Let There Be Light

Sound Bite

In Let There Be Light, Stephen Hage offers a simple, beautiful, and elegant view of the oneness of all life, subjective and objective. He demonstrates the unity of the physical world with conscious experience of the physical world. Consciousness is not inside space and time, space and time are within consciousness; they are a special structure of the perceptual portion of consciousness. It's a model that can help readers to more clearly understand how the universe works and why. Even though matter appears to truly exist, its existence cannot be scientifically proven. Consciousness is dimensionally structured. Nobody "has" consciousness. Instead, everybody is "in" consciousness.The book explores the connections between consciousness, physics, quantum mechanics, myth, and meditation. It presents a new myth and paradigm for understanding consciousness.

About the Book

To more clearly understand how the universe works, author Stephen Hage offers this template that outlines why, even though matter appears to truly exist, its existence cannot be scientifically proven. Ã? He explores enigmas in physics which still exist and cannot be satisfactorily explained. He explains why the Dimensional Structure of Consciousness is a new paradigm upon which a new myth can be constructed to help better understand how the universe works as Copernicus did when he shattered the myth that the sun orbits the earth rather than the other way around.The style is conversational and friendly and uses current vernacular to keep it that way. The approach is to invite the reader to consider the arguments made and avoid a posture which implies the author is right and Descartes was wrong.The book is intended to be valuable for intelligent lay readers interested in the subjects of consciousness, physics, quantum mechanics, philosophy, metaphysics, myth and meditation; and the deep and meaningful connections between those areas of inquiry.In a sense, the book is an interpretation and appreciation of three books by Samuel Avery: 'The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness,' 'Transcendence of the Western Mind' and 'Buddha and the Quantum.'

Introduction

This book is a meditation on and an appreciation of Samuel Avery's Transcendence of the Western Mind... in a style that'if I'm successful'will be relatively easy to understand. Avery presents a new myth useful for understanding why matter, as we have come to appreciate it, doesn't truly exist. For most Westerners, the suggestion that matter doesn't exist is so absurd they aren't even willing to consider it. But, what makes his argument so powerful and convincing is, in presenting us with a new myth he doesn't simply present it de novo. Instead he insists on including the physics associated with all the ideas he presents without resorting to mathematics and mathematical formulas which make most people's eyes glaze over the moment they see them. In that respect, I have followed Avery's lead.For Westerners, the mindset that governs understanding of how the universe works is tied directly to the ideas and myths created by Rene Descartes. He believed that matter exists and helped shape our ideas regarding consciousness with his famous declaration cogito ergo sum'I think, therefore I am. We picked up that ball and ran with it which explains why we believe the cup we see sitting on the table is really out there because, after all, we can see it and touch it and, if we wish, do things with it like drink coffee.Our Cartesian imprinting is very strong, so strong that most scientists believe that matter truly exists. But, interestingly, especially for scientists and particularly for physicists, to their dismay they have discovered it is impossible to scientifically prove that matter exists. This raises a host of interesting and difficult questions like, if scientists cannot prove that matter exists, why is it that I have no trouble seeing and manipulating objects I assume are composed of matter? For most people this isn't a big deal because they assume matter exists and that it's just crazy to deny it exists. But physicists aren't most people. Their approach to exploring 'what is' is highly disciplined because it relies on the scientific method. And, when they intensify their focus on matter in an attempt to determine exactly what it's composed of, they discover that it disappears....