Our Curious World of Mirror Images
Reflections on how Symmetry Frames our Universe, Empowers the Creative Process and Provides Context to Shape our Lives
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"Our Curious World of Mirror Images introduces a new paradigm that provides a holistic explanation of how the universe exist. This new paradigm is called positional symmetry (requisite mirror image). Positional symmetry (requisite mirror image) is a very abstract concept and thus difficult to apprehend because it is based on general principles. However, because it is based on very general principles you will find that this new concept is universally applicable and thus, it will prove to be very helpful to you in the context of life’s search for meaning...
After reading this book, you will be in position to conceptualize not just our amazing and magnificent, transparent universe, in a whole new way, but in addition, you will be able to use positional symmetry (requisite mirror image) as a means to conceptualize how all phenomena manifests and exists in reality...I sincerely understand, even after a quarter-century of critical analysis and real intellectual and personal challenges, that positional symmetry (requisite mirror image) deserves serious consideration. Because of my confidence derived from formal education, intensive research, and personal experiences, I am willing to write this provocative statement. If you are serious about your life, and read through this book with an open and thoughtful mind, you will experience signs in your personal reality that will confirm for you, in your private views that this new paradigm is real and thus very meaningful to your life. Your way of thinking will begin to change as a consequence of experiencing meaningful perceptions that affirm the knowledge disclosed in this book.
CHAPTERS
1.Introduction
• The Beauty of Symmetry
• The Paradox in Consciousness
• Metaphysics
• The Antinomy
2. The Arche: Western History on Metaphysics
• Thales
• Anaximander
• Parmenides
• Anaximenes
• Heraclitus
• Pythagoras
• Atomist Philosophers
3. Space and Time
• Newton
• Leibniz
4. Relativity
• Spacetime
• Length Contraction
• Time Dilation
• Belt of Non-Causal Time
5. The Cosmos of Spacetime
• The Cosmological Principle
• Dual Quality
• Dark Matter
• Dark Energy
• Visibility Horizon
• Past Light Cone
• The Sun
• Galaxies
• The Big Bang
• The Arrow of Time
6. Quantum Theory
• Probability Means Ambiguous Until Perceived
• Introducing the Wavicle
• The Uncertainty Principle
• Holistic
• Delayed Choice Experiments
• The Sum Over Histories Description
• Quantum Entanglement = Instantaneous Connections
7. Positional Symmetry (Requisite Mirror Image)
• Positional Symmetry
• Requisite Mirror Image
• Complementarity
• Zone of Intersection
• Mechanism of Instantiation
• Universe of Trees
• Electricity
• Force = Mass x Acceleration
• Fruits
• The Earth
• Spectrum of Colors
• Magnetic Fields
• Universe of Games
8. The Cosmos
9. Correspondences
• DNA and The Origins of Life
• Symmetry in Animals
• Symmetries of Attraction
• Symmetry in Magnetic Poles
• Symmetry in the Universe
• Pre-Socratic Philosophers
• Dark Energy
• Dark Matter
• The Arrow of Time
• “c”
• Eastern Paradigm
10. Afterword
• Religion and Science
• Thoughts on God
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Introducing a new holistic paradigm that provides a clear new pair of lens - for the mind. This new concept depolarizes our perceptions on reality by reconciling the ancient and deeply compelling paradox known as dualism. As it unravels the greatest mystery of our existential lives, that great enigma that in spirituality led us from “all good”, to good & evil; and in science, leads to two laws that we cannot reconcile. However, with this new pair of depolarizing lens, we are able to conceive something quite remarkable, space, time and how existing things are formed in it. This book is very relevant because it is antidote to the social and political ills of our societies. The polarization inherent in our present paradigm creates social diseases such as sexism, racism, wars, and the myriad forms of hate we tend to indulge in. We daily confront the ravages of political neglect that we are forced to bear, as we try to cope with these corrupted ways of being. The benefit of this new holistic paradigm is that it provides a logical, science-based understanding that is so obvious and universal, we are essentially oblivious to it; and, it resolves the greatest paradoxes we face as spiritual beings in a materialistic world. This book promotes well-being for the soul in the evolution of the mind. • Reveals the origin of the invisible field we call Space(Time) • Explains how existing things emerge and form into being • Sheds whole new light on the meaning of GOD • Reconciles the divides between Eastern and Western traditions in religion, science, and philosophy • Bridges Dualism (Separation & Polarization) • Self Actualization Meditations (“I AM ‘Mind’, I AM ‘Consciousness’”)
About the Author
I was born by the sea; my father was a fisherman. I was born to be a philosopher yet I did not know that until my early adult life after I first studied the sciences, then to become a doctor of medicine. I loved biology because I excelled in it but I turned to philosophy in my mid-twenties because of a greater need to understand something more fundamental about our lives. I am very grateful for my formal education, I have a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in religious studies, and a Master’s degree in counseling. My counseling degree has helped me to stay gainfully employed but you know it is the love of wisdom that motivates me and I think you will find out why as you read this remarkable book.