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Consciousness is co-occurring with space-time and energy

The purpose of defining these principals is to bring materialism and idealism together in an integrated view of reality. The conflict between idealism and realism is best characterized by the assertion of original supremacy of either Consciousness or Matter. The origin of one aspect of reality precedes the other and is therefore superior, the other aspect being derivative of the first. Idealism and realism simply switch positions with respect to original supremacy and individuals choose which philosophy they adopt according to which broadly defined school of thought fits the individuals needs.

If you drop the need to attribute original cause to either consciousness or matter for the existence of the other as unnecessary, then you can construct a view of reality that holds both the material and ideal in equal regard as primary forces or components of reality that interact dynamically to produce everything we experience and everything that is yet to be experienced from a human point of view.

Putting an end to the false dilemma of having to take an either or stance in philosophical speculation about the nature of reality supports the fusion of the separate and non-separate definition of self that is a foundational premise of the political, economic, moral, and humanity systems.

Viewing the ideal and material dimensions of reality as co-occurring and interrelated requires dropping a strictly linear view of causality and supplants it with an ongoing dynamic interrelationship of forces model of objective and subjective co-creation and co-destruction.

On a personal level adopting a philosophy and process of fusion or holding opposites together, as an alternative to the broadly believed and enacted philosophy of breaking apart is difficult and rewarding. When fusion is acknowledged as an alternative to fission, and consciously engaged, human growth is accelerated. By re-owning thought and feeling that has been excluded, by narrow boundary formation and projection, an individual accelerates the process of their personal growth and begins a process of becoming whole.

The increase in human energy production is much greater than the traditions of fission create because the individual recovers the energy of projected thought and feeling, and the others who were the recipients of the previously projected thoughts and feelings no longer have to contend with misplaced energy directed toward them.

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The Cosmos and Consciousness

his series of principals addresses the cosmological, or most abstract set of philosophical statements in this system and it is intended to set the context for the previous sets of principals on human nature, moral/ethical, political, and economic systems. Each series of principals is interrelated to the others but each is also designed to stand on its own.

Several ways of looking at the existence of consciousness, its origins and relationship to the other aspects of reality are reasonable.

  • Consciousness is the singular universal reality and everything emanates from this universal consciousness
  • Consciousness is a universal aspect of reality and it is dynamically interrelated to the other components of universal reality and the dynamic interaction of these forces result in reality as we know it and do not yet know it.
  • Consciousness is a derivative phenomena of human neurological functioning caused by electro chemical impulses within the complex functional interrelationships of various neurological structures.
  • The forces that constitute the universe are simply physical, not psycho physical in nature.
  • God, outside of consciousness, created consciousness when he created man, so that man could know God?s will.
 

Consciousness exists as a fundamental aspect of Reality

The Case for Inclusion of Consciousness as a Constitutional Aspect of Reality

Our deepest explorers of human subjectivity have reported, cross culturally, that direct realization of consciousness causes a change in world view that assigns Consciousness a high degree of reality and that this is directly experienced in realizing a change in consciousness that has many names in different traditions, Satori, Enlightenment, Self Realization, etc.

My personal exploration of consciousness independently and convincingly validates the claims of the mystics. This direct experience is one of the primary reasons I feel confident about creating a philosophy that elevates the status of consciousness to a universal constitutive force. When consciousness is appreciated and explored deeply over a period of time the experience leads intuitively to this conclusion, and is self-authenticating and compelling because it is directly experienced.

It is easier to think that the most powerful and aspect of human existence is not exclusively derivative of neurological processes but is instead mediated, or used by, neurological processes in the same way water is used by a cell, or sunlight by plants and the skin. Why should we assign consciousness a status that is different than all the other processes that constitute the individual? One reasons that consciousness has been largely ignored or assigned the status of being a completely derivative phenomena is that consciousness can?t be observed as an object. Because consciousness can?t be objectified, and is universally constitutive of human being, it has not been assigned a primary value in it?s self. But humanity as we know it, any meaning of any kind, is inconceivable without the existence of consciousness as a prior existing fact or function of reality.The idea that consciousness is a legitimate aspect of reality possesses an intuitive resonance in our deepest sense of things that has the ring of truth and beauty. See Diagram.

The fact that science is dependent on the simple fact of consciousness as the observer and on higher forms in and of consciousness, particularly math as having a real, although non material, existence that is mysteriously able to describe the laws that seem to govern the functioning of the physical universe.