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The Four Spheres Healing the Split Between Mysticism and Science Coordinating Framework for Dialogue The Four Spheres Healing the Split between Mysticism and Science Paul Hague The Four Spheres Healing the Split between Mysticism and Science Paul Hague Paragonian Publications Svenshögen, Sweden Published by: Paragonian Publications Hällungevägen 60 SE-444 97 Svenshögen Sweden Web: mysticalpragmatics.net Email: paul at mysticalpragmatics.net The most up-to-date, searchable version of this book is available at: http://mysticalpragmatics.net/documents/the_four_spheres.pdf In the Mystical Society and Age of Light, there will be no copyright on books because everything created in the relativistic world of form is a gift of God. There is thus no separate entity in the Universe who can be said to have written this, or, indeed, any other book. However, this understanding is not yet accepted by society at large. So we feel obliged to copyright this book in the conventional manner. © 2016 Paul Hague First edition, 2016 ISBN: 978-91-975176-6-9, 91-975176-6-6 Typeset in Adobe Caslon 12/15 Symbol of Coherent Light of Consciousness on front cover programmed in Postscript by the author from an idea of the University of the Trees. For all children everywhere, born and yet to be born, for you are destined to be carried to evolution’s glorious culmination in the much longed-for Age of Light The Mystical Whole He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Block all the passages! Shut all the doors! Blunt all edges! Untie all tangles! Harmonize all lights! Unite the world into one whole! This is called the Mystical Whole, Which you cannot court after nor shun, Benefit nor harm, honour nor humble. Therefore, it is the Highest of the world. Tao Teh Ching Lao Tzu (Laozi) (Tr. John C. H. Wu) Imagine Imagine theres no heaven its easy if you try no hell below us above us only sky imagine all the people living for today … Imagine theres no countries it isnt hard to do nothing to kill or die for and no religion too imagine all the people living life in peace … You may say Im a dreamer but Im not the only one I hope someday youll join us and the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can no need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man imagine all the people sharing all the world … You may say Im a dreamer but Im not the only one I hope someday youll join us and the world will live as one John Lennon (1940–1980) Contents Preface ....................................................................................................................... xiii 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 The Great Chain of Being ...................................................................................................................... 1 Geocentric spheres .................................................................................................................................. 2 Le Milieu Divin ....................................................................................................................................... 4 The two dimensions of time ................................................................................................................... 6 Balancing evolution and involution ........................................................................................................ 8 Contextual inversion ............................................................................................................................... 9 2. An Ontogenetic Perspective ..................................................................................... 11 Looking inwards ................................................................................................................................... 12 ‘Discovery’ of synergistic psychospiritual energies ................................................................................ 15 The Principle of Duality ....................................................................................................................... 16 The Omega Point of evolution ............................................................................................................. 17 The Principle of Unity .......................................................................................................................... 18 Unifying mysticism and science ............................................................................................................ 20 Communicating insights and experiences ............................................................................................. 21 Returning to society .............................................................................................................................. 22 3. The Numinosphere .................................................................................................. 24 Beyond the Numinosphere ................................................................................................................... 24 Birth of the Universe ............................................................................................................................ 26 Coherent Light of Consciousness ......................................................................................................... 27 Pillars of wisdom and unwisdom .......................................................................................................... 29 The theistic origin of money ................................................................................................................. 30 Revealing Inner Peace ........................................................................................................................... 33 4. The Noosphere ........................................................................................................ 34 Mapping the mind ................................................................................................................................ 34 Concept formation ................................................................................................................................ 36 Transcending the categories ................................................................................................................. 38 Relational model of data ....................................................................................................................... 39 Healing the fragmented mind ............................................................................................................... 41 Evolution of scientific method .............................................................................................................. 42 Holoramic scientific method ................................................................................................................ 48 A unified science of mind ..................................................................................................................... 52 The spectrum of consciousness ............................................................................................................. 55 Cognitive science .................................................................................................................................. 61 Meaning triangle .................................................................................................................................. 62 Liberation from our mechanistic conditioning ..................................................................................... 64 Prospects for artificial intelligence ........................................................................................................ 70 5. The Biosphere ......................................................................................................... 73 The taxonomy of the species ................................................................................................................. 76 Aggregation hierarchies ........................................................................................................................ 81 The discovery of the cell ....................................................................................................................... 84 Evolutionary hierarchies ....................................................................................................................... 90 Bringing Life back to biology ............................................................................................................... 95 The rate of growth of structure ............................................................................................................. 99 6. The Hylosphere ..................................................................................................... 103 Unifying quantum and relativity theories ............................................................................................ 106 Paradoxes of physics ........................................................................................................................... 110 Consciousness as Ultimate Reality ...................................................................................................... 114 The cosmological principle ................................................................................................................. 115 Are we alone? .....................................................................................................................................
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