The unitive field is an amazing book. It’s full of color and beautiful imagery, but more importantly mind-blowing concepts as big as the black holes in some of his images.
Fredrick Swaroop Honig’s goal in writing this book is to combine the science of physics with the science of consciousness. Considering that Honig is related to the pioneering scientist Lise Meitner, and that he himself is an ordained monk of the Holy Order of Sannyas, a minister of Integral Yoga, and the keeper of a botanical garden and bird sanctuary on Maui, that makes for such a surprising but definitely fascinating non-target. Honig achieves that goal with great simplicity in this short 140-page book that will leave you in awe and wanting to read it again to make sure you don’t miss a thing.
The book is organized into twelve main chapters, each of which poses a fundamental question that remains unanswered in the current standard model of physics. Honig then provides insightful answers to these questions. While I am not a scientist, I found the responses fascinating and life-affirming. I have read books on quantum physics that have made me believe in the scientific basis of ideas like the Law of Attraction; therefore, this book resonated with my spiritual side and I found that the science in these pages validated many of my own beliefs about life, the Universe, and our reason for being on this planet.
Before presenting his Twelve Fundamental Questions, Honig spends a few pages discussing how the Unitive Field idea stands in science, and provides quotes from Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, and Isaac Newton to support that claim. He notes that Einstein “spent the second half of his life searching for a theory that would explain all the laws of physics. Intuitively, he believed that all the laws of nature would be explained by a fundamental law that he called Unified Field Theory.” “. Honig also notes that, like his maternal grandmother’s cousin, Lise Meitner, he was encouraged to “listen to his parents but think for himself.”
Some of the twelve questions Honig asks are: How many dimensions are there in the universe? What is the nature of consciousness and how did it arise? Will the universe continue to expand, or will it contract back into singularity? What factors govern the evolution of life forms in the universe? What is human consciousness and free will, and how can it be aligned with unitive consciousness and intent?
Honig then provides answers to each question, and although each chapter is relatively short, it also contains more information than I can describe in such a short review. Therefore, I will only mention a couple of points that surprised and delighted me.
One was the idea of a Hreem, the power of life force, and how it relates to a creature’s intent and desire to live. Honig lists different creatures on earth and the strength of their desire to exist, or more specifically, “the magnitudes of Hreem’s force causal intentions (ci) in the evolutionary progression of life forms.” He says that “a virus has an intent to live and spread that is equivalent to .01 Hreem.” By comparison, a bird’s is 10,000 and a human’s is 1,000,000. For me, while I respect all forms of life, this explained a lot about the lifespan of various organisms, as well as how precarious their existence is.
However, what I appreciated most was the positive message of the book and how it was supported by scientific and mathematical calculations. We live in a culture filled with pessimism and predictions of the world’s imminent destruction, but Honig looks at how the universe expands and goes through 144 billion year cycles. He states: “According to the unitive field theory, only the expansive force of the big launch and the gravitational force of contraction of the collective mass-energy of the universe determine this rate of expansion. Therefore, the rate of expansion of the universe does not is increasing. The universe will eventually recycle back to the primary singularity, and not an atom, not a calorie of energy, will be lost in the process.” Furthermore, “Unitive Field Theory predicts that the universe will reverse its expansion within 72 billion years from the grand launch and, within the next 72 billion years, contract and return to its primary singularity… This is an eternal cycle. What goes up will come down. All of nature moves in cycles; there are no one-way trips in nature. This universe will recycle into the next universe.”
I imagine this statement means that the world can be destroyed, but even if that happens, to some extent we are all eternal as “not a calorie of energy will be lost in the process”.
As Honig concludes, “In truth, we are one. There is no division between any of us, or between us, and the Unitive Field itself. There is only one Unitive Field of consciousness, and we are all parts of that field, and at the same time, one with the field itself. Just as a wave is one with the ocean, at the same time, it is a wave. So we are one with the field itself, even if we have localized consciousness.”
There is so much more I could say about this book. I’ll let the scientists determine how accurate it is. What I know from reading it is ultimately what I have always known: that our lives matter, that there is no such thing as death, and that our purpose on this earth, as Honig puts it, is “to be of service. That is the secret.” . of the universe and the Unitive Field Theory. Live to serve and you will be aligned with the causal intent of Unitive Consciousness.”
If you read this book, I think you will become a better person because you are a wise person. You will understand why it is the right thing to be kind and how closely we are all connected to each other. I thank Fredrick Swaroop Honig for bringing this illuminating message to our world in a way that makes even the most complicated science understandable because, truly, in all its complexity, the universe is in perfect harmony in its design.