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Reality as a MultiDimensional Causational Field
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781967386574
Publisher: Rondelet Press
Published: Mar 20 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
In Reality as a Multi-Dimensional Causational Field, John R. Carlos advances a bold and integrative ontology that reconsiders one of humanity's oldest questions: What is reality? Drawing together insights from physics, metaphysics, information theory, consciousness studies, and civilizational analysis, this monograph proposes that reality is not a static structure but a participatory field shaped by the interaction of structure, meaning, agency, and consciousness.
At the heart of the work is a multi-dimensional causational model in which physical, metaphysical, temporal, and quantum-informational dimensions converge. Within this framework, consciousness is not treated as a passive by-product of matter, but as an active participant in the transition from potentiality to actuality. The book introduces the concept of the soul phenomenon as an informational substrate of continuity and agency, exploring both intracosmic and transcendent possibilities with philosophical rigor and methodological restraint.
Moving beyond the individual, the model is extended to collective and civilizational scales. Shared meaning, moral orientation, and institutional coherence are shown to function as genuine causal variables, shaping the probability landscape of possible futures. Civilizations, on this view, flourish or fragment not merely through material forces, but through the coherence, or collapse, of their metaphysical foundations.
Neither a reductionist scientific treatise nor a purely speculative metaphysics, Reality as a Multi-Dimensional Causational Field offers a synthetic framework for understanding reality as emergent, structured, and participatory. It challenges prevailing assumptions about objectivity, agency, and consciousness, and invites the reader to reconsider humanity's role in the unfolding of the cosmos. In revealing reality as an open, participatory field, the work ultimately argues that human freedom is not incidental to existence-but depends upon the very structure of reality itself.
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