How this book is structured xi
Figure 1: Fundamentals of Life xii
Easy then, not so much now 1
Section 1: Some helpful tools 3
The KISS-Ockham Tool 3
KEEP IT SIMPLE and SCIENTIFIC 3
The Belief-Habit Cycle 7
Figure 2: The Belief-Habit Cycle 8
Figure 3: Cue: insult. Response: anger 9
Figure 4: Same cue, different response 9
The Belief-Habit Cycle, in more detail 10
Choosing not to choose is still a choice 11
Figure 5: Choices, choosing, chosen 12
Back to belief-systems 12
Why we choose what we choose 15
Figure 6: Choice of responses 15
Figure 7: For self, for group 17
Our ‘Wego’, and our ‘Igo’ 18
Why split Ego into ‘Wego’ and ‘Igo’? 21
Figure 8: Wego vs Igo 23
Section 2: Our interactive universe 24
The SOS Model 24
It’s just us 25
Being limited is good for us. Necessary, in fact 26
Figure 9: To be, or not to be ... naked 27
Figure 10: Outside influences 28
How our brains perceive the SOS 29
Figure 11: Parts and wholes, things and relationships 31
Figure 12: Left-, right- hemisphere perceptions 32
Figure 13: Right-wing focus, left-wing relationships 33
The limitations of left-hemisphere perception 34
Figure 14: The art of forming words 34
The brain as filter and enabler 36
Discover what you don’t know 38
Figure 15: The dual process of left, right-hemispheres 41
Enter the quantum 42
What’s in the gaps? 45
Figure 16: Unlimited to limited, possibilities to actuality 46
Figure 17: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 47
Figure 18: Our refreshing reality 48
Figure 19: Choice, belief, time 49
Figure 20: Barnsley Fern 50
Introduction to the creative process 52
Figure 21: The proCreative cycle 52
Impossible 53
Even so, so what? 56
Time out, recap 57
Opening to possibility 58
Combining the hierarchical (vertical) with the communal (horizontal) 59
Figure 22: Many (possibilities, people). One (individual, result) 60
- Space 60
- Time 61
Figure 23: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 62
Fractals, pre-physical waves and nonlocality 62
Why is the ‘feminine’ correlated with the meta-physical? 66
Deeper forms of ego 68
Figure 24: Ego, Transfinite ego, and 69
The interplay of conscious and unconscious 70
Figure 25: Possibility, societal limitations, individual choice 73
Is my transfinite ego (‘soul’), masculine or feminine? 75
Sexing the small bits 77
- Bosons 77
- Fermions 78
The SOS and all life is a creating process 83
Figure 26: The dynamic process of Nature 84
Section 3: Real-world application of the SOS model 85
We can know the tip, we cannot ever know the base 85
Figure 27: Inexhaustible potential 86
Keys to creativity and wisdom 88
Meditation and Yoga boost self-enhancement (aka ego) 91
Tribalism, boson-togetherness and ‘Identity Politics’ 96
The functional, fermion-natured focus on fixing 97
Figure 28: Functional Fermions 98
The subconscious as a mirror 100
Moving mountains, neuroplasticity and physioplasticity 101
Flow, and peak states 103
If it’s to be, it’s up to me 103
The foresight of women’s intuition 105
Figure 29: ‘Highly masculine’ (low empathy) 108
Re-framing The Big 5 Personality Traits using the SOS Model 109
Extraversion / Introversion 109
Figure 30: ‘Big 5’ Personality Traits 110
Conscientiousness 110
Agreeableness 111
Neuroticism (Emotional stability) 111
Openness, Creativity 111
The boson-nature of agreeableness, and the wage-gap 112
Sameness is not equality 114
Figure 31: Different, not same 115
The gender imbalance in technology 116
Functional, in their sheds 117
Feminine and masculine creativity 118
Figure 32: Feminine and Masculine Creativity 119
The rousing, beneficial energy of creative aggression 120
Unity or truth: which prevails? 123
In-sourcing our personal power, an antidote to tribalism 124
Homo, and hetero sexuality 125
Pre-birth and after-death states 126
Finding your inner Hannibal – the power of individuality 128
Section 4: Supplemental 130
Important consequences of self-organising systems 130
As within the whole, so within the part 133
Figure 33: Religious, left-hemispheric shame: good vs bad 135
The evolution of the human psyche 136
Early Era: Oneness 137
Individuation 137
Figure 34: The Evolution of the Human Psyche 138
Peak Disconnect 139
Reconnecting 141
Self-Organising-Sentient (SOS) Awareness 141
Triangle and Pattern Thinking 143
Chaos is not complexity 144
The TOA (Totality of One and All) 144
Apparent contradictions in the Table of One and All (TOA) 145
TOA 1 of 5 147
TOA 2 of 5 148
TOA 3 of 5 149
TOA 4 of 5 150
TOA 5 of 5 151
Bibliography 153