Emerging From The Plenum by Leslie Fieger

We seek, through scientific exploration and discovery to educate ourselves about the universe we perceive and, increasingly, also our place in it. The mysticism that was once the purview of the esoteric is now part of the scientific conversation. Physics has melded with metaphysics. The resulting transformation of our species worldview or reality paradigm is apparent to anyone who is involved in any kind of serious self-education.

The old world is disappearing and a new world is emerging. No where is that more apparent than on the world wide web or Internet. The Internet is a mutating reflection of the collective consciousness of humanity and is, I believe, rapidly evolving to become the Noosphere originally elucidated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

That we exist in a time of great crisis is apparent to anyone who does not have their head buried in the sand.

The ecosphere that enables and permits our very physical existence is under extreme stress brought on by the activities of human beings. We are poisoning our environment and ourselves.

The global geopolitical situation is a mess and getting worse as we continue to elect and/or support warmongering idiots to positions of leadership. We are poisoning our minds and spirits with cultural drivel.

We also exist in a time of great opportunity. We can re-conceptualize our role in the universe. We can re-create our own image. We can consciously design our future. We can begin to mold ourselves and our universe. We can accept responsibility for our own ongoing evolution. We can transmutate from creature to creator.

Each of us, as individuals, need to forge a new worldview and communicate that worldview to our fellows.

"The current worldview has it that everything is made of matter, and everything can be reduced to the elementary particles of matter, the basic constituents—building blocks—of matter. And cause arises from the interactions of these basic building blocks or elementary particles; elementary particles make atoms, atoms make molecules, molecules make cells, and cells make brain.

“But all the way, the ultimate cause is always the interactions between the elementary particles. This is the belief—all cause moves from the elementary particles. This is what we call ‘upward causation’. So in this view, what human beings—you and I—think of as our free will does not really exist. It is only an epiphenomenona or secondary phenomenon, secondary to the causal power of matter. And any causal power that we seem to be able to exert on matter is just an illusion. This is the current paradigm.

“Now, the opposite view is that everything starts with consciousness. That is, consciousness is the ground of all being. In this view, consciousness imposes "downward causation." In other words, our free will is real. When we act in the world we really are acting with causal power. This view does not deny that matter also has causal potency—it does not deny that there is causal power from elementary particles upward, so there is upward causation—but in addition it insists that there is also downward causation. It shows up in our creativity and acts of free will, or when we make moral decisions. In those occasions we are actually witnessing downward causation by consciousness."

—Amit Goswami, Professor of Physics

It is your consciousness that is the causal agency. Our collective human consciousness forms a reality matrix that determines or defines the playground in which we play out our lives. By intentionally educating ourselves about how we participate, by our method of thinking, in the creation of the universe, we can reconceptualize our role from creature to creator.

It is time to wake up to the new reality. It is time to become an activist and wake up your neighbors. Educate yourself and then educate your fellow human creatures that all things arise from light and consciousness. The real emerges from the ethereal. The physical emerges from the metaphysical.

"We had this old idea, that there was a universe out there, and here is man, the observer, safely protected from the universe by a six-inch slab of plate glass. Now we learn from the quantum world that even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron we have to shatter the plate glass; we have to reach in there... So the old word-observer-simply has to be crossed off the books, and we must put in the new word-participator. In this way we'll come to realize that the universe is a participatory universe."

—John Wheeler - Professor of Physics

It is no mere co-incidence that you are here at this time. It is no mere co-incidence that you are reading this information. You have created this reminder moment as much as I. The web of our lives and energies are as connected as our computers are via the World Wide Web.

"Synchronicity has gradually been enfolded into an entirely new dimension; in place of a causal deterministic world, in which mind and matter are two separate substances, appears a universe of infinite subtlety that is much closer to a creative living organism than to a machine. Reality, in this way, is pictured as a limitless series of levels which extend to deeper and deeper subtleties and out of which the particular, explicate order of nature and the order of consciousness and life emerge. Synchronicities can therefore be thought of as an expression of this underlying movement, for they unfold as patterns of thoughts and arrangements of material processes, which have a meaningful conjunction when taken together.

“Paradoxically, the nothingness of the ground state, out of which the universe is sustained, is both a vacuum and a plenum. It is a vacuum because, as in the everyday idea of empty space, matter is able to move through it without interruption. But it is also a plenum because it is infinitely full of energy. Indeed, the observable material universe is nothing more than the minor fluctuations upon this vast sea of energy. And, it should not be forgotten, just as this infinite energy is used in the generation of matter, so it is also available to mind, through the deeper ground of its source."

—F. David Peat, Professor of Physics

Approaching the void (vacuum), we find that it contains all things (the plenum), existent and potential. In the void is the wellspring of creativity. Infinite mental and creative energy is available for you. Potential and potency. The future.

"If you want to see the future of culture and consciousness, look to the edges of human experience. Find the cracks where the boundaries of experience are extended. Cultural change begins like a crack in the wall of our ordered and highly structured existence. Sometimes the change is successful and survives long enough to generate a viable foundation for community. Sometimes a crack in our social existence grows into a force strong enough to drag all of reality through itself and on into an altogether different paradigm. For over fifteen years now, the Internet, and the larger world of cyberspace itself (the totality of non-spatial and non- temporal electronic culture), have existed on the edge of dominate culture. Until as recently as last year, the Internet has remained invisible and beyond both the experience and scrutiny of the majority. Today, the Internet has permanently entrenched itself within the landscape of alternative culture, and has a steadily growing presence in the larger, more prevalent world of mundane reality. The Internet is, I believe, a cultural phenomenon that is destined to be the seedbed of a new form of consciousness and a new type of self."

—Michael Strangelove (1992)

Now, ten years later than the above comment by M. Strangelove, 1/12th (500 million) of the world's population has direct Internet access in their own homes. Another 1/12th have indirect Internet access through cyber cafes, work sites, schools or community sites. That means that a total of 1 billion folks are able to access the Infosphere (soon to become the Noosphere). 1 billion people who can reach out and touch each other, receiving and giving information, knowledge and education to each other. 1 billion people that you can potentially reach and influence; 1 billion people who can be encouraged to transform the way they think; 1 billion people who can help to create a new worldview and a transformed collective human consciousness.

How powerful that enables you to be.

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

—George Bernard Shaw