Consciousness is the most intimate thing in our experience, yet science strggles to explain it. Explore the deep questions about consciousness and reality in this complete guide. Discover what consciousness actually is, how it shapes your experience, and what science and spirituality say about the nature of existence.
What if everything you have been taught about your mind is back to front? We have all been taught that the brain produces consciousness – that consciousness is a biological by-product of matter doing clever things – that consciousness starts with you and ends with you. However, mainstream science is starting to realise that’s probably not true.
Higher dimensional consciousness is a revolutionary theory suggesting that human awareness may originate from or connect to dimensions beyond our everyday 3D reality. When we experience creativity, spiritual insights or “eureka” moments, we may actually be accessing higher dimensional consciousness.
What if reality isn’t objectively “out there”, but is rendered by our consciousness, much like a video game world is rendered onto a computer screen or a virtual reality headset? In this model, consciousness is primary.
In the 1920s, there was a great renaissance in physics, when relativity and quantum mechanics were first discovered. The 2020s is seeing another great shift as materialism and determinism are gradually purged from the mainstream scientific mindset, which will allow physics to evolve into metaphysics.
The reality we see is a simplified representation of the underlying informational reality. So we aren’t actually perceiving an objective reality – we are rendering reality as we experience it. This new model of reality also scientifically proves the existence of universal consciousness (God).