Matter is not prime: consciousness is. Consciousness creates matter in the same way that a computer converts digital information into sounds and images on a computer screen or creates a seemingly three-dimensional virtual reality environment when a VR headset is attached to the computer.

De Chardin suggested in his book The Phenomenon of Man that energy exists in two forms: “tangential” and “radial”. The former is the energy that can be measured by scientific instruments; the latter is a form of psychic energy. Tangential energy is governed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, whereas radial energy is not. In the early 1950s de

The Pleroma is the universe “behind” this one, the greater world beyond our earthly perceptions. This dimension is denied to human beings trapped within the illusion that constitutes the sensory universe, known by philosophers as the phenomenal world – the “desert of the real”, as French philosopher Jean Baudrillard has described it (in his 1981

That life seems to have a purpose, a motivation for change and improvement, was first elucidated by Aristotle, who created the term “teleology”. This is derived from the Greek word telos, meaning “goal” or “end”.

Both Wheeler and Einstein believed that time was a concept of the conscious (observing) mind and not an external phenomenon.

This extraordinary conclusion was first made by a group of scientists working in Copenhagen in the 1920s. Under the leadership of the great Danish physicist Neils Bohr, these dedicated researchers devised a model of reality in which subatomic particles have a statistical “reality” that becomes actual when they are observed. Not surprisingly, this

Of course, there is still a great debate about what we mean by an “act of observation”, in that all acts of observation are, in effect, a measurement. Traditional physicists argue that by simply being “measured” – that is, by being in contact with already collapsed matter – any wave function becomes a solid object. Others argue that an act of

It seems that when it is looked at, light is a particle; and when it is not being looked at, it is a wave. In effect, this means that consciousness in some way directly affects the basic nature of light.

Quantum physics tells us that the waves that make up physical objects such as electrons, atoms and molecules are not like water waves or sound waves. They are waves of probability and are purely mathematical structures; they have no physical reality. What makes them physically real is when their probability wave is “collapsed” by an act of