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Schwaller de Lubicz, this meant that the an- cient Egyptians understood geometry’s Py- thagorean theorem long before Pythagoras was born. Intrigued, he moved to Luxor and studied ancient Egypt’s art and architecture for thirteen years, concluding that the temple architecture was a deliberate exercise in proportion. The temple, in its detail, de- scribed the nature of man as a science, a phi- losophy that Schwaller de Lubicz termed the “Anthropocosm” or “Man Cosmos.”
Philosophy of the Anthropocosm The question of who we are and why we are here will likely remain the ultimate mys- tery. Intuitively, however, this mystery can be understood upon the realization that our existence as a conscious biolog- ical form can be traced to cosmic events, and that the prerequisites for our existence can be traced to a universal state. Our Earth is de- pendent on the sun and the solar system in which it is gravitation- ally trapped; which is dependent on the Milky Way galaxy, in which it is gravitationally trapped; which is also held in place by other forces including, but not limited to, our neigh- boring galaxies. Any interruption in this line of cosmic dependency would likely result in the cessation of our ex- istence. Thus, it can be said that the cosmos is the true nature of man, and form is the sole means of its expression.
Although it seems as though we are insig- nificantly small compared to the rest of the universe, there is a single truth to our exis- tence that cannot be denied and that lends credence to the abstract nature of man—the reality of the observer. We observe and per- ceive an ordered, yet dynamic, arrangement of energy that we naturally translate into sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. To take away the measures of this reality means re- ality’s destruction, which suggests that the universe was never concrete in the first place. We only perceive that it is. Therefore, like Plato in his cave, we can conclude that the concreteness and form in which we live are really only the knowledge of such things. Einstein agreed implicitly in one of his fa- mous statements: “Reality is an illusion, al- beit a very persistent one.”
The most interesting question is, where does our ability to observe and perceive come from? According to physicists, it comes from an event called “state vector collapse” where all possible states of the system (the universe) collapse into a single observed state.
During the 1920s, while Werner Heisen- berg and Neils Bohr were further devel- oping quantum theory, they realized that a new viewpoint had to be created to achieve
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a proper understanding of the quantum world. The classical view of a discrete world would simply not work. To accomplish this, they embraced the idea that the world is fundamentally not a collection of discrete objects, but an indistinct, unified world of energy where, at times, discrete objects are perceived. Heisenberg developed his wave matrix theory, and Schrödinger his wave mechanics, to explain their insights. Al- though slightly different in their approach, these two theories offered a more accurate description of the atomic structure than did classical physics.
What their theories state is that all matter exists as a wave structure that we cannot di- rectly see. What we do see is the localization of the wave structure with its release of en- ergy, which is a simple way to explain state vector collapse. The energy released is what physicists call a photon (a particle of light). We perceive the released energy as a particle, even though it is really a wave. This occurs for us because that is how the human brain works.
Without state vector collapse there would be no perception of separation, no form to experi- ence and, consequently, no ex- pression. The cosmos would re- main in an undefined state of absoluteness, a potential of all cosmic possibilities.
Niels Bohr
All matter that makes up the cosmos is actually configured energy that now exists as a re- sult of stellar nucleosynthesis and supernova. Carbon, ni- trogen, oxygen, and other heavy elements— the building blocks of life—were created as a result of large stars collapsing under their own weight and then exploding with tremen- dous heat, spreading newly created elements into empty space to form interstellar clouds. New research suggests that even amino acids, important for protein synthesis, were formed in interstellar clouds. Thus, scientists argue that since the elements that make up our bodies are the results of a cosmic pro- cess, then we are made from stardust and are literally children of the stars.
The Big Bang origin of the universe has been the model of choice for cosmologists for many decades now, but it has always been a scientific paradox. Our known laws of physics are not valid until after the moment of the Big Bang. So, how do we arrive at a universe that we experience, which sprang from nothing? Perhaps the Big Bang is only a per- spective to explain the current body of scien- tific data and does not accurately represent actual events. As is all of nature, perhaps the universe is cyclical and oscillates between the never-ending destruction and creation of galaxies. No one really knows.
However, what we do know and can be certain of is our conscious experience. It is the one thing all six billion of us can agree upon, and the key to understanding nature. According to the Anthropocosm theory, consciousness creates a venue in order to
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