Unified Reality Theory

In the book titled Unified Reality Theory: The Evolution Of Existence Into Experience, Steven Kaufman presents a persuasively argued, philosophically profound, and aptly presented original study, centering upon the hypothesis that “reality is a state of existential self-relation.” Consciousness and awareness is truly the source of physical reality, rather than a byproduct, and physical reality is merely one facet of a universal consciousness.

Kaufman states that Unified Reality Theory is a model of reality that describes in detail how the universe gets something from nothing – that is, it shows how the somethings we experience as reality evolve from a more fundamental level that’s nothing. “Nothing” doesn’t mean nonexistence, just existence that’s not a “thing.”

The level of existential nothingness from which experiential somethings arise is referred to in the model as absolute existence. Central to the description of how something can come from nothing is the understanding that absolute existence must have consciousness as an attribute that’s intrinsic to its being. That is, consciousness isn’t something separate from absolute existence, but rather the word “consciousness” and the phrase “absolute existence” are two different ways of pointing toward the same undefinable level of nothingness from which all somethings arise.

In viewing consciousness as fundamental, Unified Reality Theory takes a position on the nature of reality that’s in opposition to the dominant conception of reality held in the West. That dominant conception of reality is called material realism. Material realism is the idea that physical reality is primary and consciousness is secondary. Material realism is the idea that the machinations of physical reality in general and brain function in particular somehow give rise to the phenomenon we call consciousness.

Standing in opposition to the philosophy of material realism is the philosophy of idealism, the concept that nonphysical reality is the primary phenomenon and that physical reality is the secondary phenomenon. Idealism is the conception of reality that in general underlies the Eastern religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism and in particular is the conception of reality supported by Unified Reality Theory.

Although the philosophy of material realism sees physical reality as primary, material realism is itself an idea, a model, a concept. Concepts are mental constructions built from ordering or creating a relationship between two or more experiential somethings. The interesting thing about concepts is that they can be completely wrong and yet seem just as real as if they were right – that is, they can be constructed in a way that completely reverses the actual relationship between the experiences composing the concept, so that the resulting mental construction is the exact opposite of the actuality.  In other words, there’s nothing to stop us from creating a mental floor plan of reality that mistakenly puts the first floor on top of the second, or the third floor between the first and second, or from leaving a floor out entirely.

We all have a conception of reality that consists of how we see the world arranged and how we see ourselves fitting into that arrangement. Consciously or unconsciously, this conception of reality is the map we use to guide us on the journey of life. One of the things that motivated Kaufman to create Unified Reality Theory was the understanding that our conception of reality is an important factor in how we lead our lives. With this in mind, his goal was to create the most accurate and detailed map of the terrain of reality he possibly could. Although no conception of reality can perfectly match the underlying actuality, just as no map is the actual terrain, the closer the correspondence between our map of reality and the actual terrain of reality, the more enjoyable our trip will be. This doesn’t mean that we won’t encounter any difficulties along the way – that we won’t blow out a tire or run out of gas on occasion – it just means that we won’t be so prone to let the difficulties we do encounter take all the fun out of the trip we’re on.

Our conception of reality is important because as we move through life, we’re bound to a chain of intention-conception-action-result. Intention is the mover, the flow. However, intention, on its way to becoming action, is filtered through the lens of conception, and that’s where we can get into trouble.

For an intention to create a desired result, the conception that’s the basis for the action needs to be in alignment with the actuality. If it’s not, if the conception is the reverse of the actuality, then the result will be the opposite of what’s intended. For example, you can have a conception about which spigot at a sink is for the hot or cold water. This conception need have nothing to do with the actuality in order for you to conceive it and believe it. Yet, when you then act on that conception, intending to run cold water over your hand, the actuality will then rear its head, and if your conception was wrong, you’ll run hot water and burn your hand instead, getting a result that’s the opposite of what you intended. This is a simple example, but the chain is linked in the same way at all levels with regard to our conceptions of reality, regardless of whether those conceptions deal with something as mundane as a faucet or as abstract as the nature of reality.

As stated earlier, concepts are mental constructions built from the ordering of experiences. Connect experiences together in a certain way, in a certain relationship, and you have a concept. Because concepts require some assembly, the experiences that make up a concept can be ordered in a way that either accurately or inaccurately portrays the actuality. Concepts that accurately portray the actuality are true or correct, whereas concepts that inaccurately portray the actuality are untrue, incorrect, and mistaken.

Having said that, Kaufman maintains that the philosophy of material realism is mistaken. Any conception of reality that’s constructed by placing physical reality before consciousness is simply incorrect. There’s no nice way to put it. The ordering of physical reality and consciousness that’s fundamental to the philosophy of material realism inaccurately depicts the actual relationship between physical reality and consciousness. In fact, the relationship between physical reality and consciousness as depicted by material realism is the exact opposite of their actual relationship. Just as the branches and leaves of a tree extend from the trunk, so all the forms of physical reality extend from consciousness, not the other way around.

Material realism is the flat-Earth idea of our time. Why does Kaufman say this? Because there are so many parallels between the idea of material realism and the idea of a flat Earth. The first parallel is that neither idea corresponds to the underlying reality or actuality. The second parallel is that the conception of reality contained in each idea seems obvious from the most common and limited perspective. Why did people think the Earth was flat? Because that’s the way it seems to be, from a common and limited perspective: Stand and look at the horizon, and the Earth appears flat. Why do people think physical reality precedes consciousness? Because that’s the way it seems to be, from a common and limited perspective. What we call consciousness is clearly related to brain function, and the brain is a physical reality. From this perspective, it seems obvious that consciousness is in some way a product of physical reality. The third parallel is that adherence to each idea limits our exploration of reality. No doubt, people didn’t go on long journeys for fear of falling off the edge of the Earth. Likewise, if someone thinks their consciousness is purely a product of brain function, there would seem to be no need to look any deeper for its source. A fourth parallel is that each idea can be clearly seen as erroneous once added experience creating a broader perspective is achieved.  The broader experience that put to rest the flat-Earth idea came from sailors who didn’t fall off the edge of the Earth, from people who went outward into physical reality. The broader experience that will eventually put to rest the idea of material realism has been achieved by physicists studying physical reality at very small levels of magnitude, at what’s called the quantum level – by people who went inward into physical reality.

Integral to quantum theory are the phenomena of wave/particle duality and quantum uncertainty. The discovery of these phenomena has brought into question the very nature of physical reality. Wave/particle duality and quantum uncertainty have shown that physical reality, at least at the quantum level, doesn’t exist independent of an observer, which is to say independent of consciousness or awareness. How, then, can physical reality be the source of that without which it wouldn’t exist as such?

Yet the phenomena of wave/particle duality and quantum uncertainty have been known for almost 100 years, and while even early explorers into the quantum realm, such as Neils Bohr, seemed to understand what the existence of these phenomena might imply regarding the nature of physical reality and its relationship to consciousness, science as a whole and the West in general remain by and large dominated by a material-realist philosophy, a conception of reality that places matter above all else.

Evidence is beginning to mount pointing toward an idealist conception of reality, a version wherein consciousness is primary or, at the very least, not secondary. But people don’t simply discard one concept unless they have something to replace it with. If a supporting beam is rotted, you don’t just yank it out, you replace it, unless you want the whole house to come tumbling down. Likewise, people replace concepts; they don’t just remove them, because they don’t want their whole conceptual world to come tumbling down.

The difficulty in trying to get people to replace their material-realist beam with an idealist beam is that idealism has been, until now, a fairly intangible philosophy, a conception of reality that’s hard to grasp. People are reluctant to switch from a concept as graspable as material realism to one as nebulous as idealism. The difficulty for idealists has been in demonstrating how the universe gets something from nothing. Material realism, as an idea, is easy to grasp, and so it’s hard to let go of. Experiences of something appearing to turn into nothing are common: fire, decay, evaporation, etc. Idealism, on the other hand, is a harder idea to grasp because we don’t really have any experiences to compare it to – that is, we don’t have experiences of something appearing to come from nothing (except perhaps in magical acts where a rabbit is pulled from a hat, which serves to illustrate how credible we consider such an occurrence to be). The purpose of Unified Reality Theory is to demonstrate clearly and visibly how something comes from nothing, how physical reality evolves from consciousness, and in so doing to provide a viable alternative to the material-realist conception of reality.

(Source: Author’s Statement)

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The third Round of our debates, discussions and consultations on the possible meeting ground of science and spirituality convey a message that’s clear and loud. The meeting ground exists—it’s under our very feet, we just need to open our eyes to see it.

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ITC (communication with deceased persons through an instrument such as a radio) is a repeatedly observed phenomenon that has lately been experimentally tested. It is queried here for its authenticity, and an interpretation is explored in the framework of the vacuum field theory.

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“Science and the taboo of psi” with Dean Radin
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Splitting Time from Space – New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
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Does DNA Emit Light?
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Sacred Geometry by Charles Gilchrist
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The Universe is Vibration, and the principles of Sacred Geometry are directly correspondent to ALL wave form phenomena … ALL vibration. Science agrees, the Universe Is Vibration, and geometry IS vibration manifest on the visual, time/space planes.

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Russian DNA Discoveries – MIND BLOWING! | AEONIA
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The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques and much more.

The Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist
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Featuring Fred Alan Wolf, Peter Russell, Professor Al-Khalili, York Dobyns, Robert Anton Wilson, Dean Radin, Richard Alan Miller, Michael Talbot, Gregg Braden, Professor David Deutsch, David Wilcock, Khemp Yurmed Tinly, Nassim Haramein, John Hagelin, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, David Bohm, Bill Hicks.

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DNA MONTHLY October 2009
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Entangled Water: Life, Consciousness, Memory
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Revolutionary New Discoveries about Water!
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Amazing new discoveries about the properties of water could revolutionize our world! Filmmaker and mystic ecologist David Sereda discussed some of the amazing properties of water– it may actually have memory and consciousness, he said.

Vortex Based Mathematics by Marko Rodin
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Marko Rodin has discovered the underpinning geometry of the universe, the fabric of time itself. His Vortex-Based Mathematics shows the dimensional shape and function of the universe as being a toroid or donut-shaped black hole.

Bruce Lipton – Fractal Geometry
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Bruce Lipton – As Above So Below, An Introduction To Fractal Evoloution

Coast to Coast AM – 15 Sep 2009 – Evolution & Mind
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Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. and Steve Bhaerman who co-authored with Lipton their new book Spontaneous Evolution, spoke about ways humanity can evolve by freeing itself of old belief systems and programming.

The Anthropic Principle | What Is Reality?
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Consciouness, Unified Field Theory and World Peace
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The Primacy of Consciousness
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A beautiful presentation by Peter Russell illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality is consciousness.

Martin Armstrong and market cycle theory | The New Yorker
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“The New Yorker” magazine October 12, 2009 issue which includes a brief biography of Armstrong and his “PI” Cycle Theory. Read the full article here.

Hidden World: Cymatics
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First black hole for light created on Earth | New Scientist
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An electromagnetic black hole has been built in a lab – and may one day be adapted to generate limitless solar energy even on a cloudy day.

Scientific evidence for a connection between mind and matter
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Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
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The heliosphere is different from what researchers have previously thought. Data show an unexpected bright band or ribbon of surprisingly high-energy emissions.

Organic Universe, book by Giuliana Conforto | Responsibility.tv
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The visible universe, scientific instruments show us, is just one of infinite levels of reality; it is probably the lowest energy one, less than 5 per cent of the entire calculated mass, and is expanding at accelerating rates.

Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today
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In just the past week, three different research teams have released their findings in their attempts to create black holes – or at least conditions analogous to them to advance our understanding.

Quantum Physics & Consciousness
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Quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami talked about the “science within consciousness,” and how the paradigm is shifting from a materialistic world view into one that incorporates spirituality.

The Quantum Activist | Documentary film & DVD with Dr. Amit Goswami
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Haramein on the Sun
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Haramein describes the dynamics of our sun as the result of a singularity black hole structure at its center he calls a “spin horizon.” From the special features of the “Crossing the Event Horizon” DVD set.

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology | h+ Magazine
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The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them.

A Conversation With Amit Goswami | Lightworks – The Monthly Aspectarian – September, 2009
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Prominent researchers from various disciplines discuss the nature of reality from a quantum physics perspective… Is ours a holographic universe?

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Project Camelot interviews Dr Pete Peterson
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The Four Myth Perceptions of the Apocalypse
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Crossing the Event Horizon
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In this 4 DVD presentation, Nassim Haramein will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce an all-encompassing Unified Physics.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
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Dr Wayne Dyer summarises the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, which is a collection of 81 verses offered by a man named Lao Tzu some 25 Centuries ago.

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Black holes, as the most gravitationally dense objects in the universe, might provide another way of testing the extra-dimension hypotheses. Black holes know a thing or two about gravity; the trick is getting them to reveal their secrets.

The Shift in Human Consciousness | DNA MONTHLY
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Humanity is in the middle of a long-awaited Shift in consciousness predicted in hundreds of indigenous cultures all over the world.

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Time doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t really expanding. And if you want a theory of quantum gravity, look to the man who inspired Einstein, says Julian Barbour.

What Is Reality?
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This site asks the most fundamental questions about reality, considering quantum theory, the anthropic principle, and the simulation argument.

Embracing the Immaterial Universe: Toward a New Noetic Science by Bruce Lipton
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Materialism and reductionism engender the idea that humans are disconnected from, and above, nature. The noetic vision emphasizes that life is derived from an integration and coordination of both the physical and the immaterial parts of the universe.

The Biology of Belief meets the Tao of Change
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Conversations to Awaken your Soul. Live from the Hay House “I Can Do It” conference in Las Vegas. A conversation with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Bruce H. Lipton, PhD.

Scientists Stumped By “Telepathic” Abilities of DNA
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DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn’t be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

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What the Bleep Do We Know!?

“Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions — that the world is flat, that the world is round. There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true. In the vast majority of cases, these conceptions about reality — which belong to the prevailing paradigm or worldview — aren’t accurate. So if history’s any guide, much that we take for granted about the world today simply isn’t true.” — John Hagelin, Ph.D.

As we can read in the book What the Bleep Do We Know!? most of those grand discoveries and revelations that our society cherishes came from asking questions. Those things, those answers, that we study in school came from questions. Questions are the precursor, or first cause, in every branch of human knowledge. Questions open us up to what we previously didn’t know. And they’re really the only way to get there — to the other side of the unknown.

And what makes a question Great? A Great Question doesn’t have to come from a philosophy book, or be about Life’s Big Issues. A Great Question is the one that can change the direction of our life.

For most of us, it takes a serious crisis to bring on the Great Questions: a life-threatening illness, the death of someone close, failure of a business or a marriage, a repeated, even addictive behavior pattern you just can’t seem to shake, or loneliness that seems unendurable for one more day. At times like those, Great Questions come boiling up from the depths of our being like hot lava.

If we could muster up the same kind of passion to ask ourselves a Great Question about our lives now, when there is no immediate crisis, who knows what could happen? As Fred Alan Wolf said, asking a Great Question can open up new ways of being in the world. It can be a catalyst for transformation. Growing. Outgrowing. Moving on.

The fun and joy of life are in the journey. In our culture, we’ve been conditioned to look at “not knowing” as something unacceptable and bad; it’s some kind of failure. In order to pass the test, we have to know the answers. But even when it comes to factual knowledge about concrete things, what science doesn’t know far exceeds what it does. Many of the greatest scientists have looked into the mystery of the universe and of life on our planet, and have frankly said, “We know very little. Mostly we have a lot of questions.” In the words of author Terence McKenna, “As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.”

Why ask a Great Question? Asking a Great Question is an invitation to an adventure, a journey of discovery. It’s thrilling to set out on a new adventure; there’s the bliss of freedom, the freedom to explore new territory.

People have been asking Great Questions for thousands of years. There have always been men and women who gazed at the stars and wondered at the vast mystery of it all, or who looked at the way people around them were living and thought, “Isn’t there more to life than this?”

The ancient Greek philosophers pondered and discussed the Great Questions. Some, like Socrates and Plato, asked, “What is Beauty? What is Goodness? What is Justice? What is the best way to govern a society? What people are fit to be rulers?” Religious teachers, mystics and spiritual masters like Buddha, Lao Tse, Jesus, Muhammad, St. Francis, Meister Eckhardt, Apollonius of Tyana and many more, in all the world’s traditions, have asked Great Questions.

People with scientific minds have always asked questions. How does it work? What’s inside? Are things really the way they seem? Where does the universe come from? Is the Earth the center of the solar system? Are there laws and patterns that underlie what happens in daily life? What’s the connection between my body and my mind?

It’s only by asking questions, challenging the assumptions and the “truths” taken for granted at any given time, that science progresses. What if that turned out to be true about our personal lives, our individual growth and progress?

Guess what? It is true. When you break free of your assumptions about yourself, you will grow more than you ever thought possible.

Pondering the Great Questions is a wonderful way to spend “quality time” with your mind. When was the last time you took your mind on a wild ride of mystery? Tried to get to the other side of Infinity?

Asking questions also has enormous practical value. It’s the gateway to change.

For instance: Ever ask yourself, as Joe Dispenza asks, “Why do we keep recreating the same reality? Why do we keep having the same relationships? Why do we keep getting the same jobs over and over again? In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us, how come we keep recreating the same realities?”

Or as Einstein put it, one of the definitions of insanity is to do the same things over and over and expect a different result.

That’s where asking Great Questions comes in. They are Great because they open us up to a greater reality, a greater vista and greater options. And they come in the form of Questions because they come from the other side of the Known. And to get there is to change.

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