• What are the electrons drawing off in order to be able to keep on running? This question was originally asked by Hal Puthoff in the 70ties.
  The answer is what many people call zero-point energy, or the quantum field, or the quantum vacuum, or virtual particle flux, dark energy which is not a pleasant name for it. These are all the different names that the mainstream
  has come out with. [...]
  If you want to have your Unified field theory of physics [...] and reconcile the macro with the micro, the quantum physics with the Newtonian physics [...] and to rectify it with the mystery of how can we actually be asking the
  question? Which is consciousness. [...]
  Consciousness must somehow be part of the field. [...]
  Consciousness is not simply locked within the human body and brain, but is interconnected [...] interacting with matter and energy. [...] The energy itself is conscious which is now becoming a scientifically proven fact.
  Audio interview with David Wilcock (*1973) US American consciousness researcher, mystic filmmaker, lecturer, author, Bosnian Pyramid & New Physics, presented by the US American talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, host Rob Simone, 2:36:54 duration, aired 28. December 2010

• The picture of an interconnected cosmic web in which the human observer is always a participator emerges from quantum physics. At the atomic level, the world view becomes very Eastern and mystical; time and space become a continuum, matter and energy interchange, observer and observed interact.
  Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, The Tao of Psychology. Synchronicity and the Self, S. 5, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1. June 1982

• Words have a range of meanings. […] The word 'myth' nowadays means false. […] One of the true meanings of the word 'myth' is emergent truth. The word that means truth has now come to mean false. Words can change that much. But words have a way of making comeback. […] At the end of an era fact and myth ap-
  proach each other. Video presentation by Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, mythologist, ritualist, spokesman in the men's movement, author, Facebook entry, posted 5. April 2010, Mythic Nature of the Soul, YouTube film, minute 3:34, 6:42 minutes duration, posted 3. August 2011

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• [Thesis] Education is a self-organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon. Video presentation by Sugata Mitra, Ph.D. (*1952) Indian polymath, professor of educational technology, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, England, The child-driven education, presented by TED Talks, minute 16:29,
  17:14 minutes duration, filmed July 2010, posted September 2010

• Organisms are themselves expressions of [… ] emergent order and agents of higher levels of emergence.
  Brian Goodwin (1931-2009) Canadian mathematician, biologist, founder of theoretical biology and biomathematics, professor emeritus, Open University, author, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots. The Evolution of Complexity, Scribner, 1994, Princeton University Press, 29. January 2001

• Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... Here, each term is the sum
  of the previous two terms. The phenomenon is well known and called phyllotaxis. Many are the efforts of biologists
  to understand why pinecones, sunflowers, and many other plants exhibit this remarkable pattern. Organisms do the strangest things, but all these odd things need not reflect selection or historical accident. Some of the best
  efforts to understand phyllotaxis appeal to a form of self-organization. Paul Green, at Stanford, has argued persua-
  sively that the Fibonacci series is just what one would expects as the simplest self-repeating pattern that can be ge-
  nerated by the particular growth processes in the growing tips of the tissues that form sunflowers, pinecones, and
  so forth. Like a snowflake and its sixfold symmetry, the pinecone and its phyllotaxis may be part of order for free.
  Stuart Kauffman (*1939) US American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, complex systems researcher, author, At Home in the Universe. The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Oxford University Press, 1995, revised edition 21. No-
  vember 1996

• Emergence violates so many of our Western assumptions of how change happens that it often takes quite a
  while to understand it. In nature, change never happens as a result of top-down, preconceived strategic plans, or
  from the mandate of any single individual or boss. Change begins as local actions spring up simultaneously in many different areas. If these changes remain disconnected, nothing happens beyond each locale. However, when they become connected, local actions can emerge as a powerful system with influence at a more global or compre-
  hensive level. (Global here means a larger scale, not necessarily the entire planet.)
  These powerful emergent phenomena appear suddenly and surprisingly. Think about
  • how the Berlin Wall suddenly came down,
  • how the Soviet Union ended,
  • how corporate power quickly came to dominate globally.

• Quaternity, mandala images emerge in times of psychic turmoil and convey a sense of stability and rest. The image
  of the fourfold nature of the psyche provides stabilizing orientation. It gives one a glimpse of static eternity.
  Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) US American medical psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, writer, Ego and Archetype, S. 182, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1992

To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. Yet certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and other adult structures. Transition may involve dissolution of part or the whole structure. Caterpillars actually liquify in the cocoon before they are transformed into a butterfly.

• Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts it will need as a mature butterfly or moth – discs for its eyes, for its wings, its legs and so on. In some species, these imaginal discs remain dormant throughout the caterpillar's life; in other species, the discs begin to take the shape of adult body parts even before the caterpillar forms a chrysalis or cocoon. Some caterpillars walk around with tiny rudimentary wings tucked inside their bodies, though you would never know it by looking at them. Article How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly?, presented by the US American popular science magazine Scientific American, Ferris Jabr, 10. August 2012

• Each level of biological organization builds upon the previous level, and is more complex. Moving up the hie-
  rarchy, each level acquires new emergent properties that are determined by the interactions between the individual parts. When cells are broken down into bits of membrane and liquids, these parts themselves cannot carry out the business of living. For example, you can take apart a lump of coal, rearrange the pieces in any order, and still have a lump of coal with the same function as the original one. But, if you slice apart a living plant and rearrange the pieces, the plant is no longer functional as a complete plant, because it depends on the exact order of those pieces. In the living world, the whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts. The emergent properties created by the inter-
  actions between levels of biological organization are new, unique characteristics. These properties are governed
  by the laws of chemistry and physics. Sylvia S. Mader, US American biologist, educator, author, Biology Tenth (10th) Edition,
  chapter 1 "A View of Life", McGraw Hill Higher Education, 10th editon 7. January 2009, 2010

• These emergent properties are due to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases. For ex-
  ample, although photosynthesis occurs in an intact chloroplast, it will not take place in a disorganized test-tube mix-
  ture of chlorophyll and other chloroplast molecules. The coordinated processes of photosynthesis require a specific
  organization of these molecules in the chloroplast. Isolated components of living systems, serving as the objects of
  study in a reductionist approach to biology, lack a number of significant properties that emerge at higher levels of or-
  ganization. Emergent properties are not unique to life. A box of bicycle parts won't transport you anywhere, but if they
  are arranged in a certain way, you can pedal to your chosen destination. Compared with such nonliving examples,
  however, biological systems are far more complex, making the emergent properties of life especially challenging to study. Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, authors, Campbell Biology, chapter 1 "Evolution, the Themes of Biology,
  and Scientific Inquiry", Benjamin Cummings, revised 10. edition 31. October 2013, 2014

• Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.
  L. K. Samuels (*1951) US American classical liberal, libertarian activist, author, In Defense of Chaos. The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, S. 118, Cobden Press, 1. January 2013

• If an emerging system is born complex, there is neither leeway to abandon it when it fails, nor the means to join an-
  other, successful one. Such a system would be caught in an immovable grip, congested at the top, and prevented,
  by a set of confusing but locked–in precepts, from changing.
  L. K. Samuels (*1951) US American classical liberal, libertarian activist, author, In Defense of Chaos. The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, S. 191, Cobden Press, 1. January 2013

• Releasing feelings and desires leads to firsthand understanding of the fantasy nature of thinking, emotions and desires. All these occur only in our minds, are completely subjective, and have only the most tenuous existence in the moment. Only our belief in that they are real and the importance of thinking, feelings and desires gives them any reality.
  ⚡ Lester Levenson (1910-1994) US American physicist, enterpreneur, founder of the Release Technique/Sedona Method, cult
  leader, No Attachments, No Aversions. The Autobiography of a Master, Lawrence Crane Enterprises, January 2003

• All it takes is a single spark to start a prairie fire.
  Letter written by Comrade critisizing the current pessimistic views in the Communist Party by ⚡ Chairman Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political theorist, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, "A Single Spark Can Start A Prairie Fire'', 5. January 1930, transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project, HTML revised 2004