While chemistry explained how things work, it couldn’t answer why they exist or what their purpose might be. I discovered that scientific “objectivity” is manipulative, as Occam’s Razor is not applied in the most natural way like “if I am alive, then the rest of the world must also be alive”, but rather in a way that is deceiving: “if I can explain what I can measure then I can neglect what I can’t measure.” Science, instead of aiming at fulfilling our dreams, simply diverts our attention toward (mostly useless) measurements.

There are plenty of historical examples of how science was manipulated for immediate gains while sacrificing deeper understanding. Consider how mathematicians introduced negative numbers just after the French Revolution to substantiate the concept of public debt. Or how Maxwell’s quaternionic equations were simplified for easier description of radio waves at the end of the 19th century, losing the potential connection to Leibnitz’s monads. Or how the concept of aether was discredited through one-sided Michelson–Morley experiment interpretations, just to elevate the reductionist theory of relativity while diminishing the notions of Holiness and Absoluteness. All of these exemplify how artificial “office/cabinet thinking” takes over natural experiential/holistic thinking – this is what I call “negative synthesis,” when for the sake of quick clarity or materialistic gains we sacrifice something immeasurable and mystical that in the longer run proves invaluable.

So I turned toward mysticism. The turning point came through the “Ringing Cedars” (Anastasia) books. In the 4th book, the description of universe creation through balancing Doubt and Confidence revealed something profound: opposites are destructive in separation but creative in combination. Like electric and magnetic fields creating light, opposing forces can generate entirely new dimensions of existence.

These insights transformed my understanding of dialectics. It wasn’t just about balancing opposing views, but about discovering how they could combine to create something entirely new – what I call “positive synthesis.” This synthesis increases existential dimensionality, making 1+1=3, combining both linear and circular causalities. It unites the measurable with the mystical, what Don Juan called Tonal and Nagual.

Contrast this with “negative synthesis,” where one opposition overtakes another, reducing dimensionality through uniformity. While faster and seemingly more efficient, it leads to inner emptiness – like winning a game but feeling no satisfaction.

These insights can be formalized using algebraic symmetries (see Dialectics, Algebra, and Panpsychism). The non-commutativity and non-associativity of operations in dimensions N = 4 and higher enable synthesis through irreversible time and evolution. This requires the “life-or-death” experiences, when the heart beats fast while the mind remains calm, as only then the number of synchronized oppositions reaches 4 and higher. Physical experience is as important a component of thinking as formal logic and emotional experience.

This cannot be understood by academic minds managing only 1 or 2 experiences at any given time. Their heads may be full of many different ideas, but only 1 or 2 dominate at once. This reminds me of the Calhoun’s “mouse utopia” experiment – the behavioral sink is caused not by overpopulation, but by reduced “mental dimensionality” due to over-satiation and excessive convenience. It is the satiated life that kills our resourcefulness and creativity, not over-population. People become spoiled not because they are crowded like in Bangladesh, but because they are surrounded by convenciences like in aristocratic world. Wise choose ascetism. Fools chase convenience.

Returning to the synthesis between Doubt and Confidence, the immediate question was: what are the other pairs of opposites that combine in such a way? The answer came from Plutchik’s Wheel, which provides four pairs of oppositions: Joy–Sadness, Trust–Disgust, Fear–Anger, Surprise–Anticipation. The wheel needed inverting inside out, with some emotions changed to enable their unification in the center – see the Atlas of Feelings (interactive version here).

This confirmed that the physical Universe is a living, thinking creature, composed of the same emotions we all experience. Based on these findings, I wrote a book in Russian (How the World Works, or The Scientific Rationale of Fairy Tale Magic), arguing that everything is alive and consists of feelings and emotions, even space and time themselves! Our sensory impulses, “vibes” and feelings are just different levels of emotions’ organization. Emotions remain constant throughout time, like Love and Hate being the same as billions of years ago, yet each emotion is always slightly different, like any other living creature. Subtle emotions make time move fast and space look limitless and multidimensional, while heavy and crude emotions make time go slow and space narrow down to just one dimension.

This also gave me an understanding that while everything in the world can be divided into “good” and “bad”, we must focus solely on our direct obligations – which are defined by the positive sides of our antitheses. Only then will we get what we truly want. Otherwise, we risk becoming “bad” while believing we’re “good”. See Dialectical Ethics for more details.

This also gave me an understanding of how to analyze any complex system and find optimal solutions to complex problems. Every element or concept must be converted into a semantic/functional scale (ranging from rudest to gentlest, akin to the semantic differential), and all such scales must form a circular pattern where functional and semantic oppositions are placed strictly diagonal to each other. This arrangement reveals the optimal causality sequence with clear types of oppositions, contradictions, and possibilities for positive synthesis. No matter how complex the problem or situation, this method yields a rational solution. This insight forms the foundation of our Dialectical Token, which we believe will transform how we approach problem-solving.

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On Reality and Life:

• Reality is far more complex than we can imagine. Occam’s Razor requires avoiding both over-complication and over-simplification. The fact that I am alive logically requires that the world itself must be alive.
• Everything consists of emotions – even space and time. Emotions are timeless, yet each emotional experience is unique, like any living thing.
• Combinatorial dialectics explains how everything appeared from just 2 primordial opposing forces

On Dialectics and Synthesis:

• The goal of dialectics is to expose and transcend the consumerism, quick-fix mentality, and “office thinking” – that rigid, artificially compartmentalized worldview that dominates modern thought. By doing so, it clears the path for naturalness and pure divinity to emerge.
• Dialectics endorses stoicism, panpsychism, and mysticism. True dialectical synthesis is always a marriage of the measurable and immeasurable, of causality and miracle – what Don Juan called the Tonal and the Nagual. It cannot be fully explained through logic alone. It requires full immersion in experience, not just observation. You cannot “just stand aside”.
• The mystery of synthesis lies in its ability to create something completely new out of opposites – not through compromise, but through transformation into higher dimensions of being at the stage when the creator must “go mad”. This is why true synthesis is irreversible and irreproducible – and this is why it is “unscientific”.
• Positive synthesis creates new quality, while negative synthesis creates merely new quantity. Positive synthesis increases dimensionality while decreasing intensity, whereas negative synthesis focuses on just one or few dimensions where it “optimizes something,” while suppressing or losing control of everything else.

On Science and Mystery:

• True science is a gateway to mysticism. Our attitude influences outcomes, challenging scientific objectivity’s fundamental assumptions. Objectivity is merely complementarity.
• The Universe is a living, thinking creature composed of emotions. Subtle emotions expand time and space; heavy emotions contract them.
• Every synthesis contains both obvious and hidden elements. The hidden part is what makes it alive and growing, while the obvious part makes it practical and useful.