The Nature of Physical & Non-Physical Reality

On the Nature of Physical and Non-Physical Reality (Part I) by James Kowall

Reality is characterized by four aspects of reality: (1) forms of information, (2) the flow of energy, (3) perceiving consciousness, and (4) the Source of information, energy and perceiving consciousness. The scientific framework for this characterization is discussed in terms of the holographic principle, non-commutative geometry, an observer-dependent cosmic horizon arising in de Sitter space with a positive cosmological constant, and the one-world-per-observer paradigm. In this scenario, the observer is present at the central focal point of a cosmic horizon that arises in the observer's frame of reference and that acts as a holographic screen that projects the observer's space-time geometry. A consensual reality shared by many observers is possible if their respective horizons overlap. This scientific framework only explains the nature of physical reality in terms of forms of information and the flow of energy. Even the space-time geometry of the observer's world is derivative of information and energy. This leaves us with the quandary of how to explain perceiving consciousness and its Source, which can only be understood as the non-physical nature of reality. A scientific argument is made that perceiving consciousness can only be understood as a focal point of consciousness that is differentiated from the Source and that arises in relation to a holographic screen, in which case the Source can only be understood in the non-dual sense of an empty space of potentiality or a void of undifferentiated consciousness. This is Part I of the two-part article (the references are listed at the end of Part II). See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/367

On the Nature of Physical and Non-Physical Reality (Part II) by James Kowall

Reality is characterized by four aspects of reality: (1) forms of information, (2) the flow of energy, (3) perceiving consciousness, and (4) the Source of information, energy and perceiving consciousness. The scientific framework for this characterization is discussed in terms of the holographic principle, non-commutative geometry, an observer-dependent cosmic horizon arising in de Sitter space with a positive cosmological constant, and the one-world-per-observer paradigm. In this scenario, the observer is present at the central focal point of a cosmic horizon that arises in the observer's frame of reference and that acts as a holographic screen that projects the observer's space-time geometry. A consensual reality shared by many observers is possible if their respective horizons overlap. This scientific framework only explains the nature of physical reality in terms of forms of information and the flow of energy. Even the space-time geometry of the observer's world is derivative of information and energy. This leaves us with the quandary of how to explain perceiving consciousness and its Source, which can only be understood as the non-physical nature of reality. A scientific argument is made that perceiving consciousness can only be understood as a focal point of consciousness that is differentiated from the Source and that arises in relation to a holographic screen, in which case the Source can only be understood in the non-dual sense of an empty space of potentiality or a void of undifferentiated consciousness. This is Part II of the two-part article with references at the end of the article. See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/368

The Revealed Yet Still Hidden Relation between Form & the Formless by Steven E. Kaufman

Science holds that it is form that gives rise to the Formlessness by which all form is apprehended. Science has never even considered the opposite possibility. What is the opposite possibility? That it is when formless Consciousness reaches a certain level of complexity that physical forms poof into existence. How does That which is formless become complex? By flowing in relation to Itself, over and over and over again. See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/369

What Is Versus What Should & Should Not Be by Steven E. Kaufman

The actual source of happiness is the absence of conflict with one's self, and that can be had regardless of whether "what is," in this moment, is or is not wanted. However, when one applies the idea "should not be" to that which is not wanted, then the self-conflict that creates suffering arises. The acceptance and allowing of the forms that arise in one's awareness as "what is" is the shovel that allows one to dig one's self out of the hole of self-conflict that is the ultimate source of one's suffering, as opposed to just continuing to dig the hole deeper using the shovel of what should and should not be. See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/370

The Thin Veneer That We Call Reality by Steven E. Kaufman

What we experience as reality, emotional, mental, and physical, is nothing more than the forms that arise, like a sort of boundary or etching, as That which is actually there, as That which is beyond reality, as That which is beyond words, as That which is beyond conception, flows in relation to Itself and so becomes defined in relation to Itself, and then apprehends as reality the forms, the etchings, the boundaries, that have arisen within Itself as a result of its flow, as a result of its movement, as a result of its being, in relation to Itself. See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/371

The Actual and the Real by Steven E. Kaufman

Reality is real, but the real is not the Actual. The Actual is what is there where the real only appears to be. Know yourself as a reality, know yourself as some form, and you lose sight of the formless Actuality that you always are, always have been, and always will be. See http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/372