Chapter 3. The QUANTUM PARADIGM

A human being is part of the whole called “‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest . . . This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein

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Premise: Without an accurate reality map, chances of flourishing in life are slim to none. It’s imperative to have a complete picture of one’s innate potentials along with a correct understanding of the world around you, and what’s required to survive in that world.

Basing decisions on a worldview that’s distorted, incomplete or otherwise out of synch with the way things really are seriously diminishes chances of survival. In times as dangerous as these, it’s more important than ever to be sure you’re operating on complete and accurate information.

Here, in the 2014 voice of the late-night writer me, is the introduction to the Quantum Paradigm. In the Chinese language, danger and opportunity are regarded as twin sides of the same coin. I saw Rethinking Survival in those terms:

The Danger 

Programmed assumptions too often drive our decisions, actions and ultimately, survival options. Even with the best of intentions, misinformed people operating on conflicting beliefs destroy themselves and others. Sometimes the process is quick. Suicide. Murder. Usually it’s slower — atrophy and self-sabotage.

The connection between skewed thinking and disastrous results is mirrored in the global disconnect between policy and practice. Knowledge deficits are directly responsible for bankrupt economies, personal and international alike.

In the United States, politicians of both major parties use psychological scare tactics to polarize the public. They warn with phony threats, at the same time, putting all of us at risk. Like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, leaders alienate us with disgraceful partisan bickering. At the same time, they avoid the real dangers which threaten to burst the bubble of illusory progress with excruciating finality.

Along with an equally culpable media, misinformed leaders are placing us in grave peril. Shifting to a complete and accurate paradigm while there’s still precious time left is our best hope of survival.

The Opportunity 

From personal experience, it’s my view that the way out of terminal confusion begins with adopting a correct and complete worldview. With surprisingly powerful answers, I return to what Aldus Huxley called “the perennial philosophy,” giving it new life.

In the context of this enduring tradition, both the world-loved Tao Te Ching and Einstein’s famous formula, e = mc2, express the dynamics encoded in the ancient Chinese Book of Change.

Here, the three variables of Einstein’s formula are each assigned its correct place within the archetypal Life Wheel. This model yields an elegantly simple yet complete reality map. It meets the Occam’s Razor standard: maximum inclusiveness with greatest brevity. It has the power to give life travelers, wherever their journey starts, a new vision of life’s possibilities and with it, a realistic hope of survival.

This result answers the dilemma and possible solution suggested by comparative religion legend Joseph Campbell:

We don’t have a mythology for people recognizing the humanity of a person on the other side of the hemisphere. I’ve often wondered if some of the notions coming out of quantum physics, quantum interconnectedness, don’t express that.

The Quantum Paradigm is:

. . . an inclusive reality map, one people worldwide can easily comprehend and agree upon. It is equally compatible with scriptures and science, bridging the gap between them. It fulfills Einstein’s intuited search for the Unified Field Theory, picturing how all parts of creation are related, interwoven and interdependent.

It’s not myth as the slang implies, meaning unscientific, false and fictitious. To the contrary, it’s pure science, simply meaning with knowledge. It codifies the timeless truths embodied in the world’s enduring scriptures – the perennial philosophy common to the sacred literature of all times and place, and is equally compatible with the knowledge of modern physics, bridging the gap between them.

Working with the Quantum Paradigm empowers the “substantially new manner of thinking,” which, Einstein said, is necessary “if mankind is to survive.”

For thousands of years, this genesis formula, the very heart of the creative process, was hidden as the secret treasure of initiates. Its knowledge was transmitted exclusively to qualified students in the inner circles of monastic schools. When Einstein published the theory of relativity and made it available to the general public, its long-foreseen abuse materialized. To Einstein’s horror, it was misused to explode atomic bombs.

This context justifies making the positive application of Einstein’s inspired vision equally public now. For in its traditional context, this three-part formula is an essential piece of the knowledge puzzle. It has the powerful potential to offset earlier abuse with opposite and equally unifying results. A timely shift to the Quantum Paradigm could tip the scales of history in favor of human survival.

The Quantum Paradigm of Change offers the practical means for completing John F. Kennedy’s unfinished work. When he went toe-to-toe with Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy succeeded in averting the threat of thermonuclear war — Einstein’s worst nightmare. However, the President’s vision of the future, outlined in a speech that should have been given the night of November 22, 1963, the date his assassination, remains as our legacy and responsibility:

. . . our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our nation’s future is at stake.

The timeless teachings are the common heritage of all humanity. They aren’t the exclusive property of a particular culture or class. The most powerful ideas are, paradoxically, the most simple. They deserve to be expressed in the clearest language with fewest words possible, free of bias and distortions – accessible to anyone with basic reading skills and an open heart.

This was the premise of The Common Sense Book of Change and now, of its further distillation in the Quantum Paradigm of Change. Among its virtually limitless applications, the quantum Life Wheel — like the venerable I Ching — offers an effective method of introspection and decision-making.

In sum, the Quantum Paradigm is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question, “What is that, knowing which, all else is known?” It’s proof that humans are made in the image of the Creator — the microcosm mirrors the macro. It’s the universal confirmation that everyone everywhere is inherently okay.

Bottom line: Just as the Titanic’s expert designers failed to recognize the ship’s fatal flaw, today’s religious and political leaders, acting on incomplete and false paradigms, are steering the planet ever closer to the brink of destruction. The complete and accurate Quantum Paradigm offers the hopeful opportunity to rethink our collective future, shift away from the current collision course towards disaster and ensure human survival.

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My teacher, the one we called “Old Avatar,” took a dim view of my writing. As a matter of fact, he pointed out that I had two choices: either tell people what they want to hear and become a best-selling author or tell the truth. In which case, I would be ignored. I chose to tell the truth as best I knew it. Other than one amazon 5-star review of Rethinking Survival (“Great: a broad brush stroke type of book that touches and colors so many elements and areas of life. A great read and well worth the investment”), it was, back then, as OA warned, ignored.

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What follows next, ten years later, is the 2024 updated description and explanation of the Quantum Paradigm:

Hidden in Plain Sight

The Quantum Paradigm imaged in the archetypal, universal Life Wheel has its origins in yoga philosophy, but is equally compatible with modern physics. The sacred geometry of wheels-within-wheels repeats throughout nature, smallest to largest, from snowflakes and seashells to flowers, from microscopic cells to macrocosmic solar systems. It appears spontaneously in the sacred art and architecture of all civilizations throughout history, from shamanic medicine wheels to Tibetan sand mandalas and the stained-glass windows adorning mediaeval churches.

The Life Wheel mirrors the microcosmic structure of atoms as well as the macrocosmic structure of planetary systems. At a microscopic level, its concentric rings mirror the structure of atoms with a nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons and protons. It likewise mirrors the symmetry of the solar system with planets orbiting around the sun. On the largest scale of magnitude, it reflects the in- and out-breaths of perpetually expanding and contracting universes.

t IS, is innately divine at the center, and potentially whole, existing in the mid-range of creation, and when fully awake, in resonance with all of nature.    

The Quantum Paradigm  

My contribution is to plug the three variables of Einstein’s famous formula, e = mc², into increasingly deeper levels of the Life Wheel, symbolically linked in an infinite figure-eight-shaped loop. Sadly, Einstein already had his intuited unified field theory, though, for lack of yoga training, he missed it.  

Description

In this context, paradigm simply means worldview. The Quantum Paradigm offers a positive alternative to the prevailing, dysfunctional paradigms which cause so much harm and misery. It is an inclusive reality map that accords with the way life truly is, showing the full spectrum of human potentials. It explains how the world works, how the individual fits in, and what is required to survive.

For example, the individual fits in to the larger whole as if a tiny slice of an infinite pie, where like minds meet at the Center. The pinnacle of achievement is self-actualization, the antithesis of the globalist goal of world domination. It looks like this:  

Unlike exclusively materialistic, atheistic, hedonist or religionist paradigms, all levels of experience are present, and in balanced, correct relationship to each other. Nothing is missing. Nothing is out of place.  

The Quantum Paradigm wheels-within-wheels model consists of concentric circles around a common center. It places the three variables of Albert Einstein’s famous formula, e = mc2 (energy, mass and light) in a two-directional, infinite continuum.

The levels of concentric circles aren’t literally separate and discrete. Rather, they are a continuum along the infinite spectrum of creation. Within each layer are numerous degrees and distinctions which can be verified only by direct experience. For the sake of the following discussion, however, the three levels are described as if discrete, starting from the center of the Wheel and moving outwards.

This fundamental baseline is the starting point from which all else positive follows. Qualitative change begins from the inside out, and one person at a time. When enough people share a common passion for the same paradigm, changes on increasingly larger scales of magnitude occur.

The layered structure of the quantum Life Wheel gives new meaning to Einstein’s observation that a problem can’t be solved on the same level at which it was created. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” It gives new meaning to “Go deep,” and “We can’t be satisfied with superficial answers.”

If mankind is to survive, what’s required is a fundamentally new manner of thinking which is substantially, that is to say, qualitatively better.

Einstein’s Variables: Mass, Energy and Light

m = Mass. The outer rim of the circle is the realm of the material, manifested world of creation. This level is the abode of empirical science which measures tangible, material phenomena and objects. It is the plane of duality, the fluctuating ebb and flow of mortal life, the ups and downs of daily experience.

It is the realm into which public school education too often squeezes and flattens children. This is the level of which Einstein said, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

Those focused excessively here are unduly attached to material possessions as well as to money, social status and institutional power. Here appearances are more important than substance. Saving face replaces authentic virtue.

Paradoxically, out of balance, abundance on the material plane seems to foster an insatiable sense of lack. Limited connection with the center breeds insecurities and greed. The infinite variations of the same eternal pattern are misconstrued as grounds for cultural conflict and competition for illusory supremacy.

When people live primarily on the surface, with the middle (primarily “unconscious”) level clogged and in conflict, systems break down. Attempting to fix problems caused by this inner turmoil at the superficial level cannot achieve any lasting, qualitative improvement.

When internal dynamics remained unchanged, apparent re-forms are cosmetic only. Thus political theorists who write books about changing government without understanding human nature and the dynamics of Natural Law codified in the Book of Change (much less the central core which illumines the quantum field) miss the point.

Atheists who deny the existence of the inner levels are materialists in the extreme. Yet, however badly religious teachings have been misunderstood and abused over time, this doesn’t alter their essence — the functional facts of existence, now confirmed by physics as well as by the consistent testimony of sages throughout time.

e = Energy.

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. When you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” Nikola Tesla 

Unfortunately, perhaps intentionally, much ignorance, misinformation and confusion surrounds the energy level of the Quantum Paradigm. Einstein called it “the fateful fear of metaphysics.” The state of chaos into which the world has degenerated attests to this deficiency, as well as the urgent need to correct it. Only the basics are described here, suggestive of further exploration.

The middle level is the domain of Natural Law, whose patterned dynamics are mapped in the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Change. This body of knowledge has evolved over eight-thousand years as sages continued to observe the operations of energy and document the repetitive patterns of change.

Natural Law maps the energetic underpinnings of the dynamic, physical world. It is experienced as the patterned recurring cycles of seasonal change, and is equally applicable to humans and their cyclical life changes: birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth.

The middle layer is the realm of less tangible but still measurable states of energy, including electricity. More subtly, it is the chi, ki or prana described by Chinese, Japanese and Indian traditions as the life force which animates all living beings. In Greek and Christian contexts it correlates with the breath, the psyche.

These subtle energies influence internal psychological states and drive external human behavior, which in turn affects social and political relationships. Knowledge of these dynamics is essential to personal survival and related leadership skills.

The e= energy level is the domain of emotional health and maturity or lack thereof. It’s associated with courage and confidence, with vitality and libido. It’s where many repress as the unconscious everything perceived as too fearful, dangerous or forbidden to know. Taboo. (Some conflate this subconscious level with the superconscious, the c=light level: a common but big mistake.)

Be that as it may, in this context, the “subtle” energy realm lies midway between the outer, surface level of matter and the deepest center of unchanging stillness. As the functional link between extremes, both on the out-going and the in-going paths, it serves as the unavoidable gatekeeper and bridge, the mediator between the two. “You can’t get from here to there,” except through this middle level of experience.

Historically, Asian cultures are more comfortable with this middle level. Asian healing arts including chi kung, tai chi and hatha yoga exercises used to intentionally circulate, balance, harness and direct subtle energies throughout the physical body. Westerners are beginning to catch up. As international business and educational exchanges increase, Western technologies and Eastern subtle sciences are cross-fertilizing.

Musicians, especially ones educated in the Eastern and Western sciences of sound vibration, are keenly attuned to this level. Inspired, harmonious music can heal the physical body and uplift the soul.

In part, the astral level is the place of astrology (versus astronomy). It explains why we react on an unconscious level to vibrational influences upon the collective conscious without being aware of what’s going on.

It’s the repository of short and long-term memories. The composite of emotions — fears, desires and repressed tendencies — are stored here in what Western psychologies call the “unconscious.” It is the stuff of dreams — inspired visions, nightmares and everything in-between.

It’s also stores what’s called the akashic records of all that’s ever transpired. Those who query in a meditative state can access this vast library for answers to their questions.

We use the I Ching as well as tarot cards and oracle decks as methods for making the unconscious conscious, restoring subliminal knowing to conscious awareness.

Within the vast realm of the e=equals energy, non-physical unhappy departed souls and demonic entities realm. It’s where personal karma and pastlife memories are stored. It’s the stuff of the bardo, where departed souls go when they leave the body on their way to the light.

When cluttered and undisciplined, the middle energy level is like a swamp full of alligators. Once the swamp is cleared out and the alligators are tamed, however, energetic potentials can be harnessed to worthy goals. They’re like the gas that fuels the car engine, or the horses harnessed to Plato’s chariot. They become the generator of what Tony Robbins calls “unlimited power.”

But easier said than done. The Quantum Paradigm model validates experiences which report a dark side to the subtle realm, the “chapel perilous” which the life traveler must be prepared to encounter and survive. There’s much truth to the classic lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The beleaguered prince, haunted by the horrific vision of his murdered father’s ghost, tells his steadfast friend, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

But shutting down consciousness connection with this level is far from an optimal option. Inhibiting awareness of the energy level cripples efforts to acquire self-knowledge, much less enlightenment.

Religionists, moralists and even poets like Edgar Alan Poe warned against exploring the middle realm, portraying it as dangerous, fearful or unclean. But this, in effect, slams the lid on libido, the motivating life force. Doing so doesn’t avoid its dangers. It just banishes this level from conscious awareness. This part of inner experience then festers, rendered inaccessible, relegated to “unconscious” status.

Tragically, the belief-result connection holds true even when ideas and related attitudes aren’t consciously held. When they’re hidden away in the unconscious mind, they generate unintended, unforeseen consequences. Projecting a positive image to the world may succeed in fooling others for a short time, but there’s no diet plan, exercise routine or image make-over that can hide the stress or reverse the physical damage caused by internal conflict. So long as the levels of one’s inner organization remain hollowed out and/or out of alignment, the results will reflect this imbalance.

The kicker is that you can’t change what’s been relegated to the unconscious and become inaccessible to the conscious mind. “You can’t leave a place you’ve never been.” This is why increasing self-awareness is a survival top-priority. Positive change depends upon first being able to recognize the beliefs, attitudes and resultant emotions that generate situations which require change.

If one denies or rebels against the existence of the innermost creative life source, every outward level of experience is starved. Being cut off from inspiration and guidance, one’s ideas are limited and distorted. Attitudes suffer and destructive emotions take over.

Enforcing taboos on access to awareness of the energy level backfires, resulting in mental illness, socially aberrant behavior, addictions and personal tragedy. Carl Jung’s observation, quoted in relation to irrational prejudice, bears repeating here:

Our time has committed a fatal error; we believe we can criticize the facts of religion intellectually. . . The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.

The facts of religion Jung referred to include not only the existence of a supreme being residing at the center of and permeating the whole of creation, but also the middle energy level — including the dangers of satanic potentials — as an integral part of that whole.

Chinese sages, who trod lightly but surely in that middle realm, used the I Ching as their instruction manual. Jung understood the potential good that could come from introducing this wisdom tradition to the Western world, where it could be used as an instrument for making the unconscious again conscious, restoring intelligent competence at this level.

Effective leadership and the quality of life within organizations hinge on the quality of awareness brought to dynamics at this level. Some leaders understand the dynamics of change at a gut level as a matter of common sense. However, systematic logic and conscious awareness of their operations significantly improves the results of the decision-making process.

Those denied access to material and social resources are often forced inside. Of necessity, turning inward, they develop and depend for survival upon strengths like courage, patience and wisdom drawn from the middle and center levels of the Life Wheel.

Thus, at times, material deprivation and hardships yield the opposite and equal blessings of in-sight and emotional fortitude. At other times, however, excessive investment at the middle level results in delusions, latent with the potential for erupting into violence.

In any case, making a virtue of necessity by withdrawing from and rejecting the material world prevents completion of the pattern. It can’t correctly be equated with spirituality.

Cultures which enforce an exclusively materialistic worldview and deny the experience of everything not tangible and measurable place severe hardships on those whose inner lives are especially active. Working with the quantum Life Wheel offers opportunities to diagnose such imbalances, the better to remedy them.

Societies that deny their citizens practical outlets for articulating and harnessing inner energies creatively can literally drive people crazy, to suicide, or at best, underground. Many “sensitives” survive by channeling socially banned, unacceptable awareness and longing for self-fulfilling adventure into the arts: music, literature and film making, including romance, murder mysteries and science fiction. This is a great loss to society. The world would be better off if high-energy, creative individuals were identified as potential leaders, trained and given employment options accordingly.

c = Light. This is the pure level of quantum intelligence, the location of genius, guidance and inspiration.

C=Light is the pristine quantum field of information, the Universal Mind from which inspiration arises, from which angelic guidance comes. With connection to the quantum field there arises the ability to redesign your life intentionally. It is the location of Con-science.

The hub of the wheel, the SOURCE of Light, is the eternal, innermost state of being. It is silent yet fertile, that from which all forms emanate and to which all return. It is the alpha and omega, the ultimate and exclusive source of infinite light and power.

Merging with this all-encompassing source of consciousness is what scriptures refer to, quite literally, as “enlightenment.” It is the “secret place of the Most High,” home of God the Father in Heaven honored in the New and Old Testaments. It correlates with the Hindu Brahman, the Chinese Tao, the Muslim Allah, and the Native American Great Spirit. In Star Wars, Jedi knights refer to the Force. Contemporary pastors sometimes defer to “the Boss.”

The deepest center is the original seed of life from which creative solutions and new beginnings emerge in answer to the prayers and sincere efforts of those who hear and do. It’s the unfailing source deeper than ephemeral fears which gives positive survivors the inner strength to withstand the sudden shocks and catastrophic changes of Titanic times.

It is to this quiet center of refuge that sages retreat in meditation to patiently outwait misfortune, the better to return renewed when the time is right. It is the healing place to which they turn when life becomes too difficult to endure without solace. It is the escape, far better than drugs, alcohol, sex or even music, that makes life’s challenges bearable and worthwhile.

The physical realm emanates from this still, quiet non-dual level, deeper than the e=energy cyclical laws of duality, which are extensions of Source. It is from this innermost level that the ancients operated when in foreseeing the cycles of history. They observed from a timeless point of view, as if through the eyes of Creator Source at the center of the life wheel, seeing the energetic potentials of the future and what their possible manifestations might be.

The core center is labeled Source. The still Zero Point of Source, which is the eternal NOW, with spokes radiating out in all directions. 360 degrees in a circle, in 3 or more dimensions, radiating out. It is literally the true Source from which all abundance flows. True power is in the NOW, in the organizing, creative center of the Life Wheel.

In Life Wheel context, the presumption of any nation (for example ancient China, or later the Ottoman Empire), to be the “center of the world” are seen, in larger context, to be equally impossible and tragically mistaken.

From the true Center, from the observer point of view, natural cycles of time can be observed, understood, and to some degree can, with conscious intention, be harnessed and directed to achieve intentional goals.

Unlike the levels of mass and energy, which can be described at length from experience, the levels of light and Source are by definition best honored by silence. Or at least as few words as possible.

Explanation  

Outer levels of the Quantum Paradigm Wheel are ephemeral extensions a timeless, absolute Center. Just as a single snow flake’s structure is universal but its particular form is unique, each human is, paradoxically, the same as all others at the center, while outwardly unique.   

The sacred geometry of wheels-within-wheels corresponds with the three dan tiens (upper, middle and lower energy centers) of Chinese medicine, as well as the chakra system taught in Patanjali’s system of yoga. It looks like this:  

Yoga scriptures correlate the three levels of the wheel with three different states of consciousness. Most of us experience the states of waking, sleep and dreamless sleep separately. However, it is possible to link the entire continuum, simultaneously experiencing wholeness while fully conscious.  

This image corresponds with Patanjali’s yogic states of consciousness: waking, dream, dreamless sleep and turiya, as well as with modern biofeedback brain-wave signatures: the beta, alpha, theta and gamma states of consciousness. As such, it embodies a paradigm upon which sages and scientists can agree. 

Applications  

The Jewish call to faith (“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might”) is compatible with the quantum Life Wheel. It’s imaged like this:   

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The quantum Life Wheel is similarly compatible with the essential teachings of the New Testament. A personal favorite of mine is a small book by Sarah Young, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence. The daily devotions are (to my mind) clearly received, and many can be diagrammed to fit within the levels of the Life Wheel. For example, the reading for May 25 reads, “When you turn from your problems to My Presence (the Center), your load is immediately lighter (pun). Circumstances (the rim of the Wheel) nay not have changed, but we carry your burdens together. Your compulsion to ‘fix’ everything gives way to deep, satisfying connection with Me.”  

Another image speaks volumes to the essence of Christianity: 

The horizontal spokes of the wheel read: “His consciousness radiates from beyond time and space” and “Ye must be perfect like the Father. Born Again.” The SW to NE spokes read: “A master of the change process controls the in-breath to return to the Source” and “Outbreathing reemergence. Ability to die and return.”   

This image sheds light on comments made by Bill O’Reilly during an interview about his book, Killing Jesus.  

He observed, “The Christian savior was able to attract a following and a level of popularity that nobody to date has replicated. He had no infrastructure. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.”  

How can this be?  

The level from which Christ broadcasts explains his extraordinary influence both then and NOW. His consciousness originates deep within the Wheel of Life. It radiates from a place beyond time and space in all directions, permeating the entire field of creation, touching everyone everywhere. This explains the literal truth in his promise, that he would be with us always, even to the end of days.   

The Quantum Paradigm suggests how disciples’ reports of Christ’s death and resurrection could be literally true. Accomplished meditation practitioners withdraw attention from the physical body and then return to ordinary consciousness on a daily basis. A true master of the change process controls the in-breathing return to the creative source and out-breathing reemergence into the material plane of physical experience. Proof of this mastery is the demonstrated ability to die to the physical body and then return.   

Yogic literature is replete with stories about masters who chose the time of their physical departure as well as the time, place and circumstances of their next incarnation. In this, Christ’s example is not unheard of.   

It’s motive and effect that make his story unique. His was an act of supreme self-sacrifice and compassion for self-doomed humanity. It bought all of us one last hope of survival — a final opportunity to WAKE UP in time to prevent ultimate extinction — being erased from the cycle of life altogether.   

What’s critically important to remember here is that the example of his sacrifice speaks to everyone, everywhere. Jesus did not perform his apparent miracle to set himself above and apart from humanity. Quite the contrary. He did it to set an example of what’s possible, with the command that each of us should follow in his footsteps. “Ye must be perfect like your father.”   

The Quantum Paradigm is a model of the potentials within each of us which make this command viable. The dynamic, creative process is on-going. The pattern of continuous regeneration is the deepest heritage of every individual. Whether aware of it or not, we continuously, daily, with every breath, release and die to the old in order to regenerate and be reborn to the new.   

By extension, Christ’s example of mastering the change process applies not only to individuals but to the civilization as a whole. The world as we know it seems threatened, as if coming to an end. Yet those who hold the key to life, like modern day Noahs, have the opportunity — and responsibility — to ride the tide of the times and begin again, not just for themselves, but for the sake of all life on Earth. They are the ultimate survivors who have it in their power to reseed the next generation, perpetuating the wheel of life.  

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NB: One important application of the quantum Life Wheel is to use it as a standard by which to measure institutionalized religions across the board, all of which have, over time, been infiltrated and captured to some extent or other. Keep that which resonates with the Quantum Paradigm. Let go of whatever part fragments or violates essential wholeness. 

Distortions of the Life Wheel  

Other variations picture incomplete paradigms, where awareness of either the center, middle or surface level is ruled out by the prevailing rules of the knowledge game. With one rationalization or another, a particular part of the comprehensive, organic life experience is distorted or rejected outright as taboo.  

This ego mistake has many variations. One is to identify with a particular level of the Wheel to the exclusion and detriment of the others. For example, many identify exclusively with the surface. This results in the picture of the exclusively materialistic empirical science world view. 

It is also common for those who share a particular distortion to disrespect those who are focused exclusively on other levels or different sectors of the Life Wheel. Compounding this, they begin to think their particular viewpoint is exclusively right, and all others exclusively wrong. The next step is to attach the label “good” to what they like, and “bad” to whatever is unfamiliar.  

Another distortion is to identify primarily with the middle level of energy and emotions. Nature worshipers and pagans distort or invert the levels, sometimes placing nature above its Source, even replacing it. Hedonists (adventure and pleasure seekers) also live here.   

Still others identify primarily with the inner levels of the Wheel. In the extreme, philosophers and religionists focus here. Making a value of necessity, they sometimes reject the world as an evil influence and suppress natural urges. This backfires, leading to hidden sexual abuse and other malfunctions.  

Yet another distortion is to fragment the levels of the Wheel. Different levels are experienced at alternative times, each part disassociated from the others. The result is the chaotic picture of a schizophrenic personality and/or lifestyle. In the extreme, the center floats alone, outside the rest. This explains how fractured individuals who seem like model citizens and pictures of propriety on the surface can live hidden lives of depravity and commit crimes of unspeakable cruelty.   

Each distortion has negative consequences for mental health. This in turn affects relationships within and between families, and then relationships within and between every larger form of social, political, religious, educational and business organization.   

Egoists — narcissists in the extreme — subscribe to the illusion that they’re separate and that they must compete against each other to rise to the top two-dimensional pyramids. They compete for control over presumably scare resources, both material and intangible. This includes money, possessions, political power, popularity — even love. “Me-first-and-foremost” believers feel justified in doing whatever it takes to get “ahead” — at the expense of everyone else, as if the ends justifies the means. 

The extreme fragmentation explains the current epidemic of narcissism, as well as the globalist mentality and its consequences:  

Egoists behave as if getting what they want is the end-all and be-all of existence. They act with little regard for the future, oblivious to the concept of karma. Like Dorian Gray, they believe they can hide from the consequences of their actions and that there is no higher justice. But in this, they are sadly mistaken. Whether foreseen or not, the results of past actions inevitably return. For the unprepared, it is the hardest but surest way to learn life’s lessons.  

Leadership & a Functional Definition of Evil 

Here, the holistic image of genuine leadership is contrasted with the many distortions that prevail at the current time.  

Here I put on my blogger hat to contrast the holistic image of genuine leadership with the many distortions that prevail at the current time.  

From “How Bad People Become Leaders.” 

“In response to my last blog, “Scientists and Sages Can Agree on This,” a LinkedIn follower challenged me: ‘It seems many leadership models characterize leadership as a universal good . . [but] it’s hard to give much credence to any model that can’t explain how ‘bad people’ become leaders. What thoughts do you have on this?’   

“I answered back: ‘I love a challenge, Mike. I’ll post my thoughts by Monday, and tweet you the link. Many thanks for asking.’     

“And it is a very challenging question. The subject is vastly complex. Making matters worse, the English language is so compromised that it’s difficult to answer simply and clearly.   

“For one thing, Mike, you’re not alone in looking for answers to this question. Earlier on LinkedIn, I was following a thread in the Leadership Think Tank discussion group. Five months ago Milan Grković, who heads the MUI Centar in Croatia, posed the question, “Why We Have So Many Bad Leaders?” At last count, there have been 1529 comments.  

“Mike’s question is framed in terms of ‘bad people.’ Milan calls them ‘bad leaders.’ It’s an important distinction. Both terms are valid. There are good (meaning ethical, responsible, compassionate) people who function poorly in leadership roles, and vice versa – not-so-good people who in measurable ways function effectively as leaders.   

“Unfortunately, good people who are also effective leaders are rare, while bad people who function terribly in leadership roles are all too common.   

“From childhood on, authoritarian educators brainwash the masses with a ‘respect’ for authority figures, a word experienced somewhere along a continuum between ‘high regard’ and ‘terror.’ So most of us assume we’re obliged to comply without question.  

“We also been taught to expect that non-conformance has life-threatening consequences. (The tyranny of “experts” is a related but different subject.)  

“Many individuals are placed in leadership roles. Very few have the combined aptitude and practical experience to actually lead. On the flip side of the coin, some individuals are highly influential even without an organizational title. Their outstanding ideas and/or example suffice. Einstein is an excellent example.   

“Further, the definition of a ‘bad’ leader ranges from ‘well-intentioned but ineffective’ to ‘incompetent, toxic and destructive.’ 

“Some people placed in leadership roles are hapless puppets. On the other extreme, some crave power for its own sake, take pleasure in dominating others cruelly, and are quite intentionally evil.  

“Although business consultants, understandably, hesitate to use the word, the existence of evil is an important, unavoidable subject. A functional definition is given below. 

“Different qualifications are required to lead in different situations. We each fill leadership roles at some times and in some areas of our lives. So the definition of an effective leader also changes on a sliding scale.     

“On the largest scale of magnitude, a universal leader is an educator in the pristine meaning of the term: one who leads from darkness to light. Christ was the ultimate leader. He instructed his students to call him Rabbi, which means teacher.  

“All of this, however, begs the original question of how (meaning the process by which) bad people become leaders. Outside of sheer brute force, HOW are unethical, inhumane, and/or incompetent people selected to fill leadership roles?  

“I addressed part of this question in an earlier blog on the leadership selection process. (See Democracy Is a Myth.) My doctoral research study proved with 99 percent statistically significant results that an informal pre-selection process precedes the formal one.     

“Innovative, creative candidates are screened out by current power holders with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. No one is identified, groomed or nominated who doesn’t mirror the values or otherwise suit the agendas of existing (sometimes not-so-good) administrators.  

“For another perspective, refer back to the quantum Life Wheel. The previous blog, Sages and Scientists Can Agree on This pictured this holistic, integrated reality map. According to this model, a good leader is one who is not only self-aware on all levels, but is able to link, balance and prioritize them.  

“Both books on the Quantum Paradigm include sections that describe the extraordinary amount of pain, suffering and loss that results from basing decisions and actions on incomplete, incorrect paradigms.  

“Here, two illustrations must suffice. First is a picture of the prevailing, exclusively materialistic empirical science paradigm. The center is ruled out. Intuition is denied. Emotions and energy aren’t accounted for. All that matters are concrete tangibles and physical image. A leader’s motives and intentions are known only when it’s too late – after the selection has been made and the (often regrettable) results come in.  

“A ‘scientific’ leadership selection process takes into account only that which is measurable, for example academic IQ. Intangibles like the presence or absence of emotional intelligence (street smarts) fly under the radar, as do ethical intelligence, creativity and a capacity for visionary insight.  

“When selectors judge only by appearances, it’s easy to deceive them. As Lincoln said, “You can fool all of the people some of some of the time, and some of the people all of the time.” For an ambitious con artist, those are pretty good odds.   

“In a second variation, all levels of the Wheel are operational, but they operate intermittently and out of synch, each disassociated from the others. The smallest circle which represents Conscience floats outside, detached from daily experience.   

“On one side of the continuum, this is the picture of a hypocrite, for example a person who operates on one standard with close family, but on another with strangers or at work. It represents someone who presents one image to the public, but acts quite differently when no one is looking.   

“Hitler is a familiar example on the far opposite extreme. This is the picture of evil, meaning anti-life: intentionally shattering and fragmenting the creative pattern. In Quantum Paradigm context, the intentions and actions of any person or group that exploits and destroys its own or threatens to annihilate enemy groups, devoid of respect for the inherent sanctity of life, are defined as evil.   

“The empirical science paradigm has no language or structure for recognizing such malfunctions. In contrast, the Quantum Paradigm is designed to diagnose inner dynamics. Use it to identify bad people and prevent them from being given leadership roles.” 

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Also, I should emphasize what I learned from OA, my teacher. The ongoing war between good and evil is like a multi-tiered chess game. There are combatants on the physical level. It’s simultaneously being fought on the astral plane. For example, as a spiritual warrior, he dueled with the non-physical (demonic) handlers behind the Rockefellers.  

While awareness and competence on the physical plane is necessary, it is not sufficient. If you don’t have a multi-level paradigm which recognizes what’s going on at inner levels, you’re operating in the dark. Evil forces are free to roam and operate without detection.  

If you’re not operating from a complete and correct map, you’re in deep trouble. Because ruling out awareness of the astral plane leaves you helpless. The dynamics are still there. It’s just out of sight. You don’t have any way to protect yourself or those you love because you don’t know what’s going on, where.   

For example, this is hinted at in the Karate Kid movies. Terry Silver’s three laws for cheating to take advantage of opponents who innocently play by the rules are: 1) “If a man can’t stand, he can’t fight. So break his knees. 2) If he can’t see, he can’t fight. So gouge out his eyes. 3) If he can’t breathe, he can’t fight. So break his nose.”     

Globalists expand on Silver’s rules. The equivalent of dirty fighting practiced on the physical plane is also going on at a metaphysical level. Prevent people from seeing (brainwashing and media censorship). Suffocate them (5G and air pollution). Cut the legs out from underneath them (destroy family support, impoverish them, drive them off the land into cities, separated from nature, etc. etc.). Keep the masses in ignorance, disconnected from one another. Prevent communities from cooperating to protect themselves, effectively knowing how to fight back.  

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Renaissance 

In the alternative, here is how we “win.” This is a subject dear to my heart, the hopeful potential well spoken by Alex Jones.  

Putting on my grad student researcher hat, the bottom line is this. Historically, times of renaissance, for example in Queen Elizabeth I’s England, or in Italy, were marked by whole brain function. Reason and faith operated hand in hand. All the levels of the quantum Life Wheel, for a brief time, were available and in synch. The result was a creative flowering. 

When I took an Education Policy seminar on the Future of Universities, I wrote a paper that applied Aquinas’ “great reconciliation” to the evolution of educational institutions. St. Aquinas concluded that there was no genuine conflict between faith and reason. Knowledge is a two-way street. The center and surface are connected. No matter where you start, each position leads to and connects with the other in an infinite loop. This is the Quantum Paradigm view. 

In the illustration of a bell-shaped, recurring curve of history, I pictured it like this:    

A horizontal line drawn through the center of the curve represents the balancing mean between extremes. At one extreme, below the line, was the European dark ages, dominated exclusively by church policies and faith-based religious rules of knowing.   

At the other extreme, hovering above the center line, was 17th century opposite and equal imbalance. At this time, intellectuals, reacting to medieval abuses, rejected not only organized religion but also faith, replacing them with the extreme of reasoned materialism.   

The balance point between extremes marks a period of renaissance, literally rebirth. It is a time of paradigm shift. The origin of universities took place during a time when the rules were in flux. It was fair game to access both sides of the coin. There was no perceived conflict between faith and reason. Separation of church and state was a non- issue. The result was a time of creative flowering in both the arts and sciences. 

During times of creative renaissance, the right and the left sides of the brain are balanced. Yin and Yang, in- and out-breath are steady and even. Neither the extreme dark age of other worldly religiosity/superstition nor the opposite and equal extreme of sterile, rational exclusively empirical science prevails. But instead, balance.   

Currently, we’ve crossed the median line. We’re headed south. The very real dangers of a horrific globalist new world order dark age looms ahead. Any one (or a combination) of natural and/or man-made disasters could wipe civilization as we know it off the map.   

HOWEVER, were we going forward, operating, not by default but by intention, to make ourselves whole, one person at a time, restoring collective awareness of the fundamental unity underlying superficial diversity, there’s now the potential to see the birthing of a creative renaissance in governance, the arts, architecture, sciences and professions (law, healthcare, education) like none ever before.  

It’s up to us.