Table of Contents
WHY read this book? iv
Why you might not want to read this book iv
How this book is structured vi
Figure 1: The fundamentals of life vi
Easy then, not so much now? 1
Section 1: Some helpful tools 3
The KISS-Ockham Tool 3
KEEP IT SIMPLE and SCIENTIFIC 4
The Belief-Habit Cycle 7
Figure 2: The Belief-Habit Cycle 8
Figure 3: Cue: insult. Response: anger 8
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 11
Back to belief-systems... 12
Why we choose what we choose 14
Figure 6: Choice of responses 14
Figure 7: For self, for group 15
Splitting the ego into ‘WEGO’ and ‘IGO’ 16
Why split EGO into ‘WEGO’ and ‘IGO’? 18
Figure 8: WEGO vs IGO 19
Section 2: Our universe in conversation 22
The SOS Model 22
It’s just us 23
Being limited is good for us. Necessary, in fact 24
Figure 9: To be, or not to be ... naked 25
Figure 10: Inward causation 26
Important consequences of self-organising systems 27
How our brains perceive the SOS 29
Figure 11: Parts and wholes, things and relationships 30
Figure 12: Left-, right- hemisphere perceptions 31
Figure 13: Right-wing focus, left-wing relationships 32
The limitations of left-hemisphere perception 33
Figure 14: The art of forming words 33
The brain as filter and enabler 34
What you don’t know 36
Figure 15: The dual process of left, right-hemispheres 39
Enter the quantum 40
What’s in the gaps? 42
Figure 16: Unlimited to limited, possibilities to actuality 42
Figure 17: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 44
Figure 18: Our regenerating reality 45
Figure 19: Choice, belief, time 46
Introduction to the creative process 47
Figure 20: The proCreative cycle: Focus, assert AND let-go, allow 47
Impossible 48
Even so, so what? 51
Time out, recap 51
Opening to possibility 52
Combining the hierarchical (vertical) with the communal (horizontal). 53
Figure 21: Many (possibilities, people). One (individual, result) 54
Figure 22: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 55
Fractals, pre-physical waves and nonlocality 56
Why is the ‘feminine’ correlated with the meta-physical? 58
Deeper forms of ego 61
Figure 23: Ego, Transfinite ego, and ... 61
The interplay of conscious and unconscious 62
Figure 24: Possibility, societal limitations, individual choice 64
Is my intuitive transfinite ego (aka ‘soul’), masculine or feminine? 66
Sexing the small bits 68
Key point: The SOS and all life, is a creating process 73
Figure 25: The dynamic process of Nature 74
Section 3: Real-world application of the SOS model 75
We can know the tip, we cannot ever know the base 75
Keys to creativity and wisdom 77