THE HORIZONTAL CONFLICT: THE MECHANISM OF ILLUSORY FRAGMENTATION

In the fragmentary perception of thought reality is broken into "objects", which are identified, named and compartmentalized. This broken reality is a persistent recurring hypnotic fictional continuity produced by thought.

Other terms that can be applied to the fragmentary perception can be: the Horizontal Conflict, the Self, the I, the observer/ perceiver/ thinker/ controller. The reactions of this META process of thought are more thought.

This fragmentary perception is incomplete because the Self/ the I/ the perceiver is not included in the perception. Only the its objects are perceived (that what is observed - the observed).

Unitary Perception is the complete perception, which includes all that is happening: the perceived AND the perceiver (a product of thought).

In fact there are not two, the perceiver and the perceived. There is only one unitary movement and when that is realized, it means that the limited energy of thought has dissolved in the unlimited unitary Universal flowing movement (without a division/ fragmentation, control or a goal).

This complete flowing Unitary Perception is the primary function of the brain. UP is reflecting the reality that is not fragmented, because it's free of the horizontal conflict, the fragmentation of thought (into the self and not self). The fragmentation is the essence of suffering and problems.

The entity put together by memories (memory) called the "me", the self, the I is an illusion and the suffering and the problem. Its continuity is imaginary.

In fact there is only a transformation, one unitary flow of the Universal transforming energy and nothing that is not transforming, an unchanging "observer" is an illusion produced by thought.

The fragmentary false movement of clinging/ attachment and aversion, pleasure, fear and sorrow, means living in the "future", becoming, time, so not really living in the Universe of energy but in the hypnotic projection of thought.

UP is not an escape from the mechanism of thought, because all thought with its products (Horizontal Conflict, purpose, goal, pleasure, fear, sorrow, the self, self-pity, my will, effort, time, expectation, etc.) is enveloped in UP.

UP is the contact of the brain with the unitary energy of the Universe.

The fragmentary perception of thought is the contact with thought and its products.

ON MOTION

 

In David Bohm’s theory of the Holomovement (or Holokinesis), conventional movement from one isolated point in space to another ("from here to there") is not a fundamental reality. It is a secondary, surface manifestation.

At the deepest level of reality, there is only the Holomovement—the unbroken, non-local activity of total enfoldment and unfoldment of the entire universe.

1. The Surface Level: Motion "From Here to There" (Explicate Order)

What we perceive as an object moving through space from point A to point B belongs to the Explicate (unfolded) Order. In classical physics, an entity sits "here," travels through pre-existing space, and arrives "there."

In Bohm’s view, this spatial translation is only a kind of a projection created by a deeper process, much like a frame-by-frame film reel projected on a screen. The image on the screen appears to move across space, but in reality, each frame is being projected anew from a single source.

2. The Fundamental Level: Holokinesis (Implicate Order)

At the primary, Implicate (enfolded) Order, space and time are not external containers. An electron does not slide through space from "here" to "there". Instead:

• The electron at "here" enfolds back into the total fabric of the Universe (the Implicate Ground/ Order).

• An instant later, the universe unfolds a new manifestation of that electron at "there".

Because "here" and "there" are both enfolded within the same unitary undivided Wholeness, the movement is not a localized jump across a void, but a continuous re-creation of the Whole.

Bohm’s Ink Drop Analogy

To visualize this, Bohm used the metaphor of a droplet of ink suspended in a cylinder of viscous glycerine:

1. Enfoldment: When the cylinder is rotated, the ink droplet stretches out until it completely disappears into the glycerine. The drop is not destroyed; it is enfolded into the whole medium.

2. Unfoldment: When rotated in reverse, the ink droplet draws back together and reappears as a localized dot.

3. Apparent Motion: If you enfold a series of ink drops at slightly different positions and then unroll the cylinder rapidly, the dots will unfold one after another. To an observer, it looks like a single ink drop is moving from left to right across space.

In Bohmian physics, localized movement from "here to there" is an apparency. The fundamental reality is that there is only the Holomovement - he Universe perpetually folding into itself and unfolding into the Explicate Order of  "form".

ON TIME AND SPACE

In quantum theory time and space are emergent phenomena - secondary properties that arise from a deeper, non-spatiotemporal layer of quantum information (the Implicate Order?).

Just as "temperature" does not exist for a single atom but emerges from the collective motion of billions of atoms, space and time do not exist at the most fundamental quantum level.

Holographic projection of spacetime from quantum data. Source: Asian Scientist Magazine

1. Space as Emergent Entanglement

In modern theoretical physics (building on work by Mark Van Raamsdonk, Juan Maldacena, and Leonard Susskind), physical space is generated by quantum entanglement:

• The "Glue" of Geometry: If you reduce the quantum entanglement between two regions of space toward zero, the geometric distance between them effectively goes to infinity. Space "tears" apart.

• ER = EPR Hypothesis: This conjecture posits that entangled particles (EPR pairs) are connected by microscopic wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges). Smooth, continuous space is literally woven together by a dense network of quantum entanglement.

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2. The Holographic Principle

Modern physics demonstrates that a universe with gravity and spatial depth can be mathematically translated into a lower-dimensional boundary that contains no gravity and one less spatial dimension.

This shows that spatial depth ("distance") can be viewed as an emergent projection—much like a 3D hologram projected from a 2D sheet of encoded quantum information.

3. The "Problem of Time" in Quantum Physics

When physicists attempt to apply quantum mechanics to the entire universe (Quantum Cosmology), time disappears entirely:

• The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation: 

  
  
  This equation describes the quantum wave function of the entire Universe, and it contains no time variable (t). From the outside perspective, the Universe is frozen and timeless.

• The Page-Wootters Mechanism: Time only "appears" when an observer inside the system correlates one quantum subsystem (a clock) with another subsystem. Time is a relational perspective between entangled parts, not an absolute background flow.

The Connection to Bohmian Reality

To quantum physics, spacetime is real to our macroscopic perception, but it is not fundamental. At the Planck scale, there is no physical distance or temporal tick - there is only a non-local network of quantum states exchanging information.

This directly aligns with David Bohm’s model: what we perceive as space and time belongs to the unfolded Explicate Order, while the primary reality is the atemporal, non-local Implicate Order.

 DAVID BOHMS 'S HOLOKINESIS: the BLOCK UNIVERSE 2.0?

Einstein’s 4D Block Universe

Einstein’s Special and General Relativity leads directly to the Block Universe model (also known as Eternalism), which states that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously within a four-dimensional spacetime continuum.

In standard relativistic physics, space and time are fused into a single four-dimensional manifold ($x, y, z, t$).

Just as a location in space doesn't vanish simply because you walk away from it, points in time do not cease to exist when they slide into the "past. The Big Bang, the extinction of the dinosaurs, "your" birth, this exact moment, and the far future all exist permanently as fixed geometric coordinates inside a static 4D "loaf" of spacetime.

Bohm’s Holokinesis: Dynamic Enfoldment

David Bohm’s theory of Holokinesis is fully compatible with the Block Universe atemporal view of reality, but it interprets how this simultaneity exists in a more dynamic way.

In Bohm’s framework, the Universe does not sit passively spread out across a temporal grid. Instead, the entire Universe - past, present, and potential future - is enfolded within the unitary undivided whole at every moment and contains everything in an eternal now.

Bohm agrees that temporal succession is an explicate illusion, but he rejects the idea that fundamental reality is merely a frozen, static 4D block. In the Holomovement (Holokinesis), simultaneity functions differently:

• Enfolded Simultaneity: The past, present, and future exist simultaneously because they are enfolded within the Implicate Order—much like multiple overlapping interference patterns encoded on a single holographic plate.

• Continuous Projection: What we experience as the "passage of time" is the Holomovement continuously unfolding information out of the timeless implicate matrix into explicit localized form, and then enfolding it back in.

• The Past as Active Memory: In Bohm's view, the past is not a point sitting behind us on a timeline; it is an active, enfolded trace in the Implicate Order, which is always present. The future exists as an enfolded set of structural potentials waiting to project.

Einstein's Block Universe vs. Bohmian Holokinesis

Feature	Einstein’s Block Universe	Bohm’s Holokinesis
Primary State	Static 4D spacetime manifold	Dynamic, unbroken Holomovement
Status of Time	A fixed geometric axis (like height or width)	An emergent projection from the Implicate Order
Simultaneity	All moments exist at fixed 4D coordinates	All moments are enfolded within the unitary Implicate Order

 NO DIRECTION

There is nothing like "only the perception of one bird singing" or only the perception of one loud car/motorcycle" in Unitary Perception.

In UP, which is the perception of reality, this "problem" ("hypnosis"/ "concentration"/ "occupation"/ "direction") does not exist. This problem is produced by thought (as are all imaginary problems) and in UP thought is enveloped in the universal flowing undivided unitary observation and it dissolves in the complete energy, in the wholeness of the movement of reality.

All "problems" are produced by thought, even though thought is functional and indispensable at work, completing tasks (in the product of thought called "time"), planning (where "time is of the essence").

That means in UP there are no problems (also with UP).

In UP there is no direction. Direction is the same thing as one car, one bird, a goal, a choice, an object. This is absent in UP but thought can persistently try to re-invent this illusion (the Horizontal Conflict of subject - object) and produce its hypnosis, so all the false movement of thought must be enveloped in the Unitary Perception.

UP is not a positive thing, because a positive thing is a direction (towards an object/goal in time). UP is a perception that is not directed towards any object or a goal and there is no perception of time in it.

UP is not a will, will does not help to be in UP. UP is the unitary movement of all the perceptible energy that is happening. Where is my will in all that what's happening?

In UP there is no obstruction. We could say that UP is the flow of reality or that UP is a contact with the flow of reality, it's the constant transformation of the matter and energy of the Universe.

UP = the Universe, the Void.

The Universe is in UP.

The source, the ground, the silence of the Universe is unknown, it cannot be known or reached (positively). it is the extreme of detachment from all (the transitory) things, and it is our essence.

Complete neutrality. No position on any thing. Is it the nothing that gathers all things in itself?

 FREE WILL?

Is the absence of free will a consequence of (or the other term for) the fact that the Universe is one unitary undivided transforming movement (cannot be divided/fragmented)?

Is a "decision" in the Universe that is the one unitary movement an illusion?

Physicist David Bohm said: "All that can be is what is".

Albert Einstein wrote: "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

The statement reflects the implication of the Relativity Theory - often called the Block Universe - where past, present, and future coexist simultaneously in the four-dimensional geometry of the Universe.

So according to our best theory of the Universe, everything already exists. Everything has already happened. Everything is predetermined.

If the experiencer/the me/the I is only a product of thought, how can choice, direction, purpose, "my will be real? The brain inventing the Horizontal Conflict does not reflect reality and it's only a source of imaginary distortion of perception and suffering because it's imaginary, not real.

Only the brain completely reflecting reality (the one unitary movement of the Universe) in Unitary Perception is free of imagination and so free of suffering. 

The absence of free will would not mean that we don't need to make optimal decisions because we don't know WHAT exactly is determined in the Block Universe. So after all, it may still be a bad strategy to lie in bed all day..

 SECURITY

We think we can find security in things or achievements, some objects. We think there must be security somewhere. We gather things and seek everywhere we can but the movement has miserably failed. We cannot find security even in "God", self-help or spirituality, which is a mere idea, a projection of our fears and sorrows. It's all delusion. The horizontal movement in thought/time/memory and the false continuity that we call our "life"/my will/the "I" is only anxiety and disappointment. 

We have been seeking and seeking and what have we found? The brain always wants to identify with something. Is there any thing that can be relied upon, any security? Shouldn't we seriously question if there is security to be found anywhere at all?

Is it not that the fact that we are seeking already imply that we won't find it? :) Any kind of seeking, any striving for a goal, implies time/the future and is already a blockage.

So it is clear that security cannot be in the future. We must completely relinquish the idea of time and completely surrender, let go of everything what we've gathered with indifference to all our knowing, having and wanting. We must surrender to all that is happening without any effort, direction, choice, goal or expectation.

This is not a positive endeavour, adding new content, but subtracting, negating every thing. No external deeds are necessary, but dropping all the clutter, all the attachments. It's not something to do, it's not my will, it's just letting go of all that we think we hold but is not true, real. That means all we are in the horizontal imaginary movement of thought and time, all our knowledge and all and all that we think we have.

That complete negation must must be Unitary Perception, Yoga, Zen, Dhjana or whatever we want to call it? And it must be completely at the beginning, without time/the future. 

Therefore don't ask what to do but what more can be let go so that all that is transitory is dissolved in Unitary Perception. 

What if when all what's transitory completely dissolves in UP, that's and the essence of all freedom and complete security?