The Essence Of Consciousness

So much confusion surrounds the idea of consciousness in our 21st century narratives. Mainstream physicists acknowledge the conscious observer impacting that which is observed, but do not formally study consciousness itself. New Age philosophies commonly utilize quantum physics terminology out of context in a vast array of concepts about consciousness.

In my book Is-Ness, I describe the essence of consciousness as experiencing only the present instance in time from a dimensionless point in space. From this singularity of presence our self awareness manifests as mind and body. This description is echoed in ancient wisdom, spanning Shamanism, Buddhism, the Vedic tradition, Sufism and, I believe, the teachings of Jesus. But, how do we describe this to those who have no knowledge or experience in any of these traditions?

I like the analogy of a whirlpool vortex in a vast ocean. The vortex exists due to a singular point on the ocean floor which draws water from the ocean. A whirlpool is sustained as long as the singular hole in the ocean can sustain the flow of water through it.

Without the singularity, there is only the vast, calm ocean, or empty space. The whirlpool itself is formed from the ocean water. We see this phenomenon at the atomic level. Atoms exist as a field vortex in space. Remove the singularity that powers the vortex and the field collapses into empty space.

In our universe, space is clearly not empty. Some call it a fabric of time-space, scientists of previous eras call it Aether, which behaves like a multi-dimensional super fluid. It is what electromagnetic fields propagate through. A singularity created in Aether taps into an infinite source of energy beyond our 3 dimension time-space existence to establish sustainable field vortexes of particles and atoms. Consider a fixed magnet that exhibits a sustained magnetic field. Yet, at the center of the magnet, there is no magnetic field at all. Out of a calm motionless center, spews a vortex of electrical field energy that flows continuously throughout the magnetic material to create a magnetic field, a magnetic dipole with opposing north and south poles separated by a two dimensional plane extending from the center singularity of a magnet.

Ancient inquirers, exploring human consciousness discovered the same dimensionless presence in our consciousness. It does not experience linear time, but only exists in the moment. It has no emotions or thoughts. It only “is”.

Back to the whirlpool analogy. So a whirlpool becomes aware of its existence. It thinks it is separate from the ocean that it is made of. It believes its existence is the swirling activity within its boundaries. That activity creates reverberations within the ocean, impacting other whirlpools that might exist within it. In it’s self awareness, it does not consider the singularity that forms it.

This describes our confused state as self aware, conscious beings. We forget that the core of our conscious presence exists only in the moment, in a unique singular point in space and time. While our solid bodies are comprised of organized electromagnetic field energies in empty space, or Aether as ancient scientists believed, we think we’re somehow separate from empty space.

Every aspect of our existence, our thoughts, our physical bodies, actions and reactions are all artifacts of this singular essence of being, the essence of consciousness, dimensionless source of all though action and physical matter.

The conclusions made thousands of years ago by sages who asked the same questions our quantum physicists ask today, is that we are simply a singular presence in a universal consciousness experiencing this 3d reality from our unique perspective. Our essence is not our physical form, just as the whirlpools essence isn’t the vortex in a vast ocean.

As today’s science evolves to study the science of spirit, the science of singularity, it will learn that the dimensionless and timeless singularity connects to something outside our 3 dimensional existence. it is a source for boundless energy. Information forms around singularities, information becomes thought, becomes wisdom. Yet this all comes from a dimensionless point of nothingness.

“Everything comes out of nothing” is a common theme across ancient belief systems and traditions. Until modern cosmologists theorized that all matter and energy of our universe was formed from the big bang of a singularity, this wisdom was not easily embraced by western science. Our next era of scientific development will be forced to explore consciousness and spirit.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the scientist who evolved Nicola Tesla’s research into what is today our electric grid, was quoted saying:

“The greatest discovery and development of the coming years will be along spiritual lines. Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of man and history, and yet we have been merely playing with it and have never seriously studied it as we have physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of the spiritual forces. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has in the past four.”

I couldn’t say it better myself!