Concept Glossary

“The decisive breakthroughs in science, art or philosophy are successful escapes from blind alleys, from the bondage of mental habits, from orthodoxy and over-specialization.”
                                                                                --Arthur Koestler

     Abbreviations:  [OBD]= Over the Bones of the Dead:  Evolutionary Science—Past Present and Future; [SC] = Sacred Circle—The Purification of Earth & Reunion of Its Peoples; and [Ark] =The Ark—Surviving the Flood of Disinformation.  (See bookstore.)

     Generally, I endeavor to make my definitions short and pointed.  In some cases, I use definitions written by others; and in these cases, the author is indicated in brackets after the definition, such as [Cleve Baxter]. 

Aboriginal consciousness

The “we are all related” consciousness common among aboriginal peoples.  Derives
From what Cleve Backster calls primary perception.

Refs:  See “primary perception” this section.

Art (holo-art)

The root concept behind art is “making.”  (I am indebted to the late Alexander Allison of the University of Michigan for this understanding.)  By this definition, every one of us is an artist.  Who does not make something?

Holo-art is the making of something that expresses, in one way or another, that fact that universe is a holographic reality.

Biocommunication

“The general field of study of communication between different biological life forms, mostly in nature, sometimes in the laboratory.  It involves the use of instrumentation to observe reactive events occurring in all kinds of life—animal, plant, cellular, microscopic, and so on—and includes observational biology, high quality observational studies.  Also included is the study of the effect of human thought and intention on life forms in the environment.”  [Cleve Backster]

Biofractal

Short for biological fractal.  The single cell, the human body, and planet Earth are biological fractals (fractional versions of each other).  The bio-fractals in this set express the same basic system, but exist at different levels of complexity.

Brain, cellular

The brain of the single cell is in the membrane, not the genes.  We owe this discovery to Dr. Bruce Lipton.

C-Christian

One who follows the Christ teachings, as opposed to “J-Christian,” one who follows the doctrines of the church.  In the life of a C-Christian, the major themes are love and service to humankind and the environment.  In the life of a J-Christian, major themes are obedience and service to established authorities, esp. the church.

Chaos Theory

"Where chaos begins, classical science stops," writes James Gleick in Chaos--Making of a New Science.

     The starting point of chaos theory was interest in what appeared to be disorder in the physical environment.  In the 1970s, Gleick writes, "a few scientists in the United States and Europe began to find a way through disorder.  They were mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists, all seeking connections between different types of irregularity....  A decade later, chaos has become a shorthand name for a fast-growing movement that is reshaping the fabric of the scientific establishment...."

    In 1975, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot  published his Les Objets Fractal, which introduced fractal geometry and mathematics to the world.  Once science had the tool of fractal geometry, it had a way to measure "disorder."

Refs: Turbulent Mirror—An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1990), John Briggs and F.D. Peat.

Creationism (and Catastrophism)

Prior to the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and Darwin, it was generally believed that all species were created by the God in the beginning (the “fixity of species” doctrine).  Discovery of the fossil record made that belief untenable.  In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier endeavored to reconcile the Biblical record and fossil record by arguing that the Earth is periodically destroyed (catastrophism) and that the Biblical record refers only to the latest Earth epoch.  Though the concept of periodic destruction is well-evidenced, it was dismissed by geologist Charles Lyell (mentor to Darwin) and, in subsequent generations, by most Darwinists (with notable exceptions, Stephen Jay Gould for instance).

Refs:  See “neo-creationism” in this section; OBD, “The Fall of Creationism.”

Darwin Paradigm

Complex of beliefs found in classical Darwinism, Social Darwinism and neo-Darwinism constitutes the “Darwin paradigm,” the life vision that became the ruling paradigm in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  (A “ruling paradigm” is a life vision having the approval and support of the ruling powers.)

Refs:  See Articles, “A Brief History of Evolutionary Science.”

Dawkins, Richard (1941-       )

British sophist who, since the publication in 1976 of his book The Selfish Gene, has been the principal advocate of the now-defunct doctrine of the Primacy of the DNA. 

Also, in The Selfish Gene, Dawkins coined the word “meme,” which he defines as the  ideational equivalent of a gene.  In recent years, he has distanced himself from the meme hypothesis, leaving its exposition to lesser intellects [Dawkins topped Prospect magazine’s 2004 list of the top British intellectuals].  The meme concept, which derives from Julian Huxley,* is not much in use these days, except in the papers of the so-called transhumanists, for whom it serves as an inner circle code word.

Dr. Dawkins tops my list of overly influential semblables, a term coined by Ezra Pound to describe an entity that closely resembles another entity.  Dawkins, it may be argued,
is an intellectual semblable [or “re-meme”] of the mid-twentieth century Darwinist Julian Huxley, with borrowings from Thomas Huxley (hatred of theology) and Oscar Wilde (wit, dash, and rhetorical flourish).

For those familiar with his early work, it comes as no surprise that Dawkins’ focus is now on demolishing the “God delusion” [title of his latest book].  Having lost all his science cards, the anti-God/anti-religion card is the only one he has left to play. 

*Julian Huxley:  “As with biological evolution, we need to look the mechanisms and process of cultural evolution in the broadest possible way … One generalization is that psycho-social evolution, like biological evolution, goes into a series of well-marked steps.  Another is that in all stages of cultural organization, mental and material factors are interrelated and both sets of factors are operative….”  (from Evolution In Action)

Refs:  OBD, “The Death and After-Life of Neo-Darwinism”;Alister McGrath (2005),
Dawkins’ God:  Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life.

EvoCI

An abbreviation of “evolution by means of consciousness increase.”  I predict that this will be the term used to describe the post-Darwinian integrated evolutionary science of the near future.  Its key component theories will be fractal evolution and symbiogenesis.

Epigenetics

A new science that makes obsolete the long-held doctrine of genetic determinism, i.e., the idea that the genes control our destiny.

“The science of epigenetics, which literally means ‘control above genes,’ profoundly changes our understanding of how life is controlled….  Environmental influences, including nutrition, stress and emotions, can modify … genes, without changing their basic blueprint.  And those modifications, epigeneticists have discovered, can be passed on to future generations.”  [Dr. Bruce Lipton, Biology of Belief]

Eugenics

“The Darwinists’ first salvational technology was called ‘eugenics,’ the science of good breeding.  The father of eugenics, which has been regarded as a pseudo-science ever since the Nazis employed it rather excessively, was Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin.

    “Galton’s theories sparked great interest in the United States, which became the world leader in applied eugenics during the 1920s.  Sterilization was the common eugenic remedy for thousands of persons classified as degenerate.  Not to be outdone in the great and necessary work of scientific de-selection of unwanted genetic lines, Germany, under Hitler, committed itself to a large-scale program of ‘race purification.’”  [OBD]

Refs:  See The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton.

Evolution, evolutionary science

See “A Brief History of Evolutionary Science” in the Articles section.

Evolution denial

“I’ve seen more than a few ‘Evolution is a Lie’ bumper stickers in my neck of the woods.  The most demented evolution deniers are not religionists, however, but Darwinists!  Why do I say this?  Darwinists deny that evolution is in any sense progressive.  Evolution, they assert, is strictly a matter of “descent with modification.”  [TD Hall]

Exopolitics

Terrestrial political policies and projects relating to the extraterrestrial presence on and/or near Earth. Cf. “terrapolitics”--extraterrestrial policies and projects relating to Terrans, i.e. Earth people.

 Refs:  “Exopolitics at Trout Lake,” in the Articles section of this site; Bashar:  Blueprint for Change—A Message from our Future.

Foundational paradigm

A fundamental life vision paradigm that underlies a civilization, determining the specific character of that civilization.  A civilization may reflect more than one foundational paradigm, as in the case of Western civilization.  The modern West is  built upon three foundational paradigms—Greco-Roman polytheism, Judeo-Christian monotheism and materialistic scientism.

Fractal

“Fractal” is a shortened expression of the phrase fractional version.

Fractal dialectical idealism

A term coined by myself to describe the pattern of human history.  For details, see the Scientific Futurology sub-section under Sciences.

Fractal evolution

Dr. Bruce H. Lipton’s  theory that evolution is all about consciousness expansion by means of fractalic bio-engineering.  Alternative name for the theory:  Biofractal evolution.

Refs:  See Sciences section of this site; and ECI in glossary.

Fractalic

In scientific discourse, the term “fractal” serves double duty, as noun and adjective, which can sometimes lead to a momentary confusion on the part of the reader.  For this reason, I sometimes use fractalic rather than fractal when the adjective is called for. 

Coiner of the term fractalic is Floridian  LariAnn Garner, author of the book  Fractalic Awakening—A Seeker’s Guide (2004).

Gaia hypothesis/theory

The Gaia hypothesis, first put forward by British scientist James E. Lovelock, maintains that the planet is one organism.  "Journeys into space did more than present the Earth in a new perspective," Lovelock writes. "They also sent back information about its atmosphere and its surface which provided a new insight into the interactions between the living and the inorganic parts of the planet.  From this has arisen the hypothesis, the model, in which the Earth's living matter, air, oceans, and land surface form a complex system which can be seen as a single organism and which has the capacity to keep our planet a fit place for life." [Gaia--A New Look at Life on Earth (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 [1979]), pp. ix-x]

     Lovelock calls this hypothetical single organism "Gaia."  "The concept of Mother Earth or, as the Greeks called her long ago, Gaia, has been widely held throughout history and has been the basis of a belief which still coexists with the great religions...."  [Ibid., ix]

     Lovelock made his first scientific presentation of the hypothesis in 1969 at a meeting at Princeton, according to Fritjof Capra.  "Shortly after that a novelist friend, recognizing that Lovelock's idea represents the renaissance of a powerful ancient myth, suggested the name 'Gaia hypothesis' in honor of the Greek goddess of the Earth.  Lovelock gladly accepted the suggestion and in 1972 published the first extensive version of his idea in a paper titled "Gaia as Seen through the Atmosphere."  [Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life--A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems  (New York: Doubleday, 1996),
p.103] 

     According to Lovelock, the Gaia hypothesis met with opposition only from the Neo-Darwinists Ford Doolittle and Richard Dawkins [see Dawkins, Richard].  Doolittle and Dawkins maintained that "there is no way for natural selection to lead to altruism global in scale.  Such an event, they said, would require foresight and planning to be included in the genetic structure of living organisms...."

     Lovelock answered the criticism with an ingenious computer simulation of the history of life on a planet called "Daisyworld":   "Their criticism has been definitively answered.  I made a model of a planet with a simple ecosystem of white and black daisies and herbivores to graze them.  This theoretical world kept a constant comfortable climate over a wide range of heat fluxes from the star that warmed it.  No foresight or planning was needed, only the unconscious growth and completion of the species leading to their natural selection as Darwin described it...."  [Ibid., ix]  

     The "Daisyworld" model is described in the above-cited book by Capra:  "The crucial property of the model that brings about self-regulation is that the black daisies, by absorbing heat, warm not only themselves but also the planet.  Similarly, while the white daisies reflect heart and cool themselves, they also cool the planet."

      For a variety of reasons, Lovelock likened the Gaia hypothesis of a “religious belief” and declared that it couldn’t be proved.  He was incorrect.  A proof of the hypothesis is provided in the evolutionary theory of Dr. Bruce Lipton. 

     In a few words:  The single cell, the human body, and the planet are biological fractals (in the “Gaia set”).  It is axiomatic that what is true for one fractal in a set is true for all the other fractals.  If we say (as we do) that the human being is “singular and sentient,” we must ascribe the same characteristics to the planet  (and to the single cell). 

     Presently, the chief proponent of the Gaia theory, as it is now called, is Dr. Lynn Margulis.  At the moment, Dr. Margulis does not acknowledge sentience as one of the characteristics of the planet.  [Ark]

God archetype

An archetype is a prototypal conceptualization on which subsequent conceptualizations (of the same reality) are based.  Entities such as “Zeus” and “Jehovah” are classifiable as derivative conceptualizations of the “God archetype.”

As the new physics assures us that all that is may be resolved into frequencies, it may be presumed that the God archetype references the primal, original frequency.

Holocracy

Political theory and policies based on the holographic model of universe.  The current theory/policy basis is the Darwinian paradigm.  The establishment of holocratic government will represent the synthesis of the familiar two traditional schools of theory—democratic (populist) and aristocratic (elitist).

Holographic theory of universe

"As creatures in all galaxies are going through their event patterns in this enormous hologram called the universe, we should remember that each element of volume in the hologram contains all the information about the whole grand design....  This is again Nature's little hint:  'Study the micro and you'll find the macro reflected in it.'  Or if we study ourselves thoroughly, we may just find the design of the universe reflected in us." 
--Itzhak Bentov                                                                                                  

    "In his general theory of relativity," writes Michael Talbot,  "Einstein astounded the world when he said that space and time are not separate entities, but are smoothly linked and part of a larger whole he called the space-time continuum.  [David] Bohm takes this idea a giant step further.  He says that everything in the universe is part of a continuum.  Despite the apparent separateness of things at the explicate level, everything is a seamless extension of everything else, and ultimately even the implicate and explicate orders blend into each other."

     Talbot continues:  "Bohm cautions that this does not mean the universe is a giant undifferentiated mass. Things can be part of an undivided whole and still possess their unique qualities.  To illustrate what he means he points to the little eddies and whirlpools that often form in a river.  At a glance such eddies appear to be separate things and possess many individual characteristics ....  But careful scrutiny reveals that it is impossible to determine where any given whirlpool ends and the river begins...."  [The Holographic Universe  (New York:  HarperCollins, 1992 [1991]), pp. 48-49] 

     According to the theory, the universe, including both implicate and explicate orders, is organized holographically, i.e., the memory of the system called universe is in every point.  Talbot compares universe to a strip of holographic film:  "Saying that every part of a piece of holographic film contains all the information possessed by the whole is really just another way of saying that the information is distributed non-locally...." [Ibid., p. 48]

     Talbot cites Bohm's Wholeness and the Implicate Order as the pioneer work on the holographic theory:  "The more he thought about it the more convinced he became that the universe actually employed holographic principles in its operation, was itself a kind of giant, flowing hologram,...  He published his first papers on his holographic view of the universe in the early 1970s, and in 1980 he presented a mature distillation of his thoughts in a book entitled Wholeness and the Implicate Order.  In it he did more than just link his myriad ideas together.  He transfigured them into a new way of looking at reality that was as breathtaking as it was radical." [Ibid., p. 46] 

     Curiously, Talbot fails to mention the work of Itzhak Bentov, whose book Stalking the Wild Pendulum--On the Mechanics of Consciousness was first published in 1977.  Bentov died in a plane crash in 1979.  Stalking the Wild Pendulum presents a holographic theory of the universe and is more accessible to the average reader than the Bohm book.  [Ark]

Human beings (and planetary brain)

Physiologically, the human being is a planetary equivalent of the cellular IMP, integral membrane protein. 

The IMP network forms the intelligence (nervous) system of the cell, i.e., it is the “brain” of the cell.  Human beings are thus constituents of the planetary brain.  More specifically, we are planetary immune cells (the immune system is an important sub-system of the intelligence system).  As such, our job is to know, and deal with, the unknown.  The immune cell, Dr. Bruce Lipton has said, is “the cell of evolution,” the only cell tasked with learning about, and deciding the fate of, invading organisms.

IMP (integral membrane protein)

Embedded in the cellular membrane are ingenious little devices called IMPs (integral membrane proteins).  Each IMP has a “receptor” component and an “effector” component.  Metaphorically, the receptor is a hand and the effector the mouth.  The IMP extends its little hand above the surface of the cellular membrane into the environment.  The hand is designed to detect and to capture one specific thing—a sodium ion perhaps, a bit of radiant energy, or a Mars bar.  When the hand grabs its ion or Mars bar from the environment, the mouth opens, and, presto, the item is swallowed. 

Does the IMP complex have “awareness” of environment?  Yes.  Does the IMP complex capture something?  Yes.  Is the thing-that-is-grabbed processed?  Yes.  The IMP is thus an awareness-capturing-processing device, or, in short, a percept.  The IMP, Dr. Lipton states, is the physiological basis of consciousness.

Intelligence design

Term coined by myself to describe my particular view of the design-complexity of the universe. 

In that view, universe is resolvable into two processes—data (intelligence) transmission and data reception/processing (consciousness).  Any organism may be described as an intelligence designer.  How intelligent a particular organism is depends upon its capacity for processing data.

Intelligent Design (ID)

“As science, ID is an argument against the orthodox Darwinian claim that mindless force---such as variation, inheritance, natural selection, and time—can account for the principal features of the biological world….

“As critics of ID are quick to point out, design arguments are not new.  The basic insight on which such arguments rest is one side in an ancient philosophical controversy.  That is, the complexity of the world order, particularly as seen in the study of life, appears to have been produced by intelligence or mind rather than by self-sufficient natural forces.  Heraclitus, Empedocles, Democritus, and Anaxamander upheld the self-sufficiency thesis, while Plato and Aristotle argues for mind.”  [James Angus Campbell]

Interesting to note, it may be argued that Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder of classical Darwinism, is the father of modern intelligence design theory.  Wallace came to the view that universe could be explained only as the product of a “Great Mind.”

Refs:  Darwinism, Design and Public Education, ed. Campbell and Meyer; the Discovery Institute—Center for Science and Culture (Seattle, WA).

J-Christian

See C-Christian.

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1744-1829)

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck established evolution as a science in 1809 with the publication of his Philosophie Zoologique.  Today, even the most dyed-in-the-wool Darwinists acknowledge the priority of Lamarck.  "Lamarck has a better claim [than anyone else] to be designated 'the founder of evolution,'" writes Ernst Mayr.  "All others before him had discussed evolution en passant [in passing] and incidentally to other subjects or else in poetical or metaphorical terms.  He was the first author to devote an entire book to primarily the presentation of a theory of organic existence.  He was the first to present an entire system of animals as a product of evolution."  [Evolution and the Diversity of Life  (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1976), p. 226]

     "After a long succession of generations,” Lamarck writes,  “the individuals, originally belonging to one species, become at length transformed into a new species distinct from the first."  [Ibid.]  The idea that existing species evolved from pre-existing species in the foundational premise of all modern evolutionary theory. 

     Personal biography:  Lamarck was the eleventh child of a family of impoverished aristocrats.  His father died in 1760.  Subsequently, Lamarck became a soldier and served with distinction in the Seven Years War, receiving an officer's commission for bravery.  He left the military after being debilitated by a freak injury.  (A large, playful and drunken companion picked him up by the head, causing neck injury.)

     Mentored by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lamarck became a naturalist.  He published his first book, on French flora, in 1778.  In 1793, he was appointed professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he was instrumental in obtaining a position for the then unknown Georges Cuvier.  Some say that Cuvier never forgave Lamarck for the kindness.

     In 1815, Lamarck offered his final version of his theory, called Transformism, in the first volume of Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres.  The essence of the theory, according to geneticist H. Graham Cannon, is that new biological structures emerge in response to environmental demands.  [Cannon's Lamarck and Modern Genetics (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press Publishers, 1975) is a key reference for students of Lamarck and evolutionary science.]

     After the take-over of Napoleon, Lamarck and his theories fell into disrepute.  The old scientist  was publicly insulted by Napoleon, and he never fully recovered.  Lamarck died in abject poverty in 1829.  The saving grace of his last years was a loving daughter who cared for him and who exclaimed, over his grave, "Father, the Future will remember you!"  [Ark]

Mal-Darwinist

The most objectionable aspect of Darwinism is its reliance on the pseudo-scientific population theory of Thomas Malthus, esp. the so-called “Malthus doctrine.”  Darwinists who emphasize the Malthusian aspect of Darwinism are “Mal-Darwinists,” in my book. 

Good example of a Mal-Darwinist:  Dr. Eric Pianka, aka the “Lizard Man,” the Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Pianka advocates the destruction of 90 percent of human population by means of airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston). 

Refs:  “Meeting Doctor Doom,” by Forrest M. Mims III, chairman of the environmental science section of the Texas Academy of Science and editor of “The Citizen Scientist.”

Malthus, Malthus doctrine

The speculations of Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) regarding population have caused endless miseries in the modern world.  In 1798, Malthus, who was trained for the clergy and not science, proposed that populations tend to increase at a geometrical rate whereas the means of sustaining population increases at only an arithmetical rate.  After this idea was enshrined in Darwin’s theory of evolution (1859), it became the “Malthus doctrine.”

     Soon after its original appearance, the Malthus doctrine was enthusiastically embraced by the Old World establishment, as it offered a long-sought-for explanation of the deeply distressing American and French revolutions.  (“Over-population!  Too many bloody people.  Why didn’t we think of that?”)  In no time at all, population control became the principal item on the to-do list of the said establishment.  The possession of colonies acquired new importance as dumping grounds for “surplus population.”  Alas, poor Germany was late in coming to the colony-grab party, and so was compelled—for the sake of survival it was declared—to grab colonies that had been acquired already by the other European powers.  Presto … World War I.

Refs:  Articles, “The Malthusian Wolf in Darwinian Clothing.”

Malthusian Order

My preferred term for what the conspiracy writers call the “New World Order.”  The original New World Order is the American system (egalitarian republicanism) formed under the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of 1789.  That which is called the New World these days is, in fact, the reactionary New World Order. 

In that the reactionary order is based on the pseudo-scientific population theory of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, the “Malthusian Order” is a fitting name.

Refs:  See Holo-Arts section 8. 

Meme

A term coined by Richard Dawkins to describe the ideational equivalent of a gene.  Dawkins is right on this one.  However, his term tends to trivialize that which he is referring to, which is, in the terminology of Carl Jung, an archetype.

Minderbinder Complex

My term for what Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex.  This complex is far more extensive than Eisenhower imagined, involving a very long list of organizations in the service of the Malthusian empire.

I name the complex after “Milo Minderbinder,” the Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) character who uses his position in the war-time U.S. Army to create an international syndicate called “M&M Enterprises.”  Minderbinder’s greed knows no bounds.  He even contracts with the Germans to have his own air base bombed.

Mutualism

A body of literature, philosophical and scientific, premised on the conviction that the mainspring of evolution is co-operation (rather than competition).  A key work in the field (because it cogently challenged Darwinism) is Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
(1902), by the Russian scientist-prince Peter Kropotkin.

Refs:   “A Swan Song for Neo-Darwinism” (Articles); “Kropotkin on Mutual Aid—Review,” by Paul Mattick (1956).

Natural selection, doctrine of

The means of evolution, according to Darwin’s original theory (1859).  After Alfred R.
Wallace (co-founder of classical Darwinism) challenged the adequacy of the concept, Darwin de-selected the term, replacing it with “survival of the fittest,”  a phrase coined by Hebert Spencer circa 1853.

Because of its lack of specificity, the doctrine has always had little scientific value; its primary importance is rhetorical.  It is the science slogan by which Darwinists challenged (and challenge still) the traditional belief that life forms are products of divine selection.

Neo-creationism

The original creationism was based on an inadequate reading of the book of Genesis.

In 1990, Zecharia Sitchin published Genesis Revisited, a cogent scientific reading of Genesis which argues that our species was genetically engineered by occasional visitors to our planet called the Annunaki. 

Sitchin’s research provides a scientific basis for belief in intelligent design (ID); but because of prevalent ET denial, it is rarely, if ever, invoked by ID advocates. 

New Philosophy

“You’ve heard of the new physics and new biology, right?  What’s ‘new philosophy’?  Philosophy originated as the science of science; new philosophy is the renaissance of original philosophy.  It reclaims its role as science of science.”  [TD Hall]

Refs:  See Phi-Sci in the Sciences section.

Observer, observer effect

The new physics tells us that an observer affects that which is observed; and this fact lies at the basis of the contemporary view we are the creators of our reality.  The observer does not merely observe, in other words; the observer generates effects.  Something that generates effects, by definition, is a reality-creator.

In These Things You Shall Do … And Greater, author Greg Simmons suggests that the observer has a physiological base in the cerebellum:  “That part of the brain called the Observer is the lower cerebellum and functions like the lamp on a slide projector.  It projects on the screen (your life) whatever slide … you have placed in the projector….”

Simmons goes on to say:  “To change your life you must choose a different slide and insert it into the projector.  This simplistic analogy is in complete compliance with current quantum theory ….”

Paradigm

A paradigm is simply a model of something.  The model may be simple, three ping pong balls glued together to represent an H2O molecule, for instance; or it may be very complex, the life vision represented by the Bible, for example, or the Darwinian vision of biology and evolution.

Perception Effect

A term coined by Bruce Lipton to replace the “placebo effect.”  This effect, by whatever name, is proof positive that perception (belief) affects physiology.

Phi-sci

Short version of  “philosophy-science”; a branch of philosophy specializing in the field of scientific methodology.

Refs:  Phi-Sci in Sciences section of this site.

Placebo Effect

See perception effect.

Primary perception

“The vehicle of communication, the invisible, unrecognized field that interconnects all species and life forms, whereby biocommunication can occur.  Coined by Cleve Backster, primary perception is distinct from extrasensory perception (ESP) in that it occurs before [the appearance of]  the human specialized senses of taste, touch, hearing, and sight and smell.  It is likely going on all the time.”  [Cleve Backster]

Scientist, renegade

Most scientists and other professionals begin their careers with a commitment to seeking and teaching the truth, so far as they can see it.  Eventually, most of these renege on that commitment by agreeing to serve one “consensus” or another, i.e., they become, in the phrasing of Buckminster Fuller, “slave scientists.”  On trick planet Earth, professionals who have reneged are deemed highly reputable; and those who have kept faith with their original commitment, which usually requires “going against” the consensus, are labeled “renegades.”

Social Darwinism

“Social Darwinism” is a term coined in the early thirties to describe social theories based in whole or part on the tenets of classical Darwinism.  In conventional history, Social Darwinism is viewed as an intellectual movement that had pretty much run its course by the late twenties.  For instance, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy has this to say:  “Social Darwinism is of no more than historical interest.  It is rightly regarded as philosophically naïve and, moreover, as concerned with social questions that are not of contemporary interest….”  This assessment is far from correct, if we regard Social Darwinism in its broadest sense, as not just a label for the work of certain intellectuals associated with the formulation and dissemination of the Darwinian vision of life, but a term describing all social theory deriving from Darwinism.  Social Darwinism is, in my view, the current ruling political paradigm in the West and much of the rest of the world. 

Social fractalism

The application of Bruce Lipton’s fractal evolution to social theory. 

Refs:  The Social Fractalism sub-section in Sciences.

Speciation

For Darwinists, the primary marker of evolution is “speciation,” the formation of new species.  Darwin defined evolution (new species creation) as “descent with modification,” and this definition is still regarded by Darwinists as accurate and adequate.  But ... descent with modification does not imply “progress” in any way, shape or form, as Stephen Jay Gould has pointed out time and again.  In contrast, Dr. Bruce Lipton holds that evolution is progressive, and that the marker of evolution is increased consciousness.

Stem cell controversy

In a few words:  Adult stem cell therapy has proven astonishingly successful in numerous cases; embryonic stem cell therapy has proven very problematical (as a result of immune system rejection).  Which therapy does Big Pharma prefer?  Embryonic stem cell therapy, of course, as recipients of this therapy will have to be on drugs that suppress the immune system reaction for the rest of their lives.

Refs:  Articles, “The Stem Cell Controversy—Connecting the Dots.”

Symbiogenesis

“In symbiosis the mechanism of change is radically different from [the] Darwinian model.  When two or more life forms interact, they bring together genomes and metabolic abilities that have already been honed by evolution.  This interaction can involve a major evolutionary jump or saltation.  Moreover, for Darwinism, the mechanism of change (mutation) is essentially random and hence noncreative, while for the symbiologist, the mechanism of change is not random but a creative force in itself.”  [Frank Ryan, Darwin’s Blind Spot]

“The theory of evolution by symbiosis took a giant step forward as a result of the pioneering work of Dr. Lynn Margulis, of the University of Massachusetts, Cambridge….Margulis hypothesized that if mitochondria and chloroplasts had once been free-living bacteria, they might still retain their bacterial DNA.  The hypothesis was subsequently confirmed, and this confirmation, [Frank] Ryan suggests, marked the ‘coming of age’ of symbiogenesis.”  [OBD]

Symbiosis

“The term ‘symbiosis’ was coined by the German microbiologist Anton de Bary circa 1878 to describe an association between different species that persists for a long time.  There are two types of symbiosis—endo- and exosymbiosis.  Endosymbiosis involves the union of different genomes at either the nuclear or cytoplasmic levels; and exosymbiosis describes all other forms of symbiosis.”  [OBD]

Syntropy

A word coined by R. Buckminster Fuller to describe the integrative capability of universe, as opposed to entropy (the disintegrative capability).  In Cosmography, his last book, Fuller argues that syntropy is twice as powerful as entropy.

Templatology

A term coined by myself to describe a new science specializing in the study of the ideational templates upon which civilizations and societies are based.  Basic templates are termed foundational paradigms.  In The Ark, I identify the three foundational paradigms underlying the modern West as Greco-Roman polytheism, Judeo-Christian monotheism, and materialistic scientism.  I project that the next foundational paradigm will be called “scientific holism.”

Refs:  See Sciences section, Templatology.

Transformism

First modern theory of evolution.  Lamarck maintained that individuals acquire new characteristics through “use” (an individual developing strong legs by jogging, for instance), then transmit their acquired characteristics to progeny (the “heritance of acquired characteristics doctrine).  See Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste.

Transhumanism  (aka Frankensteinism)

A contemporary philosophical-scientific spin-off of the pseudo-science of eugenics dedicated to creating a new and better human being by means of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, robotics, etc. 

Until the foundational shift from people-unfriendly materialistic scientism to scientific holism, we may expect that transhumanism-inspired tech adventures will produce only monstrosities, which is why I term it (as it now exists) “Frankensteinism.”

Refs:  “The Stem Cell Controversy—Connecting the Dots,” in Articles section.