Disorder is usually treated as chaos; a breakdown of structure. But in truth, disorder is simply a system on the way to reorganizing itself.
By Josi Joseph, Psychologist, Group Editor, Global TV +91 94468 48191
Human beings have always tried to understand the hidden rhythm that shapes the universe. Everywhere we look; whether in nature, in society, or within the human mind, we encounter both harmony and disruption, creation and collapse, structure and confusion. But behind these appearances lies a deeper truth.
As I reflected, I realized something subtle: everywhere there is disorder, beneath it there is an order. And wherever we see order, there is always a disorder waiting to emerge. Disorder holds the possibility of becoming order, and once an order exists, it too carries the potential for a new disorder. This is not a flaw in the universe but its very mode of functioning.
From this insight emerges what I call the eternal cycle of orders and disorders; a universal rhythm that governs everything from galaxies to human thought. Though echoes of this idea appear in earlier philosophies, the perspective presented here is unique because it sees the cycle not as conflict or opposition, but as an evolutionary motion intrinsic to existence itself.
Disorder as Hidden Order
Disorder is usually treated as chaos; a breakdown of structure. But in truth, disorder is simply a system on the way to reorganizing itself. What looks like confusion is often something deeper: a transition, a rebalancing, a preparation for a new state.
Thus, disorder is not the absence of order.
It is order in the making.
My own realization that “this disorder has got all the possibility to be in an order” captures this essence. Disorder is pregnant with future structure.
The Seeds of Disorder within Every Order
No order is final. Every stable system; whether a star, a political structure, or a thought pattern, contains the conditions that eventually lead to its transformation.
- A star collapses into another form.
- A belief becomes rigid and breaks.
- A society stabilizes, stagnates, and reforms.
So when I say “if it is again an order comes, this order will have another disorder,” it is not pessimism; it is the recognition of the universe’s evolutionary engine.
Comparative Perspectives and beyond
Many traditions brush against the idea but do not articulate it in this cyclic, universal form.
- Heraclitus taught that everything changes and conflict creates harmony.
- But he did not present disorder as potential order nor describe a universally cycle.
- Taoism says opposites contain each other.
- But the emphasis is balance, not evolutionary transformation through cycles.
- Hegel says order and disorder are the dynamic process of development with order emerging from and resolving contradictions within.
- But this remains philosophical, not cosmic.
Complexity Science; Emergence
I like to go further and add and would explain that order → disorder → new order as the fundamental motion of the universe—an eternal dance, not merely a pattern.
In the universe, order and disorder are not opposites but partners. Every disorder contains the possibility of order, and every order contains the inevitability of its next disorder. This cycle is the basic movement of existence.”
This principle explains why change is constant and why nothing remains static.
Adding to the Law of Universal Singularity, my last essay; the idea becomes even more powerful.
If all existence is moving toward self-realization and equilibrium, then the cycle of orders and disorders is the universe’s own mechanism for progress.
- Disorder pushes systems out of stagnation.
- Order stabilizes them.
- Disorder returns to create higher structures.
Periods of confusion are transitions toward new clarity. Emotional and cognitive disruptions prepare the ground for new understanding. Instability often signals the emergence of a more just or balanced order.
The realization that the universe is an eternal cycle of orders and disorders provides a unifying lens for understanding existence. I believe, it is not merely an observation but an insight that integrates science, spirituality, psychology, and cosmology. Cosmic evolution itself is the grand unfolding of this cycle. It is a universal pattern: creation, dissolution, and renewal.
