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Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields! Many different kinds of fields, all interacting with each other.
The higher we move along the scale of evolution, the higher the degree of free will, and the higher our ability to control or create our own environment.
Matter, being made of quanta of energy, is the vibrating, changing component of pure consciousness. Therefore, we can divide creation into two components, the absolute and the relative. The absolute is fixed, eternal, and invisible, while the relative is the visible, manifest, and changing aspect. The latter may be coarse or fine, short-lived or long-lived, but it is always based on the absolute.
both mind and matter are made of the same basic stuff. The difference between them is that we may look at the solid matter as being made up of larger, slower waves or ripples, which implies that it possesses less energy of the absolute and that mind is made up of much finer ripples, which implies that it possesses more of this energy.
we can also define the absolute as being an infinitely fine relative, that is, where the size of the waves is so minute and their frequency so high that they are invisible. When this happens, we have a surface that appears calm and smooth but contains a tremendous energy and is full of creative potential. This is the actual definition of the absolute (to the extent that it can be defined); it is a high-energy creative potential plus intelligence. The “intelligence” adds a self-organizing capability to any entity in creation.
The absolute is thus a state in which contrasting concepts become reconciled and fused. Movement and rest fuse into one.
What we call a “physical body”—flesh, bones, and blood—rapidly disappears when highly magnified. A physical body, therefore, or any piece of matter, can be viewed as an interference pattern of electromagnetic fields that changes with the passage of time.
At the transition called death, the higher bodies that make up our so-called “personalities” leave the physical body and continue their existence on the levels above the physical, which are to the unit of consciousness as valid a reality as the physical was previously. This unit of consciousness can still interact weakly with the physical reality.
In a way, we may say now that the whole universe is an information-gathering system. The Creator breaks himself up into little units in order to be able to experience all the possible interactions among his particles on all possible levels, thereby learning to know himself. Evolution is the built-in urge that pushes all matter to higher and higher complexity, allowing experiences to occur at ever-higher levels.
Our physical bodies are formed by organizing fields. These fields are four-dimensional electromagnetic holograms, which change in time. Our physical bodies are the end products and the result of the interactions of our subtle, nonphysical “information bodies”
