Consciousness Does Matter – Non secular Media Weblog

By Peter Canova

The title of this text is a double entendre. Partly, it refers to an ongoing rooster/egg debate about which got here first, consciousness or matter. However it additionally refers to one thing hardly ever mentioned in religious or New Thought circles, which is that various types of matter exist simply as various types of consciousness exist.

By means of disclosure, I’m squarely coming down on the aspect of matter deriving from consciousness, not the opposite method round. Many theories have been floated making an attempt to reveal how aware life arose from matter, all of them inconclusive. That places them in the identical class of the consciousness theories that materialist scientists criticize as unprovable, so we will acknowledge that we’re coping with a thriller.

Which means mystical teachings are each bit as legitimate in explaining aware life as scientific gropings and cracks are showing amongst scientists themselves as a number of theories are being put forth viewing the primacy of consciousness to clarify actuality.

The matter vs. consciousness-first difficulty is definitely a segue to debate the connection between consciousness and matter so only a few extra phrases on the subject of origins. It’s fairly a stretch to say that inorganic matter simply someday turned natural by itself then one way or the other gave rise to sentient life. Nonetheless, if we assume consciousness is the supply of all that got here into being, it eliminates the entire infinities and paradoxes in quantum physics, and physicists hate infinities. Rating one for consciousness. I’m certain materialists may have a lot to say about this, however that’s a debate for one more time.

On to the connection between consciousness and matter, however first, let’s outline the character of consciousness. Consciousness and power are intertwined. Consciousness is an clever power current in all phenomena in various levels. Power is the automobile consciousness employs to disperse itself, that’s, to undertaking its desired impact in each bodily and non-physical types.

The creation story of many mystical, religious, and spiritual traditions have a typical perception about consciousness and power. A supreme primordial Supply—name it the One, God, Supreme Consciousness or no matter you want—stirred to specific Itself and know Itself. A factor can solely perceive itself in relation to a different factor. So, this passive, static Oneness wanted to solid Its consciousness into a special type of expertise. It did this by limiting Its personal consciousness to undertaking different factors of consciousness that felt a way of individuality of their restricted state of consciousness. These spirit consciousnesses had a way or an consciousness of being a part of the One Consciousness that generated them, but additionally had a way of particular person self.

Maybe probably the most compelling and scientific of all of the creation tales comes from the Gnostics, western mystics who had a fantastic deal to do with the earliest type of Judeo-Christian mysticism. Gnostic knowledge was sadly destroyed by the rise of the orthodox Church, although many corrupted parts have been retained in trendy Christianity. The Gnostic creation story is so wealthy in that means that it described phenomena just like the Massive Bang, the God Particle, and parallel universes hundreds of years earlier than quantum physics.

Within the Gnostic story, an vital facet of God’s projected being was knowledge (Sophia, in Greek) who fell right into a state of chaos. Chaos was a dimension of random likelihood potential that could possibly be considered the unconscious thoughts of the Creator. It was not a void however contained inert seeds of potential that the Gnostics referred to as proto-matter. Because the story goes, Knowledge Sophia plunged her excessive religious power into chaos searching for to emulate the artistic energy of God, however issues didn’t work out as she had hoped.

Her excessive religious power activated the proto-matter, engulfing her and inflicting her to tackle mass. This led to the creation of a brand new dimension, a psychic dimension characterised by matter that was incompatible with the religious dimension from which Sophia had fallen. 

Herein lies our first key to the connection between consciousness and matter.

The matter characterizing this psychic dimension just isn’t bodily matter, however a finer type of refined matter. It seems that the spirits or souls that fell into this dimension searching for to specific better levels of individuality assumed energetic types via the sort of matter. Now, the Gnostic texts describe quite a few dimensional gradations, parallel dimensions for brief. Every dimension and the souls grouped therein have been characterised by their vibrational degree of consciousness or consciousness.  

A near-universal axiom of various religious traditions and even sure features of psychological concept imagine that people are composite beings present at differing ranges of consciousness with corresponding refined our bodies composed of ever finer levels of matter. So type of like layers of phyllo dough in a Greek pastry, we’re strolling sheaths of various levels of consciousness and matter.

If the thought of refined, invisible matter appears a bit speculative or “New Agey” to you, you may need to take into account a couple of postulates of recent science. Our universe just isn’t solely permeated by unseen energies however by unseen matter referred to as darkish matter. The truth is, darkish matter is six occasions extra current within the universe than seen matter. It’s what holds the universe collectively, counteracting the drive often called darkish power that’s inflicting the universe to broaden. 

Scientists know the best way to manipulate power and perceive a few of its properties, however they don’t know what it’s or the place it comes from. The concept unseen forces or matter are leaking into our universe from different dimensions is gaining floor in some scientific quarters. 

One other extra well-known truth offers us an extra clue in regards to the energy-matter relationship  Now we have Einstein’s well-known equation E = mc². This tells us that matter and power are interchangeable. All the things we understand as strong on this world is only a type of congealed power. Matter originates with power and resolves again into power, as demonstrated by the atom-splitting course of that unleashes the large nuclear drive. 

What does all this inform us? It tells us that consciousness and matter are intimately sure collectively (and bear in mind, consciousness and power are synonymous in various levels). If, as Einstein confirmed, power and matter are inextricably sure within the materials world, we’ve got each cause to imagine that the refined our bodies the magical traditions converse of are additionally types of matter, albeit of a lot larger, undetectable power vibrations.

The conclusion—and right here the extra spiritually-minded may need to take observe—is that matter stands out as the automobile that spirit wants to specific itself in any respect ranges of being, so with out matter there could be no particular person existence past the purely religious being of the Supply. Matter typically has a nasty identify in religious circles and definitely the grosser it will get the messier consciousness turns into, however we’re in bodily kind. That’s what we’ve got to work with.

The excellent news is that we don’t must be sure by random materials destiny. The interconnectedness of thoughts, power, and matter point out that if we be taught to work with these components, therapeutic, dreaming, imagining, and meditating can all change into actual channels for private and collective change in our lives. 

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Peter Canova is a global businessman who, after a sequence of life-changing religious experiences, started writing on spirituality and consciousness. He’s the creator of the 25x award-winning First Souls Trilogy and has contributed to the favored Hen Soup for the Soul sequence. His newest ebook is Quantum Spirituality. https://petercanova.com/