A Low Entropy Life

Like when the European church decided in the 1400’s that God wanted them to break up the kin groups that had defined human social and family groups for time immemorial; that’s the moment we lost our tribe, and the humanity and connection it brought us. What did they give us in return? Church. They break up your family and offer themselves and an inhuman substitute. (The whole deal between God and humans according to the church is that we are required to give up our humanity in order to be clean in the eyes of god, after the whole Eve/apple incident. You can ask any pastor, that’s the dogma. Is it any wonder people who believed that would start exploiting the earth and its inhabitants without conscience or consideration of their well-being?)

The audacity and immorality of dictating family structure and fracturing stable family groups forever is stunning and enraging, but most people don’t even know about it. Did you? This was the origins of today’s nuclear family. Also, incidentally, the start of the isolation of women that turned them into mere servants for their individual households, uncompensated even by the companionship of other women to do the work with them. I think this was the thing that broke the spirit of women, and we still haven’t gotten it back. We will never get it back unless we realize female strength -emotional and physical- has always been in community; one woman may not be able to defend herself against a man, but two or more are a risk most men wouldn’t take. That’s what the Jordan Petersons of the world don’t want us to know: civilized women alone are weak, but women in tribe are unstoppable. I imagine men in the distant past who advocated for rape were promptly poisoned by the women of the tribe. Only a man would think physical strength is the be-all and end-all of human power. Only men would reduce the power of emotion to unnecessary fluff. Unless they want to use it for political or social gain, of course.

Anyway, you can thank the European church for whatever loneliness and lack of family connection you feel today.

Dear Dr. Lanza,

Thank you for your steadfast commitment to the principle of Biocentrism. I have been following your work since the early 90’s and it’s marvelous to see that your ideas and career have continued to flourish, and that the world has indeed become more receptive to your theory.

 I just finished reading your latest, The Grand Biocentric Design, and I will be honest, my intuition is why I’m writing this letter to you right now. It’s a long story, but the crux as your work is concerned relates to your palpable frustration at points in the book when you discuss attempts to merge quantum and classical physics, now that you’ve cemented the creative nature of energy itself. I’m here to pass on this: the desire of science to break down and separate and define and control all matter and data is civilizational thinking, and quantum energy cannot be understood with this kind of rationality.

 Life itself is an energetic duality, operating according to both quantum and classical rules at the same time. Our classically defined body navigates the physical, wave collapsed world according to the laws of classical physics. Our quantum self deals in intuition, emotion, personality, memory, values, spirituality, etc. – all the intangible and enigmatic things that have no energetic correlate in the classically defined physical world. Our quantum selves are the alchemists that turn neurotransmitters and hormones into thoughts and feelings, into ideas we can potentially act on in the physical, classically defined world, although only within our evolutionary intelligence. It’s why we see echoes of entanglement, superposition, multiple worlds, and time travel in biological and geological systems. I think researchers might find that all the non-corporeal, unmeasurable aspects of the classical world arise from quantum “personality” and attributes. For instance, have you ever stopped to wonder at the implications of every equation needing to be balanced to be true, and how that need for balance is reflected in the nature of energy itself, whether mineral, biological or emotional? What is balance, really? A universal joining/stabilizing force like gravity, only quantum in nature?

 You are right that we are all one, autonomous but interconnected; it’s our quantum selves that enable us to experience interconnectedness and transcends the sensory understanding of our classical physical bodies. It’s what allows us to hold conversations in our minds with loved ones who have passed away and what makes us feel choked up with awe when we see the aurora borealis or hear the Ode to Joy. It holds our belief and is the source of the voice of intuition and our cultural sense of god, which I suspect is the human experience of a sort of collective consciousness. It’s why faith healing and placebos sometimes work. It’s what creates dreams and ghosts. 

The things that give life meaning are all the doing of the quantum aspect of our innate bodily energy, Dr. Lanza, and my gut tells me this process defies rational explanation because it must. It can’t be pinned down or quantified any more than love or hope can be. It is a moving target, like happiness. No lab experiments will be able to capture it because the workings of a creative being can’t truly be understood unless it’s embedded in the system of its co-creation. Context always, always matters as we are discovering through our planetary environmental woes, all of which happened on the watch of civilizational science. Accepting and learning from our dual nature is the future of physics, and maybe psychology and every other human endeavor. The silo-ing of human knowledge is a civilizational trick that has created great circles of power and ego and lots of exchange of Capital, but it does not serve the ongoing co-creation of our living biosphere. Wrapping our heads around the squishiness of quantum energy’s reach in the classical physical world will change the way we see ourselves and the biosphere around us.

Does this seem too simple? The truth usually is, Dr. Lanza. I suspect you have considered this possibility and dismissed it because it doesn’t fit into what you “know” to be true, because it can’t be measured, because the implications are too complicated and profound. Through science, Civilization has invested a lot in disconnecting humanity from our species knowledge of the biosphere and our own nature. (If you like history, Michel Foucault has some stunning insights in his work.) Once one starts thinking in terms of quantum selves and evolutionary intelligence and balance, it becomes obvious why the artificial systems of modern civilization seem to be breaking down: the way we live in no way honors our evolutionary intelligence or the balance of the biosphere that created us as we created it. That we can adapt endlessly is a message of Civilization. Now that I recognize it, my quantum/intuitive self can feel the cost of our wrong-headedness, our long focus on the classical, material world at the expense of the balance of this entire interconnected energetic world.  This deep sense of knowing demands that I act, so here I am. When enough people feel this, the world will change. The biosphere will have a chance. Humanity will have a chance. If any living scientist is capable of discovering ways to reveal these truths, it’s you.

With love and luck,