Integral Quantum Theory Ghost Research: Introduction to the (inter-realm) Physics of Subtle Worlds

©Introduction to the (inter-realm) Physics of Subtle Worlds

-Spaces of the Spirit Realm-

Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera

The reach of “physics” should extend past the Physical Realm (and our particular physical universe within it). It should involve all of nature; all that possesses exteriorities, arises with the quadrants indicated by Integral Theory. I’m not just referring to the jurisdiction of quantum events now linked to an information field and to the Zero Point Energy (ZPE) field. In the expanded study of “Physis” or of all of nature exteriors –whether physical, mental or causal- possess correspondingly decreasing degree of objective, shared “spaces” for dualistic, experiential events to take place. This is possible if we understand that “higher” (ontologically more inclusive) realms may possess other kinds of “space” and matter or substance, for instance, a “space” in which shared, objective events are not limited by distance and duration. This realization would help us to stop the reductionist view of considering every non- space-time event within ordinary physical space merely as belonging to the realm of a non-material “Res Cognizans.” “Physis” would extend to other kinds of matter and this understanding would invalidate considering “discarnate spirits” as purely immaterial and, thus, logically incapable of interacting with physical matter. The mind-body problem would become more complex and more intelligently discussed and the possibility of being scientifically understood would open up. It would also open our eyes to how our known physical universe may be dependent from and, nevertheless, interactive with the Subtle (sometimes called “Astral”) and other realms.

According to an abundance of physical and mental mediumnistic reports like those of materializations, apparitions, “ghost hunting” research, Instrumental Transcommunication and Out-of Body and Near-Death experiences, there seems to be another kind of ‘space’ through which discarnate entities can experience another kind of active and still, cognitive and contingent life. These reports abound and are constantly increasing. Some institutions disseminating them are the Spiritist Network, the Association for Trans Communication, the Biography Channel, The Windbridge Institute and in Victor E. Zammit’s publications and like the UFO Phenomenon -in all honesty- they cannot just be summarily dismissed. Moreover, the implications of these reports coincide with some teachings from the philosophies of Vedanta, Yoga and Tantric Mahayana Buddhism and also with J.J. Poortman’s proposal called “Hylic Pluralism.” Without adopting an exclusivist “either-or” logical approach to knowledge, dualist interactionism and emanationism and other proposals for the mind-body quandary now seem reconcilable. As sincere truth-seekers or, simply, as individuals concerned with our fate, it behoove us to see if we can extend the reach of physics/physis onto different kinds of “spaces” that might exist beyond normally understood sensorial perceptions and even beyond most of the “quantum fields” of Zero Point Energy.

Here I’ll use the term “Subtle Realm” to refer to the next fundamentally different level of ontological reality of which our Physical Realm (along with its many universes) may be a product or derivation. This other realm has been frequently called the “Astral World” in modern Western esoterism but this term has connotations that may be a bit confusing. Moreover, I’ll also use the term “Subtle-Realm” in order to coincide with a well-established idea from “Vedanta” informing us that there are three main “veils of the Supreme Spirit” which we could also call “ontological realities.” This are: The Causal-Seed Realm, the Subtle-Mental Realm and the Gross or Physical Realm. All of these are said to have many levels and are said to correspond to the main environments of the three main “Shariras” or perishable sheaths/bodies of Atman (the veiled Supreme Self or Spirit). They also display their respective “Koshas” or “masks” through which we experience a duality-based creation which is ultimately “Real” in essence but an “illusion” in form.

I’m also using the terms “Physical,” “Subtle” and “Causal” in order to work with the least explored elements in Ken Wilber’s “Integral Theory”: the realms. Integral Theory not only is a wonderful attempt to include under a unifying pattern all major theories, methods and discoveries of humanity across all cultural stages of development. It also tries to be a “theory of everything” by utilizing five main elements to describe, interpret or analyze any experiential occasion or event.

While Integral Theory (or, rather, theory theories or “Meta Theory”) is a major step to reach beyond modern and post postmodern thinking and while it demonstrates some genuinely fundamental organizational principles, there are some faults. Apparently, in order to fit well within the ethos of the age and to flourish academically, its proponents lack the boldness to delve into indispensable metaphysical issues on the nature of reality. Moreover, at its current stage of development, Integral Theory is indeed capable of providing us with an overall vision and guidelines but lacks the power to be highly predictive. I think that, upon embarking on an original exploration between physics and metaphysics in relation to how the different “physis” of realms might interact, this Integral Theory could become more useful to physics, society and culture in general.

Integral Theory proposes that all things, events, ‘occasions’ (and, theoretically-speaking, even whole realms) are “holons” or can be described as “holons” (whole-parts). These partially complete and partially incomplete metaphysical structural elements describe the world and can be described by four main, irreducible aspects: The “Quadrants.” These quadrants are born from duality or from the partially complete and partially incomplete aspects of complementary poles (most likely the metaphysical poles of existence) which, if taken to be mutually dependent parts and wholes (thus forming partially complete and partially incomplete, hierarchically organized “holons”) determine four basic “dimensions” of existence: That which is Interior or Experiential, that which is Exterior or Objective, that which is Singular or Individual and that which is Collective or Plural. These four “dimensions” can be noticed and induced or deduced through the dialectics of complementary polar opposites. However, they can also combine to generate four fundamental “expression spaces” so to speak and these are: The Individual-Subjective Quadrant, the Individual-Objective Quadrant, the Collective-intersubjective-Cultural Quadrant and the Collective-interobjective-Systems Quadrant.

All realms of existence (being duality-based contingent and relative) ontological levels of the Kosmos should (being themselves holons) also express through the quadrants. However, if we just focus upon the Interior-Exterior relation, we could say that the subtler the realm is the less exteriors predominate or express themselves and the more the realm is integrated with its subjective-interior aspect. I would say that their causal processes and conscious experiences differ in relation to this; that in the Causal or “seed” Realm experience is dominated by Interiority; that in the Subtle or Mental Realm, experience is equally dominated by Interiority and Exteriority whilst Exterior Objects instantly conform to Interior projections and expectations thus still causing various degrees of fascination with appearances. I’d also say that in the Physical Realm Interiors are dominated by “space-time” delayed Exterior projections. While consciousness recognizes itself as almost absolute and One in all possible diversity in the Causal Realm, it is equally projected onto exteriors in the Subtle Mental Realm and heavily exteriorly projected and thus experientially dependent upon exteriors in the Physical Realm.

People across all stages of development prior to the “Integral Vision” are said to prioritize one or more quadrants but not all of them equally because they are not inclined to understand that these forms of expression arise from a common pattern. They also do not count with an “Integral Model” that demonstrates the unifying common pattern. They accept and hold on to different kinds of reductionisms and exclusivisms often taken as describing the whole. Even systems-based, scientific “Emergentism” purporting to transcend reductionist science is excessively focused upon a horizontal, egalitarian, postmodern ethos. Nevertheless, trying to disclose experienced reality as it expresses in each “quadrant” has allowed humanity to develop many kinds of methods that (as far as I know) for the first time find a coherent representation within an integral model. Integral Theory recognizes all the methods arising within each quadrant as equally valid. For instance, Integral Theory recognizes introspection, meditation, phenomenology and psychology as useful in the Individual-Subjective Quadrant; analytical-experimental science and behaviorism as useful in the Individual-Objective Quadrant; cultural anthropology, hermeneutics as useful in the Collective-Subjective (or inter-subjective) Quadrant; and ecology, sociology, systems theory as useful in the Collective-Objective (or inter-objective) Quadrant.

Integral Theory also considers that within each quadratic ‘space’, different “lines of development” take place and that these “lines” in turn develop through more or less fluid but sufficiently defined “stages.” Moreover, the theory posits that things and subjective persons organize reflecting or experiencing various defined “states” and “types.” Besides all these “five elements” there is a general acceptance that main experiential ontological realms exist and that transcendent (but also inclusive of it all) Non-Dual “Spirit” is the Source at once within and without. While Ken Wilber’s epistemological approach to disclosing or acquiring knowledge incorporates the teachings of modernity (like shared method and empirical verification) and postmodernity (personal and hermeneutical interpretation and explanatory construction) so as to include as epistemologically valid even mystical experiences, little attention has been given either to parapsychological research, survival research, what do paranormal events imply, or to an exploration of Man’s and the Cosmic higher spiritual, experiential but contingent constitution (i.e. the “bodies of Man” and “planes” or “realms” of existence). In other words, due to a matter of culturally-acquired tastes, needs and fears, the main proponents of Integral Theory have not integrally explored extremely important aspects of human and cosmic existence. This “lack of an integral embrace” contradicts Wilber’s suggestion that Non-Dual spirituality is not just about detachment and transcendence but of “embracing” all of creation. While the theory is difficult to establish in a world still fragmented by exclusivist approaches and widely differing levels of understanding, the founder has also often been criticized for being more willing to establish his findings than for being willing to promote academic-level dialogue or to modify his thinking after receiving cogent and logically valid criticism. He’s also been criticized for lending himself to organizing an institutionally-supported, cultural movement more than furthering constructive, dialectical approaches.

Integral Theory also contains many other extremely valid integrative elements worth learning about but that, for economy’s sake, I won’t detail here. For more information on Ken Wilber’s “Integral Theory” you may look for his books which are often (due to their uniqueness and comprehensive scope) mis-classified under “self-help” “psychology” or “New Age”). A “classic” is his 1995 Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution. You may also navigate to http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/kosmos/excerptA/intro.cfm in search of his “Excerpts,” navigate to http://www.integralinstitute.org/ or to http://integrallife.com/node/37539. Furthermore, for a range of criticisms to this theory you may navigate to: http://www.integralworld.net/

Using Integral Theory, I’ll focus upon the concept that –as holons- all realms possess Interior and Exterior aspects. Like “holons” and organized systems from different levels in a hierarchy (or, as Wilber would say, “holarchy” if the other word elicits a memory of abusive social dominance relations) realms would -in their own unique ways- contain and transcend each other. Higher realms can be imagined both as outer circles containing lower realms and as being more interior and fundamental than lower realms. The Causal or Seed Realm would be the first realm in which Self and the illusion of non-Self (or of other-Self) is distinguished and its Exterior, objective space would be under the dominance of Interior, subjective experience and principles Causes would be spiritual. The Subtle Realm would be a fluid realm in which the Exterior aspect would be equally dominant as Interior experiences. Causes be mental and operate according to Interior needs manifesting Exterior patterns in perfect correlation. In the Physical Realm, Exterior aspects would predominate and causes would be primarily transmitted externally. In Vedanta and other Indian philosophies the first realm is understood as an expression of the Universal space or space-generating substance “Akasha” under the modality of “Chidhakasha.” The second realm is understood as an expression of Akasha as “Chittakasha” and the third of Akasha as “Bhuttakasha.” Thus, there’s more to “Akasha” that only a pre-physical, information field as emergentist-system-theoretical authors like Ervin Laszlo seem to concede (Laszlo, ). There seem to be many other realms besides the Physical and its formative, chaotic, zero-point fields.

To these concepts I supplement the idea that (due to fundamental metaphysical gradations and distinctions generating the realms in first place) these Interior and Exterior aspects are differentially expressed across the realms, allowing for some kind of interaction that has not been much explored before under a combined physical and metaphysical outlook. I think that the more inclusive and fundamental a realm is, the more its Exterior is enfolded in its Interior. What is (from a contingent point of view) considered as “actual” existence and order is differentially enfolded into subjectivity in each of the three main realms. Furthermore, what is “actual” from a lower realm perspective (the degree of exteriority) seems to be “potential” from a higher realm and what is “actual” from a higher realm perspective (degree of Interior dominance) seems to be “potential” from a lower realm.

There may be a sequence of Actual and Potential worlds from a comparative or relative perspective and what scientists nowadays are discovering as the “Quantum Foam” or “Zero-Point Chaotic Energy” fluctuations may be how we from a specifically Actual Physical Realm system and perspective perceive the Subtle Realm. The Quantum Potential referred to by David Bohm and Yakir Aharonov (Bohm, ) would correspond to a programming subset in the Subtle Realm and the semi-organized chaos of the Zero Point Energy would be how the potential for our physical universe (or what from our physical perspective is a potential) interphases with our actual world. In fact, in the ZPE chaos there some states are allowed and some are not and this is given by the interaction between a defined, actual, physical universe and its potential in a higher realm. Time-forward and time-backwards influences may also coexist in the ZPE which may be like a fluid whose vortices sustain stable particles and an interaction with superluminally-connected virtual particles.

According to many of the reports about “other world conditions” mentioned before, the Subtle Realm possesses exteriors which immediately respond to subjective or “interior” initiative. These exteriors instantly organize or, rather, display an instant organization that correlates with Interior subjectivity. Let me add that the term “Subtle” also refers to the degree of subtlety another kind of “matter” displays in the Subtle Realm’s objective, exterior, shared relational aspect or “space.” In fact, there would be gradations of correlation between interior and exterior aspects in each realm: In the Causal or Seed Realm, Exteriors causally respond and are subordinated to Interior spiritual causes (metaphysically speaking) prior to instantaneity. In the Subtle Realm, Exteriors respond simultaneously to Interior mental causes and have an equal degree of dominance between them. In the “Gross” or Physical Realm, Exteriors respond with delay and through distance to Interior causes more readily via exterior causes. Thus (in terms of experience from the point of view of awareness or pure sentience), in the Causal Realm Interiority predominates; in the Subtle Realm Interiority and Exteriority are co-equally dominant and; in the Physical Realm, Exteriority predominates. Correspondingly, each “realm” is primarily organized by the principles of Spirit, Mind and Body.

These ideas coincide with the Indian idea that each realm is organized by a different kind of “Akasha” (thought to be a universal substance often translated as “space” which makes me consider that it is an expression principle that acquires the form of a particular ‘kind’ of space). While Ervin Laszlo (Laszlo, 2006), seems to consider “Akasha” a universal quantum information field, I think it can indeed take that form but also the form of the three main ‘spaces’ of the three main realms plus varied combinations of these three main spaces.

In Indian mystical & esoteric literature (like the Yoga Vasishtha associated with Vedanta) “Bhuttakasha” refers to the Universal Akasha taking the characteristics of “Gross” (Bhutta) Physical Space; coordinating the particles it forms and sustains through exterior, gross causal interactions. The Subtle Akasha forming a Subtle Realm Space is called “Chittakasha” and it provides sustenance and a means for mental-responding particles to behave. What in the Physical Realm behaves through a higher degree of separation through distance and time and the distinction between “advanced” and “retarded” causally influential time waves now behaves under the higher symmetry from which space and time themselves derive. Finally, in the Causal Realm, “Chiddhakasha” forms an almost void space whose extremely subtle sub-components allegedly respond to spiritual principles and causes as expressions of the Universal Self when that Self acquires a sense of distinction. I think we should consider that these things may have been ‘scientifically’ explored and discovered by yogis and seers, as Ken Wilber might say (Wilber, ), by following shared empirical procedures, injunctions or methods, having empirical experiences and then corroborating-discarding-correlating their experiential findings in hermeneutical fashion.

“Information” (in-formation, that which is interior and forms the exterior) is thought to always be accompanied by energy-matter by some kind of publicly visible and objective “exteriority.” My friend engineer Juan Leal would say: “like a wagon carrying and transporting an information load.” In the physical world at the level of ordinary, classical experience, this transportation takes time as it has to cross a distance. I would say that “duration” and “distance” are programmed into the physical “Akashic Space” as the way that space must respond to Interiority: Through the outward projection of the meaning that Interiority can use under the form of Exterior fragments of information. Nevertheless, in the “Subtle-Mental Realm” whose Exteriors actually respond to Interior, subjective experience without a ‘time’ lapse and without the experience of separation by ‘distance’ (unless Interiorities require exteriors to appear like this), the means to express information (the means of distinction) must be different. Would a modern-day Descartes call the exteriors of the Subtle Realm a “Res Extensa” or should we instead be speaking of a “Res Continua”? The point is that, if the principles of Integral Theory are generally valid in ANY realm in which duality operates and in which there are “holons” (Wilber, 1995), there must be some kind of exterior “space” for correlates of subjective experience to manifest.

Apparently, the so called “world of spirits” also possesses another kind of “substance” and other rules by which “objects” behave in a different “space.” Scientists need to find out how this other kind of “exterior” functions not only move beyond crass, reductionist materialism but also beyond the (still materialist) “Emergentism” whose apparent self-sufficient, self-organizing is considered to reach all the way to the quantum, ZPE, “vacuum energy” field. Neither seems to answer why the ZPE (not an absolute chaos) is and the laws of the physical universe are organized the way they are, why Planck’s constant has the value it has, why quantum uncertainty has the values it does, why the rate of time flow is what it is in relation to the speed of light, etc. We need to think that, in this realm of “discarnate” spirits (of spirits possessing another kind of materiality), there still is another form of materiality so that objects and substance seem to causally respond to Interior, mental and volitional conscious and subconscious causes. In other words, the experience of a volitional soul (which I define as a completely immaterial Spirit expressing through Causal, subtle and-or Physical substance) in this realm can be much more flexible and fluid as exterior effort is not needed to sustain an external order. I think that scientific means to explore the realms of non-physical spaces can be developed and that physical theories will eventually reach beyond the current considered “information” and ZPE fields. A more profuse gradient of “fields” may be possible beside the physical fields and their potentials fields.

In the “other reality” of the Subtle Realm, there may not exist distinct, discreet, “quanta” representing energy units as in the quantum level of the Physical Realm inter-phasing with the macro, physical world of our ordinary, time-forward, entropic and subluminal experience. This is because the calibration of “quanta” seems to depend on functioning with a specifically-regulated sub-structure of physical space. Unobserved quanta (even if known to be probabilistic and dynamically entangled and complementary until macro detected) may exist in a realm of mental possibilities limited to a relation with our specific physical universe. To be “discreet” they still require functioning within an associated medium that “classically” (within space and time) separates and distinguishes objects. But how can action-carrying/efficient cause-carrying information exist in a Subtle-mental medium that doesn’t causally require separation by space and time, thus creating energy differences and gradients? How is in-formation active in a medium which, apparently, “instantly” responds (outside of the ordinary constraints of time and space) according to experiential need?

Quanta as we know them are the smallest units of information-conveying energy “units” or “packets.” They make things happen and (as Arthur M. Young, author of The Reflexive Universe) would have probably agreed) can be called “quanta of action.” The energy difference between the energy packets or units, that is, the relations among them is understood as “information” in the Physical Realm. It’s mostly understood as a relational situation through exterior means. The quanta range of activities is defined by important (apparently fixed) parameters like “Planck’s Constant.” Nevertheless, as modern physicists (like V. Vedral, D. Fiscaletti, A. Sorli, E. Laszlo, C. Swanson, B. Haisch, H. Puthoff, M. Wolff, and many others) are beginning to realize, these fundamental characteristics may depend upon a deeper level of reality related to an informational level associated with the Zero-Point-Energy (ZPE) field. Here, as physicist and astronaut Edgar Mitchell PhD might say, information patterns are formed by standing wave, holographic structures that can be coded, decoded (in an instant and perhaps permanently way) by living and non-living physical entities with different degrees of psychical freedom (Mitchell, ). This is the energy source dependent on probabilities as implied by a specific degree of information uncertainty applicable to our quantum universe: The Heinsenberg Uncertainty Principle. In other words, this “substrate” now believed to generate the main characteristics of our physical Universe seems to exist due to INFORMATION and probability. This energy source is potential inasmuch as it depends upon how much structuring information can be transmitted. Also, the “quantum level” seems to exist in a regulated manner between the concretely physical (with defined spatial characteristics like “position” and defined temporal characteristics like “momentum”) and the purely potential mental or Subtle (or Subtle-Mental) matrix.

According to Vedanta and other “emanationist” philosophies, the Subtle-Mental Realm, the “Matrix” of the Physical, would be closer to an Absolute Reality in which interior subjective consciousness is not restricted by the appearance of “exterior forms.” According to Vedanta, our physical world in which objects travel distances and take time to interact is more illusory and farther from the Non-Dual world of no distance and no duration…the world of ordinary discarnate spirits. Then again, this world would be farther from the Non-Dual than the Causal Realm of “seed ideas” and “first principles.” Buddhists seem to broadly concur on this broad scheme and also do the contemplative and esoteric traditions in the West and I think that (because discoveries are gradually but inexorably rendering “physics” more ethereal, mental and spiritual) these insights (probably born from sensorial, experimental explorations through astral bodies and clairvoyance) need to be taken into account to propose new scientific hypotheses. Already the existence of physical universes with very different characteristics is being proposed as belonging to a hypothetical “Multiverse.”

What other kind of “Res Extensa” can be conceived? How else can we conceive the concept of “dimension” (unlike that of another “direction” as in the three dimensional space we know) more suitable to the information we have about the Subtle-Mental Realm? Definitely the idea that the entire Subtle Mental realm is the “fourth dimension (of space)” is too primitive. Then again, that it is Time because in Einstein’s terms the fourth dimension is Time and combines with the three dimensions of Space doesn’t agree with the timeless quality of Subtle-mental Realm experiences. What would still be valid is the idea that more dimensions, either “spatial” (as we normally understand this term) or not, provide greater degrees of freedom. In the physical sense it is freedom of movement, of “topological” symmetry. This is why in “M-Theory” a form of “Superstring Theory” (which posits 10 “SPATIAL” dimensions and one dimension of Time, strings (and now also membranes which can be as large as entire universes) have greater rotational freedom. The problem is that these dimensions are spatial in the sense we are accustomed to think of “space” and may not exactly apply to what is going on in the discarnate, spiritual world.

Another kind of “space,” not unlike the Akasha of the Subtle realm (now called “Chittakasha”) has to be conceived: Perhaps “space” as an extension through timeless and distance-less correlation, a “space” that correlates with equal intensity its Exterior objects and the Interior subjectivity of consciousnesses experiencing it. Let me explain. While Physical Space distinguishes Exterior manifestations from the Interior ones, giving priority to the Exterior ones so that any modification of space objects (which left by itself tends to disorganization) requires investing in anti-entropic work. Subject and objects correlate from the first volition but there’s a delay to build up all representative structures and this delay demands organizing work. Then again, the work required to express correlated structures in the Subtle-Mental “Space” would not follow a priority of the Exterior over the Interior: The Exterior space and objects would be co-equal with the Interior, Subjective cause. This is why the experience of Time as duration and Space as distance and direction collapse or are not necessary. In the case of the Causal Realm, the priority in the correlation would go to the Interior cause, completing its experiences prior to the complete formation of Exterior correlates.

That higher realms are closer to Reality makes possible a progressive emanation in which the higher contains the lower. In other words, Causal contains and produces Subtle and Subtle contains and produces Physical. Moreover, if there are differences between Interior and Exteriors across the realms, interaction should also be possible. Thus, both emanationism and interactionism should be possible and the latter goes well with the scientific approach looking for exchanges.

The Subtle-mental “space” we are trying to understand would have a greater degree of freedom than the intermediate quantum world capable of entangling in a mirror-like way dynamical properties between particles. It would have a greater degree of freedom than the quantum world of wave-particle complementarity and of semi-real characteristics called “potential” by Werner Heisenberg. This would be because the quantum particle world is subordinated to its probabilistic and also deterministic relation with how events are observed from an ordinary, classical, macroscopic, physical perspective of conventional space-time. In other words, there are patterns that hold back the freedom of the quantum world so that it behaves at least in a semi-physical way. There might even exist different physical universes as part of the same Physical Realm, obeying the Akashic pattern of external causes under the constraints of distance and duration. Nevertheless these universes might be “programmed” under different combinations of fundamental constants, including the all-important “Planck’s Constant” which regulates probabilities of the quanta or minimum energy packets. The space-time characteristics of these other physical universes would also be differently regulated but they should not be confused for the Subtle-Mental Realm. It’s astounding to think that a potentially infinite number of physical universes the Physical Realm might include would arise from an infinitely vaster Subtle-Mental Realm of meaning, concept and possibilities.

The spectrum of possibilities would be given by the Subtle-Mental Realm “Matrix” because (in spite of complementarity) in the quantum world extended and continuous waves seem to predominate over the particulate aspect and they do it both if we consider them as “information waves” or as waves representing something “physically real and relativistically invariant.” In the latter case (for instance demonstrated in the Klein-Gordon Equation) there is a partially successful attempt to join classical relativity with non-classical quantum mechanics and, interestingly, a time-forward as well as a time-backwards solution to this equation appears. Thus, according to this, in the quantum level there would be a time forward and a time backward causality and I’d say that, if they cancel out, we might return to the original Subtle-mental Realm Matrix from which the physical universe began from an asymmetry. If time forward and time backwards waves were to cancel out of phase with each other we would experience null physical time and null physical space. Moreover, there are experiments under way performed by cancelling regular electromagnetic waves by conflicting them out of phase with each other so as to obtain directionless, scalar waves. They are being performed by Dr. Koontz (http://www.doctorkoontz.com/) and probably by secret laboratories researching time-space manipulation.

I would say that a better description of “Time” is as the numerical order of change in space (as proposed by Davide Fiscaletti and Amrit Sorli). To this proposal I add that Subtle Realm ‘space’ may obey an internal program or order which represents exterior events in perfect duration-less and distance-less manner while still correlated to Interior-Subjective experience. Perhaps upon obtaining null space and null time, the three experiential directions of space and the physical time duration necessary to transmit causes producing effects in ordinary, classical (not quantum, nor sub-quantum) space have been re-absorbed into a lesser degree of ontological duality or into the more equally dominant, Interior-Subjective aspect of the Subtle Realm.

The preponderance of waves in quantum physics may have been revealed by Shariar Afshar’s experiments which seem to suggest that it is possible under a meticulously designed experimental layout to observe wave and particle characteristics simultaneously even when preparing the equipment to primarily observe particles while particle characteristics are not detected when preparing the equipment to primarily observe waves. If Afshar’s experiments are valid and well interpreted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afshar_experiment they might also bring a new spin on Bohr’s “Principle of Complementarity” which states that an unobserved quantum state process possesses both (classical logic contradictory) particle and wave characteristics but that, upon measurement (from a macro perspective), either characteristic is explicated but not both simultaneously. This principle also applies to the complementarity of “position” (a space-like characteristic) and “momentum” (a time-like characteristic). If Afshar’s observations are valid this may show that Bohr’s principle is valid under most observations but that it doesn’t strictly apply under all circumstances because –hierarchically speaking- particles may sub-sets from more fundamental wave states. Perhaps Afshar’s experimental contraption –enabling him to make one measurement after another- is able to observe into the limits that separate quantum and macro classical behavior.

I think that Quantum Theory (or theories) could move forward if we understood why waves can take so many aspects in different (sometimes competing) theories. Is it just because their mathematical qualities render them applicable to many (not necessarily compatible) theoretical constructions? For instance, why can probable solutions to the evolution of quantum information waves be considered as probable actual universes (like in Hugh Everett’s “Many Worlds Interpretation”). Can de Broglie waves be both information and real if understood as belonging to a deeper level of physical reality, perhaps at the boundary of another level displaying null space and null time? Why can quantum waves be divided into “advanced” (or retro-causal) complementing and “retarded” (or time-forward) waves “agreeing” or “hand shaking” with each other as explained by John C. Cramer relativistically invariant “Transactional Interpretation?” Why wouldn’t these understandings complement the idea of “waves” as also present in a subquantum level, as Paul A. LaViolette’s “Subquantum Kinetics” shows (LaViolette, 2008)? Why wouldn’t we be able to think of waves as possibly taking a “scalar” form necessary to complement regular EM waves as proposed by Thomas E. Bearden’s understanding of higher topology Quantum Electrodynamics (Bearden, 2002)?

What about Edgar Mitchell’s proposal for “standing waves” creating virtual holographic representations of physical living and non-living systems which (through phase conjugate coding and decoding mechanisms) can self-organize, evolve and communicate with each other in a “holographic universe”? What about waves in Erwin Laszlo’s permanent “information field”? What about Nikola Tesla’s alleged proposal that EM waves can also be “longitudinal” and not just “transversal” and Claude Swanson’s recognition of two kinds of instantly-connecting “Torsion Waves” (one capable of speeding up time and the other of slowing it down) existing at a pre-quantum level of reality (with ‘particles’ called “phitons”) capable of distantly coordinating apparently random physical processes (Swanson, ). What about Milo Wolff’s proposal that all matter is a wave structure in “space,” a quantum wave medium (Wolff, )? What about Emeritus William A. Tiller’s proposal about a superluminal, “Reciprocal” physical Space (at least containing a magnetoelectric substance) which can be brought into greater conjunction with ordinary, subluminal, “Direct” physical Space (at least containing electromagnetic substance) by hypothetical particles he calls “Deltrons” existing in a higher realm?

Can “waves” (which are normally understood as extended entities) behave as self-contained, particle-like and “standing” in a scalar field, thus serving as intermediate elements between space and time-based physical reality and the higher symmetrical Subtle realm from which space and time diverge? Can Bohm and Hiley’s “Quantum Potential” or “Information Potential” refer to waves in a deeper medium of reality precursor to ordinary space and time? Could this precursor be a time or a frequency domain and contain the predominantly negentropic influence allowed in quantum physics while the entropic one is primarily expressed in a space suited for macro scale objects ? Can the fusion (or mutual cancellation) of regular macro entropic space with the complementary “space” with its hidden “precursor” to ordinary space form a sub-set or a holon-like “part” of the Subtle Realm? Is this “crackpot” science or should rather say that closed-mindedness cannot be ‘cracked’?

After considering (from IntegraI Theory that all systems are parts and wholes (which are parts of more inclusive wholes), I would say that the realistic and probabilistic wave aspect that describes quantum systems is: 1) Representative of the “Whole” or seamless totality aspect of the Physical Realm and 2) This “whole aspect” doesn’t just complement the classical physical separate Parts aspect but is itself a part of the Subtle-Mental Realm.

Also, the sub-realm of classical physics would be the ‘parts’ aspect of the Physical realm. The latter sub-realm would be a space in which the higher symmetry internal between time-forward “retarded waves” and the time-backward “advanced waves” is broken so as to have a subluminal physical space in which -on the whole- entropy predominates in close systems. If quantum waves represent a part of the Subtle Realm matrix and also instantaneity within a controlled way to relate with this contiguous matrix, what does this tell us about the “spatial characteristics” of the Subtle Realm? We could consider that the quantum wave is a part of the Subtle-Mental matrix as it is a totality or whole of the physical particles defined by ordinary space-time. This regulation of Schrödinger’s wave is what we call “Quantum Potential” and may represent a sub space that interconnects the ordinary macro physical with the Subtle-Mental.

The Physical Realm is included in the Subtle Mental Realm but, since there are differences in how each realm’s Interior and Exterior aspects manifest, we can also speak of other forms of interaction between the realms, both in an involutionary downward causation mode and in an evolutionary, upward causation mode.

Space seems to be one substance that takes different characteristics. Physicists Sorli and Fiscaletti suggest that space has no unique Time dimension but that what we call “Time” is a mathematical order of change in space. This order of change would be an internal characteristic of space itself and another way of conceiving Einstein’s “fourth dimension.” I think that this being the case, the spaces of different physical universes can possess different mathematical ordering of change and I think that the ordering stems from the Subtle-Mental Realm that would have a semiotic, regulatory relation with its physical universes. It would be like a semantic specification of syntactic elements like physical parameters. But, what processes may explain how programming the rate of change of a particular physical universe may take place?

If ordinary physical beings use the entropic potential available in their regular physical environments to create useful order while exporting heat and disorder (and performing work in the transition phase), ghostly entities appear to produce momentary physically colder environments (equivalent to a less kinetic and less informative region) generating a more potential, ordinary physical state. Perhaps the potential state is converted into an actively useful form that can be manipulated by the Subtle-astral entity. Perhaps the energy patterns are transduced into a shared or intermediate Subtle-Physical “space” through the negentropic waves accompanying ordinary space. These waves are expected to exist in the vacuum potential and are recognized in the relativistically-invariant Klein-Gordon Equation. They are also expected to exist in some 0₃symmetrical interpretations of Quantum Electrodynamics (Bearden, ).

According to Claude Swanson, PhD, (Swanson, ) there may be subquantum particles (he calls “phitons”) which generate time-forward (retarded) and time-backward (advanced) torsion in space and can be understood as instantly connecting across space when they match with each other. Taking an idea from Ernst Mach, distant matter energy patterns (Uranoids) can match with each other. This matching generates holographic-style all “real” 4D objects of our physical universe. If the connection between the advanced and the retarded phiton patterns is more diffuse or less restrictive, greater degrees of movement are allowed in the resulting holographically-projected 4D physical objects, allowing them to become more interactive with non-physical, higher dimensions of being (astral, mental, causal, budhic). According to William Tiller PhD, (Tiller, ) when Subtle or Astral level “Deltron” particles raise the symmetry between ordinary, direct, entropic physical space (D-Space) and complementary, reciprocal, negentropic physical space (R-Space), physical space in general can be MENTALLY programmed to operate under Subtle Realm parameters. Both authors refer to these events as “raising the gauge.” I think that these versions of “raising the gauge” can be understood as a single, unified event if D and R spaces and time-forward and time backward phitons are understood as capable of interacting more and by doing so they cancel each other out of phase and generate a return to Subtle Realm “space” or substance from which they originate. In other words, the physical reality we know is a product of a broken symmetry that splits from the “time cero” (and distance cero) of Subtle-astral-mental substance (Chittakasha). Here greater connection is broader connection and the broader connection (the more diffuse and greater degrees of freedom) is a return to the Subtle Astral state. I would also say that this return to the Subtle-astral state is still pattern connected with the previous physical state in which the “gauge” had not been raised.

The “Virtual” in-between Body

All relations and communications in the Cosmos seem to be mediated. If a discarnate entity lives in a mind-responding medium (sometimes called the “Astral World”), a medium whose exteriors obey subjective causes rather than predominantly exterior, objective ones as in the “Physical World,” how can he or she generate movement, chills, sounds, aromas, lights, opacity (as evidenced during innumerable modern “ghost hunts” aided or not by electronic means) in the physical world and to our physical senses? I posit that the astral entity is capable of producing a temporary link or in-between vehicle to interact with physical matter even if (as expected in theosophical esoteric lore) he or she has discarded the so-called “etheric” body that allegedly linked his astral vehicle with his previous physical body. For entities emotionally attached to the physical realm) there may be an automatic, will-based mechanism, the automatic formation of a pseudo connector that can be temporarily strengthened and which, after a “bout” of creating physical effects becomes weakened or “discharged.” This temporary “link” may be a blend of energies from a complementary physical space and be possibly related to a well-chosen integration of the concepts of Basil Hiley’s “information potential,” T.E. Bearden’s “scalar fields,” W.A. Tiller’s “R-Space,” D. Larson’s “reciprocal reality” (now referred by D. Wilcock et al. as “Time-space”), N. Teslas’ “longitudinal waves,” J.C. Maxwell’s original and pre-simplified equations, P. La Violette’s “subquantum kinetics,” C. Swanson’s subquantum “phitons,” and Kozyrev’s “torsion fields.” I think that all of these theories touch upon different levels and aspects of what may be broadly included under the generic “zero-Point” quantum fields. The term “etheric” referring to the ‘substance’ that may incorporate all of the concepts previously mentioned may also be retained without necessarily falling into the classical “luminiferous ether” concept. In other words, physical matter that may be associated with other mathematically plausible (and often necessary) “fields” and with “quantum waves” may also behave as any one or more of the above mentioned concepts capable of relating (non-orthodoxly) to the ordinary matter of “real” fields and forces.

Each one of the above-listed theories may be touching upon an aspect or form possible through the quantum world and Non-Locality may be how observations from the perspective of our ordinary physical perspective relate with the complementary “etheric” aspects. Furthermore, even retrocausal “waves” which (besides information possibilities to be actualized when –following Cramer’s “Transactional Analysis” agree with past events in the experiential present) can also be considered as “physically real” influences and which are expected in some relativistically invariant solutions to Schrodinger’s wave equations (also as a complementary alternative to the Copenhagen and probabilistic Interpretation) may also be compatible with these non-orthodox “fields” because, according to quantum mechanics, time-backward events and negentropic events are as possible (and probably necessary) as the time forward, entropic way we ordinarily perceive the world.

Inasmuch as the pseudo-etheric body is a temporarily sustained conglomerate of active possibilities that respond to the subjectivity of the discarnate “astral” entity; a temporary blend of “Subtle-Astral,” pre-physical but physically complementary (and physically influential) Substance and “actual” (or perceived) Physical Substance from ordinary Space-Time, we can call it “virtual.” It is a pseudo state, a temporary arrangement formed from the natural interaction of these three mediums for intelligent energy communication. It may also be (when condensed in extreme) what has been called “Ectoplasm” which genuine physical mediums (like David Thompson) can produce/exude and which even in the absence of a physical medium a ghost may condense through its own subjective powers in order to achieve some degree of opacity to visible light and other forms of EM energy, rendering him or her visible to the senses and-or to (film-based and digital) photographic/video equipment.

Apparently, ghostly entities can obtain “energy” (meaning physically active) from the environment, from electric sources like batteries, from certain natural spots (perhaps regularly producing certain natural EM frequencies) and –other than from mediums- also from regular people. What is the mechanism? What is going on?

In Search of a Mechanism

According to innumerable ghost hunting research reports, quite often, the ambient temperature physically drops before a manifestation and this gives us clue of what may be going on. If we take this phenomenon as a guide, we may scientifically say that the ENTROPY of the physical substance where the temperature drops has diminished since the molecules (air molecules and even biological molecules in our physical bodies) must have become less agitated. Also, what was more kinetically active in ordinary physical substance becomes goes into a more potential or passive state. Kinetically, what was more “actual” is induced into a more “potential” state. Now, if the physical complementary “reciprocal space” or the “etheric space” (as mentioned perhaps also related with “scalar fields,” “torsion fields,” “longitudinal waves,” “phitons” and the like) is primarily by itself negentropic (that order increases with our perception of the sequential progression of linear time) or simply behaves negentropically from the perspective in relation to our ordinary, time-forward, primarily entropic space, then it may invert and convert the loss of useful kinetic energy into an energy state that is useful for the more metaphysically encompassing and subjectively responding exterior aspects of the Astral Realm. The “negentropic etheric” may act as a TRANSDUCER serving the astral entity to coat itself with a blend of energies from the Physical and the Subtle realms. This “transducer” may not only be like a “virtual” etheric body connecting with the Subtle-astral world but become relative stable and undergo a “charging phase” (in which physical energies are not lost but their ordinary activity is sent to a potential state) and a “discharging phase” (in which a physical manifestation in ordinary space-time “reality” is achieved).

The increase in potential energy states of ordinary physical reality are transduced into an active or information-carrying Subtle-astral state now capable of discharging an influence into ordinary physical reality. The decrease in ordinary, outer physical entropy (a decrease in available information and ordered states) also becomes an increase in available, kinetic energy for the Subtle-astral substance. Importantly, there’s no energy loss and total energy is conserved; it is more of a temporary re-arrangement of energy forms and energy states between realms. The physics of this interaction may help to dispel the unscientific psychological repulsion and popular mystifications attempting against a comprehensive, rational understanding of many “otherworldly” issues. Moreover, if transdimensional extraterrestrials are indeed visiting our particular physical Earth realm perhaps, maybe some of the mechanisms involved in discarnate entities/ghost manifestations also apply to the technologies of these space-time influencing beings. In fact, they may find ways to use not only with the “etheric counterpart” but to re-establish their physical reality out of every possible coherent space-time system through the Subtle-astral realm: Some of them may be able to cancel time forward and time backward influences (the primarily entropic and primarily negentropic, complementary, physical “spaces”) and reach “Time Zero” (and thus, “Space Zero”) or the non-physical, Subtle-astral state from which all physical universes may ultimately derive. Some “space-faring” civilizations might be able to use the Subtle-astral more than others according to their degree of scientific development.

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When activity diminishes in the ordinary entropic physical world it is perhaps transferred to the physically-near astral subset of the Subtle Realm. How may ghosts living in another form in another realm with other causal laws manifest in the physical world? Does it borrow energy and then release it? My current hypothesis is that energy is conserved in each realm. I think that an available state of activity is transferred, diminishing in the Physical Realm and increasing in the other through a mutually compatible medium. In a way this medium can be understood as a “transducer” and in another way as a “holographic decoder.” The resulting “substance” is patterned both after Subtle-astral and exterior, entropic, “ordinary,” physical, energetic characteristics. The connection may occur through an increased degree of symmetry between complementary physical spaces suggested by relativistically invariant treatments of Schrodinger’s quantum wave equation. As Emeritus William A. Tiller points out, a reciprocal frequency and more time-related “space” may exist (see Tiller’s Model). The idea of this “reciprocal space” roughly coincides with other alternative models. For instance theirs is one in which time-forward and time-backward subquantum “phitons” can instantly or non-locally meet coinciding when we experience something in connection with our particularly cohering physical universe. Physicist Claude Swanson posits this idea partially based upon the “torsion” (and time distortion) experiments of Kozyrev and other Russian scientists. Another related model amicable to a “Reciprocal Space” might be Dewey Larson’s idea that the three dimensions of space might have three reciprocal dimensions of time. Furthermore, Paul La Violette’s “Subquantum Kinetics” deals with the possibility of an etheric substance whose vortices may produce entropic and negentropic physical effects. If actual, could these vortices be related with how more or less symmetrical and interactive the reciprocal space becomes with ordinary entropic dominant space? While this seems compatible with Tesla’s idea about a set of longitudinal waves in an underlying etheric medium it might not seem compatible with Thomas Bearden’s support of the idea that there is not such a thing as the need for an “ether” because there is no such things as an “empty space.” If we think of the “ether” as activity subjacent to the vacuum of the ordinary space we experience we may find that all of these models disclose aspects of what may lie “underneath” so to speak.

We need to update our concepts which were on the right track anyhow. The “ether” was a concept that existed at least since the ancient Greeks who though it was luminous and pure atmosphere which their gods breathed. In the XIX century it was used to think of a medium that filled otherwise empty space in order to carry light and during Maxwell-s time, electromagnetic waves. When this concept arose to fill a void in physics, Madame Blavatsky and other esoteric mystics brought from India a version of the Pranamaya Kosha or vehicle that transmitted vital pranas to the physical body or Sthula Sharira. The main information pattern in a more fundamental, life giving mental realm in which the Self is clothed with its Manomaya Kosha (which remains after death as the discarnate Subtle Realm body) is transmitted into the Gross, entropy based body through what we can now understand not only as an etheric body but as a normally hidden negentropic aspect. It was adequately understood as the vehicle that transmitted formative patterns which came from a higher realm. This higher realm used what in Vedanta and other Indian traditions is called the Chittakasha or mind akasha, a version of the universal space and substance (or rather, space creating substance) whose exteriors causally respond to interior or subjective conscious or unconscious will. Today we just need to add to these concepts findings from quantum physics and emerging alternative interpretations such as William Tiller’s.

I think there might be different levels of active substance behind the activity we are beginning to observe in the “zero-point energy.” This activity is normally called “virtual” and “potential” because we don’t normally perceive it. In fact, we may experience its effects upon our ordinary world without directly perceiving it and part of it may fall under what is allowed by quantum mechanics and the wave function. For many years people have debated about the meaning of the quantum wave function. For instance, is it probabilistic as Born alleged? Does it represent something potential but real as a guiding influence as David Bohm, Basil Hiley and Akira Tonomura showed? Does it “collapse” into spacetime-defined reality when measurements are made with macro-scale objects and-or when these are ultimately detected by consciousness (as Von Neumann demonstrated)? Are unobserved quantum realities semi-real or semi-physical as Heinsenberg suggested with his concept of “potentia”? Do non-observed probabilities allowed in the wave function exist in parallel universes as Everett proposed? Well (although recently evidence and arguments for there being something real when a quantum system is not observed and for wave aspects perhaps being more fundamental than the particle aspects are coming to the fore), besides mathematical differences, why can’t all these main interpretations be conceptually valid including those referring to retrocausal effects? I think that an important key to bring these interpretations together may be thinking that other realities besides the one we ordinarily experience do exist.

Reversibility is possible in most equations of classical physics albeit it is not observed in practice in our ordinary macro universe experience. Nonetheless, it becomes possible again in quantum physics as time forward and time backward solutions are allowed (as after the Klein Gordon Equation). Recent experiments by Seth Lloyd and others have shown that entanglement can be observed when events leading to a measurement are measured after that measurement. Delayed choice experiments show this. That reversibility that should occur in macro, classical conditions, that negentropy seems to hide in the world of quantum potentiality and nonetheless remains necessary and subjacent to the production of ordinary observed reality. What exists just seems not to and experientially speaking becomes “probable,” “potential,” “semi-real,” “virtual.”

When a ghost is about to manifest there may be a reduction of kinetic energy (experienced as coldness) and through the hidden, “potential” negentropic function of the physical reciprocal space (perhaps also understood as the organizing, pattern-transmitting, etheric substance in theosophical and Vedanta literature). Ghosts can use physical energy when regular entropic space and its mirror-like negentropic space cancel out, returning to a Subtle Realm state. Here, a fraction of what was physical becomes Subtle Realm-compatible while remaining potentially connected with the ordinary physical realm space through the remaining separated physical spaces. Without gain or loss of energy part of this energy becomes available to the ghost as a transduced pattern operating in the Subtle Realm. Thus, a temporary nexus between worlds forms. Now, since the prevailing symmetry between the Ordinary and Reciprocal spaces is less intense the nexus tends to lose its coherent states. Perhaps in other physical universes (such as those in which some extraterrestrials may inhabit) there’s a greater capacity to manifest subjective or Interior intentions and there’s less inertia and more initia because a greater degree of symmetry between the two physical spaces also manifesting a greater degree of negentropy may also mean that those universes are in a closer interactive relation with the Subtle/astral Realm.

First the kinetic energy is turned into passive state (gets colder), we can say that the molecules acquire more ordered states and that entropy decreases but this order is less available for immediate use. The negentropic aspect of the reciprocal “quantum hidden” physical space converts this potential state or lack of available energy into an active form compatible with the Subtle-astral substance as the ordinary physical space and the reciprocal one combine –in whatever degree- more thoroughly and cancel each other out. If it were to completely combine, the Physical Realm would revert to its original state as a program in the Subtle –astral realm.

When the discarnate entity wills to move something the exterior substance in the Subtle-astral Realm responds and, while it may first initiate the greater combination of ordinary and reciprocal physical spaces, it will also dispose of an active energy pattern derived from the Physical Realm when the air and other molecules become less agitated and cool down. In the case of batteries charge disappearing their energy states may also enter a less actively available pattern. When these more potentially available patterns are transduced by the negentropic “etheric” aspect of the reciprocal space into a Subtle-astral substance useful state, the ghost may return the original states to normalcy by creating a physical effect and “discharging” the pattern momentarily withheld in his Subtle-astral substance. If the discarnate entity doesn’t release the transduced energy pattern by intentionally moving something, becoming opaque to light, or perhaps generating a sound or a EVP recording, he or she may naturally release the pattern by generating anomalous heat or local “hot spots” in the “haunted” physical environment.

There’s interaction between a Subtle world that can instantly manifest all possibilities to a world in which possibilities are experienced with a linear causal order. Since in microphysics, quantum mechanics (through “superposition”) allows causal indefiniteness it also allows a connection between both experiential realms. The linear time-forward macro world is accompanied in quantum mechanics by a hidden (or micro) time-backward complementary aspect that is part of the superposition. When it cancels out space time and simultaneously inverts or transduces its potential energy patterns into internal zero-time, zero-space Subtle-astral kinetic energy patterns an imbalance is generated between the normal weaker interactive functioning between the realms. This imbalance cannot be sustained for too long in linear time-forward macro physical reality and is restored into normalcy either spontaneously when the kinetic state of ordinary physical matter increases in a localized volume of space time or when the entity moves an object or creates another physically detectable effect.

This interaction is mainly between two metaphysically different realms in which their respective causal interactive exteriors express with fundamentally different intensities in correlated relation with their interiors. While the types of energies manifesting in each realm and the types of experiential spaces are fundamentally different what remains in common is the more essential relation between potentia and actuality used to exchange information through energy states. In fact, borrowing from T.E. Bearden’s book “Energy From the Vacuum” p. 658 what we call “energy” may be (my own words) the unchanging, cohering, structuring relation between realms. Bearden also links it to the “identity of opposites” which makes sense in a relational, dialectical logic of complementary poles. In the case of the Subtle-astral realm, information is embodied as a kind of energy not constrained by space or time. It obeys an equal balance between interiors and exteriors. In the case of physical matter it is constrained by space and time. Information follows a preponderance of exterior relations.

In relation to another partially related phenomenon popularly dubbed “free energy” the actual source of energy would be a coherent structural identity between ordinary entropic spacetime and its reciprocal negentropic time-based time-space. Considering the experiments of John Hutchinson, of Thomas Townsend Brown and also the research of Dr. Robert Koontz, perhaps by cancelling out opposing magnetic waves (and thus their ether-influencing curl) thus converting them into time-based, longitudinal, scalar stress waves while connecting them with a strong electric field capable (according to Paul La Violette) of space-time curvature distorting dipolarity, the reciprocal space or “ether” can be structured so as to produce gravity cancellation.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Introduction to the (inter-realm) Physics of Subtle Worlds