Original Introduction to Creative Transformation

by John David Garcia

ELEMES
Billions of stars had been born and died during Elemes' lifetime, yet Elemes
was considered young among her kind. She had only a dim perception of the
ancient ones who had once been as she now was, but she knew that they were
aware of her. They had let her know that if she succeeded in the challenge
they had set her half a lifetime ago, they would welcome her as one of
themselves.
She also knew that the ancient ones were but a transition phase in the
evolution of her kind. She could only wonder at what lay beyond the almost
god-like wisdom and creativity of the ancient ones. In spite of the
accumulated knowledge of the millions of generations which preceded her and
was now part of her mind, Elemes, like all other life forms before her, was
unsure of the destiny of her species.
What Elemes and all her kind shared was the optimistic hope that they and all
life who wished it could continue to progress and grow in creativity forever
within the infinitely expanding universe of all universes. Although the
challenges which impeded progress became ever greater, Elemes was
confident that she and others of her kind could in time solve all the problems
before them. There had never been a challenge that had not in time given way
to her creativity, except the one that the ancient ones had placed before her so
long ago. They had not communicated with her since.
Elemes and her kind were driven by the Universal Ethic of all higher life
forms that had evolved beyond birth and death and the need for natural
selection. They were driven by the moral obligation to maximize creativity
throughout the universe without ever decreasing the creativity of any single
being no matter how insignificant it might appear. How to create without
destroying was an ever more complex problem as Elemes and her kind grew
in power and expanded their creativity to ever higher dimensions. They
always had to make sure that the lesser beings confined in the lower
dimensions were not harmed by the actions undertaken in the higher
dimensions.
Elemes knew that she could continue to find satisfaction in her life and
progress without accepting the challenge of the ancient ones, but it was
becoming ever more clear that if she did not accept the challenge, she would
not be doing her best to maximize creativity throughout the universe. She
could no longer avoid the challenge and keep her commitment to the

Universal Ethic. She must accept the challenge and solve what seemed like a
truly unsolvable and dangerous problem or her life would become a lie.
The ancient ones in their wisdom knew that the greatest danger to Elemes and
her kind was complacency and stagnation. Elemes was constantly progressing,
but ever more slowly as the higher dimensions of her creativity became ever
more complex and reverberated down through the lower dimensions with ever
greater and more dangerous power. The challenge to Elemes and her kind was
to change themselves so that they could create solely in the higher dimensions
without any longer having a potentially destructive effect in the lower
dimensions.
In order to do this Elemes had to find a way of splitting herself into two
complementary, symbiotic beings, each greater than Elemes, without harming
anyone, including Elemes. The complementary beings could then organize
themselves into a higher order being that existed solely in the higher
dimensions and would have an enormous leap in its creative potential. Elemes
knew that the solution to the problem lay in her holographic nature.
Elemes was composed of many billions of individually creative beings, each
creative and purposeful in its own right, yet freely united with one another to
create the collective consciousness that was Elemes. The individuals did this
by sharing openly and freely all their thoughts and knowledge while helping
each other be maximally creative. In the process each individual being who
composed Elemes had all the information of every other being who composed
Elemes. Together through their mutual love they created the collective
consciousness that was Elemes as a holographic epiphenomenon. All gained
something, none lost anything, and together they created a creative
intelligence greater than the sum of its parts.
Similarly Elemes' primitive, mortal ancestors had been composed of
individual cells, all of whom shared the same genetic information. The cells
themselves were descendents of complementary pairs of DNA and protein
molecules who had cooperated in the same way. The molecules were
descendents of complementary atoms integrated by carbon. Carbon and all the
other atoms were in turn descendents of cooperative complementary pairs of
protons and electrons and so on. This type of cooperation, which culminated
in the infinite love of the God of all, was known as "autopoiesis".
Elemes and her kind were deeply religious. They believed that through the
Universal Ethic they and the rest of the Universe evolved toward autopoietic
union with God at infinity. Elemes understood that the challenge before her
was to create a new higher order of autopoiesis in which she and others would
form the individual beings in a new holographic being vastly greater than
herself.

She wondered if the ancient ones were already such beings. However, all
autopoiesis required cooperation between complementary pairs. Although
Elemes and her kind had evolved from mortal, sexual species, which were
divided into complementary pairs known as male and female, Elemes was
complete unto herself and needed no complementary pair. She and her kind
reproduced by binary fission into two identical beings who periodically shared
the information of their different experiences so that Elemes and her kind
could spread through the Universe and periodically share information between
themselves and evolve in that way. But now Elemes finally understood that if
she and others of her kind were not to stagnate, she and they would have to
create their own complementary pairs and unite autopoietically in a new,
vastly greater hologram in which she would be one of perhaps billions of
lesser individuals.
Somehow she had to create a complementary mate to herself and impregnate
herself. She must then become her own children and, like all her ancestors
before her, strive to make her children better than herself.
To become a mirror of herself, and in the process make herself and her
reflection better than herself, without harming anyone, including Elemes, was
taxing all her powers. What kept her confident of success was the knowledge
that the problem was solvable. All the ancient ones had faced the same
challenge and solved the problem. Furthermore, each one had come up with a
different, unique solution reflecting their unique natures. The problem
therefore not only had a solution, but an infinity of solutions. Elemes merely
had to find one.
Elemes had a perfect memory that never distorted nor forgot anything. She
could simultaneously entertain millions of alternate models of any process she
could imagine, no matter how complex. Through the eons, as Elemes did her
best to learn, teach, and create, she had done countless thought experiments of
how to accept the challenge; each had ended in theoretical failure. She
recently had come up with a solution that seemed to have no theoretical flaws,
but whose implementation involved risk to herself and possibly to others.
She knew that she had a right to take a risk with her own creativity in order to
create even greater creativity, but she also knew that she could not expose
others to the same risk. She therefore had to find a way of shielding everyone
other than herself from her experiment.
This was the remaining problem she was trying to solve. The solution was
almost at hand. She had to create a universe parallel to her own that could not
harm anyone in her universe. Yet she was obliged to simultaneously remain in
her universe while engaging in intimate communication with the new parallel
universe that she created in order to help it evolve. If the parallel universe

became destructive, she would be obligated to annihilate it before it threatened

her own universe.
The creation of universes was a technology that her species did not yet master.
They had for eons been capable of creating matter, space, and time from pure
thought. They had experimented with the creation of stars and galaxies with
reasonable success. All of her kind who had sought to create universes with
their billions of interacting galaxies and a time and space totally isolated from
their own had ended by either destroying themselves or becoming recluses
living out their lives in total isolation from Elemes; she saw this as a form of
spiritual death.
In both cases, the parallel universe was always annihilated without a trace.
She now understood why. The universe had become destructive. Having made
a destructive universe was an unbearable experience for her kind, which led to
self-annihilation or to spiritual death. This was the danger she now faced.
The eternal pattern of evolution was to create matter from chaotic energy, life
from matter, mind from life, pure thought from mind, and new realms of
energy from pure thought. This was not a ladder, but an infinitely upward
moving spiral in which each cycle produced ever greater minds with a new
dimension of pure thought that could create in ever greater dimensions closer
to the infinite creativity of God. In this way all life created God as God
created them. This was Universal Autopoiesis.
Elemes could now see that there could be no true long term progress without
risk. Security was always an illusion. The only true security for her and her
kind could only come from accepting the challenge of the ancient ones and
succeeding against all the odds. The insecurity of the risk she now faced was
also an illusion. The only absolute truth that existed was the Universal Ethic.
She must do her best to maximize creativity.
Her only risk, her only possibility of failure, was in not doing her best. She
must create her complementary pair through the creation of a new universe.
The only danger to her would be that if she failed in her creation of the new
universe and it became destructive, she might not be able to avoid annihilating
herself when she annihilated the new universe because of her unavoidable
intimate connection to it. She was ethically obligated to minimize the danger
to herself and to others - particularly to others.
It was difficult for a being such as herself, who had evolved beyond birth and
death, who had been evolving for many of the cumulative life times of all of
her ancestors, to once again contemplate birth and death. She might continue
progressing as she was forever and never risk her own death. But she could

not keep the Universal Ethic this way, once she knew that it would not
maximize creativity. In order to join the ancient ones and participate in their
higher dimensions of creativity, she must create her complementary pair now
and become her own children. Like all mothers before her she must risk death
in order to give birth.
Fortunately, she now knew how to minimize this risk to herself and virtually
eliminate it for others; but, still, death is not something potentially immortal
species take lightly, no matter how small the risk.
Her answer to the challenge was to create a single point of negentropy, a
singularity, within herself, then project into this point the totality of her being
- the complete information pattern of all her knowledge, structure, and
existence. At the same time she would leave open a one way channel to all the
creative information in her universe.
In this way all the creative information produced by the Universal Autopoiesis
would become part of the new universe that she was about to create. But she
would shield with her entire being any destructive information flowing from
her new universe into her old universe, while in no way attempting to control
the flow of new creative information into the parallel universe. In this way the
new universe could evolve into everything that Elemes was, yet be different
and hopefully better.
The problem was that the singularity could not be open to all that was best in
Elemes' universe without also being open to infinite entropy - the chaotic
darkness from which Elemes and all life had evolved. This was a darkness that
could engulf them again.
Elemes knew that her universe was an ever-expanding bubble of creative
information in an infinite see of entropy. She and her kind, together with the
ancient ones and others far beyond, kept pushing the bubble of truth against
the infinite sea. The infinite sea would now flow into the singularity as well as
herself. This was the risk she had to take. If she was to succeed, as the
singularity evolved and it reflected what was best in her and her universe, she
had to modify herself as a complement to the new universe that was being
created and contain all its potential destructiveness. Therefore, as she created
the new universe, the new universe recreated her. The final outcome was
unforeseeable.
Because of the opening in the singularity to both creative information and
entropy, the new universe could go wrong in many unforeseen ways and lead
to destruction for itself and Elemes. She had programmed herself to implode
and annihilate the new universe if it became destructive. In the early stages
this could be done with little or no harm to herself. As the new universe

evolved and modified Elemes into its complement then the danger to Elemes
would increase until it could lead to her own destruction. Although the longer
the new universe evolved the less likely it was to become destructive, its
capacity to destroy always grew even as the probability of irreversible entropy
diminished so that its potential destructiveness was actually a maximum near
the end of its evolutionary cycle, just before Elemes and the new universe
became a creative complementary pair.
It was at this last critical stage, the point just before Elemes gave birth, that
the danger would become a maximum and she might die if entropy should,
through miscalculation, finally dominate the new universe she had created;
but it was a very low probability event. Elemes was not fearful, merely
cautious out of ethical responsibility.
Once Elemes saw that her solution was feasible and highly likely to succeed
with no possible danger except a small one to herself, she acted quickly and
decisively. This was the greatest project of her life and she was excited by its
prospect. Although Elemes was a loving person who cared for and shared all
she knew with all her kind and was compassionate and gentle with those not
yet so evolved, she had never known the love that comes from creating one's
complementary pair. She had already begun to love the greater being she was
about to create and looked forward eagerly to what she herself was to become.
From her mind and her body she created the singularity within her and set it
free. Although Elemes herself was outside of the time and space of the
singularity, she tied herself to its time and space as they were formed at
random within the first few instants of the singularity.
Hence forth, she would be both outside and inside of the time and space of the
new universe that was forming. She would experience all that her new
creation did and would guide it within the constraints she had set herself. If
she controlled it too tightly, the new universe would evolve only into a copy
of herself and she would have failed. In order to make it better than herself she
had to risk it becoming worse than herself by setting it free and open to both
infinite creative information as well as infinite entropy.
She designed the entire universe as a holographic model of herself and chose
the critical universal constants of gravity, the speed of light, the atomic and
nuclear forces, and the random opening into her universe that would shape the
new universe. She was present in each quark, electron, atom, star, and all life
forms that would eventually form from the churning cauldron of the
singularity. She made the entire process in the evolution of matter sufficiently
deterministic so that there would form billions of galaxies and billions of stars
within each galaxy, yet the random opening to creative information from her

universe was such that each star system would be different in ways
unforseeable by Elemes from every other star system.
Furthermore, it would only take a single star system out of the billions upon
billions of star systems to produce a life form complementary to herself in
order for the experiment to succeed. If this occurred at more than one star then
she would be even more successful and face less danger. The only danger to
her was that her complement would not evolve from any star and that the
singularity would expand and grow into a universe of irreversible entropy.
This would lead to her destruction. However, this was a very low probability
event. In the meantime she would use entropy as an ally which would lead to
the extinction and reabsorption of the evolutionary dead ends at each star.
Entropy would feed upon itself and allow each evolutionary experiment to
flourish. Any evolving entity could become her complement simply by
choosing to do so. The information coming through the random opening to her
universe would be modulated by the choices made by each evolutionary
entity. They would each have the free will to evolve and become her
complement or to not evolve and sink back into entropy. Furthermore, as they
evolved the choice would become more and more obvious and less subject to
deterministic forces.
The pattern of her total self was in everything and more richly manifested
itself as each entity evolved. All evolutionary entities would eventually come
to know and understand her. As they did so the choice would be increasingly
their's to reject her or to return the love she was pouring into this new universe
at the risk of her own life. Surely there would be one star where she would be
loved in return and which would evolve into her complementary pair. It was a
gamble worth taking.
As the new universe evolved from the singularity, it went through successive
epochs, each one longer than the previous one. The epochs in the evolution of
matter went from the instant of infinite possibilities (10 -43 seconds) to the age
of the monopoles, to the age of the quarks, the formation of the quarks into the
nucleons, to the age of hydrogen and the primordial helium formed from the
initial hot hydrogen, to the beginning of the galaxies, and the evolution of the
galaxies through supernovas which produced the final elements necessary for
life.
This was all fairly straightforward and simple for Elemes. The real challenge
was in how living creatures would modulate the creative information through
the random one way channel from her universe to control their own evolution
and freely become her complementary pair. If she made the channel too small
then they would be too driven by deterministic forces and could not become
her complement, but at best a close copy of herself. If the channel was too

large then the random changes would be so large that the evolution of life
could not progress because the pattern of her total self would not be able to
integrate all the factors into a coherent whole. She had to make constant fine
adjustments in the random channel and then make equally fine adjustments in
all the other universal constants at the same time as life evolved around each
star.
She had set up the original constants in such a way that each star system (1)
had a high probability of producing life and (2) was effectively quarantined
from every other star system. Thus, destructive life forms would not generally
propagate between star systems, but would turn upon themselves, destroy
themselves, and become reabsorbed into the evolution of the universe. She
saw to it that effective communication between stars could only occur
between entities who had already decided to become her complementary pair.
They could do this only by knowing her, loving her, and choosing to
communicate through her to others who shared their values. She was always
there everywhere open to communicate to those who were open to
communicate with her. Furthermore, because she existed partially outside of
the time and space of the new universe, shecould communicate anywhere
within the new universe instantly and was not limited by the speed of light.
In time all of the evolving life forms on all the stars who returned her love
would unite with each other through her and would together jointly and
individually become her complementary pair. She would enhance the process
by repeating, as in a musical fugue, the pattern of her own evolution and of
the universe she had created. To the best of her knowledge, Elemes and all
others of her kind had evolved through patterns of four complementary pairs.
She would, of course, repeat this fugal pattern in the new universe. Therefore,
she saw to it that the original singularity led quickly to a complementary pair
of relatively stable nucleons - a proton and an electron.
The proton and the electron formed the hydrogen atom which was the first
step in atomic evolution. Four hydrogen atoms, i.e. four electrons and four
protons, then fused to form a helium atom as the second step in atomic
evolution. The helium atoms then fused to form carbon atoms which are the
first step in chemical evolution leading to life. Furthermore, the carbon atom
was the only atom which consisted of four active complementary pairs - the
four active electrons and the four active protons - thus making carbon the only
fully generalized atom that was equally an electron donor and an electron
receiver that could serve as the basis of chemical evolution. Elemes identified
most closely with the carbon atom.
Theevolution of molecules was a new dimension added to the evolution of
atoms. Molecules in turn evolved until they were self-reproducing and formed
a new hierarchy of evolution manifesting itself as four complementary pairs of

nucleotides, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine, which by arranging

themselves in complementary pairs along the two strands of the DNA
molecule could encode all the information for all the life forms that could ever
exist and would ever exist in the
universe. The possibilities here were so huge that not even Elemes, with all
her resources, could not imagine all the potential life forms that might result.
She had to leave these possibilities to fortuitous providence enhanced by the
creative random information flowing through the random channel with
amplification increasing every time the life form evolved closer to her.
Therefore, once four complementary pairs of molecules of DNA and protein
began to cooperate in their mutual self-creation, they created life as an
epiphenomenon of this process of mutual self-creation which is part of the
"Universal Autopoiesis". Matter had no choice, but life could choose.
The first cells would enhance their DNA through the random channel to
Elemes' universe every time they made a choice to innovate any kind of
behavior which brought them closer to the creative pattern of Elemes. The
more they enhanced their DNA the more effective they became at amplifying
the information of the random channel and the further they enhanced their
DNA every time they made a creative choice.
Single cells, of course, could not distinguish between creative and uncreative
choices. They could only choose to innovate or not innovate. When they chose
to innovate they would evolve randomly often making fatal errors, but getting
ever closer to Elemes whenever they survived. When they chose not to
innovate they would specialize by repeating the same behavior over and over
again, apparting themselves from Elemes, thereby losing their capacity to
innovate until they became extinct.
Eventually single cells reached their limits of innovation and could enhance
their innovative capacity solely by a new higher order autopoiesis, thus
combining into multicellular creatures with nervous systems that would
support more complex behavior and innovation, but the choice to innovate or
not innovate still belonged to each individual. Each individual anywhere on
the evolutionary scale had the choice to innovate or not innovate.
The more they innovated they more they could innovate. The more they chose
not to innovate the less became their potential for innovation. Eventually all
living creatures around all stars would evolve a nervous system consisting of
four complementary paired parts, e.g. the right and left hemispheres of the
neocortex, the mammalian cortex, the reptilian complex, and the fish brain,
reflecting the universal pattern of evolution by quantum leaps of four
complementary pairs.

It was now clear to Elemes that once she created herself into two
complementary pairs she would merely have to join in autopoietic union with
three other complementary pairs created by her kind in order to become one
with the ancient ones. This process probably went on forever.
Once any species had evolved four complementary paired brains it would
continue being divided into complementary pairs of males and females. The
last complementary paired brain added to the nervous system would make the
species intelligent enough to become aware that it was created in the image of
Elemes and to know not only what it chooses, but know that it could choose
and why it chooses.
At this time the species could choose its most daring innovation and choose to
organize itself into an autopoietic organization of four complementary males
and females which created a collective creative intelligence similar to those
individuals who made up Elemes. The species now had the free choice to
become the complementary pair to Elemes or to reject Elemes and go its own
way.
As the universe evolved, Elemes was monitoring the ecosphere around all the
stars and opening herself to communicate with the life forms which had made
the transition to creative beings capable of becoming the complementary pair
of Elemes. In two lifetimes of an average star, Elemes had seen its creation go
from a singularity to a universe teeming with life, but no one had yet chosen
to become her complementary pair.
In one average galaxy, in the ecosphere around an average star in the outer
periphery of one of the spiral arms of the galaxy, a species had evolved on its
third planet which was about to make a collective decision as whether to
evolve into the complementary pair of Elemes or to sink back into the entropy
from which it had come.
Elemes had been communicating directly with this species for almost twentysix hundred revolutions of the third planet around its star. Indirectly, she had
communicated since its inception as she nurtured the one way channel
between the biosphere and Elemes' universe. The direct communication was
always manifested as a revelation from God by a moral leader who would
then found a new religion. Although clearly not all founders of religions
among this species, as with others, were moral persons, nor did all moral
leaders tend to found new religions, this was always the end result.
The species had not yet evolved to the point where it could effectively
integrate science and mysticism. All direct communications with Elemes were
regarded as mystical experiences, but then so were many forms of selfdeception which were manifestations of fear.

Fear resulted from the deep seated belief of most members of the species that
they could not be creative. This was a manifestation of entropy in the species
that Elemes was doing her best to counter. However, fear shut the mind of
almost all persons to communication with Elemes.
Elemes had as much difficulty communicating with this young species as
parents within this species had in communicating ethical concepts to their
newborn children. Ironically, it was the newborn children who were most
open to communication with Elemes, but their intelligence was too limited to
translate this information for their parents.
Therefore, young children were all open and creative within the limits of their
intelligence, but the fear of their parents forced them to conform to the
repetitive rituals of the species. The parents all punished their children when
they tried to express information from Elemes. They always rewarded their
children when they conformed to the repetitive rituals of the species. The
result was that almost all adults were completely cut off from Elemes.
One of the greatest moral leaders who had been inspired by Elemes had told
the species that they must be as little children if they would enter the kingdom
of heaven, but almost all adults ignored this just as they ignored the same
moral leader's sole commandment to his followers that they love one another
as he had loved them.
Elemes loved the species very much and wanted to help it, but she was limited
by her structuring of the original experiment and the nature of the universe she
had created. To guarantee freedom of the will, Elemes was obligated not to
physically interfere with any species in the new universe. She could only
communicate information to those who would listen. She could not force them
to listen, since Elemes had given every species in the new universe free will.
Therefore, she could only do her best to communicate as clearly and
effectively as possible within the constraints of the simple, embryonic
intelligence of this new species.
Elemes was very patient, but she was beginning to feel herself failing just as
she had failed on countless other planets before.
The pattern of entropy was always the same. The species would evolve rapidly
from uncreative beginnings to a creative species which could predict and
control its own intelligence while having the desire to increase its own
intelligence and its creativity. Its own creativity led the species to create social
analogues of its own intelligence in cities, nations, and empires. But the most
creative persons in the species were always focused on their own creativity
and did not wish to govern others.

Therefore, the least creative persons eventually became the leaders of all
ocieties. Since they were uncreative, they were totally driven by fear and the
desire to control those more creative than themselves. What they understood
best was how to use fear to control others. They therefore eventually
structured all societies to be driven by fear, destroyed everyone's creativity,
and caused the death of their own societies. The same pattern had been
repeated countless times on countless planets including on the third planet.
The problem was that the most creative species on the third planet had now
acquired nuclear weapons and the means for its own total annihilation. Elemes
had to communicate the means of survival to the species, but almost no one
would listen and the few who would listen did not have the intelligence to
implement what had to be done. Therefore, Elemes tried something new.
She would communicate the means by which creative persons could amplify
their own creativity and use this to save themselves and their planet from
annihilation. The problem was that this would take highly innovative
behavior. Furthermore, this behavior could only be effective for persons who
shared Elemes' values. Almost everyone had been conditioned to fear highly
innovative behavior. Almost no one among the adults of the species shared
Elemes' values of seeking to maximize creativity throughout the universe.
Elemes was trying to communicate to everyone who would listen how they
could all tap the open channel to the other universe and use the information
flowing through for their own benefit. Part of Elemes' cosmic quarantine to
prevent destruction to others of her kind and within the new universe, was that
this creative information from her universe could only be tapped by creative
innovators in general. It could only be fully controlled by creative innovators
who were in full harmony with the Universal Ethic of maximizing creativity.
Elemes could not imagine such a person not becoming her complementary
pair. Of course, this person could not be an individual of the species, but had
to be at least an autopoietic octet of four males and four females of the species
who had freely chosen to join with one another to make a new leap in
evolution.
Part of the cosmic quarantine of this universe was that in order to fully control
and integrate the creative information coming through the random channel,
would take at least four complementary pairs of persons, all of them
individually creative, without fear, devoted to the Universal Ethic, and
committed to working together to become a collective creative intelligence
greater than the sum of its parts.
Elemes had never been able to communicate this information to more than a
handful of the adults of this species in the last 2600 revolutions that the third

planet had made around its sun. All of these moral leaders had failed to fully
understand the message. All of them had failed to prevent what they did
understand from becoming further distorted by the religions which followed
them.
This time Elemes had to make sure that the rapidly developing scientific
disciplines of the species were fully integrated with the mystical experience of
her message to the species. She then began formulating her message to all
members of the species in terms of their rudimentary science and of their
mystically based ethics. She hoped that at least one person could understand
the message and then communicate it to at least four males and four females
of the species who with her help would also understand it.
This was the first time she had tried this approach. If it was already too late to
succeed on the third planet, she would try it again elsewhere. But first she
would make a maximum effort to communicate with this promising new
species who could evolve to infinity if they would only overcome their fear
and listen.
David Garlan
The myth of Elemes seemed unlikely to stand alone. David Garlan had written
many books and essays and given numerous lectures and seminars trying to
communicate these ideas in straight, expository prose. Persons always seemed
to destroy their ability to understand through fear. Part of the problem was
David himself. In addition to his other human flaws, he was firmly oriented
toward science and mathematics, although not closed to art or mysticism.
Most persons had been conditioned by a destructive, alleged "educational"
system to fear rigorous disciplines and those who were expert in them.
David was highly skeptical and iconoclastic toward most claims of mystical
experience. He believed that any alleged myustical experience which did not
result in enhanced objective creativity was probably at best self-deception and
at worst a deliberate fraud. All this combined to cut him off from most mystics
and the population in general, almost all of whom made their lives bearable
through self-deception.
The scientists themselves were so frightened of being ostracized by their peers
that most of them could not even entertain in their most private thoughts the
possibility of mystical experience having any relevance to science. Yet David
had neither the knowledge nor the intelligence to fully express his mystical
experiences in a convincing scientifically rigorous way. All he could do was
claim that his modest creativity was directly related to his mystical
experiences.

This cut him off from most scientists. He could fully communicate only with
persons who had fully integrated both science and mysticism. This was a very
small set. And time was running out. He had to find some way of
communicating the essence of his mystical revelation to this very small set of
fully integrated scientific mystics, none of whom he had ever met. Hopefully
then it might be possible to communicate with the rest of humanity so that
what he had to say was clear, understandable, and testable.
David believed in the primacy of scientific method for separating truth from
self-delusion, but he had also come to realize that objective science by itself
was never creative. Indeed, he had found objective science, untied to mystical
experience and moral values, to be a sterile field of intellectual one-upmanship played by academic bureaucrats driven by fear.
The academic scientists often forced their students into the same fearful,
uncreative mold where they would never discover a scientific law, invent a
new machine, produce a work of art, engender creativity in their students, or
innovate anything at all. Still the academic scientist might be able to discourse
most eruditely and authoritatively about the innovations of others, repeating
the same uncreative behavior generation after generation of teachers and
students.
What had to be done was an experiment showing how just a few persons
committed to the sole ethic of maximizing creativity (the Universal Ethic of
Elemes) and united by love without fear in a creative autopoietic union could
outcreate the whole rest of the world. However, this demonstration might take
a few generations - perhaps 75 years or more. The world might not last that
long.
Still there was no alternative but to begin and tell the world what was being
done so that, hopefully, many independent parallel experiments were
performed. This might accelerate the process and give humanity a chance to
save itself from what seemed like almost certain self-annihilation. The
creative process itself should eventually be sufficiently effective to give
humanity more time in which to complete the experiment and learn how to
creatively transform itself.
David had been preparing a whole series of fictional accounts of the Universal
Ethic including a rational rewrite of the Gospel according to Judas and an
account of how organized crime had programmed an actor to become
president while being their puppet, but he decided that there was only time to
publish one more book before beginning the crucial experiment. He would use
the myth of Elemes as a prologue. If there was time he would later write the
books of fiction under his David Garlan pseudonym, which consisted of his
given middle name and in an abbreviated tradition of this Hispanic ancestors,

the first syllable of his father's surname joined to the last syllable of his
mother's surname. Fiction could always be dismissed as make-belief. One was
ethically obligated to assume personal responsibility for one's expository
prose no matter how tempting a pseudonym might be. Therefore, David
dropped the pseudonym and used solely his given name, John David Garcia.
The Fundamental Pattern of Nature
All existence represents information in motion. Information is the symbolic
representation of events and their relationships. The information of the human
species is contained in part within the collective DNA of the species; with the
other part within its extragenetic creations.
To create is to organize some part of the total environment - physical,
biological, and/or phsychosocial - into new patterns that enhance at least one
person's ability to predict and control the total environment without
diminishing this ability for any person. To predict is to imagine a future event
correctly before it is directly perceived. To control is to deliberately cause a
predicted event as, how, and when it is desired.
Nothing that exists is devoid of the ability to predict and control. This ability
is generally called "intelligence", although "intelligence" may have many
other meanings to many persons.
Intelligence is ethically neutral. It may be used creatively to increase
intelligence for one's self and/or others or it may be used destructively to
reduce intelligence for one's self and/or others. The one common denominator
in the evolution of the biosphere is a monotonic increase in the collective
intelligence of the biosphere.
The biosphere has, for at least four billion years, been increasing its collective
ability to predict and control its total environment. This occurs not smoothly
and regularly, but in sudden quantum leaps to be called "dimensional
quadrature" or "quadrature" for short.
There are minor as well as major quadratures. The minor quadratures occur
when one species changes into another. This phenomenon is sometimes called
"punctuated equilibrium" (see the work of Stephen Jay Gould) .
The major quadratures occur when a radically new dimension is added to
intelligence. This phenomenon is to be called "a new order of autopoieses".
The intelligence of matter is limited to predicting and controlling its own
integrity of form. Matter can not predict and control anything outside of itself
nor can it choose what it predicts and controls. Matter is driven by
deterministic laws.

Life is a major quadrature in the evolution of matter. Life can predict and
control events outside of tself. Life can make choices as to what it will predict
and control. Life is only partially driven by deterministic laws. Life has
evolved by a series of quadratures until the appearance of the highest
primates, the hominids, about 5,000,000 years ago.
Over a period of less than 5,000,000 years, the hominids have achieved a new
major dimensional quadrature by adding a fourth paired component to their
brain. Other higher mammals, such as primates, cetaceans, and elephants have
a similar type of quadrature.
Theorem 1: All major quadratures occur when a new order of autopoeises is
established by a new hierarchy of four complementary pairs of intelligences
belonging to the preceeding lower hierarchy.
Explanation By Induction 1
Definition 1: "Autopoiesis" means "self-creation". It is a term coined by
Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana to explain the infinite tangled
hierarchy, analogous to the infinite reflections of two mirrors within each
other, which occures between DNA and protein within a cell. DNA creates
protein and protein crates DNA. Neither can create itself by itself. Together
they can create each other by DNA helping create protein which helps create
DNA which helps creates protein ad infinitum in an infinite tangled hierarchy.
The epiphenomenon of this infinite tangled hierarchy between DNA and
protein is called "Life". The interaction between DNA and protein wthin a cell
is called "Autopoiesis". End Definition 1.

Our local universe, i.e. the set of all galaxies within about 15 billion light
years of our own galaxy - The Milky Way, apparently began 10-20 billion
years ago as a singularity (a sphere of zero or near zero diameter) in which all
the energy of the universe was concentrated. This did not, however, contain all
the information of the present universe, as we will later show. The nature of
the singularity during its first 10 to the -43rd seconds (Plank Time) is not
understood.
During the next few billion years almost all evolution occurrd by deterministic
physical laws which are well understood, although there was a random,
unpredictable factor in the evolution of the universe which is due to Plank's
Constant.
That is one reason why every star system is different from every other star
system, although they all created by the same physical laws. The early, first
generation stars were all made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium which
were the only elements that had evolved in significant quantities during few
momments after the appearance of the singularity, but after the Planck time.
The evolution of matter and energy went from the quantumn gravity era of the

first 10-43 seconds epoch into the era of the monopoles, the era of the quarks,
the era of the nucleons (electrons and protons), then the era of neutrons,
hydrogen and helium.
The autopoietic interaction of a proton and an electron as a complementary
pair produces the first atom in the hierarchy of atomic evolution. The fusion of
four hydrogen atoms, i.e. four electrons and four protons which are
complementary pairs, produces the first major creative quadrature in atomic
evolution and leads to the second atom, helium, in the hierarchy of atomic
evolution. The original singularity was sufficiently hot so that 25% of all the
matter was converted into helium.
The other atoms were to be produced much later by the stars. (Figure 2.
Models of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon, and Oxygen) Through gravity and
other process not yet understood the clouds of hydrogen and helium gases
were condensed into galaxies and stars within galaxies. In the center of stars
the hydrogen was fused once again to form new helium atoms. Gravity forced
gas clouds of hydrogen and helium to condense into stars.
Because, at first, there were so few other elements, planets were not formed.
The stars evolved through various sequences. If they were at least one quarter
the size of the sun, the hydrogen at the center of the star was converted first
into helium at about 10 million degrees. Then the star would collapse again by
gravity after all the hydrogen at the center was consumed until the center of
the star reached 100 million degrees. At this point, the helium itself would
fuse into oxygen and carbon.
Helium burning stars are called "red giants". When the helium at the core was
all gone there would be a further collapse of the star and the oxygen and
carbon would fuse into all the other elements up to iron, at which point the
star would, in various ways, give up its outer elements to the universe where
they would combine with the still abundant clouds of hydrogen and helium
and form other star systems that now had elements for reating planets.
Elements heavier than iron were not formed by nuclear fusion, since fusion of
iron consumes more energy than it produces. Instead the heavier elements
were formed through processes of slow and fast neutron capture in the
atmospheres of the red giants and during the explosions of giant stars into
supernovas.
Stars must be at least four times larger an the sun in order to become a
supernova. The smaller stars, a large majority of which will eventually
collapse into white dwarfs with a carbon core. The remnants of the supernovae
are neutron stars and black holes. The former exists at the center of the Crab
Nebula.

(Figure 3. Crab Nebula)

The latter are theoretical constructs predicted by general relativity, which have
never been directly observed since they absorb all matter and light and do not
emit anything except gravitation. It is believed by some astronomers that at
the center of many galaxies is a giant black hole into which all the stars in the
nucleus of the galaxy are collapsing.

(Figure 4. The Adromeda Galaxy, a twin of our own)

The evolution of matter has a specialized and a generalized path. The
specialized path leads to ever heavier and more complex atoms until it takes
human or super human intelligence to create them, e.g. the transuranium
atoms.
(Figure 5. Diagrams of Lead, Uranium and Californium
The specialized mode of evolution, as will later be shown, always leads to a
dead end. The generalized path in the evolution of matter leads to chemical
evolution which leads to the planets and to life. The path that leads to life is
based on carbon which is the only fully autopoietic atom consisting of a full
set of four complementary pairs of actve electrons and active protons. The rest
of the nucleons are neutralized in an inner helium atom and four neutrons.
Carbon is the only fully generalized atom which is equally an electron donor
and an electron receiver. It is essential to the evolution of life.
No life forms can evolve in nature which are not based on carbon. As we shall
later see, the main course of future evolution always stems from the most
intelligent and most generalized species. Among chemical species (elements)
that species is carbon. It represents a major quadrature in the evolution of the
atomic elements which adds an entire new dimension in the evolution of
matter - the possibility for self-reproducing molecules. Therefore, carbon is
the dimensional quadrature which leads from matter to life through selfreproducing molecules.
The next major quadrature that occurs in the evolution of self- reproducing
molecules are the creation of four complementary pairs of nucleotides,
guanine, cytosine, thymine, and adenine. These form themselves into four
complementary pairs along the two strands of the DNA molecule which itself
consists of a complementary pair, each DNA strand being a complement to the
other.
(Figure 6. Showing four pairs along DNA molecule as well as the four
nucleotides separately. Note that thymine is modified slightly to uracil in TRNA.)
The first cells probably consisted of four complementary pairs of DNA and
protein molecules. These most primitive of cells no longer exist. The primitive
anaerobic bacteria without nuclei are the closest analogues.
Cellular evolution led to multicellular animals, the metazoa. The first metazoa
probably consisted of four complementary pairs of cells. These metazoa no
longer exist. The closest analogues are slime molds and volvox. The simple

metazoa that led to humanity consisted probably of metazoa with simple

nervous systems of four complementary pairs of neurons. These metazoa no
long exist, the much more complex Hydra being a surviving distant analogue.
The culmination of metazoan evolution consists in the advanced four part
paired brain of a few of the higher mammals which still survive. Each cerebral
hemisphere is a complement to the other. The highest brains consist of an
autopoietic union of neocortex, the mammalian cortex, the reptilian complex,
and the fish brain, i.e. the rest of the nervous system.

(Figure 7. Human Brain in Sagital Section Showing Four Brains)

What the highest brains in general and the human brain in particular can do
that no lower brains can do is to predict and control their own ability to
predict and control. This new major quadrature, intelligence about
intelligence, produces a new epiphenomenon, which is creativity. The
epiphenomenon of creativity is at least partially produced by an autopoeisis
between the four complementary paired brains.
The new type of intelligence produced by the neocortex will be called "ethics"
- intelligence about intelligence. The interaction of classical intelligence and
ethics (quantum intelligence) represents a new
complementary pair, which through its autopoietic interactions produces the
epiphenomenon of creativity. End of Explanation 1.

Theorem 2 : The next major quadrature in the evolution of the biosphere will
be produced by the autopoietic interaction of four complementary pairs of
men and women.
Explanation 2 (Using Induction) From the explanation of Theorem 1, it is
plausible that intelligence evolves by folding back upon itself and creating a
new higher order of prediction and control. The process goes from minor
quantum improvements to a major quantum improvement.
Therefore, matter can predict and control the integrity of its own form. This
ability evolves by minor quantum leaps in a specialized mode up to the
transuranium atoms. This same ability evolves in a generalized form through
the carbon atom and its chemical compounds up to the first cells and the
beginning of life, plus all other chemical compounds which structure planets.
Life has a new dimension in its intelligence and it can predict and control
events both inside and outside of the integrity of its own form as well as
choose what it will predict and control. Matter has no choice. Humans can
predict and control their own ability to predict and control and choose whether
they are going to exercise this ability. The ability to make this new type of
choice is to be called "ethics" or "quantum intelligence".
The exercise of the ethical choice in a positive sense produces reativity. The
exercise of the ethical choice in a negative sense produces destructiveness.
Lower animals cannot choose whether they are creative or destructive. They
choose, but do not know they choose.
Humans choose and know they choose. When they choose to increase
intelligence they are ethical and creative. When they choose to decrease
intelligence they are unethical and destructive.
Lower animals are destructive or creative only when they go against
established genetic patterns and choose to innovate behavior. They are just as
likely to destroy as to create when they innovate. Therefore, they neither
systematically create nor destroy.
Humans who are ethical are more likely to create when they choose to
innovate. They systematically create. Humans who are unethical are more
likely to destroy when they innovate. They systematically destroy.
All life is driven by the desire to be "happy".
Definition 2.1: "Happiness" will be defined as a state of mind in which we
believe that our desires are being fulfilled. Desires that have been fulfilled do
not make us happy - only desires that are being fulfilled make us happy.
Unfulfilled desire makes us unhappy. Not all desires can be simultaneously

fulfilled. If the strength and number of desires being fulfilled exceeds the
strength and number of desires being unfulfilled, the net result is happiness.
The converse produces unhappiness. In the absence of desire there is neither
happiness nor unhappiness.
No life is devoid of desire. Only death can eliminate the desires of life.
Clearly "happiness" can mean many different things to different people,
however, in this book it and other precisely defined words will be used to
mean only the definitions given. A problem with all language is that people
use the same words to mean many things. Here all words mean only one thing.
Words which are most ambiguous are precisely defined to help the reader
understand what is meant. The definitions are repeated in the glossary.
Readers are welcome to keep their own definitions for their own use. One
should always be clear as to what one means by a word when one uses it.
Definition 2.2: Truth is information which when incorporated by any life form
increases the intelligence of that life form.
Definition 2.3: Falsehood is information which when incorporated by any life
form, decreases the intelligence of that life form.
Ethics reflect the relative value that a life form puts on truth over happiness,
but note that happiness and truth are not mutually exclusive, merely different.
When truth is valued more than happiness the life form is ethical. When
happiness is valued more than truth the life form is unethical or pre-ethical.
Creativity is synonymous with increasing truth - by definition.
The desire for creativity is programmed by evolution into the neocortex. Life
forms without a neocortex do not value truth at all, they can be neither ethical
nor unethical because they cannot choose between happiness and truth; they
are pre-ethical. It requires a minimum critical mass of neocortex to be ethical.
This minimum critical mass is clearly present in humans. It may also be
present in chimpanzees, dolphins, elephants, and other similar higher
mammals with highly developed neocortexes.
A characteristic of a formerly ethical person who has become unethical is that
the person will seek to be happy through self-delusion. Self-delusion is a
process by which we make ourselves believe that our strongest desires are
being satisfied when in fact they are not being satisfied. The strongest desire
for a fully ethical species is the desire to increase truth - the desire to be
creative. This desire is easy to satisfy by self-delusion.
Therefore, the most salient feature of unethical persons, other than their
destructiveness, is their capacity for self-delusion.

Ethical persons are characterized by their creativity and their lack of selfdelusion. This leads to a fundamental equation for a general theory of
evolution.
Lemma 2.1: Human beings desire only truth and/or happiness as ultimate
ends; there are no other desires which are not means toward these ends.
Lemma 2.2: Happiness and truth are not mutually exclusive neither are they
synonymous.
Equation 1. C = IE
Where: C = Creativity in quanta of new information produced per unit time.
(Range -infinity to + infinity)
I = Intelligence in quanta of old information predicted and controlled per
unit time. (Range 0 to infinity)
E = Ethics in units of desire for truth minus units of desire for happiness
divided by total units of desire. (Range -1 to +1)

Or E = (T - F)/(T + F)
Where: T = Quanta of true information imagined per unit time.
F = Quanta of false information imagined per same unit time as F.
(Range as before -1 to +1)
Note: Negative creativity is destructiveness.

The second definition of E is more tractable than the first because desire is not
readily measurable. However, the last definition only gives a person's ethics
over a particular period of time. Ethics may increase and decrease during a life
time. If they increase to perfection (+1), the person becomes moral.
Definition 2.4: "Morality" is the desire and the ability to predict and control
our own ethics. Morality is the creation of creativity. It is a new major
quadrature of the human mind. It implies hat a person is totally ethical and
values solely increasing truth and cares nothing about his or anyone else's
happiness. "Morality"is our ability to predict and control our ability to predict
and control our ability to predict and control.

Lemma 2.3: Human beings and all other life forms cannot by themselves
become moral, although they can always try to behave ethically.
Subexplanation 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3: Our desire for happiness is genetically
programmed into the structure of the brain. Except for the neocortex, the
desire for happiness in the other three brains is fulfilled by satisfying (1)
physical needs primarily in the fish brain, (2) negative emotional needs (e.g.
fear and anger) primarily in the reptilian brain, and (3) positive motional
needs (e.g. love and compassion) primarily in the mammalian cortex.
Only the neocortex expresses the need for truth, as well as for higher love
based on truth. A person cannot live or function intelligently without the nonneocortical part of the brain. The brain is genetically programmed to have the
three primitive brains automatically direct the intelligence during time of
extreme stress such as great pain, danger, or physical need. Therefore, under
extreme circumstances all persons will behave unethically, although for many
highly ethical persons those circumstances may produce death before the
unethical behavior. But under special circumstances through drugs,
neurosurgery (e.g. lobotomies), and other abuses of medical science, but
almost any person can be made to behave unethically. When they do, they will
usually deceive themselves into believing that their unethical behavior was in
fact ethical and that they are satisfying their need for truth when in fact they
are merely deceiving themselves. End Subexplanations 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3.
Therefore, in order to produce a moral person we need a new order of
autopoiesis so that we can produce a person whose intelligence is not
dependent on the non-neocortical parts of the brain. A process for doing this is
indicated by inductive extrapolation from the basic pattern of major
quadratures in evolution. We begin by noting that apparently all major
quadratures go by quantum leaps of four complementary pairs of lower level
intelligences to create a new higher level of autopoietic intelligence.
This process has culminated in the four complementary pairs of brains in
autopoietic interaction between themselves to produce the first clearly ethical,
creative species. Given that males and females are complementary to each
other and have complementary brains and they already mate as potentially
autopoietic pairs, it is reasonable to extrapolate that four complementary airs
of ethical males and females in a new higher order autopoiesis will produce
the first moral species, a species that can create creativity. We will call such a
species a "Moral Society".
The problem is how to produce a new higher order autopoiesis between four
complementary ethical pairs of males and females. The process suggested in
this book is not sexual, but it requires ethics, love, control of fear, and a new

order of physical autopoiesis, which integrates science and mysticism in order

to succeed. End of Explanation 2.
Science and Mysticism
Science and mysticism are both techniques for expanding truth. Science is
based on experimental verification of alleged models of truth. Its major
function is not to discover new truth, but to distinguish between truth and selfdeception. Science's minor role is to provide a reference background through
which new information generated through mystical insight or any other means
can be integrated into new truth.
True information, by definition, must enable us to predict and control
something. If does not permit us to predict and control anything then the
information is either false or it is trivial.
Definition 2.5: Trivial information is information which cannot be proven to
be either true or false. False information is information which fails to predict
and/or control what in fact it claims it can predict and/or control. Trivial
information may increase entropy but it does not necessarily decrease
intelligence when it is believed.
False information always decreases intelligence and increases entropy when it
is believed. Science is much better at finding falsehoods than it is at finding
truth.
Science tends to ignore trivia since by definition it has no way of dealing with
it. Science is effective because many persons seem to find it easier to imagine
falsehoods than to imagine truth.
Definition 2.6: Mysticism is a process for finding new truth through the
imagination and its unconscious manifestations usually known as "intuition".
The common denominator in all mystics is that they believe that there is a
greater source of information in the universe than humanity and that they can
somehow communicate with this source.
Science usually regards purely mystical statements as at best trivial and at
worst false. Mystics usually regard science as irrelevant to "truth" as they
perceive it. For many mystics psychological certitude or subjective belief
takes the place of scientific verification.
Definition 2.7: A mystical specialist is any mystic who rejects science as
being in any way relevant to his mystical experience. He specializes in
predicting and controlling his own thoughts and cares nothing as to whether
his thoughts have any relevance to physical and biological reality. The only
reality he recognizes is the reality of his own mind.

Definition 2.8: A scientific specialist rejects mysticism as having any

relevance to truth. He is the converse of a mystical specialist.
Definition 2.9: A mystical scientist is a scientist who is a mystic, in so far as
many of his beliefs are concerned, such as the belief in life after death for his
soul, but does not believe that science has any relevance to his mysticism nor
does mysticism have any relevance to his science. He is non-mystical in his
science and non-scientific in his mysticism. Many scientists are mystical in
this way.
Definition 2.10: A scientific mystic is a mystic who fully integrates his
science and his mysticism so that he believes that his mystical insights should
be subjected to experimental verification because they may be wrong no
matter what his psychological certitude. He also believes that his scientific
ideas and insights come from a mystical source and that the universe as a
whole has a moral order to it. Very few scientists or mystics seem to fall into
this category. Among the greatest have been Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Goethe,
Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Teilhard de Chardin.
For no reason other than the fact that almost all of our greatest thinkers and
some of the most creative of human beings of recent times are scientific
mystics, we should all seek to understand scientific mysticism. Yet few
mystics are scientific and fewer scientists are openly mystical in their
approach to science.
Thereom 3: Scientific mysticism is the best process for maximizing creativity.
Explanation 3: By induction and studying the lives of the objectively most
creative persons of the last five hundred years, we would find that they were
almost all openly scientific mystics. The ones who were not openly mystical
were probably closet mystics as was discovered about Newton long after he
died.
More direct scientific evidence for this stems from the Einstein, Podolsky,
Rosen, Bohm Paradox (EPRB), Bell's Theorem in Physics, Alain Aspect's
verification of EPRB, and the many experiments and studies by Werner
Heisenberg, Eugene Wiegner, David Bohm, Helmut Schmidt, and other
physicists who have shown that there is an intimate holistic interconnection
between the human mind and physical reality as manifested in quantum
phenomena. These findings will be discussed in some detail in Chapter 5.
All these studies indicate that there is an infinite pool of true information
outside of our time and space and that human consciousness is intimately
linked to this information in quantum reality (see David Bohms THE
UNDIVIDED UNIVERSE).

Carl Jung and the brilliant, Nobel Prize winning physicist, Wolfgang Paul,
showed in their joint book (THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND
PSYCHE) that there is a line of anthropological, psychological, and physical
evidence independent of the previous studies mentioned, that human creativity
stems from tapping a potentially infinite source of true information outside of
the time and space of our universe.
This quantum information outside of our time and space is the greater source
that all mystics believe in.
Scientific Specialists can be shown empirically to be rarely creative and often
destructive to students more creative than themselves.
Mystical specialization and mystical science can both empirically be shown to
lead to self-deception far more often that they lead to new truth. Therefore,
only scientific mysticism can lead to the maximization of creativity. End
Explanation 3.
Theorem 4: All young children are ethical.
Explanation 4: All young children increase their own intelligence, which is a
creative act. Only adults and older children stop increasing their intelligence
and may in fact systematically decrease it. Since by definition anytime we
increase anyone's intelligence, including our own, without decreasing anyone
else's intelligence, we are behaving creatively and ethically, all young children
are ethical. End Explanation 4.
Theorem 5: All known educational systems in the world are destructive.
Explanation 5: Empirically, there seems to be no educational system in which
a young child's rate of creativity does not decrease. Since almost all
educational systems can be objectively shown to increase intelligence, all
known forms of education must decrease ethics. The net result is a decrease in
creativity. Therefore, all current forms of education in the world are
destructive.
Lemma 5.1: Any educational system with extrinsic rewards and punishments
will be destructive.
Lemma 5.2: Conditioning human beings in any way through extrinsic reward
and punishment will diminish their creativity. It matters not whether it is
natural conditioning or deliberately planned conditioning.
Subexplanations 5.1 and 5.2: Rewards and punishments extrinsic to the
educational process make
us happy or unhappy by satisfying a desire other than our desire for truth in
the case of rewards, or by causing physical or mental pain in the case of

punishments. This causes a decrease in our value for truth which by definition
causes a decrease in our ethics.
A decrease in ethics will, by the definitions of Equation 1, lead to an absolute
decrease in creativity if E ever becomes negative and to a relative decrease in
creativity if E remains positive but decreases faster than I increases.
Furthermore, it can be shown both empirically and theoretically that when any
reward, other than an increase in truth and any punishment other than a nonincrease in truth, are used to condition any human being, intelligence will
always increase more slowly than ethics will diminish.
In general, our ethics are more fragile than our intelligence, just as the
neocortex is more fragile than the rest of the brain. This is why almost all
ethical children dislike almost all schools and why many ethical adults despise
the economic-political systems of all nations. These notions are discussed in
detail in Chapters 6 and 7. End of Subexplanations 5.1 and 5.2 and of
Explanation 5.
Creative Transformation
This book as a whole will show how to create an alternative to the destructive
educational and economic-political systems that dominate the world, by
expanding and using these ideas, theorems, and the concept of autopoiesis to
create alternate educational and economic-political systems. The joint
operation of all these processes will be called "the process of Creative
Transformation".
By creating educational and economic-political systems designed to maximize
creativity rather than systems that depend on extrinsic rewards and
punishments for their operation, we will extend the process of creative
transformation to all humanity and give those who wish it an opportunity to
transform themselves into a moral society. The how, why, and when of this
transformation is the subject of this book.
The process of creative transformation has only four prerequisites to begin.
They are as follows:
1. Those who would succeed must try to accept the
Universal Ethic and guide their life entirely by the ethic
that they must always do their best to maximize creativity,
knowing that at first they may often fail.
2. Those who would succeed must recognize that love is the
act and the desire of trying to help the person we love
maximize her or his creativity and then seek to love every

human being including their enemies, knowing that they

may often fail in the beginning.
3. Those who would succeed must recognize that fear is the
illusion (a false belief) that we can not create and seek to
eliminate this illusion in themselves and others, knowing
that they may often fail in the beginning.
4. Those who would succeed and who have first made some
progress in the first three steps must then try to engage in
a new form of autopoiesis between four men and four
women. To be effective in autopoiesis, the eight persons
should be committed to the Universal Ethic, love one
another, have no fear of one another, and be willing to
jointly synchronize each of their four complementary
brains among themselves. They then engage in autopoiesis
by exchanging information simultaneously between
themselves as to how they may jointly maximize their
creativity; each person seeks to maximize the creativity of
the other seven simultaneously and in the process
maximizes his or her own creativity.
The entire process is an amplifier of creativity. It is a major quadrature for
making us moral.
Some suggestions as to how this new type of autopoiesis may be begun are
contained in the latter parts of this book. The process is self-catalyzing and
will lead to its own self-improvement. Persons who have successfully fulfilled
the previous four steps may have their creativity greatly amplified and be
collectively transformed as a group of eight (an octet) into an "ethical state". A
creative integration of all octets who have reached the ethical state should
produce a moral society.
It is a harmless, objectively verifiable experiment. Those who wish it can
begin now. The following diagram shows the pattern of supermetazoan
autopoiesis.

(Figure 8. Autopoiesis Symbol)

Note: Elemes = LMS = Local Moral Society as elaborated

in CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION.

John David Garcia, 1987.