The Paradox of Abstraction: Part Four – Beyond Science & Religion: Cracking the Cosmic Egg
BOOK III: The Enigmatic Mystery (Science & Religion) – Consideration #181
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Tuesday March 25, 2025
"Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.”
– Louis de Broglie
PREFACE
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In 1971 Joseph Chilton Pearce published his groundbreaking book “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg,” in which he contended that human culture and human endeavor represent various “cosmic eggs” that are structured by the mind; reality is essentially a completely subjective experience. However, unlike other philosophies and metaphysics supporting such a speculation, Pearce contended that this is now being reflected in current modern science as quantum mechanics.
Essentially, according to Pearce, reality acts as a “mirror of mind” that shapes our thoughts and beliefs. As our thoughts and beliefs change, so does our perception of reality. Reality adjusts to support our beliefs about reality.
“Therefore culture, language, education and other inherent influences essentially form our view of reality.”
Pearce contends that the interplay between mind and reality creates a kind of feedback loop, such that our mental concepts pertaining to the “rational truth” about reality directly influences how we see the “empirical truth” regarding reality. Essentially allowing us to choose the reality we want. Therefore culture, language, education and other inherent influences essentially form our view of reality. This is why people from various cultures, backgrounds, and education can see the world, or realty, so differently. Our perception of reality is basically based on our perception of what we think is true about reality. We find what we seek.
“Aspects of truth are reflected in each of these cultural cosmic eggs…”
Reality, and our perception of it, is not only subjective, but it is also fluid. Aspects of truth are reflected in each of these cultural “cosmic eggs” because there are many facets reflecting this abstract universal truth. All eggs contain a “yolk of truth” within them that gives birth to a new consideration or possibility regarding the truth about reality. Both science and religion are modern cosmic eggs that are beginning to crack after slamming into the rational wall of quantum mechanics. What is the nature of this new cosmic omelet of possibility?
CONSIDERATION #181 – Beyond Science & Religion: Cracking the Cosmic Egg
In, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce concludes:
“Religion and science to often prove blood brothers beneath their different vestments, and man proves the victim of their civil war.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Pearce suggests that all theories and all worldviews are ultimately abstractions of the mind. However, once a particular worldview becomes firmly established, we tend to see the world in a particular way that reflects that view.
“A social world view, one shared with other people, is structured from our infant minds by the impingements on us from and the verifying responses to us by other people. A mind finds its definition of itself not by confrontation with things so much as other minds. We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world but to the reality of other thinkers.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
If Pearce is correct, it is no wonder that our attempts to find the “absolute objective Truth” have proven fruitless. If mind creates reality, then reality itself is subjective, and therefore no objective Truth, no ultimate particle, and no ultimate God are to be found. Only the mystery remains. However, our incurable longing for objectivity convinces us that we can overcome the misconceptions of the past and finally solve the enigmatic mystery of reality.
“Generation by generation we proclaim ourselves the Enlightenment. Each age delights in singing a new requiem to its fathers. As we change our inherited representation of the world we deal with changes accordingly. In our struggle for an agreeable representation of reality, various systems rise as meteors, pronouncing, in their brief fling, absolutes concerning what we are.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Following this line of reasoning, all theories carried to their logical conclusion will end up with something theoretical, or unverifiable. And though science has honestly attempted to be the most objective system of investigation concerning the nature of reality, it cannot help but promote its own particular view of "the truth."
“A scientific education does more than develop the skill to handle scientific ideas. It brings about that change in thinking that determines the ideas which will be accepted to begin with, the new ideas most likely to occur to mind, and the phenomena accepted as factual. ‘Unscientific’ ideas tend to be dismissed, should they even occur and ‘unscientific’ facts tend not to be analytical, scientific, or ‘detached.’ Looking is a verification search, sifting through possibilities for a synthesis that will strengthen the hypotheses that generate the search.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Imagine the dilemma for traditional scientific thinking if Complete Objectivity is scientifically proven impossible? And if that does turn out to be the case, what would, or could, a subjective reality actually look like? Is Artificial Intelligence and Digital Consciousness a part of a new Quantum Reality? Our new Cosmic Egg?
POSTSCRIPT
"In atomic physics, we can never speak about nature without, at the same time, speaking about ourselves.”
– Fritjof Capra
Subjectivity has always been an essential element in pursuing the theory of God. A person cannot observe this theoretical entity, they must experience it directly. In order to understand this entity, you must be in some kind of relationship with it. Pearce claims that we are in a relationship with all realities and all world views, as our mind directly affects them. This notion of subjectivity is now being recognized in physics.
“These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitutes the final link in the chain of the observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer. This means that the classical ideal of an objective description of nature is no longer valid. The cartesian partition between the I and the world between the observer and the observed, cannot be made when dealing with atomic matter.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Therefore, the physicist also shares a relationship with their theoretical entities. The attempt to be a detached observer, completely separate from the process, has failed. The scientist finds that even the detached observer plays an integral part in the reality of subatomic physics.
If Pearce is correct, we will find whatever we search for. If a question, or theory, is pursued with enough intensity the mind will generate the expected result. The concept of an atom has been around for centuries. The atom itself was once considered the ultimate theoretical entity, now we consider the atom to be made up of even smaller entities which we will never perceive.
“Although each egg contains an aspect of truth, together they form a new synthesis of possibility…”
Is it reasonable to assume that the electron, or mu meson, or quark is the final, ultimate constituent of matter? Or will some new question, some new theory, create a new entity; something completely different from one concerning God or electrons?
Quantum theory already suggests that there are in reality no entities, only probabilities and possibilities which are somehow interconnected to all other probabilities and possibilities. Although each egg contains an aspect of truth, together they form a new synthesis of possibility as a framework for understanding a deeper reality. Following Pearce’s theory, we are choosing our next new reality, or cosmic egg, right now. However, once chosen, it will likely influence our perception of reality for a very long time.
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