Creation, Reality & Mind, episode #2 __ Atoms or Articons __
ATOMS or ARTICONS. Which is the “stuff of Life”?
Is this true? “Atoms are the building blocks of the universe, and everything in it.”
This is what I was taught in school. It has been reinforced in society ever since.
We believe our reality is “material”, “physical”. That everything “real” can be measured, weighed, timed, described and identified with our senses.
WHAT IF “reality” could be explained in non-material terms?
CONSIDER THAT we experience every thought, feeling, sensation, observation and dream in our minds. Sure, the stimulus for those experiences appear to come from outside our minds, external to our selves. However, some philosophers have postulated that nothing exists outside of the mind - that everything is an illusion which takes place solely in the mind.
While an interesting theory, there are unanswered questions such as:
Why does everything seem so real? How can we share common experiences with others?
A PLAUSIBLE ANSWER: we exist as a state of consciousness in a shared Universal Mind.
This answer requires some elaboration using the ideas introduced in episode #1.
Recall called I previously referred to UNIVERSAL MIND as “Mind of God” but I will drop the ‘God’ reference hereafter.
Some suppositions follow to elaborate on this answer.
SUPPOSE THAT articons (artifacts of consciousness) are the building blocks of a metaphysical “universe”. If we can accept the idea that the material universe is comprised of atoms, then it should be an easy step to imagine articons as comprising a metaphysical universe.
SUPPOSE THAT the Universal Mind is a singularity of consciousness. If true, then is duality even possible in a singularity?
In a material universe, the answer is ‘no’ because nothing can theoretically exist beyond a defined singular instance of being with is limited by time, spare and matter.
In a metaphysical universe, the answer is ‘yes’ because articons (thoughts, feelings and all contents of mind) are not ‘material’. Consequently, they cannot be constrained by time, space or matter. Without the possibility of duality, all that can exist is the ideas about “material” things. As such, those ideas have no material meaning. Articons, however, have profound meaning for ideas, illusions and dreams.
SUPPOSE THAT the ideas about God and Creation in the Bible were expressed by men who only held the belief in a physical “reality” for mankind’s existence and had never even contemplated the possibility of a metaphysical one.
Notice that the Bible attributed the same qualities for both man and God - the ability to love, create, judge, punish, and more. The claim “we are created in the image and likeness of our Creator” likely explains why the God of the Bible often displays these “human” qualities.
SUPPOSE THAT all illusions are derived from an infinite number of Articons within the Universal Mind that originated as articons from sentient beings. Suppose every life serves to create and intermix the articons with Articons to continually co-create the never-ending story of Life.
Consider this idea. As a ‘being of consciousness’ (a human being), your mind is limited in what it can absorb at any instant.
If you include all sentient beings - humans, mammals (and more?) - then trillions of others are also imagining and intermixing articons and Articons ( within their limited sphere of awareness) to continually co-create Life. This process of co-creation is continuous and it occurs in every mind to create a perceived “reality”.
Your reality and my reality differ because we each apply our will separately and uniquely in order to choose where, how and when to direct our attention - our awareness - our consciousness.
The implications of a Universal Mind.
Can a metaphysical understanding of “creation” and “reality” provide answers to humanity’s most challenging questions?
Consider the possibilities below, and apply the same ideas to answer your favourite mysteries.
ALBERT EINSTEIN spend much of his life searching for a “unified field theory” (UFT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory. He never succeeded.
He, like many subsequent theoretical physicists, believed that a single underlying force, if discovered, would explain “the glue” that held together and orchestrated the movements of every physical particle and process in universe at every level from subatomic particles to deep space. If they had looked at this challenge through a metaphysical rather than a physical lens, what would have been the results? Would the elusive Unified Field Theory still be elusive, or would the ideas of articons, Articons and Universal Mind have been a more satisfying theory?
INFINITY has various definitions. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infinity
All require the acceptance of time, space and matter as prerequisites. If you eliminate these, what remains is infinity which defines itself. WITHOUT consciousness, nothing exists because no observer of ideas or feeling exists. WITH consciousness, all is possible as dreams, illusions, imagination, thoughts and feelings.
ENERGY has many meanings https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy.
Like infinity, they all require the acceptance of time, space and matter as prerequisites for their many forms to exist. In this metaphysical “Universal Mind”proposal, energy is manifest as articons and Articons with no more substance than any other thought, action, or idea.
LIFE & DEATH https://www.britannica.com/science/death
Life is defined as “the period between birth and death, or the experience or state of being alive. Death as “the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms“. Both are defined in physical terms.
In metaphysical terms, whereby life is lived in the mind of individuals and in the Universal Mind, life and death occur in a dream or state of illusion. Life’s beginning, duration and end are understood as changes in perception rather than the beginning, sustaining and cessation of material processes.
Elegant in its simplicity.
This Universal Mind understanding of Life, Creation and Reality is fundamental to human existence because we intuitively understand that consciousness is required to exist. This understanding requires no special effort or education, just the ability to be aware and observe your own beingness.
The following are a few quotes from famous thinkers to inspire more consideration for the ideas presented herein.
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.
Don Altman
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity.
The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging. In all examples that come to mind, simple and elegant systems are easier and faster to design, more efficient in execution, and more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and be appreciated.
The discussion you are presenting is wide ranging and expansive. Sometimes complicated. Metaphysical is the answer in my mind. Time is a construct of this dimension. God with human traits is a control and fear factor. Conscious is limited in duality until an awakening takes place within the collective we live in. You graduate in school when you show an understanding of the material presented. Einstein was thinking outside of the box for his time. Today he is bang on.
We are in an age of humanity raising their consciousness to greater levels of awareness. I see this as where your discussion is going.