Welcome. This meditation supports the Stage Nine thought experiment called the Big Bang and the One Consciousness. This is a fun thought experiment with some profound ideas. We present it here in the form of contemplative meditation.
Posture
Take a moment to get comfortable. You can sit or stand or lay down. It’s doesn’t matter. You can close your eyes or keep them open. Do what works for you.
Presence
Take a slow deep breath. Let it out like a sigh of relief. Be at peace. You are here now. Take another slow deep breath, and this time, send it out slowly, consciously, with purpose, all the way. Be at peace. You are here now. Pause and repeat these breaths until you feel relaxed and at peace.
Journey
We begin with tiny things…. imagine yourself in a physics lab… experiments have shown that both photons (massless) and electrons (massed) behave like waves until measured / observed and only then collapse into a particle, and that this physical existence as a particle is temporary, lasting only as long as observed. This “observation” is defined as, and has been shown to be, the concept being generated in the mind of a sentient human being.
The intent to see a wave gives us a wave. The intent to see a particle, results in a particle.
Yet other experiments on electrons in energy wells show that all matter is energy, existing everywhere all the time (according to a probability density function) until our observation collapses its wave function, forcing it to “choose” a location in which to exist in physical form.
Therefore, sentient consciousness creates everything. Nothing exists until a sentient consciousness conceives of it.
Everything exists as energy, until a sentient consciousness manifests it (collapses the wave functions) into what we call matter.
So here is the really interesting question: how and when did the FIRST sentient consciousness come into existence?
The first sentient consciousness could not have come into physical existence without first existing as energy. Let’s approach this logically.
Either:
(1) There was a time post-Big-Bang when NO sentient consciousness existed, or
(2) A sentient consciousness always existed since the Big Bang (and possibly before).
Let’s start with the first case. Suppose that there was a time, after the big bang, when this universe had no sentient consciousness (in energy form or otherwise). During this time, no wave forms would collapse from observation and thus everything would exist as energy everywhere all the time and physical objects would not come into existence. It would be a universe of 100% energy only, with no consciousness.
There would be nothing to manifest the manifester or create the creator, and a sentient consciousness itself would never come into existence, much less planets, stars, and people.
Therefore, it cannot be true that, at the big bang there was not a sentient consciousness but that later there was. Thus, a sentient consciousness always existed, at least since the Big Bang, and maybe before.
What if the big bang was the BIRTH of a sentient consciousness?
What if, in the field of potential existence, consciousnesses springs into being – each a universe birthed by a big bang. This consciousness is consumed in creative play in a space of energy within itself, creating more and more complicated things: particles, forces, stars, planets, plants, creatures…
Every religion in the world has a deity. This deity existed, they say, since the beginning and created everything. But what was there to create with? There was only the deity. Everything was therefore made from that deity, by that deity. This is the one consciousness. And so as we trace existence all the way back, we see that we (people, places, stars, etc.) are all extensions of the one consciousness, made by the one consciousness, from the material of the one consciousness.
This original sentient consciousness is within us – we are all part of the same whole that manifested us and we can also in turn manifest new things. We humans are part of the larger consciousness. We are physical manifestations of the original consciousness, and we are embedded with that consciousness, and as such can, and desire to, create and play and manifest. We are everything, everywhere, through all time. If there is a universal creator – we are part of it, and it is in us and around us… we are the part and whole of it.
Return
When you are ready, bring your awareness back to your surroundings. Notice how you feel. Return to this meditation anytime you like for a little fun melding physics, consciousness and religion.
