Wolf - Matter into feeling: a new alchemy of science and spirit

FURTHER PRAISE FOR

MATTER INTO FEELING

Fred Alan Wolf is an integral thinker who combines his talent for quantum physics with a sharp philosophical mind, a poet's heart, and the mystic's visionary quest. He resolves the problem of modern thought, what can be called epistemological schizophrenia, the crisis of fragmented knowing, in his own creative integration of the important ways of knowingscientific, philosophical, poetic, aesthetic, and mysticalin all his writings, and here in this compelling book, Matter into Feeling. He is one of the significant guides to enhanced understanding, being, and life.

WAYNE TEASDALE, Author of A Monk in the World

Once again, Fred Alan Wolf takes us on a journey into the future. His expertise and wisdom is evident as he presents the cellular map to love. After reading Matter into Feeling, your universe will never be the same.

MICHAEL TOMS, Co-founder and Host of New Dimensions Radio and Author of A Time for Choices

For decades, Fred Alan Wolf has been one of the foremost representatives of new-paradigm thinking in science. Using the discoveries of quantumrelativistic physics, he has been able to bring scientific rigor into the study of such elusive phenomena as mysticism, shamanism, dreams, the relationship between the mind and the body, and the nature of reality. His latest book, Matter into Feeling, a brilliant synthesis of the ancient wisdom of Qabala and modern physics, is in many ways a culmination of his passionate quest. In this ground-breaking work, Wolf has succeeded in expressing profound ideas in a captivating, easily understandable style.

STANISLAV GROF, M.D., Author of Psychology of the
Future and The Cosmic Game

Fred Alan Wolf's methodical and scholarly work to interpret ancient mystical traditions in terms of modern science, deserves our rapt attention and deepest thought.
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Matter into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit

Copyright 2002 by Fred Alan Wolf

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolf, Fred Alan

Matter into feeling : a new alchemy of science and spirit / Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.

p. cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-930491-00-X (alk. paper)

1. Mind and body. 2. Matter. 3. Emotions. 4. Philosophy.

BF161.W64 2002

110--dc21

2002005909

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

This book is printed on recycled acid-free paper.

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To my mentor the late Carlo Suars. His vision guides me.

Also to my wife, Sonia, who provides the necessary reflection
of love in my life and the reminder that the One Mind
can only be witnessed through another's eyes.

And I would like to thank Natalie Reid for a helpful
discussion regarding Hebrew characters and words.

Mind into Matter

The Spiritual Universe

The Dreaming Universe

The Eagle's Quest

Parallel Universes

The Body Quantum

Star Wave

Taking the Quantum Leap

Space-Time and Beyond

Shall we be able to realize, on a higher plane, alchemy's old dream of psychophysical unity, by the creation of a unified conceptual foundation for the scientific comprehension of the physical as well as the psychical?

Wolfgang Pauli, physicist

In my previous book, Mind into Matter, my goal was to show that within your own mind and body lies a majestic story filled with drama, pathos, humor, intelligence, fantasy, and fact. While it is certainly your own story, it is also the story of the entire universe, its creation, transformation, and ultimate purpose. I showed how this story called you unfolds into a panorama of life, literally a you-niverse. I explored how the basic operations of what I call the new alchemythinking, sensing, feeling, and intuitingform and shape the primary material of our conscious and unconscious life. And we saw that reshaping this primary material gives rise to forces that transform the world and us, namely creation, animation, resistance, vitality, replication, chance, unification, structure, and transformation. The ultimate goal of all this being the transmutation of information into matter; matter arises from minda vast field of influence commonly envisioned as the Mind of God.

You may consider Mind into Matter, then, to be an introduction into what the ancients called the great work of new alchemy. And now having introduced you to the new alchemy, much remains to be explored. We might ask ourselves, for example, How do I use the tools presented in Mind into Matter to change myself ? How do I realize these transformational forces? How do I live a more creative and fruitful spiritual life?

Realization of the new alchemy brings novel forms of the creative transforming forces into play. While the mind-to-matter transformation deals with primary or archetypal images and how these images become material, the next phase of the great work is the transformation of the newly-formed matter into feeling. This is where we begin to feel life in our bodies, as real living tissue. And this applies to all living beings, as all living beings feel. Feeling goes beyond the senses and can be imagined as the fundamental awareness out of which all of the other senses develop. Feeling results from the incessant hum of life itself.

In Mind into Matter I brought forward the notion of Adam Kadmonthe universal and archetypal human. This Adam, unlike the original Adam of the Bible, is capable of realizing at once spirit, matter, and full powers of transformation. What makes Adam Kadmon differ from the biblical Adam can be summarized into one word: feeling. The Adam of the Book of Genesis seems almost an automaton, incapable of any real feeling, except perhaps for the feeling of shame when he and Eve are thrown out of Eden. Adam Kadmon, on the other hand, is capable of feeling deeply all of the transformational possibilities embedded within him. So we can say that Adam represented the first phase of the transformationmind into matterwhile Adam Kadmon represents the second phase matter into feeling.

As with Mind into Matter, Matter into Feeling is divided into nine chapters, each framed by the nine letter-symbols of the Hebrew alphabet, or aleph-bayt. In Mind into Matter we dealt with the archetypes spirit, represented by aleph (, 1), through structure, represented by tayt (, 9). Now we will be concerned with their developmenttheir transformation from seeds into young sprouts. This is accomplished in Qabala by multiplying each letter-symbol by the number ten. Since the letter-symbol for ten in Hebrew is