This website, and its older companion for a proposed Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics, contains dozens of documents and hundreds of hyperlinked web pages on the evolutionary story of humanity that I have published on the Web since I was seventy in 2012. In essence, these show that the psychosocial chaos in the world today is the culmination of some 13.8 billion years of evolution since the most recent big bang, of ever-increasing accumulative complexity.
I have learnt to understand the psychological drivers of this metacrisis because evolution has become fully aware of itself within me, in the manner that Julian Huxley, author of Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, foresaw in a short visionary article in 1957 titled ‘Transhumanism’. Huxley said, by “destroying the ideas and the institutions that stand in the way of our realizing our possibilities”, we could understand human nature, what it truly means to be a human being. When evolution thus becomes fully conscious of itself, we would transcend our limitations, fulfilling our highest potential as spiritual beings, living in mystical ecstasy, free from the suffering that has plagued humanity through the millennia.
However, what has happened to me in my lifetime has not yet emerged in the collective psyche in the manner that Huxley envisioned. For when we are infants and children, we generally learn what our parents and teachers want us to learn, an enculturating process that has been passed from generation to generation for thousands of years, with some modifications from time to time, as evolution has revealed its innermost secrets. In contrast, because of a cataclysmic prenatal trauma in 1941, I did not become assimilated into the culture I had been born in during childhood and adolescence. Consequently, when evolution started afresh at the very beginning within me in 1980, when I was working in marketing for IBM in London, I had very little to unlearn.
On the other hand, this is not a benefit enjoyed by the population in general. As an effect of our mechanistic cultural conditioning, which leads many to believe that artificial intelligence (AI) is possible, there is no nurturing social environment where we can collectively answer the most critical unanswered question in science: What is causing scientists and technologists, aided and abetted by computer technology, to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration?
For to answer this question, we need to recognize that the computer is a machine quite unlike any other artifacts that the Homo genus has invented during the past two thousand millennia. Unlike the flint axe, wheel, printing press, telescope, steam engine, and telephone, for instance, which extend our rather limited physical abilities, the computer is a tool of thought, able to extend the human mind, even in some cases replacing it. So, traditional materialistic, mechanistic science and monetary economic systems are hopelessly inadequate for understanding and managing the rapidly changing world we live in today.
This means that if we are ever to live in love, peace, and harmony with each other and our natural environment, we need to make the most radical change to the work ethic since the invention of money some 4,000 years ago. In modern banking systems, at any one point in time the money supply must be finite to maintain the value of the currency. So, as attachment to money provides many with a sense of security and identity in life, the authorities have created a global economy where we are told that we must fight each other for a slice of the limited financial pie, as apparently separate individuals.
Obviously, such a belligerent approach to managing our business affairs is not conducive to World Peace. For to reveal Inner Peace, we need to follow Albert Einstein’s observation that you cannot solve a problem with the mindset that created it. This is one of many paraphrases of a statement he made in an article titled ‘The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men’, published in the New York Times Magazine on 23rd June 1946, which began with these words: “Many persons have inquired concerning a recent message of mine that ‘a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels’.” He then went on to write, “Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.”
Now, if we humans are to ‘move to higher levels’, there is one simple change we need to make to our mindsets and thought processes and hence the ways we live our lives. Love and Peace are revealed when we change from conflict-ridden, either-or systems of thought to a harmonious, both-and approach to life. Nothing is simpler.
However, the ramifications of such a basic change are so vast, they are not easy to make within cultures that are resistant to change. For such liberating changes affect every aspect of human endeavour, from religion, through science, medicine, and mathematics, to business and politics, all of which have underlying psychological structures, often embedded in the collective, cultural, and personal unconscious.
Yet, even if we could collectively make such a radical transformation of consciousness, this would not ensure the survival of our species indefinitely. Specifically, technological development cannot drive economic growth for eternity or infinite time. One day, the world we are familiar with will come to an end, at the natural conclusion of our evolutionary story.
We can see this most clearly from the Principle of Unity, akin to Heraclitus’s Hidden Harmony, which encapsulates a harmonious approach to life in just seven words: Wholeness is the union of all opposites. I also call this fundamental law of the Universe the Cosmic Identity, which states in non-mathematical symbols A is A and not-A. Here A denotes the Absolute, showing that there is a primary-secondary relationship between the indivisibility of Ultimate Reality and the relativistic world of form.
Recognizing the primacy of the Divine is especially important at the present time, as our beautiful planet Earth passes through the eighth mass extinction of land-based plants and animals in the last half a billion years. When I first saw that humankind is not immortal in 1982, I realized that one day a generation of children would be born who would not grow up to have children of their own.
At first, I ingenuously thought that by developing a holistic system of thought – which I call Integral Relational Logic (IRL) – we could rebuild our education and economic systems on the universal, irrefutable truth of the Principle of Unity. For this transcultural, transdisciplinary method of reasoning provides the system of coordinates for a synthesis of all knowledge, as the elusive Theory of Everything, called Panosophy or the Unified Relationships Theory (URT).
By thereby unifying the conceptions of God and Universe – the overall contexts for spirituality and science, respectively – we could bring coherent meaning and purpose to our learning activities, and hence our lives. We would then have solved the problem that Einstein attempted to solve during the last thirty years of his life, enabling us to live in the eschatological Age of Light for a few more generations, at least.
However, as my evolutionary studies have expanded and deepened since then, I have come to realize that I have been far too optimistic. For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in two special reports in 2018 and 2019 that climate change is now irreversible, beyond its tipping point. For those willing to look at the evidence, it is now crystal clear that the accelerating pace of global heating will probably destroy the habitat we need to grow our food within a decade or three.
Accordingly, to prepare for this inevitability, since the turn of the millennium, I have turned inwards to stimulate my spiritual awakening. As helpers, I have met a few spiritual teachers of Nonduality, who mirror my own inner experiences. I have also been studying humanity’s involutionary story, as expressed in the esoteric writings of the mystics in many cultures through the ages. By involution here I simply mean a psychological dying process, which is the opposite of evolution, as a psychospiritual growth process, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe through the creative power of Life in the Eternal Now, illustrated in this diagram.
What embodying the union of spirituality and science tells me – in the manner that Reneé Weber envisioned in Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity – is that biogenesis has become noogenesis, from Greek noos ‘mind’. Beginning about 60,000 years ago, evolution has become increasingly self-reflective, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin describes in The Human Phenomenon, which views evolution in four stages: physical, biological, mental, and spiritual.
Such introspection reveals that the Totality of Existence, viewed as a coherent whole, consists of inseparable nonmaterial and material regions in a primary-secondary relationship. As mystics, like Yogis, Kabbalists, and Theosophists, have discovered through self-inquiry, the psychospiritual realm is vastly more extensive and profound than the physical universe, which just covers the surface of things. I call this immense nonmaterial domain the Cosmic Psyche or Akashic Records, as the final frontier of human exploration, which I have been comprehensively mapping since 1980 with Self-reflective Intelligence.
The term Cosmic Psyche was inspired by Carl Gustav Jung’s use of the German word Psyche to denote the field studied by depth psychologists. Jung was a pre-eminent both-and thinker, much inspired by Daoists, alchemists, and coincidentia oppositorum, the ‘coincidence of opposites’ of Nicholas of Cusa, a fifteenth-century Catholic cardinal. It was in this holotropic manner that Jung formed his healing practice of individuation, as the development of an undivided being.
Jung was also a Gnostic, living in union with the Divine, as we can see from an interview that he gave John Freeman in 1959, broadcast on the BBC that year. First, Freeman asked Jung whether he believed in God when being brought up in the Swiss Reformed Church. Jung replied, “Oh, yes.” Freeman then asked, “Do you now believe in God?”, to which Jung replied, “Now? [Pause] Difficult to answer. I know. I don’t need to believe. I know.”
However, Jung’s statement would have been an act of heresy in the Middle Ages, then a capital offence in the organized Abrahamic religions, which still regard God as ‘other’, distinct from humanity. Yet, in Reality, none of us is ever separate from the Divine, as the Immortal Ground of Being. There is therefore nothing more important in life than to heal our split souls in the joy of Oneness, inseparable from Wholeness, which I denote with the beautiful Sanskrit word Satchitānanda ‘Bliss of Absolute Truth and Cosmic Consciousness’.
The writings on this website and its companion subdomain, which still has some unresolved technical issues, are based on Gnosis, breaking the fundamental taboos of Western civilization. I have written these expressions of Wholeness since I became aware of the Cosmic Psyche through the radiant Light of Consciousness, following a spiritual retreat in 2008 in the Altai Mountains in Russia, the original home of the Shamans.
This revelatory awakening has enabled me to solve the most perplexing modelling problem of information systems architects in business. To develop a comprehensive model of all business processes, both the map-making process and the cartographer must be included in the territory being mapped. This means that the map of the Cosmic Psyche presented on these websites is actually contained within this nonmaterial realm, which is not accessible to our physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Furthermore, the cognitive map is still evolving, as more and more of our evolutionary story is revealed to those of us seeking to understand ourselves. Most significantly, there are an increasing number of spiritual seekers endeavouring to heal the collective trauma that humanity is suffering from because of our split souls and fragmented minds. Despite the turmoil in the world, there is a growing awareness of a fundamental unity underlying our apparent differences, which could be the basis on which we could synergistically share our skills and resources for the benefit of us all.
For myself, I feel complete with my spiritual journey, having returned Home to Wholeness, from which I have never left. For Wholeness is the True Nature of all of us. However, I still have two scholarly projects that need further development, as linguistic and mathematical expressions of my Whole-seeing visionary abilities.
Regarding the former, David Bohm, my primary scientific mentor, suggested in 1985 that we study the archaeology of language to reveal the true meanings of the words that we use to communicate with each other. To this end, I am developing a hyperlinked and indexed Glossary of nearly 500 terms, using etymology to trace the meanings of words to their roots and common ancestors in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language as much as possible, so often lost in today’s materialistic, mechanistic society.
In terms of mathematics, since paradoxes were found in set theory around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mathematics has lacked a sound foundation. We can resolve this precarious situation by viewing mathematics as the generative art and science of patterns and relationships emerging directly from the Source in the vertical dimension of time, guided by the Cosmic Identity, as the primal axiom. To explain what I mean by this, since 2018, I have been writing a book titled Unifying Mysticism and Mathematics: To Reveal Love, Peace, Wholeness, and the Truth. The first two chapters describe how Integral Relational Logic has evolved from the semantic modelling methods of information systems architects, who can view the global economy as a coherent whole, beyond the limitations of quantitative financial modelling methods.
However, because the later chapters of this book focus on mapping the mathematical objects in the Akashic Records, they do not describe the mathematical technique that is needed to map Teilhard’s four-stage model of evolution. This I described in 2016 in a book titled Through Evolution’s Accumulation Point: Towards Its Glorious Culmination. Neither do they yet explain to sceptical physicists how Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order unifies quantum and relativity theories. This I plan to do in Chapter 5 of Unifying Mysticism and Mathematics, titled ‘Growth of Algebraic Structures’.
However, as these projects are of minority interest, I am still seeking ways to present our evolutionary story in ways that are more accessible to those not familiar with my mathematical and technological background or the universal spiritual journey. To this end, during the past few years, I have written blog posts and several introductory articles on our evolutionary story that some might be interested to read. The articles page for 2025 contains summaries of these earlier writings, but with some new perspectives. However, when it comes to understanding ourselves, there is no substitute for face-to-face human communications. So, even though I much enjoy the Stillness of Solitude, let us see where Life might take us all in the weeks and months ahead.