He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea;
He alone decides who writes a symphony;
He lights every star that makes the darkness bright;
He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night!

He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer;
Saint or sinner calls and always finds him there;
Though it makes him sad to see the way we live,
He’ll always say, “I forgive!”

He can grant a wish or make a dream come true;
He can paint the clouds and turn the gray to blue;
He alone is there to find a rainbow’s end;
He alone can see what lies beyond the bend!
– Richard Mullan, from “He” (1954)

My dear friends, as I have been telling you for years now, around the turn of the twentieth century, the scientific community’s gatekeepers oddly panicked. The heads of the major universities’ physics departments and the editors of the  peer-reviewed scientific journals realized that the new pursuit of quantum mechanics was coming much too close to what the general scientific community saw as perhaps “finding God”, or finding some version of a Creator, a Designer, a great Mind behind it all. And we could not allow that to happen! Omigod, as you know well by now, Max Plank, who would later win the 1918 Nobel Prize as the father of quantum mechanics, was soon telling his fellow physicists straight-out that consciousness is the base of all reality. In 1931, Dr. Planck said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” Then in 1944, Dr. Planck said, “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

The Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute is a leader in the field of researching intelligent design (“ID”) as a foremost way to search for proof of God. Currently, the Discovery Institute is releasing a new documentary called “The Story of Everything”; and in so doing, it summarizes nicely the utter waste this past century and a quarter has turned out to be, from a scientific point of view! Here is how the Discovery Institute introduces its new documentary: “Since the late 19th century, a philosophical assumption has embedded itself so deeply into scientific culture that it has become nearly invisible. That assumption is materialism — the view that the physical universe is all there is, that matter and energy interacting through blind, undirected processes are sufficient to explain everything we see, from the first moment of the cosmos to the complexity of living cells. It is a sweeping claim. And increasingly, it is a claim the evidence does not support.” By all means, do find the time to see this new documentary that is based on Stephen Meyer’s excellent book, Return of the God Hypothesis. Many trained scientists who are also Christians do not submit themselves to the materialist scientist gatekeepers’ rules, and their search for evidence for a Creator God has proven to be more and more successful. But there is yet another group of scientists who are even freer, who are not Christian in particular, and whose search has been only to ever more perfectly understand Consciousness. We’ll be saying more about their work below.

Even atheist/materialist scientists understand that this material universe that they are allowed by their scientific gatekeepers to study is only less than 5% of what they all understand is real.  The other more than 95% of reality they all refer to as “dark matter”, only because it won’t react with photons of light. This limited 5% of reality that we inhabit is also the only part of reality where objective time is running, and where space as we think of it exists at all. What we experience as space, or distance, and as time, or the notion of anything distinct from the “Now” that we feel is all around us is in each instant associated only with particle-based matter, so in the 95% of reality that doesn’t contain particle-based matter, the notion of time’s passage and the concept of distance are both optional and flexible. This means that it is reasonable to say that the non-material greater reality beyond this material universe is at once both infinitely large in size, and also smaller than a pencil-dot. What is true about “time” also very likely means that if anything ever exists, then it always exists. It also very likely means that the ninety-five percent of reality which exists beyond this material universe is almost certainly what those who are afterlife experts and study the greater reality call the astral plane. The astral plane is not matter-based, although it contains a kind of matter that is entirely mind-created; and it seems to be much greater in relative size than is this whole material universe.

The astral plane is humankind’s true home. It is an inconceivably vast and mindbogglingly complex wild-west sort of assembly of experiences, places, ideas, and states of mind that is as varied, astonishing, and teeming with life as is that silent and still ocean that seems to contain nothing but water and quietly exists beneath your boat. And, except at its extremely lowest reaches, the astral plane is far more love-based than is this material universe. Out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences are adventures which mostly occur in the astral plane. And what we who currently live in this material reality call “supernatural phenomena” are simply instances where events occurring in the astral areas will “breach” into our awareness, and then quickly out of it again, like a whale that suddenly breaches out of the still blue ocean beneath your boat.

Okay, now let’s finally talk about Consciousness. After more than a century of attempting to determine what Consciousness even is, most independent researchers would go along with something like this definition: Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality without any defined size or form, governed by emotion, with love at its highest vibrations and fear and anger at its lowest vibrations; alive in the sense that your mind is alive; highly emotional and therefore probably self-aware. Consciousness can take any form, and insofar as we are aware, Consciousness is all that actually exists. Roll that fact around in your mind for a moment! At its highest vibrations, Consciousness is the Godhead, while each human being exists variously within Consciousness, depending upon its rate of vibration. We  capitalize the word “Consciousness” for the same reason that we capitalize the names of God and of Jesus. And Consciousness is certainly not created or maintained by any aspect of our brains whatsoever; our brains can receive it, but they don’t create it.

So, while we are here on earth, and while we are in the afterlife or in the astral plane, we are within, or in fact we are directly part of Consciousness. The astral plane is located roughly where we are now, except that it is generally at a higher vibration, and it is stratified into nearly infinite levels (or channels, or dimensions) by its limitless vibrational frequencies. This entire material universe is just a limited vibrational sub-set in a vast, energy-based spectrum of Consciousness vibrations! The easiest way to envision how the greater reality works is to think of the fact that all around you now are hundreds of TV signals, each at a slightly different vibrational frequency. If your mind were a TV set, it could pick up one of those channels, and there tune in to a solid-seeming reality. And the plain fact is that right now, your mind is tuned to the material body that you believe is you in this material level of reality (which is at or near reality’s lowest vibratory rate). This is why you are unaware of all the other vibratory levels of Consciousness, which exist in precisely the same time and place!

Each eternal human mind, whether it operates right now in a material body or in a non-material astral body, is tuned to the vibrational frequency that it has presently achieved on the range between abject fear and perfect love. And while our minds easily can tune to lower frequencies than whatever their present set-point is, we find it unbearable to try to go higher, because the Consciousness energy above our present natural set-point batters us unbearably when we try to enter it! But we want to go higher. Everything is more beautiful, the higher we go; and everything quite literally feels more beautiful as we go higher! So, most of us are trying to raise our personal set-point farther away from the fear-and-anger low end, and closer to the perfect-love-and-joy high end of the Consciousness spectrum. Researchers believe that this better learning to raise our spiritual set-point is why the material universe even exists! Matter gives us a level of reality that our minds cannot so easily mess with, so we can experience much more negativity here, and better learn to work with it, to push against it, and to grow spiritually. We can push against it and thereby raise our personal spiritual vibrations more efficiently. The process is a bit more complicated than that, but not by much! This is why we make a plan for growth, and then  come and live these lives on earth. This is why our learning to recognize our own spiritual growth while we are in bodies even matters!

The minds of people who die on earth return to a limited area of the astral plane that we call “the afterlife”, that functions rather like a foyer. You might think of the afterlife as a kind of portal between this material universe and the vast non-material realities; and like the gigantic astral plane of which it is a tiny part, the afterlife exists precisely where we are now, but at a higher vibration. Like the rest of the astral plane, it consists of stratified Consciousness, from the lowest vibration (which is abject fear) to the highest (which is perfect love). It is impossible to enter the afterlife and then return to the earth, however, since the very act of entering the afterlife breaks the “silver cord” which attaches our material body to our internal energy body and keeps our material body alive; so, dying is always a one-way trip. Once we are back in the afterlife, though, and free of our old material earth-body, we pick up a beautiful astral body which is non-material and mind-created, but still solid. And then we can move freely from the afterlife into the greater astral plane, and simply resume our post-death eternal lives.

To watch mainstream scientists flounder in their attempts to understand Consciousness within their limited, mandated atheist-materialist constraints used to be pass-the-popcorn time! You could see that they were missing the Big Picture, but you figured that if they took sufficient wrong turns, eventually they would stumble upon enough of the truth to figure out the rest. Law of averages. Just made sense. They couldn’t possibly insist on being wrong forever. Or could they?

We know now that Consciousness is in fact primary and pre-existing. Max Planck turns out to have been right about that.  In other words, Consciousness as we have defined it is fundamental, and it predates this universe. It is the Creator, the Designer, the Uncaused Cause, or simply God, if you are comfortable with using that term. It is the Source energy that keeps this universe continuously in existence. Max Planck, who is among the greatest physicists of all time, won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics as the father of quantum theory, but Planck perhaps better deserved a Nobel Prize for what is surely humankind’s greatest discovery. In 1931 he said, ”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” Our dear Dr. Planck had found God. How much more did He deserve a Nobel Prize for that?

And yet even so, Max Planck is not the only prominent physicist to have realized that the conclusion that  Consciousness is primary and it pre-exists the universe must follow inevitably from a better understanding of quantum mechanics. Physicist Euan Squires said, “Every interpretation of quantum mechanics involves consciousness.” Physicist, Astronomer and Mathematician Sir James Jeans said, “The Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” Physicist John Wheeler said, “A life-giving factor lies at the center of the whole machinery and design of the world.” And the great Erwin Schrodinger, winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and owner of one truly remarkable cat, said, “Multiplicity is only apparent; in truth, there is only one mind… ” “Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.” Every quantum physicist with a free and creative mind must have had this notion as at least a passing thought! As for us, beloveds, we have our marching orders now, and directly from Jesus, as He seeks to help us better understand how to more perfectly love and serve the living God! Oh my very dear ones, this is so easy for us! Only love! Only perfectly love the God whose love for us is so sweet and gentle, so pure and perfect, and we will join God soon in the highest heights forevermore! 

He can touch a tree and turn the leaves to gold;
He knows every lie that you and I have told,
Though it makes him sad to see the way we live,
He’ll always say, “I forgive!
– Richard Mullan, from “He” (1954)

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