Can Things Get Better? Part I.
Our world always seems to be on the brink of one form of trouble or another. Yet, often surprisingly so, we seem to recover only to face a new challenge. Could it be that this apparent dance macabre arises from our global failure to re-envision the world as a spiritual manifestation? Can our predicament be due to our Western-scientific-based belief that the world and all its phenomena, including life and mind, fundamentally emerge out of matter? Could it be that with a different worldview things might get better? In this short essay, I will examine this belief and indicate what we might expect if we were to accept the counter-idea that matter, mind, and life all arose from a far more complex entity called spirit or consciousness.
In brief, something called consciousness provides the fundamental ground of being out of which all physical and mental phenomena emerge. Although many spiritually-inclined people may take this view, it doesn’t seem to fit with common beliefs coming from scientific reasoning. But what about most of the world’s non-science-based beliefs (if even anything like a world belief system can be imagined)? Do you the reader actually believe that mind or consciousness came first? Or perhaps better put, could such a view have any scientific, spiritual, or even logical foundation? And even if it did, would this change your view or your way of life (or the world’s)?
posted by Fred Alan Wolf at
8:35 AM
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Discovering some science about this would absolutely change everything. Science is one thing people can't get away from. When the power of science showed that the earth revolved around the sun, our whole perception changed. This changed our understanding of everything. The idea of change frightens people because they want to be right and certain, and when new things come in it can be scary. However I think our understanding of this would make the world reborn again,
You make a good point, MoneyBanks. Understanding has been expanding since the beginning of recorded history. So if expanded understanding is continuous, aren't we continuously being reborn again?
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I think issue with the world is that while things like technology grow, human beings as a whole, don't. There always seem to be certain exceptional individuals in each generation, but they generally seem to be overshadowed and often overpowered. Perhaps this is why history continually repeats itself. "Our predicament" could well be related to the general belief that "the world and all its phenomena... emerge out of matter" because it lends to an external, material belief. It satisfies the physical senses. It is through that which is tangible that most people interpret and create their realities. Of course, we know the physical or external is just a small part of all we are individually and collectively.
To me, consciousness is eternal. I think you can have consciousness without mind, but not mind without consciousness. Look at a single celled microbe. It has consciousness but no mind. I know many believe that only we humans are the only conscious creatures on Earth. I believe all life bears consciousness. So, to me, consciousness not only came first, but, as you mentioned, is where everything emerges... including mind.
I'm one of those whom believes that science and spirituality will, if not already, walk hand in hand. Metaphysics is simply science not yet discovered. It is our very nature to be inquisitive and want to learn about our true origins and God. I've often wondered what it would take to create a worldwide epiphany where we humans as whole finally "wake up" in our internal and spiritual evolution. I think that the work of all of those that seek knowledge including the wonderful scientists and even the philosophers and visionaries of the world will continue to evolve human knowledge and wisdom.
I know from my own experience what a profound affect exploring and learning about the deeper science and wisdom can have on a person. Even at 42 years old, I grow and evolve everyday. Ultimately I hold out hope that one day(probably long after we're gone) this knowledge can take root in our world society and bring human kind in to a new enlightened state where the basic evils like war, greed, hatred, and even lust become obsolete.
Mind and consciousness had to come first. Hawking addresses behind the big bang...it's obvious that creation is preceeded by mind, empowered by consciousness.
Yes Fred, ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS is missing everywhere (in school, in neuroscience, in physics) we are stucked in our evolution because we do not acknowledge/realize Absolute Consciousness/GOD as THE ONLY SOURCE OF ALL THAT IS.
Here some thoughts based on the old scripts of the upanishads/the teaching of Maya (=illusionary world)
There is nothing out there!!
not a star, not a worm but only Absolute consciousness. Absolute Consciousness cannot become matter nor energy - the so called real world does not exist.
The so called real world, is a PROJECTION of the Absolute Consciousness..it is God disguising himself. A cosmic dream!
I am Absolute Consciousness and my personality, etc. and thoughts, ideas are projection of Absolute consciousness, if it "decides" to "send" them...ponder that! (smile)
I have a chance to be Absolute consciousness as the OBSERVER.
Dr. Quantum, I live in Sacramento and I would like to know when is your next conference in this area.
you can contact me through my email address: djcagalo@gmail.com or dijecian@yahoo.com.
Thanks.
My experience is 1st of all, Fred that money can still & officially exist as no true ↔ happiness, therefore I'm sort of under obliga-tion, which is just my good moral, to let you receive this my own & most self-considered labour suggestion, e.g. that Tachyonics© means quite a lot to me, so that I can of course tell & e.g. help us both etc. find out &, whoever's who, our best answers to, what's our just as good future, all about & forever to be, why & when, greetings, arentved@in.com, there to be continued.
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