(From Wim Kayzer’s “A Glorious Accident”.)
- Physical laws are not eternal, they evolve just like the rest of the universe: human thought and artefacts, biological species, stars and galaxies.
- You can’t shove it (the formation of physical laws) all back to the Big Bang and say it was all set in the first ten-to-the-minus-thirtieth second.
- Fields are physical, but not material. [Newton had trouble with action at a distance, but Maxwell made fields respectable in electromagnetic theory.]
- Structure (form) predominates over matter. (Formative causation.) [This may be where mind and matter meet.]
- Memory extends to pre-human (pre-mammalian, etc.) times. It exists as a structure in a morphological field, not in some storage unit. [The books about Ayla, postulate that the Neanderthals had inherited ancestral memories, e.g. about the curative properties of herbs. But of course, this is fiction.] .
- Post-death experience is like a dream or a nightmare, a self-made heaven or hell. [This resembles the Tibetan Book of the Dead.]
- Recall of a past life may be dipping into any other past personal life, recorded in Jung’s collective unconscious. Reincarnation presumes the existence of separate souls, but maybe we are instead fungible sparks or drops of divine essence.