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Quantum Potentials, Integral Science, Non-Duality and Higher Realms
By
Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera
Non-duality in physics begins with a wordless inspiration leading to an integral view that makes
room for all of reality, including higher realms of being and an expanded concept of whatmatter and substance may be.
Akira Tonomura showed that quantum potentials exist and must be of a level of reality that is
not directly detected by scientific apparatus albeit having definite physical consequences. This
level may be (in relation to our ordinarily perceived physical reality) non-local. Is it actual? Is it
"real?" It depends on how we look at it. Is it material? Yes, in the sense of a kind of substance.
Can it be disclosed? Yes, but as far as we knowindirectly, through effects on regular
physical reality. It stands before or below the physical form and what we think of "physical"
force field vectors. Is it physicalist? No, not anymore in the crude mechanical sense or its
vestiges found in modern physics and in the mind of "reality=physicalism" scientists. Is it
culturally promising? Yes, as it may allow realist experimental scientists to open up to thepossibility of a series of deeper interconnected worlds at least partially coinciding with
paranormal phenomena, survival of bodily death, extra dimensional-interdimensional
extraterrestrial activity and energy extracted from the active vacuum.
Materialism doesn't have to equal physicalism under a broader view of what "matter" and
"substance" might be. At this point in integral theorizing we need to consider that a deeper kind
of materialism is not just compatible with non physicalist models but with approaches that
include the material existence of other realms. Integral Theory proposes the universal fact that all
things or holons (realms of reality included) have (at least some degree of) Objective Exteriors.
These other realms would have EXTERIORS, not physical as in the Gross Realm we ordinarily
perceive and tend to conceive as the only reality that matters. These other realms while
undetected could be considered as ""potential" and when detected as "actual" in relation to our
ordinary "physical" experience. In other words, they are REAL but can be thought about in two
broad ways. This is a SUBTLETY and distinction that needs to be considered in future
INTEGRAL modeling that relates our known physical universe with other realms. If we do so,
Integral Theory could become more scientifically predictive in due time and not just act as an
integral set of principles and guidelines.
Scientists are slowly recognizing that other realms and realities are possible and necessary even
for understanding how our physical universe works, its fundamental laws, constants and other
values tuned for life. That there is a program and a programmer is becoming more and more
plausible as chance is not and self-origination out of nothing makes little sense. Both the
quantum energies allowed by the Uncertainty Principle and the quantum potentials are not
"nothing."
The quantum potentials that are sometimes considered as subjacent to "real" physical
phenomena (having to do more with vectors fields and forces exerted over detectable charges
and masses) may be the "tip of an iceberg" located in a realm that programs physical universes.
These potentials may be subsets of a higher mental-informing realm whose exteriors (whose
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matter) respond to mental causes and is itself derived from a causal realm of first principles...all
of which derive from an Absolute Non Dual Transcendent Creator outside not just of space and
time of the "Physical Realm" but of all logical possibilities of the Mental Realm and of the first
principles of the Causal Realm.
I'm familiar with Ken Wilber's work. It purports to offer a model that considers all main aspectsof reality under a unifying pattern. All events seem to manifest in four distinct ways that can be
observed and acknowledged through induction or deduced from a logic of complementarity. This
pattern that connects applies to all known forms of knowledge and their disclosing methods.
Nonetheless, I think that for it to really be more "integral" and also helpful and predictive to an
emerging science in need to a major metaphysical revision it must now include a plausible
physics of inter-realm activity. The barriers for this to take place are a psychological and
cultural attitude in the scientific community and -I believe- even in the integral theory
community against things "paranormal" mostly on the grounds of earning establishment
credibility.
The so-called paranormal is misunderstood as non-scientific (or as non-verifiable, therefore,non-scientific) but its interaction with our ordinary way of experiencing the world (an inter-
realm interaction) may follow (besides the important patterns spoken about by Wilber) other
scientific (even material) laws which we may also discover under an expanded scientific-
metaphysical approach. The interaction (in fact, a mechanism which sustains our ordinary world)
may be taking place all the time but only when combined realm spaces momentarily form
modifying the ordinary characteristics of our known space-time realm, we experience what we
think of as an anomaly or a paranormal event. Regardless of the uneasiness with theotherworldly (that limits human experience to physical experience and often to partially valid but
incomplete religious explanations), Wilber's model borrows non-dual experiential approaches
from contemplative traditions andalong with these- briefly touches on the possibility that other
realms of being exist. Furthermore, even working under his more recent "post-metaphysical"
approach (that asks for individual and collective verification of what will be accepted as serious
data), I think that there are important patterns that may be discerned for inter-realm interactions,
patterns which have physical consequences and can thus be actually observed, disclosed,
actualized (into our experience) may expand the Integral Model. Actually our whole human
experience and not just reality and ontology may necessarily include not just all of the so
called quadrants or aspects of manifest reality as in Wilbers model, but how all of the realmstogether generate the FIVE BOUNDARIES through which we experience the illusion of
duality and the imperative need to constantly choose in order to evolve (see Oleg Linetskys
work on this matter at: http://www.integralworld.net/linetsky4.html).
I think that, to figure out what these patterns may be like, we also need to take a fresh look into
classical metaphysical thinking such as Aristotles concept of potentia (as what a holon can
manifest or may be actually manifesting in another non directly detected realm) and energeia,
(as actuality or a holon as something happening) and to integrate aspects of Platonism and
Plotinian emergentism with the philosophy of substance, of multiple bodies (hylic pluralism),
Vedanta, serious esoteric models and the possibilities offered by quantum physics and
cosmology. That would add a bold but serious outlook to many current integral models which
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through their denial of the otherworldly and its effect in our daily lives, could all be considered
integrative rather than genuinely integral.
The nature of our physical universe may depend on a programming originating in a mental level
of reality sometimes called the Subtle Realm (following Indian Vedanta philosophy).
Regarding this particular, look into the work of Professor James Sylvester Gates on what he calls"Adinkras." This is serious theoretical science from a well-established contributor of Superstring
Theory. Now, also the work of Akira Tonomura
http://www.hitachi.com/rd/fellow_tonomura.htmlis related with David Bohm's (of the
Aharonov-Bohm Effect) deeper levels of reality with physical consequence but there also is
other experimental evidence regarding the primacy of non-vector potentials. I think that some of
the free-energy research (theoretically explained by Thomas E. Bearden) is also related and I
think that the way ahead (however futuristic it may still sound today) is a further integration of
scientific and metaphysical principles that can lead to practical predictions, experiments, devices
and results. Even the concept of a deeper, subjacent holographic, information field held (with
particular differences) by Lynn Mac Taggart, Ervin Laszlo and by astronaut Edgar Mitchell may
be conceived as possessing many deeper and broader levels which in turn may correspond towhat in Vedanta and in some Western esoteric systems is called the Subtle and Causal realms. In
other words, the field may not only include non-local quantum potentials but may also not
need to be limited to an expanded but apparently still physicalist view.
All of this would change the popular understanding of what the word "metaphysical" entails. It
doesn't have to simply remain speculative or visionary and necessarily related to a dogmatic
religious or esoteric approach (shunned by no-nonsense realist-physicalist empirical scientists).In fact, several forms of interactive disclosure procedures can be implemented to disclose and
interpret the so called "Subtle Realm." The three eyes of knowledge proposed by St.
Bonaventure may apply not just while we live mostly experientially focused in the Gross
Physical Realm butaltogether- to all of the three basic realms. This would entail material,mental and spiritual disclosures of knowledge available in all three realms and would be a more
integral approach. Off course, since most Integral Theorists and students related to Ken
Wilbers worktend to have a psychological and self-development, spiritual inclination and/orsocial application concerns (all of which are quite valid and necessary) the physics of inter-realm
interaction is not given much attention to. It is not understood that physics need not be limited
to the Physical Realm but can include other kinds of objective, material aspects also expectedto exist in other more primary and necessary realms. It is not understood that to be integral all
of these realms (with which we are constitutionally made of) need to be recognized and
embraced much more thoroughly.
Perhaps the concept of an extended Physis or Phusis (nature) needs to be developed beyond
the ordinary interpretation of the Aristotelian focus on physical substance. We have to
understand that substance (a substance that can be scientifically studied) transcends the
ordinary physical world. Perhaps the Indian concept of a universal space-forming Akashaor universal substance that can generate Physical worlds primarily responding to exterior causes,
Subtle-Mental worlds primarily responding to conscious and unconscious subjective causes and
Causal/principial worlds primarily responding to spiritual causes needs to be adopted, along with
the metaphysical rules that may govern their interaction, interpenetration and mutual immanence.
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Perhaps three kinds of logic apply to these relations (causal either-or, systemic both-and
and transcendental neither-nor) and to be both objectively scientific and metaphysically
accurate in a broader scientific-metaphysical view well need to include them all appropriately.
This may sound too airy fairy, unreal and complicated but it is more a matter of having some
cultural back-up, learning a few more integrative concepts and being inspired by an integral
attitude.
I think that Integral Theory is a great step forward beyond previous exclusivist approaches but,
nonetheless, as integral theorists we need to offer more than guidelines (however significant it
may be that they arose as a unifying approach in the first place). We need an integral theoretical
way to make predictions within the more advanced areas of quantum physics and cosmology
requiring a non-physicalist approximation. The way science is developing (with theoretically
needed speculations about other universes in the "Multiverse" or, for instance, objectively valid
UFO research and the non-scientifically orthodox but ever-increasing "ghost research" evidence
of electromagnetic interactions with entities in sub-regions of the Subtle-Mental Realm) require
an expanded approach to Integral Theory. In fact, Integral Theory -if presented as a Theory of
Everything or as the most advanced Meta theoretical framework requires a bolder approach totruly be at the forefront of all this converging knowledge. A unique worldwide cultural evolution
and revolution could take place not only by connecting our awareness to the non-dual Ground of
all being but when we collectively discover the inner workings of what we call REALITY in a
way that can produce scientific evidence and technologies.