The Singularity of Awareness
from Mystical Theology through Contemporary Cosmology
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If one is to take seriously the singularity of awareness as so far described, it requires an immediate state of "self-awareness" that is beyond that one normally attaches to the concept of being "self-aware." Usually, awareness, as well as the more developed form it takes when one calls it consciousness, invites an automatic bifurcation between an "outer" awareness of phenomena, leading to our concept of the "world" and an "inner" awareness of phenomena leading to a concept of the "self," like the trees we might see in the world, and the hunger we might feel within ourselves...a differentiation of distinctions open to being regarded as being distinctions of two separate kinds of domain - one being experienced "privately" and the other being an experience open to public verification.
However, a "tree-hunger" combo as a singular state, together with other simultaneous phenomena-gestalts present one with an entire array of distinctions with all kinds of associations, connotations and reflections which most often "settle out" into grouped distinctions, usually packaged into separate categories to be dealt with, each in what is considered to be their appropriate manner. Now such simultaneous phenomena as "tree-hunger" states can be regarded as essentially coincidences - a happenstance of appearing together without any special significance, or a synchronicity, i.e. a visible aspect of a holistic pattern or state that is not itself apparent in only a few individual examples. I suppose one who argues for a synchronistic analysis would make reference to the famous quantum experiment in which a stream of one at a time electrons shoot through a small slit at a rate of one every two minutes. What is detected on the other side of the slit is a seemingly random hit pattern of the electrons on a screen -- but if one waits for an entire day and several thousands of electrons are recorded, a very definite pattern of rings of high hit density alternating with rings of low hit density appear - and, assuming that this is due to an invisible wave phenomena that is always present with each electron but not individually detected, then one can measure the wavelength of this wave pattern...and low and behold this is the wavelength predicted by a simple wave-dynamic analysis! Extended to its limits, one can also bring into play the fact that so-called random digits making up an infinite decimal representation of a number can nevertheless be a determined number such as "pi," which has a very definite formula for obtaining this sequence of "random" numbers. This means that relative to the individual elements, electrons or numbers, no particular pattern need be observed, but the entire gestalt has indeed a very definite structure, which each element is associated with!
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In order to comprehend the vastness and depth of the universe in which we are an expression, it is essential to understand the nature of awareness itself. Awareness turns out to be a singularity of inseparable distinctions: any aspect of the universe as content to any perceiving being as a context of awareness, while distinct, is not separable from its context, and while inseparable, is not indistinctly of one nature with its context. Now both contemporary physics and mystical theology reveal essential singularities and both thrive and develop by various forms of paradox, although expressed in different forms. It is the author’s contention that both of these singularities are expressions of the root singularity of awareness itself, meaning that all subjective-spiritual states and objective space-time modalities are interwoven in a nonlinear and nonlocal way, revealing a vast and awesome multidimensional universe that is far different from bringing science and religion together as two individually developed disciplines sharing some common ground. What is required and here presented is an intrinsic dynamic of awareness revealing far ranging levels of singularity through methodology called here a “triune monadology” based on a logic of paradox.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Kosok has pursued many venues such as mathematics, physics, philosophy, metaphysics and religion in his constant search for “the origin and meaning of the universe” being driven by the perpetual question of “what’s it all about and Why?” He has taught physics for nearly 40 years at Fairleigh Dickinson University, during which time he earned a Ph.D. in Physics/Philosophy at Columbia University. He has given numerous lectures throughout the U.S. and abroad in science, philosophy (particularly the Logic of Hegel), metaphysics and interdisciplinary investigations for the AAAS; taught mini-courses on these related topics, and written many articles in the above mentioned fields. The book on the Singularity of Awareness gives a singular orientation to fields ranging from religion to physics based on the root paradoxical nature of awareness itself.
Dr. Michael Kosok can be reached by email at: michaelkosok@yahoo.com.