The following Table of Contents is from "The Dynamics of Gender and Life" (1st Edition, published 22 November 2019).
WHY read this book? ix
Why you might not want to read this book ix
How this book is structured x
Figure 1: The fundamentals of life xi
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 9
Figure 4: Same cue, different response 10
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
The right-hemisphere’s ‘Wego’, the left-hemisphere’s ‘Igo’ 18
Why split Ego into ‘Wego’ and ‘Igo’? 21
Figure 8: Wego vs Igo 23
Section 2: Our universe in conversation 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: Inward causation 28
Important consequences of self-organising systems 29
How our brains perceive the SOS 32
Figure 11: Parts and wholes, things and relationships 34
Figure 12: Left-, right- hemisphere perceptions 35
Figure 13: Right-wing focus, left-wing relationships 36
The limitations of left-hemisphere perception 36
Figure 14: The art of forming words 38
The brain as filter and enabler 38
Discover what you don’t know 41
Figure 15: The dual process of left, right-hemispheres 44
Enter the quantum 45
What’s in the gaps? 47
Figure 16: Unlimited to limited, possibilities to actuality 49
Figure 17: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 50
Figure 18: Our refreshing reality 51
Figure 19: Choice, belief, time 52
Figure 20: Barnsley Fern 53
Introduction to the creative process 54
Figure 21: The proCreative cycle 55
Impossible 56
Even so, so what? 58
Time out, recap 59
Opening to possibility 60
Combining the hierarchical (vertical) with the communal (horizontal). 61
Figure 22: Many (possibilities, people). One (individual, result) 62
- Space 62
- Time 63
Figure 23: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 64
Fractals, pre-physical waves and nonlocality 64
Why is the ‘feminine’ correlated with the meta-physical? 68
Deeper forms of ego 70
Figure 24: Ego, Transfinite ego, and ... 71
The interplay of conscious and unconscious 72
Figure 25: Possibility, societal limitations, individual choice 75
Is my transfinite ego (‘soul’), masculine or feminine? 76
Sexing the small bits 79
- Bosons 79
- Fermions 80
The SOS and all life is a creating process 85
Figure 26: The dynamic process of Nature 86
Section 3: Real-world application of the SOS model 87
We can know the tip, we cannot ever know the base 87
Figure 27: Inexhaustible potential 88
Keys to creativity and wisdom 90
Meditation and Yoga boost self-enhancement (aka ego) 93
Tribalism, boson-togetherness and ‘Identity Politics’ 98
The functional, fermion-natured focus on fixing 99
Figure 28: Functional Fermions 100
The subconscious as a mirror 102
Moving mountains, neuroplasticity and physioplasticity 102
Flow, and peak states 104
If it’s to be, it’s up to me 105
The foresight of women’s intuition 106
Figure 29: ‘Highly masculine’ (low empathy) 110
Re-framing The Big 5 Personality Traits using the SOS Model 111
- Extraversion / Introversion 111
- Conscientiousness 112
Figure 30: ‘Big 5’ Personality Traits 112
- Agreeableness 112
- Neuroticism (Emotional stability) 113
- Openness, Creativity 113
The boson-nature of agreeableness, and the wage-gap 114
Sameness is not equality 115
Figure 31: Different, not same 116
The gender imbalance in technology 118
Functional, in their sheds 119
Feminine and masculine creativity 120
Figure 32: Feminine and Masculine Creativity 120
The rousing, beneficial energy of creative aggression 121
Unity or truth: which prevails? 124
In-sourcing our personal power, an antidote to tribalism 125
Homo, and hetero sexuality 127
Pre-birth and after-death states 127
Additional notes concerning pre-birth, and after-death states 129
Finding your inner Hannibal – the power of individuality 129
Section 4: Appendix 131
What does ‘holodynamic system’ mean? 131
As within the whole, so within the part 132
Figure 33: Religious, left-hemispheric shame: good vs bad 134
The birth of sin, science and shame 135
The evolution of the human psyche 138
- Early Era: Oneness 138
- Individuation 139
Figure 34: The Evolution of the Human Psyche 140
- Peak Disconnect 141
- Reconnecting 142
- Self-Organising-Sentient (SOS) Awareness 143
Triangle and Pattern Thinking 144
Chaos is not complexity 145
The TOA (Totality of One and All) 146
Apparent contradictions in the Table of One and All (TOA) 146
- TOA 1 of 5 148
- TOA 2 of 5 149
- TOA 3 of 5 150
- TOA 4 of 5 151
- TOA 5 of 5 152
Bibliography 153
Index 160