By
Dan Echegoyen
Echegoyen at StructureofExistence.com
(951) 204-0201
Understanding the structure of existence can seem an impossible task until the understanding of that structure is achieved. The transition to such understanding cannot be forced. There is no logical path or deductive process to this higher perspective of reality. Glimpses of this higher perspective can, however, be induced indirectly.
This enlightened understanding does not come directly. All truths are commingled and conventional logic alone simply does not complete the job. Apparent contradictions abound. Zen truths of illusion are real, direct explanation is impossible. The deeper the truth, the more indirectly that truth must be shown.
Very little in this book is new, but familiar models on the nature of reality are seen anew from a higher perspective. The language already exists to describe the nature of things. A deeper understanding of reality comes from seeing the subtler embedded message in the words and images that describe things. Each precept is part of a greater idea that unfolds gradually. Comprehensive re-examination of understood concepts from this higher perspective leads to new understanding.
Although explicit model descriptions are necessarily of one topic at a time, the implicit information addresses all topics at once.
Early chapters will introduce topics that will later receive more attention. As the foundation of ideas is built, new courses of ideas will build on the old, with topics oriented to bolster each other. The structure is not the bricks, but the building.
Every idea is worked with care, though necessarily imperfectly. A word may have many meanings. Semantic parallels are intentional and meaningful. Assimilate each idea fully on its own. Disparate ideas will eventually merge.
This work is no invention. It is a discovery and observation of what is, and integrates conflicting ideas in every area of understanding. Once understood, it speaks for itself on relevance and scope.
Although formal scientific models (along with other kinds of models) will be used extensively, this book is not an attempt to prove anything. Scientific models are helpful because of their consistent and definitive nature and imagery, but the sole intent of this book to help the reader to perceive a higher perspective of reality. This perception requires not proofs, but internally consistent images of relationships to gain understanding on the deeper workings of reality.
This integrated understanding includes non-linear considerations and is only understood all at once. This understanding is not achieved directly by any one line of reasoning. It is induced indirectly.
The interaction matrix of existence is a dynamic structure, like an engine. Just as equations are not needed for a practical understanding of the internal combustion engine, there will be almost no explicit mathematical equations in this explanation of the nature of things. Topology and geometry are integral to model imagery, however, and will be used for extended dynamic modeling. Although equations will be rare, most models will have a mathematical basis for the imagery described.
Science and mathematics are wonderful. The truths that are found through quantification form a most reliable base for the extended examination of reality. Science and math have succeeded tremendously well in the objectification of reality. They are valid and robust, self-consistent and meaningful. I grew up with science, gravitating to the hard sciences with their abstract models and structures. Then I read GODEL, ESCHER, BACH; AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID. In this Pulitzer winner, Douglas Hofstader pointed out the structural similarities and parallels of interpretation in different systems such as mathematics, art and music. He made his point so well that I started to see many connections he had not even mentioned.
Objectivity has its limits. A complete picture of the universe must also include subjective reality. This dual reality includes facts that seem to contradict each other. Things exist that cannot be proven, and the non-linear implications challenge understanding. Objective science itself points to the fact that science is incomplete. Still there is rationality in the conflict. The new perspective presented here resolves and integrates even the seemingly contradictory facts of reality. Logic shows the linear extension of reality. A lateral extension also exists that is contrary to (but not contradictory to) linear extension.
This work contains many different kinds of understandings, ideas, and truths. They have all been used in a higher self-consistent paradigm on the nature of reality.
A model on one level may be used to parallel a model on a very different level. The intent is not to prove a point, but to show a way to see the nature of the parallels and relationships of the holistic structure that allows different things to both be viewed as somehow similar. This new perspective on reality came quickly to me, but is so vast that new insights and connections happened daily for years. They still continue to this day.
The task of organizing the ideas of this new understanding was slow and resistant. A linear presentation of inherently non-linear information is a distinctly abstract interpretation of this understanding. The intent of making this work meaningful requires that it be read in the order presented. Ideas are introduced at their proper time. This book is a lattice of inference with a broad base of ideas and abstruse spans of continuity. Everything is relevant. There are few wasted words. The information is densely packed.
Repetitions of a theme are to introduce new lines of thought from common foundational information. The reader’s progress through these ideas should create mental echoes to points made earlier. Each specific observation is an additional perspective of the whole.
There will be few attributions. This work is of general knowledge, seen again from new perspectives for a grander view of things.
Summary
Experiencing this higher reality can only be accomplished by indirect means. The various imageries of reality can show a silhouette of the higher reality when the models are properly positioned. Linear extension and lateral extension together create a higher reality that is truly both and neither of the lower descriptives.