Books worth reading: Dec 28th 2011 Allan Ralph Andrews, born Long Beach CA, Sept 13th 1939 4:03 AMMost of my interpretation is based on the fundamental philosophy expressed in my small book titled “Love” published in 1974.Evolution as Entropy, Towards A Unified-Theory of Biology, Daniel R. Brooks and E. O. Wiley. This book gives a great synthesis of thermodynamics and natural selection. I am fond of the 1986 edition published by the University of Chicago. The chapter on “Information and Entropy” is excellent. Statements like “Biological array information is hierarchical, and the information at any level is generated by probabilistic process at lower levels, each constrained by a particular set of initial conditions.” In my symbol systems, I have taken the old Trigrams of the Yi Ching and used them as symbols for these relationships. Generation becomes Heaven and hierarchy becomes Wind. Constraints become Water Pit and probability becomes Thunder. The processes are Flame Trigram, the initial conditions are Mountain Trigram. The products are Earth Trigram and the resulting mixture is Lake.Applying this to evolution, Earth becomes phenotype and Wind becomes genotype. Heaven is mutation and Thunder is maladaptive express. Flame is natural selection and Water Pit is feedback mechanisms and homeostasis, Lake is recombination and hybridization and population genetics. Species emerge in Mountain and hybridize in Lake. Adaptive Peaks emerge in Wind and are eroded in Thunder. Novel things are developed in Heaven and regular patterns emerge in Earth Trigram. Extinction opens up the system to natural selection in Flame and feedback loops close the system in Water Pit.An old book that has influence my thinking is “Modern Classical Philosophers” compiled by Benjamin Rand. I use the 2nd edition, where you can find a translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason on p. 435 and the conflicts of “transcendental ideas.” So the antimony in the Yi Ching and in evolution as entropy, I find to reflect the basic complementary antimonies of existence, negative numbers against positive numbers, imaginary numbers against real numbers, complex numbers against natural numbers, irrational numbers against rational numbers, etc..The infinite possibility in mutation becomes Heaven Trigram and its finite limits become Earth. Necessary ideals and set points become Wind and their probable decay and entropy and contingency become Thunder. The universe of evolution is open in the chaos of natural selection and Flame Trigram and closed in the mechanisms and determinism of Water Pit. It is simple in the opening conditions of Mountain, but becomes complex in the evolving recombination of Lake Trigram.But, I cannot open this book without turning to the Monadology of Leibnitz on p. 199. The classical Wind Trigram is composed of top line yang and middle line yang and bottom line yin. For me, top line yang is the root of minus one, the imaginary number, the deep bending with infinitesimal concentration in atoms of the infinitesimal, jiva, atman, what Plotinus called “Pneuma.” It is this element of the metaphysical that was the focus of Leibnitz, as opposed to Spinoza and his concern with the infinite circle of extended pi in the Hen One infinite of Plotinus, and Descartes, a bottom line yin rationalist with focus on the “Nous,” the rational principles of Cosmic Mind, the e to the pi x square root of minus one that added to plus one equals zero and make the fundamental basis of pure algebraic mathematics, the Form of the Good, the pure Wind Trigram of Platonism.So I believe these pure patterns weave the textures of all things. For me the Monads are the pure roots of simple time from which all space time relativity manifolds and complexes are formed. It is here, at the deep roots of existence that all true creativity and freedom has its hidden beginning. This deep Top Line Yang core is infinitely distant from the Middle Line Yin particles with finite planck lengths, no matter how small, infinitely distinct from the pure infinitesimal. So this is sattva guna not tamas guna, the infinitesimal not the finite. This is true simplicity and true simple time not the derived public space time of the tamas guna world.There is an infinite flux of rajas guna astral world finite intermediates that are generated by cosmic manifolds using various planck length constants and with varying degrees of refinement in relationship to their sattva guna source. This realm is the source of the cycles of birth and death and attachment and detachment of the sattva guna monad soul. This is the karmic world that determines the attachment complex to which the pure sattva of the monad will be drawn and with which it will become entangled. It is the trigonometry and topology of the entrapment of the soul. This is the realm that converts freedom to mechanism and determinism, this is the source of astrological and sociological fate, where karma becomes dharma, where past activity of the monad becomes the social duty of the finite structures in which the monad is entwined.This is the realm where the Pneuma and Psyche that were the focus of Berkeley and Locke, become the Soma that is the focus of Hobbes and Hume. The larger synthesis seen by Hegel becomes the antimonies known to Kant, but working out in a finite world visible to Comte and Spencer, to Mill and James. Hegel can see the Middle Line Yang and Kant the Bottom Line Yin, but the Water Pit Trigram mechanism will hang it all on the Top Line Yin of space time relativity that is rooted in the finite atoms of Middle Line Yin and the scientific measurements possible in the finite realm of the Earth Trigram and the probabilistic realm of Bottom Line Yang thermodynamics and entropy in Thunder Trigram.If the finite is what you demand, what you see is what you get.The three lines of the trigrams are also the great trinities of symbolism. The Lake Trigram of recombination is dominated by the grand trinity of Top Line Yin Confucianism, Bottom Line Yang Daoism, and Middle Line Yang Buddhism which defines Chinese religious recombination complexity, it is also the Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis of the Hegelian Dialectic. Water Pit is defined by the grand old trinity of Comte, Top Line Yin as science, Bottom Line Yin as philosophy, and Middle Line Yang as religion. We have discussed the trigrams of Wind, Hen One as Middle Line Yang, Nous Mind as Bottom Line Yin, and Pneuma as Top Line Yang. Mountain Trigram carries it to Earth Trigram, Top Line Yang as Pneuma Spirit and Bottom Line Yin as Psyche Mind and Middle Line Yin as the Soma of the Body. Flame Trigram carries it through the action and karma that is rajas guna, with Top Line Yang as pure sattva guna, Bottom Line Yang as active rajas guna and Middle Line Yin as the earthy tamas guna of Hindu metaphysics.Hindu metaphysics also rules the Heaven Trigram, with the destroyer dance of Shiva in the flux of Bottom Line Yang and the boundless everything of the preserver is Middle Line Yang One of Vishnu and the creative spirit of Top Line Yang in Brahma, the creator. Earth and Thunder are the trigrams ruled by the trinities of science: Earth is the Middle Line Yin of quantum mechanics, the Bottom Line Yin of mathematics and information and systems theory and the Top Line Yin of Space Time Relativity. Thunder Trigram extends the above into the Bottom Line Yang of entropy and thermodynamics.There are trinities of philosophy and artistic temper that easily fill all trigram combinations. Philosophical debates are largely antimonies between one of these exercises in metaphysical trigonometry and another in an opposing trigram, thus empirical trinities against dialectical trines, metaphysical trines opposed to thermodynamic combinations.John Gribbin’s “In Search of the Multiverse,” John Wiley, 2009, does a very good job of addressing some of these issues. Page 133 discusses a possible origin for our universe in “some eternal region of spacetime, and that exactly equivalent processes create other regions of inflation elsewhere in the meta-universe.” On page 173, he presents the idea that “our Universe is an artificial construct, manufactured deliberately by intelligent beings in another universe. He discusses how advanced civilizations “nudge the properties of the baby universes in a certain direction.”My thesis is that the real source of this “nudge” is the atom of the infinitesimal in the Monads of the Monadology. The designers of designer universes deliberately set up systems of universes that will attract Monad attachment. The astral intermediates are scaffolding that supports the astrological systems that the designer intelligences use to create systems of birth and rebirth that can control the attachments of the monad souls. Part of this process involves the generation of purgatory systems that will train and screen souls for attachment in the high heavens, the central designer systems of the designing intelligences, and also to recruit souls and astral complexes of souls for the wars of the designer intelligences with lesser universes, the hells, the demon systems with which the designer intelligence systems are at perpetual war.The conclusion of this discussion is my thesis that the government of universes and multiverses and space time manifolds has similarities with the government of kingdoms and of natural selection. The Heaven Trigram can also symbolize these mutant multiverse systems and Fire Trigram can symbolize the competition that breaks out with resulting chaos, the Hells that represent lesser systems. The visible world known to our science are Earth Trigram and their expansion and evolution is Thunder Trigram. The evolution of higher systems is Lake Trigram and the higher systems that are generated are Water Pit and the highest levels, the leading levels are Wind Trigram. Thus, I am suggesting progressions not unlike those envisioned in Dante in the development of these multiverses. Just as in human empire, the is the organization of the control systems, the universal trans-cosmic states, and the aristocratic set points, the areas of the multiverse that function as a dominant minority. A. R. Andrews, Bakersfield, CA, Dec 28th 2011Let us look at how I part ways with atheism. Alex Rosenberg has written “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality,” Rosenberg is obviously a semi-bright guy, but no Kant or Hegel. Like so many lesser minds, they are swept up in either religion or science. Rosenberg is a left hemisphere of the brain guy, he cannot find anything that will make peace with the meaning giving right hemisphere, so he gives it up as empty myth, a wild Amazon of the brain filled with uneducated neurons. What he fails to admit is that a determinist universe makes science and philosophy worthless. With no freewill there is no ability to evaluate in depth. The brain is either predetermined, or made by chance, to go a way or it is not. There is no more meaning to the flux that comes out of the brain than the patterns of the waves on the beach. You might as well read cow livers, the brain does what it does and if you are lucky it will give you truth but you are not in control of it. Logic, truth is a branch of Axiology. If you cannot go from a moral is to an ought, you cannot go from a rational one, you have no final way of sorting the true and the reasonable from the false. If there is no you to make a choice, there is no philosopher and no choice philosophy either. Ultimately, the philosopher is a wise person, not a learned person. He has the ability to evaluate arguments supporting conclusions and without the ability to reject a bad argument, his philosophy is worthless, meaningless, it is the ghost, the imitation of philosophy, a animal behavior pattern in imitation of true reason.The philosopher exists and philosophy exists because the universe is not parsimonious and goes on, like the points on a circles curve, into the infinite. Thus, true free will and real philosophy require some kind of Monadology somewhere within the rich soup existence. In my system, the Heaven Trigram, is the flux of bottom line yang in the infinite everything of middle line yang that make the improbable probable in the Monadology of top line yang, which is the fundamental improbable that make the observer possible. The observer is the Pneuma Monad that observes in Psyche bottom line yin information systems and allows the quantum world of the Soma of middle line yin to generate, out of this Mountain Trigram of simple initial conditions, the Earth Trigram of science and measurement. This is described in Arnold Mindell’s “Quantum Mind.” It is odd that rational minds still believe in the parsimonious world of Quine in an age of quantum computing. As John Gribbin puts it “there is room in an infinite universe not only for everything to happen, but for an infinite number of infinite universes, in each of which anything possible can happen an infinite number of times.” (Gribben, op. cit. p. 89). As Gribbin demonstrates, the existence of quantum computation gives us the multiverse and our free will (p. 76 and p.82).Now do not get me wrong. Rosenberg is only deficient in right hemisphere integrative intelligence, his left hemisphere thinking is extremely good. I am in complete agreement with him as far as his left hemisphere parsimonious factual interpretation of brain function, economics, history, natural selection, religion, human story telling is concerned. I also agree, that from one point of view, left hemisphere fact, there is no self, no free will, no deep meaning to anything. The later only emerge in the very uneconomical coral reef of levels to existence that infinite flux has made probable out of the infinitely improbable dance of destroying Shiva.My reaction to Rosenberg is to counter with Gribbin and the notion that quantum computing has proven the multiverse, and to further indicate that the infinite flux that make the improbable probable in the creation of the multiverse has characteristics that we have not yet understood because of our inadequate notions of the infinite, for that see “Infinity, New Research Frontiers,” ed. By Michael Heller and W. Hugh Woodin, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Note the discussion of Kant, Hegel, (pp. 272-273) and the references to the prejudices of modern philosophy that being is finite (certainly a prejudice in the left hemisphere factualism of Rosenberg in Atheist’s Guide). Note also the ideas of Pannenberg (op. cit. p. 285). Consider Pannenberg’s idea of time and contrast it with Rosenberg’s limited notion (see. P. 287).A deeper understanding of this can be found in the book “The Shape of Inner Space,” by Shing-Tung yau and Steve Nadis, Basic Books, 2010. It turns out that the mathematics supporting M theory and string theory is much more revolutionary that one might think. Physics has forced mathematics to explore aspects of topology and manifolds that might not have been explored. This shows that both mathematics and science are richer places than we previously thought. It is this richness that contradicts the tendency of those who follow Willard Van Orman Quine to try to make things simple and parsimonious.Rosenberg is right that most religious and philosophical explanations of existence are too simple and one dimensional, but so are the scientific explanations that Rosenberg offers. The religious and mythical stories are too strong on Right Hemisphere meaning. The are too much Middle Line Yang wetness, they stick too much together too easily. But, the scientific point of view that Rosenberg favors is too much Middle Line Yin dry fact without integration. The facts that Rosenberg offers do not perform as he claims. Newton’s Laws of Motion do not work for a quantum world. Much of the psychological and neurological data from the last century of science generate more questions than answers. Do the results of brain imaging really imply what they seem to imply, or is this just another example of misinterpretation of complex phenomena, the telling of a scientific story in behaviorist, Freudian, Jungian, now neuroscience terms, a story no more adequate in the end than any other.It makes sense to reject a theism that pretends to have all the answers, but shouldn’t we reject an atheism that is just as arrogant. One scientist philosopher, William James, suggested a pragmatic solution for the problem of purpose and planning. Truth is what works, James suggested. From the standpoint of survival oriented living things, that may be correct.In the end, metaphysics is not about explaining the world, but finding an approach that works for daily living. The choice between atheism and theism should not be about the virtue of truth alone. There are more important things in the end. A person selects a metaphysics that works for that person. In a complex universe that we can never fully understand, and with a brain too complex for science to ever fully fathom it, why should we approach it any other way?The blind dogmatism possible on issues like the above can be seen in the writings of Martin Gardner. Garner was fond of pontificating on what was true and what was not true and making fun of who ever was in disagreement with his personal dogma. See his “Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries,” where he commits the typical blunder of trying to obtain Newtonian simplicity from a post-Newtonian world. But, in the end Gardner’s views were probably closer to mine than to Rosenberg. Gardner had no problem believing in God for personal reasons or with rejecting all metaphysical explanations as too complex for a human brain to understand. These follow better from the evidence that Rosenberg presents about the messy character of human brain function, than Rosenberg’s strange belief that this messy brain is capable of distinguishing fact and folly without tripping over its own physiological blind spots. Are all products of brain based cognition only illusions of one kind or another, even those that pretend to be scientific truth? Look how long we believed in Newton’s absolute time and space.My prejudices run to very rich metaphysical landscapes with plenty of astral scaffolding to support astral worlds and soul complexes to which free immortal Monadology monads can attach to create the “Same Soul, Many Bodies” past lives therapy of Brian L. Weiss, M.D. This explains astrology and many other things in a universe rich enough and deep enough to have sprung from such wealthy (not parsimonious) roots. Parsimony is a technique not a conclusion. Modern science has used parsimony as a brush to generate very unparsimonious conclusions. Read some current physics if you do not believe. A. R. Andrews, Dec. 28th 2011You wonder where philosophers like Rosenberg have been. They do not seem to have read anything but Hume and Epicurus. The problem, according to Rosenberg, is the human attempt to create narratives and conspiracy theories. Good, according to Rosenberg, is “Scientism.” But Rosenberg has generated his own conspiracy theory, the conspiracy of the story tellers, who are trying to rope us into their city of illusions. He has his own good guy team, the science people. But, he constructs his own narrative, the thermodynamic story. How this theory is any better than any other, well he explains this by telling us that this is the basic story, completely ignoring the levels of organization principle that is basic to modern biological and psychological science.I could call Rosenberg’s Scientism “left cerebral hemisphere dominance.” When people have strokes and the right hemisphere ability to integrate meaning through narrative and story is partly destroyed, the victim will get his/her facts correct and loose the meaning. Which is what Rosenberg is doing. Philosophy is narrative, the narrative of debate, that is what love of wisdom means. To reject narratives like those of Plato is to destroy philosophy before it gets out the door.Furthermore, science is one long narrative, beginning with the big bang and running though the period of geological time and then human history, including the history of philosophy and science. Modern atheism is rooted in the narrative of Comte, first comes religion, then philosophy, and then enlightened science. It is this narrative that Rosenberg is trying to hawk, or he wouldn’t be sending us back to Hume and Epicurus. Core works for the atheists are the narratives of the history of atheism, of philosophy, of religion, with the believers as the conspirators.A huge problem for Rosenberg is that psychology and social science are notoriously bad science. There is often better evidence for parapsychology and astrology than for many popular ideas in the so called “social sciences” that Rosenberg is pushing. Tricks that tricksters like Rosenberg attempt to pull off include lumping the laws of Newton with the latest fads in brain science. But this is a game that more than one can play, note my success in painting him into the left brain addicted corner in the paragraph above.All of this said, it is the problem of linear narrative that I am addressing with the I Ching/Yi Ching model. The reason I like it is the way it avoids the limitations of linear narration. It solves the determinism to indeterminism problem that plagues Rosenberg by lifting it to the realm of geometry and mathematics. Indeterminism is the complex number complement to determinism, see the Quantum Mind referenced above. All of existence is the Hegelian and Kantian complements symbolized in the I Ching, infinite to finite, simple to complex, determinate to indeterminate, necessary to contingent. Just as a determinate simple finite and necessary fixation of an electron prevents knowledge of its infinite complex contingent indeterminate wave motion, so with all the other aspects of existence. All left brain facts are particles in the right brain integrative wave form distribution. All have the limitation of the definite and the simple. You cannot have the definite and its power at the same time.The German Lutheran theologian, in an article in Una Sancta (Volume 24, Number 2, 1967, pp 3 to 19, describes God as the power of the future and claims that he does not exist in the finite here and now. That future becomes present in humans like Jesus who proclaim it. Now here is a distinct narrative and a different look at time, one that does not contradict the atheism of Rosenberg, but roots its theology in a hope, rather than a fact. This is what I mean when I say that Metaphysics is not about finite facts in this world, but alternative frameworks, stories to put the facts in. The history of philosophy and science from a positivist point of view is one such narrative, obviously the narrative of Rosenberg. The narrative of Pannenberg is another. Given what Rosenberg has told us, there is no choice between them. Our brain’s will move toward one or the other or neither and what they move toward is what they move toward. End of story. This fits with the narrative of Romans, being chosen by grace, we are graced with the narrative that we are graced with and that is all.But, what I like about the I Ching model is how it allows us to find our value and our grace in a non-linear dimension, as the lines and broken lines of the I Ching transform us from beyond our one and two dimensional flat land. Rosenberg, for all his protests, is obviously trapped in this own narrative and the flat page to which it belongs.A.R. Andrews, Dec. 30th 2011A.R. Andrews Jan 15th 2012 Picking up with this after a period in Colorado etc. Is all Metaphysics axiology? Is most speculation aesthetics? Michael Polanyi wrote Personal Knowledge, published 1958, p. 140 notes that intellectual passions are critical to scientific orientation and point of view. On page 267, he writes of prior assumptions and of “personal belief.” All metaphysics seems to be circular and each metaphysician is trapped in a particular circle. Kant’s notion of conflicts of “transcendental ideas” sets out these circles, simple against complex, necessary against contingent, infinite against complex, closed against open. Hegel and Fichte simply extend the debate. Quine, the guru of modern scientism is famous for his aesthetic parsimony in which he makes the dry and simple core assumptions of his scientific dogma absolutes in a pseudo-positivism as bare as that of Comte. Comte wrote “The Positive Philosophy” which appears in the collection of translations compiled by Benjamin Rand, discussed above. In the selection chosen by Rand, Comte is seeking some sort of “social physics” which will provide a means of making a harmonious system of the information from the social science as an alternative to the speculations offered by theology. This seems to be an earlier version of the venture offered by Alex Rosenberg, see above, in “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality.” Rosenberg does not mention Comte or positivism in his book, but has a good opinion of Willard Van Orman Quine on page 326 of his “Guide.” Quine’s work is actually not particularly brilliant. Most of his work in logic has failed to be very useful, except for some of his work in set theory and his tendency to look at mathematics as a necessary complement to science. Quine is liked because of his failure to rock the positivistic boat of the science-mathematics-engineering establishment. It is not surprising that he had conservative political opinions because his work was mainly in service of the conservative science and technology establishment in North America.Quine and Comte seem to both be victims of what Polanyi calls the “Laplacean Delusion” that all experience can be explained in “atomic data.” (Polanyi, page 141). Our approach will suggest a series of polar oppositions, “complementary opposites of the type found by Kant in his “Critique of Pure Reason,” see above. We would apply the oppositions, the complementary opposites, of Kant to a system like that of Hegel. We have an octahedron, a cube in which the eight corners are the eight trigrams of the I Ching (Yi Ching) of Neoconfucian metaphysics, and the six faces are the six oppositions that make up the trigrams, top line singular hot light yang to top line association cool heavy yin, middle line whole wet yang to middle line atomic dry yin, bottom line flux yang to bottom line information yin.Four of the trigrams are the tetrahedron of the Greek elementals, Lake Trigram as Water Elemental, Wind Trigram as Air Elemental, Flame Trigram as Fire Elemental, Earth Trigram as Earth Elemental.Quine’s notion of dry physics is pure dry middle line yin and Comte’s attempt to generate “social physics” out of this atomism is pure heavy cool top line yin. Add in the mathematical fixation of bottom line yin and you have the Earth Trigram of objectivity and scientific facts, the finite complement to the infinite orientation of the Heaven Trigram and the subjective and magical. The trigrams are the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis of the Hegelian dialectic. The Lake Trigram is the pure complex dialectic of top line heavy yin as the association Thesis, pure bottom line active yang as the energy Antithesis, and pure middle line wet holistic middle line yang as the boundless everything Synthesis.The popular trinity of space time relativity as top line yin, quantum mechanics as middle line yin, and mathematical systems at bottom line yin forms the Earth Trigram and the antithesis of mathematics in thermodynamic flux forms the neighboring Thunder Trigram, with quantum mechanics as the thesis in middle line yin and space time relativity as the synthesis in top line yin. Opposed to this trinity, this dialectic of the contingent, is the famous Neoplatonic Trinity of the Wind Trigram, the monadology of hot light top line yin as the Pneuma of the spirit in a Thesis, the everything one of wet middle line yang as the Hen One synthesis, and the energy of bottom line yang as the antithesis, to the fixed point of the Wind Trigram dialectic in the Nous, the Cosmic Mind, of mathematical systems. This antithesis forming the Heaven Trigram of the infinite out of the Wind Trigram of idealistic ( platonic mathematical) necessity. A. R. Andrews, Bakersfield, Ca, Jan. 15th 2012.The dialectic of the Air Element and the Wind Trigram is the dialectic of the metaphysics of the rationalists, the metaphysics of the necessary with the Monadology of Gottfreid Wilhelm Von Liebnitz as the hot light Pneuma of Top Line yang, the Meditations of Rene Descartes as the fixed Nous of Bottom Line Yin, and the Ethics of Baruch De Spinoza as the Hen One everything of wet Middle line Yang. This dialectic of necessity is the product of the generative dialectic of infinite flux in which the god Shiva of energy flux in bottom line yang generates the boundless everything in the Vishnu of the Hen One Brahman Nirvana whole that is middle line yang, to produce the generative Pneuma of Brahma in the singular monads of the top line yang. Thus Heaven Trigram is the infinite flux source of the improbable ideal in Wind Trigram. This Heaven Trigram of infinite flux in Bottom Line, Middle Line, Top Line Yang is the Heaven Trigram generative beginning of the Yi Ching cube and its complementary opposite in the Earth Trigram of Top Line Yin Space Time Relativity, Middle Line Yin Quantum Mechanics and Bottom Line Yin Mathematical Systems. From these three complementary oppositions flows the metaphysical dialectic of all things. A. R. Andrews, Bakersfield, Ca. Jan 16th 2012.The antithesis of bottom line yang of the Lake Trigram is the complementary opposite of the mathematical systems of bottom line yin in the Water Pit Trigram. Together these two trigrams, Lake and Water Pit, cover the “wetness” of collective assimilation, of the so called “Collective Unconscious.” This aspect is developed in depth by Brian Swimme in “The Universe is a Green Dragon,” Bear, Sante Fe New Mexico, 1984. Swimme describes gravitation as “allurement.” It was Swimme’s ideas that caused me to begin to develop the idea of passion as the inside of energy and reason as the inside of information, as pleasure as the inside of integration and pain as the inside of disintegration. An abridgement of Arnold Toynbee’s “A Study of History” was done by D. C. Somervell and issued by Oxford University Press in 1947. Toynbee spent much time studying the “Universal State” and the “Universal Church” that were supported by an internal proletariat forever threatened by an external proletariat and ruled by dominant minority. This dominant minority might support some kind of withdrawal and return in its creative phase. The dominant minority corresponds to the Wind Trigram of our system, the Universal State to Water Pit and the Universal Church to Lake Trigram, the external proletariat to Flame Trigram and the aboriginal condition that gave rise to the external proletariat, to Heaven Trigram. The city state in its withdrawal and return is Mountain Trigram. The industrial phase of Mountain Trigram is Earth Trigram and the consumer market phase in Thunder Trigram. Water Pit corresponds to the receptive orientation of the system of Erick Fromm (Art of Love, etc.) and Flame to the exploitative, Wind to Hoarding and Thunder to Marketing. Heaven is aboriginal Productivity and Earth is utilitarian Productivity. In addition, we break exploitation down into a segregating function that is Mountain Trigram and receptivity into a recombining function the is Lake Trigram.The current world has seen a withdrawal and return on the part of North America and the American Revolution allowing a withdrawal and return of the American republics, and a withdrawal and return from the French, German, British, Russian, and Holy Roman Empires that is occurring in states like Ireland and the Czech Republic. A R Andrews, Bakersfield, CA Jan 16th 2012Jan 19th There events are described in remarkable detail by Richard Tarnas in “Cosmos and Psyche” Plume, 2007, here we see an astrological explanation of events that only works if you fully apply the physics of Brian Swimme, see above, in which gravitation is a form of allurement, therefore of love. Those held most closely by the Sun are most loved by it, therefore in each pair, Venus to Mars, Jupiter to Saturn, Uranus to Neptune, Saturn to Uranus, Neptune to Pluto, the inner member is more available and positive. The planet with the more regular orbit and less tilt is also more positive and idealistic, thus Venus over Mars, Jupiter over Saturn. In these comparisons, Mercury is a neutral sharing both positive, solar, and negative, irregular orbit, traits. Uranus is strange, with its flipped on its side rotation, and Neptune is dark and tilted, but with a regular, circular orbit, hence deceptive, mysterious. Pluto is the smallest and darkest and most irregular of all, hence the focus of unexpected events like wars and revolutions. Moon, closest to Earth, has the most allurement for Earth, hence is the most biological, most tidal, most emotional. Venus comes second with the positive emotions and Mars comes third with the disruptive ones.The point is that superstition is not the guide to the language of the planets, the message of their placement is a kind of language suggesting communication from some sort of designer control. We have suggested that there is more to existence that the visible, that there is an internal atom as well as an external one and these internal atoms, monads, control the quantum world from the outside, generating systems of universes more like the ideas of Dante and Buddha and Plotinus than of Newton and Hume. A. R. Andrews, Bakersfields, Jan 19th 2012Bertrand Russell’s History of Philosophy, 1945, has an excellent discussion of the monad system of Leibnitz. These monad are in a hierarchy with some above others (see page 584). A human is made of an infinity of these immortal souls, but one is dominant. Space is caused by the arrangement of the monads, but the world is seen by each monad in a different way. None of the monads is alike. Now I believe this is actually the case, but I base it in modern metaphysics.What follows is my own system derived from the above: The universe we live in has an infinity of quantum mechanical alternatives, all with the same quantum length. But, infinite flux makes the improbable probable and has generated an infinity of multiverses with every quantum length from the infinitesimal to all ranges of the finite to the infinite and boundless. As the quantum length approaches the infinitesimal, the universe becomes smaller, more refined, enduring for longer lengths of time and more subjective, till we reach the infinitesimal monads that are eternal creative freedom and pure subjectivity that turns energy into passion, localization into consciousness, information into reason, chaos into free will, and mechanism into local control, integration into pleasure and bliss and disintegration into pain and sadness. Larger quantum lengths generate the astral worlds and quantum lengths approaching our own become the space time universes that manifest the objective aspects of being. These are associated with larger and larger collective systems, moving through higher and higher levels of organization and order till we reach the boundless multiverse that is the Hen One everything that unites all things in perfect integration and is the source of the order symbolized in the I Ching system described above. Jan 19th 2012 Allan Andrews, Bakersfield, CA. Our world is mortal and determinate and finite, it is pure Earth Trigram and emerges from the Thunder Trigram expansion of all things. The realm of the monads emerges from the infinite flux that is Heaven Trigram and the perfection that is the improbable order of Wind Trigram manifest in the free will of the monads in Flame Trigram and the awaking of the monads in their attachment to conscious organisms in Mountain Trigram. Water Pit and Lake Trigram provide collective systems of reincarnation and association the tie the monads together into the complexes of public time and space so that astral body associations of monads can go through cycles of birth and rebirth and generate the various orders seen in astrology through the activity of levels of organization that bring the evolution of universe creating and directing gods and supergods. A. R. 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