Conclusion
The visionary, Willis Harman, was Professor Emeritus of Engineering Economic Systems at Stanford University, USA, and President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He died on 30th January 1997. He considered the importance of suspending prejudice against alternative mindsets and that the necessity for change will undoubtedly change the way that we negotiate many fields of enterprise and education:
"Whether its psychic phenomena, mystical experiences, communications with the dead...whatever it is, you're implying that reality is different from the way they taught you in school. Sooner or later we're going to say "Well if all of that's so, then our emphasis in business and economics have to be different, as well as our emphases in politics, education and healthcare." (Harman 1997)
Harman sees the changing worldview as an emerging ‘transmodern’ worldview as a development of intuitional faculties, an inner knowing which identifies subjective experience as a source for gaining contemplative truths.
“One of the most important aspects of these forces for change is the apparent emergence of a new worldview... On the other hand, there are many indications of the possible emergence of a trans-modern picture of reality differing both from the scientific worldview and the traditional religious worldview.
This emerging trans-modern worldview, involves a shift in the locus of authority from external to "inner knowing." It has basically turned away from the older scientific view that ultimate reality is "fundamental particles," and trusts perceptions of the wholeness and spiritual aspect of organisms, ecosystems, Gaia and Cosmos. This implies a spiritual reality, and ultimate trust in the authority of the whole. It amounts to a reconciliation of scientific inquiry with the "perennial wisdom" at the core of the world's spiritual traditions. It continues to involve a confidence in scientific inquiry, but an inquiry whose metaphysical base has shifted from the reductionist, objectivist, positivist base of 19th- and 20th-century science to a more holistic and transcendental metaphysical foundation.
The modern worldview is based on Western science which, in terms of its goals of prediction, control, and generation of manipulative technologies, is amazingly successful. Nevertheless, it is an artifact of Western culture and it does have its limitations.
The core of the current challenge to the scientific worldview can be taken to be "consciousness," which has come to be a code word for a wide range of human experience, including conscious awareness or subjectivity, intentionality, selective attention, intuition, creativity, relationship of mind to healing, spiritual sensibility, and a range of anomalous experience and phenomena. Efforts toward incorporating within the scientific purview any or all of this territory has proven to be an extremely difficult task.
The fundamental reason for this difficulty appears to be that Western science has been caught in a basic dualistic trap - that of considering the subject doing the mapping as separate from the map. Getting a more accurate map (more based on modern physics, more "holistic", more "systems") will not solve this problem. Rather, we must realize that thoughts are not merely a reflection on reality, but are also a movement of that reality itself. The mapmaker, the self, the thinking and knowing subject, is actually a product and a performance of that which it seeks to know and represent.” (Harman 1997)
THE END IS A NEW BEGINNING
“The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.” Karl Marx
“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.” Theodor Adorno
For Emerson, and I suspect for the majority of well read ecumenical Masonic Statesmen, idealism is couched in the striving to realise a universal human reason, an ideal state, a utopia of sorts, as a potential evolution from the struggle between discrete totalising agents at war, a process that assumes the eventual submission to what is considered to be the more reasonable mindset indicative of the Western Christian Empire. It is inherent in Emerson’s work, for example in his writing title Power, (Emerson 2006) that he identifies the American culture as the more sophisticated of all Western systems.
Behind the mask of diplomacy and democracy, Emmerson’s rhetoric reveals dual nature of the right hand’s deeds and the left hands deeds. His prose waxes with wonderful statements of liberty, justice and that all men are created equal. However, the first half of his writings do not cohere with the later passages, as in them, he justifies the acts of the left hand, the deeds committed in service to the state. Behind the rhetoric, as in the masterful prose of Alexanders Oath, a sinister reality is concealed.
In order to illustrate the difference between the lower mind and the higher potential of a mind that is non judgemental, and not oriented to personal gain, not in allegiance to a political state, but in service to truth, freedom and ultimately to love, I will introduce a brief analysis from the last and first episode of the Star Wars films by George Lucas focussing on the transformation from Aniken the most gifted Jedai Knight, to Darth Veda, his complete antithesis as in this narrative reveals the most complex of all issues, that of surrender to the higher order and universal collective or to the seduction of personal will to power.
Anakin is emotionally affected by his ability to see into the future. The images plague his mind and disturb his focus. It is revealed to him that his partner would die in childbirth. Although he has been trained in the understanding that fear of loss which leads to anger and eventually to the dark side, would be the ultimate seduction, his emotional turmoil is arresting. He assumes like many that his precognitive awareness is destiny. The potential loss of his loved one is exploited by the Emperor, who holds the mantle of political power due to the declaration of war and is commanding his government with all of the power of totalitarian dictator. Aniken is told that the Force is neither good nor evil, and that he can be shown ways and means of using the force in its more complete manifestation to prevent the visions from manifesting. In extending his training Anikin activates his personal will, and in attempting to prevent such a death, the very object of his fears is fuelled with all of passion and desire to save his love.
The twist in this narrative is the very dissent into the seduction of the service to self, out of the fear of loss that in effect causes the death of his love that he is attempting to prevent. The twist literally is the point of inversion. It is the paradox logic. Everything becomes inverted, perverted, deformed. The personal will to control and manipulate reality for certain outcomes is the very causative force that brings them into being. The nondual duality is itself collapsed to a duality of the discrete, the separated, the good and the evil. The Blade of the sword cuts through the Phrygian knot. The in-formation is now one that is de-formation. The curious word play inherent in this analysis is itself not trivial, and echoes deformation of character in legal cases, punishes those who seek to expose the evil behind the superficial appearance. In exposing the other the self is exposed. In judging the other the self is judged. The deformation of a culture is the inherent evil that lies beneath the superficial veneer of virtuous acts that are the appearance projected to disguise the justified acts of necessity that are committed in order to control the assumed necessary outcome.
With an all-consuming statement spoken by the Grand Master himself, Yoda, encourages Luke skywalker instilling these words “Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hatred, and Hatred leads to the Dark Side, repeated in the last O first episode, “It is the Fear of Loss that leads to the Dark side”, the essence of this simple truth is revealed. The Force is nondual duality. It is neither good nor evil. It is through human judgement, action, emotion, fear projection and so on, that potential for evil to occur arises.
The revelation that the emotional deformation is informed by psychological trauma that is a complex rendering of the broken heart, is inherent in Anakin’s transformation into Darth Veda. The tension for Anakin was the struggle with the logic and rationalisations of Good and Evil. In witnessing Obiwan Kenobi about to kill the Emperor Darth Sidius, who by virtue of the declaration of war has been instated as the Sovereign Political Leader, a revolution from within is initiated and relies on swift action that has no time for a judicial council. It is an anarchistic murder that is justified as necessary to prevent the ultimate war. The moment of indecision, informed by Anakin’s need to honour the sovereign code of justice, and bid for a fair trial, is the very instance where evil is earthed, again an emotional disturbances, a confusion already unsettled through the seed of seduction in the will to power enabling the cuts or fracture for evil to manifest into the physical formal reality from the shadow where it has lurked.
The possession of Anakin by the force of evil, the rage, and anger, and emotional instability, leads to his acts causing the death of his loved one, leads to his tragic broken heart, and results in him burning in the fires of his own hell, to be reformed resurrected, now part automaton, that is running on a hardwired emotionally bound template of instinctual reaction. The Fear Of Loss leads to the dark side and collapses the paradox of the nondual duality into its lower correspondent, its lower dimensional form, that is into duality, dichotomy, and the bifurcation of either or choice, thereby loosing the complexity and the dynamics of truth overarching aspects of both opposites.
The complexities are enormous. How do we come to terms with complementary relationships when the distortions that information is filtered through have been engaged for eons? How do we negotiate relationships between the universal and the personal, the non-local and the local, the magician and the fool? The Lower mind and the higher mind? Judgement, Liberty justice, justification, necessity, the will to power, and its opposite, surrender and the allowance of the higher mind to transceive without the cooption of the lower metallising processes?
All these considerations are necessary as we negotiate the future.
This thesis has put forward a cornucopia of critiques, assessments and associations in order to bring to the fore the fundamental issues that plague our contemporary world. The Kleinbottle and its variants is a structure that tangibly offers a means through which these paradoxical and metaphysical foundational issues may be raised into a higher realm of logic and hence of understanding.
The implications that are inherent in the Kleinbottle structure and what it offers are phenomenal and opens a space where transdisciplinary research can find a solid structural epistemology through which to critique the numerous disciplines requiring deep revision.
I have offered here purely a sketch of the complexities that lie before all of us. None of them are trivial. There is no system of knowledge or way of being that is available at present that is sufficiently removed from the distortions and archetypal associations that are rooted in the global psyche. Judgement, exposure and projection harbours the very potential of fear and destruction.
The new ERA is the Klein bottle, it is paradox logic, it is nondual duality it is the higher order epistemology and resolution to all.
The End
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love