I was writing a letter to my U. S. Congressman, Clay Higgins and just as I was about to send it, I got an invitation from him to a town hall meeting in Lafayette, La, where he was going to be a guest on the Ross Report podcast. It was clearly a synchronicity, so I printed it out (all 7 pages) and delivered it to him in person. I had never met him before and wasn’t planning on participating in the podcast, but Carol Ross was so welcoming and he was so personable that I finally decided to go up and talk to him on the air. Here is the recording and here is the letter (see below). Now that I am reading it again, I realize that I really do write like Forrest Gump ran.
Date: 30 Jan 25
Dear Congressman Higgins,
I have something that I want to share with you. I am waiting to meet with Abbeville Mayor Roslyn White, to discuss it with her, but since I received the invitation to see you on The Ross Report (today at Deano’s Pizza in Lafayette) for the radio-town hall, I decided to bring it to you in person. You might be the right person to read, chop, hopefully endorse and maybe even sponsor a bill, if I can take it that far. It is about something that I believe promises to help with President Trump’s priorities. It fits under the section, “Bring Back American Values.” I would like to ask him to add it as a line item: To reintegrate Americans as “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The problem that I see as presenting a challenge to achieving this goal is the division we already have in America. How can we say that America is “indivisible” when we are already divided?
The answer is very simple: even though individuals and political parties (wholes in and of themselves) are divided on numerous issues, the nation as a whole is indivisible because it is held together by the attractive power of truth. I want to explain this in terms of physics and engineering principles, so it might be challenging for some. It uses the power of truth to work as a self-governed system, like a self-governed gas-powered generator, and more interestingly, like a pressurized-water nuclear power plant. I would like to explain how these both work in accordance with the same principle, but not here.
The important thing to know is about form and function, which are equally important, but categorically different aspects of the same systematic process. The form of a gas-powered generator is obviously different than a nuclear-powered generator, but the purpose and function are the same. The common function is just that, common, so it seems trivial and insignificant in terms of its importance. It is a given, a known, so it can effectively be forgotten and ignored. In life, truth itself presents as form and function, where form presents as individual truths and function presents as the purpose of life. Truth itself is a given, so it is easily forgotten as being the ultimate source of all power.
In a society, the individuals represent function when they function as workers. They represent the true power of the whole and they provide the apparent power of the government. That can also be explained in detail in terms of systems engineering. But not here. This letter may be long, but I am holding back, trying to focus on reintegration of America as a whole.
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We are a superpower, in spite of the separations, because of balance of these two aspects, form and function. One represents form (the republic, the focus of Republicans) and the other represents function (the purpose and process). The problem we have is that “the other” (Democrats) formed into a party. It became deformed because it had centered fully on democracy, which is only one part of that process. As soon as they reduced it to individuals, it began to break up because it lost the binding-power of truth and the power of synergy.
In the beginning, when America first formed, form followed function (the form was colonial and the function was to strive for freedom). Note that the process started with the separation and division, just like we are seeing today. Then, when a relative degree of freedom was achieved, the leaders reflected and realized, what got us here won’t get us there. They wrote the Constitution and form of government “holomorphed.” It transformed from separate colonies (colonial form) into a whole (Constitutional form). Then, as should be expected if one understands the holomorphic process in principle, function followed form. This process works systematically as long as the aspects of form and function complement each other to make the system work. As people representing the two aspects, they have to work together. The same thing happens to the collective mind of the people who make up the whole. The whole transforms through holomorphosis. It is a metamorphic process.
That also requires the understanding
- that it only happens when the individuals (people) reflect on truth, and it happens automatically,
- that it only happens collectively if the “one nation” remains centered “under God” and
- that the abstract concept of truth-itself, expressed as unbiased truths, is the infinite power of truth that we call “God.”
Our founders understood intuitively. They understood the unbiased truth as conservative principles, and tried to express them with different forms of expression. Today, we can express it in terms of well-known scientific and engineering principles. We can also express it artistically, in narratives, like the Turtle and the Hair, where truth is represented by the turtle. The great irony is that the very act of expressing something is the nonconservative half of the holomorphic process applied to intellectual growth.
When people stopped reflecting on unbiased truth (God), they made up narratives that were relative truths, centered on their sense of purpose: to defend democracy. Sadly, even with the best intention of expressing truth, their truths were not actually balanced and true. They created a quantum gap in their minds that looks like a dark cloud. It prevents them from seeing the light of unbiased truth even when they finally try to look inward. I know this from experience. At the age of 32, and I am now 64, I looked inward in meditation and actually saw it as dark cloud covering a sphere of light. I could still see the light as a bright halo. Fortunately, I wanted desperately to know the truth, so a spark of that halo shot off the horizon and came into me. I wasn’t religious, but it was like the Holy Spirit had just impregnated me. I am a man, so that seemed weird, but I understood the spiritual interpretation. Had LGBTQ been a thing back then, I would have really been confused and would still be lost.
That is why it is extremely important to teach this to people using objective lenses of science and art – a binocular approach presented as form (the art of science) and function (the science of art). Every generation that learns by focusing on relative truths and back-projecting (“follow the science” or “science tells us”) in the name of progress, rather than stopping, reflecting on unbiased truths and verifying everything as being true in principle, generates darker and darker clouds (or “planks”) that cover their minds’ eyes.
The holomorphic process is the kernel (like a seed, but also a kernel of a program) that I want to plant, to function as the seed for understanding metamorphic transformations. That is what is ready to happen to America if we allow it to happen. It can be expressed in many ways, like when a seed transforms into a plant, a worm transforms into a butterfly and a child transforms into an adult. Lady Liberty has reached the next phase of her life. I suspect it is adulthood, since her started bleeding when she reached puberty. She might still bleed at the end of each holomorphic cycle, if she isn’t already pregnant. But now we can understand what is really happening. If I am not mistaken, she is already pregnant. Now we can understand how to recognize the meaning of the virgin birth when it happens in every individual’s mind.
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The attractive force that pulls people together is as fundamental as gravity – the attractive force that pulls physical matter together. It is associated with the process that puts the “energy” in synergy. It transforms things energetically that were once whole or organized, but were separated for whatever reason, back into an organized whole. Like synergy, it applies to social organizations, but only to those that are formed around a common, fundamental truth (as opposed to a relative truth). It is based on truth itself, and deals with relative truths as things that are also based on truth-itself, but may be off balance.
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Getting back to President Trump’s priorities: What are “American values”? He answered by focusing on 1) establishing male and female as biological reality, 2) protecting women from radical gender ideology and 3) naming American landmarks to appropriately honor our Nation’s history.
When I think of American values, the most important thing that comes to mind is the fundamental importance of truth and justice – the American way, as Superman used to say. An Internet search of “American values” brings up a ton of different things like individualism, equality, materialism, science and technology, work and leisure, capitalism, competition, volunteerism, and the list goes on. But when I read through them, I can see that there are a lot of Americans, especially on the left, who don’t value those things. They don’t value them because “values” are relative to one’s perspective. They are not the same as “principles,” even if someone uses the word “principles” to label them. They are not unbiased truths if they are not centered on “first-principles.” I mean truths, like the laws of physics, that are fundamental-truths, and therefore, can never change. They are self-evident to anyone who has common sense.
That is why I fully support the Republican platform, subtitled, “A Return to Common Sense,” even though I am registered as “No party,” and am fully onboard with the America-first movement. I just want you to know that I feel called to start another movement, which I call the “Truth-First movement.” As I was writing this, I read up on Carol Ross and her experience with grassroots movements, civic organizations and focus on “truth, justice and freedom.” It seems I should talk to her for advice. I also want you to know that I am in the process of writing a book entitled “Truth-First movement” in which I discuss the America-first movement as a movement that is centered on the first principles, that truth-itself is what holds us together and sets us free as a whole. (I have the first draft of several books, “Introduction to Holomorphic Engineering,” “Holomorphosis and the Hologenetic Universe,” “Right Full rudder” about the maneuver that we made by electing Donald trump,” and “Awakening the United Spirit of America.” But I need help finding a publisher and editor.)
I envision a bill that aims high called the “Bill of Truth” (the target is to be an amendment or set of amendments like the Bill of Rights). The purpose and function will include distinguishing between values and principles, like the self-evident truths in the preamble to Declaration of Independence, which was effectively the preamble to the Constitution. It will also serve as a Declaration of Interdependence. The ultimate goal is to make America truthful again and therefore whole. It really MATAs. (LOL) Maybe make America truthful and honest: MATH.
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Sorry. My mind is like Forrest Gump. “I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I’d gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I’d gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.” That is why I need help publishing my books.
Not long after the Constitution became the unified platform for all Americans, they began to separate based on their different values. That is when the division started, the incision was made and has never healed. The two primary values were associated with form and function, which as an engineering principle, are two aspects of any system. Form follows function and then function follows form. If the system needs to adapt to another function, then it transforms.
Early Americans who valued form were concerned with everything that was firm (ergo a platform) and true in principle, i.e. they were more complex than basic truths, but could be shown, perhaps with a simple derivation, to be projections that reflect those principles. I am talking specifically about the republic, which refers metaphorically to the House of Congress. It is a meta-form of how the system of self-governance works. It is the Republican process, that is spelled out in the Constitution. It is said to be conservative because it holds itself and all Americans together by a natural force, like gravity, which is actually called a conservative force. It does that because it is centered on the very first fundamental principle, that truth-itself is what holds reality together and truth is what sets us free. America is a whole, and as long as we are centered on truth, truth will set us free as a whole, as it was in the beginning, Amen.
That is the function of the Truth-first movement, to help people understand exactly how truth works at the fundamental level and how the democratic process only works if people who use the process are truthful, i.e. honest. Once they “get it,” they will “see the light of truth,” they will want to be truthful, and they will allow it to work for them. (There’s no need to invoke the word God, but eventually one comes to know that God is truth-itself.)
The form I envision for the Truth-first movement is a form of education program. I haven’t worked out the exact format, but I envision it as a community college, to be established in every community in America. The curriculum will be limited and focused entirely on truth – fundamental unbiased principles, which are absolute truths, so physics will be a core requirement – and relative truth, how there are two sides to every story, which leads to classes on the principles of our justice system. That will require courses in math. Civics will also be taught, but will include how a self-governed system works in engineering and how our government fits the same model when operating most efficiently.
Unlike state colleges and big universities that are open to anyone who can pay the tuition, only local citizens will be invited or allowed to enroll. The idea is that it will be managed by the mayor and funded by the government. That is why it needs to be an act of Congress. But it only receives support as long as it functions as a source of information to the Governor, truthful information – information full of truth to give the Governor a sense about what the people in that community have in common, i.e. “the common sense” of what that community needs to thrive. That is how I interpret the common-sense line in the Republican platform: “We will be a Nation based on Truth, Justice, and Common Sense.”
I am working on a strategic plan, that I need to discuss with Mayor White. It starts with forming a committee in Abbeville, with the function of establishing a volunteer community pilot project, called “The Abbeville Project.” The name is meant to be reminiscent of “The Manhattan Project” for several reasons, one of which is to express urgency. The other reason is that the fundamental process in nuclear physics that leads to the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, starts in principle, as nuclear fission, and ends as reintegration, of fusion. I would love to explain that, but not here.
Very Respectfully,
Ted St. John
The Holomorphic Process 