our current era alongside the old -- Ouroboros, apocalypse, changing Ages, plutocracy, death/rebirth, Great Goddess. We can identify whole clusters of the old gods and goddesses moving through such new forms: Hermes, Gaia, Zeus, and the rest of our usual suspects. But we need to enlarge our capacity to think in terms broader than these old forms.
An over-arching theme is the Android Meme: “…the ability of human-invented technology…to acquire the intimacy of speech and intuition.” (Dobbs) In other words, the Android Meme is technology that has the qualities of “being alive”. The Android Meme joins with us in an unholy alliance of archetypal technology and human organism, as a cacophony of all media, all technology and all ideas of particular times, anthropomorphized, trying to make itself human.
Since Jung's era, the public has become passingly familiar with the terms of quantum physics, the fractals of chaos theory, and the holographic paradigm. Science is formulated with metaphor as well as models. Any small piece of imaginal material may contain the total configuration, both past and future. It is the resonance or expansion and re-expansion of this awareness over time that leads to change rather than particularized insight itself. Insight does not result from learning but results from a subsequent phenomenological shift in the holographic template called insight.
Insight results from expansion and overload rather than from a specific, focused understanding. Within the process model, the total patterns of experiencing within the organismic whole which have remained unattended became the holographic blur. In other words, this part of the unconscious is not regarded as a preexisting form. When we are presented with a sensation, feeling, thought or intuition, it takes millions of cooperating brain cells, orchestrating together, for these perceptions to reach consciousness. Approximately 97% of what happens in our so-called "consciousness" remains unconscious.
Although subjectivity is present at the level of photons, it requires brain systems to generate ordered patterns that are the basis of actual conscious experience. Drive manifestations in thought, repressed memories, archetypal themes, and so on are particularized meanings, cognitively derived from the holographic "frequency domain"-- the stage of transforming sensory data across the entire brain.
Mark Germine describes the Holographic Principle:
"Layers of the holographic, universal “now” go from the inception of the universe to the present. Universal Consciousness is the timeless source of actuality and mentality. Information is experience, and the expansion of the “now” leads to higher and higher orders of experience in the Universe, with various levels of consciousness emerging from experience. The brain consists of a nested hierarchy of surfaces which range from the most elementary field though the neuron, neural group, and the whole brain. Evidence from the evolution and structure of the brain shows that optimal surface areas in a variety of structures are conserved with respect to underlying surfaces. Microgenesis, the becoming of the mental state through a process of recapitulation of development and evolution, is in full accord with the Holographic Principle. Evidence from a wide variety of contexts indicates the capacity of the mind for total recall of past life events and for access to universal information, indicating connection with the holographic surfaces of prior “nows” and with the Universal holographic boundary. In summation, the Holographic Principle can help us explain the unity and mechanisms of perception, experience, memory, and consciousness."
He also notes, "There have been a number of propositions regarding the relationship of consciousness and time. Sigmund Freud held that the unconscious is timeless, and that time only arises in consciousness. Carl Jung, with the apparent endorsement of Wolfgang Pauli, held that there is a collective unconscious, composed of archetypes, which are timeless, and also worked with Pauli on his theory of synchronicity, or meaningful experiences outside of normal causality. What Freud and Jung would call timeless, we call temporally non-local. We have also hardly touched open the role of dynamical systems or chaos theory, with the brain state fundamentally evolving under the conditions of self-organized criticality."
Laszlo (2004) contends, "The universe is a system of holographic surfaces within surfaces, or what we may call a nested hierarchy of surfaces, with each surface containing its own “world” of information. The most basic order of information is the fundamental quantum of spatial volume, the Planck space, which has a variable energy, called the vacuum energy. In 1930 Dirac developed a model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles having negative energy, which was dubbed the Dirac sea. There is a fundamental relationship between the Holographic Principle and the vacuum energy (Mongan, 2007), which can account for a variety of non-local phenomena."
Because the frequency domain deals with the density of events, time and space are collapsed in it. Not until these mathematical transforms are reversed does the object or image reappear as concrete, three-dimensional reality "out there." In the frequency domain itself there is no out there (Pribram, 1982).
Pribram's "frequency domain" is Bohm's "implicate order" while the image domain is "explicate order." Countless enfolding and unfoldings between orders is the Bohm's holomovement. The transformative process may be holographic. Chaos only appears as such because the underlying order is of such indefinitely high degree. It is meaningless to view the universe as arbitrary parts.
Many understand that it relates to consciousness, synchronicity, and their holistic experience of reality. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, unlikely to occur together by chance, being observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. It represents the meaningful unfoldment of potential. We are wrapping our minds around paradoxical notions such as multiverse, non-locality, superposition, coherence, entanglement, and torsion fields. Non-locality is the quantum phenomenon of instantaneous action at a distance in spacetime.
Sometimes our mental representations are dominated by form, especially that initiated by past experiences. Other times, consciousness is dominated more by formlessness, uncommitted attention, receptivity to new ideas. Between frames, or states of consciousness are transitive or "empty" moments in which vague, unformulated experience occurs.
The metaphor is superseded by the holographic blur of a possibilities of form -- form overcome by formlessness -- finally free from groping around using inadequate analogies. Simulations can run through the past and future, trying different scenarios and responding in advance to probable future environments.
In Synch
Jung believed that synchronicity phenomena underlie his hypothesis of “collective unconscious”, with “archetypes”. Synchronicity cannot be considered in isolation from the nonlocal structure of “collective unconscious”. The phenomena of coincidence or synchronicity are modulated by archetypes.
Influenced by Jung's concept of synchronicity, Arthur Koestler wrote The Roots of Coincidence (1972), an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, includings the behavior of neutrinos and their interaction with time, and these paranormal phenomena. It is influenced by Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity.
Peat calls synchronicity a bridge between matter and mind. Living by synchronicity -- paradoxical but seemingly meaningful coincidences -- isn't just about getting messages or reading 'signs'. It is about immersion in the flow state, being at one with the cosmos. It is about nurturing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit.
Harmonizing and balancing the inner world of spirit and mind is achieved through archetypes and their symbols and images. Chaotic periods punctuate creative periods. The dynamic is from external to internal world as meaning unfolds. Through opening ourselves, we learn how the world-behind-the-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality. We learn how to live with one foot rooted in the inner and outer symbolic world, revealing the transcendence hidden in a particular life.
Even a partial understanding of the neurological substrate of the archetypes will improve our understanding of them. Archetypes aren't limited to myth, dream, paranormal puzzles, and the hermeneutic interpretations of the consulting room. Archetypes transcend the individual psyche, permeating our experience. Jung called the non-psychic aspect of the archetype 'psychoid', forming a bridge to matter in general, extending beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy.
Archetypal pre-conditions describe the transcendent, unitary existence that underlies the duality of the mind (psyche) and matter (physis). They impact all situations, experiences, and images. When we are gripped by archetypal images and experiences, our conscious life and attitudes are swept away by pre-subjective schemas. Beyond judgment, such autonomous appetites demand to be fed. The experiential spectrum ranges from unconscious identification to feeling overwhelmed by it. Complexes behave like independent beings, subpersonalities with their own qualitative agenda with new and hidden meanings. Ego is punctuated by archetypal interference, repression and suppression.
Meta-genetics is a separate field at the very heart of genetics -- the study of how inheritance itself evolves, even while it mediates all evolution. It attempts to interpret or explain the organization, structure and dynamics of genetic material -- the master program of the archetypal creative "programmer". The meta-genetic program is the inherent intelligence of the life-force itself. Meta-genetics encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics. Whether or not genetics is evolving, our view certainly is. The discovery of gene-expression transcends the nature/nurture dichotomy.
DNA is the replicable archetype of our species. Achetypes have both neurological and environmental correlates. Genes, templates, enzymes, catalysts, hromones and pheromones have 'archetypal' qualities. Archetypes are probably somatically based in the right cerebral hemisphere, which is visual-spatial. The tripartate brain and limbic system suggest more primitive archetypes reside in the drives and structures of the "reptilian" brain.
Recent studies of empathy find a genetic base for the psychosocial response: scientists identified couples’ gene types as GG, AG, or AA through tests. The first type marks people with two copies of a gene variant called G; the second, those with one copy of the G and one copy of the A variant; and so forth. According to previous research, GG people tend to act in a more caring way, whereas the other two types tend to have a higher risk of autism and self-reported lower levels of positive emotions, empathy and parental sensitivity.
Oxytocin is linked with social affiliation and reduction in stress, social recognition, pair bonding, dampening negative emotional responses, trust and love. GG carriers rate highest for trustworthiness. Carriers of the A version of the gene were viewed as less kind, trustworthy and caring toward their partners. What’s unknown is precisely how the gene affects the behavior. The variant does lead to differences in receptors, or molecular structures, involved in oxytocin transmission. But people can and do overcome their genes to some extent. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111114_oxytocin
Due to the nature of the limbic system, you cannot will your feelings, emotions, falling in love, or staying in love, anymore than you can will your heart to beat, or yourself to digest a meal or sleep. Archetypes correlate with simultaneous activation and deactivation of discrete parts of the limbic system. For every biological event in your body, there is a biological cause. In this case, the cause is neurochemicals—and the pathways they turn on and off.
The genetic code operates by epigenetics, turning certain genes on or off. According to meta-genetics, potential DNA is anything but “junk.” Potential DNA plays the primary role of interfacing “ener-genetically” with our bioenergy blueprint in the consciousness field. In this way, potential DNA regulates cellular expression -- and even the origin and evolution of species -- in a manner that genetics cannot begin to account for and epigenetics cannot come close to matching. If the genome is the hardware, epigenetics is the software of genetic expression, telling it when to work, how to work and how much. The epigenome tells cells what kind of cells to be, whereas archetypes are primordial reaction formations.
While some epigenetic changes are heritable through the germ line, many are not and necessarily so. You wouldn't want the epigenome of a heart cell or kidney cell or, more relevantly, a gonad cell to find its way unchanged into the fertilized egg. The slate upon which all the developmental processes of the adult have been written needs to be wiped clean in order to clear a space for the next generation. Relatively clean heritable epigenetic marks are somehow preserved. As part of this slate-cleaning, a wave of demethylation passes along each chromosome shortly after fertilization and is completed by the time of implantation in the uterus. Immediately following this, a new methylation occurs, appropriate for the embryo and giving it a fresh epigenetic start.
In explaining the role potential DNA plays in the origin and evolution of species, meta-genetics reveals that genetics and epigenetics alike control our lives only relatively, compared to the underlying spiritual energy that engenders, supports and develops life: consciousness. Potential DNA’s ongoing dialogue with the consciousness field allows for a constant, simultaneous exchange of information, in the form of sound and light waves, between time-space and space-time, while bypassing any so-called tight restrictions on the flow of genetic information.
Potential DNA, far from being inactive, constitutes the hyperdimensional interface between the sound and light domains. The genetic sound-light translation mechanism indicates the process by which chromosomes assemble themselves into different configurations designed to “translate” standing waves of sound into light (and vice versa). The existence of the genetic sound-light translation mechanism indicates that the flow of information, or conscious bioenergy, through DNA is a two-way street. Light becomes sound, and sound becomes light.
Though other alternative models will naturally arise, by choosing a scope of analysis and approaching cognitive dynamics and characteristics on their own terms we can actually get something done. We have to wrap our minds around the notion that our "living region" is indissolubly welded to the vastness of unknowable reality. Jung suggested as much in the language of his day in his concept of the Collective Unconscious and its archetypal dynamics, which he constantly sought to update. Nearly a century later, we should consider doing the same.
It can be useful to relinquish or recontextualize old reality assertions. A 21st Century inquiry into reality explodes the normative of space, time and matter, and thus destroys the context in which something like an evolutionary narrative makes sense to us. Yet, by choice or by wearing intentional blinders, the evolutionary narrative continues to inform very useful analyses of our condition. That is also a useful point in consciousness studies (since there is actually no other alternative) . We have to construct and build upon useful analyses of consciousness, and not divert ourselves with unverifiable speculations about the true nature of all of reality.
Our notions of 'consciousness' exist independent of that reality, which is the lens through which we encounter our experiences. Cognition, itself is a holographic archetype. So are language and natural numbers. Many essential qualities of the whole are reflected or contained in each of the parts that make up that whole.
Whatever else it may be, the holographic domain is also a subtle yet dynamic net of preferential metaphors, analogies and similes which characterize our experience of our experiences. Just as we are not constrained by retrievals of our ancestors beliefs, rituals, superstitions and faulty theories, we are not constrained from rewriting psychological theory from best practices to clear a Golden Path to our future.
Resonant Filters
Holographic archetypes effectively echo their nested-structure and resonant patterns throughout the field as phenomenological, biophysical, literal and symbolic "reflectaphors" -- fractal expressions, fractal scaling, and reiterations of psychic life. Archetypal morphogenetic fields (or attractors) emerge harmonically withinin nested domains. The interweaving transient forms of the holographic archetype include the hologram, psychic structure, wave-genetics, and synchronicity.
We can and must recontextualize Jung's intuitive notion of archetypes in terms of today's science, pursuing his dream of a unified language that unites psyche and matter.Psyche and Cosmos is a unified matrix of being, pregnant with intelligence and intimately coextensive with human affairs. The life-wave is best understood as a potentially infinite series of waves. The ocean in our analogy is the “torsion,” Source Field or hyperdimensional sound domain of time-space, where individual waves act as sonic carrier waves for the genetic blueprints of past, present and future species.
Archetypes are more than just metaphors of chaos theory, holographic strange attractors, and dark energy -- they are the eternal sources of such notions and perceptions. It's as if these supersensible realities are enfolded potentials in the scalar field of the virtual vacuum, awaiting their synchronistic moment of unfolding. Holographic Strange Attractors are also fractal, looking like patterns we recognize but without clear boundaries and never quite repeating themselves at various scales and domains. They allow unpredictable change while providing structure.
Remodeling Process
Jung's collective unconscious consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body.
The "spirit" of the biosystem is its "living biopotential" - its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is - in the virtual state - everywhere in the universe - and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime. The entire universe is everywhere alive, with everything. (Bearden) The body's master cellular control system is holographic—the pattern (substructured potential with its dynamic, oscillating components) is in each component (each atomic nucleus, hence in each cell.) Every structural level of the body larger than the cell also has its own correlated pattern, or modulation, on the overall.
Arthur Koestler called holarchy a connection between holons – as both a part and a whole, across scales and domains. The universe as a whole is an example of a holarchical system, in which every holarchy is part of a larger holarchy. Holarchy is commonly considered a form of hierarchy, however, hierarchy implies both an absolute top and bottom. For a holon, this is not logically possible, as it is both a whole and a part. Like a fractal, the top can be a bottom, and a bottom can be a top. An advantage of the holarchy model is that it may be easily mapped to hierarchy of agents (or archetypes) in which an agent is composed of agents and may have its own ecological behavior as a partial consequence of these part's behaviors.
Functioning like "psychic DNA", archetypes are the holographic strange attractors organizing the psyche. The psychoid level of archetypes is analogous to the heritable DNA biohologram, whereas their expressive nature can be likened to epigenetics. Epigenetics is typically defined as the study of heritable changes in gene expression that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Every cell in the body has the same genetic information. What makes cells, tissues and organs different is that different sets of genes are turned on or expressed.
Environmental factors and our choices alter the way genes and archetypes are expressed and characterize our being. Jung claimed that "the gods have become diseases." The field of epigenetics is now revealing a molecular basis for how heritable information other than DNA sequence can influence gene function, morphology, and plasticity. These advances also add to our understanding of transcriptional regulation, nuclear organization, development and disease.
Archetypes characterize and particularize perennial wisdom, language, images and ideas (theories), and emotion-laden complexes. Sometimes, such complex expression looks like pathology or pathologizing but psyche is trying to tell its perennial story in particularized form. We exist in relation to ourselves, to others, to myths, to images, or to archetypes. Their expression is the essence of our being.
HOLOGRAPHIC ARCHTYPES
The key to modern knowledge is the exclusion of disproof and other possibilities.
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors. Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study.
Mind Control Countermeasures
What you "see" is not always what you "get." Reality may be hidden by nature's veil or a dramatic mask. There is more to the context of experience than the surface waves. There is a perpetual sub-text to our perceptions, which are supported and conditioned not only by ego's point of view but by a kaleidoscope of fractal expressions of nonobjective archetypal emergence.
Unconscious fantasy bridges ego and instincts. This instinctual fantasy searches for external archetypal objects with which to "mate." We begin seeing signs and symbols and interpreting them to suit our internal narrative, filtered through subjectivity, identity and volition. Memory distortions that support self esteem are the most powerful.
Many people mistakenly take their own perceptions and visions literally without "seeing through" the various possibilities deeply buried within that are outside their belief system, knowledge or skill sets. Self-reports and self-concepts often differ widely from objective measures. We are often in denial of your own mind's defenses and show this transparently. Others can see this a lot more clearly.
Or not, in emotional contagion. Folie à deux, from the French means "a madness shared by two" or shared psychosis. Delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Jung spoke of participation mystique, a mystical connection, or identity, between subject and object, and symbiosis, a state where contents of one's personal unconscious are experienced in another person. Ending such relationships can precipitate an outbreak of neurosis, stimulated by an inner need to assimilate those aspects of oneself that were projected onto the partner.
While most are interested in the content of their imaginal life, greater understanding comes from seeing through the dynamic process by which it is generated. It isn't necessarily the CONTENT, but the EFFECTS which are most important. Do archetypes help us con our own consciousness with myths of individuality? Are we unwitting undercover agents for social memes without realizing it?
The notion of a unified Self has fallen to the multistate paradigm. Each of us is a "crowd", dynamic multiplicity of relatively autonomous I positions in an imaginal landscape. There is no unified Self - but a multitude of subpersonalities, some more competent than others. The ego thinks it does the navigating, but it's mostly delusional about itself, hence denial, projection, and unconscious identification.
The basis of the human psyche seems to be a collective of selves--a multimind in a multiverse. Independent and autonomous, they relate with one another mostly unknown to the outer awareness. Dialogue is a form of imagery which creates and sustains a worldview through the means of imaginal conversations. Within the fabric of multiple centers or vortices within the psyche, an on-going dialogue emerges which ranges from selftalk (ego to ego), through "group" discussion (ego with subpersonalities), to spiritual dialogue (ego with transpersonal entities).
Fictional virtual realities are constructed by aspects of the self as imaginal conversations. Imaginal dialogues play a central role in our daily lives, existing alongside actual dialogues and interactions. The dialogical self can be seen as a multiplicity of I positions or possible selves, with a decentralized, polyphonic character. This view dissolves the sharp "self-not self" boundary.
Beyond the dialogical realm lies the unspeakable experience (untranslatable) of the Void or Clear Light, the realm of archetypal light and sound as pure consciousness. The "Word" helps us create and define reality. Conversation as well as observation defines our reality. Dialogue of the self with its various conscious and unconscious forms creates a series of "virtual realities" which form the basis of self-simulation and world-simulation. These forms are limitless in number, far beyond the classic archetypes such as persona, anima/animus, etc, suggesting the notion of "radical pluralism."
Synesthesia research may shed some tangential light on the subject: The over-excited neurons may still be what drives the development of synaesthesia in the first place, though. Since the condition tends to run in families, Terhune suggests that people with synaesthesia may be predisposed to hyper-excitable neurons from birth.
As the brain develops through early childhood, enhanced activation of neurons may cause connections to form between areas of the brain that are not normally paired, thinks Terhune. "Hyperactivity [of neurons] at an early developmental stage might contribute to the establishment of atypical binding of neurons associated with graphemes and colour," he says.
Mind and metaphor: In 2010, Vilayanur Ramachandran at the University of California at San Diego told New Scientist that such a predisposition to synaesthesia might also predispose you to make links between seemingly unrelated ideas.
"If you think of ideas as being enshrined in neural populations in the brain, if you get greater cross-connectivity you're going to create a propensity towards metaphorical thinking," he said. He suggested that this ability to link dissimilar concepts is what created a "huge explosion of abilities that characterize the human brain". http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21183-hyperactive-neurons-build-brains-in-synaesthesia.html
The social construction of reality is up for grabs. The whole concept of reality has been called into question by a variety of ideologies and lifestyles. There are widening splits within traditional belief systems. There is transition in human cultural evolution, with the new paradigm in dialogue with the old, seeking a new synthesis. The move is toward a substitution of "story" for Truth, reflecting that sense of movement, change, flow.
The hallmark of Post-Modern philosophy has been disbelief or skepticism of all "metanarratives." The breakdowns of the story lines of religions, ideologies, even science has led to chaotic social change. We are beginning to realize, individually and as a world-wide culture that "realities" are all human constructions. The task becomes one of "catching ourselves in the act" of creating our own "reality" from the flow of events. Human truth is always an engagement of mind with experience.
We need to be not only conscious of the nature of our consciousness, but conscious of our fallibility, realizing that intuition is fallible if unsupported by rational criticism. Personal, sociopolitical and spiritual myths and memes drive false perceptions. When images appear, where do they come from? How do they constellate? What archetypal set is at work? If we have little access to our pre-conditioned decision-making process, the whole concept of 'consciousness' becomes questionable. But we are also subject on an a priori basis to the influence of genes, memes and archetypal schemes.
Psychodynamics of the Unconscious
Chaos theory, quantum and torsion physics, and analytical psychology provide portals for new awareness both of the processes of personal growth and of changes in world life. Modeling incorporates the five structures of consciousness—archaic, magical, mythic, mental, and integral. Complexity Theory describes the Universe as a complex of whole systems spontaneously generating out of a void and self-organizing at thresholds between chaos and stability.
The archetype, a word used by Jung (1958) and elaborated by his follower Erich Neumann (1954) is a numinous (potent, powerful) unconscious psychic content -- the core of representations including those of states, and patterns of coordination of actions. M.-L. von Franz describes archetypes as "excited points in the field of the objective psyche" which behave like "relatively isolatable nuclei".
We can imagine this as a precursor to the notion of archetypal "attractors" in chaos theory. Archetypes are the holographic strange attractors of the psyche. Chaos is not so much pathological as it is a state of maximum readiness for an emerging reorganized self-system. Individuals with schemas or working models bordering on chaos are likely to be those most flexible and resilient.
Archetypes are also highly interconnected to each other. Hypercycles suggest a common origin for archetypes, that manifest at all developmental levels and in all planes of substance, including beyond space-time. They describe capacities for consciousness -- functions, attitudes and character pathologies. In itself an archetype has no specific form. Such innate organizing principles exist in a very deep layer of the brain, but it gives rise to images in the visual cortex which partially represent it. Archetypes play out across the globe at a colossal scale.
Our ancient instinctual apparatus included affection, inquisitiveness, self-preservation, competitiveness, fear and curiosity, i.e. these have archetypal existence. Core 'archetype' stimulus/response instincts appear to be hard-coded in all of as as neuron-dependent life forms. The 'archetypes' lack colour in that at this level of analysis we are working with the vague. Specialisations will then add colour and in doing so can create their own language to describe the
archetypes in many different expressions. These 'universals' need some 'grounding' where meaning for individual consciousness takes the form of emotional labels identifying the generic patterns mapped to particular contexts.
Archetypes were the forefathers of symbols, and are inherently symbolic. Image-making is also a cultural and psychological labor; archetypal awareness requires both cultural knowledge and self knowledge-lest we fall into naive and unqualified virginal ecologies of imagination—those that believe only in so-called natural spontaneity and who end up unknowing prisoners of banal stereotypes. In psychotic illness, the ego defenses are overpowered by the influx of the power of archetypes. When an archetype imposes itself on consciousness, and the normal discretion which ego consciousness exercises is lost, havoc can result. It is also possible, however, that an archetype can infuse a psyche, yet, at the same time, ego consciousness can adjust to its charge.
Creative imagination is a soulful conversation between the body and the world; the animal helps us to converse with the soul of the world. Inspiration, for instance — which is the epiphany of image, is finding vision in our breathing: we inspire, we breathe in images. The imaginal animal’s awareness is instinctive, alert. It realizes imagination as perception,
receptivity and response-ability.
Engagement
The soul has archetypal needs. Fractal resonance unifies the soul field. Fractal resonance creates multiple effects in diverse fields. For example it:
Many concepts which are essential components of human (and group) thought originated as archetypes. Later on, both in time and in terms of cognitive activity, they put on the clothes of visual imagery and verbal identity. But they began in the limbic brain as archetypes. All people have the same archetypes, and they are the instruments of cultural evolution; but they express themselves differently in different cultural circumstances.
Lumsden and Wilson hypothesize that it takes about 1,000 years for a cultural element, or a propensity to express some culturally defined trait, to become established in the gene pool as an inherited trait. So Jung wasn't wrong in talking about 'endless repetitions of typical patterns of behavior', he just didn't understand the mechanism which would give them a genetic basis. Pre-linguistic memes and archetypes, such as rhythm, may have played a greater role in genetic evolution than he dared to propose.
Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) says: 'When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation.' Perhaps so, but we might speculate that a meme is fertile or successful because they bind to archetypes, helping the effective expression of the archetype, rather than parasitizing the brain in any general sense.
Memes & Genes; Archetypes & Holograms
People construct all kinds of aberrant realities for themselves. A cognitive illusion, the self-attribution fallacy means crediting yourself with outcomes for which you weren't responsible. Our perceptions are hopelessly distorted, our best thinking is fuzzy. Self-image is perhaps the most distorted, yet highly-defended aspect of being. When some elements appear in high-relief, others fade into a blur of intersubjective process. False perceptions, beliefs, and ideas obscure and obstruct our true potential.
Both the memes of holography and anamorphosis are relevant, the later skewing our illusory perspective. Viewing from a certain angle can create impossible images -- image warping, reflected aberrations. In post-modern relativism, there are holes in virtually every point of view. Under these circumstances, can we unravel the experiential qualities inherent in the field of reality itself?
Word choice and metaphor allow for the emergence of new memes, the replacement of memes, and the death of memes, via a concept that Douglas Hofstadter (1995) calls "conceptual slippage." Memes, like genes, only "code for" a norm or mean of reaction correlating to the memetic selection bias. Neither memes nor genes determine all aspects of the properties of the entities they constitute. Cultural inheritance is not particularly creative, so most "novelty" is merely the recombination or recycling of pre-existing memes in novel ways.
Memes are quantized information stored in and expressed from neurological structures or cultural substrates, Memes reside as neural net structures in our central nervous systems, but many emerge at a higher cultural level, expressed in a cultural ecology. Memes do not control behavior rigidly, but bias and constrain it to a norm of reaction. They are the replicators of cultural evolution, genealogical actors in ecological roles. Memes form ancestor descendent chains of populations that ramify, reticulate, and resonate with frequencies differing from biological phylogeny, but the differences appear to be within the extremes of the parameters of biology. (Witkins) .http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1998/vol2/wilkins_js.html
What memes and genes do determine are the degrees of freedom. They bias and constrain the outcomes of the system. It's as if we live in holographic bubbles of encoded information. Penrose describes how every event is a decision point. Images are animated over events in the flow of energy, like the animated frames of a movie. The confusing aspect of consensual reality is each bubble shares information with other bubbles, which is the nature of the perceivable world that we share together.
Essence of Reality
There are so many models in physics. Susskind's "holographic principle", rooted in a certain kind of string theory is vastly different from earlier holographic models being based in quantum gravity. Over vast distances of the universe, 'now here', is seen as the future or past from elsewhere. Depending on how your velocity is maintaining your localized time, you can leap frog standard perceptual time and move to the future or past. Some claim the future is already out there as well as the past and the only real difference between now and then is the location from which the perception occurs.
Vacuum models of holographic realities have a different basis than the Standard Model, too. That's why when people use 'intentionality' to justify their wishful thinking with Copenhagen's 'observer effect', it is laughable, since the Standard model works great for mechanics, it fails to explain the first thing about Reality. Even psychology and neurology recognize humans 'make' decisions long before the frontal cortex is aware of it.
The holographic principle explains the fundamental level at which all information is defined, but it also explains the source of all information, in the same way that quantum cosmology explains the source of everything in the universe. The source of everything is the void. All excited states of information arise from the vacuum state. The void is the empty background space the universe is created within.
The universe is like a bubble in the void. These theories tell us everything arises from the nothingness of empty space as a quantum fluctuation in the zero energy level of the void. All we can view are excited states of information arising from the void, encoded by virtual particle fluctuation. Separation of virtual particles from virtual antiparticles at the event horizon creates a kind of holographic virtual reality, as virtual particles appear to become real (Susskind 2008, 171).
Trance Lucence
We cannot see the "big picture", so any attempt we make to holographically conceive our existential condition is more of an anamorphosis, a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The word "anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning back or again, and the word morphe, meaning shape or form. It deals with perspective and mirroring that conjure up a multi-dimensional perspective.
Archetypes are imagined as such distorting lenses, conditioning our perception of reality which is social constructed and confused. There are many theories, but few correspond with reality. Is there some psychological equivalent to cold fusion that might allow a new energetic paradigm to emerge? Can anamorphosis be a metaphor of perspective correction? Is there only one way to true vision? Does the anamorphic fractal attenuate reality? The anamorphic is not the fractal, because the fractal is repeating a pattern. Depending on the view we select, we become phobic about other information. We are clearly limited by our terms.
Human life is all symbols, visible signs of invisible reality, intuitive ideas that cannot yet be formulated in any other or better way. We live in a mind soup of psychoconfabulation. Symbols wield the power of pattern recognition and association. Few objectively gain distance from the archetypal content of mind and emotions. 'Archetypal' means fundamental intrapsychic organizing principles, or the deepest levels of psychological structure, holographic embedding and resonant fields, common to the human psyche in general. Information results and arises from innate structure.
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance occurs when we filter our perceptions to screen out (deny) threatening information we cannot deal with. It is magical thinking to take a symbol to be its referent or an analogy to represent an identity. Magical thinking comes from an instinctual search and recognition of patterns, and regards symbols not as representations but as handles attached firmly to real-life objects and outcomes. Out of context, symbols are ineffectual. Evocative "power" is one of the attractive aspects of the meme concept which is also a symbol and signifiers of meaning that are context dependent.
There are three types of symbols: 1) Symbols that reflect intrinsic mental states; 2) Symbols that stand in for extrinsic (actual or objective) conditions or objects, and 3) Symbols that stand in relation to cultural artefacts, or constructs, or memes. Here the symbol and the object it represents are one and the same. Compressed symbols contain potential information, analogous to genes and epigenetic gene expression. Van Ennwyk (1997) likens fractal attractors or symbolic images to snapshots, or “slices” of dynamics. What seems to be a recognizable image is actually a configuration of motions frozen in time and space.
Ramachandran (Phantoms in the Brain) describes symbolic characterizations of differing descent groups. Distinctions between groups (largely kin-based distinctions) had considerable importance; prior to the development of language as such, which could be used to express such distinctions, it could be done through dress, or through totemic, ritual and mythic symbolic expression. But how can a mutation that benefits the group survive and spread if it occurs only in isolated individuals? The answer appears to be that the group 'sharpens' genetic evolution by choosing members who conform to a required standard and excluding those that don't. This would make evolution happen very quickly, at least within the currently available pool of variation, since excluded individuals would not survive or mate.
Fortes (The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups) explains how different but related descent groups are distinguished: 'Cults of gods and of ancestors, beliefs of a totemic nature, and purely magical customs and practices, some or all are associated with lineage organization . . . every significant structural differentiation has its specific ritual symbolism, so that one can, as it were, read off from the scheme of ritual differentiation the pattern of structural differentiation, and the configuration of norms of conduct that go with it.'
Any distinction between symbol and symbolized is spurious. The emotional projection of symbols, or "magical thinking," happens in psychosis, in cultures, and subcultures. Disgust is an emotion heavily caught up in symbolic and magical thinking. Yet, symbols can have biophysical and material effects. We trick ourselves into mobilization.
Magical thinking helps us feel more secure in an unpredictable world. By manipulating symbols, we imagine being able to manipulate the reality that a symbol represents, but it makes us vulnerable to manipulation, too. The psychology of superstition "works" better in a virtuality. Superstition provides the illusion of increased control. Symbols are captivating, indistinct, metaphoric and enigmatic portrayals of psychic reality. The content, i.e. the meaning of symbols, is far from obvious; instead, it is expressed in unique and individual terms while at the same time partaking of universal imagery. Our society is having to rethink such fundamental notions as money, security, growth and many other bases of our current worldview.
Symbols can be recognized as aspects of those images that control, order and give meaning to our lives. The source of symbols can be traced to the archetypes themselves which by way of symbols find more full expression. Symbols are thus one type of what Jung called "archetypal images," that is, the representation in consciousness of an underlying archetype. The anamorphic is not the fractal, because the fractal is repeating a pattern.
When the dominant vision that holds a period of culture together cracks, consciousness regresses into earlier containers, seeking sources for survival which also offer sources of revival. Self-empowerment can be entangled with self-delusion. We can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Species-wide trauma is playing out on the world stage. We compulsively recreate individual and collective trauma, perhaps as a way to awaken ourselves. Such madness is its own ritual and revelation.
Paramedia ecologist, Bob Dobbs refers to the Android Meme, which he defines as “…the ability of human-invented technology…to acquire the intimacy of speech and intuition.” In other words, the Android Meme is technology that has the qualities of "being alive". The Android Meme joins with us in an unholy alliance of archetypal technology and human organism, as a cacophony of all media, all technology and all ideas of particular times, anthropomorphized, trying to make itself human.
There is no great architect of the Meme besides our compliance to feed it. Calling it archetypal he simply means there is no physical joining (like a true android who is made up of organism and implants) but rather, like mythic thinking, in the Jungian sense, where people mime/behave cues from technology when it becomes used by a million people and becomes environment (morphic resonance). Thus, the hologram or fractal is superseded by anamorphosis. He claims we're in the post-noosphere (post-spherical, post-news, post-information) and panicking in the anamorphic flux of our hyperdimensional being (chemical, astral, TV and chip bodies ) - our new medium. The body functions as a map.
The Astral Body, a huge storehouse of religious and spiritual energy, pervades all cultures as the belief there is more to our makeup than the Chemical Body. The third organ is the TV Body - the repository of historical one-way broadcasting. The fourth, the Chip Body, is the mutating warehouse of digital omni-directional media. The fifth is the Mystery Body - what we're still excavating and whose lineaments we cannot fully assess yet, if ever. We now know it's made up of the previous four bodies but we don't know what more we will discover about its constituents, affects, and effects. The Android Meme (living mediascape) is the resultant interplay, violent and ecstatic, of the first four bodies. We keep looking in the rearview mirror vainly trying to peer into the future.
Conforti
On the archetypal level, repetition creates a thermodynamic dis-equilibrium. At this point in the replicative mode, the human psyche is pushed toward a bifurcation point because of our intrinsic need for growth and meaning making. Psyche has the possibility of utilizing repetition as a chaotic, rather than a fixed or periodic attractor, thus moving the entire system to a higher level of complexity (negentropy) or of dissolving into endless repetitions.
Describing nonlinear dynamics and the types of processes activated as the system moves from stability to instability, Ervin Laszlo states that a system that is far from equilibrium may evolve toward a new dynamic regime that is radically different from a stationary state at or near equilibrium. (Evolution,1987, 21)
As the repetition moves an individual or system into a chaotic regime, the possibility for complexity and greater development is activated. Recall that, as already established, evolution becomes virtually impossible if the system's parameters remain overly constricted. Behavioral patterns, thoughts, and actions tend to cluster more and more tightly around specific archetypal alignments/themes thus further diminishing the opportunity for growth. With clustering and complexing around an archetypal and informational singularity, an individual is, developmentally speaking, thrown back to a phylogenetically earlier phase of life. Similar to life and dynamics at the unicellular level, movement within the replicative mode proceeds through a spinning out of autopoietic, self-similar processes.
Disruption of stability represents a natural phase transition in the life of every system. While we have the continual drive toward self-replication, there is an equally strong movement toward complexity inherent in the evolution of life at virtually every level. Continual repetition will eventually result in a deadening of possibilities thus reinforcing tendencies to stay closed.
Freud observed the existence of two seemingly opposing forces within the psyche. One trajectory moves toward replication-a repetitive cycling of energy-a death instinct while the other arm of the system's growth involves a movement toward a life instinct- -a higher form of new life.
Repetition, if it endlessly spins in its own cycle and parameters, becomes entropic and eventually dampens the creation of new energy and growth possibilities. Hence the progressive is suddenly punctuated by what is novel, is thrown into chaos by the introduction of an information catastrophe. As we now understand from chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics, and from much of Ervin Laszlo's work in General and Dynamical Systems Theory, complexity only arises in response to a system's move from either equilibrium or non-equilibrium to a far-from equilibrium position. Laszlo (1987) describes the far-from-equilibrium state with the following:
The third possible state of systems is the state far from thermal and chemical equilibrium. Systems in this state are nonlinear and occasionally indeterminate. They do not tend toward minimum free energy and maximum entropy but may amplify certain fluctuations and evolve toward a new dynamic regime that is radically different from stationary states at or near equilibrium. (Evolution, 21) Just as the phoenix bursts into flames so that it may rise new and immortal from its ashes-winged, soaring creature that it is-it appears that all of life endures encoded partial destruction of key elements at special moments to insure evolution. The symbol of the phoenix is fitting to capture this image of freedom reborn from the destruction of its earlier self than this archetype-fed process of self creation. Opportunities for Healing
Understanding of field phenomena may help us to translate and convert unconscious behaviors into opportunities for greater understanding. Awareness of what I am calling an "archetypal morphology" and the capacity to recognize the formation of transpersonal patterns may help us understand those movements which all too often become national and global catastrophes (Conforti) http://www.ofj.org/story/december-1999-newsletter-archive
Naked Awareness
The core experience of the holographic domain is a mystical state of consciousness. Immersion in a new order of reality that reflects our indissoluble unity with cosmos and the groundstate of Being reveals what IS.The ultimate gift from the unconscious is a livable myth -- an encounter with animating sources of numinous energy.
Everything pulses with the same luminosity - a magnificent light of unparalleled brilliance. The "holographic experience" is one of being simultaneously cosmos and individual self. The transcendent function is our capacity to rise above the ordinary world of matter, mind and logic. The erotic power of the soul, at its deepest level, is our thirst for the depths of our own being.
Jung stressed the importance of the unconscious, mysterious, mystical, nonrational, and creative elements of consciousness. What Jung calls “incorruptible value,” we call “meaning and purpose. They are raised to a supernormal degree of luminosity and become numinous. Jung equated the numinous with archetypal experience. Jung developed an understanding of archetypes as effulgence or quasi-consciousness, and that numinosity entails the innermost Light, of an unimaginable luminosity and translucence.
Mass-free Luminosity
Like fixed stars of the psyche, archetypes represent all luminous and numinous nature. Repeated experiences formed creative centers of numinous effect. Archetypes are primordial images, and the most primordial image is the interference pattern. They are the fundamental elements of the conscious mind, its psychic aspect. The psychoid nature of archetypes extended beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy. Archetypes act as the fundamental dynamical patterns characterizing all processes, whether mental or physical. They are xpressions of the underlying energy patterns which shape life itself.
Jung said, a primordial image is determined as to its content only when it has become conscious and is therefore filled out with the material of conscious experience. The archetype itself belongs to the unobservable, invisible realm -- transcendent, irrepresentable source. Archetypes are present as dynamic organizers of ideas and images. When operating in the realm of psyche, they are the dynamical organizers of images and ideas -- luminous intuition. Operating in the realm of physis, they are the patterning principle of matter and energy -- mass-free luminosity.
The quantum vacuum is a dynamic massless scalar field. In the quantum vacuum vectoral and potential energies interact. A hologram is a scalar field. Scalars are just active information; a hologram is pure information. Entanglement is a property of nonlocal quantum information exchange. In this way, we understand before knowing. In Languages of the Brain (1971), Pribram postulated a neural hologram made by the interaction of waves in the cortex, which in turn is based on a hologram of much shorter wavelengths formed by the wave interactions on the sub-atomic level.
Luminous Being
At the most fundamental level of our individual being, we too, our bodies and our psyches are part of the interference patterns caused by the interaction of consciousness and wave fronts arising from fields of infinite possibility. We then must also operate by holographic principles, thus our internal perception of this reality is itself a hologram in our brain. It is the means of perception that gives the universe its apparent forms and solidity.
It is also this holographic perception that influences the dynamics of our brain's and our body's chemistry, our self-hologram. In this perceptual hologram resides the fundamental basis of our structure and our sense of self and external environment, including our psychophysical health and illness. Our disease structures are incorporated within it. It is here, at this level of our being where fundamental healing and physical-psychic restructuring occur.
This hologram is our the primal existential sensory self-image or existential hologram. Our sense of self is a holographic, existential, multi-sensory image. A holgram results from destructive and constructive interference of two superimposed coherent electromagnetic energy wave patterns. This field of interference is independent of direction and velocity, space and time.
Synchronized coherent EM energy in the human brain at certain frequencies leads to "laser like" effects, amplifying brainwaves, generating a scalar field containing the total 'information' of an individual. Instinct is felt physiologically and experienced as numinous images that seem to contrast to mere bodily sensations. Its complexes and archetypes show a kind of multiple luminosity or "quasiconsciousness"
Thus, we have a hologram within a hologram, and the interrelatedness of the two somehow gives rise to our sensory images. Bohm (1980), in Wholeness and the Implicate Order went further, declaring the brain is a hologram interpreting a holographic universe. In a holographic model this inseparable interconnectedness begins at the even more fundamental level of human existence, rooted in our existential blueprint, DNA. The brain is a hologram, enfolded within our holographic mind-body, enfolded within a holographic universe.
Mind is called the sparkling awareness, that exists but does not really exist. There exist no phenomena other than what arises from the mind. When you look upward into the space of the sky outside yourself, If there are no thoughts occurring that are emanations being projected.
Twinkles
Dynamic visual noise, or 'twinkle' looks like a swarm of busy ants. Similar twinkle is seen on a blank screen, in afterimages. This seems evidence for active filling in. We seem to be seeing what the brain creates, to fill in the hole in the static or the dynamic twinkling display.
This interpretation has led to an interesting debate. Dan Dennett has written (Dennett 2002): 'In this new perceptual illusion, the illusory content is that there is twinkling in the square. But, one is tempted to ask, how is this content rendered? Is it a matter of the representation being composed of hundreds or thousands of individual illusory twinkles or is it a matter of there being, in effect, a label that just says "twinkling" ... Can the brain represent twinkling, perceptually, without representing individual twinkles?'
Dennet generalizes this to normal perception: 'It does not follow from the fact that we see the twinkling that the individual twinkles are represented.' This is an important general issue for perception, as perceptions may be largely fictional, even when they are not false. It is also important for artists; they do not have to represent each leaf of a tree, a 'leafy pattern' will serve, though it has no individual leaves. Although this experiment supports the notion that scotomas can be filled in neurally, just what is filled in may be questioned.
http://www.answers.com/topic/filling-in-scotomas#ixzz1i9TDaZQd
Wisdom Light
When you look inward at your own mind inside yourself, If there exists no projectionist who projects thoughts by thinking them, then your own subtle mind will become lucidly clear without anything being projected. Even though this penetrating light cannot be said to possess a particular shape or form, nevertheless, it can be fully known. But most of us do not enjoy such naked awareness but the emergent products of the sparkling awareness.
Once order dissolves into chaos little sparks of order emerge and dissolve in an intricate process of feedback, until eventually new centers of stabilizing order emerge. Jung claimed the archetypes have a certain effulgence, the numinosity has luminosity. Archetypes' numinous luminosity attracts and holds us like a gravity well. Archetypes function like strange attractors. Not archetypal in strictly the same sense as used by Jung; the term refers to principles so primordial that they underlie the fundamental shaping of all structures. Attractors bring coherence to 'various signs and symbols.
As an adjective, numinous describes the power of "divinity", but it is also a generic category of experience. The numinous element appears as not personal, not individual, not finite, not mortal, not rational, not human, not limited in power or intelligence, not time or space bound. It is another word for the urgent emergence of Mystery. It can be brilliant, enlightening. Light is the archetype of the revelation of ultimate reality.
This source effect is the root of the religious drive and religious experience. Such conceptualizations create stereotypes of partially cognized phenomena, sometimes as "entities". Due to religious undertow, mankind never ceases trying to personalize the numinous element, and to stereotype it with various aspects of personality. Such permanent hypnosis leads at once toward constant need, a perfected will to direct it. And indeed it is the lack of this will in ourselves and others that often leads to the flighty accident-prone nature of history, which is full of mishaps and casualties.
Otto, Jung and Eliade described the numinous experience with two awe-inspiring aspects: mysterium tremendum, which is the tendency to invoke fear and trembling; and mysterium fascinans, the tendency to attract, fascinate and compel. Otto meant the terms to stand for objectified nonrational religious apprehension -- "a special term to stand for the holy minus its moral factor, . . . and minus its rational aspect altogether." The state of global culture demands we bring some rationality to the subject, for between corruption and religiosity, the system is breaking down.
Jung called the "numinous element" the collective unconscious, which is a primordial force like the force of electricity. Elsewhere, it is called the Clear Light of the Void, or an impersonal "Smoking Mirror" that underlies the explicit, observable phenomena of nature. The numinous experience also has a personal quality to it, in that the person feels communion with a wholly other. The numinous experience can lead to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and/or the transcendent. But it is a phenomenon, not contact with a "separate" "divinity", per se. The unconscious almost always appears as "Not-I". Naturally, in the past, it was treated and accepted as such.
Otto suggests, "It may burst in sudden eruption up from the depths of the soul with spasms and convulsions or lead to the strangest excitements, to intoxicated frenzy, to transport and to ecstasy. It has its wild and demonic forms, and can sink to an almost grisly horrors and shuddering. It has its crude barbaric antecedents, and early manifestations, and again it may be developed into something beautiful, pure, and glorious. . . .Its antecedent stage is demonic dread with its queer perversion, a sort of abortive offshoot, the dread of ghosts. It first begins to stay in the feeling of "something uncanny," "eerie" or "weird."
We now understand such episodes as effects of activated archetypes, often compensatory in nature, or associated with trance, art, and creativity. (J.C. Gowan) Instead of describing a privileged connection, it actually reveals a distinct lack of conscious relationship to the numinous element that demonstrates lack of balanced comprehension. We recognize it mostly clearly in ancient texts where there was little cognitive objectivity about such overwhelming emotionally-based phenomena. Contact with the numinous makes us realize another mode of consciousness exists. Our driving force becomes making that connection, in part seeking to control the darker impulses.
We can get in touch with this ground of being with less exposure to these dangers through procedures involving ego-loss and more or less productive altered states. Altered states loosen the very perceptual restrictions the brain
uses to shut out the numinous from distracting us from immediate survival.
In trance, the prototaxic mode, the price of admission is simply no less than the excursion of ego-consciousness (ego-death) and the loss of memory of the encounter. In the parataxic mode, the matter and symbolic material is handled through ritual, art (self-expression), and images. Even the fuller understanding of the creative (syntaxic) mode does not allow (in its lower manifestations) complete absence of this negative (dreadful, overwhelming) aspect, as carried on through the osmosis of creativity, the self-reference of orthocognition, and the passivity of meditation.
Jung points out that individuation is not identification with the collective unconscious, for this leads to a naive megalomania "in the form of prophetic inspiration and desire for martyrdom." Considering all this, it is not surprising that the path of the mystic has been called "the razor's edge." Jung cautions, the juncture between the conscious ego and the numinous element must be effected with some care so that the latter does not take over. Psychic insulation separates the conscious mind and finite ego from the generalized preconscious, for if it were not there, the ego would be overwhelmed and driven to madness by the superordinate and chaotic aspect of the numinous element.
In discussing individuation, his word for self-actualization or self-realization, Jung says (1971:123):
"The aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other . . . But when we turn to . . . the influence of the collective unconscious, we find we are moving in a dark interior world that is vastly more difficult to understand than the psychology of the persona, which is accessible to everyone . . . It is another thing to describe . . . those subtle inner processes which invade the conscious mind with such suggestive force. Perhaps we can best portray these influences with the help of examples of mental illness, creative inspiration, and religious conversion."
Jung reminds us that the task of individuation is central in understanding the complexities of our role in the world.
"If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see ourselves in the round. Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. Never shall we put any face on the world other than our own, and we have to do this precisely in order to find ourselves. For higher than science or art as an end in itself stands man, the creator of his instruments. Nowhere are we closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves who we always think we know already. Yet we know the immensities of space better than we know our own depths, where — even though we do not understand it — we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself." (CW8: 737 Analytical Psychology and 'Weltanschauung' 1928/31)
Trance (awe and dread of the uncanny) is a dissociative way of escape; art is a way of personal expression; creativity brings cognition, universality, and compassion into the process. But, most often the Source of imagery and power is confused emotionally with religious ideas and preconditioned cultural beliefs. In our most intimate contact with the "divine", we are the most collective, not unique. In this sense, ego actually protects the organism. The so-called continuity of the ego is not independent but is the resultant of a carefully balanced perceptual intake. The whole problem itself falls in the realm of philosophy and the passionate nature of the dynamics of the mind.
It was described by the alchemists as their Secret Fire, the god in the flame. The Chaldeans describe it in a beautiful poem dedicated to fire. "There is above the celestial fire an incorruptible flame, always sparkling; the spring of life, the fountain of all being, the original of all things! This flame produceth all things, and nothing perisheth but what It consumeth. It maketh Itself known by Itself. This Fire cannot be contained in any place; It is without body and without matter, It encompasseth the heavens. And there goeth forth from it a little spark, which maketh all the fire of the sun, of the moon and of the stars. Strive not to know more of Him, for that is beyond thy capacity, how wise soever thou art."
Philalethes says, "this is the heavenly fire, whereof a spark being once kindled, caused such a change in the bodies, that the blackness is made to shine like a sparking gem, wherewith as a diadem our young king crowned."
In Philosophia Speculativa alchemist Gerald Dorn claims, "There shines in us, though dimly in the darkness, the life and the light of man, a light which does not come from us, which however is in us, and we must therefore find it in us: we can find it in Him, in His light." He says, "therefore the truth is to be looked for in the image of God which dwells within us, and that is the one thing which has no second other thing."
It doesn't take too long however, to fall from this divine grace mirroring the infantile state of fusion, born from the wound of phenomenal existence. As the germ of the ego personality develops and as the notion of individual existence emerges as the first meetings with the unconscious are encountered the child realizes that he is not the deity that he thought he was. His connectedness with the universal is severed and he is exiled from paradise as he experiences the separation from the universal. However tragic, this is the first step of the alchemical process, for it leads us back to conscious reunion with the universal. Separate and recombine, "solve et coagula" is the key to the alchemical process (Kalec).
There are many points in the process for it to go wrong, and many are supported by cultural bias. Interpretations of such experiences, cultural and individual color the conclusions about the nature of reality and the imaginal. Interpretations are generally naive, and rarely "correct" in terms of apprehension. Most get caught in the idiosyncratic snare of the contents of the imaginal, rather than cultivating an overview of its dynamics. Confabulations proliferate as symbols collide and fuse into one another in a self-confirmatory search for the Beloved.
We prefer the self-aggrandizing snare to the clarity of "seeing through" our self-delusion. Truth is concealed as much as revealed by the experience, but often it makes people feel special, so they cleave to it and their misperceptions of it, feeling in many instances it is all they've got. But we don't need more veils on reality; we need to strip away the confabulated illusions and self-imposed mind-control that block our collective mental health and efforts to preserve our species.
The idea is not necessarily religious. Nature can inspire experience of awe with its dynamic power and beauty. The short adaptive response is to rely on both inherited and learned experiences in our culture. Noumenal reality is neither invariable, nor absolute. It's just a conceptual realm invented by ancient philosophers to give credence to the envelope of their abstract ideas. Noumenal is not numinous.
We have an existential need within our species to believe in Gods, whether the materialistic, the theological, the atheistic, or the reductionist. But it is a product of our conceptual capacity, even when it appears to come from outside ourselves. It is an adaptive response to the metaphysical, epistemological aspects of our existence which are not subject to scientific observation and need to be conceptualized instead with the limited resolution of our brain. Space, time and ego have been recognized as the three great illusions, but so are the kaleidoscopic forms spun by the "maya" of the unconscious, that hold us in thrall.
But there are ways of consciously experiencing the numinous, which is the enchanted realm, directly and consciously, that is immediate and doesn't require a third person prime mover at all. If you omit experience the numinous in the first person and settle for the noumenal second or third person you will never find the source, because the noumenal is an even worse restriction than the perceptual.
Like it or not, archetypes are our constant companions. Once we identify with archetypes or memes, we become attached to certain patterns and limitations. What we experience while we are still obsessed is an opiate, a connection with the underworld, and the dreaminess of our own unique, personalized inner images. We are bewitched. We are wanting and seeking aliveness, and indeed mistake this altered state for aliveness, but what we get is its opposite, a loss of vitality, and a dreamy illusory existence. Entangled, we lose sight of the fact that the content of our fantasies is less important than a top-down view of the archetypal process from which it emerges.
The countermeasures to this mindtrap are awareness and detachment from the contents of our own imaginal process, continuously digging beneath our own beliefs and presumptions to find the true ground of Being, beyond the influence of archetypes to mold us and grip our consciousness. Consciousness is not a noun; it's a verb -- something we do. Between the brain and what the brain is conscious of. It is a relational concept where there is a here and a there. Consciousness lies in between them and serves to bring them together as a whole.
Light My Fire
Perhaps inadvertently creating a new metaphor of "light" in the brain, in Nov. 2011, Harvard scientists reported genetically altered neurons that light up across a cell as they fire, eliminating the need to insert electrodes in each neuron. They used a gene that makes a protein that fluoresces when exposed to the electrical signal in a neuron, allowing scientists to trace the propagation of signals through the cell. http://www.kurzweilai.net/neurons-illuminate-as-they-fire-may-open-new-ways-to-trace-brain-signals?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=59e6a2b3cb-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email
They infected brain cells with a genetically altered virus that contained the protein-producing gene. Once infected, the cells began manufacturing the protein, allowing them to light up for optical observation of the otherwise hidden process of how signals spread throughout the neuronal network, and even how signals change if the cells are undergoing something akin to learning.
Research Directions
Maybe instead of trying to figure out what consciousness is, we ought to figure out what "consciousnessing" is doing. We all know about the Here and Now. Then there is a consciousness of the past, how we usually think reflectively about stuff. But isn't there yet another type of consciousness? Way back in the mind, exists a consciousness that only observes without comment one way or the other. Hopefully, in such edgework, our species and science itself become less hyperbolic and more humble. Hu and Wu suggest research directions:
Certain phenomena point toward research directions:
Persinger reports in Brain Research that light flashes delivered to one aggregate of cells evoked increased photon emission in another aggregate of cells maintained in the dark in another room if both aggregates shared the same temporal and spatial configuration of changing rate, circular magnetic fields. They also reported that increased photon emissions occurred beside the heads of human volunteers if others in another room saw light flashes during the presentation of the same shared circumcerebral magnetic fields. They further reported that when the shared magnetic fields were not present, both cellular and human photon emissions during the light flashes did not occur.
In Biophyiscal Chemistry (in press) [2], Dotta and Persinger report the doubling of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations.
In NeuroQuantology [3], Persinger and Dotta reported that the temporal patterns of photon emissions can be stored and retrieved several days later from the “same space.” In particulars, they found temporal patterns of the photon emissions as “spontaneous” spikes within 3 to 5 days after the actual manipulations when the same magnetic field configuration was present but no manipulations were done.
In JCER [4], Dotta and Persinger report significant increases in biophoton emissions along the right side but not the left when subjects imagined white light in a dark environment. They report that the increased biophoton emissions did not occur when the same subjects thought about mundane experiences. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/192/209
Conclusions
We need to appreciate in a spiritual sense that nature, including our own embodied human nature, remains the final frontier for exploration and our greatest teacher. Hopefully, that might divert us from outworn apocalyptic, messianic, and ascensionist memes that dominated the last Age, and the uncritical enthusiasm for technological advance at any cost to our humanity. In the imagination, it is always the beginning and end time, the only time. Revelation always occurs in the Now.
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By Iona Miller
ABSTRACT:
Jung's first mention of the term archetype was in the 1919 text Instinct and the Unconscious. We've had nearly a hundred years of archetypes, as such. However, ancient cultures, such as the Gnostics knew them under other names, such as the Archons. And we have our own modern concepts, frames, and terminology for nature's dynamics. We don't need to parrot Jung, or congratulate ourselves for climbing over the fence of his theories. When we face naked reality, we know Nothing. We need to extend these notions in a way that is relevant to our current experience, nomenclature, and ethos. Perhaps, with the right terms we can begin asking the right questions that open the way for a thriving humanity.
KEYWORDS: coherence, decoherence, resolution, virtual holograms, archetypes, holographic archetypes, liquid crystals, superposition, consciousness, quantum flux, zero point, ,
INTRODUCTION
Coherence, Decoherence & Resolution
"Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress." --Jung
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion." --Albert Einstein
First, what is an archetype? Archetypes can be understood and described in many ways, and in fact much of the history of Western thought from Plato and Aristotle onward has been concerned with this very question. But for our present purposes, we can define an archetype as a universal principle or force that affects--impels, structures, permeates--the human psyche and human behavior on many levels. One can think of them as primordial instincts, as Freud did, or as transcendent first principles as Plato did, or as gods of the psyche as James Hillman does. Archetypes (for example, Venus or Mars) seem to have a transcendent, mythic quality, yet they also have very specific psychological expressions--as in the desire for love and the experience of beauty (Venus), or the impulse toward forceful activity and aggression (Mars). Moreover, archetypes seem to work from both within and without, for they can express themselves as impulses and images from the interior psyche, yet also as events and situations in the external world.
Jung thought of archetypes as the basic constituents of the human psyche, shared cross-culturally by all human beings, and he regarded them as universal expressions of a collective unconscious. Much earlier, the Platonic tradition considered archetypes to be not only psychological but also cosmic and objective, as primordial forms of a Universal Mind that transcended the human psyche. Astrology would appear to support the Platonic view as well as the Jungian, since it gives evidence that Jungian archetypes are not only visible in human psychology, in human experience and behavior, but are also linked to the macrocosm itself- -- to the planets and their movements in the heavens. Astrology thus supports the ancient idea of an anima mundi, or world soul, in which the human psyche participates. From this perspective, what Jung called the collective unconscious can be viewed as being ultimately embedded within the cosmos itself. --Richard Tarnas
The Light of Nature
“By moving to a field model, Jung’s view of the archetypes of the collective unconscious can be reformulated. Each archetype can be seen as a node embedded within the larger context of a polycentric whole, with sets of links or connections weaving the archetypes into a network that has scale-free properties.” --Cambray, Synchronicity.
Virtual Holograms & Network Theory
Bootstrapping from Pribram and Bohm that both matter and consciousness are a single field of reality, we can revision archetypes as holographic projections of consciousness, fractal involved series of harmonic radiant energy fields -- holographic self-organizing nets, electrodynamic patterning. Everything responds to a consciousness field by becoming more ordered. The stronger or more coherent the consciousness field, the more the order is evident.
Such entities have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow. Every archetype is a hologram of all that exists. The whole reflects back to us ageless, collective wisdom grounded in countless individual experiences, as an unrelenting imaginal kaleidoscope of images.
Hub theory developed in network science but provides a viable metaphor for the psychic field and archetypes. Network theorists have discovered a new and unsuspected order within highly linked networks, one that displays an uncommon beauty and coherence. Arising as a complex network, such connections are not random. If if they grow large enough each node has roughly the same number of links as any other node over time. Highly linked nodes, or hubs, are the defining characteristic of the network, not just an anomaly but an organizing principle for engineered and natural systems alike.
The strongest connections (among symbols) are hubs, with less-connected nodes clustering around them like planets gather around a star. The new model reflects the existence of hubs in real-world networks, creating a tool for scientists to map and explore all manner of complex systems in ways they had never thought to before. Mapping a system, with its patterns and details, helps us understand its behavior and degrees of randomness or uncertainty in a system. (Barabási)
Engineers use control theory to predict how systems will respond to various inputs. Similar equations are used to map networks. Like prediction, control requires evaluating an object as a system with nodes of varying importance. If we can look at any network, not just engineered ones, we can find those control nodes. Among the thousands of proteins operating in a cell, researchers found the the steering wheel, the gas pedal and the brake:
Control nodes take instructions or signals from outside the network (for example, a foot on the gas pedal) and transmit them to nodes within the network (the fuel-injection system). To find them, Liu borrowed an algorithm, developed by Erdös and Rényi five decades prior, that acts as a signal moving through the network. It starts at one node and follows a random edge to another node, at which point it “erases” every other edge but the one it came in on and the one it will go out on. The algorithm runs through the entire network over and over until it finds the minimum set of starting points needed to reach every node in the system. Control these starting points, and you control the entire network. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/man-could-rule-world
They found that denser, more interconnected networks tended to have fewer control nodes per capita. For instance, the brain or network of genes control the system through such nodes. A small percent of connections control the network. The more data scientists feed into the model, the better they can map connections in the network and the fewer control nodes they might need to operate the system. Theory applies to total control of a network. Scientists who want partial control—say, to elicit a particular protein expression within a cell—would need to master far fewer nodes. As in the case of archetypes, finding the points of control is one thing. Actually exerting influence over a given network is an entirely different challenge.
The first breakthroughs will most likely take place in medicine. By identifying control nodes in cell growth systems, scientists could return mature cells to their embryonic state, creating a new source of stem cells. “Some diseases are all about lack of control,” Barabási says. “If you were able to gain control over them at the cellular or neuronal level, you might be able to cure the disease.” Jung claimed the gods have become diseases, so interventions at this level tap into the archetypal control system. Whether that is 'good' for us or not remains to be seen. Understanding how we operate probably is. Hermes encourages and inspires us to do so.
Holographic Memory
We retain memories as superpositions of possibilities. Both we and the entire universe also retain memory as dynamic structure. The whole body is memory.
The principle of superposition governs how waves interact. Coherent superpositions of optical wave fields include holography. Superposition of wave fronts and entanglement may be the holographic blur of potentials, a superposition of elemental holograms. We can learn to interpret the internally sensed holographic image data involving the so-called empathic and psychic capabilities. We all have and use that capacity, but usually without being conscious of it, let alone accessing it in an organized and consistent fashion.
How do receptive fields at the microdendritic processing level decode such information? An elementary form of perception is implicit in this field, due to its indivisible motion and holographic properties, when taken at the null scale of time. The hierarchical dynamics of the brain imposes the scale of time on this field. Scale implies quality. We can conceive of the brain as a reconstructive wave within a holographic field (Robbins, 2002). The brain processes information in wave-frequency patterns suggesting human memory could hold amazing amounts of information “in storage,” and, using the same holographic model, be able to access and recall a memory as a three-dimensional image.
Geneticist Mae-Won Ho says the memory of our body, inhering in the liquid crystalline continuum, exists in a quantum holographic form, distributed over the entire liquid crystalline medium -- the whole body. This brain-supported wave is specific to the past, i.e., to a composite of past "states" of the field taken at a certain scale of time. It is simultaneously a specification of the subset of the field relatable to the body’s action. Memory is delocalized not only across the entire brain, but throughout the entire body.
The liquid crystalline continuum may function as a quantum holographic medium, recording the interference patterns arising from interactions between local activities and a globally coherent field. Laszlo (1995) suggested that the "zero-point field" of the universe functions as a universal holographic medium, recording the experiences of all the particles, each of which is subject to influences from the rest of the universe as well as feedback from the particle's own activities on the universal medium. If the organism is coherent, then the conditions are there for a quantum holographic (distributed) memory stored in the liquid crystalline continuum of the body itself.
During this writing (Nov. 2011), Tamar Levin. in Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, Vol. 2, No 9 (2012), proposes an integrative framework for conceptualizing human consciousness and compliments it with existing research data. The framework is based on the holographic and trans-disciplinary worldviews and their implied implicate-explicate order and the holographic knowing-becoming-experiencing-valuing human being who interacts interdependently with/within different levels of reality. The implicate order is a domain of reality characterized by flux and potentiality, whereas explicate order is the order of stable phenomena and actuality.
The framework conceptualizes universal consciousness as a fundamental part of reality/universe that complements physical potentialities and brings them to actual physical states. It regards human consciousness as both structure and system, state and process, means and end, experience, information and energy, having a metaphysical /spiritual /implicit /implicate layer and a physical/ material /explicit and / explicate layer expressed via biological, chemical, and physical processes. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/174/197
It also considers human consciousness as incorporating inward-outward 'space' processes and a backward-forward 'time' system's view expressing/influencing different modes of thinking, feeling, and behaving, and personal and transpersonal elements. The framework focuses on the unique functions, and interactions in heart-soul and brain-mind relations and their effects on states of consciousness. The subjective nature of consciousness is conceptualized in terms of the essence of individuality manifested by the root of the soul, the genetic spiritual-DNA code, and the individual's historic evolution through different life-cycles.
Source Intelligence
Memory may also store in a nonlocal ambient collective quantum holographic field, accessible but delocalized from the individual in the virtual vacuum. A vacuum is not empty, but full of “virtual particles” that are continuously fluctuating in and out of existence. Lit up with coherence, the world appears as the infinite realm accessed by mystics, clairvoyants, and artists.
Stanislav Grof, a psychiatrist, links non-ordinary states of consciousness and archetypal experiences with the holographic model. The semi-permeable membranes of our cells exchange information with the interstitial spaces around them. In much the same way, the body as a unified and holographic structure exchanges information with its surrounding environment.
An image is encoded as the superposition of one main approximation. Holographic reconstruction results from the superposition of the spatial coherence wavelets that carry the marginal power spectrum. All fields of consciousness emanating and radiating from any zero-point singularity interpenetrate each other. Thus, they are essentially in the same place everywhere. The electron is not a particle that exists continuously but is something coming in and going out and then coming in again. The electron itself can never be separated from the whole of space, which is its ground.
Since consciousness is the fundamental quality of the zero-point center of spin momentum in absolute space, each such “singularity” is potentially conscious as is every zero-point center of all fractal involved information/energy fields radiating from it, ad infinitum. Spin creates interference in the form of spectral holographic projections of compressed energy in time, which manifest in the form of images. This image dimension underlies and supports the volume dimension. Different levels of reality correspond to different proportions and combinations of images and volumes.
The central spiral vortex crossover point (all adjoining toroidal fractal involved fields) is what physicists call a “twistor” or a “wormhole”. This conceptual synthesis unites psyche and matter in a dynamic holographic concept of archetypes and archetypal images as we move through the 21st Century.
A Hundred Years of Archetypes
The year 2012 marks the hundredth anniversary of "archetypes" as an evolving psychological model of the qualities and dynamics of our core existence. As early as 1912, Jung referred to 'primordial images' to describe motifs of myths, legends, and fairy tales that have a universal character and appear as images or perceptual patterns. Many myths are religions we no longer believe.
In 1917 he wrote of 'dominants of the collective unconscious' which he characterized as 'nodal points' of psychic energy. Jung compared psyche's luminous experiences with the light impressions described by the alchemists. Rather than looking to heaven, the alchemists searched for the divine in the earth, matter, their bodies, the feminine and sexuality.
Light itself is an archetype. The photon is a measure of mass because the observer is made of light. The photonic field is the attractor that cannot be destroyed because its function is to continually decay zeropoint into matter or change - nothing into something by evolving form through linear time.
Psyche is world; psyche is cosmos. It is the crucible in which we live. Archetypes are not separated or isolated from existence and being (like disincarnated souls or distant Olympians). They are deathless yet evolving. Archetypes are constellations that psyche and cosmos have in common, that inform our relationship to the whole. These archetypes then shape our common dreams, religious feelings and experiences with "godlike" forces in our life.
Jung's notions of a heroic, striving Self have been transcended with imaginal, nonlinear models of consciousness, archetypes as holographic strange attractors and healing fictions. Jungians have explored monist and polytheistic approaches to the psyche, becoming less interested in "heroic" control and conquering and more desirous of deepening interrelationship and finding soulful meaning.
When Jung began discussing archetypes, there was no neurology or DNA science. Brain physiology was unknown and quantum mechanics was just emerging, so he groped for words like 'heritability' and 'neural substrate' to describe his observations of pervasive patterns in both psyche and matter, intuitively recognizing them as different facets of the same phenomena. His collaboration with physicist Wolfgang Pauli linked his theory with those of quantum physics, and suggests we continue to mine that vein for its psychological gold.
In The Neurobiology of the Gods, Goodwyn asks, "Can 'spiritual' images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery?" His multicisciplinary approach includes, research in evolutionary psychology, neuroanatomy, cognitive science, neuroscience, anthropology, mental imagery, dream research, and metaphor theory, but lacks a necessary root or basis in physics -- particularly the vacuum physics of subspace or absolute space.
What the Flux?
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the unmanifest Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form.
The flow of mass, and our own mass, through time is generated by the ubiquitous interaction of photons with the mass. This is so for both virtual and observable photons. Mass moves through time by integrating virtual photons, and absorption/emission of observable photons/biophotons. The internal dynamic flow of time has infolded sublevels and engines that pump up the quantum field effects to breech the mystic threshold of observability.
The infolded nature of unconditioned space itself, the vacuum potential with its Zero Point Energy (ZPE) is the root metaphor of the 21st Century. ZPE fields radiate from the center of origin of all physical forms, beginning with the smallest sub-quantum particle and extending to the largest galaxy, as well as each human being. All such fields are also electrodynamic in nature.
Consequently, all structural, memory and mental information is carried as holographically encoded wave interference patterns on the surface of such fields. They are transmitted through descending hyperspace field phase orders to their common zero-point center of consciousness by phase conjugate adaptive resonance processes.
Jung may have intuitively foreseen as much when he called the gnostic void a Plenum of infinite potential. Subquantum ZPE fields surrounding the spin (angular) momentum causes quantum particles to oscillate in and out of the ZP foam at their positive and negative phase of their standing waves or solitons. Such waves have resonant fractal harmonics that extend all the way through the compacted hyperspace fields in the quantum foam down to the zero-point spinergy, as well as outward to the furthest extent of the spacetime continuum.
All fields are in constant oscillation between spacetime and the zero-point at their natural frequencies between zero and infinite. Energy fields are continuously expanding and contracting through their zero point singularity on every spiral vortex spin cycle of their individual radiant particle-standing waves. This accounts for the entanglement (or action at a distance) of split particles along any ray path, as well as the entanglement of consciousness.
The universal center is everywhere and its circumference nowhere. The cosmos and every manifest form within it is a hologram, composed of infinite holograms within each other, ad infinitum, with all the structural information of the whole and all its parts (forms in each fractal involved harmonic field in total cosmic spacetime) existing at every zero-point singularity at their centers of origin — with all such fields interconnected (on the informational level) by phase conjugate adaptive resonance. Since these ZPE fields are everywhere (in the Plack vacuum) and their ultimate extension, infinite — they interpenetrate each other in the vast sea of pulsating cosmic spacetime. Together, they constitute the basis of our holographic universe.
The universe is composed of an infinite number of frequencies. Some macroscopically large and some microscopically small. All exist in uncountable phase relationships with one another. The colors of light, the sound of music, the smell of flowers, the touch of velvet, all are made of combined frequencies. Some are in phase and adding to, some are out of phase and cancel from, a multitude of vibrations. Our five senses are capable of interpreting these particular waves and making them tangible to our perception. It takes subtle sensing to perceive the archetypes behind phenomena.
We are each 'called' to express the inexhaustible richness of the collective unconscious, each in our own individual way, with certain themes selected through our predilections and our consciousness of it -- a novel creative synthesis. That is co-creativity. Deep within comes this holy source-level urge to co-create in novel ways that makes each of us irreplacably unique.
Light in the Darkness
Often long before scientific discoveries and explanations, we have intuitive precursors, ideas rooted in symbols, which indicate the content remains just beyond the threshold of conscious understanding. The pseudoscience, metaphysics, and superstition of human history and culture is in this category, and examples are numerous. We live in an era when so much of what was formerly hidden is being revealed by drawing back Nature's veil. We've peered back into the Creation to our inception. We find that light is a measure of mass not velocity.
We've discovered the deep time of the Cosmos, the developmental history of our planet, and our entire species. We've learned that without radical cultural transformation, our species may be doomed. Our mandate, therefore, is to look deeply within ourselves, fearlessly, to find the next new way on, not by relying on or retrieving the atavistic past, but by extending our potential for living in new, emergent ways that light our future. The photonic field is a harmonic of the negentropy attractor.
New discoveries are changing the face of science and impact cultural dynamics. One of our greatest challenges is the move toward altering and augmenting our genetics and bodies with technology. It is already rewiring our brains in unknown ways when we haven't as yet become "fully human". Avatars, designer bodies and immersive realities highlight just how plastic our ideas of being have become. Yet, the archetypes remain as eternal patterns playing out through the nows of our lives.
What was formerly limited to the psychological domain is being experimentally demonstrated by physics. As I write this today (Nov. 17, 2011) Forbes runs a story, which I include to demonstrate its immediate relevance to our quest and to Jung's notion of scintillating light in the darkness beyond the threshold of the unconscious: "Physicists Create Light from Nothingness". In the beginning, the vacuum was without form, and void. Then the physicists said, 'Let there be light!', and nothing happened. Then the physicists built a superconducting quantum interference device. And then there was light.. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/11/17/physicists-create-light-from-nothingness/
In quantum physics, the vast emptiness of space isn’t actually that empty. In fact, what we think of as a “vacuum” is actually teeming with virtual particles – particles that flit in and out of existence constantly, existing for only tiny periods of time before they go back to nothingness.
This constant cycle of creation and destruction is the consequence of the mathematics of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and creates what is known as vacuum energy – a background energy that exists throughout space, even when there is no matter present. Its existence has been indirectly observed through experimentation, such as those which demonstrate the Lamb shift – a slight fluctuation of the energy of electrons in a hydrogen atom.
Over forty years ago, physicist Gerald Moore predicted that if you were able to spin a mirror at speeds close to the speed of light, then the mirror would convert virtual photons into actual photons (the particles that make up light and other electromagnetic radiation). Unfortunately, it’s close to physically impossible to spin a mirror at near-relativistic speeds, and so this effect had not been observed.
Until now, that is. In a paper published in Nature, a team of physicists has demonstrated the creation of photons from vacuum fluctuations. To do this, they constructed a superconducting circuit, which they’ve dubbed the superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID for short. SQUID is a superconductor that’s capable of oscillating at extraordinarily high frequencies – over 11 GHz. The SQUID is designed to effectively act as a mirror in order to replicate the theorized experiment.
Once the SQUID was ready, the team then passed a magnetic field through it, causing it to rotate at a speed of about five percent of the speed of light – fast enough to see the predicted results. And those results were obtained. After rotating the SQUID at those high speeds, the team were able to detect several real photons that were essentially created from nothing. These were the virtual transformed to the real. The photons that were created weren’t actually visible to humans – they were in the microwave range of the EM spectrum. However, there is a possibility that a similar technique could be used to create actual visible light.
Seeds of Light
Everything is made of Light. Only light matters. Nothing arises but standing waves from the seething zero-point field created by cosmic beings like ourselves. How we do so is a mystery to ourselves. But we are getting closer to non-religious descriptions of reality that curiously have profound mystical overtones.
The properties of mass, inertia, charge and gravity -- and those who observe them -- are the result of space resonances produced by zero-point scalar waves. At zero-point, waves pass through waves without interference. We come from, are sustained by, and are returning to to the radiant light of our mass. All electromagnetic force is mediated by virtual photons.
The generally accepted theory of light up until the mid 1800's, was Newton's assertion of light to be a stream of tiny particles. However, in the late 1800's, the particle picture was replaced by the wave theory of light due to the phenomena associated with light: refraction, diffraction and interference, which could only be explained using the wave picture.
This electromagnetic radiation, or light, may be viewed in one of two complementary ways: as a wave in an abstract electromagnetic field, or as a stream of massless particles called photons. This is known as the wave-particle duality and is true for all particles. This duality is the basis of a indisputable quantum law in which it is a thread that runs throughout the micro and macrocosm.
Light as a wave, has a wavelength associated with it, much like an ocean wave with crests and troughs. The frequency of light is measured by counting the number of waves passing one point at a given time. The energy is merely the strength or force the wave carries.
Since all things have an energetic duality we can convert and apply this to the DNA and RNA molecules which they in fact emit their own light/energy. Science shows this and mystics spanning many beliefs and philosophies throughout history speak of this wisdom in terms of The Language of Light.
The root of the soul is characterized as a sacred spark or central source of individual light/energy that helps regulate human consciousness and connects and unites human consciousness with universal mind. It connects human consciousness to the universe through its deeper subconsciousness component -- soul, our deepest nature and essence.
A background sea of [virtual or "dark"] light is the zero-point field of the quantum vacuum. The solid, stable world of matter is sustained every scintillating instant by this underlying sea of quantum light. The primordial infrastructure of existence is light. Holograms are a manifestation of the properties of light, the production and transmission of light, and the interaction of light with itself.
Considering the primordial nature of the psyche, Jung reflected on the 'seeds of light broadcast in the chaos' (Khunrath) , of the 'scintillae' (Dorn), soul sparks (Eckhart), of fish-eyes at the bottom of the sea, or images of luminous serpent eyes. He spoke of the virtual light of such luminous nodal points emerging from the abyssal depths, eventually including dynamical processes and all types of universally recurring patterns of behavior in the psyche. Jung did not begin to use the term archetype until 1919. At first he interchanged it with 'primordial image' and 'dominant'.
Preconscious archetypes are formative principles and structural elements, as well as typical modes of apprehension and action. Frey-Rohn characterized them as, "...not only the focal point of ancient pathways but also the center from which new creative endeavors emanated. "The archetypes, then being inherent in the life process, represented forces and tendencies which not only repeated experiences but also formed creative centers of numinous effect ."
The numinous arises from the autonomous level of the psyche. The experience of the numinous also lies at the heart of Jungian therapeutic practice. Without it no transformation takes place. Jung (1973) asserts, “But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology” (p. 377).
Archetypal images designate patterns, typical basic forms, prefigurative determinants, and the tendency to repeat the same psychic experiences. They conceal the unborn eternal archetype (unconscious nucleus of meaning) while they reveal particularized meaning and form. Such ‘oculi piscium’ (fishes eyes)” are fiery soulsparks of the World-Soul, the light of nature, divine sparks of the spirit.
Paracelsus perceived scintilla or sparks of this new light, calling it the Lumen Naturae. We might liken them to a quanta of the pleroma or void - a glimmer of the divine within. Holographically, each level of emanated creation contains within it a "spark" or "scintilla" of the divine, making it "like" the divine. Jung termed the nondual "Pleroma," where nothingness is the same as fullness"...an Absolute in which there is no division between subject and object. Jung intuited this nondual Pleroma to be a collective transpersonal reservoir, an ocean of collective unconscious. From this omnipotent universal Pleroma our individual psyches coalesce around "attractor archetypes." In this sense Jung echoed the axiom: "Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness."
The spark, or scintilla, which is placed in the human soul, represents the possibility of the psyche's reunification with the unconscious -- unification of a conscious, individuated personality with the full range of oppositions and archetypes in the unconscious mind. "Our aim," Jung tells us, "is to create a wider personality whose center of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego," but rather "in the hypothetical point between conscious and unconscious" (Jung, 1929/1968, p. 45).
It harks back to a deep connection to the fundamental rhythm of nature, to the death and rebirth of divine nature, and to the wonder of our own being which partakes of the same energy. Correspondingly, in the Western mandala, the scintilla or soul-spark, the innermost divine essence of man, is characterized by symbols which can just as well express a God-image unfolding in the world, in nature, and in man. (CG Jung:1972:p 5)
This 'solar' aspect of the Self is the centrum, the indwelling scintilla animae. Shekhinah descends to raise up the collective lights of the whole created world. Jung called this light the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness, the light of the darkness itself. Consciousness has always been described in terms derived from the behavior of light, so Jung assumed that these multiple luminosities correspond to tiny conscious phenomena.
Jung interpreted this imagery as symbolizing the emergence of consciousness. Jung noted, "Alchemy too has its doctrine of the Scintilla, the little soul-spark. In the first place it is the fiery center of the earth. For all things have their origin in this source." At the common root, matter, energy, light and consciousness share a metaphysical essence -- information.
Light does not always behave like a continuous wave. It is grainy because energy can be transferred only in quantum packages. Therefore, light has a dual character. Under certain circumstances, it displays wavelike aspects. In other circumstances, it may have the characteristics of particles. Referring to quantum theory, Bohm's basic assumption is that "elementary particles are actually systems of extremely complicated internal structure, acting essentially as amplifiers of *information* contained in a quantum wave."
Light is a form of transition from three-dimensional space, the aether, to the space with four dimensions. All forms of energy originate as light. We're beginning to understand what nature has been hiding beneath her mystic veil of non-observability. The zero-point field is a blinding light.
Since it is everywhere, inside and outside of us, permeating every atom in our bodies, we are effectively blind to virtual photon flux. It blinds us by its presence. The world of light that we do see is all the rest of the light that is over and above the zero-point field. We cannot eliminate the zero-point field from our eyes. The vacuum remains the simplest state of nature. Life takes refuge in a single space - absolute space - the luminous core of meaning itself.
Metaphysical space is the unconscious. Each form that is in each human mind is, in some sense, an archetype -- some more common than others. A self-replicating archetype that is kindled from the collective unconscious is kindled through a mechanism of unconscious levels of tuning.
Repetition pushes the human psyche toward a bifurcation. Psyche has the possibility of using repetition as a chaotic attractor. The progressive is suddenly punctuated by what is novel, and thrown into chaos. Archetypes also shape collective consciousness. They are coherent, complex, intelligible patterns of meaning and improvisational creativity, shaped by the multilevel unconscious tuning, caused by an unresolved conflict in the deeper unconscious layers. The Philosopher's Stone equates with Jung's notion of the mandala as a unifying symbol and the elusive Unified Field of physics.
Meaning is not an entity, not a creed, a doctrine, a worldview, also not something like the fairytale treasure hard to attain. It is not semantic, not a content. Meaning, where it indeed exists, is first of all an implicit or a priori fact of existence. It can never be the answer to a question. It is, conversely, an unquestioned and unquestionable certainty that predates any possible questioning. It is the groundedness of existence, a sense of embeddedness in life, of containment in the world.
Creativity is the principle of novelty. Unity with cosmos and the groundstate of Being reveals what IS. Everything pulses with the same luminosity - a magnificent light of unparalleled brilliance. The "holographic experience" is one of being simultaneously cosmos and individual self. Archetypes act as the fundamental dynamical patterns characterizing all processes, whether mental or physical.
The luminous consciousness of the worked on soul arises, self-existing unlimited awareness, or self-existing awareness, unlimited, unconditioned, unborn. -
- luminescent nature
- luminescent natural awareness
- luminous vision
The holographic paradigm suggests the brain is like a television receiver and we're receiving things through it. If something happens to the receiver your image is going to get blurred. But it won't hurt the program. Anyone with a good set can still receive it, as you could if you got a new television set. So the real you (the operator who is using the neurons in the brain to come through) is like a television program and the body is like a set that receives it, and has static (noise), a refresh rate, and coherent signals of varying resolution. Our DNA functions as a projector of the quantum biohologram, our existential blueprint.
Mind is emergent sparkling awareness, an existential hologram interpreting a holographic universe. Twinkle is evidence of the "filling in" process. The luminosity is the radiance of our own minds. Archetypes' numinous luminosity attracts and holds us like a gravity well. Archetypes function like strange attractors. Not archetypal in strictly the same sense as used by Jung; the term refers to principles so primordial that they underlie the fundamental shaping of all structures. Attractors bring coherence to various signs and symbols. Symbols themselves -- words, pictures -- point to the deeper structure of things, including the deeper structure of time.
Numinous experience is the urgent emergence of Mystery. Light is the archetype of the revelation of ultimate reality. This source effect is the root of the religious drive. Due to religious undertow, mankind never ceases trying to personalize the awe-inspiring and fascinating numinous element. Jung called the "numinous element" the collective unconscious and Clear Light of the Void. The numinous experience can lead to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and/or the transcendent. But it is a phenomenon, not contact with a "separate" "divinity", per se.
Activated archetypes are often compensatory in nature, and associated with trance, art, and creativity. Trance (awe and dread of the uncanny) is a dissociative way of escape; art is a way of personal expression; creativity brings cognition, universality, and compassion into the process. There is above the celestial fire an incorruptible flame, always sparkling; the spring of life, the fountain of all being.
Holographic Hyperchannel
In 1994, the Gariaev (Garyaev) group proposed a theory of the Wave-based Genome where the DNA-wave functions as a Biocomputer. They suggest (1) that there are genetic "texts", similar to natural context-dependent texts in human language; (2) that the chromosome apparatus acts simultaneously both as a source and receiver of these genetic texts, respectively decoding and encoding them; (3) that the chromosome continuum acts like a dynamical holographic grating, which displays or transduces weak laser light and solitonic electro-acoustic fields.
The distribution of the character frequency in genetic texts is fractal, so the nucleotides of DNA molecules are able to form holographic pre-images of biostructures. This process of "reading and writing" the very matter of our being manifests from the genome's associative holographic memory in conjunction with its quantum nonlocality. Rapid transmission of genetic information and gene-expression unite the organism as holistic entity embedded in the larger Whole. The system works as a biocomputer -- a wave biocomputer.
Are there holographic hyperchannels? Information in a field is holographic and the propagation of holographic interference patterns is quasi-instantaneous. Every part of the field contains the whole informational content, just in lower resolution. “Each particle of mass in our bodies represents one closure of the entire universe yielding a holographic reality and deeper communication with ourselves is identical to communication with the universe, including any part of it, at any distance. Furthermore, in hyperspace the future and the past are all present.
Leon Maurer proposed a model he called Astro Biological Coenergetics. ABC is a scientifically philosophical holographic, fractal involved field theory of cosmogenesis, mind, memory, information and consciousness—based on the fundamental propositions that subjective consciousness (awareness, will) is an a priori quality of the underlying, unconditioned absolute space—located everywhere in relative space-time... And that the entire cosmos is a hologram—with all structural information contained in every absolute zero-point "singularity" (infinite absolute space) at the origin of all fields and forms in finite relative spacetime... Where all such fields' fractal harmonics steps down octavally in frequency phase orders ranging between zero and infinite.
This theory further postulates that total relative gravitational/electrodynamic spacetime, including the higher orders of fractal involved cosmic hyperspacetime fields and all their mass/energy fields (em & gravitational radiation) and forms (particle-standing waves)—both in sub-quantum hyperspacetime and in our lowest frequency phase order physical/material quantum spacetime—are generated from the spin momentum (ZPE) of the “singularity” surrounding each proto-conscious zero-point of primal or absolute space located everywhere throughout total hyperspherical spacetime.
This holistic theoretical framework (physics, biology, philosophy) includes the idea that we are light-enabled technology, Photonic Humans. The mass of the physical body exists because there is some informational code of access to an unlimited source of energy mediated by Light. Light comes from the subspace holographic blueprint, a subtle field that allows the flux of virtual photons to spontaneously appear and disappear in the vacuum so quickly they cannot be individually observed.
All mass is interaction but in the vacuum waves pass through waves in superposition without interference. Virtual photons are literally clear light. The fundamental nature of the energy body is clear light.. Related photic phenomena are described using the informational, material and energetic characteristics of existence, plus the complexity and entropy characteristics of dynamic development. Technically, quantum fields have an infinite number of possible energy states, all of which should contribute virtual particles to the vacuum.
Holography stabilizes the vacuum energy. The foundations of fields overlap and reverberate in a holographic frequency domain. Matter is induced by resonant holographic resolution. In holography, three-dimensional illusion results from a dense network of interference patterns. These patterns reflect the wave character of light. A small piece of the hologram can be used to reconstruct the whole three-dimensional image, but the resolution can be fuzzy.
With selective tuning and kindling, any part of this holographic reality is accessible. However, because of the smallness of a single selective signal in the midst of the totality, the channel is quite noisy. Are standing waves picked up and carried by the Schumann Resonance, or transmitted by scalar waves or a gradient in the vacuum potential? Are brains entrained on a resonant frequency?
Does DNA function as a multi-mode antenna regulating growth, evolution, and perhaps psi? Mind is a dynamic function of the entire organism at all levels of self-organization. Constantly fluctuating local parameters are embodied and amplified through the body’s electromagnetic control hologram. Mind/body modulates our sensitivity to external and internal information.
The organization of any biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which is, in part, determined by its subquantal components. This field, in turn, determines the behavior and orientation of of psychophysical being. DNA is our antenna. This dynamic is mediated initially through wave-based genomes where DNA functions as the holographic projector of the psychophysical system, a quantum biohologram. Supersymmetry points to a deep link between the quantum realm of particle physics and the quasi-classical realm of protein assembly.
Science now understands no objectivity is possible because of uncertainty, indeterminacy. Absolute space beyond the subatomic threshold of dynamic vacuum fluctuation is unobservable or measurable, and therefore metaphysical, beyond physics. Infinite energy density pervades the whole universe.
The emergent paradigm of self-organization permits the elaboration of a vision based on the interconnectedness of natural dynamics at all levels of evolving micro- and macrosystems. A new sense of meaning springs from such interconnectedness of the human world with overall evolution. It is leading us toward complex quantum biology and quantum medicine.
This theoretical framework includes the idea that we are light-enabled technology. The mass of the physical body exists because there is some informational code of access to an unlimited source of energy mediated by Light (subspace). Related photic phenomena are informational, material and energetic characteristics of existence, plus the complexity (chaos theory) and entropy characteristics of dynamic development.
Paradigms serve important integrative psychological and social functions. They help us read the sacred pages in the Book of Nature. The previous page of pre-scientific wisdom traditions explored the same territory with spiritual technologies. Virtual photons and photons are the key to biology. Photons bridge the gap between physics, biology and philosophy. Such sparks of virtual light are the glimmerings of consciousness itself.
DISCUSSION
Archetypes, Holoarchy & Meta-Genetics
We suggest extending Jung's argument. Self-organizing holographic archetypes, excited manifolds in the psychoid field, exert both top-down and bottom-up control of phenomenology. There are as many approaches to archetypes and phenomenology as there are people. We intensify our efforts when we find what doesn't fit.
Old definitions, speculation on heritability, static snapshots, extracted symbols, stereotypes, qualitative correspondences, and galleries of gods and goddesses fall short of full descriptions of nonlinear dynamic process. As ever, the map is not the territory. "Mental illness" is only a medical model of the archetypes. Philosophical, theoretical, and spiritual assumptions are colored by archetypes. We are all touched by archetypes. The only question is how much of our lives is consumed by them.
We may readily see that language, number, geometry, grammar, and DNA are basic patterning forces of human life and culture. But we have new archetypes, aka Old Wine In New Bottles, to deal with in the 21st Century, some disguised as trends or memes, such as holography, "Ascension", conspiracy, quantum mind, "Occupy", catastrophe, sustainability, global warming, NWO, "transcendent man," and other tropes of our current era alongside the old -- Ouroboros, apocalypse, changing Ages, plutocracy, death/rebirth, Great Goddess. We can identify whole clusters of the old gods and goddesses moving through such new forms: Hermes, Gaia, Zeus, and the rest of our usual suspects. But we need to enlarge our capacity to think in terms broader than these old forms.
An over-arching theme is the Android Meme: “…the ability of human-invented technology…to acquire the intimacy of speech and intuition.” (Dobbs) In other words, the Android Meme is technology that has the qualities of “being alive”. The Android Meme joins with us in an unholy alliance of archetypal technology and human organism, as a cacophony of all media, all technology and all ideas of particular times, anthropomorphized, trying to make itself human.
Since Jung's era, the public has become passingly familiar with the terms of quantum physics, the fractals of chaos theory, and the holographic paradigm. Science is formulated with metaphor as well as models. Any small piece of imaginal material may contain the total configuration, both past and future. It is the resonance or expansion and re-expansion of this awareness over time that leads to change rather than particularized insight itself. Insight does not result from learning but results from a subsequent phenomenological shift in the holographic template called insight.
Insight results from expansion and overload rather than from a specific, focused understanding. Within the process model, the total patterns of experiencing within the organismic whole which have remained unattended became the holographic blur. In other words, this part of the unconscious is not regarded as a preexisting form. When we are presented with a sensation, feeling, thought or intuition, it takes millions of cooperating brain cells, orchestrating together, for these perceptions to reach consciousness. Approximately 97% of what happens in our so-called "consciousness" remains unconscious.
Although subjectivity is present at the level of photons, it requires brain systems to generate ordered patterns that are the basis of actual conscious experience. Drive manifestations in thought, repressed memories, archetypal themes, and so on are particularized meanings, cognitively derived from the holographic "frequency domain"-- the stage of transforming sensory data across the entire brain.
Mark Germine describes the Holographic Principle:
"Layers of the holographic, universal “now” go from the inception of the universe to the present. Universal Consciousness is the timeless source of actuality and mentality. Information is experience, and the expansion of the “now” leads to higher and higher orders of experience in the Universe, with various levels of consciousness emerging from experience. The brain consists of a nested hierarchy of surfaces which range from the most elementary field though the neuron, neural group, and the whole brain. Evidence from the evolution and structure of the brain shows that optimal surface areas in a variety of structures are conserved with respect to underlying surfaces. Microgenesis, the becoming of the mental state through a process of recapitulation of development and evolution, is in full accord with the Holographic Principle. Evidence from a wide variety of contexts indicates the capacity of the mind for total recall of past life events and for access to universal information, indicating connection with the holographic surfaces of prior “nows” and with the Universal holographic boundary. In summation, the Holographic Principle can help us explain the unity and mechanisms of perception, experience, memory, and consciousness."
He also notes, "There have been a number of propositions regarding the relationship of consciousness and time. Sigmund Freud held that the unconscious is timeless, and that time only arises in consciousness. Carl Jung, with the apparent endorsement of Wolfgang Pauli, held that there is a collective unconscious, composed of archetypes, which are timeless, and also worked with Pauli on his theory of synchronicity, or meaningful experiences outside of normal causality. What Freud and Jung would call timeless, we call temporally non-local. We have also hardly touched open the role of dynamical systems or chaos theory, with the brain state fundamentally evolving under the conditions of self-organized criticality."
Laszlo (2004) contends, "The universe is a system of holographic surfaces within surfaces, or what we may call a nested hierarchy of surfaces, with each surface containing its own “world” of information. The most basic order of information is the fundamental quantum of spatial volume, the Planck space, which has a variable energy, called the vacuum energy. In 1930 Dirac developed a model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles having negative energy, which was dubbed the Dirac sea. There is a fundamental relationship between the Holographic Principle and the vacuum energy (Mongan, 2007), which can account for a variety of non-local phenomena."
Because the frequency domain deals with the density of events, time and space are collapsed in it. Not until these mathematical transforms are reversed does the object or image reappear as concrete, three-dimensional reality "out there." In the frequency domain itself there is no out there (Pribram, 1982).
Pribram's "frequency domain" is Bohm's "implicate order" while the image domain is "explicate order." Countless enfolding and unfoldings between orders is the Bohm's holomovement. The transformative process may be holographic. Chaos only appears as such because the underlying order is of such indefinitely high degree. It is meaningless to view the universe as arbitrary parts.
Many understand that it relates to consciousness, synchronicity, and their holistic experience of reality. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, unlikely to occur together by chance, being observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. It represents the meaningful unfoldment of potential. We are wrapping our minds around paradoxical notions such as multiverse, non-locality, superposition, coherence, entanglement, and torsion fields. Non-locality is the quantum phenomenon of instantaneous action at a distance in spacetime.
Sometimes our mental representations are dominated by form, especially that initiated by past experiences. Other times, consciousness is dominated more by formlessness, uncommitted attention, receptivity to new ideas. Between frames, or states of consciousness are transitive or "empty" moments in which vague, unformulated experience occurs.
The metaphor is superseded by the holographic blur of a possibilities of form -- form overcome by formlessness -- finally free from groping around using inadequate analogies. Simulations can run through the past and future, trying different scenarios and responding in advance to probable future environments.
In Synch
Jung believed that synchronicity phenomena underlie his hypothesis of “collective unconscious”, with “archetypes”. Synchronicity cannot be considered in isolation from the nonlocal structure of “collective unconscious”. The phenomena of coincidence or synchronicity are modulated by archetypes.
Influenced by Jung's concept of synchronicity, Arthur Koestler wrote The Roots of Coincidence (1972), an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, includings the behavior of neutrinos and their interaction with time, and these paranormal phenomena. It is influenced by Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity.
Peat calls synchronicity a bridge between matter and mind. Living by synchronicity -- paradoxical but seemingly meaningful coincidences -- isn't just about getting messages or reading 'signs'. It is about immersion in the flow state, being at one with the cosmos. It is about nurturing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit.
Harmonizing and balancing the inner world of spirit and mind is achieved through archetypes and their symbols and images. Chaotic periods punctuate creative periods. The dynamic is from external to internal world as meaning unfolds. Through opening ourselves, we learn how the world-behind-the-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality. We learn how to live with one foot rooted in the inner and outer symbolic world, revealing the transcendence hidden in a particular life.
Even a partial understanding of the neurological substrate of the archetypes will improve our understanding of them. Archetypes aren't limited to myth, dream, paranormal puzzles, and the hermeneutic interpretations of the consulting room. Archetypes transcend the individual psyche, permeating our experience. Jung called the non-psychic aspect of the archetype 'psychoid', forming a bridge to matter in general, extending beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy.
Archetypal pre-conditions describe the transcendent, unitary existence that underlies the duality of the mind (psyche) and matter (physis). They impact all situations, experiences, and images. When we are gripped by archetypal images and experiences, our conscious life and attitudes are swept away by pre-subjective schemas. Beyond judgment, such autonomous appetites demand to be fed. The experiential spectrum ranges from unconscious identification to feeling overwhelmed by it. Complexes behave like independent beings, subpersonalities with their own qualitative agenda with new and hidden meanings. Ego is punctuated by archetypal interference, repression and suppression.
Meta-genetics is a separate field at the very heart of genetics -- the study of how inheritance itself evolves, even while it mediates all evolution. It attempts to interpret or explain the organization, structure and dynamics of genetic material -- the master program of the archetypal creative "programmer". The meta-genetic program is the inherent intelligence of the life-force itself. Meta-genetics encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics. Whether or not genetics is evolving, our view certainly is. The discovery of gene-expression transcends the nature/nurture dichotomy.
DNA is the replicable archetype of our species. Achetypes have both neurological and environmental correlates. Genes, templates, enzymes, catalysts, hromones and pheromones have 'archetypal' qualities. Archetypes are probably somatically based in the right cerebral hemisphere, which is visual-spatial. The tripartate brain and limbic system suggest more primitive archetypes reside in the drives and structures of the "reptilian" brain.
Recent studies of empathy find a genetic base for the psychosocial response: scientists identified couples’ gene types as GG, AG, or AA through tests. The first type marks people with two copies of a gene variant called G; the second, those with one copy of the G and one copy of the A variant; and so forth. According to previous research, GG people tend to act in a more caring way, whereas the other two types tend to have a higher risk of autism and self-reported lower levels of positive emotions, empathy and parental sensitivity.
Oxytocin is linked with social affiliation and reduction in stress, social recognition, pair bonding, dampening negative emotional responses, trust and love. GG carriers rate highest for trustworthiness. Carriers of the A version of the gene were viewed as less kind, trustworthy and caring toward their partners. What’s unknown is precisely how the gene affects the behavior. The variant does lead to differences in receptors, or molecular structures, involved in oxytocin transmission. But people can and do overcome their genes to some extent. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111114_oxytocin
Due to the nature of the limbic system, you cannot will your feelings, emotions, falling in love, or staying in love, anymore than you can will your heart to beat, or yourself to digest a meal or sleep. Archetypes correlate with simultaneous activation and deactivation of discrete parts of the limbic system. For every biological event in your body, there is a biological cause. In this case, the cause is neurochemicals—and the pathways they turn on and off.
The genetic code operates by epigenetics, turning certain genes on or off. According to meta-genetics, potential DNA is anything but “junk.” Potential DNA plays the primary role of interfacing “ener-genetically” with our bioenergy blueprint in the consciousness field. In this way, potential DNA regulates cellular expression -- and even the origin and evolution of species -- in a manner that genetics cannot begin to account for and epigenetics cannot come close to matching. If the genome is the hardware, epigenetics is the software of genetic expression, telling it when to work, how to work and how much. The epigenome tells cells what kind of cells to be, whereas archetypes are primordial reaction formations.
While some epigenetic changes are heritable through the germ line, many are not and necessarily so. You wouldn't want the epigenome of a heart cell or kidney cell or, more relevantly, a gonad cell to find its way unchanged into the fertilized egg. The slate upon which all the developmental processes of the adult have been written needs to be wiped clean in order to clear a space for the next generation. Relatively clean heritable epigenetic marks are somehow preserved. As part of this slate-cleaning, a wave of demethylation passes along each chromosome shortly after fertilization and is completed by the time of implantation in the uterus. Immediately following this, a new methylation occurs, appropriate for the embryo and giving it a fresh epigenetic start.
In explaining the role potential DNA plays in the origin and evolution of species, meta-genetics reveals that genetics and epigenetics alike control our lives only relatively, compared to the underlying spiritual energy that engenders, supports and develops life: consciousness. Potential DNA’s ongoing dialogue with the consciousness field allows for a constant, simultaneous exchange of information, in the form of sound and light waves, between time-space and space-time, while bypassing any so-called tight restrictions on the flow of genetic information.
Potential DNA, far from being inactive, constitutes the hyperdimensional interface between the sound and light domains. The genetic sound-light translation mechanism indicates the process by which chromosomes assemble themselves into different configurations designed to “translate” standing waves of sound into light (and vice versa). The existence of the genetic sound-light translation mechanism indicates that the flow of information, or conscious bioenergy, through DNA is a two-way street. Light becomes sound, and sound becomes light.
Though other alternative models will naturally arise, by choosing a scope of analysis and approaching cognitive dynamics and characteristics on their own terms we can actually get something done. We have to wrap our minds around the notion that our "living region" is indissolubly welded to the vastness of unknowable reality. Jung suggested as much in the language of his day in his concept of the Collective Unconscious and its archetypal dynamics, which he constantly sought to update. Nearly a century later, we should consider doing the same.
It can be useful to relinquish or recontextualize old reality assertions. A 21st Century inquiry into reality explodes the normative of space, time and matter, and thus destroys the context in which something like an evolutionary narrative makes sense to us. Yet, by choice or by wearing intentional blinders, the evolutionary narrative continues to inform very useful analyses of our condition. That is also a useful point in consciousness studies (since there is actually no other alternative) . We have to construct and build upon useful analyses of consciousness, and not divert ourselves with unverifiable speculations about the true nature of all of reality.
Our notions of 'consciousness' exist independent of that reality, which is the lens through which we encounter our experiences. Cognition, itself is a holographic archetype. So are language and natural numbers. Many essential qualities of the whole are reflected or contained in each of the parts that make up that whole.
Whatever else it may be, the holographic domain is also a subtle yet dynamic net of preferential metaphors, analogies and similes which characterize our experience of our experiences. Just as we are not constrained by retrievals of our ancestors beliefs, rituals, superstitions and faulty theories, we are not constrained from rewriting psychological theory from best practices to clear a Golden Path to our future.
Resonant Filters
Holographic archetypes effectively echo their nested-structure and resonant patterns throughout the field as phenomenological, biophysical, literal and symbolic "reflectaphors" -- fractal expressions, fractal scaling, and reiterations of psychic life. Archetypal morphogenetic fields (or attractors) emerge harmonically withinin nested domains. The interweaving transient forms of the holographic archetype include the hologram, psychic structure, wave-genetics, and synchronicity.
We can and must recontextualize Jung's intuitive notion of archetypes in terms of today's science, pursuing his dream of a unified language that unites psyche and matter.Psyche and Cosmos is a unified matrix of being, pregnant with intelligence and intimately coextensive with human affairs. The life-wave is best understood as a potentially infinite series of waves. The ocean in our analogy is the “torsion,” Source Field or hyperdimensional sound domain of time-space, where individual waves act as sonic carrier waves for the genetic blueprints of past, present and future species.
Archetypes are more than just metaphors of chaos theory, holographic strange attractors, and dark energy -- they are the eternal sources of such notions and perceptions. It's as if these supersensible realities are enfolded potentials in the scalar field of the virtual vacuum, awaiting their synchronistic moment of unfolding. Holographic Strange Attractors are also fractal, looking like patterns we recognize but without clear boundaries and never quite repeating themselves at various scales and domains. They allow unpredictable change while providing structure.
Remodeling Process
Jung's collective unconscious consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body.
The "spirit" of the biosystem is its "living biopotential" - its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is - in the virtual state - everywhere in the universe - and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime. The entire universe is everywhere alive, with everything. (Bearden) The body's master cellular control system is holographic—the pattern (substructured potential with its dynamic, oscillating components) is in each component (each atomic nucleus, hence in each cell.) Every structural level of the body larger than the cell also has its own correlated pattern, or modulation, on the overall.
Arthur Koestler called holarchy a connection between holons – as both a part and a whole, across scales and domains. The universe as a whole is an example of a holarchical system, in which every holarchy is part of a larger holarchy. Holarchy is commonly considered a form of hierarchy, however, hierarchy implies both an absolute top and bottom. For a holon, this is not logically possible, as it is both a whole and a part. Like a fractal, the top can be a bottom, and a bottom can be a top. An advantage of the holarchy model is that it may be easily mapped to hierarchy of agents (or archetypes) in which an agent is composed of agents and may have its own ecological behavior as a partial consequence of these part's behaviors.
Functioning like "psychic DNA", archetypes are the holographic strange attractors organizing the psyche. The psychoid level of archetypes is analogous to the heritable DNA biohologram, whereas their expressive nature can be likened to epigenetics. Epigenetics is typically defined as the study of heritable changes in gene expression that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Every cell in the body has the same genetic information. What makes cells, tissues and organs different is that different sets of genes are turned on or expressed.
Environmental factors and our choices alter the way genes and archetypes are expressed and characterize our being. Jung claimed that "the gods have become diseases." The field of epigenetics is now revealing a molecular basis for how heritable information other than DNA sequence can influence gene function, morphology, and plasticity. These advances also add to our understanding of transcriptional regulation, nuclear organization, development and disease.
Archetypes characterize and particularize perennial wisdom, language, images and ideas (theories), and emotion-laden complexes. Sometimes, such complex expression looks like pathology or pathologizing but psyche is trying to tell its perennial story in particularized form. We exist in relation to ourselves, to others, to myths, to images, or to archetypes. Their expression is the essence of our being.
HOLOGRAPHIC ARCHTYPES
The key to modern knowledge is the exclusion of disproof and other possibilities.
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors. Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study.
Mind Control Countermeasures
What you "see" is not always what you "get." Reality may be hidden by nature's veil or a dramatic mask. There is more to the context of experience than the surface waves. There is a perpetual sub-text to our perceptions, which are supported and conditioned not only by ego's point of view but by a kaleidoscope of fractal expressions of nonobjective archetypal emergence.
Unconscious fantasy bridges ego and instincts. This instinctual fantasy searches for external archetypal objects with which to "mate." We begin seeing signs and symbols and interpreting them to suit our internal narrative, filtered through subjectivity, identity and volition. Memory distortions that support self esteem are the most powerful.
Many people mistakenly take their own perceptions and visions literally without "seeing through" the various possibilities deeply buried within that are outside their belief system, knowledge or skill sets. Self-reports and self-concepts often differ widely from objective measures. We are often in denial of your own mind's defenses and show this transparently. Others can see this a lot more clearly.
Or not, in emotional contagion. Folie à deux, from the French means "a madness shared by two" or shared psychosis. Delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Jung spoke of participation mystique, a mystical connection, or identity, between subject and object, and symbiosis, a state where contents of one's personal unconscious are experienced in another person. Ending such relationships can precipitate an outbreak of neurosis, stimulated by an inner need to assimilate those aspects of oneself that were projected onto the partner.
While most are interested in the content of their imaginal life, greater understanding comes from seeing through the dynamic process by which it is generated. It isn't necessarily the CONTENT, but the EFFECTS which are most important. Do archetypes help us con our own consciousness with myths of individuality? Are we unwitting undercover agents for social memes without realizing it?
The notion of a unified Self has fallen to the multistate paradigm. Each of us is a "crowd", dynamic multiplicity of relatively autonomous I positions in an imaginal landscape. There is no unified Self - but a multitude of subpersonalities, some more competent than others. The ego thinks it does the navigating, but it's mostly delusional about itself, hence denial, projection, and unconscious identification.
The basis of the human psyche seems to be a collective of selves--a multimind in a multiverse. Independent and autonomous, they relate with one another mostly unknown to the outer awareness. Dialogue is a form of imagery which creates and sustains a worldview through the means of imaginal conversations. Within the fabric of multiple centers or vortices within the psyche, an on-going dialogue emerges which ranges from selftalk (ego to ego), through "group" discussion (ego with subpersonalities), to spiritual dialogue (ego with transpersonal entities).
Fictional virtual realities are constructed by aspects of the self as imaginal conversations. Imaginal dialogues play a central role in our daily lives, existing alongside actual dialogues and interactions. The dialogical self can be seen as a multiplicity of I positions or possible selves, with a decentralized, polyphonic character. This view dissolves the sharp "self-not self" boundary.
Beyond the dialogical realm lies the unspeakable experience (untranslatable) of the Void or Clear Light, the realm of archetypal light and sound as pure consciousness. The "Word" helps us create and define reality. Conversation as well as observation defines our reality. Dialogue of the self with its various conscious and unconscious forms creates a series of "virtual realities" which form the basis of self-simulation and world-simulation. These forms are limitless in number, far beyond the classic archetypes such as persona, anima/animus, etc, suggesting the notion of "radical pluralism."
Synesthesia research may shed some tangential light on the subject: The over-excited neurons may still be what drives the development of synaesthesia in the first place, though. Since the condition tends to run in families, Terhune suggests that people with synaesthesia may be predisposed to hyper-excitable neurons from birth.
As the brain develops through early childhood, enhanced activation of neurons may cause connections to form between areas of the brain that are not normally paired, thinks Terhune. "Hyperactivity [of neurons] at an early developmental stage might contribute to the establishment of atypical binding of neurons associated with graphemes and colour," he says.
Mind and metaphor: In 2010, Vilayanur Ramachandran at the University of California at San Diego told New Scientist that such a predisposition to synaesthesia might also predispose you to make links between seemingly unrelated ideas.
"If you think of ideas as being enshrined in neural populations in the brain, if you get greater cross-connectivity you're going to create a propensity towards metaphorical thinking," he said. He suggested that this ability to link dissimilar concepts is what created a "huge explosion of abilities that characterize the human brain". http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21183-hyperactive-neurons-build-brains-in-synaesthesia.html
The social construction of reality is up for grabs. The whole concept of reality has been called into question by a variety of ideologies and lifestyles. There are widening splits within traditional belief systems. There is transition in human cultural evolution, with the new paradigm in dialogue with the old, seeking a new synthesis. The move is toward a substitution of "story" for Truth, reflecting that sense of movement, change, flow.
The hallmark of Post-Modern philosophy has been disbelief or skepticism of all "metanarratives." The breakdowns of the story lines of religions, ideologies, even science has led to chaotic social change. We are beginning to realize, individually and as a world-wide culture that "realities" are all human constructions. The task becomes one of "catching ourselves in the act" of creating our own "reality" from the flow of events. Human truth is always an engagement of mind with experience.
We need to be not only conscious of the nature of our consciousness, but conscious of our fallibility, realizing that intuition is fallible if unsupported by rational criticism. Personal, sociopolitical and spiritual myths and memes drive false perceptions. When images appear, where do they come from? How do they constellate? What archetypal set is at work? If we have little access to our pre-conditioned decision-making process, the whole concept of 'consciousness' becomes questionable. But we are also subject on an a priori basis to the influence of genes, memes and archetypal schemes.
Psychodynamics of the Unconscious
Chaos theory, quantum and torsion physics, and analytical psychology provide portals for new awareness both of the processes of personal growth and of changes in world life. Modeling incorporates the five structures of consciousness—archaic, magical, mythic, mental, and integral. Complexity Theory describes the Universe as a complex of whole systems spontaneously generating out of a void and self-organizing at thresholds between chaos and stability.
The archetype, a word used by Jung (1958) and elaborated by his follower Erich Neumann (1954) is a numinous (potent, powerful) unconscious psychic content -- the core of representations including those of states, and patterns of coordination of actions. M.-L. von Franz describes archetypes as "excited points in the field of the objective psyche" which behave like "relatively isolatable nuclei".
We can imagine this as a precursor to the notion of archetypal "attractors" in chaos theory. Archetypes are the holographic strange attractors of the psyche. Chaos is not so much pathological as it is a state of maximum readiness for an emerging reorganized self-system. Individuals with schemas or working models bordering on chaos are likely to be those most flexible and resilient.
Archetypes are also highly interconnected to each other. Hypercycles suggest a common origin for archetypes, that manifest at all developmental levels and in all planes of substance, including beyond space-time. They describe capacities for consciousness -- functions, attitudes and character pathologies. In itself an archetype has no specific form. Such innate organizing principles exist in a very deep layer of the brain, but it gives rise to images in the visual cortex which partially represent it. Archetypes play out across the globe at a colossal scale.
Our ancient instinctual apparatus included affection, inquisitiveness, self-preservation, competitiveness, fear and curiosity, i.e. these have archetypal existence. Core 'archetype' stimulus/response instincts appear to be hard-coded in all of as as neuron-dependent life forms. The 'archetypes' lack colour in that at this level of analysis we are working with the vague. Specialisations will then add colour and in doing so can create their own language to describe the
archetypes in many different expressions. These 'universals' need some 'grounding' where meaning for individual consciousness takes the form of emotional labels identifying the generic patterns mapped to particular contexts.
Archetypes were the forefathers of symbols, and are inherently symbolic. Image-making is also a cultural and psychological labor; archetypal awareness requires both cultural knowledge and self knowledge-lest we fall into naive and unqualified virginal ecologies of imagination—those that believe only in so-called natural spontaneity and who end up unknowing prisoners of banal stereotypes. In psychotic illness, the ego defenses are overpowered by the influx of the power of archetypes. When an archetype imposes itself on consciousness, and the normal discretion which ego consciousness exercises is lost, havoc can result. It is also possible, however, that an archetype can infuse a psyche, yet, at the same time, ego consciousness can adjust to its charge.
Creative imagination is a soulful conversation between the body and the world; the animal helps us to converse with the soul of the world. Inspiration, for instance — which is the epiphany of image, is finding vision in our breathing: we inspire, we breathe in images. The imaginal animal’s awareness is instinctive, alert. It realizes imagination as perception,
receptivity and response-ability.
Engagement
The soul has archetypal needs. Fractal resonance unifies the soul field. Fractal resonance creates multiple effects in diverse fields. For example it:
- Guides unfoldment and evolution from beyond space-time, through archetypes and prototypes (akashic and atmic levels) to the physical, via resonant fractal frequency fields;
- Is the basis for “emergence” or “random self-organising” structural development through pattern alignment across levels or dimensions;
- Explains why archetypes, symbols and allegories can have multiple interpretations, as in the interpretation of Biblical parables ranging from the immediate cultural context to a high spiritual gnosis;
- Provides a basis for evolutionary feedback to alter the parameters for a new expansionary phase or level.
Many concepts which are essential components of human (and group) thought originated as archetypes. Later on, both in time and in terms of cognitive activity, they put on the clothes of visual imagery and verbal identity. But they began in the limbic brain as archetypes. All people have the same archetypes, and they are the instruments of cultural evolution; but they express themselves differently in different cultural circumstances.
Lumsden and Wilson hypothesize that it takes about 1,000 years for a cultural element, or a propensity to express some culturally defined trait, to become established in the gene pool as an inherited trait. So Jung wasn't wrong in talking about 'endless repetitions of typical patterns of behavior', he just didn't understand the mechanism which would give them a genetic basis. Pre-linguistic memes and archetypes, such as rhythm, may have played a greater role in genetic evolution than he dared to propose.
Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) says: 'When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation.' Perhaps so, but we might speculate that a meme is fertile or successful because they bind to archetypes, helping the effective expression of the archetype, rather than parasitizing the brain in any general sense.
Memes & Genes; Archetypes & Holograms
People construct all kinds of aberrant realities for themselves. A cognitive illusion, the self-attribution fallacy means crediting yourself with outcomes for which you weren't responsible. Our perceptions are hopelessly distorted, our best thinking is fuzzy. Self-image is perhaps the most distorted, yet highly-defended aspect of being. When some elements appear in high-relief, others fade into a blur of intersubjective process. False perceptions, beliefs, and ideas obscure and obstruct our true potential.
Both the memes of holography and anamorphosis are relevant, the later skewing our illusory perspective. Viewing from a certain angle can create impossible images -- image warping, reflected aberrations. In post-modern relativism, there are holes in virtually every point of view. Under these circumstances, can we unravel the experiential qualities inherent in the field of reality itself?
Word choice and metaphor allow for the emergence of new memes, the replacement of memes, and the death of memes, via a concept that Douglas Hofstadter (1995) calls "conceptual slippage." Memes, like genes, only "code for" a norm or mean of reaction correlating to the memetic selection bias. Neither memes nor genes determine all aspects of the properties of the entities they constitute. Cultural inheritance is not particularly creative, so most "novelty" is merely the recombination or recycling of pre-existing memes in novel ways.
Memes are quantized information stored in and expressed from neurological structures or cultural substrates, Memes reside as neural net structures in our central nervous systems, but many emerge at a higher cultural level, expressed in a cultural ecology. Memes do not control behavior rigidly, but bias and constrain it to a norm of reaction. They are the replicators of cultural evolution, genealogical actors in ecological roles. Memes form ancestor descendent chains of populations that ramify, reticulate, and resonate with frequencies differing from biological phylogeny, but the differences appear to be within the extremes of the parameters of biology. (Witkins) .http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1998/vol2/wilkins_js.html
What memes and genes do determine are the degrees of freedom. They bias and constrain the outcomes of the system. It's as if we live in holographic bubbles of encoded information. Penrose describes how every event is a decision point. Images are animated over events in the flow of energy, like the animated frames of a movie. The confusing aspect of consensual reality is each bubble shares information with other bubbles, which is the nature of the perceivable world that we share together.
Essence of Reality
There are so many models in physics. Susskind's "holographic principle", rooted in a certain kind of string theory is vastly different from earlier holographic models being based in quantum gravity. Over vast distances of the universe, 'now here', is seen as the future or past from elsewhere. Depending on how your velocity is maintaining your localized time, you can leap frog standard perceptual time and move to the future or past. Some claim the future is already out there as well as the past and the only real difference between now and then is the location from which the perception occurs.
Vacuum models of holographic realities have a different basis than the Standard Model, too. That's why when people use 'intentionality' to justify their wishful thinking with Copenhagen's 'observer effect', it is laughable, since the Standard model works great for mechanics, it fails to explain the first thing about Reality. Even psychology and neurology recognize humans 'make' decisions long before the frontal cortex is aware of it.
The holographic principle explains the fundamental level at which all information is defined, but it also explains the source of all information, in the same way that quantum cosmology explains the source of everything in the universe. The source of everything is the void. All excited states of information arise from the vacuum state. The void is the empty background space the universe is created within.
The universe is like a bubble in the void. These theories tell us everything arises from the nothingness of empty space as a quantum fluctuation in the zero energy level of the void. All we can view are excited states of information arising from the void, encoded by virtual particle fluctuation. Separation of virtual particles from virtual antiparticles at the event horizon creates a kind of holographic virtual reality, as virtual particles appear to become real (Susskind 2008, 171).
Trance Lucence
We cannot see the "big picture", so any attempt we make to holographically conceive our existential condition is more of an anamorphosis, a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The word "anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning back or again, and the word morphe, meaning shape or form. It deals with perspective and mirroring that conjure up a multi-dimensional perspective.
Archetypes are imagined as such distorting lenses, conditioning our perception of reality which is social constructed and confused. There are many theories, but few correspond with reality. Is there some psychological equivalent to cold fusion that might allow a new energetic paradigm to emerge? Can anamorphosis be a metaphor of perspective correction? Is there only one way to true vision? Does the anamorphic fractal attenuate reality? The anamorphic is not the fractal, because the fractal is repeating a pattern. Depending on the view we select, we become phobic about other information. We are clearly limited by our terms.
Human life is all symbols, visible signs of invisible reality, intuitive ideas that cannot yet be formulated in any other or better way. We live in a mind soup of psychoconfabulation. Symbols wield the power of pattern recognition and association. Few objectively gain distance from the archetypal content of mind and emotions. 'Archetypal' means fundamental intrapsychic organizing principles, or the deepest levels of psychological structure, holographic embedding and resonant fields, common to the human psyche in general. Information results and arises from innate structure.
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance occurs when we filter our perceptions to screen out (deny) threatening information we cannot deal with. It is magical thinking to take a symbol to be its referent or an analogy to represent an identity. Magical thinking comes from an instinctual search and recognition of patterns, and regards symbols not as representations but as handles attached firmly to real-life objects and outcomes. Out of context, symbols are ineffectual. Evocative "power" is one of the attractive aspects of the meme concept which is also a symbol and signifiers of meaning that are context dependent.
There are three types of symbols: 1) Symbols that reflect intrinsic mental states; 2) Symbols that stand in for extrinsic (actual or objective) conditions or objects, and 3) Symbols that stand in relation to cultural artefacts, or constructs, or memes. Here the symbol and the object it represents are one and the same. Compressed symbols contain potential information, analogous to genes and epigenetic gene expression. Van Ennwyk (1997) likens fractal attractors or symbolic images to snapshots, or “slices” of dynamics. What seems to be a recognizable image is actually a configuration of motions frozen in time and space.
Ramachandran (Phantoms in the Brain) describes symbolic characterizations of differing descent groups. Distinctions between groups (largely kin-based distinctions) had considerable importance; prior to the development of language as such, which could be used to express such distinctions, it could be done through dress, or through totemic, ritual and mythic symbolic expression. But how can a mutation that benefits the group survive and spread if it occurs only in isolated individuals? The answer appears to be that the group 'sharpens' genetic evolution by choosing members who conform to a required standard and excluding those that don't. This would make evolution happen very quickly, at least within the currently available pool of variation, since excluded individuals would not survive or mate.
Fortes (The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups) explains how different but related descent groups are distinguished: 'Cults of gods and of ancestors, beliefs of a totemic nature, and purely magical customs and practices, some or all are associated with lineage organization . . . every significant structural differentiation has its specific ritual symbolism, so that one can, as it were, read off from the scheme of ritual differentiation the pattern of structural differentiation, and the configuration of norms of conduct that go with it.'
Any distinction between symbol and symbolized is spurious. The emotional projection of symbols, or "magical thinking," happens in psychosis, in cultures, and subcultures. Disgust is an emotion heavily caught up in symbolic and magical thinking. Yet, symbols can have biophysical and material effects. We trick ourselves into mobilization.
Magical thinking helps us feel more secure in an unpredictable world. By manipulating symbols, we imagine being able to manipulate the reality that a symbol represents, but it makes us vulnerable to manipulation, too. The psychology of superstition "works" better in a virtuality. Superstition provides the illusion of increased control. Symbols are captivating, indistinct, metaphoric and enigmatic portrayals of psychic reality. The content, i.e. the meaning of symbols, is far from obvious; instead, it is expressed in unique and individual terms while at the same time partaking of universal imagery. Our society is having to rethink such fundamental notions as money, security, growth and many other bases of our current worldview.
Symbols can be recognized as aspects of those images that control, order and give meaning to our lives. The source of symbols can be traced to the archetypes themselves which by way of symbols find more full expression. Symbols are thus one type of what Jung called "archetypal images," that is, the representation in consciousness of an underlying archetype. The anamorphic is not the fractal, because the fractal is repeating a pattern.
When the dominant vision that holds a period of culture together cracks, consciousness regresses into earlier containers, seeking sources for survival which also offer sources of revival. Self-empowerment can be entangled with self-delusion. We can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Species-wide trauma is playing out on the world stage. We compulsively recreate individual and collective trauma, perhaps as a way to awaken ourselves. Such madness is its own ritual and revelation.
Paramedia ecologist, Bob Dobbs refers to the Android Meme, which he defines as “…the ability of human-invented technology…to acquire the intimacy of speech and intuition.” In other words, the Android Meme is technology that has the qualities of "being alive". The Android Meme joins with us in an unholy alliance of archetypal technology and human organism, as a cacophony of all media, all technology and all ideas of particular times, anthropomorphized, trying to make itself human.
There is no great architect of the Meme besides our compliance to feed it. Calling it archetypal he simply means there is no physical joining (like a true android who is made up of organism and implants) but rather, like mythic thinking, in the Jungian sense, where people mime/behave cues from technology when it becomes used by a million people and becomes environment (morphic resonance). Thus, the hologram or fractal is superseded by anamorphosis. He claims we're in the post-noosphere (post-spherical, post-news, post-information) and panicking in the anamorphic flux of our hyperdimensional being (chemical, astral, TV and chip bodies ) - our new medium. The body functions as a map.
The Astral Body, a huge storehouse of religious and spiritual energy, pervades all cultures as the belief there is more to our makeup than the Chemical Body. The third organ is the TV Body - the repository of historical one-way broadcasting. The fourth, the Chip Body, is the mutating warehouse of digital omni-directional media. The fifth is the Mystery Body - what we're still excavating and whose lineaments we cannot fully assess yet, if ever. We now know it's made up of the previous four bodies but we don't know what more we will discover about its constituents, affects, and effects. The Android Meme (living mediascape) is the resultant interplay, violent and ecstatic, of the first four bodies. We keep looking in the rearview mirror vainly trying to peer into the future.
Conforti
On the archetypal level, repetition creates a thermodynamic dis-equilibrium. At this point in the replicative mode, the human psyche is pushed toward a bifurcation point because of our intrinsic need for growth and meaning making. Psyche has the possibility of utilizing repetition as a chaotic, rather than a fixed or periodic attractor, thus moving the entire system to a higher level of complexity (negentropy) or of dissolving into endless repetitions.
Describing nonlinear dynamics and the types of processes activated as the system moves from stability to instability, Ervin Laszlo states that a system that is far from equilibrium may evolve toward a new dynamic regime that is radically different from a stationary state at or near equilibrium. (Evolution,1987, 21)
As the repetition moves an individual or system into a chaotic regime, the possibility for complexity and greater development is activated. Recall that, as already established, evolution becomes virtually impossible if the system's parameters remain overly constricted. Behavioral patterns, thoughts, and actions tend to cluster more and more tightly around specific archetypal alignments/themes thus further diminishing the opportunity for growth. With clustering and complexing around an archetypal and informational singularity, an individual is, developmentally speaking, thrown back to a phylogenetically earlier phase of life. Similar to life and dynamics at the unicellular level, movement within the replicative mode proceeds through a spinning out of autopoietic, self-similar processes.
Disruption of stability represents a natural phase transition in the life of every system. While we have the continual drive toward self-replication, there is an equally strong movement toward complexity inherent in the evolution of life at virtually every level. Continual repetition will eventually result in a deadening of possibilities thus reinforcing tendencies to stay closed.
Freud observed the existence of two seemingly opposing forces within the psyche. One trajectory moves toward replication-a repetitive cycling of energy-a death instinct while the other arm of the system's growth involves a movement toward a life instinct- -a higher form of new life.
Repetition, if it endlessly spins in its own cycle and parameters, becomes entropic and eventually dampens the creation of new energy and growth possibilities. Hence the progressive is suddenly punctuated by what is novel, is thrown into chaos by the introduction of an information catastrophe. As we now understand from chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics, and from much of Ervin Laszlo's work in General and Dynamical Systems Theory, complexity only arises in response to a system's move from either equilibrium or non-equilibrium to a far-from equilibrium position. Laszlo (1987) describes the far-from-equilibrium state with the following:
The third possible state of systems is the state far from thermal and chemical equilibrium. Systems in this state are nonlinear and occasionally indeterminate. They do not tend toward minimum free energy and maximum entropy but may amplify certain fluctuations and evolve toward a new dynamic regime that is radically different from stationary states at or near equilibrium. (Evolution, 21) Just as the phoenix bursts into flames so that it may rise new and immortal from its ashes-winged, soaring creature that it is-it appears that all of life endures encoded partial destruction of key elements at special moments to insure evolution. The symbol of the phoenix is fitting to capture this image of freedom reborn from the destruction of its earlier self than this archetype-fed process of self creation. Opportunities for Healing
Understanding of field phenomena may help us to translate and convert unconscious behaviors into opportunities for greater understanding. Awareness of what I am calling an "archetypal morphology" and the capacity to recognize the formation of transpersonal patterns may help us understand those movements which all too often become national and global catastrophes (Conforti) http://www.ofj.org/story/december-1999-newsletter-archive
Naked Awareness
The core experience of the holographic domain is a mystical state of consciousness. Immersion in a new order of reality that reflects our indissoluble unity with cosmos and the groundstate of Being reveals what IS.The ultimate gift from the unconscious is a livable myth -- an encounter with animating sources of numinous energy.
Everything pulses with the same luminosity - a magnificent light of unparalleled brilliance. The "holographic experience" is one of being simultaneously cosmos and individual self. The transcendent function is our capacity to rise above the ordinary world of matter, mind and logic. The erotic power of the soul, at its deepest level, is our thirst for the depths of our own being.
Jung stressed the importance of the unconscious, mysterious, mystical, nonrational, and creative elements of consciousness. What Jung calls “incorruptible value,” we call “meaning and purpose. They are raised to a supernormal degree of luminosity and become numinous. Jung equated the numinous with archetypal experience. Jung developed an understanding of archetypes as effulgence or quasi-consciousness, and that numinosity entails the innermost Light, of an unimaginable luminosity and translucence.
Mass-free Luminosity
Like fixed stars of the psyche, archetypes represent all luminous and numinous nature. Repeated experiences formed creative centers of numinous effect. Archetypes are primordial images, and the most primordial image is the interference pattern. They are the fundamental elements of the conscious mind, its psychic aspect. The psychoid nature of archetypes extended beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy. Archetypes act as the fundamental dynamical patterns characterizing all processes, whether mental or physical. They are xpressions of the underlying energy patterns which shape life itself.
Jung said, a primordial image is determined as to its content only when it has become conscious and is therefore filled out with the material of conscious experience. The archetype itself belongs to the unobservable, invisible realm -- transcendent, irrepresentable source. Archetypes are present as dynamic organizers of ideas and images. When operating in the realm of psyche, they are the dynamical organizers of images and ideas -- luminous intuition. Operating in the realm of physis, they are the patterning principle of matter and energy -- mass-free luminosity.
The quantum vacuum is a dynamic massless scalar field. In the quantum vacuum vectoral and potential energies interact. A hologram is a scalar field. Scalars are just active information; a hologram is pure information. Entanglement is a property of nonlocal quantum information exchange. In this way, we understand before knowing. In Languages of the Brain (1971), Pribram postulated a neural hologram made by the interaction of waves in the cortex, which in turn is based on a hologram of much shorter wavelengths formed by the wave interactions on the sub-atomic level.
Luminous Being
At the most fundamental level of our individual being, we too, our bodies and our psyches are part of the interference patterns caused by the interaction of consciousness and wave fronts arising from fields of infinite possibility. We then must also operate by holographic principles, thus our internal perception of this reality is itself a hologram in our brain. It is the means of perception that gives the universe its apparent forms and solidity.
It is also this holographic perception that influences the dynamics of our brain's and our body's chemistry, our self-hologram. In this perceptual hologram resides the fundamental basis of our structure and our sense of self and external environment, including our psychophysical health and illness. Our disease structures are incorporated within it. It is here, at this level of our being where fundamental healing and physical-psychic restructuring occur.
This hologram is our the primal existential sensory self-image or existential hologram. Our sense of self is a holographic, existential, multi-sensory image. A holgram results from destructive and constructive interference of two superimposed coherent electromagnetic energy wave patterns. This field of interference is independent of direction and velocity, space and time.
Synchronized coherent EM energy in the human brain at certain frequencies leads to "laser like" effects, amplifying brainwaves, generating a scalar field containing the total 'information' of an individual. Instinct is felt physiologically and experienced as numinous images that seem to contrast to mere bodily sensations. Its complexes and archetypes show a kind of multiple luminosity or "quasiconsciousness"
Thus, we have a hologram within a hologram, and the interrelatedness of the two somehow gives rise to our sensory images. Bohm (1980), in Wholeness and the Implicate Order went further, declaring the brain is a hologram interpreting a holographic universe. In a holographic model this inseparable interconnectedness begins at the even more fundamental level of human existence, rooted in our existential blueprint, DNA. The brain is a hologram, enfolded within our holographic mind-body, enfolded within a holographic universe.
Mind is called the sparkling awareness, that exists but does not really exist. There exist no phenomena other than what arises from the mind. When you look upward into the space of the sky outside yourself, If there are no thoughts occurring that are emanations being projected.
Twinkles
Dynamic visual noise, or 'twinkle' looks like a swarm of busy ants. Similar twinkle is seen on a blank screen, in afterimages. This seems evidence for active filling in. We seem to be seeing what the brain creates, to fill in the hole in the static or the dynamic twinkling display.
This interpretation has led to an interesting debate. Dan Dennett has written (Dennett 2002): 'In this new perceptual illusion, the illusory content is that there is twinkling in the square. But, one is tempted to ask, how is this content rendered? Is it a matter of the representation being composed of hundreds or thousands of individual illusory twinkles or is it a matter of there being, in effect, a label that just says "twinkling" ... Can the brain represent twinkling, perceptually, without representing individual twinkles?'
Dennet generalizes this to normal perception: 'It does not follow from the fact that we see the twinkling that the individual twinkles are represented.' This is an important general issue for perception, as perceptions may be largely fictional, even when they are not false. It is also important for artists; they do not have to represent each leaf of a tree, a 'leafy pattern' will serve, though it has no individual leaves. Although this experiment supports the notion that scotomas can be filled in neurally, just what is filled in may be questioned.
http://www.answers.com/topic/filling-in-scotomas#ixzz1i9TDaZQd
Wisdom Light
When you look inward at your own mind inside yourself, If there exists no projectionist who projects thoughts by thinking them, then your own subtle mind will become lucidly clear without anything being projected. Even though this penetrating light cannot be said to possess a particular shape or form, nevertheless, it can be fully known. But most of us do not enjoy such naked awareness but the emergent products of the sparkling awareness.
Once order dissolves into chaos little sparks of order emerge and dissolve in an intricate process of feedback, until eventually new centers of stabilizing order emerge. Jung claimed the archetypes have a certain effulgence, the numinosity has luminosity. Archetypes' numinous luminosity attracts and holds us like a gravity well. Archetypes function like strange attractors. Not archetypal in strictly the same sense as used by Jung; the term refers to principles so primordial that they underlie the fundamental shaping of all structures. Attractors bring coherence to 'various signs and symbols.
As an adjective, numinous describes the power of "divinity", but it is also a generic category of experience. The numinous element appears as not personal, not individual, not finite, not mortal, not rational, not human, not limited in power or intelligence, not time or space bound. It is another word for the urgent emergence of Mystery. It can be brilliant, enlightening. Light is the archetype of the revelation of ultimate reality.
This source effect is the root of the religious drive and religious experience. Such conceptualizations create stereotypes of partially cognized phenomena, sometimes as "entities". Due to religious undertow, mankind never ceases trying to personalize the numinous element, and to stereotype it with various aspects of personality. Such permanent hypnosis leads at once toward constant need, a perfected will to direct it. And indeed it is the lack of this will in ourselves and others that often leads to the flighty accident-prone nature of history, which is full of mishaps and casualties.
Otto, Jung and Eliade described the numinous experience with two awe-inspiring aspects: mysterium tremendum, which is the tendency to invoke fear and trembling; and mysterium fascinans, the tendency to attract, fascinate and compel. Otto meant the terms to stand for objectified nonrational religious apprehension -- "a special term to stand for the holy minus its moral factor, . . . and minus its rational aspect altogether." The state of global culture demands we bring some rationality to the subject, for between corruption and religiosity, the system is breaking down.
Jung called the "numinous element" the collective unconscious, which is a primordial force like the force of electricity. Elsewhere, it is called the Clear Light of the Void, or an impersonal "Smoking Mirror" that underlies the explicit, observable phenomena of nature. The numinous experience also has a personal quality to it, in that the person feels communion with a wholly other. The numinous experience can lead to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and/or the transcendent. But it is a phenomenon, not contact with a "separate" "divinity", per se. The unconscious almost always appears as "Not-I". Naturally, in the past, it was treated and accepted as such.
Otto suggests, "It may burst in sudden eruption up from the depths of the soul with spasms and convulsions or lead to the strangest excitements, to intoxicated frenzy, to transport and to ecstasy. It has its wild and demonic forms, and can sink to an almost grisly horrors and shuddering. It has its crude barbaric antecedents, and early manifestations, and again it may be developed into something beautiful, pure, and glorious. . . .Its antecedent stage is demonic dread with its queer perversion, a sort of abortive offshoot, the dread of ghosts. It first begins to stay in the feeling of "something uncanny," "eerie" or "weird."
We now understand such episodes as effects of activated archetypes, often compensatory in nature, or associated with trance, art, and creativity. (J.C. Gowan) Instead of describing a privileged connection, it actually reveals a distinct lack of conscious relationship to the numinous element that demonstrates lack of balanced comprehension. We recognize it mostly clearly in ancient texts where there was little cognitive objectivity about such overwhelming emotionally-based phenomena. Contact with the numinous makes us realize another mode of consciousness exists. Our driving force becomes making that connection, in part seeking to control the darker impulses.
We can get in touch with this ground of being with less exposure to these dangers through procedures involving ego-loss and more or less productive altered states. Altered states loosen the very perceptual restrictions the brain
uses to shut out the numinous from distracting us from immediate survival.
In trance, the prototaxic mode, the price of admission is simply no less than the excursion of ego-consciousness (ego-death) and the loss of memory of the encounter. In the parataxic mode, the matter and symbolic material is handled through ritual, art (self-expression), and images. Even the fuller understanding of the creative (syntaxic) mode does not allow (in its lower manifestations) complete absence of this negative (dreadful, overwhelming) aspect, as carried on through the osmosis of creativity, the self-reference of orthocognition, and the passivity of meditation.
Jung points out that individuation is not identification with the collective unconscious, for this leads to a naive megalomania "in the form of prophetic inspiration and desire for martyrdom." Considering all this, it is not surprising that the path of the mystic has been called "the razor's edge." Jung cautions, the juncture between the conscious ego and the numinous element must be effected with some care so that the latter does not take over. Psychic insulation separates the conscious mind and finite ego from the generalized preconscious, for if it were not there, the ego would be overwhelmed and driven to madness by the superordinate and chaotic aspect of the numinous element.
In discussing individuation, his word for self-actualization or self-realization, Jung says (1971:123):
"The aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other . . . But when we turn to . . . the influence of the collective unconscious, we find we are moving in a dark interior world that is vastly more difficult to understand than the psychology of the persona, which is accessible to everyone . . . It is another thing to describe . . . those subtle inner processes which invade the conscious mind with such suggestive force. Perhaps we can best portray these influences with the help of examples of mental illness, creative inspiration, and religious conversion."
Jung reminds us that the task of individuation is central in understanding the complexities of our role in the world.
"If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see ourselves in the round. Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. Never shall we put any face on the world other than our own, and we have to do this precisely in order to find ourselves. For higher than science or art as an end in itself stands man, the creator of his instruments. Nowhere are we closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves who we always think we know already. Yet we know the immensities of space better than we know our own depths, where — even though we do not understand it — we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself." (CW8: 737 Analytical Psychology and 'Weltanschauung' 1928/31)
Trance (awe and dread of the uncanny) is a dissociative way of escape; art is a way of personal expression; creativity brings cognition, universality, and compassion into the process. But, most often the Source of imagery and power is confused emotionally with religious ideas and preconditioned cultural beliefs. In our most intimate contact with the "divine", we are the most collective, not unique. In this sense, ego actually protects the organism. The so-called continuity of the ego is not independent but is the resultant of a carefully balanced perceptual intake. The whole problem itself falls in the realm of philosophy and the passionate nature of the dynamics of the mind.
It was described by the alchemists as their Secret Fire, the god in the flame. The Chaldeans describe it in a beautiful poem dedicated to fire. "There is above the celestial fire an incorruptible flame, always sparkling; the spring of life, the fountain of all being, the original of all things! This flame produceth all things, and nothing perisheth but what It consumeth. It maketh Itself known by Itself. This Fire cannot be contained in any place; It is without body and without matter, It encompasseth the heavens. And there goeth forth from it a little spark, which maketh all the fire of the sun, of the moon and of the stars. Strive not to know more of Him, for that is beyond thy capacity, how wise soever thou art."
Philalethes says, "this is the heavenly fire, whereof a spark being once kindled, caused such a change in the bodies, that the blackness is made to shine like a sparking gem, wherewith as a diadem our young king crowned."
In Philosophia Speculativa alchemist Gerald Dorn claims, "There shines in us, though dimly in the darkness, the life and the light of man, a light which does not come from us, which however is in us, and we must therefore find it in us: we can find it in Him, in His light." He says, "therefore the truth is to be looked for in the image of God which dwells within us, and that is the one thing which has no second other thing."
It doesn't take too long however, to fall from this divine grace mirroring the infantile state of fusion, born from the wound of phenomenal existence. As the germ of the ego personality develops and as the notion of individual existence emerges as the first meetings with the unconscious are encountered the child realizes that he is not the deity that he thought he was. His connectedness with the universal is severed and he is exiled from paradise as he experiences the separation from the universal. However tragic, this is the first step of the alchemical process, for it leads us back to conscious reunion with the universal. Separate and recombine, "solve et coagula" is the key to the alchemical process (Kalec).
There are many points in the process for it to go wrong, and many are supported by cultural bias. Interpretations of such experiences, cultural and individual color the conclusions about the nature of reality and the imaginal. Interpretations are generally naive, and rarely "correct" in terms of apprehension. Most get caught in the idiosyncratic snare of the contents of the imaginal, rather than cultivating an overview of its dynamics. Confabulations proliferate as symbols collide and fuse into one another in a self-confirmatory search for the Beloved.
We prefer the self-aggrandizing snare to the clarity of "seeing through" our self-delusion. Truth is concealed as much as revealed by the experience, but often it makes people feel special, so they cleave to it and their misperceptions of it, feeling in many instances it is all they've got. But we don't need more veils on reality; we need to strip away the confabulated illusions and self-imposed mind-control that block our collective mental health and efforts to preserve our species.
The idea is not necessarily religious. Nature can inspire experience of awe with its dynamic power and beauty. The short adaptive response is to rely on both inherited and learned experiences in our culture. Noumenal reality is neither invariable, nor absolute. It's just a conceptual realm invented by ancient philosophers to give credence to the envelope of their abstract ideas. Noumenal is not numinous.
We have an existential need within our species to believe in Gods, whether the materialistic, the theological, the atheistic, or the reductionist. But it is a product of our conceptual capacity, even when it appears to come from outside ourselves. It is an adaptive response to the metaphysical, epistemological aspects of our existence which are not subject to scientific observation and need to be conceptualized instead with the limited resolution of our brain. Space, time and ego have been recognized as the three great illusions, but so are the kaleidoscopic forms spun by the "maya" of the unconscious, that hold us in thrall.
But there are ways of consciously experiencing the numinous, which is the enchanted realm, directly and consciously, that is immediate and doesn't require a third person prime mover at all. If you omit experience the numinous in the first person and settle for the noumenal second or third person you will never find the source, because the noumenal is an even worse restriction than the perceptual.
Like it or not, archetypes are our constant companions. Once we identify with archetypes or memes, we become attached to certain patterns and limitations. What we experience while we are still obsessed is an opiate, a connection with the underworld, and the dreaminess of our own unique, personalized inner images. We are bewitched. We are wanting and seeking aliveness, and indeed mistake this altered state for aliveness, but what we get is its opposite, a loss of vitality, and a dreamy illusory existence. Entangled, we lose sight of the fact that the content of our fantasies is less important than a top-down view of the archetypal process from which it emerges.
The countermeasures to this mindtrap are awareness and detachment from the contents of our own imaginal process, continuously digging beneath our own beliefs and presumptions to find the true ground of Being, beyond the influence of archetypes to mold us and grip our consciousness. Consciousness is not a noun; it's a verb -- something we do. Between the brain and what the brain is conscious of. It is a relational concept where there is a here and a there. Consciousness lies in between them and serves to bring them together as a whole.
Light My Fire
Perhaps inadvertently creating a new metaphor of "light" in the brain, in Nov. 2011, Harvard scientists reported genetically altered neurons that light up across a cell as they fire, eliminating the need to insert electrodes in each neuron. They used a gene that makes a protein that fluoresces when exposed to the electrical signal in a neuron, allowing scientists to trace the propagation of signals through the cell. http://www.kurzweilai.net/neurons-illuminate-as-they-fire-may-open-new-ways-to-trace-brain-signals?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=59e6a2b3cb-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email
They infected brain cells with a genetically altered virus that contained the protein-producing gene. Once infected, the cells began manufacturing the protein, allowing them to light up for optical observation of the otherwise hidden process of how signals spread throughout the neuronal network, and even how signals change if the cells are undergoing something akin to learning.
Research Directions
Maybe instead of trying to figure out what consciousness is, we ought to figure out what "consciousnessing" is doing. We all know about the Here and Now. Then there is a consciousness of the past, how we usually think reflectively about stuff. But isn't there yet another type of consciousness? Way back in the mind, exists a consciousness that only observes without comment one way or the other. Hopefully, in such edgework, our species and science itself become less hyperbolic and more humble. Hu and Wu suggest research directions:
Certain phenomena point toward research directions:
- Photon Emissions from Separate Brains Sharing Same Magnetic Field
Persinger reports in Brain Research that light flashes delivered to one aggregate of cells evoked increased photon emission in another aggregate of cells maintained in the dark in another room if both aggregates shared the same temporal and spatial configuration of changing rate, circular magnetic fields. They also reported that increased photon emissions occurred beside the heads of human volunteers if others in another room saw light flashes during the presentation of the same shared circumcerebral magnetic fields. They further reported that when the shared magnetic fields were not present, both cellular and human photon emissions during the light flashes did not occur.
- Doubling of Local Photon Emissions from Chemical Reactions Sharing Magnetic Field
In Biophyiscal Chemistry (in press) [2], Dotta and Persinger report the doubling of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations.
- Storage and Retrival of Temporal Patterns of Photon Emissions from the Same Space
In NeuroQuantology [3], Persinger and Dotta reported that the temporal patterns of photon emissions can be stored and retrieved several days later from the “same space.” In particulars, they found temporal patterns of the photon emissions as “spontaneous” spikes within 3 to 5 days after the actual manipulations when the same magnetic field configuration was present but no manipulations were done.
- Increased Photon Emissions from the Brain While Imagining White Light in the Dark
In JCER [4], Dotta and Persinger report significant increases in biophoton emissions along the right side but not the left when subjects imagined white light in a dark environment. They report that the increased biophoton emissions did not occur when the same subjects thought about mundane experiences. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/192/209
Conclusions
We need to appreciate in a spiritual sense that nature, including our own embodied human nature, remains the final frontier for exploration and our greatest teacher. Hopefully, that might divert us from outworn apocalyptic, messianic, and ascensionist memes that dominated the last Age, and the uncritical enthusiasm for technological advance at any cost to our humanity. In the imagination, it is always the beginning and end time, the only time. Revelation always occurs in the Now.
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