Frequencies, Bodies and Planes

Overview

Human experience is shaped by two complementary modes of reality: matter and spirit. These terms do not refer to supernatural claims or narrow materialism. Instead, they describe two fundamental logics that appear across physics, psychology, mathematics, and spiritual traditions.

Matter is the logic of measurable reactions, physical structures, and local interactions. Spirit is the logic of meaning, intention, resonance, and future-oriented organization. Both are necessary to understand how humans perceive, act, and create.

Matter and Spirit: Two Complementary Logics

Matter	Spirit
Local reactions	Global patterns
Cause → effect	Goal → organization
Measurable quantities	Meaningful qualities
Fixed rules and definitions	Emergent insight and transformation
Physical organs and signals	Symbolic centers and resonant fields

These two logics do not compete. They interlock. Matter provides structure; spirit provides direction. Matter gives the world its form; spirit gives the world its meaning.

Three Structural Concepts: Frequency, Body, Plane

Across traditions and sciences, three concepts appear repeatedly when describing how humans experience the world: frequency, body, and plane. These are not mystical claims; they are structural metaphors that help explain how different layers of experience organize themselves.

Concept	Material Interpretation	Spiritual Interpretation
Frequency	A synchronizing process (clock, rhythm, neural oscillation)	A resonance of meaning, mood, or intention
Body	A functional system (organ network, sensory apparatus)	A symbolic field of experience (emotional body, subtle body)
Plane	A domain of information (light, sound, physical field)	A domain of meaning (vision plane, thought plane, sign plane)

These concepts allow us to describe complex human functions without reducing them to chemistry or inflating them into miracle claims. They provide a scientific and symbolic vocabulary for understanding how organs, perceptions, and meanings align.

Purpose of This Work

The following sections explore how matter and spirit appear in logic, mathematics, psychology, religious traditions, and scientific theories. They show that the distinction between material and spiritual is not a cultural invention but a structural feature of human experience.

This work does not argue for or against any doctrine. It simply reveals the deep architecture that underlies perception, meaning, and life — an architecture that becomes visible whenever we examine how humans think, feel, and act.

Matter and Spirit in Logic and Mathematics

The distinction between matter and spirit is not limited to the physical world. It appears just as clearly in logic, mathematics, and computation. Every formal system has a “material” side — the strict rules, definitions, and deductions — and a “spiritual” side — the emergence of new frameworks, new meanings, and new insights that were not explicitly contained in the initial formulation.

Material Logic and Mathematics

Material logic is the logic of fixed rules. It follows definitions, axioms, and implications exactly as written. First-order logic is the clearest example: symbols have fixed meanings, and deductions proceed mechanically from one statement to the next.

Rule-based deduction: Implications follow strict laws. If A implies B, and B implies C, then A implies C — always, without exception.
Literal interpretation: Variables, functions, and definitions mean exactly what they are declared to mean.
No emergence: Nothing appears in the conclusion that was not already encoded in the premises.

Material logic is the “physics” of thought: it moves step by step, locally, without changing its own framework.

Spiritual Logic and Mathematics

Spirit logic is different. It is the logic of discovery, insight, and transformation. It is what happens when a calculation or proof leads to a new concept, a new structure, or a new interpretation that was not explicitly contained in the initial statement.

Emergent meaning: A problem leads to a new idea that changes the entire framework of reasoning.
Hidden goals: The reasoning is guided by patterns, metaphors, or intuitions not literally written in the axioms.
Qualitative transformation: The conclusion may belong to a different “world” of concepts than the premise.

Spirit logic is the “life” of thought: it moves toward meaning, not just deduction. It discovers what was not explicitly stated, guided by deeper structures that reveal themselves only through exploration.

Material and Spiritual Aspects in Artificial Intelligence

The same distinction appears in artificial intelligence. Machine learning and deep learning illustrate the material and spiritual modes of computation.

Machine Learning as Material Logic

Traditional machine learning behaves like material logic. It fits formulas to data, solves equations, and finds parameters that satisfy a predefined structure. It works within the framework it is given.

Deep Learning as Spiritual Logic

Deep learning behaves more like spirit logic. It discovers patterns not explicitly written in the formulation. It can arrive at solutions that were not present in the text, the rules, or the initial structure. It forms internal representations — a kind of “machine spirit” — that guide its behavior beyond literal instructions.

In this sense, any intelligent system has both a material side (the literal rules it follows) and a spiritual side (the emergent patterns and goals that arise from its learning).

The Universality of the Distinction

Every realm — physical, logical, mathematical, computational — contains both material and spiritual aspects. A machine can follow raw sensor data directly, or it can operate through higher-level theories that reinterpret the data. A purely material machine reacts only to explicit instructions. A spiritual machine adapts, reinterprets, and transforms its own framework.

This shows that the distinction between matter and spirit is not limited to metaphysics. It is a structural feature of reasoning itself. It can be expressed in strict mathematics, in tautological formulations, or in formal logic — not only in physical experience.

Organs, Planes, Bodies, and Frequencies

When speaking of spiritual structures such as chakras, frequencies, or centers, we are not claiming a measurable physical substance. Rather, we are describing a deeper logic: the correspondence between material organs, functional planes of reality, symbolic centers, and the mathematical frequencies that organize them. This logic is not limited to any tradition; it arises naturally from the distinction between matter and spirit.

Material Organs and Their Networks

Every organ has a material basis: eyes, ears, skin, cortex, nerves. These structures form a physical network that responds to specific kinds of information. For example, the visual system includes the eyes, the visual cortex, and the neural pathways that integrate light-based information into perception.

This network is the “body” of the organ — the material substrate through which a particular mode of experience becomes possible.

Planes of Reality and Functional Domains

Each organ corresponds to a functional plane — a domain of reality to which it is attuned. The visual system corresponds to the plane of light; the auditory system to the plane of sound. These planes are not merely physical wavelengths. They are the aspectual geometries through which the world is interpreted.

Vision does not simply react to photons; it constructs a coherent visual world. This construction is spiritual in the sense that it involves abstraction, interpretation, and meaning — not just raw measurement.

Centers and Symbolic Integration

A center is the symbolic unity of an organ and its plane. For vision, this center is not only the eyes or the cortex, but the entire integrated function that aligns perception, attention, and interpretation. Spirit generalizes this into a symbolic form — a “third eye” — representing the whole visual function as a single ideal.

This symbolic center is not a physical object. It is a mathematical template that unifies the organ, its network, and its plane into one coherent function.

Frequencies as Mathematical Resonances

In spiritual language, frequencies describe the resonance of an organ-plane-center system. In mathematical terms, a frequency is a synchronizing function — a clock that aligns processes. Material thought resonates with material thought; spiritual thought resonates with spiritual thought. When two domains resonate across levels, the mismatch can feel like a metaphysical break.

Frequencies can be modeled mathematically: exponential growth, logarithmic grounding, oscillation, integration, differentiation. These functions describe how a center moves through time — whether it grows from the past (logarithmic), accelerates into the future (exponential), or stabilizes in the present (harmonic).

Thus, spiritual “frequencies” are not physical waves. They are mathematical ideals that describe how different centers of experience organize themselves.

Bodies as Resonant Fields

Each frequency generates a “body” — a field of experience with its own density, scale, and orientation. A frequency with more negative oscillations may appear “smaller” or more inward; one with positive acceleration appears “larger” or more outward. These bodies overlap, interpenetrate, and form the multi-layered structure of human experience.

When visualized, these bodies must be projected into lower dimensions, losing some qualities but preserving essential topologies — just as Hilbert noted about projecting higher-dimensional structures.

Why These Structures Are Not Measurable

These organs, planes, centers, and bodies cannot be measured directly because they are not first-hand matter. They are the spiritual organization of matter — the way material processes become meaningful, coordinated, and resonant. Vision is not identical to light; it is the spiritual plane that interprets light. Hearing is not identical to sound; it is the spiritual plane that interprets vibration.

Spiritual information is a mathematical substrate: a meta-essence that coordinates activity, aligns perception, and integrates experience. It is not a physical energy, and attempts to treat it as such inevitably fail. Metaphor, symbolism, and mathematical analogy describe it far better than physical measurement.

The Natural Emergence of Organs, Bodies, and Planes

The description of chakras — or any spiritual system of centers — follows naturally from the structure of experience. Once we recognize that every organ has a material body, a functional plane, a symbolic center, and a mathematical frequency, the entire system emerges without artificial invention. It is a direct consequence of the distinction between matter and spirit.

Traditions and Sciences of Planes, Bodies, and Centers

The ideas of planes, bodies, and centers are not unique to any single system. They appear, in different languages and symbols, across religious traditions, philosophical schools, and even scientific theories. What changes is the terminology and emphasis; what remains is the structural intuition: that experience is organized into levels, fields, and focal points of meaning.

Buddhist Views: Skandhas, Realms, and Centers of Experience

In Buddhism, the human being is often described through skandhas (aggregates): form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. These are not “organs” in the physical sense, but layered functions that together create the experience of a person.

Planes: The various realms of existence (desire realm, form realm, formless realm) function as planes of experience, each with its own mode of perception and attachment.
Bodies: The notion of a “subtle body” appears in Vajrayana and tantric Buddhism, where channels and winds (nadis and prana) form an energetic body beyond the gross physical one.
Centers: Meditation traditions often speak of centers of awareness (such as the heart, the hara, or specific chakra-like points) as focal nodes of consciousness and transformation.

While Buddhism often avoids metaphysical speculation, its practical psychology clearly recognizes structured planes of experience, layered bodies of function, and centers of attention and insight.

Hindu Views: Chakras, Koshas, and Lokas

Hindu traditions, especially in yoga and tantra, present a highly developed model of centers, bodies, and planes.

Centers (Chakras): Chakras are symbolic centers along the subtle body, each associated with specific organs, functions, and states of consciousness. They unify physical structures, psychological tendencies, and spiritual potentials.
Bodies (Koshas): The koshas are “sheaths” or bodies: physical, energetic, mental, intellectual, and blissful. Each sheath is a layer of experience, forming a multi-body structure around the self.
Planes (Lokas): Lokas are planes or worlds of existence, from gross to subtle to transcendent. They describe the larger field in which bodies and centers operate.

Here, the correspondence between organ, body, and plane is explicit: each center has a bodily network, a functional domain, and a place in a larger cosmic topology.

Other Traditions: Kabbalah, Christian Mysticism, and Esoteric Systems

Many other traditions express similar structures in their own symbolic languages.

Kabbalah: The Tree of Life presents sefirot as centers, worlds (Olamot) as planes, and various soul-levels (nefesh, ruach, neshamah, etc.) as bodies of consciousness.
Christian Mysticism: Ideas of “inner man,” “spiritual body,” and “heavenly realms” function as bodies and planes, with the heart or Christ-center as a focal point of transformation.
Esoteric and Hermetic Systems: Many speak of astral, mental, and causal bodies, along with planes of existence and centers of power or awareness.

Across these systems, the pattern repeats: centers unify functions, bodies carry them, and planes contextualize them.

Semiotics: The Plane of Signs and Meaning

Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning, introduces a distinctly modern version of planes and centers. It distinguishes between the material signal and the plane of meaning in which signs operate.

Plane of expression vs. plane of content: The physical form of a sign (sound, image, text) belongs to the expression plane; its meaning belongs to the content plane.
Meaning as a plane: The “world of signs” is not a physical world, but a structured plane of relations, interpretations, and codes.
Centers of interpretation: The interpreting subject functions as a center that organizes and navigates this plane of meaning.

Even without using spiritual language, semiotics effectively describes a spiritual structure: a plane of meaning, bodies of discourse, and centers of interpretation.

Socionics and Psychological Typologies

Socionics and related typological systems (inspired by Jung, information metabolism, etc.) describe the psyche as a structured system of functions, each with its own domain and strength.

Functions as centers: Each information function (logic, ethics, sensing, intuition, etc.) acts as a center of processing for a specific kind of information.
Model of the psyche as body: The arrangement of functions in a type (strong/weak, valued/unvalued) forms a “body” of psychological structure.
Information fields as planes: The idea of information metabolism implies a plane of informational reality in which these functions operate.

While presented as psychology, this is structurally close to spiritual models: centers, bodies, and planes of information and meaning.

Scientific Views: Fields, Levels, and Emergent Centers

Science, when it moves beyond strict reductionism, also introduces concepts that resemble planes, bodies, and centers.

Fields as planes: In physics, fields (electromagnetic, gravitational, quantum) are planes of influence in which particles move and interact.
Systems as bodies: In systems theory and biology, organisms are treated as bodies of interaction, with emergent properties not reducible to individual parts.
Attractors as centers: In dynamical systems, attractors function as centers toward which behavior converges — a mathematical analogue of a center of organization.

These scientific concepts do not claim spiritual status, but they show that the structure of planes, bodies, and centers is deeply natural to how we understand complex reality.

Synthesis: A Shared Structural Intuition

From Buddhist aggregates to Hindu chakras and koshas, from Kabbalistic sefirot to semiotic planes of meaning, from socionic functions to scientific fields and attractors, a shared structural intuition appears: reality is layered into planes, organized into bodies, and focused through centers.

This does not prove any single doctrine. It shows that the language of planes, bodies, and centers is a natural way for human thought — spiritual, philosophical, and scientific — to describe the deep organization of experience.

Extremes of Materialism and Spiritualism

Throughout history, there have been attempts to describe the human being in purely material terms, and attempts to describe the human being in purely spiritual terms. Both extremes fail in similar ways: one collapses the human into chemistry, the other dissolves the human into fantasy. The balanced view of matter and spirit avoids both errors.

Attempts at Pure Materialism

Pure materialism seeks to describe humans entirely through measurable substances: chemicals, neural firings, absolute positions, and exact values. In its strictest form, it avoids any language of mood, intention, meaning, or subjective experience. Everything must be expressed in clinical or mechanical terms.

Behaviorism: Early behaviorists attempted to eliminate all reference to inner states. Only observable behavior counted. Words like “joy,” “fear,” or “hope” were replaced with stimulus-response chains. This approach eventually collapsed because it could not explain creativity, intention, or meaning.
Eliminative Materialism: Some philosophers claimed that mental states do not exist at all — that terms like “belief” or “desire” are outdated folk concepts. This view never gained practical traction because humans cannot function without acknowledging inner life.
Clinical Reductionism: In extreme clinical language, “good mood” becomes “elevated affect,” “sadness” becomes “depressive symptomatology,” and “love” becomes “attachment behavior.” While useful in medicine, this language cannot describe the fullness of human experience.
Neurochemical Absolutism: Some modern views attempt to reduce all human states to neurotransmitter levels. This ignores the fact that meaning, culture, intention, and personal history shape experience far more than chemical concentrations alone.

Pure materialism ultimately fails because it cannot account for purpose, creativity, or meaning. It reduces the human to a machine, but humans do not behave like machines.

Attempts at Pure Spiritualism

On the opposite extreme, some traditions and individuals attempt to eliminate the material world entirely — to live “on air and love,” to deny the body, or to treat physical reality as illusion or evil. These attempts also fail, though in a different direction.

Ascetic Extremes: Certain ascetics attempted to abandon food, sleep, or bodily care, believing the body to be a hindrance. Many suffered illness or death. Even spiritual traditions that value asceticism warn against these extremes.
“Living on Prana” Movements: Some modern groups claim that humans can live without food, sustained only by spiritual energy. These claims consistently fail when tested, often leading to severe harm.
Anti-Material Mysticism: Some mystics treat the physical world as evil or irrelevant, attempting to operate in daily life as if only ideas mattered. This leads to practical collapse: one cannot work in a factory, raise a family, or maintain health by ignoring material reality.
Fantasy-Based Living: Attempts to replace physical action with imagination — “I will succeed by intention alone” — inevitably fail because intention without embodiment cannot produce results.

Pure spiritualism fails because it denies the body, the world, and the material conditions that make life possible. It dissolves the human into abstraction.

The Similar Fate of Both Extremes

Although pure materialism and pure spiritualism appear opposite, their fate is remarkably similar. Both destroy the human being:

Pure materialism reduces the human to a machine with no meaning.
Pure spiritualism reduces the human to a ghost with no grounding.

Both extremes collapse because humans are neither machines nor ghosts. We are beings of matter and spirit — embodied, intentional, grounded, and meaningful. Any worldview that denies either side eventually fails to describe human life.

Conclusion: The Necessity of Both

The history of thought shows that attempts to eliminate matter or spirit lead to the same outcome: the loss of the human. A complete understanding of life requires both the material and the spiritual, the measurable and the meaningful, the body and the center, the plane and the world.

Triads of Reality: Alchemy, Mathematics, and Theology

Many traditions divide reality into three great domains. The Kybalion and Hermetic alchemy describe:

The Great Physical Plane — bodies, forms, and material processes.
The Great Mental Plane — concepts, centers, and inward systems.
The Great Spiritual Plane — the vast fields or planes that organs respond to.

This triad mirrors the structure developed in this work:

Hermetic Plane	This Work	Description
Physical	Bodies	Material networks and organs.
Mental	Centers	Conceptual structures and inward systems.
Spiritual	Planes	Fields of meaning and resonance.

This pattern is not unique to Hermeticism. It appears across cultures and sciences.

Similar Triads in Other Traditions

Hinduism: sthula sharira (physical body), sukshma sharira (mental body), karana sharira (causal/spiritual body).
Buddhism: form (rupa), mind (nama), consciousness-field (vijnana-dhatu).
Kabbalah: nefesh (physical vitality), ruach (mental/emotional self), neshamah (spiritual plane).
Christian Mysticism: body, soul, spirit.
Anthroposophy: physical body, etheric/astral bodies, spirit-self.
Modern Semiotics: expression-plane (physical sign), content-plane (mental meaning), interpretive field (cultural/spiritual plane).

These systems differ in language, but the structure is the same: a physical layer, a mental or conceptual layer, and a spiritual or field-like layer.

Mathematical Correspondence and Frequency Conversion

Mathematics also reflects this triadic structure. Systems resonate when they share compatible “frequencies” — meaning compatible structures, symmetries, or transformations. When frequencies differ, conversion pathways are required.

Similar structures correspond naturally: functions with similar curvature, symmetry, or topology map smoothly onto each other.
Different frequencies require transformation: logarithmic → linear → exponential mappings are not 1:1; they require conversion.
Concepts scatter across organs: a single idea may activate vision, memory, emotion, and motor planning — each with its own frequency.
Ideal unity (“taste of one”) is rare: development reveals separation, not fusion; different centers respond with different latencies.

In mathematics, any space with multiple coordinate systems requires transformations. Likewise, the mind requires transformations between centers, bodies, and planes.

A Theological Trinity as Center, Body, and Plane

Even the Christian Trinity can be interpreted through this structural lens:

Trinitarian Aspect	Structural Role	Description
Son	Centers	Embodied, individual, concrete forms — the “separate structures.”
Father	Bodies	The inward idea or organizing intelligence reflected in the organism.
Holy Spirit	Planes	The field or atmosphere in which the organ acts — responsive but not itself a mind.

In this interpretation, the Holy Spirit is not an “entity” but a plane of resonance; the Father is the inward idea or organizing intelligence; and the Son is the embodied center. This mirrors the same triadic structure found in Hermeticism, Hinduism, mathematics, and psychology.

“Bunking” a Materialist: The Limits of Matter-Only Thinking

A strict materialist claims that everything about humans can be reduced to first-order physics: chemicals, neural firings, and local reactions. Goals, meanings, and purposes are treated as illusions or as mere by-products of matter. This section examines how that claim fails when tested against real life, evolution, and the mathematical structure of complex systems.

Tests for a Pure Materialist

If materialism were complete, a person could live entirely within its terms. But simple tests show that this is impossible.

Test 1 — Define your goals in pure physics: A strict materialist should be able to say, “I want to maximize dopamine release in my striatum” instead of “I want a good life,” “I want money,” or “I want purpose.” In practice, no one lives this way. Real goals are expressed in terms of meaning, not molecules.
Test 2 — Act only on physical necessity: A strict materialist should never talk about “stress,” “motivation,” or “mood,” and should never move their hands toward a painful area unless performing a strictly defined physical intervention. Yet humans constantly act on psychological and symbolic cues.
Test 3 — Live without future orientation: A strict materialist should live like a thermostat: reacting only to immediate stimuli, with no plans, no long-term goals, and no imagination. Humans cannot do this. Even the simplest organisms show future-oriented behavior.

These tests reveal that human life is structured by goals, meanings, and future-oriented patterns that cannot be reduced to first-order material descriptions.

Evolution as a Spiritual Process Inside Matter

Evolution is often presented as a purely material process: random mutations and natural selection. But its long-term behavior looks like a hidden goal-based entity. It accumulates information, optimizes structures, and converges toward stable, functional forms.

Accumulation of structure: Over time, evolution builds increasingly complex systems that maintain themselves and adapt.
Emergent optimization: Systems become better at surviving, sensing, and responding — as if guided by a long-term “goal.”
Improbable outcomes: The probability of life arising by random local events alone is so small that it is effectively zero.

Evolution is not magic, but it is spiritual in the mathematical sense: it is a higher-order pattern that shapes matter over time. Spirit, in this sense, is the future acting inside the present through long-term organization.

Life as an Improbable Attractor

Life is an extremely improbable configuration of matter. If we treated it as a simple random event, we would never expect it to appear. Yet it does appear, and once it appears, it stabilizes, spreads, and complexifies.

This suggests that life is not a random accident, but a kind of mathematical attractor: a structure that emerges when matter is allowed to organize over long timescales. Materially, life is improbable. Spiritually — in the sense of long-term pattern and equilibrium — life is natural.

The “Fifth Element”: Meaningful Response in Matter

When matter is organized into complex systems, a new quality appears: meaningful response. Computers are built from physical components, but their behavior is guided by goals, programs, and patterns. They respond to meaning, not just to raw forces.

This “fifth element” is not a new substance, but a new level of organization. It is matter arranged so that it can carry spirit: goals, interpretations, and decisions. In this sense, spirit is the mathematical quality of matter’s long-term organization.

Why Pure Materialism and Pure Spiritualism Both Fail

Pure materialism fails because it denies meaning, goals, and future orientation. It reduces humans to machines, but humans do not live as machines. Pure spiritualism fails because it denies the body, physics, and constraints. It dissolves humans into fantasy, ignoring the substrate that makes experience possible.

Both extremes destroy the human being: one turns us into mechanisms, the other into ghosts. A complete view recognizes that spirit is the future-oriented, goal-based organization of matter, and matter is the substrate through which spirit becomes real.

Final Insight: Spirit as the Future Inside Matter

Spirit is not a ghost outside the world. It is the way the future shapes the present through patterns, goals, and long-term organization. Matter reacts to the past; spirit responds to the future. Life is the union of both: a material system that carries a spiritual pattern.

“Bunking a materialist” does not mean rejecting matter. It means showing that matter alone cannot explain life, meaning, or purpose — because these belong to the spiritual logic that emerges when matter organizes itself into centers, bodies, and planes of experience.

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