Intelligent Design

I see intelligent design everywhere. When my friends say well that means evolution is wrong. I say  evolution is intelligent design. All the principles of evolution are intelligent design. My intuition thinks up stuff that then becomes physical. That is intelligent design. Thoughts come to me from out of nowhere. For me this is all a holographic picture that is evolving all the time. I am an image in this big picture that is conscious. And Consciousness is the creator of the picture. I don't really need to know more than this.

Resonance

The path for me was following my intuition, and the path was marked by resonance. The big picture was unknown, but paying attention to resonance was a path.

Meaning

What is more in line with truth, a scientific proof or a meaningful experience? A scientific proof may have practical value and make life easier, but without meaningful experiences, all that ease is rather useless. 

Consciousness Is Fundamental

At the basic level we know we exist. We cannot deny it. Is this a form of knowledge? I think so, even though it is not conceptual. How do we know we exist? Because there is sense of Being that is aware. We can forget our name, status, and everything else, but that sense of awareness remains. 

This is certainly a form of knowledge, but it is not conceptual. It does not require thought. It does not require proof. It is our primary knowledge, and it is aware. We might say that this awareness is limited to my body. But all living beings seem to have this sense. So existence for living beings is a form of awareness. Those of us who have experienced bliss, know that it seems related to loosing all sense of a personal self, resulting in a vast sense of pure subjectivity. 

Since those ecstatic experiences are so meaningful, they impart a deep sense of truth. If my personal self is ultimately a limited form of this universal self, I infer that all other living beings are ultimately this universal self. It really does make sat, chit, ananda (existence, consciousness, bliss) real for me. 

This is my argument as to why I believe consciousness is fundamental. It is certainly a bigger step to conclude that the universe as a whole is a projection in consciousness. But I think Advaita has made that pretty clear. Bernardo Kastrup is making the case from the scientific and philosophical areas of knowledge. 

Beautiful Surrender

If you take consciousness to be fundamental, consciousness becomes the God or spirit of everything. In this sense everything is a spiritual manifestation and physicality is an image on the screen of awareness. This makes the physical world a subset with its own parameters. Some of us are saying this subset is not adequate to prove or disprove the subjective, as it is the prime mover. Thinking this deeply and trying to put it into words, pretty much drops me into a feeling of awe. The mystery of this inability feels like the truth of our condition. This pretty much puts me in agreement Jidu Krishnamurti. The only adequate response is surrender to trusting the unknown.