These are the basic axioms of the quantum world, not the strangest perhaps nor the latest, but certainly some of the more thought provoking. These thoughts lead the world of physics to develop two different paths in the thinking.

One being the primary particle people, those who asserted that we could understand it all, if we could just find the primary building block of matter. We could theorize through mathematical models that in order that what we understood to be true, to work, there had to be more. We needed higher amounts of energy to reveal the “ holy grail” at this time, the quark. That required a cyclotron and lots of money.

There is a dirty little secret about science and scientists that they don’t like to talk about. Deep Throat could have been talking about big science when he said, “follow the money”. There is no conspiracy to unravel, but the facts are that researchers go to where the money is. How many of the physicists on the Manhattan Project were opposed to what they were doing, but could not resist unlimited funds to determine if it can be done?

The step child for many years was a group who asserted that the secrets weren’t held in the matter itself but in the idea that matter and consciousness were not a duality but one in the same. This thinking proposed that, yes, there would be the quark, but only after huge amounts of energy, both mental and physical were exerted in order that the new particle revealed itself. That perhaps this enormous focus of consciousness was actually creating a self predicting model. That there would be another “primary object” as long as we continued to seek one and were willing to expend energy to look for them.

Well as it turned out, the quark was found, if the trail of an object which wasn’t there, now its coming into existence and disappearing at the same time on a piece of film. First came Fermier, then CERN and now they are constructing a bigger more powerful instrument at CERN. They found the quark, but every discovery sent the theorists back to a position of predicting another, in order that what we learned continued to make the models work. They have predicted and found so many new particles that you might say that the quark is old hat, like that pair of bell bottom pants and your platform shoes.

Interesting things began to happen in astro physics; dark matter, dark energy and black holes. The work in these areas began to reveal a correlation to the quantum world. These two had always been regarded as working with no real connection, Newton appeared to explain the macro, while it took quantum to explain the very small. This duality of physical laws drove most physicists crazy. There has to be a way to bring these two realities together, a theory of everything. STRING THEORY

Now, I would never attempt to explain the workings of string, read a book. I would like to point out one “fact” of string, in fact it possibly is the only “fact”. String Theory is entirely a construct of the mind. It exists only using the symbols of mathematics. When humans first painted on walls of caves and cliffs they used symbols to communicate their understanding of the world around them. We really haven’t progressed that far.

I needed a personal experience, to substantiate my intuitions about this. I began to look for the most elegant usage's of symbols in cultures around the world. I use the word elegant because it is the word most commonly used by physicists when talking about string. The mathematical models of string are really elegant in their explanation of everything. I found my cultural use of symbols in the Hopi and Tibetan cultures. These cultures have evolved symbols and their usage into a language expressing an understanding of what exists beyond our very limited perception of reality. This understanding runs so deep in these cultures that it permeates not just a few but the entire population.

Thus, really began my quest to integrate this new esoteric view of the world with the esoteric knowledge of cultures that had viewed matter and consciousness as a singular.

Just a short thought for contemplation: if you could bisect the earth, you would find the traditional home of the Hopis and the land of Tibet are exactly opposite each other. Another dry high plateau, the Hopi word for day, nyma, is the Tibetan word for night. The word for moon in Tibetan, dawa, is the Hopi word for sun.