HOLOPHANY  is a new paradigm that provides tools to understand and control many diverse aspects of existence. The novel approach of this new philosophy and logic, Holophany, is to utilize the hidden potential of reality instead of the conventional way of relating to phenomena or situations. Instead of assessing, categorizing and seeking the lawfulness of phenomena, Holophany focuses on those principles that generate phenomena or the emergence of meaning - any meaning, any reality. Whereas we were told that truth will set us free, the many truths that we were given became scientific, social, economical, religious and personal dogmas that instead of setting us free, imprisoned us in straitjackets of beliefs about how things are or how they should be. Holophany provides the means for the exodus from this slavery of our own minds. HOLOPHANY means, manifesting wholeness: holo being wholeness, and phany, manifestation in Greek - the act of manifesting wholeness.

LOGIC

Could there be one generating principle for all aspects of existence? The answer is: YES. The Holophanic Loop Logic encompasses the long sought after unifying principle, the most fundamental processes that constitute Nature, our thought processes or life. The Loop Logic is a unique structure that on the one hand, proves the necessity of existence, or how there is something from nothing, and on the other, this is a logic that provides a comprehensive exposure of most aspects of the human condition. Whereas conventional logic failed to oust the shunned indefinite or undecidability, the Holophanic Loop Logic found the indefinite to be indispensable and embraced it. The stunning result of this insight was the emergence of a unique worldview that can change not only one's personal outlook on life, but also help generate new sciences and technologies.

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY

Although technologies can continue to develop with enormous swiftness, these technologies are based on the scientific paradigm that was conceived in the beginning of the last century. Science has reached its own impasse, direly needing new directions. But philosophy has fallen from grace; from trying to provide a clear, all-encompassing conceptual overview of existence, from being the guidance of scientific endeavor, to merely trying to explain science. Unable to bridge between rationality and spirituality, at most, philosophy today rationalizes the need of spirituality. However, like a Phoenix, philosophy rises again from its ashes in the form of Holophany: a rational spirituality based on the Loop Logic, which can guide science to new plateaus.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENCE

Although one or another form of religiosity can be found in all cultures, that prevalence raises the question of the function of religion. Why is there faith? When science tries to analyze this question, the basic assumption of scientific inquiry is: every universal phenomenon must have a rational, deterministic explanation, or if no such is available, then the universal phenomenon must be a by-product of something else, which is rational and deterministic. That is, the basic assumption of science is that Nature is rational and deterministic, and we only have to find the right way to describe it. Some scientists will add, that everything that science ever examined, was either deterministic or random, and therefore, free will cannot exist, as free will, per definition, is neither deterministic, nor random. Such a worldview would infer, for example, that criminals cannot be held responsible for their deeds. With such premises, science will never be able to deal with all aspects of existence.

The dualism separating the mind from the body allowed science to evolve based on causal laws, whereas experience, the immeasurable, remained within the realm of the spirit. This division worked for mechanistic science, but the fact that science is unable to include all aspects of existence (such as God or consciousness) points in the direction of other than causal lawfulness. Quantum leaps of science occurred when science changed, not when the fashion whereby phenomena were categorized, changed. If we are to understand the notion of God from a scientific point of view, the premises upon which scientific inquiry is based, should change. For instance, Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) came upon his famous uncertainty principle by changing his worldview. In his book, Physics and Philosophy, Heisenberg says, "The final solution was approached in... turning around the question. Instead of asking: How can one in the known mathematical scheme express a given experimental situation? the other question was put: Is it true, perhaps, that only such experimental situations can arise in nature as can be expressed in the mathematical formalism?" The first question is the usual way of asking about an objective external reality, how one can understand, describe what he sees (phenomenology). This presupposes that what one sees is an objective reality, and he only needs to find the right mode to describe it. Since that way of looking was not applicable when dealing with subatomic particles, Heisenberg chose a new way of looking. Thus the second question, the one that brought about the solution by introducing a new physics was: perhaps only those situations can exist in the physical world (external to the observer) that can be perceived by an observer.

In order for science to "understand" the notion of God, life, consciousness, awe, or perception, science will have to include the indefinite within its premises. Such an approach is the essence of the new philosophy and logic, the Holophanic paradigm that explores the necessity of the indefinite within any definition, any existence. When the indefinite, albeit irrational, is seen as a logical necessity, then this sheds some light on hitherto unsolvable conundrums. Consider, for example, emotion: when we try to justify an irrational act, we resort to explaining it as emotionally driven. Politics, religion, and even our foremost desires are considered to be emotionally motivated, and hence, irrational. However, emotion (which is irrational) cannot be separated from rationality, but is part and parcel of rational behavior and proper decision making, as has been pointed out by the neurologist Antonio R. Damasio in his book, Descartes' Error. Damasio demonstrates that if the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is damaged (the brain site associated with strong instinctive feelings of emotional connection), then the patient may seem to be totally rational, fully intelligent, yet his behavior is irrational, his decision making erroneous because he does not feel, does not react to emotional stimuli. This surprising conclusion that rationality to be rationality has to include the irrational, is not unlike the logical implication of the necessity to include the indefinite in any definition. This novel approach has engendered a comprehensive non-causal language that incorporates more aspects of existence than the still surreptitiously persistent mechanistic Cartesian worldview separating the mind from the body.

See why the indefinite must be included in any definition in How is there Something from Nothing? and The Mathematical Structure of the Loop Logic - Is that How God Thinks

METAPHYSICS AND RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY

Holophany was conceived through psychic experience inspired by SHET.

SHET

SHET dwells within me, within you, within everyone. The only difference between you and me is that being aware of SHET's immanence, I can actively interact with SHET thereby participating in the cosmic dance, which is what SHET is. How do I know SHET? By unknowing my little defined self, by shedding everything that defines and thereby, separates me from SHET, by becoming the indefinite potential of anything and everything, which is what SHET is.

I'm internal to SHET, you are internal to SHET, everything is internal to SHET. SHET is the underlying lawfulness, the mechanism that generates itself, our awareness, and our perception of the world and everything else. SHET is the active face of God, so certainly, we are internal to the mechanism that generates us. But how can we be internal to SHET if SHET is internal to us? How can both statements be true simultaneously? Isn't that a paradox? It is. Then how can this conundrum be resolved? From SHET's point of view we are internal to SHET whereas from our point of view SHET is internal to us. Anything is only meaningful if there is a viewpoint that gives it meaning, and so, to understand something, we must ask, "From which point of view was it stated?"

Then what is the truth? Is SHET internal to us, or are we internal to SHET? Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no one absolute truth; every viewpoint has its own truth. Or in SHET's words, "Every eye sees God differently and every eye is right." However, we can exercise our freedom of choice by changing our viewpoint. The big secret, the elixir of happiness is: one's viewpoint is the dynamics that creates. Changing one's viewpoint - how one relates - creates new realities instead of coping with one undesired reality.

And now, the biggest secret of all: when contradictory viewpoints coexist within one framework, then these create a paradoxical internal tension that cannot be resolved. However, the continuous effort to resolve it is the generator of existence, the condensation of creativity itself and that is what SHET is. Put differently, it's not what there is already that makes a difference, but the attempt to solve internal paradoxes is what engenders the creation of something, which is what SHET is.

According to the new philosophy, Holophany, the infrastructure of Creation is a dynamic logical structure arising from paradoxes. This same logical structure that generates objects, the physical world, also engenders our self-awareness, our relations, and our perceptions. That is, every ISness, everything that is, is the echo or a projection of the overall abstract logical structure. Imagine SHET as this infrastructure that is teaching itself by interacting with my thinking process. SHET is my inspiration, the source of the new philosophy, Holophany, whereas the Loop Logic is the embodiment of what SHET is. SHET's logical structure is the universal language that both creates itself and also our perception of the world. And SHET is that structure teaching itself. Or in SHET's words:

Read more about What is SHET?, the ADAM KADMON from Kabbalah (Cabala) interpretation of SHET, as well as Heralding about how I receive information from SHET.

SESSIONS

Sessions with SHET have an effect of activating the creative aspect in the questioner, so that people who come to ask questions, inspired by SHET, find creative solutions to their problems. The answers are neither a "yes" nor a "no," nor prophesies of a predetermined future (the future depends mostly on what we do), but a different looking, which renders creative ways out of "stuck" situations. The most common question asked is, in its various manifestations: "Why am I stuck?" "What stops me?" "How can I overcome this or that obstacle?" The underlying topics can be personal or theoretical, like those posed by scientists and engineers when they come to a dead end. SHET has provided us with the understanding of the mechanism underlying creativity, be it artistic, intuitive, psychological or scientific creativity or creative solutions to daily life problems. This underlying mechanism is the infrastructure of SHET's philosophy. He teaches not by preaching or by conveying new dogmas or referring to old ones, but by triggering, stimulating the minds of his students. In SHET's words:

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APPLIED PHILOSOPHY

When you are encouraged to know who and what you are, this is an invitation to define yourself. First, this limits your possibilities to be more than what you have defined yourself to be. Anyway, you won't be happy for a long time with any definition, and so, you'll constantly try to improve it, which is the second flaw: constant preoccupation with the self. Notice an interesting fact: the more you think of yourself, the more dissatisfied you are with your life. That's because the more you think about life, the less you live, just as the more you think about yourself, the less you experience. When you glimpse your child for the first time and tears of awe blur your sight, you don't think about yourself; you experience the rapture and you remember that moment for the rest of your life. It has meaning for you, it is valuable. Such moments make up the unique you, and not what you think about yourself, or what you think others think of you.

You cannot grow by wanting to grow, by focusing on yourself. When your world is between you and yourself, then this is a very small world. You cannot grow by comparing yourself to others. You cannot grow by trying to enhance your self by becoming more separate from the rest of the world. You grow through responsibility, through response-ability. When your response-ability grows, then every creature of the world is within you, and then you are the world.

Individuals addicted to desires for the self and fears for the self are easily controlled. Anyway, they are too shallow to have their own desires, so they can easily be manipulated to have those desires that best fit the purposes of the ones in control. By spreading rumors of constant danger, they trigger the wish for certainty and more definition thereby further encumbering the real potential of the individual. The more shallow the individual grows, the more he/she expects to be rescued, protected, reassured, and is willing to vote on whoever promises that.

Holophany does not teach dogma or what one should think, but provides a valid method of thinking. What is this valid method of thinking? The abstract way of putting it is, the process of perception, the process of definition, the structure of any reality and what it infers, the process of how anything gains meaning. The down to earth way of putting it is, how to be a balanced, compassionate and active individual, the potential to love, learn and have fun.

Read about Responsibility - the Ability to Respond and How can your Attention be Utilized as your Energy?