First of all, this book isn’t written yet. I am currently in the beginning stages of writing it. However, I know what it is going to be about and have essentially outlined the book. I have decided to share this process with my Paid Subscribers through this Conversation Thread. Book V is the book where everything we have been considering in Books I-IV comes together in a clear understanding of how it all works. Not in a mystical “New Age” kind of theory but based on the empirical and rational observations and knowledge of the past. We are finally ready to start connecting the final dots.
The following outline represents an Arch of Consciousness that starts and ends with “Potential Being.” The steps in between reflect the levels of Consciousness and Awareness that are necessary to go through to manifest the arch from Potential Being back to Potential Being. Book V is essentially about how this works. Book V considers the questions related to what Consciousness is, how it evolves through levels of Perception and Awareness, why each step in the process is important, and where we are currently on the “Arch of Consciousness.”
The book uniquely focuses on the benefits and dangers of abstract quantum level consciousness and thinking and why we are at a critical crossroads in our awareness as human beings. Again, not in some mystical New Age pseudo-science, but through the direct rational, objective, empirical evidence gained from previous attempts at discovering the truth about Reality. We are now ready to “perceive” how all the pieces of this puzzle logically connect.
Here is the current outline and summary for Book V. Starting next week we will briefly consider each step in the process and begin connecting them to the previous books and considerations.
“Quantum Consciousness: Recognizing and Understanding the Arch of Awareness.”
POTENTIAL BEING (Innate Abstract Possibility – Unified Consciousness – Pure Awareness)
All Possibility is manifested from Potential Being (Rationalism). Example: You decide to build a house. Once that decision is made, the house moves toward potentiality in the physical world. The idea, or potential house, will eventually become a “real” house in the physical world. It moves from a state of Potential Being (abstract idea) to a state of Physical Being as a “real house” that you live in. Physical Being is a direct consequence of Potential Being.
PHYSICAL BEING (Molecular/Cellular Level of Consciousness – Atomic/Stimulus-Response Level of Awareness)
There is a wide range of physicality, or Physical Being. One of the distinctions between physical beings is their level of Consciousness and Awareness and how it allows them to interact with Reality. The basic level of physical Being functions at the binary stimulus-response level of Awareness. (Stimulus-Response = Dualism: On/Off – Yin/Yang –Being/Non-Being)
SELF-CONSCIOUS BEING (Perception Level of Consciousness – Self Awareness)
Some physical beings, such as animals, are aware of themselves as a separate and distinct being from other beings. This distinction is rendered through the physical senses such as touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing. These senses serve to distinguish Reality in unique ways, often in terms of duality.
THEORETICAL & ABSTRACT BEING (Imagination/Abstraction Level of Consciousness – Conceptual Awareness)
The human animal has an awareness beyond the faculty of perception called “Mind” that enables them to consider and speculate about non-physical possibilities that lead to an ability to theoretically consider the abstract possibilities of Reality. This type of consciousness and awareness led to science and religion based on mathematical abstractions and deductive reasoning. Abstract thinking connects the Rational with the Empirical. It opens the door to a dimension of possible non-duality.
QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS (Abstract Probability Level of Consciousness – Quantum Awareness)
Quantum level thinking embraces the world of probability over physicality. It refocuses Awareness and Consciousness beyond the empirical world of Physical Reality to a totally abstract world of Quantum Possibility. Quantum Awareness is an awareness of abstract possibility; a theoretical perspective of probability and potential that is completely uncertain and can never be guaranteed. Basically, virtually everything is possible at the Quantum level of Probability; effectively eliminating choices and dualism at that level. However,successfully translating unlimited probability into limited physical reality can be difficult and challenging. (Think Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs)People functioning at the Quantum level of awareness are often considered to be either a genius, insane, or both.
POTENTIAL BEING (Innate Abstract Possibility – Unified Consciousness – Pure Awareness)
At some point, the probabilities connected to Quantum Consciousness become so overwhelming and ubiquitous within our Awareness that we become Totally Aware that everything is possible at some level. (Think Buddha, Jesus, and the Dali Lama) At that point everything, all reality, including Consciousness, enters a state of complete potential again. What Plato called “The Realm of Forms,” what Aristotle and Descartes called the “Rational Mind,” and what Hegel called “Absolute Truth.”
Our individual Consciousness merges back into a Pure state of Awareness with the potential for Being Everything, or No Thing. The Awareness of Being Everything and Nothing at the same time transcends dualism, and is what Buddhists call Nirvana, or a complete and total state of bliss. In Christian terms Heaven. Potentiality represents a higher state of Being because Potentiality is eternal, physicality is not.
In the Arch of Consciousness, consciousness moves from “potential being” through all the “physical stages of being” eventually returning to complete “potential being” again. This dimension of “Complete Potential Being” is what Plato called “The Realm of Forms,” what Aristotle and Descartes called “The Rational Mind,” what Lao Tzu called “Tao,” what the Buddhists call “Nirvana,” and what Jesus called “The Kingdom of Heaven.” It is where all possible knowledge and potential originates, and is the source of what Rationalists call “a priori knowledge” and what Theologians call “divine revelation.” Potential Being reflects the possibility and potentiality for anything that can possibly become physically or rationally manifested in the universe.
It is what Aristotle called “The Mind of God.”
“And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.”
Aristotle – Metaphysics
It is what Lao Tzu called “Tao.”
“To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.”
Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
It is what Buddhists call “Nirvana.”
"Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that ‘I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind’."
– Buddha
It is what Hindus call “Reincarnation.”
“The soul is neither born, nor does it ever die; nor having once existed, does it ever cease to be. The soul is without birth, eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.”
Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 2, Verse 20
It is what the Bible calls “The Mystery of God…”
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18 (The Bible)
…and what Jesus proclaimed as the “Kingdom of Heaven.”
"The kingdom from heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field. Although it is the smallest of all seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches."
Matthew 13:31-32 (New Testament Gospel)
It is what Albert Einstein called “the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
– Albert Einstein
It is what Quantum Mechanics calls the “Paradox of Wave-Particle Duality.”
“Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.”
– Erwin Schrodinger
It is the eternal state of vibrating energy singing all of physicality into existence in “String Theory.”
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
– Brian Greene
It is the philosophical, metaphysical, theological, and scientific consideration that there is more to Reality than meets the eyes, ears, nose, touch, and taste. It is the argument that there is more to reality than just the objective physical world. Is there really an experience of awareness beyond our five senses? Welcome to Book V, a complete and comprehensive consideration of Rationalism!
Next week we will begin to consider these stages of Consciousness and Awareness based on what we have discussed so far in Books I-IV.
Thanks for checking in! We’ll talk more next week.
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Hello Everybody!
First of all, this book isn’t written yet. I am currently in the beginning stages of writing it. However, I know what it is going to be about and have essentially outlined the book. I have decided to share this process with my Paid Subscribers through this Conversation Thread. Book V is the book where everything we have been considering in Books I-IV comes together in a clear understanding of how it all works. Not in a mystical “New Age” kind of theory but based on the empirical and rational observations and knowledge of the past. We are finally ready to start connecting the final dots.
The following outline represents an Arch of Consciousness that starts and ends with “Potential Being.” The steps in between reflect the levels of Consciousness and Awareness that are necessary to go through to manifest the arch from Potential Being back to Potential Being. Book V is essentially about how this works. Book V considers the questions related to what Consciousness is, how it evolves through levels of Perception and Awareness, why each step in the process is important, and where we are currently on the “Arch of Consciousness.”
The book uniquely focuses on the benefits and dangers of abstract quantum level consciousness and thinking and why we are at a critical crossroads in our awareness as human beings. Again, not in some mystical New Age pseudo-science, but through the direct rational, objective, empirical evidence gained from previous attempts at discovering the truth about Reality. We are now ready to “perceive” how all the pieces of this puzzle logically connect.
Here is the current outline and summary for Book V. Starting next week we will briefly consider each step in the process and begin connecting them to the previous books and considerations.
“Quantum Consciousness: Recognizing and Understanding the Arch of Awareness.”
POTENTIAL BEING (Innate Abstract Possibility – Unified Consciousness – Pure Awareness)
All Possibility is manifested from Potential Being (Rationalism). Example: You decide to build a house. Once that decision is made, the house moves toward potentiality in the physical world. The idea, or potential house, will eventually become a “real” house in the physical world. It moves from a state of Potential Being (abstract idea) to a state of Physical Being as a “real house” that you live in. Physical Being is a direct consequence of Potential Being.
PHYSICAL BEING (Molecular/Cellular Level of Consciousness – Atomic/Stimulus-Response Level of Awareness)
There is a wide range of physicality, or Physical Being. One of the distinctions between physical beings is their level of Consciousness and Awareness and how it allows them to interact with Reality. The basic level of physical Being functions at the binary stimulus-response level of Awareness. (Stimulus-Response = Dualism: On/Off – Yin/Yang –Being/Non-Being)
SELF-CONSCIOUS BEING (Perception Level of Consciousness – Self Awareness)
Some physical beings, such as animals, are aware of themselves as a separate and distinct being from other beings. This distinction is rendered through the physical senses such as touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing. These senses serve to distinguish Reality in unique ways, often in terms of duality.
THEORETICAL & ABSTRACT BEING (Imagination/Abstraction Level of Consciousness – Conceptual Awareness)
The human animal has an awareness beyond the faculty of perception called “Mind” that enables them to consider and speculate about non-physical possibilities that lead to an ability to theoretically consider the abstract possibilities of Reality. This type of consciousness and awareness led to science and religion based on mathematical abstractions and deductive reasoning. Abstract thinking connects the Rational with the Empirical. It opens the door to a dimension of possible non-duality.
QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS (Abstract Probability Level of Consciousness – Quantum Awareness)
Quantum level thinking embraces the world of probability over physicality. It refocuses Awareness and Consciousness beyond the empirical world of Physical Reality to a totally abstract world of Quantum Possibility. Quantum Awareness is an awareness of abstract possibility; a theoretical perspective of probability and potential that is completely uncertain and can never be guaranteed. Basically, virtually everything is possible at the Quantum level of Probability; effectively eliminating choices and dualism at that level. However, successfully translating unlimited probability into limited physical reality can be difficult and challenging. (Think Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs) People functioning at the Quantum level of awareness are often considered to be either a genius, insane, or both.
POTENTIAL BEING (Innate Abstract Possibility – Unified Consciousness – Pure Awareness)
At some point, the probabilities connected to Quantum Consciousness become so overwhelming and ubiquitous within our Awareness that we become Totally Aware that everything is possible at some level. (Think Buddha, Jesus, and the Dali Lama) At that point everything, all reality, including Consciousness, enters a state of complete potential again. What Plato called “The Realm of Forms,” what Aristotle and Descartes called the “Rational Mind,” and what Hegel called “Absolute Truth.”
Our individual Consciousness merges back into a Pure state of Awareness with the potential for Being Everything, or No Thing. The Awareness of Being Everything and Nothing at the same time transcends dualism, and is what Buddhists call Nirvana, or a complete and total state of bliss. In Christian terms Heaven. Potentiality represents a higher state of Being because Potentiality is eternal, physicality is not.
In the Arch of Consciousness, consciousness moves from “potential being” through all the “physical stages of being” eventually returning to complete “potential being” again. This dimension of “Complete Potential Being” is what Plato called “The Realm of Forms,” what Aristotle and Descartes called “The Rational Mind,” what Lao Tzu called “Tao,” what the Buddhists call “Nirvana,” and what Jesus called “The Kingdom of Heaven.” It is where all possible knowledge and potential originates, and is the source of what Rationalists call “a priori knowledge” and what Theologians call “divine revelation.” Potential Being reflects the possibility and potentiality for anything that can possibly become physically or rationally manifested in the universe.
It is what Aristotle called “The Mind of God.”
It is what Lao Tzu called “Tao.”
It is what Buddhists call “Nirvana.”
It is what Hindus call “Reincarnation.”
It is what the Bible calls “The Mystery of God…”
…and what Jesus proclaimed as the “Kingdom of Heaven.”
It is what Albert Einstein called “the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity.”
It is what Quantum Mechanics calls the “Paradox of Wave-Particle Duality.”
It is the eternal state of vibrating energy singing all of physicality into existence in “String Theory.”
It is the philosophical, metaphysical, theological, and scientific consideration that there is more to Reality than meets the eyes, ears, nose, touch, and taste. It is the argument that there is more to reality than just the objective physical world. Is there really an experience of awareness beyond our five senses? Welcome to Book V, a complete and comprehensive consideration of Rationalism!
Next week we will begin to consider these stages of Consciousness and Awareness based on what we have discussed so far in Books I-IV.
Thanks for checking in! We’ll talk more next week.
Frank