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Acknowledgments vii
About the Cover viii
Introduction ix
A Dialogue ix
A Note On Terminology x
Holographic Paradigm? xiii
A Note On History xv
A Note On Transformation, and an Exercise xvi
Part I Boundaries of the Known 1
1. Scientists--A Priesthood in Crisis 3
The Present Crisis of Science 4
Crises of Being 11
2. Transcendent Experience 15
The Role of Transcendent Experience 15
Examples of Transcendent Experience 18
Transcendent Experience in Psychology and Psychiatry 23
Effect of Rejecting Transcendent Experience 27
3. The Views of the Founders 31
The Founders Became Hylozoists 32
Einstein's "Mistake" 42
4. The Present Concensus 45
"There Are No Phenomena...That There is Deep Mystery About" 45
Paradigmatic Inertia 54
Ode to Giordano Bruno 55
Part II The Fact of Matter 57
5. Matter in Motion 59
Dynamics 60
Tides 61
Newton's Apple 63
Some Asides About Tides 63
Newton's Laws, Maxwell's Demons, and Boltzmann's Demise 65
Simple Electricity and Magnetism Begets Light and Relativity 71
Sneaking Up On the Nature of Atoms 76
6. The Stochastic Universe 77
A Theory Of Everything? 78
Failures of Classical Physics 80
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe 81
Those Troublesome Atoms 86
Wave-Particle Paradox? 89
"Uncertainty" or Complementarity? 91
Einstein Loses in Brussels 93
The Hylostochastic Paradigm 94
Back to the Breeze 95
Proof of Nonlocality 97
Beyond the Breeze 99
7. The Butterfly Effect 103
The Paradigmatic Crisis 104
Back to Matter for Now 105
The Sensitive Universe 106
A Need to Know 109
Nonlinear Weather Is Unpredictable 109
The Butterfly Effect 113
Strange Attractors 114
Fractal Nature 116
Deterministic Chaos 118
A Mathematician on Mathematicians 119
"Complexity Theory" 120
Paradigms Completed, and Lacking 124
Part III The Effect of Spirit 127
8. The Creative Universe 129
Layers of Reality 130
Spirit and Matter 131
The Hylozoic Paradigm--Planckian Butterflies 132
Prana, Lifetrons, and Subtle Realms 133
Different Religions and the Hylozoic Paradigm 136
The Dreaded Dualism 140
Proofs Of Materialism Are Still Wrong 142
Planckian Butterflies In Action 145
9. Life in the Valleys 149
An Earthquake Triggers an Inner Quake 150
Predicting the Next Great Tokyo Earthquake? 154
Sensitive Earthquakes: A Link to Planckian Butterflies? 158
Volcanoes 161
The Weather 163
The "Clockwork" Motions of the Planets 166
"Just Because We Can't Predict Tornadoes Doesn't Mean the World Isn't Round." 169
Just Turn Off the Terminals and See What Happens 171
Nature Spirits 173
10. Consciousness Not Explained 175
Some Facts about the Brain 175
Cognitive Models--Open or Closed? 176
Computer Fear 179
Dennett's Wrong Axiom 182
Evidence for Larger Models 184
A Note on the Mechanism 189
The Decision 190
11. The Lives of Planets 197
Formation of Earth 200
The Collapse 202
The Turbulence 204
The Solar Nebula Thought Experiment 205
The Lives 210
The Seventh Makham of Andalusian Sufism 215
Part IV Freedom from the Known 219
12. From Superstition to Intuition 221
East and West 223
Barriers to Intuition 227
Democracy of the Transcendent 228
The Dark Side 229
A Responsibility to Investigate 235
13. Intelligence--Allowing Spirit into Matter 237
Horses' Teeth 238
A Kogi Message from the Past 240
The Ageless Wisdom 248
A Plausible Avatar 254
A Sublime Dream 266
Two Different Masters 270
Hylozoic What? 272
14. Frauds, Fools, Magicians, Messiahs, and Us 275
Time Travel As Example 276
Spiritual Abduction? 278
Plant Behavior? 286
Debunking Debunkers 292
Example: A Rumor of Fraud 294
Anti Antinomian Authorities (The Inflationary Guru Problem) 298
De-Glamourized Teachers, Intuition, and Four Signs of Ego Inflation 305
15. Freedom from the Known--Science as Partner 311
Experimental Certainty? 313
Mystical Physiology 314
An Historical "Pack of Tricks," Benignly 321
Experimental Tests Exist But Are Not Accepted 324
Waking Up 329
Hylozoic Astronomy 331
"New Science" Is Reconnection with the Ageless Wisdom 333
Endnotes 336
Index 356

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The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism

George Berkeley was an English philosopher in the empiricist school. In this short treatise, he put forward many of his most influential ideas, including his critique of intellectual abstraction, and the dependence of reality on perception.

Unlike many other philosophers I've come across, Berkeley is direct and terse. He does not insult the reader's intelligence by dwelling unnecessarily on one topic, but moves forward at a brisk pace. Further, his writing is clear, organized, and he actively seeks to anticipate any objections that others might have to his points. This combination serves to make the Principles of Human Knowledge an enjoyable read.

I believe that this work can be read advantageously by anybody. However, those reader's who have knowledge of Descartes and Locke might get quite a bit more out of it. Much of what is contained in this little work is an elaboration, refinement, and at times a refutation of Locke's points in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In that work, Locke famously argues that the mind is a "blank slate" and that all of our thoughts are ultimately beholden to our experience. The "self" could not exist without sensation. Locke also points out that our sensations are only secondary qualities of objects. The primary qualities, or the arrangement of particles that actually make up an object, are largely unknowable. But Locke still believes they're there.

This was largely a response to Descartes and the rationalist school. In his Discourse on Method and Meditations, Descartes takes a sceptic stance, and maintains that all we perceive cannot be accepted as true. After all, we perceive things in dreams, but nobody thinks that those actually happen. He then concludes that all we can be sure of to exist is ourselves, and God. All external reality is doubtful.

Berkeley's position is the exact reverse. Far from saying that we should not trust our senses, Berkeley argues that nothing exists without us perceiving it. Instead of senses being an imperfect window to reality, or untrustworthy phantasms, sensations become synonymous with reality. (This goes further than Locke, as Berkeley argues that no such "primary qualities" exist, only secondary.) Descartes finds God as he meditates within himself. Berkeley finds God in everything we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. The two views could not be more dissimilar.

I would suggest this little book to any who wish to learn more about philosophy, but don't want to get bogged down in a 400 page book. It's enjoyable, short, and surprisingly relevant.

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	Acknowledgments	vii
	About the Cover	viii
	Introduction	ix
	A Dialogue	ix
	A Note On Terminology	x
	Holographic Paradigm?	xiii
	A Note On History	xv
	A Note On Transformation, and an Exercise	xvi
Part I	Boundaries of the Known	1
1.	Scientists--A Priesthood in Crisis	3
	The Present Crisis of Science	4
	Crises of Being	11
2.	Transcendent Experience	15
	The Role of Transcendent Experience	15
	Examples of Transcendent Experience	18
	Transcendent Experience in Psychology and Psychiatry	23
	Effect of Rejecting Transcendent Experience	27
3.	The Views of the Founders	31
	The Founders Became Hylozoists	32
	Einstein's "Mistake"	42
4.	The Present Concensus	45
	"There Are No Phenomena...That There is Deep Mystery About"	45
	Paradigmatic Inertia	54
	Ode to Giordano Bruno	55
Part II	The Fact of Matter	57
5.	Matter in Motion	59
	Dynamics	60
	Tides	61
	Newton's Apple	63
	Some Asides About Tides	63
	Newton's Laws, Maxwell's Demons, and Boltzmann's Demise	65
	Simple Electricity and Magnetism Begets Light and Relativity	71
	Sneaking Up On the Nature of Atoms	76
6.	The Stochastic Universe	77
	A Theory Of Everything?	78
	Failures of Classical Physics	80
	The Ultraviolet Catastrophe	81
	Those Troublesome Atoms	86
	Wave-Particle Paradox?	89
	"Uncertainty" or Complementarity?	91
	Einstein Loses in Brussels	93
	The Hylostochastic Paradigm	94
	Back to the Breeze	95
	Proof of Nonlocality	97
	Beyond the Breeze	99
7.	The Butterfly Effect	103
	The Paradigmatic Crisis	104
	Back to Matter for Now	105
	The Sensitive Universe	106
	A Need to Know	109
	Nonlinear Weather Is Unpredictable	109
	The Butterfly Effect	113
	Strange Attractors	114
	Fractal Nature	116
	Deterministic Chaos	118
	A Mathematician on Mathematicians	119
	"Complexity Theory"	120
	Paradigms Completed, and Lacking	124
Part III	The Effect of Spirit	127
8.	The Creative Universe	129
	Layers of Reality	130
	Spirit and Matter	131
	The Hylozoic Paradigm--Planckian Butterflies	132
	Prana, Lifetrons, and Subtle Realms	133
	Different Religions and the Hylozoic Paradigm	136
	The Dreaded Dualism	140
	Proofs Of Materialism Are Still Wrong	142
	Planckian Butterflies In Action	145
9.	Life in the Valleys	149
	An Earthquake Triggers an Inner Quake	150
	Predicting the Next Great Tokyo Earthquake?	154
	Sensitive Earthquakes: A Link to Planckian Butterflies?	158
	Volcanoes	161
	The Weather	163
	The "Clockwork" Motions of the Planets	166
	"Just Because We Can't Predict Tornadoes Doesn't Mean the World Isn't Round."	169
	Just Turn Off the Terminals and See What Happens	171
	Nature Spirits	173
10.	Consciousness Not Explained	175
	Some Facts about the Brain	175
	Cognitive Models--Open or Closed?	176
	Computer Fear	179
	Dennett's Wrong Axiom	182
	Evidence for Larger Models	184
	A Note on the Mechanism	189
	The Decision	190
11.	The Lives of Planets	197
	Formation of Earth	200
	The Collapse	202
	The Turbulence	204
	The Solar Nebula Thought Experiment	205
	The Lives	210
	The Seventh Makham of Andalusian Sufism	215
Part IV	Freedom from the Known	219
12.	From Superstition to Intuition	221
	East and West	223
	Barriers to Intuition	227
	Democracy of the Transcendent	228
	The Dark Side	229
	A Responsibility to Investigate	235
13.	Intelligence--Allowing Spirit into Matter	237
	Horses' Teeth	238
	A Kogi Message from the Past	240
	The Ageless Wisdom	248
	A Plausible Avatar	254
	A Sublime Dream	266
	Two Different Masters	270
	Hylozoic What?	272
14.	Frauds, Fools, Magicians, Messiahs, and Us	275
	Time Travel As Example	276
	Spiritual Abduction?	278
	Plant Behavior?	286
	Debunking Debunkers	292
	Example: A Rumor of Fraud	294
	Anti Antinomian Authorities (The Inflationary Guru Problem)	298
	De-Glamourized Teachers, Intuition, and Four Signs of Ego Inflation	305
15.	Freedom from the Known--Science as Partner	311
	Experimental Certainty?	313
	Mystical Physiology	314
	An Historical "Pack of Tricks," Benignly	321
	Experimental Tests Exist But Are Not Accepted	324
	Waking Up	329
	Hylozoic Astronomy	331
	"New Science" Is Reconnection with the Ageless Wisdom	333
	Endnotes	336
	Index	356