“THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental.”–The Kybalion, The Seven Hermetic Principles
“The Universe is Mental–held in the Mind of THE
ALL.”–The Kybalion, The Mental Universe
All creation is one person, one being, whose cells are connected to one another within a medium called consciousness.
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, via Lights of Kabbalah
Scientific American recently published an article by Bernardo Kastrup about the mental universe, or information realism, titled “Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind”. Information realism is, well, inherently hard to pin down. Basically it’s the idea that the only fundamentally real thing is information itself, and the author argues well that it isn’t information itself that’s so fundamental but the idea of information itself, since information is a concept that is abstract and not explicit in itself. This draws the author to an important conclusion:
At the bottom of the chain of physical reduction there are only elusive, phantasmal entities we label as “energy” and “fields”—abstract conceptual tools for describing nature, which themselves seem to lack any real, concrete essence.
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The mental universe exists in mind but not in your personal mind alone. Instead, it is a transpersonal field of mentation that presents itself to us as physicality—with its concreteness, solidity and definiteness—once our personal mental processes interact with it through observation. This mental universe is what physics is leading us to, not the hand-waving word games of information realism.
This last paragraph of the article is what spurs me to note the similarity between “what physics is leading us to” and what Hermeticism and Alchemy have worked with for centuries, if not many millennia. Distilled in the opening of The Kybalion’s Chapter 5, “The Universe is Mental–held in the Mind of THE ALL.”
Treat one’s mind wisely with love, inside & out.
And with that and thanks to the Source, I offer a prayer:
Peace, peace, peace, One Love
Peace of Mind Peace in speech Peace for body One is The Love is All
A few relevant links:
Wikipedia: Panentheism
Wikipedia: Panpsychism
Alchemecology: Alchemical Importance of Empathy
[…] Philo was a Jewish philosopher living in Hellenistic Alexandria, Egypt, of the Roman Empire around 20 BCE to 50 CE. He thought of “Logos” [1] along the lines of Plato’s “theory of Ideas” or “theory of Forms” [2]. These are related to panpsychism [3] and the role of archetypes in that consciousness context. For more on that subject, see the post All is Mind. […]