The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes (The Truth Series Book 12)

by Thomas Stark

Absolute Cosmic Consciousness – “God” – precedes the sensory universe. A perfect mind-space is all that originally exists. This is the Singularity, prior to the Big Bang. This is a living version of Plato’s immaterial domain of Forms outside space and time, a strictly conceptual (non-physical) domain. It is God as a collective being, a Collective Mind, made up of individual living cells (monadic minds), of which each of us is one. We are, and always have been, units of God. God is defined through us. He is not separate from us. He is not our Creator. He is our creation; that which is created out of us. The Big Bang is an involution event, signifying a transition from a higher state to a lower state. God splinters from a conscious unity into an unconscious plurality of countless individual cells. This is “the Fall”. It was not Man that fell, it was God. The God Mirror split into myriad shards, and now they all have to be fitted together again, so that God can once again see himself reflected and know exactly who he is. The evolution of the Cosmos is designed to achieve exactly this. At the Big Bang, God totally loses consciousness. We might even say that God dies. It then has to resurrect itself, which equates to completely restoring consciousness. We have to qualify this by pointing out that God has two modes: being and becoming. The first is eternal and necessary. It never changes. It is Parmenidean. The second is temporal and contingent. It always changes. It is Heraclit...