Pantheism Pillar – Physics

I was brought up, like almost everyone I know, to believe that the physical world, composed of matter, is the fundamental reality and exists independently of our perception. This suggeststhat the world the physical world is the true essence of existence. This is known as “Material Realism”. This view of reality still leaves many questions unanswered.

One alternative view is that of researchers like Robert Lanza, who is prominent in exploring the idea of consciousness creating matter, particularly through his “biocentrism” theory which suggests that consciousness is the fundamental aspect of reality and the physical world is a byproduct of our perception, influenced by our conscious observation; he often collaborates with physicists to explore this concept at the quantum level. Researchers like Lanza often draw connections to quantum mechanics, where the observer can influence the outcome of an experiment, suggesting a role for consciousness in shaping reality at the quantum level. 

Amrit Goswani’s book “The Self Aware Universe” is a good resource to follow up the thinking of on modern physicist. He has much to say about monistic idealism and how it alone resolves the paradoxes of quantum physics. He looks into the age-old question of mind and body or mind and brain and shows how one consciousness appears to be so many separate consciousnesses.

The key theory in this is known as “Monistic Idealism”. In this theory cum philosophy, consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. Both the world of matter and the world of mental phenomena, such as thought, are determined by consciousness, and generated by consciousness.

In addition to the material and the mental spheres (which together form the immanent reality, or world of manifestation), idealism posits a transcendent, archetypal realm of ideas as the source of material and mental phenomena.

It is important to recognize that monistic idealism is, as its name implies, a unitary philosophy that holds that all things in the universe come from a single underlying reality. Any subdivisions, such as the immanent and the transcendent, are within consciousness. Thus consciousness is the only ultimate reality. It emphasizes the oneness of the universe, and that everything is connected and interdependent.