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Bernard Haisch
Consciousness is the Source and Substance of Matter.
In his 2006 publication, “The God Theory”, Haisch offers a proposal consistent with traditional understanding based on the universal spiritual experiences of the ages: “I am proposing that ultimately it is consciousness that is the origin of matter, energy, and the laws of nature in this universe and all others that may exist. If I am correct, we are literally all one being (God) in many individual forms.”
Rudolf Steiner maintained the traditional understanding: "Fundamentally, there is only consciousness." Steiner also maintained the perspective of "the universal being" and it is this perspective that is foundational to Biodynamic agriculture. This publication serves to offer the insights of a contemporary scientist who has arrived at the same conclusions quite independently, through his own recent research
“My wager is this. As science integrates the in depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of enquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.
“I am also betting that scientific discoveries in this new millennium will substantiate the rich inner world of consciousness we all share is more than just a neuro-physiological epiphenomenon. I’m betting that, before too long, we will understand how consciousness, at a fundamental level, creates matter, not vice versa.”
Bernard Haisch, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and author of over 130 scientific publications. He served as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and was Principal Investigator on several NASA research projects. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison , Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Utrecht , the Netherlands. His professional positions include Staff Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; Deputy Director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Haisch and two colleagues have proposed a radical new theory of the nature of matter. The theory is based on the premise that mass, which causes physical objects to feel the tug of gravity and respond to the law of inertia, may not exist as a fundamental property of matter. Instead, those forces are governed by a field of light that pervades all space known as a "zero-point field." The theory was first proposed in a paper published in The Physical Review in 1994: 'Inertia as a Zero-Point Field Lorentz Force' by B. Haisch, A. Rueda and H.E. Puthoff
The problem Haisch et al. tackled comes from a dust bunny that scientists have been sweeping under the carpet for years. It has to do with the intrinsic energy of empty space. That is, even if you clear away every last iota of matter from inside a box, that box will still contain a measurable amount of energy. This so-called zero-point energy is a manifestation of the zero-point field, a seething tide of electromagnetic radiation (a.k.a. light) and a menagerie of subatomic particles that pop into and out of existence in the blink of an eye--long enough to leave traces that physicists can construct theories and experiments around but not long enough for anyone to be able to see or detect directly.
The first experiment that pointed to the existence of the zero-point field was conducted by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casmir, who predicted that two metal plates, if isolated in a vacuum, would be pushed together because the zero-point field pressing against the outside of the plates is a little stronger than that against the inside. The existence and intensity of this "Casmir force" have been experimentally verified many times in the 50 years since Casmir's revelation.
Based on this research Haisch proposes that light, in the form of a universal electromagnetic zero-point field, creates and sustains the world of matter that fills space-time. Solid matter is sustained by an underlying sea of quantum light: the zero-point.
The God Theory is Haisch’s first offering for the layman. The full title of this popular work being: The God Theory. Universes, Zero point fields and What’s behind it all.
“Consciousness is the sine qua non of human experience. The experiences of life are like waves riding upon an ocean of consciousness.” Haisch believes that consciousness is our connection to God, who, or which, is the source of all consciousness. This infinite conscious intelligence has infinite potential, and its ideas become the laws of physics.
Haisch proposes “creation by subtraction”. Creation of the manifest involves subtraction from infinite potential. By limiting the infinitely possible, you create the finitely real.
Just as creation can be viewed as a process of subtraction from the infinite rather than as an event in which something pops up out of nothing; our individual consciousness can be viewed as a brain filtered remnant of infinite consciousness. Consciousness is unlimited. It is the function of the brain to filter consciousness. Infinite consciousness has to be funneled through a reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.
The God Theory is available from the state library.
RELATED QUOTES
"I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension." – Freeman Dyson
“The eye of seership rises above the objects and processes of the world around us, to a level where all these pass away and melt into nothingness, until finally the region is attained where Beings alone exist, Beings in certain states of consciousness. The only true realities of the universe are therefore Beings in different states of consciousness.
“It is well never to lose sight of the fact that, fundamentally, there is nothing in the universe but consciousness.”
- Rudolf Steiner
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