The God Theory Quotes

“Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All

“all descriptions of God are necessarily wrong, because an infinite, timeless consciousness can have no characteristics that can be properly translated into physical terms. Love, light, and bliss come the closest.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All

“We only understand what we are prepared to understand”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“In everyday life, he claims, we all experience three states of consciousness: the awake state, in which we experience awareness and the objects of our consciousness originate in the physical reality around us; the dream state, in which we experience awareness, but the objects of our consciousness have some internal origin; and the deepsleep state, in which there is no awareness. According to Russell, the state achieved in meditation is a fourth distinct state, in which there is awareness, indeed profound awareness, but awareness of nothing but consciousness itself. In this state, awareness transcends consciousness of objects and is pure self-awareness.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“the white light flowing from the projector is a metaphor of consciousness. In the awake state, the physical world acts like a roll of film creating patterns in the light. Your consciousness is filtered by the physical world and you are therefore aware of your surroundings. In the dream state, the roll of film is provided by whatever memories or experiences generate your dreams—an interesting topic in its own right, but not relevant here. In both cases, consciousness manifests the objects that are filtered from it—the images on the film in the analogy. In the case of deep sleep, the plug has been pulled on the projector; there is no white light. Russell argues that the fourth state of consciousness is that of the pure white light itself, not filtered or affected in any way by the objects of consciousness. This pure self-awareness is your ultimate consciousness. It is reported to be a state of peace and bliss—an awareness that the pure consciousness experienced is but a concentration point within a single universal consciousness.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“What does have absolute meaning, however, is the way in which we treat others, including animals. We shape our universe by the love or malice, the compassion or indifference, we bring to our relationships with our fellow beings. Under the God Theory, the requirement that you treat others with respect and compassion is, for all practical purposes, a moral absolute, since all beings participate in the infinite consciousness that created them. Other rules of morality may be judged by how well they do or do not serve the common good, which is not the same at all times and all places.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“And the purpose is for God to experience his potential. God's ideas and abilities become God's experience in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose could there be for each of us humans than that of creating God's experience? God experiences the richness of his potential through us because we are the incarnations of him in the physical realm.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All

“It will, ultimately, become all that it can be; it will fulfill its potential and thereby enrich God. Every experience of every consciousness will return to the infinite intelligence from which it sprang, but transformed by having lived in and experienced the universe.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“For our purposes here, the term “spiritual worldview” is shorthand for the supposition that reality—your own nature and your conscious being—involve both tangible, physical matter and an immaterial “something.” This immaterial “something” is intimately, indeed essentially, involved in the existence of consciousness and life, and is ultimately traceable to a divine origin and purpose.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“ultimately it is consciousness that is the origin of matter, energy, and the laws of nature in this universe and all others that may exist. And the purpose is for God to experience his potential. God's ideas and abilities become God's experience in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose could there be for each of us humans than that of creating God's experience? God experiences the richness of his potential through us because we are the incarnations of him in the physical realm. That”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“The single difference between the theory I propose and the ideas current in modern astrophysics is that I assume that an infinite conscious intelligence preexists. You cannot get away from the preexistence of something, and whether that is an ensemble of physical laws generating infinite random universes or an infinite conscious intelligence is something present-day science cannot resolve, and indeed one view is not more rational than the other. One”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“it is natural to equate the light of Genesis with the electromagnetic radiation accompanying the primordial fireball of the Big Bang”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“The laws of relativity are clear on this point. If you could move at the speed of light, you would see all of space shrink to a single point, and all of time collapse to an instant. In the reference frame of light, there is no space and time.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“As science integrates the in-depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of inquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“We understand the rules because we made them up—not in the state we currently find ourselves as human beings, of course, but back when we were literally one with God, before God decided to temporarily become us.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“Irrationality is the opposite of rationality: it means unreasonable, unfounded, ill-conceived. Irrationality is reason, practiced badly. A trance brought about by ecstatic dancing or drumming is certainly not rational, but it isn't irrational either. It's non-rational—it belongs to another category of experience entirely. Indeed, much of its value lies quite precisely in the fact that it takes us on a holiday away from reason—”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“Christianity, as it had played out over the past two millennia, meant power disguised as principle, guilt imposed on the susceptible, irrationality run amok, and the suppression of free inquiry. It meant hypocrisy and self-righteousness, dogmatism, and superstition. It meant monks flogging themselves and soldiers wearing crosses and the auto-da-fe of the Inquisition.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“Was Christ God incarnate? Yes, of course, but so are we all. This in no way detracts from the divinity of Christ, who must have been a very advanced incarnation of God. And for those Christians who feel uncomfortable with the notion that we are all incarnations of God, and therefore brothers and sisters of Christ, let me quote John 14:12: “In all truth I tell you, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“It is ridiculous to think of the creation of the world as occurring on a certain date—say, in the autumn of 4004 B.C.E.! It is equally ridiculous to describe a creator as a vengeful, adoration-hungry patriarch who lives in the clouds and whose scowling, bearded face is guaranteed to frighten children and intimidate the pious. And indeed, it is just as ridiculous to go to the other extreme and postulate a quantum creator-god who is discernible only as a sort of fuzzy cosmic hologram of all there is.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All

“Ultimately, however, there is no absolute good or bad, no timeless right or wrong, only that which does or does not advance our (i.e. God's) existential purpose. Rules of proper behavior depend upon time and place, because the consequences of the things we do largely depend on the context in which they are done. Consider how the sex act can be a crime or a consummation of love, depending solely on the context in which it is performed.”
― Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All