#### [[Idealism Science Quotes MOC]] --- “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.” -Max Planck And “Space and time can claim no existence of their own. … What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no matter. …Time and space are not conditions of existence, spacetime is a model we have developed for thinking." -Einstein “Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.” -Niehls Bohr Even Carl Jung said the telling question of a man's life is if he is related to something infinite or not. “As good men come nearer to perfecting themselves, they become saints, sages, yogis, highest rishis, angels, archangels; and ultimately, during full liberation from the triple qualities, they merge in everlasting oneness with Spirit." -Yogananda “energy occurs, not in a continuous manner, but in discrete packets that Planck called quanta. And yet human consciousness can be expanded into the bounded infinite series of the uncountable infinity of infinities (the mind of god) which in turn, implies that, as conscious beings, we are all connected through the infinite continuity of spirit. Thus, the profound truth that in Spirit, we are all one and the same, and the opposite of that profound truth, the fact that every soul is unique (in terms of where that soul is on the journey from minimal awareness to omnipresent Cosmic Consciousness) is also true!” -ER Close "The only thing that you can actually prove is the existence of consciousness. This is because consciousness is the only thing that you experience directly. All other knowledge is obtained very indirectly through the severely limited filter of the physical senses. The illusion of separate existence, on the other hand, is totally based on the fallacious belief that reality can exist without consciousness. This is the very basis of the current scientific paradigm, and yet it is totally un-scientific: A scientific hypothesis, by definition, must be open to proof or disproof. Thus the hypothesis that reality exists, or has ever existed, apart from consciousness, is literally un-provable, because no reality is observable without the existence of a conscious observer." -ER Close If all the ravens you’d ever seen were black, you would believe all ravens are black. Similarly, as conscious beings, we only experience mental stuff: perceptions, thoughts, feelings. As a conscious being, it is impossible to experience the world without mental stuff: a totally unconscious person experiences nothing. As humans only experience mental stuff, that gives us reason to believe there is only mental stuff. If this is so, the universe must be mental stuff: consciousness. [[@thomasThreeFemalePhilosophers2019]] “Two things are said to be separate if they can be experienced separately. For example, a book and a pen are two separate entities. Both of them exist independent of each other. They can be seen either separately or together. But, in case of consciousness and matter, the latter doesn't have any independent separate existence apart from the former. If one can prove the existence of matter apart from consciousness, then they can be said to be really existing separately. But, as a matter of fact, matter is experienced in consciousness and not apart from consciousness. Such being the case, the advaitins hold that consciousness and matter are not two separate realities. The one reality alone appears as the many.” -Quora “The indubitableness of forever being locked in consciousness and always experiencing matter inside and not separate from consciousness is astounding and lends credence to a consciousness-as-fundamental worldview: In Advaita maya is a form of divine playfulness that only has illusive appearance and the true underlying reality even for Nature/matter is a form of consciousness called Cosmic Consciousness.” -me Is consciousness the zero-point energy field? Matter resists acceleration, not because it possesses some innate property called mass as Newton postulated, but because the zero-point field exerts a force whenever acceleration takes place. To put it in somewhat metaphysical terms, there exists a background sea of quantum light (the electromagnetic zero-point field) filling the universe, and that light generates a force that opposes acceleration when you push on any material object. The action of that quantum light is what makes matter the seemingly solid, stable stuff of which we and our world are made.-[[@haischGodTheoryUniverses2006]] --- Tags: Reference: Related: