COSMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS -ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence–what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence–what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
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String theory and ancient knowledge<br />
The ancient philosophy would agree with that theory while both in the East and the<br />
West, for thousand of years, the ancient wise men have been teaching the Principle<br />
of Unity which presents Nature as a whole, a unity in which nothing is separate and<br />
everything depends on everything and is connected to everything! Material and<br />
force, living and non living creatures, visible and invisible beings are nothing more<br />
but the expression of a Nature, of a Force that could easily be the TAO of the<br />
Chinese, or the BEING of Parmenides, or the Fire of Heraclitus or the ONE of<br />
Pythagoras!<br />
The fact that the material and the forces that manifest in the Universe are nothing<br />
more than the result of vibrations, of a “cosmic music” or symphony is reported on an<br />
ancient text called “Kybalion” as well. This text was considered to be Hellenistic and<br />
mentions the 7 Principles (or Laws) that govern the universe. A more careful study<br />
has shown that these Laws are more ancient since they were found in Egypt, carved<br />
in the walls of the pyramid of Unas of the fifth dynasty (a not so famous and well<br />
preserved pyramid). The third Law of this ancient text is reported as the “Principle of<br />
Vibration” and mentions: “Nothing rests. Everything is moving, everything is<br />
vibrating.”<br />
This Principle reminds us of the words of Heraclitus “Everything flows” with which the<br />
Greek philosopher meant that everything is continuously moving or vibrating and are<br />
continuously being transformed. Birth, change, decay and death get involved in a<br />
nonstop circle. Everything – people, plants, planets or galaxies – are born,<br />
transformed and die contributing to that infinite vibration, to that “cosmic music”. This<br />
infinite move, which is LIFE itself, is stated, among others, by the famous Chinese<br />
symbol of YIN YANG that was chosen by Nils Bohr as his symbol.<br />
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