Wrong Materialism

Have you ever wondered why things happen just when you need them most?  We were taught to value material things since infancy.  We were taught about money and buying and selling material objects.  We were taught math and physics on the behavior of material things.  We were taught the composition of material things.  Then we were left to think on the Universe.  When we think on the beginning of humans, we are left with a debate of whether we evolved from other material animals or did God create us.  The problem with the premise of this debate is that there are two premises.  The first premise is that material is the basis of everything and the other is that consciousness is the basis of all things, taken that God is consciousness.  As an empath I have to side with the latter.  Materialism is not the nature of the Universe, consciousness is what is underlines all that we see.

I recently viewed a video called TheQuantum Activist that featured Amit Goswami Ph D.  In it Goswami states that if you take the premise that consciousness is the basis of the universe then some paradoxes go away.  In other words, a model on reality becomes much more logical if consciousness was the foundation.  I tend to agree. 


In religion, what we see is described as temporary, as a realm that exists on the shoulders of another realm.  Often the name given to the base realm is the spiritual realm.  The creation story goes that God spoke and the universe came to be.  In this fashion the Bible shows that the spiritual realm was first before the physical realm.


Materialism has historically lead to some of the biggest blood baths in history.  The Holocaust, the Soviet Cultural Revolution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution left many dead.  These were driven by ideals which had their basis in materialism.  You may say that materialism has brought us technology, and you would be correct.   There are many things we have benefited by being materialistic in our thinking.  In spite of the benefits the loss of life and the suffering of humans and animals should be considered.


Consciousness allows and promotes feeling, emotions and empathy.  The Human experience is riddled with emotion and empathy.  How many times have we been taken by a story where the child comes to a point of understanding and grows up?  Who can watch the movie Bambi by Walt Disney and not feel strong sorrow when the mother dies?  How many times can we read Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare before we stop agonizing over the words "Et tu, Brute?"  How many generations have and will take to heart the words of the song "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"  These responses we have are emotion, empathy, love, hope and belief.  They are not things of atoms and molecules.  You may call them energy but I have a grave suspicion that they are even more than energy.  They are part of the consciousness that has created the universe.

Some scientists today seem to be material minded.  They may seem to only want to heed with what the can detect with their instruments.  Science is like that.  Science is observation and it looks for concrete consistency.  It recognizes that nothing can be known a hundred percent.  For that you have to conduct an experiment a hundred percent of the intervals of time that there has been and was and will be.  No, science is not a hundred percent.  To get their claims, scientists make generalities and assumptions.  In spite of the nature of materialistic science we have upheld it as the way to know everything.  The question of the Soul eludes science.  Science fails to explain how Life comes about.  As Sting said in his song "Love Is The Seventh Wave", there is a deeper wave than this swelling in the world.  We can be so much better if we embrace the value of consciousness.