Auteur : [[Ken Wilber]] MOC : [[PHILOSOPHIE]] - [[SPIRITUALITÉ]] Source : [[Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Subtle Energies]] Date : 2023-02-01 *** ## Vue cohérente des énergies subtiles par Ken Wilber #### Partie 1 du raisonnement : more UR = more UL - ==Increasing complexity of form (in the UR) is correlated with increasing interior consciousness (in the UL).== This was Teilhard de Chardin’s “law of complexity and consciousness”—namely, the more of the former, the more of the latter. As we might put it more precisely, the greater the degree of exterior complexity of material form, the greater the degree of interior consciousness that can be enacted within that form (i.e., correlation of UR and UL). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdv56bqv84hhp7t08wxr157)) - Further—and this is the connecting hypothesis—==increasing complexity of gross form is correlated with increasingly subtlety of energies==. As evolution proceeds to more and more complex gross forms, the increasing degree of gross complexity is accompanied by subtler and subtler corresponding (or signature) **energy patterns**. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdv5qk9mzvyzyfrcza88cts)) - ==increasing evolution brings increasing complexity of gross form (in the UR), which is correlated with an increasing degree of consciousness (in the UL), and, in the UR itself, a subtilization of corresponding energies==. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdv5za3nt7fe2r1cc1h7301)) - Thus, instead of interpreting higher levels as being essentially divorced from gross matter or gross form, the complexification of gross form is the vehicle of manifestation for both subtler energies and greater consciousness ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdv69skjww6fnsssbs7m2dc)) **Du coup on peut réconcilier les visions pré et post-modernes [[Le problème que l'on rencontre avec la compréhension des énergies subtiles]]** ![[Screenshot 2023-02-04 at 11.04.03.png]] #### Partie 2 : Conscience = énergie - Common to many traditions is the idea that, **in addition to a spectrum of consciousness, there is a spectrum of energy**. One such spectrum runs ==from gross physical energy, to etheric energy, to astral energy, to psychic energy, to causal energy==. Without, at this point, arguing the details, let’s simply accept that as a type of subtle-energy spectrum that might exist. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdv8gh37y3szzn3bcsk5xxf)) ##### Mais précision According to the traditions, these energies are not the same as consciousness; consciousness cannot be reduced to these energies; nor can these energies be reduced to consciousness. Rather, these levels of energy accompany and support their correlative levels of consciousness (so that a gross energy is the support of gross ![[Screenshot 2023-02-04 at 11.28.28.png]] #### Partie 3 : Illustration des 2 points précédents - The earliest forms of evolution—such as quarks, electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules—are accompanied by the four, major, gross energy-forces: electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and weak nuclear. It is common to refer to these as “**physical**” energies or “**gross**” energies, and that is fine, as long as we remember that these “physical” or “material” energies are not the whole of matter-energy, but simply the lowest levels of matter-energy ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdw4ehdkestk1kmetqr8v4q)) - With the emergence, during evolution, of the complex material forms that we call “life” (starting with viruses and prokaryotes), a more subtle energy—often called “**etheric**”—emerges. As indicated, **these etheric energy fields are said to surround the physical energy fields in a holonic fashion** (i.e., as spheres of increasing expanse). - To continue the natural history of subtle energies: at the point where the evolution of increasingly complex gross form produces a triune brain, a yet subtler energy—known as “**psychic**”—emerges. “Psychic,” in this case, simply means “thought fields,” which are said to be produced by sustained mental activity. These fields surround and envelop the physical, etheric, and astral—but they ONLY emerge in, through, and around material forms that are complex enough to include triune brains. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdwhbk06s9kaa1n82kqc87v)) ##### Précision : Les champs énergétiques sont agencés dans une fashion holonic - This is why the consciousness, forms, and energy fields are all holarchical. They are all nested hierarchies of transcend and include. In the exterior domains, which are marked by their extension in spacetime, you can actually see many of these holarchies: in the UR, cells physically envelop molecules, which physically envelop atoms. Likewise, in the UR, the psychic energy field surrounds and envelops (transcends and includes) the astral field, which surrounds and envelops the etheric, which surrounds and envelops the physical…. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdwm54ke2904hyra0ppsmx4)) #### Partie 4 : Connecter tout cela aux découvertes de la science ##### 4.1 : Le Wave Potential - In QM theory, the wave potential is a vast source of creative energy that gives rise to denser material particles, including, eventually, particles such as quarks, electrons, and protons. It is this “creatrix” nature of the quantum potential that has led many scientists to equate it with a spiritual potentiality, a type of vast field of infinite potentials that is unbounded spirit or limitless consciousness itself. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdxwszpv593grbz3n0r8emz)) ##### 4.2 : Le WP a été mal interprété par les scientifiques car le plus haut le niveau, le plus loin on est de cette énergie créatrice ! - If that were the case, then the sequence of evolution would be something like this: out of the spiritual/quantum potential comes subatomic particles, which eventually gather together into atoms, which then gather together into molecules, which then form cells, which then form organisms…. **In other words, in that scheme, the higher the level of evolution, the farther away from God you get.** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdxwwp3szax1b8861jqzwbm)) ##### 4.3 Rappel des premières idées - In involution or creation, radically unqualifiable Spirit decides to play a game of hide-and-seek, and hence “forgets” itself and throws itself outward to create a manifest world of manyness and otherness. As we saw, the first thing pure Spirit creates is soul, which then throws itself outward to create mind, which throws itself outward to create life (or prana), which then throws itself outward to create insentient matter (quarks, atoms). At the end of that ontological sequence, matter blows into existence as a crystallization and condensation of prana. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdxx2tda5x31ydwg50bsyf8)) ##### 4.4 Donc comment mettre le WP dans tout cela - In other words, the quantum potential is not spirit but prana. More technically, the quantum potential is not spirit-as-spirit, it is not spirit- as-soul, it is not spirit-as-mind, but rather, the quantum potential is spirit-as-prana, which gives rise to spirit-as-matter. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdxx646hf2j0g7sk20572gf)) ##### 4.5 Conclusion des 4 points précédents - As suggested, this equating of quantum (or subquantum, or string, or symmetry) realities with some sort of nondual Spirit is perhaps the single biggest theoretical confusion in the entire field. First, because it confuses the nature of involution and evolution, and hence confuses the beginning of the involutionary sequence—namely, causal spirit—with the beginning of the evolutionary sequence—namely, the vacuum potential (or some such), which actually represents spirit-as-prana, not spirit-as-spirit. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdy2pz3ansd5sv2ypezmpnh)) Pour voir *la suite*, rendez vous ici : [[On ne peut pas décrire le non duel avec des mots et on ne peut pas décrire le monde en le prenant pour le non duel]]