Unified Theory a short introduction to (metatheory)

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Unified Theorya short introduction to
(metatheory)

• Csaba Varga
• Sociologist, H. Academic Reader,
• President of the Institute for Strategic Research
  (ISR), Hungary

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Preconditions for creating Metatheory

• A neutral viewpoint
• Momentary giving up of viewpoints (and every
  later) scientific concepts, and an openness to
  every new thoughts
• Building on new paradigms and paradigm shifts
• An ability to see the Whole (developing the
  ability to overview the whole)
• Unifying reality concepts or reality constructs
• It is less possible to create a Unified Theory as
  an personal endeavour than as a group work
• From the new paradigms metatheories, from
  metatheories concepts and from the concepts new
  world strategies could occur
• Developing the Knowledge and Knowledge centred
  society

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The Hungarian model (Our approach at the
Institute of Strategic Research)

• At the and of the 90s we initiated two
  intellectual programs
• a) a new unified understanding of man b) and
  the unity-society
• Creating the new theory of knowledge and
  knowledge-society
• Between 2004-2005 we initiated an international,
  transdisciplinary research program and published
  books
• From 2006 we organised metatheory (Unified
  Theory) world conferences
• From 2007-2008 we started a research project on
  new paradigms
• During 2000 and 2010 we started to work on
  formulating the knowledge centred global-local
  society models and we initiated the first local
  experiments

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Early Unified Theory initiatives

• Platon Idea concept, the cave example, etc.
• Aristotel Wisdom is that form of science, which
  thinks about the higher form of existences and
  about the divine
• Saint Agustinus Science deals with things
  happening in time, however wisdom turns its
  attention to the eternal. The two approach not
  necessarily exclude each other, since scince
  could also lead to wisdom.
• J. G. Fichte Collision of the Self and the
  non-Self, later showing the equality of the
  absolute I and the Divine I, a new theory of
  science
• G.W.F. Hegel formulating the substantial concept
  of the spirit (and age spirit), unity of God and
  the world, the need for ontotheology
• Ramana Maharsi New explanation of the Atman and
  Brahman concept
• Ken Wilber Integral approach, theory of the
  different levels and states of consciousnesses
• . We could go on to enumerate other examples. In
  short, the aim of Metaphilosophy to examine and
  unify the different wisdom traditions.

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What is Unified Metatheory?

• Metatheory is a unified theory of all sciences,
  religions and arts
• The constituting elements of Unified Theory are
• The unification of the theories of physics and
  metaphysics
• A unified understanding of Matter and/or
  consciousness
• Transnational and post-colonist theory
• Traditionalism and post-traditionalism together
• Unified philosophy (more than a theory)
• Usefulness of Unified Theory
• Metatheory offers a good chance to understand new
  knowledge, the new reality, the new states of
  consciousnesses

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Metareality/metaconsciousness model (1)

• This is a basic, comprehensive, complex, unifying
  diagram
• Expressing the sphere model in two dimensions
  the inner core (the depth) and the outer also
  infinite surface are connected, joins to each
  other
• Starting from within every holon contains the
  next one
• The inner structure of the circular sections and
  the levels of these sections are expressing
  Unity, the Whole
• The objective and subjective realities are joined
  together duality, non-dual and which is above
• Wholeness is the expression of the Absolute,
  which is the totality of personal consciousness,
  the wholeness the animate and inanimate reality
• Matter and consciousness, being and spirit,
  physics and metaphysics, life and transcendent
  life are expressed together and separate, above
  and under, inner and outer etc.
• Circular sections reality/consciousness
  sections every sections are the unity of two
  sides (all are Möbius strips)

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Metareality/metaconsciousness model (2)

• Levels of the circular sections
  reality/consciousness (see inner reality, the
  outer reality of a person, physical reality,
  spiritual reality, transcendent reality and the
  reality of every consciousness levels
• The sequence is not random we can start only
  from ourselves (brain, mind, consciousness,
  personal, two Selves)
• The consciousness created three dimensional
  realities are followed by new circular sections,
  the spiritual and the transcendent reality
• These are also reality/consciousness steps
• So every reality level is a circular section, two
  joined reality and this Wholeness structure is
  the multilevel reality (expressed in three
  dimension)
• If Being and consciousness, and the under and
  above are expressible and understandable as a
  complex structure then we have a chance for a
  complete worldphilosophy

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Metareality/metaconsciousness model (3)

• Every dimension/vector change is also a change of
  consciousness and vice versa
• The change of levels of reality/consciousness
  (see the borders where the arrows facing each
  other) are necessarily secrets, unified
  metatheory aims to offer explanation to these
  shifts
• So inner starting point is the brain (its two
  hemispheres), the mind (two minds), consciousness
  (one consciousness), (the unified) unconscious,-
  the inner infinity
• Every circular section level represents different
  time and space
• The outer starting point is the ONE, where all
  duality disappears (non-dual) post reality, post
  consciousness from where we could go inward
• The diagram looks quite complex, however it
  unifies at a glance the whole metareality/consciou
  sness

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Metatheoretic examples 1, 2, 3,

• To understand metatheory lets see some basic
  relationships
• A) The different alternatives to understand
  Metahuman (the multidimensional person) and the
  personal metaconsciousness
• B) The different alternatives to understand
  Metasociety (the multidimensional society) and
  the collective metaconciousness
• C) Building blocks of Metatheory (extending the
  theory of epistemology)

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Two brains, two minds hypothesis

• Two brains the two hemispheres one is for the
  present moment (the right side), the other for
  the past and future (the left side)
• The left hemisphere represents the outer I, while
  the right side is the spiritual I, so the lift
  side connects us to the under, the right to the
  upper part
• These are two personalities within us and are two
  different perceptions, two different
  self-consciousnesses,
• The right side operates with pictures, the left
  with words
• So one is the brain of wholeness the other is of
  the parts (all these differences disappear in
  higher states of consciousnesses
• The right side connects us to the cosmic
  energies, this is Nirvana experience, the left to
  the organising intelligence

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Two brains, two minds hypothesis

• The left side represent rationality, while the
  right spirituality the two hemispheres are
  experiencing and creating two different reality,
• The right side is love, the left is anxiety
• The left sides mind expresses normal
  consciousness, the other (the right sides mind)
  expresses higher states of consciousnesses
• Metatheory connects and unifies these two
  realities and consciousnesses
• The two brains are Unified, so in Unity
  consciousness they are ONE, the two minds are
  also ONE
• Perfection means to be in both sides at once, to
  be in Unity

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Two Selves (and hearts) and the Self (Ramana
Maharsi and others)

• The miracle in man that he has two I. For this is
  a good analogy that have two hearts as well, one
  is the physical, which carries the spiritual
  existence the other hearts on the right side,
  which is not material and physical
• We can call it the seed of light, or white hole
  in quantum physics, or the virtual home of the
  Holy Spirit, which encompasses all of our atoms
  and subatomic structures
• This second heart is the higher Self, which is
  transcendental. It is consciousness itself. The
  God within as Ramana said
• Saint John of the cross expressed this question
  as follows Why are you listening the thing, and
  why are you waiting, since you could immediately
  love God in your heart

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Two Selves (and hearts) and the Self (2)

• Ramana Maharsi says This second heart is not
  equivalent with the physical one, it is the
  spiritual centre beside the physical heart.
• Nobody denies that the physical is on the left
  side, but this heart is found on the right side o
  the body.
• Ramana Maharsi could experience this
• Therefore the heart is the centre of the
  body. In truth, the body and everything is
  contained in this centre.
• From this point of view the second heart is the
  higher Self, which is Atman and Brahman at the
  same time. The higher Self contains within itself
  all the higher states of consciousnesses.

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Theories of higher states of consciousnesses

• We differentiate normal consciousness levels
  (waking, dreaming, deep sleep)
• We also differentiate higher states, as well
  naming them differently (pure consciousness,
  cosmic consciousness, God-, and Unity
  consciousness etc.)
• The most important thing is the shift at the
  borders to shift from the normal sate to the
  first higher state
• The higher consciousness levels were kept secret
  by the mystical orders (Brahmanism, kabbala,
  Sufism etc.)

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The cognitive development of a person

• Jean Piagets cognitive development theory the
  main development sequence, which could be divided
  into four subsections are the following
• (1) Sensomotoric it is expressed by movements
  and situation solving
• (2) Before porcessingThis is viewpoint driven
  (intuitive) thinking and it is still
  characterised by egoism
• (3) Concrete processingThis sequence is
  internalised, characterised by reversible
  thinking processes and movements
• (4) Formal processingThis sequence is
  characterised by combinatoric thinking, it is the
  formation of deduction and hypothesis.

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The higher levels of consciousness of individuals

• According to yoga The mudha (torpid state of
  consciousness ), the ksipta (diffused attention
  or confusion), the viksipta (focused attention,
  or a silenced torpid state), therefore beside the
  normal concious states we have higher ones like
  the ecagrata (one pointedness, or concentrated
  awareness), the nirrudha (stable concentrated
  attention)
• According to A. Maslow this is self-realisation,
  and transcendental (on the top of the necessity
  pyramid)
• According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  transcendental consciousness, cosmic-, God-,
  Unity and Brahman consciousness (?)
• Ken Wilber viewpoint occult (cosmic), subtle
  (divine), causal (above form), non-dual, (?)
• Stanislav Grof speaks about holotropic, wholeness
  driven consciousnesses (Cosmic Consciousness,
  Absolute Consciousness)
• Etc.

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The posing of the collective consciousness

• The term collective consciousness was first
  introduced by Emile Durkheim at the end of the
  19th century
• There is two type of consciousness are living in
  us the states of the first of these is
  individual in each of us, and typical only for
  us, while the others states are common for the
  whole society
• For a long time he regarded that the collective
  consciousness is completely different, than the
  individual consciousnesses, though it is realized
  or manifested only in individuals.
• Later on he got to the point, that he assumed
  the society as a psychical entity, and thought
  that the religion is nothing else than the
  thinking method of this collective entity.
• So here comes the recognition that the exterior
  (compared with individuals) social consciousness
  consist of not only those elements which are
  common in all members of the group.

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Society and the consciousness of the society
Levels of consciousness Individual consciousness (real subject) Collective consciousness (unified consciousness field) Society (unified collectum)
Sixth level Absolute Absolute Absolute
Fifth level Unity consciousness Unified consciousness field The society of unified consciousness field
Fourth level God-consciousness Sacral humankind (and multiversum) consciousness Sacral society
Third level Cosmic consciousness Pantheistic-universal consciousness Universal-cosmic consciousness society
Second level Transcendent consciousness Transcendent collective consciousness Virtual (family, local, national) communities
First level Alert consciousness (wakefulness, deep sleeping and dreaming) Normal consciousness of society (at all level of society) Structured, functional society (and its institutions)
Zero level Unconsciousness Social unconsciousness Sub-society
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Personal and Collective Consciousness Structure

• Unity consciousness
• ---------------------------------
• Absolute consciousness
• God consciousness
• Cosmic consciousness
• Pure consciousness
• ---------------------------------
• Semi-pure consciousness
• Alert consciousness ( sleep, deep sleep)
• Semi-alert consciousness
• Devoid of (alert) consciousness
• ---------------------------------
• Unconsciousness

• Unity-consciousness
• -----------------------------------------
• Supra-God one-consciousness
• Sacral humankind consciousness
• Pantheistic consciousness
• Enlightened community consciousness
• ---------------------------------------
• Community consciousness and its levels
• Social consciousness and its levels (global,
  national, local)
• Manipulated mass consciousness
• (half) losing social
• consciousness
• ---------------------------------------
• Social unconsciousness

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Elements of Metatheory (1)(new, united cognitive
theory?)

• 1. Pre-scientific (everyday, direct personal and
  collective experience.), Observer exists inside
  Observed and vice versa
• 2. Scientific understanding (normal, post-normal
  science, and theology..) the Observer looks at
  the Observed
• 3. Understanding beyond science
  (frontier-sciences, mystical knowledge's, etc.)
  the Observed gives signs to the Observer partly
  unable to perception
• 4. Post-scientific understanding (new science)
  Metareality /Metaconsciousness shows up
  simultaneously in the complex interaction

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Elements of Metatheory (2)

• 5. Understanding via arts (all old and new art,
  post art) this can be the manifestation of self
  consciousness, or the impersonal-personal
  metaconsciousness
• 6. Artificial intelligence (sooner or later a
  self-creating metareality and metaconsciousness?)
• 7. God experience (prayer, meditation,
  inspiration, etc.) perceiving
  self-consciousness, interiorizing the
  transcendental viewpoint
• 8. Understanding through religion the
  metaconsciousness/MetaGod is perceived in
  metahuman-consciousness

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The elements of Metatheory (3)

• 9. Understanding is limited or unfeasible
  looking is superficial, or limited, even
  impossible.
• 10. The main characteristic of metatheorys
  method is the usage and construction of a joint,
  complementary system of cognition methods, in
  which parts mutually control each other.
  (meta-supramethodology)
• So it is to say that the Metatheory applies all
  opportunities and means of cognition and combines
  all the results of the different cognitive ways,
  alternatives

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Global Future Models

• At present, three potential future world model
  programmes are identified for earthly
  civilisation and culture
• 1. capitalism 2. new capitalism 3.
  post-capitalism (and what comes afterwards)
• The capitalism that has formed over recent
  decades is a money market centred, manipulated
  capitalism, which the market (the invisible hand)
  has been unable to regulate or control
• The programme of new capitalism is nothing else
  but corrected capitalism correction is expected
  to be made by the visible hand (i.e. the state),
  though todays (functional) capitalist state is
  also unable to regulate and control
• Both capitalism and new capitalism are the world
  models of the near past and reject social,
  ecological, knowledge, moral, collective
  consciousness and sacral coordination
• The survival of mankind is possible only through
  one of the post-capitalist models or model
  combination a precondition being to raise the
  collective consciousness of mankind

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Europes Main Future Scenarios (1)(three
capitalist-neo-capitalist and four
post-capitalist models)
The actual and/or symbolic names of the future models The contents of the future alternatives Descriptions of the future alternatives
(1) - The systematic supra crisis of modernisation, - Failure guardianship, - The failure of the old world order, - The threat of the emergence of quarter and half dictatorships - Etc. - The first half of the 21st century is primarily an era of failures, this is a complex hopelessness alternative, - the European Union concentrates on avoiding failure and on averting the biggest threats, - Tragic negative scenarios may also take place social rebellions and world-civil wars - continuous and mutually strengthening failures and bankruptcies, climate crisis, economic crisis, etc. - there is no solution to the climate crisis, - the principles and institutions of modernisation and post-modernisation can handle the crises only in part - a consequence of the failure can be the emergence of some sort of dictatorship model
(2) - Improved capitalism with continuous crises, - Regulated cowboy capitalism, - Reinvented capitalism, - Corrected liberal world order, Etc. - Money market centred capitalism will survive, perhaps it will be more strictly regulated and controlled, but the welfare state cannot be reconstructed, - Social non-equilibrium will increase, - The European union is not a confederation - a self-correcting but fundamentally unchanging world order - partly nationalised capitalism - regulated capitalism - global and continentally controlled money markets - improved democracy
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Europes Main Future Scenarios (2)
(3) - Knowledge-centred world model, - Global knowledge-controlled economy, society - Intellectual capitalism, - Etc. - Post-information capitalism, instead of money, mainly knowledge will be the dominant means of exchange, - knowledge-poverty will have to be eliminated, - a knowledge integrating, innovating and utilising European Union will be the aim - knowledge-capitalism or, in a better case, knowledge-post-capitalism, - the global knowledge economy will mitigate the inequalities between continents (and within continents) - creative and innovative intellectual capital-centred (post-)capitalism
(4) - Post-capitalism, new economic world order, - Post-market (and not only capital-based) economy, - The era of sustainable economy and society - Etc. - The essence of post-capitalism a post-capital, post-market era, - No longer a growth-centred paradigm, - the united Europe is not primarily a political or economic but a value and quality-of-life centred integration - the aim is not profit but the mutual coordination of interests and values (win-win for all) - participatory state, electronic and/or participatory democracy - the focus will be on making the sustainable world and development possible and the management of the climate crisis
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Europes Main Future Scenarios (3)
(5) - Locality-centred globalisation, - Society-centred state of the world, - The era of direct and/or indirect democracy - Etc. - the old world order will fall into pieces and a dynamic local network will emerge - the renaissance of the local world, the system of local republics, - new types of nation states, locality-based alliances, - not profit or competition oriented but setting the aim of being self-caring - self-sufficient, self-developing small communities - introduction of a local economy and a local currency that are of the same rank as the global economy - economy and politics will be in the service of the society, - participatory self-governance, comprehensive participatory (and electronic) democracy
(6) Knowledge- and collective consciousness-centred world order, Consciousness-centred state and society, Culture-driven universal era, Etc. the individual will be led not by money, power or prestige but a higher level knowledge and consciousness, societies will be driven not by greed or the desire to rule but the qualities of collective consciousness, - consciousness development in the focus, - successful mitigation of poverty and defencelessness, - successful protection and reconstruction of nature and the environment, - the high quality culture is the manifestation of high states of knowledge and consciousness - the new world order will completely progress beyond even post-capitalism
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Europes Main Future Scenarios (4)
(7) - Value- and/or morality-centred world order - Value-, religion and faith-oriented state of the world, - Global religious peace, - Post-secular state of the world, - Etc. If man is not only a physical, mental and social but also a spiritual being it will create a world inside and outside which is value-, morality- and religion- (or spirituality-) based consciousness-centred state and democracy sacral democracy - not money, not knowledge but together with consciousness the values of ethics, religion (etc.) will keep together and rule the world (the economy, as well as society) - in the focus are religions, faiths and spiritual experiences that continue a dialogue with one another - a morality and faith based world order is born
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Unity of Continents and Cultures

• The era is over in which the power centres of the
  developed north export the future model to all
  continents
• The ruling capitalist new capitalist world
  model (global manipulated market economy,
  unipolar or multipolar world order, liberal
  party-based quasi democracy, etc.) cannot be
  maintained for long
• It is no longer tolerable that the worlds
  society has dramatically fallen into two the
  rich (who possess the integrated goods) and the
  poor (who have hardly any of the integrated
  goods) (20-80 )
• Our planets new world order will offer each
  continent the choice of an individual future way,
  while all continents (and all states) are
  responsible for unity
• Preconditions and guarantees of the possible
  future are the equality-based living together
  and unity of continents, cultures and religions

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The aims of the World Conference

• We are getting closer to the formulation of the
  elements and the wholeness of Unified Theory
• It provides the possibility for the birth of the
  first book dealing with World Philosophy in four
  to five world languages at least in 600 to 800
  pages
• The other result of the Metatheory researches and
  dialogues will be that the global/national/local
  alternatives of the 21st century will be able to
  seen more clearly
• There is a new universal age coming, a special
  new age, we are going to be the appreciative
  advocates and those who are able to inspire
  others
• The World Conference has the potential to raise
  significantly the social and spiritual prestige
  of the Swedish organizers
• We can serve the mental world peace, which can be
  only interpreted within a new context, without
  any limitation

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

• Varga, Csaba
• www.vargacsaba.hu
• www.metatheory.info
• www.strategiakutato.hu
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• vargacsaba_at_vargacsaba.hu
• Institute for Strategic Research (ISR), Budapest,
  2009