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Four: A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature, Part II

This meditation on the symbol of the number four is based on a series of personal dreams that came in August of 1999, after I completed my Ph.D. in quantum physics. Weaving around a second dream in this series, I explore the alchemical axiom of Maria Prophetissa and argue that it formulates a worldview rooted in the principle of life. After the Enlightenment, the alchemical goal transformed into what we value the most in our modern world: objectivity. Describing first the rise of mechanical objectivity in the nineteenth century, with its moral rejection of all forms of subjectivity, I show how subjectivity gradually returned to the scene of physical science by considering recent advances in the understanding of quantum mechanics. The concept of a physoid reality introduced in the first article of this series is investigated in this context of a return of the subjective.