Zero Point Field (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Friday, February 15, 2013, 08:36 (4080 days ago) @ BBella

BBELLA: A quote from: http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_akashic1.htm-Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in the new field of vacuum physics now show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in the zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic-field--or "A-field"-- is not only the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen.-BBELLA: What I think is interesting about this possible eternal cosmic field of all information that ever was, is that "it" is the source of All That Is into which science is finally peering into and wrapping their minds around it's workings. [...] This field is [...] the base from which photons instantly carry info into and out of creating the reality of the seen and unseen. We could call it the mind of God or the source, it doesn't really matter what it's called, as long as we know it is the source of All That Is...agreed?-I've had another look at this, and I expect even atheists would agree that some form of "fluctuating energies" is the source of All That Is. But I think it does matter what we call it, because every name has associations. "Akasa" in Hindu philosophy is apparently ether, one of the five elements (so I don't see how it can have originated in 19th-century Theosophy, which drew heavily on Hinduism anyway). 'Akasa' is sometimes equated with Brahma the Hindu God of Creation, so we find ourselves caught up with Hindu gods and their mythology. It's the same when this energy is called the Mind of God. Which God? Edgar Cayce says each person is held to account after life and 'confronted' with their personal Akashic record ... "comparable to the biblical Book of Life which is consulted to see whether or not the dead are admitted to heaven." So for him the Hall of Records is not an image (e.g. for the way science can discover the past through the materials in which it's embedded). It's to be taken literally. He thinks the entrance to where the record is kept is under the Sphinx's front right paw, and its discovery may coincide with the Second Coming of Christ. Here we have mythology mixed with Christian concepts of judgement and heaven. The moment we delve, we're entangled in a web of ideas associated with the terms used to describe the field.-Ervin Laszlo looks into the panpsychic approach: 
Evolutionary Panpsychism: Laszlo further discusses the likelihood that consciousness is universal and that all 'things' are to some degree conscious; "there is no categorical divide between mind and matter... conscious matter at a lower level of organisation (the neurons in the brain) generates conscious matter at a higher level of organisation (the brain as a whole)... the emerging solution to the classical brain/mind problem is evolutionary panpsychism... [which claims that] all of reality has a mental aspect: psyche is a universal presence in the world... [and] psyche evolves, the same as matter... both matter and mind ... physis and psyche [prakriti and purusha] ... were present from the beginning: they are both fundamental aspects of reality..."
 
Note that Laszlo specifies "to some degree" ... it's not human awareness as we know it. He then discusses the all-important question that divides the theist from the agnostic from the atheist: -"Could the cosmos itself possess consciousness in some form?", but this is difficult to answer since we cannot perceive the quantum vacuum directly and even if we could, "consciousness is 'private', we cannot ordinarily observe it in anyone but ourselves". However "We could enter an altered state of consciousness and identify ourselves with the vacuum, the deepest and most fundamental level of reality [like the vedic method of meditating upon Brahman]... would we experience a physical field of fluctuating energies? Or would we experience something like a cosmic field of consciousness? The latter is much more likely..."-Would even this "much more likely" field be a single self-aware being, or an interconnected mass of individual consciousnesses, with different degrees of awareness? The zero point field, like every other theory, seems open to a variety of interpretations, and so I'll happily agree that there's a cosmic field of energies which is the source of All That Is. And I'll happily agree that this field may consist of unselfconscious, physical, fluctuating energies, or of a single self-aware consciousness, or of energies with varying degrees of consciousness. I'll also happily agree that these last two alternatives might explain the strange phenomena arising from human consciousness. So where does that leave us? Simply with the fact that there's a cosmic form of energy that is the source of All That Is, and (like anything else except a complete vacuum) it contains information. No doubt Dawkins and David would agree.