(level) METAPHYSICAL REALM - Expanded Sullivan Modes
Intuitive: (3 Illusions x 4 Modes of Numinous Contact)
(adaptation of J. C. Gowan's TAC metaphysical system)
J. A. Gowan and August T. Jaccaci, June, 2004
Psychic State
(physical correlate)
Prototaxic
(before symbols)
Sensory Reality
Biological
Physical
(electromagnetic)
Parataxic
(nonverbal symbols)
Social Reality
Cultural
Emotional
(gravitational)
Syntaxic
(verbal symbols)
Scientific Reality
Technological
Mental
(strong)
Holotaxic
(beyond symbols)
Primary Reality
Personal
Spiritual
(weak)
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Spirit:
(free energy)
Symmetric
Spatial Domain
(wavelength)
Auras (halos)
"Clear Light
of the Void"
Poltergeist,
Ghosts
("non-local")
Symmetric, Acausal
(light)
Dreams
Archetypes
The Muse
Imagination
(space)
Inspiration
Analogy
Names
Virtual Reality
(particle-antiparticle)
Symmetry-Breaking:
Manifestation From
Virtual Reality;
Spirit
Spiritual Awareness
(IVBs)
Manifestation:
(bound energy)
Asymmetric
Temporal Domain
(frequency)
(raw energy
conservation)
Shaman, Medium;
Psychic Healing;
Psychokinesis;
Trance; Magic;
Fire Walking;
Glossolalia,
Automatic Writing;
Sensory Brain
(mass)
Fine Arts, Music,
Icon, Myth, Ritual
Aesthetic Senses,
Pursuit of Beauty;
Religious Ecstasy;
Intuition;
Right Brain
(time)
Language, Math;
Literature;
Natural Law;
Experiment;
Invention;
Curiosity,
Pursuit of Truth;
Rationality
Left Brain
(quarks)
Consciousness
ESP, Telepathy,
Precognition,
Clairvoyance,
Levitation,
Out-of-Body;
Whole Brain, Mind
(leptons)
Identity, Ego;
Individuality
(charge and symmetry
conservation)
Group Trance Dance;
Possession Trance,
Hypnotism;
Drug Effects
Hallucination;
Mob Contagion
(electric charge)
Home, Family,
Society;
Local and National
Religions;
Religious Upbringing,
Creed
(location charge)
Evolution and
Development
of the Individual;
Ego Formation
and Integrity
(color charge)
Self-Awareness;
Abstract Thought;
Soul, Name, Identity;
Foreknowledge
of Death
(identity charge)
Return of Body to Spirit;
Resolution of System;
Payment of Symmetry Debts
(forces)
Ego Dies;
Biological Death;
Magic, Occult, ESP;
Chemistry,
Photon Absorption
(matter-antimatter
annihilation)
(creating
perceived reality)
Ego Merged;
Religious Social
Systems;
Heavenly Salvation;
Ancient
Cosmologies
(sun - black hole)
(creating society
and culture)
Ego Controlled;
Science;
Technology;
Biofeedback,
Orthocognition;
Omega Point
(proton decay)
Nucleosynthesis,
Fusion
(creating knowledge
and technology)
Ego Transcended;
Enlightenment;
Peak Experiences;
Satori or Samadhi,
Higher Jhanas;
Mysticism;
Radioactivity,
Fission
(creating saints
and souls)