The Joy of Wholeness

During the last 45 years, the creative power of Life, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe in the Eternal Now, has healed my fragmented mind and split soul in Wholeness. This means that there is nothing and no one outside me; nothing to fight for or argue about. There is just the Joy of Wholeness – as the union of all opposites – in the Stillness of Solitude.

Yet, I am still manifestly an ordinary human being, living in a world that is rapidly degenerating into psychosocial chaos, as the result of billions of years of bifurcating evolution. In particular, this widespread conceptual confusion is the product of fragmented human learning, out of touch with Reality, which has been passed from generation to generation in various cultures for thousands of years.

In my case, to heal a cataclysmic prenatal trauma in October 1941, I experienced an awakening, apocalyptic epiphany in April 1980, which has led me to use Self-reflective Intelligence to conduct a thought experiment that starts afresh at the very beginning. In this liberating manner, Life has led me to develop the Method that is needed to integrate all knowledge in all cultures and disciplines into a coherent whole.

So, all I can do for the remainder of my life is express Wholeness to the best of my ability, knowing that the incompatible contextual conceptions of God and Universe have been unified in Satchitānanda, the ‘Bliss of Truth and Cosmic Consciousness’. By making the most radical change to the work ethic since the invention of money, there is then just Peace, perfect Peace, beyond conflict and suffering.

Revealing the Living Light

To celebrate Life healing a cataclysmic prenatal trauma I suffered in October 1941, this year I have written two autobiographical articles titled ‘Living in the Eternal Now’ and ‘Revealing the Living Light’.

From evolutionary and psychospiritual perspectives, they show why 13.8 billion years of evolution since the most recent big bang are now degenerating into psychosocial chaos and how we could bring universal order to these apocalyptic end times we live in before our inevitable demise as a species.

With Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu currently exercising their destructive powers to protect their national identities, it looks unlikely that the Living Light within us all could generate a global synergistic response to the darkness pervading humanity.

Nevertheless, having used Self-reflective Intelligence to develop the elusive Theory of Everything, I can see that such an awakening, liberating, and healing movement could still emerge in the coming months and years, guided by Life, Light, and Love.

However, as Life is guiding us all to our destiny, we cannot know to what extent people could break free of their cultural conditioning from the 5,000 years of the patriarchal epoch to realize their fullest potential as human beings, especially free of attachment to money.

So, even though I am bubbling with energy, I’ll pause this occasional series of blog posts and await to see what might or might not happen, while blissfully dwelling in Stillness in the Presence of the Divine in the Eternal Now.

Awakening collectively

After half a century of self-inquiry, searching for a language in which to express my evolving experience of what it means to be human, compared to machines with so-called artificial intelligence (AI), I have written a harmonious quartet of two-page articles summarizing my understanding, as my previous blog post announces.

The primary reason why we don’t teach our children what it means to be human is that parents and teachers don’t know, because, in turn, their parents and teachers did not know, back through the generations. So, we live in ignorance of what is causing scientists and technologists to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological development at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration.

This is like driving along the highway faster and faster with our eyes closed, at best partially open, not very sensible. We can awaken to what is happening to humanity at the present time by acknowledging that the Totality of Existence consists of two inseparable regions, a material domain, which is mistakenly called universe, and a vastly more extensive nonmaterial realm, which is inaccessible to our physical senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

This I call the Cosmic Psyche, containing the cognitive maps and mathematical structures that build our institutions and guide our daily lives. But, at present, these maps are deeply fragmented and so do not answer the fundamental questions of human existence, such as Who are we? Where have we come from? Where are we going? So, it is not surprising that we are a species that has lost its way, as the popular spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle pointed out in A New Earth.

However, no teachers can tell us what it means to be human, which we can only learn through creative self-inquiry, complementing our traditional spiritual practices. For we are all unique beings, following our own particular paths in life, much influenced by our relationships with families, friends, and associates. So, if we are to awaken in our communities, we need to do so en masse, generating the synergy of relationships we need to be free of the constraints on our learning imposed on us by the cultures within which we were born and live today.

For my part, I have spent many years developing a coherent Glossary of terms that we could use to communicate to each other in the eschatological Age of Light. The Glossary traces the etymology of words back to their Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots as much as possible. It does so at the suggestion of David Bohm, my principal scientific mentor, who aptly called such studies the archaeology of language.

Most significantly, the Glossary unifies God and universe, denoting the contextual concepts for theology and science, respectively, in the beautiful Sanskrit word Satchitānanda ‘Bliss of Absolute Truth and Consciousness’. With such a Cosmic understanding, grounded in union with the Divine, we then discover that our forebears lived much closer to Nature and Reality than most are able to do today.

However, the website that contained this hyperlinked lexicon was hacked in April 2024, and I do not have the skills or resources to rebuild it. So, if I am to communicate what I have learnt about the psychodynamics of society over the years, I would appreciate some assistance from Drupal web developers in reconstructing the Glossary, revising it as necessary, as we collectively awaken to our True Nature as humans.

Being an evolutionary pioneer

During my formal education from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, I did not learn what my contemporaries learned because I could see that what I was being taught in religion, science, economics, mathematics, and logic did not make sense as a coherent whole. As I could intuitively see as a seven-year-old, a world that is at war with itself cannot lead to Inner Peace, a prerequisite for World Peace.

So, when evolution came to make the most radical change of direction in its 13.8-billion-year history in the spring of 1980, I had very little to unlearn. To develop a comprehensive model of the psychodynamics of society, I could start afresh at the very beginning as a Holoramic autodidactic visionary, learning what my parents and teachers could not teach me in childhood and adolescence because they did not understand themselves.

Because of our mechanistic cultural conditioning in childhood, it is not easy to know what it means to be human as adults, compared to the other animals and machines with so-called artificial intelligence (AI). Yes, Gnosis goes some way towards such an understanding, but it does not go far enough.

As a consequence, my contemporaries do not generally have the necessary life experience to understand how the creative power of Life has given me the commonsensical, universal method that is needed to integrate all knowledge in all cultures and disciplines into a coherent whole. But, neither do their children and grandchildren, who have learned what the authorities wanted them to learn, as specialists rather than generalists.

Yes, specialists are needed to reach peak performance, as concert pianists, for instance, and to manage the complexities of the body politic, like cells in our bodies. But organs, as aggregates of cells, have a sense that they are serving the whole, unlike businesses, political parties, and nations, constantly fighting each other for a slice of the finite monetary pie.

Such divisive enculturation has been happening for hundreds and thousands of years, as each generation passes on to their children what they have learned from their parents. Thus attachment to family, tribe, and culture is collectively preventing us from being carried Home to Wholeness and the Truth at evolution’s glorious culmination.

So, it is the lot of pioneering evolutionaries to be ignored and rejected for not fitting into the fragmented social structures that constitute what Erich Fromm called a ‘sick society’ in 1956. In the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

There is thus very little prospect that Paul Hague could be of service to humanity before our inevitable extinction as a species, quite likely before 2030. So, as I live in solitude beside a Swedish forest, next month I plan to close down the website for the Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics, which has been my main channel of communications since 2014.

However, as a final flourish, in recent weeks I have set up a Panosopher Substack with the title ‘Wholeness Now’, showing how it is possible to complete the final revolution in science in just eleven short posts. The last, titled ‘Ultimate Reality’, places this total transformation of consciousness into its historical perspective.

For nothing else matters as humankind is driven to extinction by the accelerating pace of irreversible global heating but to heal the split between humanity and Divinity, as the Immortal Ground of Being, knowing that Love is the Divine Essence we all share.

Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday

To celebrate fulfilling a major purpose of my life, I have written a 12-page memoir, titled ‘Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday’. This has been inspired by Bertrand Russell, who had similar objects in life and who also wrote an essay with this title when he reached his eighties. On the day that the Russians celebrated the end of the Second World War in Europe, I then wrote a short piece titled ‘What Has Happened to Us?’ to answer a question that a physician friend posed in a poem. Inspired by feedback I received from these pieces, I have written another one-sheet article titled ‘Gnostic Psychology: The Primary Science’, as a succinct summary of where I am coming from.

However, a Jungian psychologist has told me that with so many cooks stirring the broth, it is difficult to find a way through the language and argument each of them uses. I have attempted to resolve this dilemma with the incomplete Glossary on my other website, acting like an information systems architect, focusing on universal generalities, rather than the particulars of specialists. But such an endeavour is unlikely to succeed. For changing the meanings of words can only be based on the radical transformation of consciousness that arises from profound Gnostic understanding. So, to emphasize that I am still content with ‘what is’, despite such misunderstandings, I have written two final monographs titled ‘Enjoying Wholeness’ and ‘Being a Pioneer’.

Maintaining Inner Peace

As winter turns to spring here in Sweden, to maintain Inner Peace while Vladimir Putin orders brutal Russian troops to invade Ukraine, I have written five one-sheet monographs. They reflect a synthesis of occult and rational mentalities, consummating the sacred marriage of science and spirituality, being titled ‘Revealing the Truth’, Our Quest for World Peace’, ‘A Holoramic Vision’, ‘The Mathematical Universe’, and ‘Describing the Ineffable’. They are available on the 2022-publications page of the website for the Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics, yet to be born.

For, although we cannot prevent the near-term extinction of our species, no matter how awakened we might become, with a deeper understanding of what is happening to us all as a species, I still feel that more could transcend hope and despair, acknowledging that Love is the Divine Essence we all share.

Looking inwards

To mark the first flowers of spring in Sweden, I have written an eight-page monograph on how the creative power of Life has revealed a hidden world to me by guiding me to look inwards, as many spiritual seekers are doing today.

This piece is the seventh reflective monograph I have written this year as an introduction to my book Unifying Mysticism and Mathematics: To Reveal Love, Peace, Wholeness, and the Truth, the first three chapters and the fourth of which are available on my website for the Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics.

By starting at the end and ending at the beginning, the principal purpose of this book is to show how we can end the long-running war between reason and religion and spirituality and science.

For unifying mysticism and mathematics in our practical, everyday lives is essential if we are to live intelligently and consciously at the end of time, free of the fear of death.

Communicating with Each Other

Taking a break from researching and writing the final chapter of my final book on Unifying Mysticism and Mathematics, I have written a four-page monograph on ‘Communicating with Each Other’. For communications, as a field of study, derives from Latin commūnicāre ‘to share’, a critical issue at the present time with the world rapidly degenerating into chaos, not understanding what is happening to us all, as a species.

This monograph is the third I have written this year, exploring what we all share, endeavouring to shed some light in the darkness of ignorance. The others are a two-page introduction to ‘The Theory of Everything’ in January and a six-page summary of ‘The Universal Science of Reason: Generated from the Source with Self-reflective Intelligence’ in February.

Learning to communicate with each other with mutual understanding is particularly important at the present time, in the midst of the eighth mass-extinction event, although, in 1982, Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup identified only five mass extinctions of the species so far.

To clarify this situation, here is a table of seven mass extinctions of land animals that the revised fifth edition of The Times Concise Atlas of the World identified in 1990, each marking the transition from one geological epoch to another, millions of years ago (mya).

No.Epochal transitionMya
1Ordovician–Silurian438
2Devonian–Carboniferous 360
3Permian–Triassic248
4Triassic–Jurassic213
5Jurassic–Cretaceous144
6Cretaceous–Paleogene65
7Oligocene-Miocene25

Today, some say that we are in the middle of the transition from the Holocene geological epoch, meaning ‘wholly new’, to the Anthropocene, to indicate the impact that humans are having on the Earth’s ecosystems, also an entirely new situation facing humankind.

But we should not blame humans for destroying the habitat that we need to survive. All structures, emerging from the Divine Origin of the Universe, are born to die, as the Buddha pointed out on his deathbed, when he said, “Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are perishable. They are not lasting. Strive on with diligence.”

With few able and willing to accept the imminent extinction of Homo sapiens ‘wise human’, is there nevertheless a possibility for some, at least, to hearken to these words that Matthew Fox wrote in the Foreword to Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker’s Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe in 2017, “Ours is a time not only for scientists and inventors but also mystics and contemplatives to join hands so that our action flows from being and from a deep place of return to the Source.”

The Mystical Whole

Lao Tzu wrote in Tao Te Ching:

He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
Block all the passages!
Shut all the doors!
Blunt all edges!
Untie all tangles!
Harmonize all lights!
Unite the world into one whole!
This is called the Mystical Whole,
Which you cannot court after nor shun,
Benefit nor harm, honour nor humble.
Therefore, it is the Highest of the world.

Similarly, Ramana Maharshi wrote to his mother, as 1898 turned into 1899, when she tried to persuade him to return home from Arunachala, “What is not meant to happen will not happen, however much you wish it. What is meant to happen will happen, no matter what you do to prevent it. This is certain. Therefore the best path is to remain silent.”

What these wise words mean is that mystical, depth psychology is the primary science, as the basis for all sciences and humanities, not physics, which mistakenly regards the material universe of mass, space, and time as ultimate reality. In other words, the global village is ungovernable unless we understand ourselves, knowing what is causing scientists and technologists to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological development at unprecedented exponential rates of evolutionary change.

Such profound self-understanding arises by revealing Wholeness at the Omega Point of evolution by awakening to Total Revolution—as David Bohm, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Vimala Thakar advocated. However, while mapping the Cosmic Psyche with Self-reflective Intelligence carries us into the eschatological Age of Light, such a liberating, healing practice cannot prevent the near-term extinction of our species.

Most significantly, we cannot compromise with the irrefutable, universal truth, which states Wholeness is the union of all opposites. There is thus no longer any purpose in attempting to communicate the solution to the ultimate problem of human learning to a deeply fragmented and confused society, stuck in its ways. For transcultural, transdisciplinary Panosophy—as the elusive Theory of Everything—has emerged from an apocalyptic epiphany in the spring of 1980, which is unlikely ever to be repeated.

With 2020 turning into 2021, this is thus an opportune moment to rest in Peace, Silence, and Stillness in the Presence of the Divine in the Eternal Now, knowing that in the Mystical Whole life and death are inseparable aspects of Nonduality, as the Immortal Ground of Being. I know of no other way of consciously resolving the great existential crisis facing humanity today.

The Implicate Order

In Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm presented this picture to illustrate how scientists could reconcile the incompatibilities between the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, which he said should really be called quantum non-mechanics. For these two fundamental physical theories display opposite characteristics, the former having the properties of continuity, causality, and locality, with the latter being characterized by noncontinuity, noncausality, and nonlocality.

However, as Bohm told Danah Zohar in 1980, when she wrote a short article in a UK Sunday newspaper to announce the publication of this epoch-making book, he had not yet ‘proved’ this great synthesis mathematically. To do so, he would probably need to develop an algebra of algebras, as a non-deductive meta-algebra.

Such a universal algebra exists. But it is not obvious, lying, as it does, in the Implicate Order, deep in the Cosmic Psyche, the 99% of the Universe inaccessible to our physical senses. I call the algebra of algebras that Bohm sought Integral Relational Logic, the commonsensical system of thought and reason that we all implicitly use every day to form concepts and organize our ideas. In my case, the creative power of Life has explicated ‘unfolded’ this taxonomy of taxonomies in order to heal my fragmented mind in Wholeness.

As I describe in my post ‘Our evolutionary inheritance’, this has happened because the Logos has taken the powerful abstractions of modern algebra and the information systems modelling methods underlying the Internet to the utmost level of generality. This means that Integral Relational Logic, as a holographic universal algebra, is transcultural and transdisciplinary, not belonging to mathematics or any other academic discipline.

Rather, Integral Relational Logic provides the Cosmic Context, Gnostic Foundation, and framework or system of coordinates for Panosophy, the complete unification of all sciences and humanities, also transcultural and transdisciplinary. Thus, as a Panosopher, I transcend all the categories, following Jung‘s healing process of individuation, as an undivided being, a truly wonderful experience. For J. Krishnamurti wrote in Education and the Significance of Life, “Can any specialist experience life as a whole? Only when he ceases to be a specialist.”

But what is the fish in the tank, living in the Implicate Order, to make of all this? Well, the Sufi poet Kabir wrote in the fifteenth century, “I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.” Kabir is using water as a metaphor for the Ocean of Consciousness, as an extension of Bohm’s notion of the undivided holomovement, whose substance is never the same. As Bohm said, “On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow.”

But this is not how astrophysicists understand our Environment, or the Arena in which we live, leaving much to be understood. For instance, Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal in the UK, said in Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?, “In the twenty-first [century], the challenge will be to understand the arena itself, to probe the deepest nature of space and time,” going on to say, “A fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it swims.” For, as Kabir the weaver says in the fish poem, “You do not see that the Real is in your home, and you wander from forest to forest listlessly.”

A principal reason why evolution is blind is that what scientists see in the explicate order today is delusionary, inhibiting us from revealing Reality, as it is, transcending the categories, even those that lie in the Implicate Order. A major step towards such an apocalyptic revelation is being taken at The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, which is ‘Pioneering a Paradigm Shift’.

Its founder, the systems philosopher Ervin Laszlo, calls this great revolution in science the ‘Akashic paradigm’, using the word Akasha to refer to the Universal Quantum Field. He took the word from Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga: “Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. … Just as Akasha is the infinite, omnipresent material of this universe, so is this Prana the infinite, omnipresent manifesting power of this universe.”

The word Akasha derives from Sanskrit Ākāsha, corresponding to Greek aither ‘pure, fresh air’, in Latin æther, “the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed”, which is quintessence, the fifth element, the others being fire, air, earth, and water, of course. But what is this quintessential æther and how can we know of its existence, never mind that it is Ultimate Reality? Well, in 1887, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley showed in a famous experiment that an ‘æther wind’ could not be physically detected as the Earth passed through the supposed æther. Although Albert Einstein did not specifically mention the Michelson–Morley experiment in his 1905 paper on the special theory of relativity, he did say that the notion of ‘aether-drift’ is ‘superfluous’ in his theory.

Even though we cannot access Ultimate Reality through our physical senses, throughout the ages, we humans have sensed an immanent, transcendent Presence, etymologically ‘before being’ or ‘prior to existence’, for Presence derives from Latin præsentia ‘presence’, participle of præesse ‘to be before’, from præ ‘before’ and esse ‘to be’. The word Presence indicates that the Absolute is the Supreme Cause of Everything there is, which mystics through the ages have sought to reveal. For instance, in the fifth or sixth century, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, writing in Greek, wrote these beautiful words, which resonate deep within my being:

Again, as we climb higher we say this. It is not soul or mind, nor does it possess imagination, conviction, speech, or understanding. Nor is it speech per se, understanding per se. It cannot be spoken of and it cannot be grasped by understanding. It is not number or order, greatness or smallness, equality or inequality, similarity or dissimilarity. It is not immovable, moving, or at rest. It has no power, it is not power, nor is it light. It does not live nor is it life. It is not a substance, nor is it eternity or time. It cannot be grasped by the understanding since it is neither knowledge nor truth. It is not kingship. It is not wisdom. It is neither one nor oneness, divinity nor goodness. Nor is it a spirit, in the sense in which we understand that term. It is not sonship or fatherhood and it is nothing known to us or to any other being. It falls neither within the predicate of nonbeing nor of being. Existing beings do not know it as it actually is and it does not know them as they are. There is no speaking of it, nor name nor knowledge of it. Darkness and light, error and truth—it is none of these. It is beyond assertion and denial. We make assertions and denials of what is next to it, but never of it, for it is both beyond every assertion, being the perfect and unique cause of all things, and, by virtue of its preeminently simple and absolute nature, free of every limitation, beyond every limitation; it is also beyond every denial.

There is no need to say anything more. When we ‘sense’ the Ineffable deep in our hearts, we have completed our spiritual journey, as the ultimate purpose of life on Earth. As the Sufi poet Rumi beautifully put it, “Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns.” Similarly, John wrote in his first Epistle in the Bible, “God is Love; and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” And returning to the words of a scientist, Guy McPherson, a leading authority on abrupt climate change, often ends his YouTube videos with the words “On the edge of extinction, only Love remains.”