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Continued from previous post.....

It is very difficult to articulate the true nature of the consciousness I'm referencing here, and god knows more finessed individuals than I have tried and failed miserably. People have so many mixed up ideas about "God", life, death, energy, matter, and time.

I see consciousness as transcending all boundaries (aside from "existence"). That includes time. This means it is also timeless. Time is simply a measure of change, which means at the highest level of consciousness, there is NO change occurring. This means our perception of change is an illusion. Consider that carefully....

Try to imagine the nature of an "omniscient" presence of unified consciousness. You wouldn't just know everything that IS, you would know everything that COULD BE. And in knowing those probabilities so perfectly that they were INDISTINGUISHABLE from actuality (because your capacity to imagine is propelled by infinite energy, or in other words, the absence of limiting factors), those realities might as well EXIST. You can begin to see how the difference between "actual" and "probable" begins to break down. This implies ALL things exist, and always have. Our perception of change is simply an extremely minute cross section of an eternal knowing-ness or conscious awareness of infinite probability....

Don't worry about it, you're just fine, better than anyone else I've communicated with on the subject at least. Also, I try not to be one of those people with mixed up ideas... and see where it's led me? (i.e. I think it's safe to say that I've imagined it, perhaps unknowingly at the time, this 'unified consciousness', from what I've written above (or at least something I see as remarkably similar))

It could, but its "consistency" is really quite variable. Since we can't "jump outside ourselves" and experience "true objectivity" subjectivity will always be all we can directly experience. Perhaps that is all that exists. Just because the universe appears physically consistent to YOU doesn't mean it is that way to everyone else. Go read any autobiography written by a mystic and you will see their experience of "reality" is often anything BUT consistent in terms of "physical laws". I think our expectations play more a role in reality than we even realize.

I would have agreed to that, in theory anyway, if not for the 'our' in there, because in that, there is again that illusion that the manifestation of the 'unified consciousness' has anything to say in the matter, especially if everything that has ever existed and will exist, etc., etc. is already 'known' to the 'unified consciousness' combining the infinite and infinitesimal into one.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest if you find the physical model more believable than the consciousness model. I share my knowledge dispassionately (but not to imply I'm not passionate about my belief) with those who are curious, as I'm perfectly happy with other people's beliefs (whatever they may be), but I very much enjoy discussing metaphysical ideas as well as other kinds of philosophy.

Well, as I've said, I believe in it because it really does describe what I've experienced and intuited about the world the best. Hopefully, I've already given you enough reasons why I think that is with what I've written to at least try to understand why this is.