The Whole Elephant Revealed: Insights into the Existence and Operation of Universal Laws and the Golden Ratio

by Marja Vries

Overview

The Whole Elephant Revealed offers clear insights into the existence and operation of universal laws and the golden ratio. It is a synthesis based on common insights found in all wisdom traditions into the operation of universal laws on the one hand and on cutting-edge scientific discoveries that are in line with those insights on the other hand. These principles are called universal because they work on all levels of existence, apply to everything that exist and create order and harmony in the universe. Insights into the operation of the universal laws reveals a whole new worldview. It helps us to understand how everything works in the universe, who we really are and how we can make conscious choices that are more in line with these universal laws. Above all it helps us to understand what works and what doesn’t work in the long term. Everything that operates in line with the universal laws, follows the path of least resistance and is in harmony with the greater whole. It makes us realize that while everything in the universe works in harmony with these principles, many aspects of our personal life and our Western culture are not in line with the operation of these underlying principles. If we choose to act in line with the operation of the universal laws, it will go easier, will be more in tune with who we really are and more in harmony with the greater whole. This choice is hard to make though, if we don’t know those principles. For that reason the rediscovery of the working of these principles seems to be of extreme importance. In this time of great changes and global unbalance a growing number of people begin to feel the need for a clear and well-founded insight into the universal laws, because this gives an understanding of what is needed to restore the balance and harmony in ourselves as well as worldwide. Because the nature of these principles is universal, they apply to all aspects of our individual and social life. Therefore they can be used as a frame of reference for all personal and social transformations which aim at a greater harmony within ourselves and with the greater whole.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780990422
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	05/16/2012
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Marja de Vries studied ecology, visited and learned from indigenous cultures, sees the big picture, patterns and interrelatedness and gives talks about universal laws and restoring personal and global balance.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Many truths and Universal Truth 6

Wisdom traditions and Western science 6

Inner knowing 11

Experiences of Oneness 13

The golden thread of Universal Truth 17

Chapter 2 What is the essence of Universal Truth? 20

Insight into the operation of the universe 20

The Kybalion as key to the universal laws 22

Sacred geometry 27

The universal principles as a frame of reference 29

Two entirely different ways of perception 33

Chapter 3 The first law - The Law of Oneness 38

The beginning of everything is Oneness 38

Any description of Oneness is inadequate 40

A field of information 40

Everything is connected with everything else 41

Everything is in essence Consciousness and Love 42

A field of potentiality 43

Western science and the Law of Oneness 44

The Zero Point Field that underlies everything 44

Everything is connected with everything else via quantum entanglement 46

The unified field is a field of consciousness 48

Contact with the field of possibilities 50

The primacy of consciousness 51

Chapter 4 The second law - The Law of Correspondence 54

"As above, so below; as below so above" 54

The different levels of reality 56

We human beings are also multidimensional 63

All changes in one level influence all other levels 64

Western science and the Law of Correspondence 65

David Bohm and the Theory of the Implicate Order 66

Our consciousness does not only exist inside our brain 69

The fractal principle that underlies the holographic universe 71

Consciousness and the different levels of reality 75

Our influence and our responsibility 85

Chapter 5 The third law - The Law of Vibration 88

Everything is energy 88

Creation myths 91

The Principle of Harmonic Resonance 93

We also have our own unique pattern of vibration 95

The Law of Power and/or the Law of Love 97

Western science arid the Law of Vibration 99

Everything is energy and Albert Einstein's famous E = mc² 100

The Path of Least Resistance and the Law of Least Action 102

The Principle of Harmonic Resonance within Western science 103

Everything can be recognized by a unique interference pattern 107

Our own unique vibrational frequencies and our awareness 111

Our emotions, our health and our heart as coordination center 117

Chapter 6 Laws derived from the Law of Vibration 123

The Law of Attraction: we attract what we send out 123

The Mirror Principle: that which we are not conscious of becomes visible 126

The Law of Attention: that which we focus our attention on will expand 129

The Law of Surrender: making space for the Path of Least Resistance 133

The Law of Power/the Law of Love and our soul purpose 134

The Law of Conscious Transformation of Energy 135

Western science and the laws derived from the Law of Vibration 138

The Law of Attraction and the psychology of interpersonal expectations 139

The Mirror Principle in psychology 143

The Law of Attention and the conscious use of our free will 144

The role of consciousness in healing 147

The relationship between consciousness and subtle energy 151

Scalar energy beyond space and time 154

Chapter 7 The fourth law - The Law of Polarity 157

Everything exists in relative duality 157

The creation myths tell about the origin of the first opposite 158

All pairs of opposites may be reconciled at a higher level 160

The Law of Divine Paradox: Absolute and relative truth 162

Conscious use of insight into the Law of Polarity 166

Western science and the Law of Polarity 167

The subatomic paradoxes 168

Everything turns out to be relative 169

What we perceive are relative differences 171

The Law of Divine Paradox: ontology and epistemology 172

Chapter 8 The fifth law - The Law of Rhythm 175

Everything is always changing 175

The rhythmic cycles on small and large scales 177

The cycles of involution and evolution 181

A spiral development process 183

Stories about four or five 'worlds' 185

Applying the Law of Rhythm in our favor 188

Western science and the Law of Rhythm 190

Cyclical changes in nature 191

Non-locality and the level of reality beyond space and time 193

The Chaos Theory 194

Chaos Theory and a spiral biological evolution 197

Chaos Theory and a spiral historic and cultural evolution 199

Spiral development and drastic changes about 5000 years ago 202

Chapter 9 The sixth law - The Law of Cause and Effect 207

Every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause 207

The non-visible world of cause and the visible world of effect 209

The Golden Rule 210

The Law of Cause and Effect and our responsibility 214

The phenomenon of synchronicity 216

The Law of Karma 218

Western science and the Law of Cause and Effect 221

The visible effects of the subtle dynamics of non-visible causes 222

Chaos Theory and strange attractors as non-visible, nonlinear causes 224

The improbability of chance 228

The completely new perspective based on epigenetics 230

Synchronicity as a multidimensional feedback system 233

The Law of Karma and the continuity of consciousness 236

Chapter 10 The seventh law - The Law of Dynamic Balance 242

Everything is composed out of two active dynamic principles 242

The basic pattern of expansion and contraction 245

The dynamic and harmonic balance between energy and form 249

The Golden Mean Spiral as the natural movement of energy 251

The very special properties of the Golden Ratio 253

When two opposing Golden Mean Spirals merge new life is created 264

The Golden Mean Spiral is the path along which creation takes place 268

The Golden Progression 270

The Golden Ratio as the essence of ourselves 272

Our striving for a dynamic balance in ourselves 276

Development is possible when the unbalance weights towards the feminine aspect 280

The Law of Action 285

Chapter 11 Western science and the Law of Dynamic Balance 287

Lonely pioneers who were far ahead of their time 287

The Law of Dynamic Balance and the Theory of Dissipative Structures 290

Criticality at the 'edge of chaos' 295

The dynamic morphology of plants 301

The fractal as universal principle for the relationship between energy and form 305

The Golden Ratio as underlying universal principle 309

The Golden Ratio as universal constant 317

We all have the masculine and feminine principle inside of us 320

A classical and a quantum way to process information 324

The intelligence of the heart 327

The hunger of the soul and our striving for a dynamic balance in ourselves 330

Epilogue 335

Endnotes 337

Bibliography 380

Index 392