A Network of Perspectives on the Holographic Paradigm

So what does it all mean?

If our minds can transcend space and time, the memory of the individual and that of the species, if we can reach into the fabric of matter and "blow for luck" over God's handful of dice - what does it mean, at the end of the day?

These links will lead you to a number of possible answers. And, you will notice - the answers are beginning to look less and less like the formalism we've seen up to this point: they are increasingly of the nature of "qualia", or experience: the experience of consciousness within the Hologram. 

Is the world infinitely knowable? But there are infinitely many ways to choose a world line within the matrix of this mind-matter continuum... This is, and has always been, the aim of physics: to find that privileged, external  point of view from which a global snapshot of Reality could be taken and framed for all posterity. But should this form of "omniscience"  represent our ultimate goal? Is that the highest wisdom we are capable of?...   Perhaps the final question will have to be this, then: is the world truly knowable from the outside - does a global view mean ultimate knowledge?

Were it all so simple as that vision of cathartic (almost apocalyptic, one is tempted to say) Oneness!... But if we acknowledge the ego's instinctive resistance to self-integration, shouldn't we suspect as much of a cultural barrier?

Such ambiguous details are generally too trivial to warrant consideration by those busy leading the course of scientific and social revolutions. Thus, it is left to the playful, irresponsible, trouble-making spirits at the back of the marching column to pick up the moral debris - and in so doing, try to keep humanity whole.

As we are groping for significance on the threshold of this "transpersonal metamorphosis",  clinging  onto every new scientific headline and psychotherapeutic method, perhaps we should try to once in a while remember the wisdom of those who first gave us a taste of being human: humble poets, itinerant monks, and the rest of the wretched, unruly bunch who never thought of anything but sounding out the experience of being alive.

To them especially we say: this is your instrument - come out and play!

Links:

I. An Expanding Consciousness

1. T.A.S.T.E.
Charles T. Tart
URL: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/tart/taste
or
URL: www.issc-taste.org

II. The Sound of Metamorphosis

1. Of Statues and Sand

URL: /statues

2. Poems on Buddhist and other themes
Yoxi
URL: http://www.yoxi.net/yoxititl.html

3. Phoenix
Dale J. Sprague
URL: http://www.nwlink.com/~phoenix

4. The End of Enchantment
Gerry and Malou Zeitllin
URL: http://www.zeitlin.net/EndEnchantment/

III. In Teilhard's Steps

1. Gaia, Our living, Awakening Earth
Chris Schefler

2. The ABCs of Conscious Creation: Foundations of Thought
from Ten Thousand Whispers by Lynda Dahl
URL: http://newworldview.com/library/Dahl_L_ABCs.html

3. Seth/Jane Roberts: A Conceptual Overview
Paul M. Helfrich
URL:  http://newworldview.com/library/Helfrich_P_Seth_Jane_Concept_Overview.html

4. Seth's Concept
Andy Hughes
URL: http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/seth.html

5. To See a World: Art and the I of the Beholder
Ken Wilber

6. A ticket to Athens
Ken Wilber

7. The Eye of Spirit
Ken Wilber

8. Monumentally, Gloriously, Divinely Big Egos
Ken Wilber
URL: http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/ontast_mogobi.cfm/xid,5038958/yid,95447535

9. Foreword to "The Mission of Art" by Alex Grey
Ken Wilber