How Ghosts May Help Integral Theorists

In an era of greater possibilities for self-education, self-publishing, widespread communication and electronic instruments widely available to laymen, significant research leading to momentous discoveries about the nature of Man’s energy bodies, his post-mortem persistence and inter-realm dynamics is –for the most part- being privately advanced. We can say much the same in relation to the reality of some genuine cases of UFOs from other worlds and dimensions and also in relation to other areas of potentially life-transforming discoveries that (due to prejudice, financing and social status concerns) regular, institution-dependent scientists typically prefer to unjustifiably dismiss or turn a blind eye.

In spite of its incompleteness and mistaken generalizations on ideas such as “evolution,” Ken Wilber’s “Integral Theory”1 remains a highly important and comprehensive theoretical advance in many other respects. The “Quadrants” defining the basic structure of the model and at least four other elements located within them would purportedly suffice to describe any phenomenon. Nevertheless, theorists developing this model have lacked boldness in with reference to certain almost archetypal human mysteries and scientific anomalies that have been traditionally avoided by academicians but which remain of crucial relevance. No alleged “theory of everything” should turn a blind eye on them. In fact, I suspect that Integral Theory’s current general lack of predicting power has much to do with its disconnection from this mysteries and anomalies whose elucidation would require a clearer understanding of how customary physical matter may interact with subtler realms. What follows is an exploration that might lead to an enrichment of Integral Theory with the aim of eventually allow it, not only to represent physical, subtle and causal exteriors as simultaneously arising in their own terms but, especially, in causal and interactive relation with each other.

I must say that Integral Theorists in general would benefit from learning about the increasingly robust evidence for inter-realm phenomena, an evidence that has been steadily accumulating in the Modern Era at least since the Society for Psychical Research investigated materializing, ectoplasmic mediumnistic phenomena more than one hundred years ago in London. Now, the evidence is mounting from different research angles ranging from government-supported atomic physics labs to some well established universities (like Stanford University and the University of Arizona), private institutes (like the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Windbridge Institute) delving into parapsychological research and the many “ghost hunting,” semi-formal research teams either privately run or sponsored by educational mass media companies like The Biography Channel and The Discovery Channel.

How come integral theorists that purport to embrace or to vie for an “all-encompassing” model are not more deeply involved in “enacting” a more inclusive model that will match these objective discoveries about the multidimensional nature of physical reality? They seem to be attracted to the psychology, spirituality and the inclusivity backed up by an academic setting but they don’t seem to be so attracted to the science and philosophy needed to improve the model.  Nevertheless, I think that the theory transcends these interests and applications. I think that integral theorists shouldn’t primarily cater (in their deeply felt search to participate in a paradigmatically new and more inclusive inclusive view) to the sentimental call for a non dual, mystical perspective, or to the need to be socially effective and recognized under the rigorous (but often masked reductionist-materialist) demands of modernity. These inspired inclusivity seekers shouldn’t be looking down so closely behind the footsteps left by the postmodern intellectual biases and sentiments of the elites controlling academic establishments. They should certainly learn and apply the original wisdoms and methods of intellectual leaders centered in different cultural paradigms but they should not shy away from the promise to stand out differently and creatively by using reason, new research methods, inspiration, intuition and good sense to coalesce a genuinely transformative model to make sense of meaningful discoveries transcending the experience and/or concept that a single material realm is all there is or is the only valid subject of inquiry for respectable scientists..

By understanding inter-realm phenomena, science would advance, but also Man would know with greater pragmatic certainty that his role in the Kosmos indeed transcends and includes materiality. In a way, science and philosophy would become synonymous again. This would be life-transforming and, if Integral Theory grew along with these understanding, it would become a more globally cohesive force than what it is today. I believe that making sense of inter-realm phenomena is a pending integral compromise with humanity and that it shouldn’t be just left in the hands of practitioners of more exclusivist theories. By way of recognizing the reality of inter-realm phenomena integral theorists would also probably seek to generate a freshly applicable, inspiring and renewed metaphysical perspective, a sound model capable of providing predictive guidelines to the emerging scientific “interdimensional discoveries.” These discoveries would gradually require the recognition that other realms of existence (commonly simplified a “dimensions”) significantly affect our everyday world, all the way from how gravity, time and space operate to the nature of information in cosmological development or to how consciousness might retroactively affect matter and even interact with all kinds of factual “spiritual influences.” Moreover, along with the possible existence of other universes and of higher (sometimes extended) “dimensions” in the hypothetical existence of a “Multiverse” (allowed as a plausible interpretation by quantum theory), science is gradually making room to the importance of the necessary existence of “other realms” that, after all, are (at least nominally) mentioned in Integral Theory, in spite of its fairly recent “post metaphysical” (some would say “anti metaphysical”), “post-Kantian” leanings.

It is time to gain a more balanced knowledge of what can be enacted or what can be possible in the grand scheme of existence, a matter-of-fact knowledge clear of the rule of a conflict-ridden life led by biological and spiritually limiting material interests. It is time to dig out of the ‘sands of forgetfulness’ breakthroughs that could lead to a wiser participatory understanding in the Kosmos, breakthroughs were culturally suppressed by the exclusivist attitudes of influential leaders across human history. I think that one of the promises in the emergence of a genuine integral attitude is to rekindle the pending work of discovery connecting human nature and destiny to inter-realm phenomena. 

Rationally unavoidable evidence that discarnate entities exist and that they indeed interact with “our” known or regularly experienced “standard” physical substance is accumulating. This is taking place as independent researchers (at least in this respect more integrally “embracing” of some crucial aspects of reality than some Integral Theory-informed practitioners) take upon themselves the task of using electronic instruments to detect the existence of entities apparently inhabiting an alternate (but sufficiently close and interactive) realm. It would behoove serious integral theorists and other advanced thinkers to update themselves on what is really going on in order, not only to advance this theory but to augment their genuine and caring non dual embrace on all aspect of the Kosmos.

Now, supposing that “ghosts” (defined as individual, discarnate, intelligent human consciousnesses trapped, attached or unwilling to leave the immediacy of an astral region closely related to a particular physical, material environment) do exist as it has been historically acknowledged for millennia; supposing that some temporary (and seemingly rather fragile) forms of physical interactions are often detected by today’s “ghost hunters” and/or by “survival researchers” (for instance those exploring the Electronic Voice Phenomena through magnetic tape or digital recorders, or those obtaining indirect evidence through electric and magnetic field sensors, infrared photo and video cameras and, also, laser thermometers), what would the mechanism for such objective interaction be? Why would air temperature drop alongside with an electric field detection and a recorded intelligently-responding voice originating from no physically recognizable source? Wouldn’t learning about the peculiar mechanism behind these phenomena give us greater understanding on the physics and natural laws that concern us all? Well, I and many other open-minded, honest persons with a scientific, spiritual and philosophical interest at heart think that learning about this mechanism definitely would, especially if we expanded our understanding of the range of physical interaction onto other realms of existence! Should we simply wait to become discarnate or should we “take the bull by the horns” and start researching more about these fundamental issues about life right now? I definitely think that (whether being a student and practitioner of Ken Wilber’s “Integral Theory” or not) it is high time for human beings in general to become more aware and “integral” about all possible metaphysical-scientific interconnections and to look in earnest at these matters before the knowledge and applications this inter-realm future might bring arrives forcefully regulated by a new series of vested interests and institutional controls. 

As I see it, Integral Theory has so far mostly referred to simultaneously appearing aspects of reality. While this is a good thing for collectivizing a respectful understanding that our reality-disclosing methods and preferences are partial but equally valuable and to be complemented by those we don’t explore, the theory has done a poor job in showing how the different aspects under its consideration interact. In other words, the theory’s internal coherence in terms of the causal efficacy of its elements is not clear. This may be why the theory is not very good at making useful predictions in relation to science. Moreover, it may well be that an emphasis on developmental concerns in addition to a (nonetheless valid) non dual vision (that says that all aspects are included by and arise under a transcendental unity) has restricted or been inimical to any interest on how realms of existence may also mutually influence each other. Thus, in many ways, the concept of INTERACTION as an important aspect of how things arise and as how Being itself manifests in a multi-leveled, interpenetrating Kosmos, is lacking. A non dual cosmological embrace via feeling is valid but may have also hindered the rise of a non dual cosmological embrace via understanding. Recognizing that both forms of “embrace” complement each other is a clearer path towards an Integral, non dual theory. Recognizing how realms might interact could give Integral Theory a predictive power and reinstate it as a serious and actualized metaphysical theory.

Considering the broad spectrum of research that has accumulated on the “paranormal” over the years, evidence that discarnate entities are indeed able to (albeit perhaps mostly weakly and irregularly) influence ordinary physical matter becomes quite obvious. We need to know what could conceivably be part of the general mechanism behind this interaction. Well, I think that we might first consider a plausible physics behind it by starting with a fundamental idea like “entropy.”

What are the entropy relations between a plausible discarnate “astral” entity (in fact existing as an actual entity in his own state of reality) and the “regular” physical world? In the “usual” physical world with which most of our biological senses connect, the increase of entropy (the tendency to an increase in useless energy states along with less usable information and order) prevails at the macro level in closed systems. We must also mention that esoteric-inclined metaphysicians have for a long time spoken of an “energy blueprint” and, more recently, Emeritus material scientist-physicist William A. Tiller has basically suggested that there might be an intermediate, negentropic substance situated between the entropy-increasing space of the normal, physical realm and the so-called “astral” realm long considered to be the one that provides the substance available to a discarnate spirit body. In other words, we aren’t just speaking about a conceptual difficulty in scientifically relating spirit and matter (as in a logically incompatible Cartesian “Res Extensa vs. Res Cogitans dualism or in a “spirit vs. matter” impossibly interacting dualism). Instead, we are referring to spirits possessing standard physical matter and spirits possessing other forms of substance interacting through their own physical characteristics and through an intermediate substance. In this view, the need to take into consideration the degrees of substance or of objective exteriority displayed by entities in diverse realms seems to be indispensable to understand their causal interactions and to provide scientific explanations on what had previously been relegated to more or less credible kinds of speculative metaphysics or to a philosophical conundrum leading to (partially valid) alternative responses such as “psychophysical parallelism,” “neutral monism,” “extreme idealism” and “emergentism.”

So, what happens when a “ghost” or, rather, a “discarnate” is physically felt in a “haunted” (a frequented or visited) environment and, perhaps, all of a sudden, there’s an actual chill? Frequently, when the air temperature suddenly drops without a colder air draft rushing in (or without any other prosaically explainable cause) some “ghost hunters” and/or “survival researchers” suspect that a discarnate entity may be “drawing energy out” of the regular physical environment in order to manifest or to create detectable physical effects. If this were so, what might it mean in terms of entropy relations across realms? How would such an “anomalous” decrease in entropy (as temperature drops) be accompanied by a corresponding energy transfer “somewhere” else? I think that in these circumstances, the amount of molecular disorder in the cooling air decreases, that cold air molecules become less chaotic and more organized while acquiring less potential degrees of freedom. Perhaps, thermodynamic free energy or, rather, a more potentially useful previous energy condition concealed amidst a greater state of chaos (or a lack of order and useful information) is transferred for practical use into the conjectured, adjacent, but partially interactive “astral” realm. I think that part of the mechanism for this transfer rests in a complementary negentropic physical substance sometimes referred by some esotericists (and physicists) as the “etheric substance.”

As already mentioned, the “etheric” would be a negentropic (anti-entropy) substance and, according to Professor Tiller (who proposes that it exists in a frequency-based domain he calls “Reciprocal Space” or, simply, “R-Space”) it may complement regular or “direct” physical space and substance1. This substance would coincide with what some occultists call the “etheric body” and with Vedanta’s “Pranamaya Kosha” which in some interpretations can be considered as part of the Gross physical “Sthula Sharira” or Body (and its corresponding “Loka” or Realm) and in some others as part of the Subtle Suskshma Sharira Body (and its corresponding “Loka” or Realm). Nevertheless, it may also act as a link between the Gross and the Subtle Realms and –in that sense- also as part of the Subtle Realm which itself allegedly displays the two “koshas” (or “sheaths”) of the Lower Mind (the Manamaya Kosha,corresponding in theosophical Western occultism to the “Astral World”) and Deep Intelligence (Vijnanamaya Kosha, corresponding in theosophical Western Occultism to the “Mental World”).

In other words, sometimes this intermediate “kosha” is related to the Gross or Physical-centered Realm (the Sthula Sharira) and sometimes to the Subtle Mind-centered Realm (the Sukshma Sharira). In my proposal, this substance would be key to the interaction between the “Astral” environment of discarnate entities remaining as ghosts and the regular physical realm by temporarily storing and releasing functional physical energy, the thermodynamic potential energy sequestered in association –as per our example- to the form of molecularly more chaotic, (outwardly) entropic, and (temperature-wise) warmer air temperature. The etheric substance’s actual negentropic physical energy structure (actual in its own level and state) might operate as a temporary storage device, borrowing the potentially useful thermodynamic entropic energy from the ordinary physical world and then conveying it for causally effective, actual use to the discarnate entity’s astral substance. In this process we must differentiate between the energy exchanges primordially based on entropy principles from how these exchanges might specifically proceed in relation to the manifestation of accompanying particles. Unique particles (like magnetic monopoles) manifesting in the etheric, R-space substance and also obeying these more fundamental interacting principles might be involved.

If the discarnate entity has at its disposal an astral vehicle made with a substance that (also according to Professor Tiller) might use intention-responding “deltrons” or particles capable of acting both in “D-Space” at sub luminal and in “R-Space” at super luminal speeds) there might be a way for the astral entity to combine both complementary spaces. Also (according to the late Nobel laureate neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles), the discarnate entity might use mental particles which he called “psychons.” These would be capable of modifying the discharge probabilities of particles existing as quantum states in the brain, by an effort of will or by an emotionally charged intention physically located in the future. Here also the astral-bound entity might be capable of connecting the energies from normal physical space and substance with the energies of its complementary etheric, R-space and substance (the negentropic substance). In that case, the entity (even without knowing how the process works) might also be able to “coat” its astral vehicle or substance with a mixture of entropic and negentropic physical energies temporarily capable of interacting with regular physical matter under his direction. Chaotic or less determined regular physical objects or energies might be able to be affected or moved and (through a “scalar” or etheric substance-related, complementary aspect of electromagnetism considered in Maxwell’s original equations and revealed by physicist Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden)3, spirit voices and anomalous field detections might also come through.

Professor Tiller suggests that magnetic monopoles might occupy “R-Space” and be superluminally connected.4 About this issue I wonder how this kind of wholistic superluminal connection might affect the specific quanta of energy allowed in our particular and regular “D-space” and -in relation to these quanta- behave as wholes would to parts. Perhaps, from the perspective of our specific, actual and entropy-connected, causally linked physical reality, the quantum states of unobserved particles could be simply understood as mathematical probabilities allowed in relation to these specific quanta. Nevertheless, in relation to all possibilities, (and taking Schrodinger’s evolving wave function as describing physically real things), the actual rather than the potential (or probabilistic) existence of other universes would have to be considered. Thus, in some ways, both the Copenhagen-probabilistic and the Many Worlds-realistic interpretations of Quantum Theory could be valid if understood from perspective-complementary ways. Moreover, the relation seen in the etheric R-space and substance representing the higher physical-wholistic connection mediating between specific ordinary physical D-space and substance and its associated higher (in this case “astral”) realm might be a pattern that repeats itself across the Chain of Being of interconnected realms. Something similar to the etheric R-space would exist between the Subtle astral and a significantly distinct higher realm. I think that issues like these would be of considerable interest to expand the scope of Integral Theory and the function of holons.  

Now, as stated by many alleged astral travelers (like William Buhlman, author of How to Have an Out Body Experience), a key characteristic of the astral substance is that it responds to intention much more readily than regular physical substance. Whatever the other characteristics of a higher astral “dimension” are (besides being often mathematically related to spatial concepts), they would also be associated with an increase in “initia” as opposed to “inertia.” Externally perceived things or objects would intrinsically respond more as in agreement with interiorities. Thus, greater degrees of freedom associated with an ontologically higher realm wouldn’t only be related to the possibility of more geometrical rotations as when we use spatial examples. Simply speaking, the word “dimension” when referring to defining aspects of higher or more inclusive realms would have to be replaced or improved. Furthermore, using Integral Theory related concepts, I would say that the intensity of manifestation of Interior quadratic aspects would be greater than what is normally found in the “Gross” or physical realm. Furthermore, each subsequent higher realm beyond that of the ghostly discarnate’s would theoretically exhibit progressively greater intensities of Interiority and lesser intensities of Exteriority. Getting closer to the Spiritual Pole of the Source of kosmic manifestation (as understood within duality) would show that only Interiority increases and that is ontologically more actual and closer to non dual Reality.

Anyhow (returning to our attempt to reveal part of the “mechanism”), an astral entity (ultimately, an individual locus of consciousness possessing will) would be able to use (via his astral substance) his superluminal and subluminal active “deltrons” which, responding to his intentions, could cause modifications in the hypothesized intermediate, negentropic, R-space, etheric substance not only by acting as a whole from the next higher (realm) level would on a (lower realm) part but by increasing its connection (or as Professor Tiller might say, its “gauge symmetry”) with ordinary physical substance5.

In relation to this discussion, we must understand that the aforementioned understanding of the “etheric” may not precisely correspond to the mostly discarded XIX Century search for a “luminiferous ether.” Nowadays we would probably need to include concepts referred to in previous paragraphs but also other scientifically related findings and concepts such as de Broglie’s“Pilot Waves,”and physically determining and, perhaps, modifiable “vacuum energy.” Furthermore, we would need to ideas and findings such as super symmetric “sparticles,” “hidden (determinist) variables” connected with a physically effective “quantum potential,” holographically infolded “implicate orders,” muon neutrinos seemingly traveling faster than light by tunneling through a fourth spatial dimension, an 11-dimensional “bulk” containing “branes” (membranes) that constitute particular universes, a plausible anthropic or biological mechanism leading to the selection of “false vacua” capable of generating life-friendly universes. We would need to think about partly experimentally verified “subtle retrocausal effects” and “advanced wave influences” allowed by certain solutions to quantum theory already boldly explored by ace physicists like John C. Cramer, Yakir Aharonov, David Bohm, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, John Wheeler and Seth Lloyd. A well presented and quite readable exposé of the last two concepts is found in the works of Dr. Antonella Vannini and in her study of the concept of “Syntropy” (Vannini, 2009). To these ideas, I would also add Russian research on “torsion fields” that physicist Claude Swanson (Swanson, 2010) mentions connects with subtle energies.

What all of the previous ideas and findings would indicate is that the sensorially- supported “classical” concepts of “locality” and “reality” need serious re-visioning. Like quantum physics, “paranormal” inter-realm research also challenges classic concepts of “locality” and “reality” although following more accessible methods. Would it be necessary to generate extreme high energies as inside powerful particle accelerators in order to explore how the Subtle Realm might interact with Gross Physical Matter? It seems to me that, while both ways in this convergent discovery point to the existence and influence of “other realms.”

I suspect that institutional physics uses methods that connect particles with deeper levels of nature associated with highly coalesced, more stable, (or as Wilber would say, “Outside-Exterior”) quadratically situated energies and patterns. Conversely, “paranormal” research uses methods that connect more with less determined, but also deeper information-sensitive levels of nature that respond more to ontological principles. In my view, both of these approaches are complementary and both can relate with objective, scientific research, but the latter is more fundamental, even to generate the previously referred to coalesced, stable, “outside-exterior” aspects of nature.

The institutional (unassumingly inter-realm) “high energy” physics approach is a “hard” approach and requires intense exterior energies to find coalesced particles situated in related lower and higher levels of symmetry. Even the (mathematically described) relations between these particles may also be well established or coalesced as representing stable, Outside-Exterior aspects. The need for high energies (in order to discover stable higher symmetrical and higher dimensional correlates) reinforces the sense of reality that Exterior quadrant-focused physicists seem to require. On the other hand, the “paranormal” inter-realm (inter-realm welcoming) “soft” approach doesn’t seem to depend so much on generating high energies because –while also dealing with some partially coalesced Exterior aspects- it relates more with the non-coalesced possibilities aspects of nature that respond more readily to inter-realm relational principles. The objective aspects of paranormal research perhaps relate more with Wilber’s “Inside-Exterior” quadratic aspects.

*As a corollary I will say that the “soft” approach may be more sympathetic with the elucidation of metaphysical principles that could provide us with an even more complex or enhanced idea pertaining to the number of possible worlds or “lokas.” I mean that there also seems be many gradations of primarily Physical (or Gross-centered), primarily Subtle (or Subtle-centered) and primarily Causal (or Causal-centered) worlds generated from combinations of these three main ontological levels, themselves stemming from a trinity of essential principles. Moreover, I will say that downward causation as well as upward causation may be involved in the interaction between these realms as part of the process referred by Wilber when he wrote that “complexification of Gross form is the vehicle of manifestation for both subtler energies and greater consciousness” (Wilber, 2006, p.228).    

Now, returning to the main discussion, the astral vehicle (under the influence of the discarnate’s intention) may draw “etheric,” R-space physical negentropy onto itself, the useful excess potential energy of regular physical substance might be temporarily “borrowed” or extracted and a volume of standard physical space may become open to an astral influence capable of returning the energy debt by creating a detectable physical effect. The negentropic, etheric, negentropic, R-space substance might temporarily convert and store the potentially useful energy extracted from a higher entropy state into a physical form the discarnate can use. The significant, “anomalous” temperature drop previously referred to may be associated with this exchange-generated “opening” and entropy decrease as -all of a sudden- there’s a loss of potentially useful energy in a region of space. Interestingly, when “ghost hunters” and/or survival researchers feel that a discarnate being went through them, they often report a strange and usually debilitating “chill” inside their own bodies. It is as if the ghostly entity had also extracted part of the researcher’s negentropic vital energy.

Once again, in order to provide to the discarnate’s astral substance with a form of energy that can be informationally useful, physically organizing and objectively effective in the ordinary physical world, a corresponding loss of potentially useful energy previously stored in that world’s ordinary physical substance (as evidenced in the higher temperature and chaotic entropy of the air before the interaction) seems to be necessary. The entity’s higher degree of information organization in relation to his astral substance probably actualizes the potentially useful physical energy for use by connecting it with its own realm level.  

Associated with a loss of actual entropy in regular physical substance, there’s a loss of potentially useful physical energy (useful to produce work at the moment of being returned when the discarnate entity performs an objective manifestation). This potentially useful physical energy becomes actually useful or effective in relation to the astral entity’s substance when the realm-intermediate negentropic, “etheric” (but complementary physical) substance has actualized (in its negentropic, complementary energetic structure) the transferred and potentially useful energies of regular physical substance. If Professor Tiller is correct, the astral entity’s intention-responding “deltrons” would be able to combine regular D-space physical substance-energies with their complementary R-space, etheric substance-energies by propitiating a higher symmetry state6. A higher symmetry could be coordinated from the astral state or level of higher order or smaller entropy. Incarnate entities (like us in the regular physical world) would also be able to do the same with a focused intention and using our astral body related “deltrons” but, perhaps, discarnate astral entities start with the advantage that their main realm is already quite responsive to intention and somewhat more capable of connecting with the R-space, negentropic, etheric substance they might relate with as if it were part of their more inclusive level. For the discarnate astral entity this might be an acquisition of information-useful, regular, D-space physical energies incorporated to an etheric substance he can interact with, thus forming a combined substance now more connected with his astral body; something like an amalgam situated in-between the astral, the etheric and the regular physical. We could say that this astrally-combined etheric and regular physical substance would be akin to the “ectoplasm” produced by genuine materialization mediums.

Another way of explaining this is to suggest that regular, information-useful physical energies are transferred to the ghost’s astral vehicle via this vehicle’s capacity to combine intermediate, negentropic, “etheric” energies with regular physical energies. Entropy decreases in the regular physical world but its potential negentropy is transferred because the potentially useful energy which the discarnate may use has been transferred. This creates an entropy-debt in a region of regular physical space, a region where the discarnate may manifest at will as it “discharges” “returns” or “repays” the borrowed energy at the detection and experience-based moment associated with a regular physical effect. Moreover, I think that this detection and experience-based moment is an actualizing moment akin to when a quantum mechanical observation turns (what from an actual physical perspective seem like) probabilities into actualities. The concept of repaying borrowed energy might relate with the quantum physical understanding that macro-scale quantum effects would be possible if energy were borrowed from and later re-paid to the vacuum. Moreover, the very existence of this vacuum of enormous potential energy that can be temporarily actualized in order to create physical effects is related to entropy in the form of an inherent indeterminacy of information always latent behind what we call “objective” phenomena.

I must add that, according to mediumnistic experience, the discarnate astral entity may also obtain potentially useful physical energy by means of the living, negentropic etheric structures of human biological bodies that might serve as means to transfer and store potentially useful physical energy from our bodies rather and from the potential energy aspects of the physical environment. If so, individuals may experience temporary exhaustion, depletion or fatigue. 

When the discarnate employs the “borrowed” useful energies by producing physical effects in regular physical reality, he or she immediately loses these energies and debilitates, needing to replenish them in order to manifest once again. So called “open doorways” or “portals” into “other dimensions” may be more or less stable processes that continuously facilitate the replenishment of useful physical energies to astral and (perhaps in some other cases) to entities from other realms including other physical with different degrees of combined and interacting physical-subtle substance characteristics.

Ordinary matter seems to acquire new characteristics when functioning in greater rapport with other realms. When R-space becomes more connected with D-space (when ordinary matter becomes more related with its “etheric” counterpart), the whole physical system not only responds to a higher symmetry but (according to experiments conducted by Professor Tiller and others), can be programmed by a focused mental intention so that particular physical processes taking place within the modified, compounded physical space can be customized. Tiller uses a simple electronic device called “Intention Imprinting Device” through which he appears to have potentiated these changes in which it seems that a physical environment has become more responsive to mental intention transmitted through what could be astral intention- carrying particles.

UFO’s that may be genuine extraterrestrial/interdimensional vehicles seem to challenge Newton’s laws of motion. For example, they appear to hover without an exhaust or propeller creating action and reaction. They also seem to be oblivious to high speed sharp turns that according to our understanding of “inertia” would smash alleged occupants against the interior walls. Even while visible, the state of matter the UFO is in seems to be (at least partially) free from classic laws. They seem to be actuating forces of levity or to acquire characteristics that do not correspond to ordinary physical matter. We could say that poltergeist, psychokinetic and some genuine ghost phenomena also demonstrate similar effects. In all of these cases it would seem that the stable, “Outside-Exterior” aspects of physical matter, the aspects associated with D-space, the coarser parts of the “Sthula Sharira” acquire subtler, mentally-responding qualities though which that which is less physical and non physical can manifest. 

What happens when the lowest physical space increases its symmetry with the ether and –by extension- becomes more available to higher realms? The possibilities for the timeline open up as the probable future causes become more available in connection with past causes. Determinism and macro scale entropy decreases. The influence of the future (also appearing as negentropy) becomes stronger as specific future and past events (formerly connected through a more entropic, rigid or structured timeline) become less rigidly connected and probable future and past events more connected. Subtle future influences mentioned in John Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory and in Yakir Aharonov’s) interpretations become more causal as the future and the past (along with the subtler and the coarser realms) interpenetrate more externally and effectively with the higher symmetry. Tiller’s “D-space (associated with part-like, subluminal, retarded wave connections) and “R-space” (associated with whole-like superluminal, advanced wave connections)” become more exteriorly interpenetrated (that is more interpenetrated in their exterior quadratic aspects) and all matter related with the combined state can be causally modified by the new higher symmetry that exteriorizes (or actualizes) greater possibilities.

When the exteriors of higher realms (also considering the etheric as complementary to the lower physical but also as a “higher” realm more connected with the Astral) interpenetrate more with the exteriors of lower realms, the causal role Interiority can play in the lower realms increases. In other words, space (where Exteriority and objects manifest) becomes more mind-responsive. Also time’s future and past become less rigidly closed to specific events and the future becomes more available. Moreover, since higher realms with their overall inclusivity of lower realms may provide to lower realms a downward causation linked to future possibilities, we could say that (ontologically-speaking) they are in the future. That said, the capacity to enact or actualize (through conscious interaction) a future possibility may also be greater when the symmetry and degree of interpenetrating exteriors is higher among higher and lower realms.    

I have presented arguments in favor of expanding Integral Theory as a model that might be useful to explain continuing discoveries about otherworldly realities which physical science (in parallel with unorthodox research on the “paranormal”) is making. I presented a plausible direction that would connect the theory with forthcoming coalescing investigations in enhanced science and metaphysics and I did this primarily by exploring the concept of “entropy” which seems particularly applicable to the impending integral understanding of inter-realm dynamics.

Knowledge of inter-realm dynamics would allow a greater appreciation of the Outside-Exterior aspects of the Physical Realm we mostly experience. It would also allow a greater appreciation and the possibility of a wiser, more fulfilling participation in all other realms of Being without the taboos of a defectively mystified, but, nonetheless, real Great Chain of Being. This knowledge would gradually help us to free ourselves from our parochially limited Kosmic perspective allowing us to claim or actualize much greater experiential possibilities allowed by Consciousness and Spirit.

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