CHAOSOPHY 2004: Future Science
http://futurescience.chaosmagic.com
"The Universe Is Obsolete: A Gallery of Multiverse Theories," on parallel universes
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/parauniverses.htm
"How the Brain Creates God: the Emerging Science of Neurotheology"
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/magick/createsgod.htm
"Fear and Loathing In the Temporal Lobes: Epilepsy and Spirituality" - [awaiting publication]
"Schumann's Resonances and Human Psychobiology" or SRI
http://nexusmagazine.com
Also linked from the popular Jeff Rense "Sightings" site under "Headlines" http://www.rense.com
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/SciNews.1003.pdf
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/schumann/schumann.htm (longer version)
"HAARP's Threat to the Voice of the Planet" or SRII
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/HAARP-Resonance.1004.pdf
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/schuclimate.htm (longer version)
"From Helix to Hologram" on DNA bioholograms
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/Helix%20to%20Hologram.pdf
"Quantum Bioholography"; (longer version of above)
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/bioholography_a.htm
http://www.geocities.com/iona_m/Chaosophy4/bioholography/bioholography.html
http://www.emergentmind.org/MillerWebbI3a.htm
"New Millennium Psi Research: ESP, Hypnosis and Remote Viewing"
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/psi.htm
"The Dodecahedral Universe and the Qabalistic Tree of Life" -
[awaiting publication before posting]
"Apocalypse Soon: Economic Collapse in 2006"-
[awaiting publication before posting]
"Parapsychology: I Married the Wizard of Oz"
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/parapsychology.html
The Modern Alchemist Excerpts
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/magick/tma/tma_toc.htm
http://themodernalchemist.chaosmagic.com
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CHAOSOPHY 2004
A Transdisciplinary Review of Nonlocal Mind
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The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm
A Transdisciplinary Revisioning of MindBody
Iona Miller, O.A.K., 8/2004
http://ionamiller.org
http://ionatopia.50megs.com
Unbound Consciousness
Synchronicity
Quantum Biophysics & Healing
Nonlocal Creativity
Discussion ~ Summary
“This feeling for the infinite can be attained only if we are bounded to the utmost. In knowing ourselves to be ultimately limited we possess also the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!” ~ C. G. Jung
"By applying Ockham's razor to the basic epistemological question 'What is reality?' the Buddhist idealists reach the conclusion that belief in an external reality is a 'superfluous hypothesis'" ~ Philip K Dick, in the introduction to "The Golden Man"
"There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do things that entangle you in the results of your efforts - the motive, the desire, the failure to achieve, the sense of frustration - all this holds you back. Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it."
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Unbound Consciousness: Beyond the Mind/Body Model
Alchemy, as the search for godhead in matter, argues that “there is one stone, one medicine to which nothing from outside is added, nor is it diminished, save that the superfluities are removed&rdquoas above, so below; as within, so without. Alchemists sought the Unus Mundus, the One World analogous to the modern search for a Grand Unified Theory in physics, or the Theory of Everything uniting all known forces.
The universe is infinite, and so is the mind, not in the individual personalistic sense, but in terms of consciousness. ‘Nous’ is an ancient word for what we now call nonlocal mind or consciousness. Many philosophers and modern physicists consider ‘consciousness’ as the fundamental basis of all that is.
The Greeks conceived of the mind as both limited and infinite, human and divine. The root of this notion comes from Hermetic and occult sciences, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The mind is not localized nor confined to the body but extends outside it. This notion lies at the root of sympathetic magic.
The Persians were even bolder in their view that the mind could escape the confines of the physical body and create effects in the outside world. Their physician Avicenna declared, “The imagination of man can act not only on his own body but even on others and very distant bodies. It can fascinate and modify them, make them ill, or restore them to health.”
These notions were superceded by later causal and mechanistic views that came to dominate Western science and medicine. The nonlocal mind paradigm suggests we can effectively operate with the realization that consciousness can free itself from the body and can act not only on our own bodies, but nonlocally on distant things, events, and people, even if they are unconscious of the intentionality. It also suggests a new emergent healing paradigm (Miller, 2003).
This nonlocal model is perhaps the basis of such phenomena as psychosomatics, remote healing, remote viewing, and dream initiations. Physicists use the term nonlocal to describe the distant interactions of subatomic particles such as electrons. We can experience nonlocal mind spontaneously, paradoxically, without losing our individuality. A creator can live in many universes instead of simply adhering to a prescribed worldview such as the outmoded causal paradigm or unscientific New Age beliefs.
It has been proven that human minds display similar interactions at a distance (Krippner, Mishlove, Radin, Dossey, May, Germine, Nelson, Motoyama, Sidorov, Swanson). These anomalies include therapeutic rapport, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, visions, prophetic dreams, breakthroughs, creativity, prayer, synchronicity, medical intuition, nonlocal diagnosis, spontaneous remission, and intent mediated or paradoxical healing. Nonlocal mind erupts spontaneously, surprising, even shocking us. The mind has ultradimensional qualities unlimited by physical constraints.
“Emergence” is the process by which order appears spontaneously within a system. It is essential to understanding functional consciousness, the mind/body, subjective experience, and the healing process. When many elements of a system mingle, they form patterns among themselves as they interact. Fundamental physics is about observable and verifiable anticipation of possible relatively evolving quantities and/or qualities, including complementary wave/particle descriptions. We have tremendous empirical evidences that quantum mechanics is part of such a physics.
When the mind lets go of its rational order, lets the old form die, and enters into unstructured chaos, the whole person emerges with a new form, embodied as a creative expression, an intuition, or as healing. Most often it is characterized by an element of novelty and surprise, since it apparently does not originate in what came before. Both healing and medical intuition are examples of emergence. It is a spontaneous solution to a problem.
The healing arts, from conventional medicine to alternative/complementary medicine (CAM), and from psychology to pastoral counseling are undergoing a shift from a mechanistic to a holistic paradigm. Science is actually an experimental philosophy whose highest value is empiricism, and conventional healing shares this philosophy. All new scientific theories require some unifying idea, and that idea is, by definition, metaphysical - essentially untestable.
Today’s heresies are tomorrow’s dogmas. In any metaphysical dispute, strong non-scientific arguments can propose new theories, which may become scientific. Speculative ideas have contributed heavily to the growth of knowledge.
Rather than discouraging exploration of fringe areas of knowledge, this awareness makes it mandatory we explore all possible modalities and anomalies without prejudice, no matter how unconventional. Even extraordinary subjects may be approached with rigorous protocols. Though subjectivity is unwelcome in science, we can study the subjective nature of experience (qualia) in various ways. The process of healing is one such subjective experience.
The alchemists, who were students of consciousness in matter, created an elixer of life, a “medicine of philosophers”, a cure-all or panacea. What the modern world yearns for is a “meta-syn,” or visionary synthesis rooted not in a mechanistic model but one using nature’s own forms of self-organization.
This model is based on the peculiar characteristics of nonlocality and probability of quantum physics, rather than classical Newtonian mechanics. Hopefully, the new model has the power to resonate with our whole being and propel us into a more effective healing paradigm. Emergent healing is actually a treatment philosophy, rooted in a worldview born from our current understanding of the nature of Reality.
Health is the natural outcome of a meaningful life, not just absence of symptoms. It means a comprehension of the complexities of life that is deeper than the conventional worldview of cause and effect. It proposes that consciousness is the foundation of reality. We do not exist independently from the universe, but the exact nature of that seamless connection is unknown.
Rooted in relativity, quantum, holographic and chaos theories, a nonlocal metaphysical context suggests such a paradigm shift from the purely causal healing model. The interactive field (psychodynamic field) present in healing situations can be amplified intentionally through therapeutic entrainment, or resonant feedback playing off the unified field (universal field).
THE DEMIURGIC FIELD:
Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation, and Creativity
By Iona Miller and Paul Wildman, Ph.D., 2004
Abstract: The pre-scientific philosophical (Platonic) and archetypal (Biblical; Vedic, gnostic, pagan, etc.) notion of a Demiurge (cosmic maker or shaper) or creator-god can be contemporized in terms of the deterministic, self-organizing dynamics of Chaos Theory. “In the beginning” was Chaos, the negentropic Source. The creative edge of chaos is implicated in the creation of the universe, as well as in human creativity and learning processes. We propose a universal theory of creativity emerging from chaos theory.
The most primordial aspect of creation, the Demiurgic Field (DUF) as continuous creation, underlies and continues to influence energic/material and psychic processes. The DUF is cosmic “zero,” the negentropic source of emergent order or ground state the source of physical manifestation and our psychophysical being. We can employ procedures to connect with this source of inspiration and renewal in a holistic manner. An organic, rather than mechanistic paradigm for shaping modern culture and creative living for a more sustainable lifestyle emerges.
Subtle fluctuations in this creative ground state (DUF) may be pumped up by the ‘butterfly effect’ into perceivable effects. The human neurosystem may be responsive to fluctuations at the level of a single quantum. Shaking the system a little can jolt a sub-optimal state, causing it to roll down to a deeper hollow in the energy landscape (chreode), representing a better solution. Demiurgic intentionality acts through the medium of nature much like our human creative intentionality works as artificer on or through a medium.
We suggest chaotic excitability is a universal sense organ. The linkage mechanism of DUF to archetype to human perception or response may be a combination of fractal chaos and quantum mechanical fluctuation, patterned by the metaphysical virtual field ‘intentionality’ through chaotic excitability. Adaptation is actually a holistic model of a consciousness-expanding process (DUF), involving the mutual interaction of self-reflection and self-correction (shaping) at the individual and collective levels of our existence. The same essential dynamics that gave rise to the birth of the universe and evolution govern human creativity and learning.
Keywords: Chaos theory, negentropy, creativity, typology, archetypes, values and ethics, Demiurgic Field, information theory, sustainable lifestyles, learning, holism, depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, paradigm shift, complexity, imagination, vacuum potential, zero-point energy, quantum foam, noetics, consciousness studies.
THE WHOLE SUM INFINITY
Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics
By Iona Miller, 8-2004
We all have a metaphysics - a worldview - whether we are aware of it or not. Science can and should contribute to that worldview of how things are and work, but should not monopolize it. We should locate scientific understanding within a wider view of knowledge that gives equally serious consideration to other metanarratives and forms of human insight and experience.
Perhaps we must learn to respect both domains to understand fully the world in which we live. We can conveniently call the scientific perspective “physics” and the stereoscopic view “metaphysics,” which goes beyond (“meta”) the purview of science alone. Both provide what we can call a “working” knowledge of reality for getting things done, whether they are an entirely accurate reflection of Reality, or not.
There is no unique way to go from physics to metaphysics. Although the reductionist scientific view does not determine the full nature of the existential field, it imposes certain requirements and restrictions on it. Both systems function as socially-structured language games. But even the most reliable map reveals virtually nothing about the detail of the terrain.
Both scientific and metaphysical theories or models must be beautiful: elegant, economical, and coherent, despite any application of their criteria. Metaphysics must explain the entire set of phenomena fundamental to human experience. This can be done, as in physics, from a top-down or bottom-up approach.
In science, top-down means from the cosmological to the subquantal level of observation. In metaphysics, we work from the biological/emotional/mental to transpersonal or archetypal levels of experience and expression. In physics, matter/energy is foundational, while metaphysics considers consciousness even more fundamental. Quantum or nonlocal mind models also reflect the later. We can examine a wide or narrow view of the nature of Reality and our own nature, both scope and detail.
Nature of Creativity; 9050 words
IMAGE STREAMING:
A Soulful Exploration of the Creative Mindfield
Part I: Imagination, Part II: Creativity
by Iona Miller, O.A.K., 3-2004
ionamiller.org and www.subcutaneous.org/Iona.html
Summary: The image stream or imaginal process is our primary experience and permeates and conditions all facets of human life. We tend to take the background noise of the constant imaginal flux of the stream of consciousness for granted. We rarely focus our conscious awareness on this imaginal wellspring, but sometimes it intrudes on consciousness during our gaps in awareness day dreaming, fantasies, reverie, lacunae, inspiration, discovery. This slipstream of emergent dynamic imagery is often the subject of psychotherapy and the source of creativity and visionary art. It is the voice of our Muse, our genius, if we but listen instinctively and respond to the initiatory call.
Exploration of the soul or mindfield is possible through imagination. The dynamic mindscape underlies our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Imagination is both a realm or domain of experience and a human faculty. Images come in from the outside through our senses, and are also produced autonomously from the unconscious as a perpetual multisensory narrative of experience, immediate though often metaphorical in nature. Meaningful signals or mental forms emerge from the amorphous background.
Creative genius can express a momentary fusion or sustained connection with the unconscious fount of creativity that is then expressed and manifested in some form, dynamic or concrete. Researchers are discovering the neurobiology of the creative process, including latent inhibition, sleep patterns, temperament, neuropeptides, limbic system and nondominant hemisphere function. Chaos theory shows how unpredictable forces such as creativity manifest in self-organization within constraint.
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PROFILING
PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES & TEMPERAMENTS:
Understanding the Differences in People
By Iona Miller, 2-2004
http://www.geocities.com/iona_m
“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” --Anais Nin
Introduction
Everyone is unique and displays a variety of characteristics and qualities. But within that range certain patterns emerge. Type-theory is like a tool or convenient shorthand for gaining insight on self and others to improve relations, especially with those we find difficult. You can’t really know another person unless you know yourself. Ultimately, we should remember typology is merely a model of reality, not reality itself. There are no pure types.
Once you learn to recognize styles of being, it becomes second nature, rather than a conscious process, and you respond in ways that create greater rapport automatically. This skill can be used in personal and business life, especially if you work closely with or serve people in the helping professions.
Maintaining integrity of the personality implies being true to one’s type as well as one’s cultural ethics. Our type conditions our psychology, as well as our spiritual beliefs, emotional values, and overt behavior. Our type acts as either a clarifying or distorting lens for perceiving and reacting to the environment. We most readily see the factors that correspond with our own peculiarities.
The value of a classification system lies in its application. Through it we gain an understanding of the drives, thought processes, desires, motivations, methods, and values of ourselves and others whose primary modes differ from our own. We can learn to make more effective choices and develop our strengths and personality potential as well as tolerance for different styles. When we can accept that we embody the habit patterns of a “type” we gain a more objective view of ourselves.
A holistic approach means developing all sides of ourselves. Most people are mixtures of types, and some dynamic balance is considered ideal. Then we have the option of using whatever mode, function or attitude is appropriate to the situation. Moving toward wholeness we experience a wider range of experiences as we integrate all potential facets of personality. It is a form of self-realization.
No one really wants his or her essence reduced to a category. It doesn’t sound attractive, at first view. Nevertheless, a form of typing is often the practice of spiritual teachers when taking on a new aspirant. We all want to be considered special, but the seer can correctly ascertain the inner function of an individual. It is more reliable and more fundamental than astrology.
This revelation and its acceptance prevents run-away inflation of the ego, its narcissism. It mirrors the observer Self’s impartial view of the ego personality, with its typical qualities. What spiritual teacher isn’t besieged by interminable intellectual questions, emotional and adjustment problems, and illusory perceptions, visions and beliefs, or impulsive and compulsive behavior of his followers? People constantly seek advice on all these points. Some of the specific directions for rebalancing our particular paths lie in our typology.
The human repertoire is actually fairly limited in scope. It is conditioned by psychophysical differences such as whether one is primarily visual, auditory or kinesthetic [see endnote], by our temperament and character, and by the constant interplay of archetypal dynamics in every facet of our lives, to name a few. There is an ongoing debate around the dominance of trait- or state-based patterns.
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EDGE ARTISTS AS ‘STRANGE ATTRACTORS’
A Source of Negentropy in Society
By Iona Miller, 3-2004
http://www.geocities.com/iona_m and http://www.subcutaneous.org/Iona.html
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. ~ I Ching
Although science and art are social phenomena, an innovation in either field occurs only when a single mind perceives in disorder a deep new unity. ~ J. Bronowski
The level of entropy is the degree of disorder in a given system.
This is the reverse of the degree of information that is present.
Hence negentropy is the build-up of information, increase of meaning.
~E.E.Rehmus
Introduction
Artists are the chaotic attractors of the social field. While conventional artists may enjoy great favor, the ‘strange attractors,’ including leading edge and extreme artists have a special role as catalysts in contemporary life. Artists have always drawn others beyond the limits of their ordinary awareness, confronting them with another reality, initiating them into a world of profound meaning without conventional boundaries.
The beginning of the history of modern man traces back to primordial art, such as that found in the Paleolithic caves of Lascaux. From the beginning, art spoke of magic, of the supernatural, of imagination the fantastic and disturbing. Always strong in content and aesthetic sophistication, it grew, hand in glove, with the emergence of technological skills.
The emergence of art was and continues to be an unparalleled innovation, confronting our psyches with a giant leap in human evolution whose transformative influence continues opening and exploring brave new worlds to this day. Art has been a driving force and living thread woven into the fabric of society since modern man emerged.
‘Homo Negentrop’
Originally, artists were shamans, healers, and magicians. Their art revealed the compelling dreamscape of primal man, his beliefs about himself, this world, life and death, and hope for an afterlife. We might poetically call them the first negentropic humans, Homo Negentrop. Some might argue ironically that artists are a ‘species’ of their own. Unarguably, they created order and meaning from the chaos of existential life.
Throughout history the insightful vision of artists expressing in symbolic form the ‘as-yet-unknown’ (Jung) has been at the cutting edge of social change. It preceded rational and intellectual social ordering. Artists intuitively extract the gold of their unique vision from creative chaos and manifest it for others to see. Their mediums vary from graphic and print modes, to performance art, ritual, body art, film, and even more arcane forms.
Chaos theory has its ‘strange attractors’ that never settle down into any normal rhythm. The strange attractor dances to the innovative beat of a different drummer. Artists, particularly edge artists, function much like these chaotic attractors whose boundaries are deterministic yet unpredictable. They draw from beyond the personality, from transpersonal resources, and the wellspring of the collective human unconscious.
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LUNCH: Beyond the Pale
A Review of “Memory and Madness”
By Iona Miller, December 2003
“The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”
-- C. G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW 12: 439
“The Hades within Dionysus says that there is an invisible meaning in sexual acts, a significance for the soul in the phallic parade, that all of our life force, including the polymorphic and pornographic desires of the psyche, refer to the underworld of images.”
--James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld, p. 45
Hades and Depth
The imagorrhea, or through-flow of images with a hint of unpalatability, in “Memory and Madness” evokes mythic impressions of a soul perpetually held in thrall unable to escape the Hell of sex, violence, madness, obsession, and addiction.
Myth doesn’t ground; it opens. Depth is a metaphor without a base. The depth of the simplest image is fathomless. In the soul’s labyrinth we can never go deep enough.
When we go deep, soul becomes involved. The same themes repeat endlessly rotating in a myriad of variations, in different octaves of outrage and screams. Plato said souls in Hades are incurable.
Yet, Lydia Lunch somehow embodies the ability to intentionally transgress the boundaries to go beyond the pale of convention. For this among other reasons, she is referred to as the “queen of the underground.”
Like the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone, Lydia moves at will between the conscious and the unconscious depths - a foot in both the world of the living and world of the dead. The fundamental image of the underworld is of a contained space with shrouded limits. The underworld is a psychological cosmos. The underground is a lifestyle and subculture undergird with and sustained by psychic imagery.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Artistic Vitality in Sexually Potent Art
Iona Miller, 4-2004
“New art is always shocking,
because you don’t know what you’re looking at. . .
It’s about boundaries being permeated and transgressed.
It makes people nervous when there aren’t any boundaries.”
~Lisa Phillips, Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
“...the number of perverts involved in the field of art is probably much
greater than the average for the population in general.... It can be supposed
... that the pervert inclines in some particular manner to the world of art.”
~Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Creativity and Perversion, 1985
“With male nudes in full display, pornography a common source material,
and explicit imagery the norm in galleries and museums,
sex in art has become fun, disturbing, raunchy - even cerebral.”
~Linda Yablonsky, Art News, January 2004
Nakedness and Vulnerability
Many art forms over the centuries have centered around celebrating the body - both male and female, animalistic and spiritualized, and imaginative forms in-between. Like undertows along the shore, deep currents of eroticism have always pervaded the creative edge of the cultural ocean of art. To remain vital, art must stay in contact with the erotic element, the ground of our very psychophysical being. To deny it, is to deny life and the vulnerability of our naked awareness.
Art gives form to the apparitions of our imaginations, and one of the most imaginative is the erotic form, expression of the erotic impulse, or raw libido. Both art and eroticism are forms of the epitome of human life, expressions of insight and deep feeling. Sexuality is one way of inducing ecstatic states that alter perception dramatically. It is simultaneously and paradoxically ordinary yet extraordinary. It embodies the very essence of dramatic tension, a finite act with infinite repercussions.
Art is the spearhead of human development, both collective and individual. It was the seminal force and vanguard of cultural advance in Egypt, Greece, Europe, Africa, and Asia; all these cultures produced some extraordinarily erotic art. While the vulgarization of art is considered a sure sign of ethnic decline (Langer), erotic or vulgar art itself appears in all eras heralding new perceptions of our erotic drive, our sexual self-images. Even if perceived as an affront, art values rather than devalues the sexual image.
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Adventures in Quantum Consciousness:
QUANTUM THEORIES OF RELATIONSHIP
Or,
‘What the %$$$#&^( )*~*@! Do We Know’ About Dating???
By Iona Miller, 6-04
http://www.geocities.com/iona_m
http://www.subcutaneous.org/Iona.html
iona_m@yahoo.com
Discoveries in physics cannot in themselves - so I believe - have the authority of forcing us to put an end to the habit of picturing the phyical world as a reality. ~Erwin Schroedinger
We must be lifeall the way down, all the way out, and the I only an indexinto life, an image of the self cast into an instant;I, the constant truth that controls our innermost loop. The massless I, dilating at dreamspeed, grows coextensive with more and more selves.
~ Greg Keith
Abstract: What the BLEEP do we know about dating? A quick look at the title above offers a clue: the percentages are important, as is cash, and lots of it. Likewise pounds often come into play, as does the occasional conjunction. Sometimes we mistake an ever-dangling carat for the real thing. But if we aren’t careful, it could lead to parent-heses. When we are starry-eyed it’s hard to assess where we are at. But we always know clearly if we are digging it, or not, and are generally willing to exclaim it loudly, either way. Hence, the question, “Would you like a little whine with that cheese?”
Keywords: resonance, vectors, orbits, force, gravity, polarity, potential, vibration, magnetism, chemistry, wavelength, hard bodies, quantum foam, uncertainty, charge, spin, symmetry, color, superpositions, black holes, irreversibility, fuzzy attributes, sensitivity, complexity, randomness, unpredictability, catastrophe, bifurcation, degrees of freedom, decision theory, the hard problem, the strong and the weak, grand unification, infinities.
