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Summary

This trans-disciplinary research covered 3 domains: • Health Ecology • Cognitive Anthropology • Geometries of representation (general perspectives and frameworks). It made connections using higher order logic (consult the appendices for a trail of texts).
The 1990’s new paradigms, dynamic, interactive, or non-linear models, and the notions of construction of mental reality and social spaces, do not fully explain the arising of the worldwide drift in deteriorating human health and the damaged world we leave to our children, nor how to stop the spiralling of human behaviour and exploiting resources. This research generated two new methods: Perspectival Mapping^© to take into account all viewpoints in a relative manner, and Topologic Situation Modelling^©, a formal method for global ‘situation modelling’ to understand the anomalies left by conventional and counter-cultural frameworks, and to ‘gauge’ whether near-critical phenomena are going too far. This innovative method is not an integrative or unitive framework but a way of “gauging” developments globally/locally without fragmentation or separation. It does not give specific details or generalised principles; yet it is complementary and crucial to understand a situation in today’s instabilities, the current drift in human health worldwide, the syndromes ‘that affect women more than men’, and some pediatric difficulties.

Note: This PhD study gave rise to an 8-year program of field observations and experiments in Topologic Ecology, traveling in the Australian outback. This confirmed the domain of application of Topologic Situation Modelling©, and successfully tested its effectiveness in the field and daily life, without conflict with any existing frameworks. As of 2022, the 1D ‘vertical axis of deployment’ that it describes and relates to the Autonomic Nervous System as a survival mechamism and as used by humans, is being progressively corroborated in conventional medicine through its effects on body, mind, and behaviour.

Contents

Detailed Table of Contents     List of texts and list of Visual Index                                                                                                  677kB

Visual Index of the media       Screenshots (image summaries) of slides, animations, and overall findings                                 1766kB

Book I: Chapters of the dissertation

Chapter 1: Introduction (the problem of brain and mind in health)                                                                                                 168kB

Chapter 2: Methods (the ‘Local case topology’ research design: integrative and complex )                                                          1135kB

Chapter 3: Health and illness (the core notions of survival & stress/strain, with a difficulty due to descriptive languages)            476kB

Chapter 4: Perspectival Observation (associated with the 2 cognitive experiments to perform)                                                    182kB

Chapter 5: Many Perspectives (introduces ‘Perspectival Mapping’ method)                                                                                   246kB

Chapter 6: Validity, Evidence, and Valuing  (source of the necessity for the topologic method)                                                    610kB

Chapter 7: Topologic Deployment of Perspective (the core of this work; introduction of basic topologic modelling method)     1845kB

Chapter 8: Ancient Perspectivalism, The Earth, and ‘The East’ (a time-&-place independent phenomenon)                             334kB

Chapter 9: Conclusions                                                                                                                                                                   234kB

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          Visual media

Powerpoint presentations (slides)

PPT1 Body                                                                                                                                                   12.3 mB

PPT2 Models Collected from theoretical and philosophical literature                                                           4.9 mB

PPT3 Geometry of Perspective                                                                                                                   1.6 mB

PPT4 Generic Imaging  by Einstein and others                                                                                            2.3 mB

PPT5 Nexial-Topologic Imaging Examples                                                                                               11.8 mB

PPT6 Research Notes (examples)                                                                                                                7.5 mB

PPT7 Three Simple Geometric Rules of Nexial-Topologic Deployment                                                   14 mB

Geometric Animations 

See some comments on page Examples of Topologic Modelling  but flat images do not give a sense of change or shaping as video does:

1-Trefoil                                                                        in and out to take perspective by projection            118 kB      mp4 Video

2-Cube & Sphere                                                        as in “squaring the circle” in philosophy                   17.1 kB      GIF Image

3-Bubbling Up-and-Down Pulsating                                                                                                           49.4 kB      GIF Image

4-Linear Development                                                 sequential deployment                                             556 kB      GIF Image

5-Rainbow Fountain Deployment                               simultaneous deployment                                        399.1 kB   GIF Image

6-External Homothetic Centre of Projection            observing: external/objective point of reference       32.1 kB     GIF Image

7-Internal Homothetic Centre of Projection             observing: internal.subjective viewpoint                   29.6 kB      GIF Image

8- Turn-Around or Turn-Inside-Out (figure 8)                                                                                             76.3 kB     GIF Image

9-Grav-Waves: Gravity, Graveness, Gravid, Gravitation  Heaviness & hence notions of ‘attraction law’     112 kB      MPEG mp4

Book II : Book of Readings & Appendices

References                                                                                                                                                                                        835kB

Appendix A: Vocabulary with Nexial-Topologic Value  (long Table 9)                                                                                            580kB

Appendix B: Cognitive Experiments for the reader to perform (see chapter 4)

        Cognitive Experiments for the reader to perform while reading Chapter 4:

The Lever Experiment  (about cognitive positions of observation in thought)                                                                           378kB

The 3-stars experiment  (trying to match perspectives oriented in different directions)                                                            414kB

Appendix C: Endnotes                                                                                                                                                                      987kB

C1    New Paradigm
C2   The term ‘integral’
C3    Special experiences and the unexplained
C4    Topology
C5    Nexus, nexial, and nexialism
C6    Core culture, ‘secret’ traditions, & kundalini
C7    Spiritually ‘advanced’
C8    Spontaneous yoga
C9    Nexial resonance
C10  Mathematical ‘ball’ versus sphere
C11  Non-algorithmic, non-linguistic, non-imagistic apprehension of ‘likeness’
C12  Carson: An example of analysis based on nexial-topologic understanding of ‘derivation’ in language
C13  Etymology of ‘experience’, ‘explanation’, ‘empirical’, related to peril (e.g. exPERIence)
C 14  Study of the Elements and the I Ching trigrams

Appendix D: Research materials and techniques  (See also presentation <PPT6 Research notes>)         707kB

D1    ‘Ring temperature’ technique for changes in body heat distribution
D2    ‘Body indicators’ and other indications (signs and signals)
D3    Signs of ‘dying’ (process) and sense of ‘in-dying’
D4    Rediscoveries in bodily health experience
D5    Two aminoacid-mineral-vitamins nutritional formulas
D6    Dr Johanna Budwig’s healing recipe (a spread) using oil

Appendix E: Some Collected Special Experiences (‘Exceptional Experiences’ EE)                                         870kB

White (2005, 1998) calls the more extreme forms ‘Exceptional Experiences’ to be described, collected, classified, and studied, to understand aspects of human experience that remain rather mysterious and are usually explained with spiritual frameworks (other realities, real to the mind or brain of the ‘self”).

In 2021, many of these can be now related to altered brain function, activations of the hormonal,  immune or autonomic nervous systems, others to diet or metabolism changes, and yet others to interoceptive sensations that most people do not feel (a very small portion of the population can feel ‘inside’ as well as ‘outside’ with higher receptive sensitivity, including with sharper 5-senses but not only). Dreams also still hold much mystery when they concern the body.

EE1    Proto-health: Drinking and eating less but utilising nutrients better
EE2    Looking in ‘The Vague’ [‘proto-health’]
EE3    B3 ‘even-throughout’ temperature distribution [‘proto-health’]
EE4    B3 ‘Ball breathing’: un-patterned but sensitive [‘proto-health’]
EE5    ‘Ease walking’, a ‘walkabout’ style aided by gravity [‘proto-health’]
EE6    Exercise ball pose: ‘Head water & oxygen’
EE7    ‘Whiff of wind’ in the spine
EE8     Undoing the ‘In-Dying’ and ‘Turn-Around’ (May 2002)
EE9     Alliteration, ‘Activation induces projections’ & ‘Coming back on track’
EE10    Dream 1: Who remembers the body talking to the dreamer?
EE11    Dream 2: Gluey road tar – Trying to ‘cross the road’  [see also tab ‘Geometry’/2nd video Penrose]
EE12    Dream 3: Body message: ‘Stop!’
EE13    Dream 4: Bottom of Mountain and Water
EE14    Dream 5: Crocodile and the ‘Restaur-Place’
EE15    Red spot in females and the face mark
EE16    ‘Cold of dying’ in the spine
EE17    Burning Fire
EE18    Episode of heart congestion, hypoxia, & pain behind sternum

Appendix F of Readings: Extracts from the literature                                                                               8665kB (8.655mB)

F1      Myth: From the Yauelmani Yokuts
F2      Myth: Mother Corn leads the first people to the surface of the Earth
F3      Myth: Chameleon and Hare
F4      Syndromes of instability
F5      Gauging thinkers
F6      Brain central control
F7      Landscapes and forms of stability
F8      Establish: forms of stability
F9      Deep confusing questions
F10    Left-Right: the 2 hands of quickening
F11    Red
F12    Mysterious pass or place (primary & secondary)
F13    San Jiao and principle of inversion
F14    ‘Mysterious Female’
F15    Virtual Reality (the ‘brain simulation we live in’, in 2021)
F16    Variable body
F17    Anatomy notes
F18    Rules of Localisation-Extension in the literature
F19    Integral Inquiry (summary reproduced from Braud, 1998, pp.256-258)
F20   Published ‘Exceptional Experiences’ (EEs)  —   Saint Teresa of Avila, Alfred Tomatis, Julian Jaynes, Lawrence Edwards

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