This is an explanation of my theory of panpsychism. Assuming that consciousness is the foundational element of reality then it seems to follow that consciousness and energy are interchangeable. As the words of the poem, the primal dream flowed into my mind in 1974, I wrote “energy and thought, inseparable conceived the primal dream.” The above illustration is in the shape of the current graphic representation of the universe. Everything within the universe consists primarily of waves. The waves have particle potential and can result in matter. The original creative observer is consciousness itself which historically has been called the Logos, by Greek philosophy, Hermeticism, and Christianity.
Consciousness created individual conscious agents through
sacred geometry. These conscious agents are integral to all of the dimensions
and yet, the sum of conscious agents is greater than the individual parts. When
I speak of conscious agents, I think of them similarly to Dr. Donald Hoffman in
his book “A Case Against Reality.” This leads to the paradox of pantheism and
panentheism. Both are true, as the Kybalion states in the principle of
polarity. “All truths are half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” The way
it is resolved is in the truth that the whole is greater than the sum of the
parts which is pantheism, and the individual conscious agents are a part of the
whole, cocreators and that is panentheism.
To what purpose you may ask? I like a variation of how Dr.
Hoffman answers the question what is consciousness up to? It is answered in a
YouTube video. A Donald Hoffman Quote from his YouTube lecture on the Weekend
University Channel entitled “Is Reality an Illusion?” It begins at roughly
1:13:38 into the video.
Quote:
“If we start with consciousness
being fundamental then there is an interesting question; that is what is
consciousness up to and why? What is consciousness doing right? And when we
think about consciousness inside space and time we often think about it in terms
of evolutionary theory and we say maybe consciousness helps you to survive
somehow, maybe its an accident, but now we can think differently. Space and
time are not fundamental. Evolutionary theory is not fundamental. Consciousness
itself is fundamental.
So, what is consciousness up to?
I don’t know, but I have only found one idea that is deep enough so far to take
the idea seriously. I’m not saying it is right but it’s at least deep enough to
be interesting and to take seriously. Kurt Godel, around 1930 proved what are
called incompleteness theorems. What Godel discovered was that effectively, the
exploration of mathematical truths is unending. There is no way to be
omniscient about mathematical truths and what’s interesting about that idea
then, is that if consciousness is fundamental and consciousness is all there is
then mathematics, consciousness and that endless exploration of mathematics is
endless, then that means that exploration of the possible varieties endless and
is exploring, it’s a theorem that will never stop. And so maybe that is what
consciousness is up to. It is constantly exploring itself!
So what’s happening right now,
where we go, we talk, we have questions, we have lectures and so forth. This is
just consciousness in space using space time as a virtual reality exploring one
of many, many different possibilities, worlds in which there are attended
spaces. Dimensions of space is irrelevant there is no dimension.”
I am not a mathematician, and if you want to accuse me of
trying to turn science into “woo” go ahead. What I am writing here is
intuitive. However, it resonates deeply with me, and I believe that it is
correct. So let me explain the above quote in more spiritual and mystical terms.
I do not think this explanation is incompatible with Hoffman’s far more scientific
explanation.
Consciousness is knowledge. The ancient Greeks called it
Gnosis. However, knowledge lacks something. What you may ask? It lacks
experience. Knowledge is awareness of all the potential. It is aware of
possibility. Experience completes knowledge. One cannot truly understand love
without experience. Nor, can one know pain without experience. One can know it exists
but only through experience does it become complete knowledge. We participate
in the divine nature in order to complete knowledge with our experience. The possibilities
are endless and infinite. One could say that we are God experiencing creation.
This is not limited to one life in one plane. Quite the
contrary. However, we are also able to rest at will. I do not see reincarnation
as a karmic hamster wheel that one is trapped on. It is not a punitive alternative
to purgatory or hell. We all, in an egalitarian fashion, based upon our choosing
experience joy and pain, good and evil. The unified field of consciousness, the
All, God if you prefer, is the eternal present. As Eckhart Tolle states it is
the Now. Energy cannot be destroyed it can only be changed. I think that the
best illustration of what I am saying is that it is similar to a video game.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. You can get tired, even exasperated so
that you put the game down only to become refreshed, perhaps bored, and you
pick the game up and try again.
Experiential knowledge is ever increasing as we alternate
between being whole consciousness to conscious agents and back and forth.
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