FRACTAL CHAOS: the Philosophy of Freedom and Self DeterminationFRACTAL CHAOS

Crashes the Wall

between Science and Religion
As Above, So Below
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a
period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time,
having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

New discoveries in the science and mathmatics of Chaos research are

revolutionizing our world view. They reveal a hidden fractal order
underlying all seemingly chaotic events. The fractals are intricate and
beautiful. They repeat basic patterns, but with an infinity of
variations and forms. The world-view emerging from this scientific
research is new, and yet at the same time ancient. With a little
thought, and the help of this web, you can better understand the
significance of Chaos and Fractals. You can see how to use these
insights in your life to create a bridge between Science and
Spirituality.
It is possible to apply this new knowledge to better understand your
life, to live autonomously, based on freedom, and your own contact with
the Source of the Universe, the Infinite. The revolutionary new Fractal
mind-set discovered by scientists and mathmaticians can help you to see
the beauty and meaning that borders all chaos. These fractals are in
space, as shown by the graphics on these webs, and in time, as shown in
all life, including your own. We are born and die, we wake up and fall
asleep, the sun rises and sets, we breathe in and out. There are basic
patterns and structure to time and space that provide a unifying
coherence. As the mystic sages of long ago put it, "as above, so below."
This web will explain some of the science and math of Chaos. It will
also suggest how you can apply this new knowledge to fashion your own
philosophy of life. A philosophy that will help you to cope with and
understand disorder, to realize the underlying fractal structure behind
the near infinite, and often baffling variety of life experiences.

The Ultimate Paradigm Shift: an introduction to the meaning of the new

discoveries in the Science of Chaos. Provides a historical perspective.
The Story of Benoit B. Mandelbrot and the Geometry of Chaos: an
overview of the life story and key discoveries of the mathmatician who
started the Science of Chaos.
The Mathematics of Chaos: an introduction of the basic math behind
Chaos and the Mandelbrot set. Simple, yet accurate.
The Four Chaos Attractors: describes the four forces in the Universe
which bring order out of chaos.
Law and Disorder: A Lawyer's View of Chaos Theories: overview of the
new Science of Chaos, placing the Chaos laws in context with other laws
of Man and the Universe. Chapter 6 of R.C.L.'s book, Laws of Wisdom.
The Origin and Structure of the Universe - a Fractal Theory.
Adaptation of Chapter 7 "Laws of Evolution of Consciousness " from
R.C.L.'s book, Laws of Wisdom.
The Significance of Number and Geometry. Short summary of the ancient

Pythagorean insight of the spiritual significance of number.

The Dimensions : describes the five dmensions.
Zero Dimension
First Dimension
Second Dimension
Third Dimension
Fourth Dimension
Fractal Dimension "Consciousness Exercises":
Visualization of Dimensions
Meditation on the Hypercube
Thru Infinity To Unity: the Fractal Connectivity of Consciousness;
essay by School of Wisdom meditation teacher, Chip Weston
Mandelbrot zoom color animation : shows fractal recursiveness over
scales of magnitude.
A new kind of inner Fractal Music : information and free music
downloads of PrimaSounds.
The Ultimate Paradigm Shift
The rapidly accelerating discoveries of Chaos are overtaking our
worldview. They teach us that Newton, and indeed almost all of the
pre-chaos scientists, were dead wrong in their basic view of the Universe.
They thought that there was a predictable cause and effect for everything,
and that everything happened according to fixed physical laws. They
believed in certainties, not probabilities. Their fundamental image of the
Universe was a big clock. The presence of a divine being was only
necessary to make the clock and wind it up. After He created the Universe,
all God had to do was sit back and watch. The laws would operate in a
predictable causal fashion.
Old science actually used to think that if you only knew all of the
initial conditions, how the clock worked, you could predict what would
happen at any point in time. Science assumed that everything could be
known and eventually predicted. The Universe was ruled by a detailed
system of unchanging laws. Cosmos and causality reigned supreme. There was
no room for chaos and so it was conveniently swept under the rug. The
inevitable outcome of the ordered machine view was the complete winding
down of the clock, the end of time in complete entropy - the second law of
thermodynamics where everything tends to breakdown, to dissipate. This big
picture of science naturally spawned the "God is dead" philosophies,
nihilism, the life nausea of existentialism, behavioralism, communism and
the like. Now with the Chaos theories this paradigm is itself dead. A
whole new scientific view has been born, one much more in accord with an
organic view, the common law, and philosophies of hope and spirit.
The cosmic clock image of establishment science first began to crumble at
the turn of the century when physicists found that at the nuclear level
the causal laws of physics didn't hold true. The behavior of the atom and
individual electron could not be predicted. Still, even in the face of
incontrovertible evidence of quantum physics, old ideas die hard. The
static civil law mind set would not die easily. Even Einstein could not
believe that God would play dice with the Universe. He searched in vain
for a unified field theory that would explain away the chance and
unpredictability so obvious in the subatomic world. Science struggled to
maintain its centuries old view. The belief in a causal cosmos was now on

shaky ground because it lacked a subatomic foundation. Still it prevailed

because the rest of the world of physics seemed to follow linear, orderly
and predictable clock like processes. Besides no one had articulated a
different view to replace it. The subatomic world was considered an
insignificant anomaly, an exception that proved the rule.
Then along came the Science of Chaos in the last part of this century to
show that causality did not apply everywhere else as thought. In fact
close measurements revealed that the unpredictable appeared in what was
previously believed to be the most ordered and predictable of systems, the
swinging of a simple pendulum - the very heart of a clock. As James
Gleick's book Chaos shows the brave early explorers of Chaos found that
Science had been fooling itself for centuries by ignoring tiny deviations
in its data and experiments. If a number was slightly off what the causal
laws predicted, the pre-chaos scientists simply assumed there was an error
in measurement in order to uphold the sanctity of the law itself. In order
to preserve their pseudo-cosmos, scientists limited their investigation to
closed and artificial systems, avoiding the turbulence of open systems
like the plague.
Causality was the prime assumption behind all pre-chaos science and it
never occurred to anyone to question it. This conceptual bias created a
blind spot of enormous proportions. But the reality of open systems, the
Chaos lurking behind all order, would not be denied. The charade of
perfect order and fudged experimental data could not last forever. By the
nineteen seventies it began to crumble, the conceptual blinders were
falling from the eyes of more and more scientists. By the nineteen
eighties the fly in the ointment, the unpredictable results in what should
have been perfect predictability, could no longer be denied. The Science
of Chaos was born. Our understanding of the world will never be the same.
After nearly two decades now of work by Chaoticians made up of the leading
scientists and mathematicians in a wide variety of fields, the evidence is
overwhelming. The world is not a gigantic clock where everything happens
in an ordered and predictable manner. The real world is fundamentally
disordered, free. Chaos reigns over predictability. Simple, linear systems
which are causal and predictable are the exception in the Universe, not
the rule. Most of the Universe works in jumps, in a non-linear fashion
that can not be exactly predicted. It is infinitely complex. Freedom and
free will - the Strange Attractors - prevail over rules and determinacy.
Yet Chaos is no enemy and destroyer of Cosmos, for from out of Chaos a
higher order always appears, but this order comes spontaneously and
unpredictably. It is "self-organized." The creation of the Universe is an
ongoing process, not just a one time event at the beginning. All and
everything - and everyone - is part of this creative process. Over time
all systems - from molecules, to life, to galactic clusters - are
continually creating new organizations and patterns from out of
featurelessness and chaos. The world is not a Clock, it is a Game, a Game
of Chance and Choice. In the game random processes - chance and
serendipity - allow room for free will, individuality and unpredictable
creativity.
The Universe is governed by laws, but the laws are of a different kind
than previously thought. Like the common law system, the Laws of Wisdom
are inherently flexible. They are not written in stone, they are general.
They leave infinite room for creativity within certain general parameters.

A few fundamental principals exist to establish the parameters, but the

Law governs much more loosely than previously thought. The Laws are
subject to changes and modifications over time and depend upon the
particular facts. Like the common law, the Laws of Nature appear to have
flexibility; many things are decided on a case by case basis. Self
organization is the rule, not the exception. Everything is not
pre-determined by a rigid and complex system of detailed laws which
specify exactly how everything works. There is no detailed blueprint of
the universe, just a general set of Laws.
In the words of physicist Paul Davies in his book The Cosmic Blueprint
(1988):
There is no detailed blueprint, only a set of laws with an inbuilt
facility for making interesting things happen. The universe is free to
create itself as it goes along. The general pattern of development is
"predestined", but the details are not. Thus, the existence of intelligent
life at some stage is inevitable; it is, so to speak, written into the
laws of nature. But man as such is far from preordained.
The image of God playing dice with the Universe was threatening and
fearful to the old scientists, even the great ones like Einstein, who
incidently grew up in a civil law system. But that was only because they
did not understand the order lurking in Chaos, the great beauty inherent
in chance. For we now know that it is only through chance that new and
unpredictable relationships can be created, entities can self organize to
further evolution and create entirely new symmetries and coherence. With
the image of the machine clock gone, the insights of relativity can
finally be appreciated. Time is not mechanical, it depends on space. Time
is flexible, essentially unpredictable from moment to moment, but this
does not lead us hopelessly adrift. We can still navigate from the hidden
order which appears over time, the statistics from segments of time, from
iteration. The order implicit in Chaos is unpredictable on a case by case
basis, but still reliable and workable on the long run.
God's dice liberates us from the prison of determinism, the hopeless
tedium of the cosmic clock and the inevitable death of entropy. We have
instead an intelligent Universe, where ever new and evolving life forms
thrive on Chaos, where negentropy creates higher order from decaying
forms. The clock is not winding down as the second law of thermodynamics
had thought, it is ever being created anew. God is back in the picture,
not just as the creator of the machine who then left - the ghost in the
machine - but as the Strange Attractor, the origin of inexplicable and
unpredictable order from chance.
This is a new kind of order, a "fractal order," based on a relatively few
basic structural principals from which many transitory laws follow. The
Laws of Wisdom we must learn for the journey to self realization are
flexible, evolving. Like the common law, they are articulated afresh
moment by moment, case by case. The laws are stable, but they do not stand
still. Exactly how the basic principals will apply to form governing laws
all depends upon the circumstances, the consciousness involved, the
entities, the case.
The free will of the individual in connection with the infinite is now
primary. All is not determined, everyone has a chance to decide their own
fate. The philosophic implications of Chaos are positive and encouraging.
The Universe is not a clock, its a game. Enjoy it!

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