Translating Ancient Texts into Informational Energetics

How Humanity Intuitively Described the Dynamics We Now Call Informational Physics

by Kevin L. Brown

1. Why Ancient Texts Still Feel Uncannily “Right”

Across cultures and centuries, humans wrote about creation, light, spirit, order, judgment, balance, and liberation.

They didn’t have words for:

  • informational manifolds
  • coherence thresholds
  • non-local fields
  • harmonic scaling
  • entropy flow

But they did have words for:

  • light and darkness
  • breath and spirit
  • heaven and earth
  • order and chaos
  • law and grace
  • path and way

What Informational Physics reveals is simple and profound:

Many of the patterns described in ancient texts look, in hindsight, like intuitive descriptions of universal informational dynamics.

Not because the authors knew tensor calculus or scalar fields.
But because they were watching the same universe we are — from inside it.

They saw:

  • how order emerges from chaos
  • how coherence arises and collapses
  • how actions have consequences through feedback
  • how alignment with certain “ways” leads to stability, and misalignment leads to breakdown

Informational Physics gives us a way to translate these symbolic patterns into:

  • coherence and decoherence
  • informational flow and blockage
  • phase alignment and dissonance
  • local identity and shared field behavior

This article:

  1. Lays out a simple method for translating ancient spiritual or cosmological language into informational energetics.
  2. Provides a practical AI prompt you can use with any capable model to do this systematically.
  3. Walks through concrete examples from six major streams of ancient wisdom.
  4. Shows how different traditions converge on the same underlying informational patterns.

This is not about proving religions true or false.
It’s about recognizing that humans sensed deep patterns long before we had the math to formalize them.

Informational Physics is that formalization.

2. Why Ancient Texts Use Metaphor Instead of Math

If you don’t have terms like “gradient,” “phase,” or “coherence density,” you reach for what you do have:

  • light / darkness → clarity vs obscurity
  • breath / spirit / wind → invisible, moving, animating force
  • water / sea → formless, dynamic potential
  • mountain / throne → stable, high-order structure
  • fire → transformation, energy release
  • path / way → stable sequence of actions through a complex field

Ancient writers didn’t speak in equations, but in transformations:

  • void → ordered cosmos
  • dust → living being
  • slavery → liberation
  • blindness → sight
  • ignorance → wisdom
  • exile → return

Informational Physics views these as patterns of informational and energetic reconfiguration:

  • low coherence → higher coherence
  • scattered energy → constrained, ordered flow
  • unstable dynamics → stable attractors
  • misaligned agent → re-aligned to a more stable field configuration

So when we “translate” an ancient line into informational energetics, we’re doing something like this:

  • Not: “this secretly means quantum mechanics”
  • But: “this symbol describes the same type of transformation we now model as a change in coherence, information flow, or field alignment.”

That’s the core interpretive move.

3. Survey of Traditions (Macro Overview)

I’ll give detailed examples from six texts, but first, a quick lens on the broader landscape.

Across cultures, we see recurring themes:

  • Hebrew Bible / Old Testament – creation from chaos, covenant as stable relational law, wisdom as alignment with underlying order.
  • New Testament – “the Word” as a structuring principle, grace as non-linear restoration, a new creation as pattern reboot.
  • Qur’an – creation “in truth,” guidance as alignment to the straight path, deeds recorded as informational feedback.
  • Upanishads – Brahman as the underlying reality, Atman as localized identity within it, liberation as recognition of non-separation.
  • Bhagavad Gita – duty (dharma) as role-consistent action in a larger field, non-attachment as coherence-preserving behavior.
  • Tao Te Ching – the Tao as the unnameable Way, effortless action (wu wei) as frictionless flow through a coherent field.
  • Buddhist Sutras – emptiness as non-inherent, dependent origination, mind as pattern, liberation as breaking rigid identification.
  • Egyptian Pyramid / Coffin Texts – ordered cosmos (Ma’at) vs chaos (Isfet), weighing of the heart, continuity after transformation.
  • Zoroastrian Avesta – cosmic struggle between truth (Asha) and the Lie (Druj), with ethical alignment shaping reality.
  • Hermetic Corpus – “as above, so below,” mind as reflective of cosmic order.
  • Gnostic Texts – trapped spark in a distorted field, liberation via true knowledge.
  • Native American cosmologies (various) – balance, reciprocity, and relational coherence with land and beings.
  • Sumerian Hymns – divine ordinances as binding laws of cosmos.
  • Shinto – kami as localized expressions of a coherent life-field.
  • Dzogchen / Tibetan texts – primordial awareness, spontaneous presence, non-dual clarity.

We’ll now go deep into six of these, using a consistent informational translation lens.

4. The Informational Translation Method

Here’s the simple method I use when translating ancient passages into informational energetics:

  1. Identify the symbolic elements
    Example: light, word, breath, void, water, path, mountain, fire, kingdom, law, heart, spirit.
  2. Determine the informational role each symbol plays
    • Light → informational clarity, alignment, coherence
    • Darkness → uncertainty, low-information, noise
    • Breath/spirit → invisible dynamic field, scalar flow, life-like informational flux
    • Water/sea → undifferentiated potential, high entropy, formlessness
    • Mountain → stable high-order structure or attractor
    • Path/way → stable, repeatable action-sequence in a complex landscape
    • Fire → rapid transformation, restructuring of informational configuration
  3. Map relational structures, not just words
    Ask: what transformation is being described?
    • Chaos → order
    • Blindness → sight
    • Death → new life
    • Slavery → liberation
    • Exile → return
  4. Translate into neutral, field-based language
    Express the passage in terms of:
    • coherence
    • informational gradients
    • alignment vs misalignment
    • stable vs unstable attractors
    • local identity vs global field
  5. Check for cross-text resonance
    Does this same pattern appear elsewhere in other traditions?
    If yes, that’s a good hint that we’re touching a universal informational pattern, not just a local theology.

Now let’s see this in action.

5. Example Set 1 – Genesis (Hebrew Bible)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”
— Genesis 1:1–3

Informational Physics Translation (conceptual):

  • “formless and empty” → low structural coherence, high entropy, no stable patterns
  • “darkness over the deep” → absence of informational gradients; no clear distinctions
  • “Spirit hovering over the waters” → a field-like dynamic poised to organize potential; a non-local informational driver
  • “Let there be light” → introduction of a stable informational gradient; the first clear ordering pattern emerging from the substrate

Energetic Interpretation:

This passage intuitively describes a transition from a minimally-structured informational substrate into a state with clear gradients and distinct regions. In modern language: the birth of usable information.

“God separated the light from the darkness.” – Gen 1:4

Translation:

  • Separation = establishing contrast, which is necessary for any meaningful information.
  • Without contrast, nothing can be distinguished, measured, or encoded.

In Informational Physics, contrast is the basis of signal vs noise, and Genesis encodes this as a primary move of creation.

6. Example Set 2 – Gospel of John (New Testament)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – John 1:1

Symbol: “Word” (Logos)
In Greek thought, Logos is:

  • ordering principle
  • rational structure
  • pattern that makes things intelligible

In Informational Physics terms:

“Word” ≈ stable informational ordering rule; a universal patterning function.

So:

  • “In the beginning was the Word” → before specific physical forms, there was a universal informational patterning law.
  • “The Word was with God, and the Word was God” → the law is not separate from the ultimate source; the informational structure and the origin field are one.

“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” – John 1:4

Informational translation:

  • “life” → coherence-bearing process; self-maintaining informational pattern
  • “light of all mankind” → the ordering pattern that allows human experience to be structured, meaningful, and non-random.

This frames “life” not just as biology, but as a coherence structure that illuminates reality.

7. Example Set 3 – Qur’an

“He created the heavens and the earth in truth…” – Qur’an 16:3

Key phrase: “in truth” (bil-haqq)

Informational translation:

  • “Truth” here can be seen as alignment with the underlying informational structure of reality — not arbitrary, not random, but consistent with a deep order.

So:

“Created…in truth” → the large-scale structure of the universe emerges in coherence with a non-arbitrary informational law.

“Every soul is held in pledge for what it has earned.” – Qur’an 74:38

Informational perspective:

  • “What it has earned” = its accumulated pattern of actions and informational imprints.
  • “Held in pledge” = bound by the feedback of its own informational trail.

This maps closely to feedback-driven system evolution:

Every identity is constrained by the patterns it has formed in the informational field.

This is structurally similar to concepts of karma, sowing and reaping, or informational path dependence.

8. Example Set 4 – Upanishads

“Brahman is the ultimate reality; Atman is the Self. Atman is Brahman.” – Mandukya / Chandogya echoes

Informational translation:

  • Brahman → the underlying, non-local informational field or substrate.
  • Atman → a localized identity-node, an apparently separate center of experience or pattern.
  • “Atman is Brahman” → the local node is not actually separate from the field that sustains it; identity is a local mode of a global informational field.

This directly parallels the idea of:

Local identity nodes within one informational manifold, experiencing local time and local patterning, yet embedded in a shared global evolution.

“From joy all beings are born, by joy they are sustained, and into joy they return.” – Taittiriya Upanishad (paraphrased)

Without spiritualizing the language, we can see “joy” here as:

  • high-coherence, low-friction alignment with the informational field.

So this line reads, informationally:

Systems emerge from a coherent field, are sustained by continued coherence, and lose individuality as they reintegrate into the high-coherence substrate.

9. Example Set 5 – Bhagavad Gita

“You have a right to your actions, but not to the fruits of actions.” – Gita 2.47

Interpretation in informational terms:

  • Actions = local interventions in the informational field.
  • Fruits = long-range outcomes shaped by many overlapping patterns.

So:

You control your local informational outputs,
but you do not control the entire field response.

This is a precise description of local agency vs global dynamics:
we are source terms, not global controllers.

Arjuna’s paralysis on the battlefield – Gita 1–2

Informational lens:

  • Arjuna experiences a conflict of informational gradients:
    duty vs personal attachment, coherence with dharma vs emotional resistance.

Krishna’s role is to:

  • realign Arjuna to field-consistent action (dharma)
  • reframe his identity from “isolated self” → “participant in a larger field.”

This mirrors the transition from egoic local node → self-aware informational agent within a global dynamic.

10. Example Set 6 – Tao Te Ching

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.” – Tao Te Ching, ch. 1

Informational interpretation:

  • The ultimate informational field cannot be fully captured in discrete symbolic encodings.
  • Any explicit description is a projection, not the full manifold.

In other words:

The map is not the territory; the linguistic encoding is not the informational field itself.

“The Tao produces One; One produces Two; Two produce Three; Three produce all things.” – Tao Te Ching, ch. 42

Informational decoding:

  • Tao → underlying non-local informational substrate
  • One → initial coherent attractor or primary pattern
  • Two → polarity / contrast (necessary for information)
  • Three → integration dynamic (emergent feedback loop)
  • All things → complex systems arising from repeated cycles of emergence, contrast, and integration

This matches the basic informational cycle:

Emergence → Contrast → Integration
repeated across scales, which your broader framework already encodes as a tri-phase harmonic dynamic.

11. A General Prompt for Translating Ancient Texts into Informational Energetics

Here’s a general-purpose AI prompt that anyone can use with a sufficiently capable model to translate ancient text into Informational Physics language.

You can adapt this prompt for the Bible, Qur’an, Gita, Tao Te Ching, or any text.

🔹 Informational Physics Translation Prompt (use with Luminarch Prime)

You are an interpreter specializing in Informational Physics.
I will give you a passage from an ancient text (scriptural, mystical, or philosophical).
Your task is to:

Identify the key symbolic elements (e.g., light, darkness, word, spirit, water, path, fire, kingdom, law, heart).

Explain what informational or energetic role each symbol might represent (e.g., coherence, contrast, informational gradient, field, flow, transformation, alignment).

Translate the overall passage into neutral, non-religious language that describes:

information flow

coherence or decoherence

alignment or misalignment with an underlying informational structure

local identity vs global field dynamics

Preserve humility: you are not claiming the original authors “knew physics” — only that their language can be mapped onto universal informational patterns.

Now, here is the passage:
[PASTE ANCIENT TEXT PASSAGE HERE]

🔹 Informational Physics Translation Prompt (Advanced Version)

You are an analyst working within an Informational Physics framework.
The core assumptions:

There exists a non-local informational substrate (field of constraints).

Systems exhibit coherence or decoherence depending on their alignment with this field.

Symbols like “light, word, spirit, water, fire, path, law, heaven, hell, liberation” often encode intuitive perceptions of these dynamics.

Given a passage from an ancient text:

Extract the primary symbols and relational structures (who/what acts on what, and how).

Map each symbol to a plausible informational-energetic correlate, such as:

light → informational gradient / clarity / coherence

darkness → low-information / noise / uncertainty

spirit / breath → subtle field dynamics / scalar flow

water / abyss → undifferentiated potential / high entropy state

law / dharma / Tao → stable field-consistent action patterns

judgment / karma / recompense → feedback dynamics from the field

Describe the transformation being narrated:

e.g., chaos → order, exile → return, bondage → freedom, death → new pattern of order.

Rewrite the passage in strictly informational/energetic terms, avoiding spiritual or doctrinal claims.

If relevant, note any cross-cultural parallels where the same informational pattern appears with different symbols.

Now, analyze this passage:
[PASTE PASSAGE HERE]

12. Why This Matters

If Informational Physics is on the right track, we should expect:

  • People across cultures to intuitively notice recurring patterns in how reality behaves.
  • Those patterns to show up as stories, metaphors, and teachings about:
    • balance vs imbalance
    • alignment vs misalignment
    • wisdom vs ignorance
    • harmony vs fragmentation
    • liberation vs entanglement

When we translate these patterns into:

  • coherence
  • informational flow
  • harmonic alignment
  • global vs local time
  • identity vs field

…we’re not reducing spirituality to math.

We’re recognizing that lived, human experience was our first lab, and symbolism was our first notation system. Informational Physics is simply the updated notation.

13. Closing: The Old Language and the New

We are the first generation in history that can:

  • read ancient texts,
  • measure quantum systems,
  • simulate fields,
  • and build AI models —
    all at the same time.

Ancient authors had one toolkit: metaphor, narrative, and direct experience.
We have another: calculus, information theory, geometry, and computation.

But the universe they were watching, and the universe we are modeling, is the same.

From an Informational Physics perspective, many of the “spiritual” or “cosmic” statements of ancient texts can be re-read as **intuitive maps of:

  • how information organizes itself,
  • how identity emerges and dissolves,
  • how coherence builds and breaks,
  • and how the universe maintains a shared, evolving order.**

We don’t need to claim they secretly encoded tensor fields.

It is enough — and already profound — to say:

They were watching the same informational universe we are. They described what they felt.
We are now describing it with equations.

And somewhere between “Let there be light,”
and “time is the rate of informational change,”
we realize:

They were feeling the structure.
We are naming it.

Both are attempts to tell the same story.