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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.

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