All posts on »The Order of Freedom« are provocations to some degree, but this one will go even further in this respect.

What if contemporary science proves beyond reasonable doubt the foundations of mysticism?

What if science is in no contradiction to myth and ancient rituals?

For reasons of brevity, I do not intend to elaborate on all arguments in favor of the above provocation, but only on the most substantial: memetics and complexity theory.

Esotericism and transcendence

For the same reason of brevity, I do not want to define esotericism and rely on excellent Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation by Henrik Bogdan. He identifies six principles of esotericism:

The idea of some transcendence that communicates to the everyday profane world unites all six principles of esotericism. This transcendence comes in different forms, from all kinds of Gods to the Universal mind, the Great Architect of all worlds, the Living nature itself, and so forth. Various communication tools are used for this purpose, from sacred books to oracles, totems, priests, shamans, etc. Traditional science closes all mentioned expressions of esotericism and myths in a department of the pre-scientific, underdeveloped stage of the human mind. Case closed.

Is it?

Science and transcendence

On the contrary. Science pushing its borders further and further opened the rational support for all mentioned expressions of esotericism in at least the following scientific achievements:

• Memetics
• Complexity theory
• Quantum theory
• Cosmology
• Neuroscience
• Nanotechnology
• Evolutionary theory

They all reflect what Albert Einstein describes as »spooky action at a distance.» While he referred to quantum entanglement only, all mentioned scientific paradigms rationally define something that evades reductionism. That “something” rejects the core of modern science, the notion of nature as a clockwork that could be reverse-engineered (a term of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett) to first material cause/es.

Memetics as transcendence

On top of all the mentioned scientific achievements lies memetics. It is a direct scientific representation of »The world of the God« as memetics explains culture as an expression of memes that are the final agents of culture. As much as human bodies were »constructed« for the sake of the sustainability of genes, human culture was » created « for the sake of the sustainability of memes. The answer to the most crucial question of evolution, cui bono, who benefits, is obvious and proven: genes using phenotypes of living creatures and memes using human brains.

As neuroscience also proves, »there is something that »talks to us« in such a manner that we cannot identify »that« as us. »That« was first identified as subconscious by Freud but later as an archetype by Jung. Memetics proved Jung to be correct. Should he have lived after 1976, when Richard Dawkins coined and defined memes for the first time, he would have renamed archetypes with memes and memetic fields (The memetic field is my newly developed concept that is crucial for memetics). Memes talk to us through myths, but then one should understand the myth as any story that is so strong that it is repeated over time. The story of Moses and the burning bush is as much a myth as that of Steve Jobs instructing his engineers to put the Apple logo inside the computer even though it is not visible to consumers.

Complexity as transcendence

Then, complexity theory has peaked (so far) in Nassim Nicholas Taleb. If anything was proven by the Black Swan theorem and later with Antifragile convexity, it was the impossibility of reductionism. But obviously, as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems were not really accepted despite proving them mathematically, Taleb is not taken seriously. If his ideas were accepted, such a great mind as Daniel Dennett would not stick to reductionism as he is, although he cites Taleb quite frequently. There is no room for both of them in the same place simultaneously, reductionism and complexity.

Thus, it is easy to understand Dennett’s and Dawkins’s blind spots. Their rejection of esotericism is axiomatic. They adjust all their theories to this axiom, and for that reason, they cannot fully elaborate on their otherwise relevant ontologies.

A Prophecy

A time is coming where both worlds are going to be reunited, transcendental and profane, as it was within ancient culture, but on higher, scientific level. Only then the integrity of a man, that is a cornerstone of individual freedoms and peace on earth are going to be reestablished. It is going to be called homonism.