Grothendieck, Bohm, Sheldrake, Leyton and Theosophy

Grothendieck, Bohm, Sheldrake, Leyton and Theosophy - 3

Let us continue our of recognition - a recognition that some of the best and most controversial mathematician (Grothendieck), physicist (Bohm), biologist cum chemist (Sheldrake), artist (Leyton), psychologist (Weiss) and mystic or esoteric philosopher (Blavatsky) of past two centuries were all pointing to a sort of unified Knowledge (which was termed as Theosophy by mystics which unified western esotericism especially neoplatonism with Hinduism and Buddhism) through their works giving a broader perspective on most of the widely studied fields under modern science and medicine. The knowledge whose five foundational cornerstones as per my intuitive grasp of their works are as below :

1. Holistic transcending limited modern reductionist approach

2. Interconnected rather than limited view of fragmentation

3. Creative and Intelligent rather than simply mechanistic

4. Having a purpose or goal-oriented rather than simply random with no seeming rational purpose

5. Evolutionary

Grothendieck’s emphasis on universal properties across mathematical structures and his perspective considering arrow being more fundamental than object (this perspective is intuitively hinting towards first two cornerstones as enumerated above in my view) gave impetus to other prominent mathematicians of his time especially Saunders Maclane and Lawvere to bring category theory on equal footing with set theory pertaining to foundations of modern mathematical philosophy.

Bohm's Magnus opum "Implicate Order and Wholeness" mainly deals with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. (this perspective is intuitively hinting towards first two and fifth cornerstone)

Blavatsky's magnus opum "The Secret Doctrine" shows that Nature is not “a fortuitous con-

currence of atoms,” and tries assigning to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe. It attempts to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to

uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring. It also argues how the occult side of nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization. Her perspective encompasses all the above corner stones and points to something which she terms as a unification of philosophy, science and religion.

Leyton's magnus opum "Generative theory of Shape" argues how maximisation of transfer and recoverability is fundamental to intelligence and more generally why geometry is equivalent to memory storage. His perspective to me seems intuivitely hinting towards third and fifth cornerstone.

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