THE SIXTH PARADIGM WORLDVIEW

The Cosmological Question:

How did our physical universe first come into being, and what are the physical laws that govern its past, present, and future functioning?

Adherents to the Left‑Marginalist position along Professor Parsons’ Sociological Bar Graph are not THEISTS ‑ as are Adherents to the Left‑Systemist Worldview. That is; they do not assert an affirmative Belief that there exists an Infinite & Eternal Sea of Undifferentiated Consciousness which enfolds into being our Physical Universe and which inputs into our Physical Universe the normative data in accordance with which we, as human beings, ought to comport our ethical judgments and conduct.

However, neither are Adherents to the Left-Marginalist Worldview ATHEISTS ‑ as are Right Systemists, who affirmatively believe and declare that there exists no such Infinite and Eternal Sea of Undifferentiated Consciousness outside of (or inside of) the Physical Universe which lends any coherent meaning to the Universe.

Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview hold the Cosmological Belief that our Physical Universe is holographic.  This means that Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that every single inchoate quantum field of potential matter which exists within the physical universe contains within it the identifying data which determines THE ENTIRE CONTENT & STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE … that is: that our Physical Universe is indeed a fractal macro-function of the content and internal structure of each inchoate quantum field within our Physical Universe.  Also, Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that each inchoate quantum field within our Physical Universe is a fractal micro-function of our physical Universe.

What this means is that Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Left-Marginalist Worldview believe that ALL OF THE DATA (or information) WHICH IS NECESSARY TO MANIFEST THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS CONTAINED WITHIN EVERY INCHOATE QUANTUM FIELD which exists within the physical boundaries of our Universe …i.e. that data does not need to come from outside our Physical Universe.

Dr. Juan Maldacena of Harvard University first conjectured such a relationship between each inchoate quantum field in our universe and our Physical Universe itself in 1997. His hypothesis was later affirmed by Dr. Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. and still later by Dr. Steven S. Gubser, Dr. Igor R. Klebanov and Dr. Alexander M. Polyakov of Princeton University.

This holographic correspondence between each inchoate quantum field and every larger manifestation of quantum reality in our Physical Universe exists on ever-larger material planes (including the entire Physical Universe) where individual planes of existence are designated as space-times with a variety of different dimensions… including the largest of all possible space-times, the space-time which constitutes our entire Physical Universe. See, Scientific American, Volume 289, Number 2 “Information in The Holographic Universe”, by Jacob D. Bekenstein, pp. 59-65.

The most recent modern explication of this specific Cosmological Belief of the Sixth Paradigm Worldview is referred to as “The Holographic Paradigm.” A number of works explaining this “New Paradigm” are set forth in a work entitled “The Holographic Paradigm: Exploring The Leading Edge of Science” edited by Kenneth Wilber and published by Shambala Press in Boston in 1985.[4])

This specific Cosmological Belief is explained, in detail, in the cover story article published in Scientific American Magazine in August of 2003.  This article is entitled “Are You A Hologram? Modern Quantum Physics Says The Entire Universe Might Be.” Vol.289, Scientific American, Number 2, August, 2003, pp. 58-65.

Pursuant to this specific Cosmological Belief, Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that our Physical Universe is made up of a finite number of ultimately‑irreducible integers of matter and that these integers are bound together into a single, unitive Universe (or MONAD) by an explicit physical bonding phenomenon (like magnetism or gravity) which functions as a wave-like phenomenon (just as do light waves and sound waves which were, also, at one time, not directly discernable by the un-evolved forms of life which existed here on our Earth billions of years ago.) Through the medium of this specific physical bonding phenomenon, Adherents to this Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that each such ultimately‑irreducible integer of matter in our Physical Universe is directly bonded with each and every single other such integer in the entire physical Universe.

This ultimately-irreducible integer of matter is an “inchoate” Quantum Field which does NOT exist in any specific material form (as “matter.”) However, this bonding phenomenon manifests itself to us (in a form which is physically discernable to us, given our limited state of technological development) when such an otherwise un-manifest Quantum Field manifests itself in the form of a wave function of flow along a differential existing between any two such inchoate quantum fields. Thus, Cosmologically, Adherents to the Left‑ Marginalist position along Professor Parsons’ Sociological Bar Graph are MON‑ISTS, indeed, they are RADICAL MONISTS.

The Teleological Question:

Is there a specific direction in which our physical universe is unfolding, and if there is, what is the role of our human species, if any, in this unfolding?

Adherents to the Left‑Marginalist position believe that every member of our Human Species possesses a latent biological faculty which is directly analogous to our faculty of sight or hearing which is evolving TELEOLOGICALLY (that is: progressively, one small step at a time in a measurable direction into the future).

Adherents to the Left-Marginalist Worldview believe that the positively-progressing direction of the evolution of this biological faculty which is latent within each and every human being is a direct physical function of the data which resides within each and every ultimately irreducible inchoate quantum field located within our Physical Universe (this Teleological Belief is a direct function of the Cosmological Belief of this Sixth Paradigm Worldview).  It is this data, this universal information, which drives the evolution upward into a more and more complex and integrated form of life, taking a new evolutionary step in the positive development of human life, pursuant to a set of NATURAL LAWS which are purely PHYSICAL in their nature, (though not yet fully comprehended and not yet fully explicated by our still limited human scientific community.)

Through the physical exercise of this faculty, every human being will, eventually, become physically capable of experientially discerning (just as they now see the physical phenomenon of light waves or hear the physical phenomenon of sound waves.) the “waves” which are generated by each such inchoate quantum field, which taken collectively, make up a single unified field which constitutes the unistic phenomenon which bonds every irreducible integer of matter in our entire Physical Universe into one, single harmonious relationship with every other such integer of matter in the entire Universe. This collective of inchoate and choate quantum fields forms one MONISTIC UNITY.

VERY IMPORTANTLY, Adherents of the Left‑ Marginalist position believe that the physical existence of this latent biological faculty within our human species has been adequately discovered by our human family – through an exercise of the basic scientific tests of trial and error and through direct physical experience – so that we realize that this specific latent biological faculty can be CONSCIOUSLY accessed by every individual human being; can be CONSCIOUSLY made the central focus of one’s entire conscious experience; and can, thereby, be CONSCIOUSLY strengthened through exercise (just as one can is able to consciously increase one’s ability to hear or to see) ‑ if one directs ALL of one’s conscious attention to the physical experience and to exercising this physical faculty. The strengthening of this specific new faculty can be achieved, Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview explain, by means of several very widely known physical exercises. These physical exercises include: MEDITATION; FASTING; CELIBACY; YOGA EXERCISES; THE SELF‑INFLICTION AND RISING ABOVE OF CERTAIN PHYSICAL PAIN; THE INGESTION OF CERTAIN NATURAL HERBS AND PLANTS and other activities.

Through the conscious undertaking of these specific exercises to consciously strengthen this specific biological faculty, Adherents to this Left-Marginalist position believe that each human being can strengthen this specific latent human faculty to the point at which each person can personally accelerate this development to the point at which he or she can directly physically discern the physical phenomenon which bonds every unit of matter in the entire Physical Universe into a single unitive entity ‑ and, thereby, enable such an individual to be in direct experiential contact with the harmonizing phenomenon of the Universe in accordance with which harmony, or in discordance to which, every such human being can judge the right-ness or the wrong-ness of any given human action, by experientially determining whether that conduct is harmonious with or – disharmonious to this Universal Physical Harmonious Phenomenon.

EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, Adherents to this Sixth Paradigm position believe that General Principles of Human Conduct and even Specific Forms of Human Conduct ‑ both INDIVIDUAL and COLLECTIVE ‑ can be identified as being harmonious with or disharmonious to this Universal Harmonizing Phenomenon. And, they believe that if human beings can be voluntarily persuaded to comport their conduct ‑ both individual and collective ‑ in accordance with these General Principles of Human Conduct and with these Specific Forms of Human Conduct, and by a greater and greater number of individual human beings, it will itself physically accelerate the arrival of the point in time at which our entire human family will make, together, a quantum leap, evolutionarily, to the next step of human biological evolution toward which the natural laws of our Physical Universe are drawing us.

Thus, the Adherents of the Left‑Marginalist position see the conscious identification and voluntary compliance on the part of members of our human family with the principles of natural law to be the method or practice by means of which our human family can ‑ and ought ‑ to use our natural faculty of the INTELLECT to become FULLY CONSCIOUS PARTNERS and PARTICIPANTS in our own physical biological human evolution to the next step in our biological evolution from Homo Sapiens (Thinking Man) to Homo Divinis (Discerning, or Divining Man).  Indeed, this is THE ULTIMATE GREAT IDEA which Professor Crain Brinton accepted to be known and understood by the greatest mind in Western Civilization, as being latent within all human beings at the Conclusion of his 50‑year teaching career at Harvard University in April of 1968.

One of the most thorough recent explications of this Sixth Paradigm Belief has been undertaken by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit and Paleontologist in his 1959 work entitled The Phenomenon of Man.

The Ontological Question:

How did sentient consciousness come into being (especially human consciousness)?

Our human species is an integral material (i.e. Mass and Energy‑ composed) phenomenon which has NATURALLY occurred within our physical Universe as a direct consequence of the functioning of the NATURAL LAWS of our Universe pursuant to which, and in accordance with which (as we can observe through our physical senses and our rational intellect) the mass and energy within our physical Universe always function.

However, according to the Ontological Belief of Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview, there resides within each and every ultimately-irreducible inchoate quantum field within our Universe a specific datum which physically generates within each human being seven Energy Fields and immediately above the head of each human being an eighth energy field. These energy fields are identified in the Sanskrit language as Chakras.

Each of these eight distinct Human Chakras has a specific size and a specific shape. The energy out of which each such Chakra is made up vibrates at a specific datum-determined frequency of vibration.  Each such Chakra also spins, within our human body, at a specific, datum-determined rate of rotation. Each such Chakra is tilted to the ecliptic to a specific, datum-determined degree. And each such Chakra generates an egg-shaped subtle-energy envelope around our human body which vibrates in sympathetic resonance with the specific vibrational frequency of the Chakra which generates that energy field.

When each of these eight Chakras is: vibrating at the exact frequency rate which is designated by the datum which resides within each inchoate quantum field in the Universe (constituting that ideal information) and when each of these eight Chakras is rotating at the exact rate of physical rotation which is designated for that specific Chakra by the datum which resides within each inchoate quantum field in the Universe, and when each of these eight Chakras is tipped at the exact degree of physical tilt to the ecliptic which is designated by the datum which resides within each inchoate quantum field in the Universe constituting that ideal information – then the Eighth Chakra Energy Envelope which surrounds the physical human body which contains those eight specific Chakras will vibrate at a frequency which will be in direct sympathetic resonance with the specific frequency at which THE BONDING PHENOMENON OF THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE vibrates thereby causing that human body to function exactly like a classical Crystal Radio Receiver, sending from the Eighth Energy Envelop surrounding that human body a set of energy vibrations which draw the energy vibrations of each of the other seven Energy Envelops up into perfect sympathetic vibration with that Eighth Chakra frequency.

These sympathetically vibrating eight Subtle-Energy Fields surrounding that physical body will then cause each of the respective seven other Chakras within that physical body to vibrate at the ideal frequency of that Specific Chakra (originally directed by the datum governing that Chakra which is is contained within each inchoate quantum field.)  This will result in that human body being surrounded in a holographic field which the human brain will read (since the human brain functions like a holographic field recorder).  This experience occurring inside the human brain within that human body will cause that human being to directly experience a direct link into the Unified Field which bonds the entire physical Universe together into one, unified harmonic (indeed Holographic) entity.

Therefore, according to the Ontological Belief of Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Left-Marginalist Worldview, the Consciousness of each one of us and of our of our entire Human Species is a NATURAL LAW FUNCTION of the Cosmology which is obtained within our Physical Universe ‑ which is, therefore, in a sense, a purely MECHANICAL phenomenon.

The Epistemological Question:

What are the means by which we as human beings are capable of discerning the facts that constitute the answer to ultimate cosmic questions such as these?

As RADICAL MONISTS, Adherents of the Left‑Marginalist Worldview are operationally certain that we, as human beings, are capable of learning TRUTH ‑ and NOT just some relative, partial truth – but ULTIMATE TRUTH – if we are willing to utilize ALL of our human resources by means of which to discern the Facts.  This would include the employment of one’s entire personal Intellect; all of one’s academic or scholastic learning which one is able to obtain from the secular academic world; via the consultation of academic experts in the specific field of study in which the Facts which are desired arise; State authorities charged, by the Government of the collective community, with obtaining and evaluating data concerning various factual issues; credible persons with first‑hand knowledge of the Facts (if this is applicable) and direct personal investigation through the application of all scientific methods of ascertaining the Facts;

BUT ALSO, ACCORDING TO ADHERENTS TO THE SIXTH PARADIGM LEFT-MARGINALIST WORLDVIEW, by recourse to persons who have developed their latent biological faculty of discernment to an adequate degree by means of which to access The Unified Field constituted by the Unitive Phenomenon of The Universe… which Adherents to this Left‑Marginalist Worldview believe contains, in some retrievable or discernable form, ALL OF THE DATA CONTAINED IN THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL COSMOS (present, past AND FUTURE); AND very importantly, by recourse to THEIR OWN latent faculty of discernment (in the form of their own INTUITION).  It is, indeed, this specific unique Epistemological Belief of Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview which many identify as the distinguishing characteristic of Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm.  Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview hold the Epistemological Belief that we, as human beings, possess seven biological senses (NOT just the five which Adherents to the four center & right of center Worldviews believe we possess.)

Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview hold the “Epistemological” Belief that we, as human beings, possess one biological sense for each Chakra which exists inside our human body. Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that each such human Chakra generates a specific vibrational frequency within our human body which is an integral multiple of the Chakra which resides immediately below that Chakra (from the base of our spine… all the way to the Eighth Chakra which exists above our material body, at the high-point of the reach of one’s own arm).  Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that each of these seven internal Chakras generates an egg-shaped vibrational envelope around our body and that each of these seven egg-shaped, Chakra-generated envelopes fits inside the envelope which is generated by the next step higher frequency generated by the Chakra immediately above that Chakra. Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that an Eighth Chakra exists at the apex of the seven concentric vibrational energy-field “eggs” which enclose our entire physical body, thus existing outside of our physical material body.

Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that these seven vibrational envelopes which surround our human body functioning together generate an OVER TONE which sets up an EIGHTH vibrational FIELD around the entire set of seven envelopes.  And that this octave set of vibrational fields (each one of the eight frequencies of which is a whole number multiple of the vibrational frequency of the field which is immediately inside it) together constitute an OCTAVE SET, the vibrational phenomenon of which actually precipitates our whole BEING up out of the “Quantum Foam” which vibrates one octave higher than the rate of vibrational frequency of the Eighth Field of vibration which is generated as an over tone of the seven inter-acting vibrational envelopes formed by the seven fields which are generated by the functioning of the Chakras within our body.

Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview believe that we, as human beings, can experience a unique biological experience by directing our Conscious human attention directly into each one of the discrete vibrational fields which are generated by each Chakra and/or by directing our conscious attention directly into each of the discrete vibrational envelopes which surrounds our human body.  The unique experience when we direct our conscious attention into these discrete vibrational fields within our body and immediately surrounding our physical body is, in fact, (according to Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview,) one of our human senses. These are:

• “Touch” (within the vibrational field generated by our FIRST CHAKRA);

• “Taste” (within the vibrational field generated by our SECOND CHAKRA);

• “Smell” (within the vibrational field generated by our THIRD CHAKRA);

• “Sight” (within the vibrational field generated by our FOURTH CHAKRA);

• “Hearing” (within the vibrational field generated by our FIFTH CHAKRA);

• “INTELLECTUAL” PERCEPTION (i.e. the ability to distinguish the difference between [our SELF and other things, and between one thing and another thing] thus generating our experience of SELF Consciousness and within the VERY SAME experience generating our experience of apparent separateness from all of the rest of “Reality out there”) within the vibrational field generated by our SIXTH CHAKRA; and

• “DIRECT UNITIVE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE” (within the vibrational field generated by our SEVENTH CHAKRA).

Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview take no position as to a human being’s ability to obtain DIRECT EXPERIENTIAL ACCESS TO ANY INFINITE & ETERNAL SEA OF TOTALLY UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS.

Thus, it is the Epistemological Belief of Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview that we, as human beings, possess seven separate and distinct experiential  sources by means of which we can gather and then integrate data from within our physical Universe to discern patterns manifesting within this sensory data AND BY MEANS OF WHICH WE CAN (INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY) FUNCTION AS A FIRST CAUSATIVE SOURCE OF CHANGE WITHIN OUR PHYSICAL UNIVERSE.

Mode of Ethical Reasoning

The distinctive aspect of the Mode of Ethical Reasoning of the Sixth Paradigm Radical Monist Worldview is that they believe that this FACULTY OF INTUITION (experienced through the Seventh Chakra) should play a CENTRAL ROLE in each individual human being’s Normative decision-making or as their Mode of Ethical Reasoning.

Substantively, Adherents to the Left‑Marginalist Worldview believe that, when faced with a range of alternative choices by means of which to address a given public policy problem, one should choose the form of human conduct which is most harmonious with the NATURAL LAWS of the physical Universe. The methods by means of which one goes about determining exactly what specific form of human conduct is harmonious with NATURAL LAW (and what forms of conduct are expressly dis-harmonious to NATURAL LAW) are determined by the utilization of the various Methods of Determining The Facts which are set forth above.

However, the central means which should be employed in making this specific decision is to resort to one’s own personal Intuition.

HOWEVER, Once this factual determination has been made by each individual who is a member of the community which will be directly effected by the public policy choice chosen, Adherents to the Left-­Marginalist Worldview insist that a specific procedural process must then be employed by means of which the Community ought to determine which choice among the several available will be chosen. And the utilization of this specific procedure by means of which to make such an inherently community choice is integral to the Mode of Ethical Reasoning which is advocated by Left‑ Marginalists.

The procedure is this:

Every person who is going to be directly or indirectly effected by the public policy choice which is being made on behalf of the Community must be informed concerning all of the component elements pertaining to the decision, then be afforded an adequate time period prior to his or her having to render this decision to educate himself or herself as to what he or she will need to know to make a fully‑prepared choice concerning the matter. Thirdly, every such person must be given a fair opportunity to express his or her views on the matter and to attempt to persuade others that his or her view should be adopted by the Community.  And then, finally, every such person who is going to be directly effected by the decision made must be given the opportunity to vote on which specific public policy choice is going to be chosen by the community.

This is referred to as a SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC decision­-making process. (This process does NOT require that all such votes be unanimous. Such votes may fairly be determined by a specific, previously–agreed‑upon percentage of the total votes cast or of the total eligible voting members of the community. This may be a simple majority of one‑half plus one; a plurality; a two‑thirds majority, a three‑fourths majority – or whatever percentage is deemed fair by a prior agreement reached by the community prior to the undertaking of this vote).

The need to undertake this process by means of which to make every major public policy choice effecting each member of the community is the product of a substantive NATURAL LAW PRINCIPLE itself. So, to Adherents of the Left‑Marginalist Worldview, the utilization of this process is a Natural Law value in and of itself. In effect, this value dictates that there are instances in which it is ethically preferable to have NO decision made by means of which to address a given public policy problem which will be enforced by the community upon the individuals in the community (if no single alternative choice available generates the support of a specific percentage of the community members) rather than to have a clear choice made which might solve that specific public policy problem at issue but which is actively opposed by [or is not affirmatively accepted by] an unacceptably-high percentage of the members of the community effected.

Thus, there are two equally-important aspects of the distinctive Mode of Ethical Reasoning which is believed in by Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview. The first, which is substantive, is that a Natural Law Ethic be employed (and that each individual utilize, as the central means by which he or she determines whether a given option is harmonious with Natural Law, that individual person’s Faculty of INTUITION.) The second, which is procedural, is that the procedure employed by the community to make its collective decision be Social Democratic (as defined above).