Consciousness is Fundamental–Consciousness is Science
In the space between measurement and mystery, we find ourselves suspended—thinking minds grasping for certainty while feeling hearts pulse with ancient wonder and knowing. The physicist's equations map a universe of probabilities and wave functions, yet these same scientists stand breathless before sunset skies, experiencing connection beyond calculation. This tension is not contradiction but completion; the analytical mind that dissects neural pathways is housed within the same being that weeps at music's touch. We have separated these realms to our detriment, building laboratories that banish wonder and sanctuaries that fear scrutiny.
What might awaken if we married these estranged companions? When the meticulous observation of quantum entanglement meets the intuitive recognition of our interconnectedness, a new language emerges—neither coldly empirical nor vaguely mystical, but precisely luminous. The ancient sages who pondered consciousness beneath starlit skies asked the same questions our neuroscientists pursue through microscopes and brain scans. Their methods differed, but their wonder was identical.
This is the exquisite tension we must embrace: to analyze without reducing, to feel without abandoning rigor, to stand at the threshold where calculation and compassion become a single pulsing inquiry into what it means to exist in this extraordinary cosmos.
For centuries, Euro-Western sciences have operated within a materialist framework that views consciousness as an emergent property of complex physical systems—specifically, the brain. This perspective places matter as primary and consciousness as secondary, a mere epiphenomenon arising through neurological interactions. Yet this framework has failed to resolve fundamental questions about the nature of reality, particularly at the quantum level where the role of an observer becomes inescapable.
Science is boldly entering uncharted territory, poised on the verge of a transformative revolution reminiscent of the Copernican shift that removed Earth from the center of the cosmos.
This groundbreaking field of research directly relates to the ancient philosophical idea that consciousness is not merely a byproduct of matter; it is, in fact, intrinsic to the very creation of reality itself. Consciousness serves as the fundamental foundation from which the material universe emerged and continues to remain in constant dialogue.
Quantum field theory reveals a universe that is much stranger than what classical Newtonian models suggest. At subatomic levels, particles exist in ubiquitous fields as probability waves until they are observed. Quantum entanglement illustrates non-local connections that go beyond the limitations of spacetime, and the measurement problem indicates that observation itself plays a crucial role in how reality is formed. In simpler terms, observation and reality are intertwined: a phenomenon is real only when observed. This means that consciousness and material reality are more closely connected than most contemporary sciences have previously recognized.
The dominant Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics has utilized mathematical formalism to sidestep the more profound implications of the observer effect, but the questions that have yet to be answered persist: What constitutes an "observation"? Does consciousness play a central role in the collapse of quantum superpositions? If reality exists as fields of potential until observed, what does this tell us about the nature of consciousness itself?
According to ancient Eastern Vedantic and yogic Rishis, these questions were answered thousands of years ago. While Western science excelled at developing technologies to probe the external world, a long line of spiritual and yogic traditions developed sophisticated technologies for exploring consciousness directly through disciplined transcendental introspection and meditation techniques. The systematic methods described in Samyama Yoga practices and a variety of similar transcendental Sadhanas represent not mere spiritual beliefs but empirical approaches to investigating the role of consciousness in the creation of reality from within.
Advanced ongoing practices like Samyama—resulting from the simultaneous application of mental transcendental distancing of awareness (Vairagya), inward-directed discrimination (Viveka) —the thinning out of emotional impulses and neural thought tendencies, culminating in the release of all mental effort into an open-ended state of cognitive receptivity (Samadhi) —can generate and establish states of awareness that live above and beyond the field of ordinary perception, potentially allowing consciousness to interact with reality at profoundly fundamental levels. Allowing for a creation process orchestrated at the fundamental level of Being. Under the right circumstances, that process could manifest Siddhis or attainments that represent consciousness accessing and influencing the quantum potentiation of a manifest reality that’s normally hidden in everyday thought-driven conscious awareness.
Yogic science suggests that consciousness exists in a spectrum ranging from gross to subtle, with ordinary waking awareness perceiving only the most patently manifest aspects of reality. Through refined, established transcendental states, awareness rests in the threshold between the actions of the linear psychical mind and a silent cauldron of unlimited potential—Samadhi. That threshold of Samadhi is where seasoned practitioners can under specified circumstances perceive and potentially influence reality at the most fundamental levels—directly influencing the invisible fields that quantum physics describes mathematically.
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