lingering essence

A friends father died recently and during writing a condolence message i was struck by his lingering essence. This happens every time i write a condolence letter or even think of someone alive. Usually the person i'm writing about or thinking about appears vividly in my conscious, reminding me of all the things i liked about that person. Reminding me of the lessons i learned from that person, their smiles, stories and how we interacted.

i think about them while writing and they come back to life. My friends father was laughing, he was as alive as i am to me while i was thinking about him and yet he is dead. My conscious brought him back to life, interacted with the vision, and enabled me to compose a more personal message. He took shape, he talked, i re-created him.

There is a book written by Robert Lanza called "Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe." This book, about the centrality of life and how our conscious creates the universe, uses the term biocentrism and lays out seven principles which i will blatantly copy.

1. What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An "external" reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind.
2. Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be divorced from one another.
3. The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.
4. Without consciousness, "matter" dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
5. The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The "universe" is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.
6. Time does not have a real existence outside of animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe.
7. Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which physical events occur independent of life.

Our senses give us a read out while we are awake and while we sleep. According to Lanza space and time are not external, they are not objects, they are a part of our conscious makeup. Lanza explains that the basis for trying to understand this conscious creation could be had through an investigation of quantum physics.

But controversies abound.

Some say this idea will revolutionize our concept of nature. Others say poppycock. But as Kant said in his own words way back when.

Space is not something objective and real, nor a substance, nor an accident, nor a relation; instead, it is subjective and ideal, and originates from the mind's nature in accord with a stable law as a scheme, as it were, for coordinating everything sensed externally. (Ak 2: 403)

Lanza who is known to many as a biomedical pioneer in cloning and stem cell research, goes on to suggest that we are all immortal. That there is no such thing as death.

i can comprehend this because we are all energy. Energy is not lost in this world it just eeks out to combine with other entities. We change shape when we pass on but our energy remains. It becomes part of everything , part of the plants, the trees, the air, the ocean, the universe. In this way we become immortal, we don't die.

i'm throwing all this out there as a betweener. i'm not sure his idea is strong enough to convince me that only our consciousness creates reality.

If it is the case, my question today would be if our conscious created space and time and reality....why in the world did we create this place? i think we could have done much better.

And so today i'm using my conscious to create reality. My friends dead father is alive and in my world we all treat each other as equals first.........what is yours creating?