Here is something from my archives I worked on a while back and posted early in my blog’s history. Not too many folks were reading my blog then so I am going to repost it. Please click on the thumbnail to see it.
Thanks to Sakya Rasa for doing the graphics.
The idea is that life transcends matter, mind transcends life etc.
The study of matter is physics. The study of life is biology, which includes physics but transcends it, etc.
The underlying principle being that transcendending doesn’t mean replacing, or instead of, it means includes but goes beyond.
View From a New Vrindaban Ridge 
November 23, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Gosh,
Now you are barking up my tree and getting the wheels of my mind spinning (Physics). So see, Acharya you can be for the lowly Bhakta :-)
ps: kudos Sakya Rasa for the graphics….stay warm there in New Vrindaban Nirvana…it’s mighty cold here in the city
Peace
November 23, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Additional – the physicist in me sat here and tried to find some flaw or deviation to your theory…it’s a necessary reaction Gosh.
I tried to decipher some rational atomic structure, valence rings, equal/opposite charges, anima/animus, yin/yang, and on and on ad infinitum of your concentric circles…I couldn’t do it! I even tried to compare/contrast the tangible evolutionary (matter, life, mind, etc.,) with the ‘theoretical’ developemental(physics, biology, psychology) and all I ended up with is a massive headach..Krishna perhaps putting up a roadblock. It would be interesting though to have your rings juxtaposed against their antagonist (as everything in the universe has an equal, but opposing force, or existence)…I guess that would then be the anima/animus, or dark verses light scenario…ex., opposite of physics and matter = anti-matter and ??…life and biology = death and ??…etc., for each expanding ring. This most probably makes sense only to me (a sign of senility?), but just some form or layout of a parallel, or equal but opposite universe…or atomic structure. On the lighter side…transcer does just as intended… lol! I’m tranced!
November 23, 2008 at 10:39 pm
It would have to add a third dimension to do all that. :-)
Of course, in the end it is just a metaphor and limited, but a pointer.
The underlying principle I read in a book, where they called it the Great Chain metaphor. I just expanded it a bit so most of the credit goes to someone else.
January 23, 2009 at 11:13 am
I just found this page while searching for articles on the relation of matter to life to mind. You’ve probably already read him, but if you haven’t, Ken Wilber writes at length about exactly what you suggested in this post. Try his Brief History of Everything if you want to get stuck in.
January 23, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I read some reviews on the book. Reference was made that it draws a lot on Sankara and Zen which we consider impersonal, or mayavadi, philosophies.
I belong to the Vaisnava tradition, where we accept the mayavadi philosophy as far as it goes, which is to what we call Brahman realization (represented in the graphic by the Om sign) but believe that beyond that there is a personal God whose “body” is represented in this world by the Universal form.
We see the soul as not growing, but uncovering the layers of illusion covering it.
In any case, the book sounds fascinating and though I confess to read mostly digitally these days, I will check out the local library to see if they have it.
Here is one review I read amongst many where a Christian takes issue with the nondualism of Wilber.
http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/a-brief-history-of-everything/