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  • REALITY
    • The Nature of Reality
    • You never left Home
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
    • Is the Universe a Fractal?
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • The Whole of Reality Glows With Life
    • Does time exist? Quantum physics says no
    • Three Scientific Fields That Are Helping to Evolve Humanity’s Worldview
    • Why There Might Be Many More Universes Besides Our Own
    • Paradigms are Made for Shifting
    • The Science of Interconnectedness
    • Distorted Reality – Recalling Different Events After Timelines Merge
    • The Amazing Rise of the Mandela Effect!
    • Expanding Our Awareness to See a Multidimensional Reality
    • The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of the Earth Game
    • The Next Big Bang – Human Consciousness and the Universe’s Ultimate Secret
    • Reality – Constructing the Separation Game
    • Parallel Realities and the Multidimensional Universe
    • Quantum Phase: Time, Parallel Realities and The Brain
    • The Shift and The Quickening of Manifestation
    • The Three Layers of Your Reality Construct
    • Transcending the Realms of Duality and Separation
    • How to Form Blueprints of Potential Realities
    • New View of Consciousness/Reality >
      • Evolution and Consciousness
      • Life After Death: Verdict
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • When We Die
      • The Body is a Shell
      • Everyone has a Purpose
      • Life: Spiritual Growth
      • The Problem of Evil
      • Multi-Dimension Universe
      • Conclusion and Notes:
    • A Holographic Universe? >
      • The Fractal Holographic Universe: Introduction
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • The Spiral and the Holographic Matrix
      • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
      • Vacuum Energy: Proof of Free Energy in the Space All Around Us
      • Spiral Vortex – Contemplative Exercise
      • Attention, Intention & the Universe as a Conscious Holographic Information Processor
      • Love Waves In Our Hologram
      • Love, Creation and Morphic Resonance – The Formula for All Matters in The Love Hologram
  • CONSCIOUSNESS
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
    • A Call to Conscious Evolution
    • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
    • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
    • A Door Is About To Open!
    • Accessing A Higher Level Of Consciousness (and The Ego: Our Greatest Teacher)
    • Explorers of Higher Dimensions: The Power of Active Consciousness
    • 20 Transformational Truths From Sages Throughout the Ages
    • Mind Over Matter - Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
    • Beyond Space and Time: Quantum Theory Suggests Consciousness Moves on After Death
    • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
    • A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
    • Focus on Possibilities, Not Limitations.
    • Cosmic Consciousness Phenomenon : The Overview Effect
    • We Are Becoming Consciousness ItSelf
    • Dimensions of Conscious Experience
    • Mysterious Light : A Scientist's Odyssey
    • From Science to God
    • ONENESS : Transcending Duality
    • This Body is Not Me
    • The Rise of Empathic Consciousness
    • Your Body is a Projection of Your Consciousness
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • Human Consciousness Is Taking A Quantum Leap: Lifting of the Veil
    • Leading Neuroscientists & Buddhists Agree: “Consciousness is Everywhere”
    • Be Careful, Consciousness Is Listening!
    • Experiencing a Collective Shift Through Personal Transformation
    • The Illusion of Time and Space
    • The Emergence of Connected Consciousness
    • Reality & Experience: Morphic Fields & The Power Of Choice
    • You Are The One – The Universe is Moving Within You
    • Conscious Creation: Becoming an Observer of Your Own Life
    • The War On Consciousness
    • The Multidimensional Self: The Soul, OverSoul, and Beyond
    • The 2020 Parting of the Waves: Which Flow are You Riding?
    • We Have Arrived at the Dawn of the Unknowing
    • The Most Suppressed Technology Today
    • Children/Education >
      • Education and the Death of Creativity
      • A Message From The Children
      • Children of the New Dream
      • It’s Time to Unleash Creativity in Our Schools
    • The Human Heart : The Intelligence of The Heart >
      • Coherence: The Energy and Light from Your Heart
      • The Global Coherence Initiative
      • Enlightenment
    • The Human Brain >
      • The Triune Brain
      • The Split Brain
      • The Holographic Brain
      • Whole Brain Synchronization : Binaural Beats
      • Mysterious Brain Of Daniel Tammet
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • What and Where is Consciousness?
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
      • Exploring the Nature of Mind and our Holographic Brain
      • Six Intriguing Types of Synesthesia
      • Mysteries of the Pineal Gland Ignored by Mainstream Science and Research
  • HUMANITY
    • The Awakening >
      • The Dark Night Of The Soul >
        • Humanity : Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit >
          • Who Are You?:Deepak Chopra
          • Solar Flares Affect Humans
          • Univ. Unconditional Love
          • A Prayer for the World
          • Overcome the Ego
          • Etheric Antenna: Chakras
          • Your Aura and 12 Chakras: Keys to the Kingdom
          • The Seven Bodies of Man
          • The Journey
          • A Spiritual Pilgrimage
          • Science of the Soul
          • We are Beings of Light
          • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
          • God is Very Much Alive
          • Tao: Your Cosmic Connection and Spiritual Contract
          • The Three Births of the Human Spirit
          • Unconditional Love?
          • The Relationship between Science and Spirituality
          • How Einstein Saw the World
          • Conscious Partnership with Earth
          • Infogr: Control your Dreams
          • Your Cells When You Experience Happiness
          • Aligning the Trinity – Body, Mind and Spirit
          • Being Aware of Our Energy
          • The Greatest Story Never Told
          • The Alchemy of Groups
          • Inevitable Change – Shattering Our Attachment to ‘Sameness’
          • The Biocrystal
          • Life after death: Hospice doctor studies the vivid dreams and visions of dying people that suggest comfort being given from the other side
          • In Life and Death, Love is Our Legacy – The Courage to Open Our Hearts
          • Attuning to the Flow of the Universe
          • Waking Up From Religion
          • Astral Dynamics : The Silver Cord
          • The Spirit World
          • Cycles of Soul Existence
          • The Soul’s Journey After Death
          • Life Between Lives
          • 7000 Souls Recall Their ‘Life’ Between Lives During Regression Hypnosis, The Similarities Are Astounding
          • The Life-Review Process
          • We Are the Universe Becoming Aware of Itself
          • Have You Realized The Profundity Of Our True Nature?
          • Improving Your Connection To Spirit
          • Aligning with Our Soul Purpose
          • Spiritual Inspiration from Albert Einstein
          • Spiritual but Not Religious? Why Spiritual Wellness Does Not Depend on Your Beliefs
          • A Sense of Oneness Leads to Greater Life Satisfaction, Research Shows
          • How to Transform Your Darkness Into Light
          • You Are a Sovereign Being – Start Acting Like It!
          • 5 Steps to Cultivate Patience Within Your New New Normal
          • The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
          • Chaos Sorcery
          • Science, Spirituality and Religion
          • Shadow Work 101: Just Claim it All
          • Staying Centered in a Wild World
          • How Changing Your Thoughts Changes Your Life
          • Victim or Creator?
          • The “Seer” of all Things
          • Discovering Our Earthly Selves
          • 11 Major Warning Signs From the Universe
          • Living From The Heart
          • Reincarnation: 10 things everyone should know about Reincarnation >
            • Reincarnation: The 35 Steps of Soul Evolution
          • DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid): >
            • DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
            • Controversial DNA Discoveries
            • Evolution : The Body's Intelligence
            • Evolution is speeding up
            • Human Energy Field and DNA
            • Everything You Are, Have Been And Ever Will Be Is About Frequency, And Your DNA Is The Ultimate Antenna
            • Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies
            • The Human Genome – Perception Directly Controls Gene Activity
            • Leonardo da Vinci and The New Biology
          • Near Death Experiences >
            • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
            • The NDE and the Silver Cord
            • Rev. Dr George Rodonaia's Unusual NDE
            • Shared Death Experiences
            • Groups of People Can Share a Single NDE
            • 'Shared Death Experience' Study
          • Akashic Records / Akashic Field / Book of Life >
            • A Database That Contains A Record Of The Soul’s Journey: The Akashic Records
            • Edgar Cayce: Readings from Akashic Records >
              • Edgar Cayce : 'The Sleeping Prophet'
              • The Body - Temple of God ; Chakras
              • Angels and Archangels ; The Christ ; Humanity ; Death
              • Mary Magdalene
              • Moving into the New Paradigm
              • The Future
              • The Book of Revelation
              • Consciousness
              • Human Origins
              • The Past Lives of Jesus
      • The Song of the Soul Group
      • The SupraMental Awakening and Planetary Hope
      • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
      • When Awakening Begins
      • The Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Pr. of Personal Transformation
      • Time To Pay Attention To Who You Are/Where You Are Going
      • Before Beginning of Universe .. You Were Still There
      • 2012 Visionaries
      • Awaken, Children of Earth!
      • Time : A Musical
      • Waking Up Is So Hard To Do… Alone
      • Swami’s State of the Universe 2015
      • A Need and An Ecstasy
      • Full Moon In Scorpio - An Invitation To Emergence
      • Something Extraordinary Is Happening In The World
      • 3 States of Mind to Embrace the Coming Energy
      • The Sacred Garden
      • Being Our Experience
      • We were made for these times
      • Are You a Bridge Between Two Worlds?
      • Choose Love – and Be the Change!
      • Timekeepers of the Human Experiment
      • The Starseed Mission: A Practical Guide to the Pros and Cons in One’s Awakening
      • What's the Point of Life? Why are we here?
      • Reflections On The Year That Was 2018
      • I’m Not Going Insane: It’s the Universal Awakening!
      • The Dalai Lama’s Morning Prayer
      • Shedding the Layers in Our Collective Expansion
      • Are You Dimming Your Light?
      • Ready To Go Sane In A Crazy World?
      • The Great Transformation: A World Awakening
      • You are Needed: Reclaiming Humanity’s Light
      • Let The Emergence of a New Humanity Begin!
      • Healing a World Disconnected From Its Imagination
      • The Universe Played its Trump Card! But Is President Trump the Worst Curse or a Blessing in Disguise?
      • The Grand Story of the Deep State, the Current Apocalypse and the Battle of Good vs Evil
      • Winning the War on Consciousness – Humanity’s Grand Awakening from Deep State
      • Moving Beyond Awakening Shock Syndrome
      • The 5 Stages of Awakening – Signposts and Pitfalls on the Path of Consciousness
      • It’s Time to Step Outside the Conditioned Mind
      • Global Games That Tyrants Play – and People Who Agree to be Played With
      • The Only Way for Humanity to Survive What’s Happening
      • Before Every Bright Day Is a Dark Night
      • A Guide to Glide Through the Great Awakening – Spread Hope Not Fear
      • Building a Brighter Future
      • The Revealing of the Nightmare Has Begun! (Article–Video)
      • Destiny in the Making: Lightworkers Were Seeded Exactly for these Times!
    • Ascension/Evolution >
      • The Gathering of the Eagles >
        • Foreword and Introduction
        • PT 1 : Chapt 1 : THE LITTLEST HOBO
        • PT 1 : Chapt 2 : "I QUIT"
        • PT 1 : Chapt 3 : WILL THE REAL POST OP NURSE PLEASE STAND UP
        • PT 1 : Chapt 4 : LAST WEEK I WOULD HAVE SAID YOU WERE CRAZY
        • PT 1 : Chapt 5 : ON THE ROAD AGAIN
        • PT 1 : Chapt 6 : THE SPORTSMAN CAFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 7 : CHANGE OF LIFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 8 : IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE HOLLAND
        • PT 1 : Chapt 9: NO SHAME TO BE POOR/Epilogue
        • PT 2 : Chapt 10 : FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE
        • PT 2 : Chapt 11 : THE NEW GARDEN
        • PT 2 : Chapt 12 : "WHAT'S MINE'S MY OWN"
        • PT 2 : Chapt 13 : THE GUIDING LIGHT
        • PT 2 : Chapt 14 : THE PEOPLE
        • The Prince of Hope
      • Residing in the 5th Dimension
      • Vibrational Acceleration
      • Homo Divinicus: to come
      • 5th Dimension Consciousness
      • The Ride Has Just Begun!
      • Raising Your Vibration
      • Spiritual Evolution: Divine Plan
      • Ascension: The Larger Picture
      • 2013: The Gateway of LIGHT
      • The “Seer” of all Things
      • Spont. Evolution Has Arrived!
      • Compassion: Ascension Key
      • Who Are We Becoming?
      • Shifting Paradigms
      • Blueprint for Ascension
      • Ascension Revisited
      • 'The Quantum Leap' by Solara
      • I Surrender to the Infinite that is Within Me
      • Ascension and the Fifth Dimensional Network
      • Why It’s Time To Accept Humanity’s Power of Creation and The Soul’s Journey
      • Transformation
      • “We Are Living In The Most Important Time In The History Of Our Universe”
      • Accelerating Our Collective Emergence into a New Paradigm
      • The Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time According to Rudolph Steiner
      • Dolores Cannon – THE EVENT Information
      • The Three Waves Of Volunteers
      • Raising Vibrations: How To Be The Change You Want To See In The World
      • The Daily Alchemical Process of Ascension
      • The Universal Ascension Process: Our Journey to Oneness
      • The Golden Rule: A Lesson in Oneness Throughout the Ages
      • As the Coronavirus Sweeps around the World, Our Planet is on the Verge of Evolution
      • The Old World Is Falling Away and Making Way for a New One
      • The Art of Ascension: The 7 Stages of Alchemy
      • 5D Ascension: The Pleiadians and the Toroidal Flow
      • Social Transformation – Like Ripples in an Ocean
      • Do You Have a Calling to Heal the World? How to be an Agent of Change
    • Sandra Walter-Asc. Guide
    • Human Body of Light >
      • Spark of Light At Conception
      • Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light
      • We Are Beings of Light
      • Are Humans Solar Powered?
      • Cells use light to communicate
      • Your Body Literally Glows With Light
      • Light
    • Ancient Knowledge/Civilisations >
      • Lost Civilizations Existed
      • Houston anthropologist reveals irrefutable proof that recorded history is wrong
      • The Return of the Elder Race & Opening the Gateway of the Fifth Kingdom
      • Quest for the People of the Secret
      • The skeletal remains of giants found all over the world
  • CHANNELLED INFORMATION
    • Archangel Michael speaks >
      • CREATING YOUR PYRAMID OF POWER
      • THE TWELVE SACRED TRIBES OF CREATION
      • THE MICHAEL/MARY CONNECTION
      • A COSMIC VIEWPOINT OF CREATION AND EVOLUTION
      • A RECAP OF THE BEST
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE VESICA PISCIS
      • THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL AND A NEW PYRAMID OF LIGHT MEDITATION
      • STAGES OF AWARENESS ON PATH OF ASCENSION
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
      • WHO YOU ARE
      • VICTIM OR VICTOR?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A CO-CREATOR
      • THE PATH OF ASCENSION IS THE PATH TO FREEDOM
      • LOVE IS A NATURAL STATE OF BEING
      • 2013 IN REVIEW - A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION
      • ARE YOU READY TO EMBODY YOUR SACRED FIRE ENERGY?
      • RITUAL OF PASSAGE INTO 5th DIMENSIONAL REALITY
      • CREATING YOUR SPHERE OF HEAVENLY LIGHT
      • SPIRITUAL REUNION
      • ANGELS OF MERCY
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVID EXPRESSION
      • EARTH’S SEED ATOM RECORD-KEEPER CRYSTALS
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE ILLUSION OF FEAR
      • BECOMING SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • DOWNLOADING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • DECISION TIME : THE FUTURE IS NOW
      • YOUR LIGHT CLOAK OF MANY COLORS AWAITS YOU
      • WILL YOU BE AMONG THE CHOSEN?
      • BECOMING A PRACTICAL MYSTIC
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY FOR EVOLVING HUMANITY
      • PYRAMIDS OF LIGHT - THE LIGHT PATHWAY OF RETURN
      • OPENING THE SEVEN SEALS OF GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS
      • DEMYSTIFYING DEATH
      • WE 0FFER YOU A STREAM OF LOVE/LIGHT FROM OUR HEART TO YOURS
      • EVOLUTION OF THE BODILY FORM AND ASCENSION IN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE SEARCHLIGHT OF THE SOUL * YOUR TWELVE RAY CREATOR WHEEL
      • ACCESSING YOUR HIGHER POWER POTENTIAL
      • WHAT IS SPIRIT?
      • INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE BECOMES WISDOM
      • THE FIVE KINGDOMS/DIMENSIONS FOR THIS ROUND OF EARTHLY ASCENSION
      • THE LAW OF RESPONSIVE RETURN
      • EMBRACING THE POWER OF LOVE
      • WARRIORS OF LIGHT: PROACTIVE, LOVINGLY ASSERTIVE
      • THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
      • OPEN LETTER TO ASCENDING STARSEED SOULS
      • AVATARS * ASCENDED MASTERS * GREAT BEINGS OF LIGHT
      • BECOMING AN EMISSARY OF LIGHT
      • HARMONIZING THE PHYSICAL * EMOTIONAL * MENTAL BODIES
      • THE FIERY FORCES OF CREATION ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH
      • A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
      • UNIFIED SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED WAYSHOWER?
      • THE NEXT LEVEL OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • THE PHYSICAL VESSEL: A WONDROUS, SACRED CREATION
      • RELATIONSHIPS AND YOUR SACRED UNION
      • ARE YOU READY FOR LIBERATION?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A COCREATOR
      • CREATING A 'NEW EMPOWERED YOU'
      • SEEKING PEACE FROM WITHIN
      • THE ECSTASY OF SACRED LOVE
      • ACCESSING THE EARTH’S MEMORY SEED ATOM CRYSTALS
      • ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A COMMITMENT?
      • EMBRACING ALL FACETS OF GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
      • OPENING THE PORTAL TO YOUR SACRED HEART
      • ARE YOU READY?
      • THE SPIRALING PATH OF ASCENSION
      • YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION
      • YOU ARE A STAR OF COSMIC SACRED FIRE
      • ENHANCING YOUR PERSONAL GOD ESSENCE
      • YOUR CONNECTION TO YOUR HOLY MENTAL SELF
      • THREE GOD RAYS: DIVINE WILL * DIVINE LOVE * DIVINE INTELLIGENCE
      • THE POWER AND MAJESTY OF THE ELEMENTS
      • DEVELOPING NON-ATTACHMENT
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE EMPOWERING GIFT OF FORGIVENESS
      • THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL
      • THE NEW AGE OF SPIRITUAL/HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE ESSENCE OF CREATION
      • THE MEMORY SEED ATOMS WITHIN YOUR SOUL
      • THE FAST TRACK TO SELF-MASTERY
      • THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVIDUALIZED EXPRESSION
      • WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE WAITING TO ASCEND?
      • THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS * OUR HEAVENLY MOTHER
      • INTEGRATING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • A NEW CYCLE OF CREATION IS IN PROGRESS
      • KEEPERS OF THE VIOLET FLAME
      • TRAVERSING THE LAST SUB-PLANES OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
      • IT IS TIME TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT AND SHARE YOUR VISION
      • YOU, THE WAYSHOWERS, ARE THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE
      • A GLIMPSE BEYOND TOMORROW
      • THE CELESTIAL WINDS OF CHANGE ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH.
      • ADAMANTINE PARTICLES AND HOW TO USE THEM EFFECTIVELY: A REVIEW
      • THE VOICE OF SPIRIT IS CALLING
      • A WONDROUS CREATION: THE PHYSICAL VESSEL
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED LIGHT UPON THE PATH?
      • LAW OF THE CIRCLE * LAW OF THE TRIANGLE
      • TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY
      • A COSMIC MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY
      • YOU ARE A “WHITE FIRE SEED ATOM” OF ALL THAT IS
      • BECOMING A SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • AN OVERVIEW OF THE “STATE OF THE EARTH AND HUMANITY”
      • SEEKING PEACE AND SERENITY FROM WITHIN
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • YOUR SPARK OF DIVINITY IS IMMORTAL AND ETERNAL
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
      • ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE “HIGH ROAD?”
      • POWERFUL MENTAL CONCEPTS TO INTEGRATE WHILE ON THE WAY TO ASCENSION
      • THE PATH OF INITIATION
      • RONNA’S RITE OF PASSAGE: PART ONE - LADY FAITH
    • Archangel Uriel >
      • Be The Energy for an Ascending Earth
      • The Balance of Creator and Co-Creator
      • In the Acceleration
      • The End of the Journey is a New Beginning
      • You Are Embodied Perfection
      • The 5 Dimensions of Will
      • Shine From Your Radiance
      • A Time of Expanded Light from Archangel Uriel
    • The Angels, through Satya >
      • Who Is Your Angel ?
      • How to dialogue with the Angels
      • The Love
      • The Joy, the Smile and the Gratitude
      • The Nature and the Breathing
      • The Awakening of the Soul
      • Recognize and express own Essence
    • Through Sal Rachele >
      • The Founders >
        • Moving to the Next Level
        • The Founders on the Nature of Timelessness
        • The Founders on the Precession and Galactic Cycle
      • Leah and Sananda >
        • Extending God’s Creation into the Physical
    • Ra and Q'uo: The Law of One >
      • Ra : Ra's History
      • Ra: Before the Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Ra : Wanderers
      • Ra : Harvest
      • Ra: Session 14 of the Law of One
      • The Universe According to Ra
      • Ra's Work on Earth
      • Q'uo : Ascension
      • Q'uo : Jesus the Christ and the Buddha
      • Q'uo : Angels
      • Q'uo : Primary Development of the Creation'
      • Q'uo : Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine
      • Q'uo : Are you doing what you came to do?
    • Seth >
      • Seth Speaks about God
      • Creation of Matter
    • Through channel Ken Carey: >
      • The Awakening (that we asked for)
    • Kryon : Who is Kryon? .... and Who are We? >
      • The Future is Quantum | An interview with Lee Carroll
      • About Channelling
      • Light
      • Your Soul is Part of the Creative Source of the Universe
  • EARTH
    • EARTH articles: >
      • Earth Changes and 2012
      • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
      • Earth: Geologic Primer
      • Infogr: Yellowstone
      • Healing Mother Earth
      • Earth's Inaudible Voice
      • The Mysteries of Water
      • Oceans:Shocking Decline
      • Geobiology : Earth Energies That Affect Our Lives
      • Scientists warn that Earth faces severe water shortages within a generation
      • Our Oceans Are Dying
      • Infrasound: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres"
      • Is Science Finally Catching Up to What the Ancients Knew About Crystals?
      • Can our Intentions Heal the Water?
      • Does Mother Nature Know What She is Doing?
      • The secret life of trees: Thinking, caring and using the 'wood-wide web' to communicate
      • Scientists find jet stream in Earth’s core
      • Scientists: Earth’s Magnetic Fields Carry Biologically Relevant Information That ‘Connects All Living Systems’
      • Waking Up to the Sacred in Nature and Reclaiming Our Earth Soul
      • Conscious Partnership with Earth
      • Honoring The Solstice
      • Vietnamese farmer discovers a spectacular world
      • Humanity is Waking Up to the Intelligence of Nature
      • The Earth and all its Life is a Sacred Gift
      • Will we be the People of the Great Change?
      • Caring for Our Sacred Earth
    • EARTH/SPACE articles: >
      • Space Weather >
        • Tracking Space Weather from the Sun to the Earth (NASA)
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Unusual Sounds Reported Worldwide - What Are They?
      • Do 'Outside Forces' Affect Earth?
      • Speed of the Earth?
      • Planetary Challenges and Spiritual Evolution
      • PlanetoPhysical State of the Earth and Life
      • Spirals : Earth/Space
      • Space-Time Vortex
      • Electromag. Spectrum
      • Solstices and Equinoxes
      • Earth/Sun Connection
      • Breach in Magnetic Field
      • Change in Earth's Gravity
      • Moon : Effects on Earth
      • Plasma tubes surround Earth
      • Infographic : EARTH/SPACE
      • Infographic : Evolution of Food in Space
  • OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
    • THE SUN - Our Star >
      • The Sun : Solar Activity
      • Infogr: Sunstorms! / Solar Flares
      • How Solar Flares Affect Humans
      • Mystery of the Sun's Corona
      • Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun
      • Lately, the Sun has been behaving a bit strangely
      • Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
      • Scientists Prove Existence of ‘Magnetic Ropes’ that Cause Solar Storms
      • Sun/Earth Relationship
      • Magnetic Portals connect Earth to the Sun
      • Images From Sun’s Edge Reveal Origins of Solar Wind
      • Total Solar Eclipse 21 August 2017
      • The Awakening Solar Intelligence
      • Revealing the physics of the Sun with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
      • Surprising stillness ensues when the solar wind hits Earth's magnetosphere
    • Infogr: Jupiter and Venus
    • Infogr: Solar System
    • Infogr: Asteroid Belt
    • Evolving Solar System / 2012
    • Galaxy, Solar System and Harmonic Resonance
    • Magnetic Bubbles at Edge of Solar System
    • The Seven Bodies of Man
    • Our Solar System's Tail
    • Water in the Solar System: Water, Water, Everywhere!
    • Something is Affecting the Entire Solar System
    • Solar system replica built by space enthusiasts in Nevada Desert - 11km (7 mi) wide
    • Jupiter : 'Brand-new and unexpected' discoveries
    • The Helical Dynamics of the Solar System
  • MILKY WAY GALAXY
    • Infogr: The Milky Way
    • Infogr: Galaxy Full of Planets
    • Massive Outburst in Neighbor Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
    • Sirius and Human History
    • Earthquakes on Stars in the Milky Way
    • Betelgeuse : Supernova?
    • The Corrugated Galaxy : Milky Way Galaxy may be more enormous than ever imagined
    • Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy
    • Galactic Centre : >
      • Strange Rumblings at the Centre of our Galaxy
      • Massive Outflows Pouring Out Of Milky Way’s Center
      • Milky Way’s Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter
      • Scientists Identify Cosmic Energy Accelerator at the Galactic Center
  • UNIVERSE
    • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
    • The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The New Cosmology
    • How Large is Universe?
    • Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster
    • The Interdimensional Universe
    • Universe : YouTube videos
    • Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology >
      • What is Plasma?
      • Plasma; 99.999% of Universe
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Elect. in Space: Hannes Alfvén
      • Aether: True Electric Current?
      • The Simple Electric Universe
      • The Electric Universe
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    • Christmas Message 2011

The Nature of Reality

The great Ontological riddle concerning what is the true Nature of Reality
is solved by the ultimate truth that a person's real identity is God.

Together with some recent discoveries from the world of mathematics, namely the Mandelbrot set,
we can finally make the case for Idealism or the idea that all existence is Consciousness.

In this section we discuss what is the nature of reality. Essentially what we'll be doing is showing how it is that Idealism or the idea that existence is really subjective, can work in practice. Or to put it another way I am going to show how it is that all existence is really consciousness.

This point of view stands in opposition against the alternative and more widely held view concerning the nature of reality which is called Materialism. This is the belief that existence consists of physical matter. It supposes a material reality and a physical universe upon which the subjective world of consciousness is based. The belief in Materialism is presently the dominant view of reality in the World today.

However there are good reasons to suppose that the idea of Materialism may be inherently flawed. These reasons derive from lines of inquiry within philosophy and also some results obtained from the field of quantum physics within science, which studies the sub-atomic basis of material existence.

For instance, some of the greatest philosophers of all time namely Descartes, Berkeley and Kant have all come to the same conclusion that we can never have certain knowledge of the physical World and that we can only really know the subjective world i.e. our consciousness. Therefore the idea of Materialism is flawed from the outset, for it tries to reduce something that we do have certain knowledge of, namely our conscious subjective states, into something we can never really know with any certainty as being truly existent, i.e. the physical world.

Moving along to the world of science, one of the great physicists of the 20th century namely John Wheeler, who worked with Albert Einstein, summed up what quantum mechanics was telling us about the nature of reality in one sentence, he said "There's no 'out there', out there". This statement is meant to suggest that our belief in an external and independently existing physical reality is one which is being undermined by results from quantum physics.

So, having outlined some of the problems inherent with the idea of Materialism, what I'll do here is take Idealism as our starting assumption and show how it is that existence is really consciousness. In so doing we'll be describing an alternative view of reality that also provides answers to some of the biggest puzzles in science and philosophy today.

It is also a way of looking at the nature of existence that confirms what the founders of the World's great religions and the great mystics have been telling us all along. That indeed there is an existence above and beyond the physical and temporal. Also that it is this higher super reality which generates the appearance of an external world and the illusion we call physical reality.

I shall explain how this illusion works so that it can clearly be seen that indeed all existence is consciousness and furthermore that all consciousness is really one consciousness.
This one consciousness can rightly be called God, the ultimate source and ground of all being. So even though this section is called 'The nature of reality', it can just as easily be called 'The nature of God'. This is because God is the ground of all reality, and all the reality that we perceive and are aware of, is really a series of manifestations of the ultimate reality that is God.

When we consider reality in its completeness then inevitably we arrive at the divine. Total reality is God, and to truly understand the nature of reality as we know it is also to understand the nature of God.

Idealism, or the idea that the nature of existence is really consciousness, has always had its adherents throughout the course of human history. However, all the while the trouble with the idea of Idealism has been that it has been impossible to argue convincingly and compelling the case for it. The reason why this is so is because in the past the difficulty with the idea of Idealism has been how to explain the nature of the material world. It's all very well to say that all existence is really subjective or is made up of consciousness, but the problem then is to provide an explanation for the objective world and the external physical universe.

In response to this question, in the past the only answer that Idealists have been able to come up with is to say that the physical world of matter is somehow illusory, without any further explanation of why the illusion of physical reality is so convincing. Obviously there is 'something' behind the appearance of the external physical world, but there has been an explanatory gap as to what this 'something' is. However the situation has changed and this has been brought about by a recent discovery in mathematics and also an invention from the world of computer science.

What these discoveries or inventions give us are the necessary conceptual stepping stones and metaphors which enable us to finally explain the truth behind Idealism. They provide us with insight into what is behind the exquisite beauty, detail and complexity that we find in the universe and also allow us to grasp the role of consciousness in the overall scheme of things.

So what are these new additions to humankind's knowledge that better allow us to understand the nature of existence? The first of these is the discovery of fractal mathematics and in particular the Mandelbrot set. The second is the invention and widespread use of virtual reality computer environments.

I discuss both of these things in turn and relate how they enable us to understand the nature of reality and the relationship between consciousness and the external physical world.

The Mandelbrot Set

The first of our discoveries which helps us to understand the nature of reality was discovered in the 1970s by a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot. His discovery, called 'the Mandelbrot set', is a mathematical object which, though succinctly described by a formula which fits onto one line, none the less contains within it an infinity of complexity, pattern and beauty. Here is a picture of the entire Mandelbrot set...
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And this is the mathematical formula which describes the Mandelbrot set...
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Though this may not at first seem all that remarkable, we really come to understand the significance and majesty of the Mandelbrot set when we realize that we can magnify small portions of the Mandelbrot set to reveal ever more complexity and pattern ad infinitum. That is, if we imagine that we had a special magnifying glass that allowed us to keep looking deeper and deeper into the Mandelbrot set at higher and higher resolutions without limit, then there never comes a point when the emerging novelty and complexity of pattern comes to an end. We can keep zooming into the Mandelbrot set forever to reveal ever more elaborate form and intricate design. It truly contains within it an endless universe of variety, structure and exquisite detail. Here are some more pictures of small portions of the Mandelbrot set which have been zoomed into...
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These pictures of the Mandelbrot set give us an idea of its beauty and intricacy. It is important to point out that there is nothing random in the process by which these pictures are generated. The pictures shown are unvarying aspects of the Mandelbrot set and would come up the same whenever the Mandelbrot mathematical formula, shown earlier, is programmed into a digital computer. It is like an endlessly detailed map or graph which is made up of a never ending array of myriad infinitely inter-locking geometric shapes and patterns.

The Mandelbrot set is a mathematical object of stunning beauty and awe inspiring depth. In fact its depth is limitless and indeed infinite.

Now, the question I would like to ask the reader is this. Was the Mandelbrot set discovered or was it invented? That is, did Dr Benoit Mandelbrot come across something that already existed or did he create and define the Mandelbrot set?

The answer surely has to be that he discovered the Mandelbrot set. There is no way that Dr Mandelbrot could have mapped out and conceived the infinity of detail and pattern that is contained in the mathematical object bearing his name. Therefore he must have discovered it.

The question then is this. Before Dr Mandelbrot discovered the Mandelbrot set, where did it exist? We may just as well equally ask, before the beautifully intricate patterns are rendered onto a VDU screen, by a computer programmed with the algorithm calculating the Mandelbrot set, where do these patterns exist?

The answer to this question lies in the understanding of a notion known as mathematical or Platonic existence. And it is this idea which also allows us to answer a question posed earlier. We have already put forward the proposition of Idealism, which supposes that existence is really consciousness. The problem then is to explain what is behind the illusion of the physical universe.

If existence is not material then from where does all the form, pattern and complexity that is in the physical universe arise?

Here is where the notion of mathematical or Platonic existence comes in. The proposition here concerning the nature of the physical universe and physical existence is that it is one and the same as the nature of Platonic or mathematical existence.

Put another way, the illusory material world only really exists in the same way that the Mandelbrot exists. And in the same way that a digital computer is required to manifest the patterns inherent within the Mandelbrot set, so it is that consciousness is necessary to manifest the objects intrinsic to the physical Universe.

Furthermore, in the same way that there is a mathematical formula which describes the Mandelbrot set in its entirety, so it is that there is a mathematical formula which describes the physical Universe down to its every last detail. And so the physical Universe is really a mathematical object in the same way that the Mandelbrot set is.


A brief history of the Mathematical Universe

If we trace the history of the relationship between the world of mathematics and abstract ideas on the one hand and the so called 'real world' on the other, then we find an interesting interplay which lends support to the idea that the real nature of the physical Universe is mathematical. Also we start to see that all through history some of the greatest thinkers of all time noted a deep relationship between the physical world and the world of mathematical ideas.

We may start by examining the history of the idea of Platonic existence.
Platonic existence is named after the fabled ancient Greek philosopher and genius Plato. It was Plato who postulated the existence of perfect 'forms' that existed in a transcendent and immutable realm outside of space and time. So that even though in this physical reality we see all the myriad transient manifestations of existence, from horses, people, cats and dogs to stars, mountains and clouds, what Plato was saying is that there exist perfect archetypes of all these things which act as eternal templates to which the transient manifestations conform. And it is these archetypes which exist transcendentally in what is known as the Platonic realm.

The idea of Plato's forms is related to an older idea associated with another great philosopher sage of antiquity called Pythagoras and it was he who asserted that 'The Universe is a number'. He saw a mathematical order behind the Universe that he believed could be uncovered through the intellect and reason. 

One of his discoveries was the mathematical relationship between musical notes that are harmonic with one another, though he is best known for his Pythagoras theorem which is taught in elementary high school mathematics. There is also an interesting side to him which is not taught in school.

He was also a mystic and is believed to have introduced the esoteric mystery traditions into Greek civilization, having learned of their secrets in ancient Egypt. In his own life time he was revered as a god man by the members of a religious sect which grew around him.

Apart from the idea of the mathematical universe, the many doctrines he taught included reincarnation and vegetarianism. His influence on ancient Greek philosophy was immense and he was even the man who is believed to have coined the word 'philosophy'. Plato, who is mentioned earlier, is himself sometimes referred to as a Pythagorean, which is testimony to the impact of the thinking of Pythagoras.

Going forwards in time now to 17th century England, the great physicist and natural philosopher Isaac Newton once remarked that 'God is a mathematician'. It was Newton who first formulated the laws of gravity and motion using a formal mathematical framework, that he himself also had a great part in developing.

In a few succinct mathematical equations he was able to encapsulate and derive all the knowledge about the physical universe that had existed before him. He was able to develop a mathematical system that could not only explain but also predict the motion of planets and other objects within the universe of matter.
Thus he observed what Plato and Pythagoras had also envisaged centuries before, that is he saw a transcendent order that existed in the natural world. And in a manner similar to his illustrious forerunners, he also discovered that this hidden pattern or regularity was captured perfectly using the language and concepts of mathematics. This is what led him to proclaim that 'God is a mathematician'.

In more modern times this great puzzle, which has to do with the relationship between mathematics and physical reality, has remained. Since the time of Newton, a great plethora of 'proven' theories about almost every aspect of the physical Universe have come into being. From Einstein's theory of general relativity to quantum mechanics, and from the theory of thermodynamics to the theories of particle physics.

Without exception all these theories are expressed in the language of mathematics. It seems that mathematics has an incredible, almost magical, ability to capture the essence of how the physical world works. There seems to be a very intimate and close connection between the world of abstract mathematics and the world of matter, energy, space and time, which we observe and inhabit.

The nobel prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner summed up the situation in his quoted statement where he talked about ' The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'. What he meant was that not only are all physical laws expressed neatly and succinctly using mathematics, but also that mathematical ideas, developed completely separately from the world of physics, seem to fit hand in glove as descriptions of the physical world. That is, mathematical ideas pursued for their intrinsic beauty and internal consistency, without any consideration regarding any relationship they may have with physical reality, become the perfect basis for the formulation of physical laws.

And so in this way modern scientists have also discovered this amazing relationship that exists between mathematics and the physical world, in a way similar to what the likes of Plato, Pythagoras and Newton had also done in the past.

From our survey of the past it would seem that the idea being put forward, that the nature of physical existence is the same as the nature of existence of mathematical objects such as the Mandelbrot set, has in a sense always been in the background. The idea has been alluded to all through the history of science and further supported by more recent lines of thought which suggest that the most fundamental substrate of the material universe is not matter and energy but is rather 'information'.

I believe that this currently fashionable trend in science is a useful stepping stone in helping people to understand and accept the idea that the nature of the existence of the physical Universe is ultimately mathematical. That is, it doesn't really exist, and that it is consciousness that is the real nature of existence.

Consciousness, the Mathematical Universe and Virtual Reality

We'll be discussing here how the existence of computer virtual reality simulated environments provides for us a metaphor for understanding the relationship between the mathematical Universe and consciousness. We have already put forward the idea that the physical Universe that is 'out there' is really a mathematical object that has no real existence. That is, it only exists Platonically or mathematically in the same way that the Mandelbrot set exists, which was also described earlier.

The next step is then to elaborate upon the relationship between this seemingly real but illusory mathematical physical Universe and the actually existent subject world of conscious states. Here is where the phenomena of computer virtual reality systems provides for us a ready stepping stone to aid in our understanding of the relationship between the subjective and the objective.

Virtual reality simulations have existed for several decades. In them the objects and dynamics of the 'real' world are modelled in order to allow a computer to animate and create a visual and auditory simulation of the real world. This visual and auditory replica of external reality would then be projected onto some sort of screen and the sound output using loud speakers. In this way a human may feel that he or she is immersed in and is a part of this virtual world so created.

For instance, some of the first virtual reality simulations were used to train pilots to fly various types of aircraft. In this case the things modelled would include clouds, the ground, including mountains, roads, rivers, airports etc., and also the plane itself would become a part of the simulation. Thus the physical characteristics and performance details of the aircraft would be a part of the virtual reality simulation.

More recently virtual reality simulations have been used to create life-like game environments where the player may wander in and around buildings and various kinds of simulated terrain, with the objective of shooting things and/or finding some goal. The most advanced virtual reality simulations are getting extremely life-like, almost to the point of being photo-realistic. Perhaps sometime in the not too distant future it may be difficult to tell the difference between a virtual reality simulation and real life.
Anyway the point is this, though the virtual reality simulation may seem real, it is only modelled using a database of mathematical data which is used to represent mathematical objects such as polygons, lines and points. So it doesn't really have existence in the physical sense. But then what we have been demonstrating earlier is the notion that the physical Universe itself only exists in the same way that mathematical objects exist.

So in the same way that the virtual reality simulation only exists as a mathematical construct and is made visually manifest on a computer VDU screen, so it is that the physical Universe only exists as a mathematical object and is made manifest as states of consciousness. The difference being that in the latter case, the virtual reality simulator is the equation which describes the entire Universe, and the equivalent to the VDU screen is the substance of consciousness or what philosophers would call qualia.

So in the same way a computer virtual reality simulator instructs how the colours or pixels on a computer VDU screen should arrange themselves to create the impression of a virtual world, so it is that God uses the equation which describes the mathematical object called the physical Universe to create the impression that we are people living out our lives here on this planet Earth existing within the wider Cosmos.

So the equation which describes the entire physical Universe works together with consciousness to create the existence of things. Consciousness needs the mathematical Universe to create the details and content of our subjective states, at the same time the mathematical universe needs consciousness to make itself manifest. Thus the objective and the subject are seen as two sides of the same coin, an eternal duality that may be called God.

This idea will be explored a little later but next we shall be exploring the relationship between all the seemingly separate conscious entities that exist within the Universe. Indeed we shall demonstrate how all consciousness reduces to one consciousness.

How is everything One Consciousness?

This sub-section asks 'how is everything one consciousness?', which is really the same as asking 'how does the ontological position of Idealism really work?" or 'how is everything consciousness?'. The answer to these questions and the solution to the problem of showing how it is that everything is consciousness is to demonstrate how it is that everything is one consciousness.

In the physical universe, from its beginning to its eventual demise, there have existed and will exist an astronomical number of life forms, and we may reasonably suppose that a certain ratio of these life forms will experience internal subjective states, i.e. they will have consciousness.

Now, one of the problems with showing how Idealism can work is that, if you abandon the physical universe as the basis for consciousness or deny that the subjective world arises from the world of matter, then how do you account for consciousness. Also how do you define the relationship between all the conscious beings that exist, having done away with the physical world of energy/matter and space/time as the substrate of existence?

The answer to this conundrum is to be found if we take consciousness as the starting point. In fact we take one single indivisible consciousness as the starting point. The next step is that we then propose that all the separate and individual conscious beings that will ever exist in the physical universe are really different stages in the evolution and continual unfolding of the one consciousness that we have already postulated. Therefore this one consciousness, in a sequential manner, encompasses all the seemingly differentiated conscious beings which are really manifestations of this one consciousness.

This proposal is related to an idea that two of the greatest thinkers of recent times, namely Richard Feynman, the renowned Nobel prize winning physicist, and the mathematician Roger Penrose, who worked with Stephen Hawking, have both considered seriously. This is the idea that every electron that exists in the physical Universe is really the same electron. It is thought to be able to manifest in a way that makes it seem as if it is in all places at once through exploiting the phenomenon of quantum tunneling, therefore appearing as a myriad multitude of different electrons.

However, with regard to our idea of a single all-pervading consciousness, the difference here is that this one consciousness is not appearing in all places in the Universe at the same time. The reason for this is that because we are demonstrating that everything is consciousness, then we are rejecting the idea that the physical Universe is the basis for existence. In doing so we are not only denying the actual existence of matter and energy, we are also denying the actual existence of space and time. That is we are saying that matter and energy and also space and time only exist in the same way that mathematical objects exist. This was explained earlier.

Therefore it doesn't make sense to say that the one consciousness is existing at many different places at the same time, because we no longer have space and time as meaningful references to places and moments where consciousness is thought to be manifesting. For we are no longer pre-supposing that consciousness is arising out of a physical substrate, i.e. brains, that are located in certain points in space and time.
What we do have as our fundamental assumption is one consciousness. And our starting point becomes the assumption of subjective existence and subjective time, which is the same as the experience of the one consciousness and its evolving stream of subjective experiences.

This one consciousness then is the central assumption that we use to account for all the myriad seemingly separate conscious entities that are inhabitants of the mathematical object called the physical universe, which you the reader, I the writer and all the other beings on planet Earth are examples of. All these separate entities and seemingly separate consciousnesses are really one consciousness by being the sequential expressions of the one consciousness.

Put another way, it is that the one undivided indivisible consciousness that is God is able to be all the separate consciousnesses by being each one of them, one at a time.

A metaphor to help the reader visualize this concept is if we imagine every life form that has existed and will ever exist in the physical Universe, as a pearl. This will of course add up to a lot of separate pearls. If we then imagine this multitude of pearls as being strung out on a single continuous cosmic thread we get a variety of the 'Great chain of being'. So along this thread will be expressed all the life forms in the Universe. This thread then demonstrates the relationship between all the seemingly separate consciousnesses. That is, they are all different points along the conscious stream of the one consciousness.

Put another way it is to say that the relationship between the conscious entities that exist on planet Earth, including all human beings, is that we are each other's subjective past and subjective future. So that if we suppose we are walking down the street and looking around at the people around us then we are really looking at our past and future lives.

We have thus described the way in which the ontological position of Idealism, i.e. the view that existence is really consciousness as opposed to being matter, is the true nature of existence. We have done this by showing what is the actual nature of physical existence, i.e. that it is mathematical, and also by showing that all consciousness is really one consciousness. It is the belief of the Author that this one all-encompassing consciousness may rightly and properly be called 'God'.

If we examine the holy scriptures of the World's great religions then we discover support for this idea. Essentially what I am saying is that what philosophers and scientists call the mystery of the nature of consciousness, and what theologians call the mystery of the nature of God; are one and the same. They are really two mysteries that are the same mystery, and two puzzles which are really different aspects of the same puzzle. We will examine this idea further.

We are One; not merely of one flesh but truly of One Soul

It is almost inevitable that the ideas just presented will seem extremely unfamiliar and counter-intuitive. However if we examine key metaphysical assertions made concerning the nature of God in the World's great religions we do find an amazing correspondence to the idea of an all encompassing singular consciousness just described.

For instance it is an almost universal theme that God is immanent within us all. So we have the idea of the 'Christ within' in Christianity, the 'Krishna within' in Hinduism, Allah who is 'closer than your jugular vein' in Islam, the Buddha within etc. At the same time we also discover the idea that we and God really exist as an inseparable unity. Also it is a central tenet of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this idea that God is One. In fact the greatest commandment in Judaism and Christianity begins 'The Lord your God, the Lord is One'. This idea of God's essential unity is also found in Hinduism where, in the Bhagavad Gita, the 'super soul' or 'over soul' which is God within us is described thus, '[it] appears divided but has never divided and is always situated as one'.

Furthermore this idea of unity and oneness is also used to describe our true relationship with one another. So we find this passage in the Koran, 'Your destruction and your resurrection is but that of a single soul'. In the Bible we have the idea of our underlying unity so expressed, 'There is neither Jew nor Greek , slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus [i.e. God].'  If we refer back to our idea of one all-encompassing consciousness of which we are all different manifestations, then the idea of the unity of God and the idea of the essential unity of all living things are clearly seen to be expressions of the same truth. And that truth is the idea that everyone is God.
When we also consider the idea of reincarnation, which is an important and significant feature of all the World's great faith traditions, as is demonstrated in another section of this website called 'The truth about eternal life' then this would correspond with our idea of a single, undivided, all-encompassing consciousness which sequentially expresses every seemingly individual consciousness, one at a time. In this manner each separate conscious entity is therefore really a different stage of the life cycle of a single cosmic entity, i.e. God. We see then that the idea of everyone being God and the idea of reincarnation really go hand in hand.

When we consider that the idea that 'Everyone is God is the truth behind all World religion', taken together with the notion that the idea of reincarnation is also a universal truth behind all the World's great faith traditions, then this would give strong confirmation to our idea of a single all-encompassing and all-reducing consciousness which transmigrates through each and every living conscious entity in the Universe.  This one consciousness that is God having the whole of eternity to experience infinity, one embodied consciousness at a time.

Therefore the universal truths behind World religion would correspond perfectly to our proposal for explaining the nature of reality, making the case for the ontological position of Idealism and showing that all existence is consciousness.

Summing up and Conclusion

To sum up then, what we have described in this section is an account of how the ontological position of Idealism, or the belief that existence is really consciousness, is the true nature of things.

Using recent discoveries from the field of mathematics and computer science we have constructed a picture of what is behind the illusion of physical reality and have put forward an idea concerning the nature of the physical Universe. Which is that the physical Universe only really exists Platonically or mathematically, i.e. that the material world only exists in the same way that mathematical objects such as the Mandelbrot set exist.

Then, using the modern phenomenon of computer virtual reality simulations as a metaphor, we described the relationship between the mathematically existent physical Universe and consciousness. We have also shown how all existence reduces to a single undivided and indivisible consciousness.

Finally we explored the direct parallels that exist between the picture of the nature of reality that we have presented and ideas from religion and the world of mysticism. We highlighted the correspondence between ideas concerning the nature of reality and ideas concerning the nature of God, suggesting that the two are inextricably linked.
Essentially we elaborated upon the idea that the mystery of the nature of consciousness and the mystery of the nature of God are one and the same thing.

The conclusion then, and what all of this is really saying, is this... We normally arrive at the assumption that we are existing as a person associated with a physical body, gazing out upon a vast impersonal physical Universe that exists outside of us. However the truth is that we are God, gazing through the eyes of a person, reflecting upon ourselves, that is the Universe, that is God.

We live through God but God also lives through us, experiencing eternity one moment at a time, one day at a time, one life at a time. So in the same way that as mortal human beings we sleep and awaken to a new day, so it is that as God we die and awaken to a new life, eternally. Living in creation, living out the lives of the creatures and sustaining the created.

This is the nature of God, this is the nature of reality.

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