Material, observable reality does not exist.
The universe is nothing, and the universe—which is claimed and believed to exist—is, in fact, as a reality, an illusion, and as a consequence does not exist. That is, only the cause of the universe exists – that which religions and physics call “nothing”, namely, the immaterial quantum vacuum.
This can be logically proven and understood through the explanation of the claim that only God exists as the cause, which religions fail to explain, or that only immaterial consciousness exists, which science still cannot explain. It can also be understood through the explanation that the words “God” and “consciousness” are synonyms, as they refer to one and the same concept. Therefore, the universe does not truly exist; rather, it is still God that exists, i.e., Consciousness which has set itself in motion, materialized, and taken the form of the universe.
And people who are still not aware (of the invisible worlds and of themselves – what they are, how and why they exist) are not aware that when they observe the universe, they are in fact observing God, that is, consciousness. But not God’s inner essence, i.e., the essence of consciousness – which we call “awareness“, rather, they observe only its physical, that is, material exterior, which has set itself in motion.
And precisely this external, physical, and observable exterior of consciousness is not something that truly exists; only its inner, psychological, essential, and non-observable AWARENESS exists (that is, knowledge, or the Holy Spirit). Through this awareness, God, i.e., consciousness, causes its own movement, and thereby also its observable, physical exterior.
There is a great deal of evidence in science and in everyday human experience that this is so. And the reason we still do not realize that this is so is that our senses deceive us – through them we can observe only the outer, material, i.e., consequential and non-existent side of reality, and not its inner, essential, causal, and conscious side.
This claim is both easy to prove and easy to understand, given that the entire universe and the life within it manifest as a physical process of exertion and movement. It is logical to conclude that no movement is possible without a mover. And that movement itself never exists anywhere—instead, there is always and only a mover who moves. When the mover ceases to exert tension and to move, the entire universe disappears as if it had never existed at all. And we have no idea that the mover—God, that is, consciousness—is still present. We do not know that He exists, because He is neither observable nor knowable when He is not exerting and moving, for then He is not material.
The mover can be observed by the senses, but only when he exerts and moves himself, thereby taking on the physical properties of force and mass and becoming material. However, the “problem” is that in such a state, we cannot observe him as the mover, but only as energy, i.e., as movement. Therefore, when the mover is in motion, we cannot observe him with the senses as God or as consciousness, but only as energy. And we cannot observe him with the senses when he ceases to exert and move himself either, because at that point he is no longer observable or knowable, since he is no longer material.
All of reality is divided into two parts – the cause and the effect. The cause exists absolutely, while the effect exists only relatively, which means that we can discover the truth about reality only if we succeed in discovering the truth about the cause, because an effect cannot exist without a cause.
Since we can only observe reality as the effect, which is the entire universe, we are mistakenly convinced that the universe is the only reality that exists, and have directed all our attention toward the universe – trying to learn the truth about it, which is impossible if we do not know the truth about the existence of the cause of the universe. Especially because the cause of the universe cannot be observed in any way, which is why not only do we know nothing about it, but we even doubt that it exists at all.
Specifically, to make it clearer what is being discussed, the entire universe consists of seven physical and psychological actions. These are: exertion, movement, observation, feeling, memory, thinking, and comprehension!
In science and in everyday human experience, there is abundant evidence that the universe consists of nothing other than these seven types of physical and psychological actions. And these actions are precisely what has the meaning of effect – and one cannot learn the truth about them until one learns the truth about the existence of the cause, i.e., the performer of all these physical and psychological actions. What is most important to understand here is that physical and psychological actions cannot be separated from the performer of the actions, because actions cannot perform themselves, and therefore, to understand that actions with the meaning of effect do not have the meaning of existence; only the performer who performs the actions truly exists.
Our problem is that we can only observe the actions, and not the performer of the actions, so we are mistakenly convinced that only the actions exist, and that these actions are the only reality that exists. Which, of course, is not true. Only the performer of the actions exists, and He is the only reality that exists, not the universe, which consists of physical and psychological actions, regardless of the fact that no one has ever observed that performer. And even when the actions cease, it is still impossible to observe anything that could be considered the performer of those actions. Even if the entire universe were to disappear and only the immaterial quantum vacuum remained, which, from the standpoint of physics, is the same as nothing, the performer is still nowhere to be found.
Contemporary natural sciences, with their empirical method of observation, measurement, and experimentation, approach this entire problem exclusively empirically, and in doing so, they prevent themselves from discovering the truth about the existence of reality, because empirically it is only possible to investigate the universe as movement and action, but never the performer of that movement and action as the cause of the universe.
As for the world’s present-day religions, they speak of God as the cause of the world, but they have no idea who or what God could be, because to this day there is no comprehensible explanation of God’s existence in their interpretations – or rather, such an explanation does exist (in “their Books”), but they do not understand it because the text is encrypted in a way that only beings aware of the invisible worlds can understand. Thus, when the world’s religions speak of God, they currently do not know what they are actually talking about.
A similar situation exists in contemporary humanistic science, i.e., in that part of it which is still unsuccessfully trying to solve the problem of the existence of consciousness. Starting from the mistaken assumption that consciousness arises as a result of the high organization of matter, such as the human organism, researchers focus on studying the human body and the brain in order to prove that the human brain produces consciousness. Meanwhile, it has not yet occurred to any of these researchers that no movement, nor any complex organization of movement—including the human organism and its brain—can exist without a performer and cause of all possible forms of movement in the universe. And that cause and mover—that is, God Himself—is precisely what is meant by the word and concept “consciousness”.
And as long as we fail to discover the truth about the existence of consciousness as the cause of the existence of all reality, we will not be able to know the truth about the existence of reality as a whole.
It should be noted that arriving at a logical explanation of the existence of consciousness is very easy, because at the level of all knowledge about reality available to humanity, all the necessary premises exist by which the existence of consciousness can finally and fully be explained and understood.
Only immaterial and unobservable reality exists
The claim that only unobservable reality exists does not imply that there are two realities—unobservable and observable—but that there is only one reality, which eternally shifts between its two natural states – the unobservable and the observable. Of these, the unobservable state is the true state of existence, because it is present in both of its states, whereas the observable one is not.
To understand this better, we can use the example of water vapor, water, and ice, which are three forms (gaseous, liquid, and solid) and two states (intangible and tangible) of one and the same existence. But let us imagine that water vapor is the unobservable state, which becomes observable only when it is in its liquid or solid form. And let us imagine that water vapor is present in both states (both unobservable and observable), and that it exists absolutely, but also imagine that it is not observable in any other form or state except when it transforms into water or ice. However, the problem is that when we observe water or ice, we do not know that both water and ice are water vapor and we believe that observable water and ice are true existence, but they are not. They arise from unobservable water vapor and vanish as if they had never existed when they melt and evaporate back into unobservable water vapor.
So, it is about the immaterial and unobservable quantum vacuum, which appears as if it were nothing and did not exist, and the material and observable universe, which we are convinced and believe to exist. But in fact, the observable universe does not exist; what continues to exist is the unobservable quantum vacuum, which exerted itself and set itself into motion, transformed into the observable material universe, and thus merely seems to us to be something that exists – and so we mistakenly believe it does. But it does not exist, because when the quantum vacuum ceases to exert itself and to move, the observable universe disappears as if it had never existed at all, while the unobservable quantum vacuum remains – the only thing that existed even while it was exerted and in motion at the time when we observed it as the universe.
Now a (logical) question arises, or can be posed; how, then, is it possible to discover the truth about the existence of reality if it cannot be observed in any way, neither through the senses nor beyond the senses, regardless of which of its two states it may be in – its resting, immaterial, and unobservable state, or its moving, material, and observable one?
The only possible method by which it can be proven, fully explained, and understood that only immaterial and unobservable reality truly and absolutely exists, as well as what it is and how it exists, is one that all people in the world have always known, for we ourselves are that sole existing, immaterial, unobservable reality, the only reality that exists. But we have not yet succeeded in explaining this to ourselves, that is, in grasping it and thereby understanding ourselves, because we have never been able to observe ourselves. Like an eye, which can observe everything, except itself.
In fact, we can perceive ourselves, but only indirectly, through our own reflection “in the mirror”, which is manifested in the form of our present material existence, that is, living in a body, and in the invisible components of our existence that belong to us, i.e., the invisible worlds – our “mirrors”.
And when we finally succeed in understanding this, we will also understand the two greatest world mysteries that, to this day, have not been solved in any possible way – the mystery of the almighty God, who can know Himself only within Himself. That is, the mystery of the existence of consciousness, which can know itself only within itself.
For God and Consciousness are synonyms. Two words that designate one and the same concept.
Consciousness as the immaterial and unobservable reality that exists
The immaterial and unobservable quantum vacuum and the observable universe are two natural states of one and the same natural phenomenon. Bearing in mind that the universe consists of nothing other than seven physical and psychological actions, this is proof that the performer of those actions is consciousness, because these seven types of actions (exertion, movement, observation, feeling, memory, thinking, and comprehension) are the fundamental factors of consciousness.
The definition of consciousness is: consciousness is that which is capable of bringing itself into a state of awareness. In order to achieve this, consciousness must perform precisely those seven physical and psychological actions. It must observe, feel, remember, think, and understand itself, and thereby gain experience, i.e., knowledge about itself and its existence, and through that knowledge bring itself into a state of awareness. And since consciousness, while in its quantum, immaterial state, cannot acquire any experience of itself, it is necessary that it also possess the physical abilities of exertion and movement, by which it transitions from the quantum and immaterial state into the material state and the state of the universe, which is the only way for it to become the object of its own cognition and its own awareness. In this way, it causes itself as consciousness.
Every human being, as a fragment of the universe whose organism is composed of nothing other than those same seven physical and psychological actions, can verify this on themselves. For throughout life, no matter what a person does, everything they accomplish is achieved by means of only those seven physical and psychological actions. One can also verify that none of these physical and psychological actions is carried out by anything other than human consciousness itself, which calls itself “I” (the self). Every elementary particle, every atom, every cell, every organ in the human body, as well as the body as a whole, has its own self. This also applies to the entire universe and everything that the universe consists of. Everything has its own self, which is capable of performing the seven physical and psychological actions, and through them brings itself into a state of consciousness, and through that consciousness it exists and harmonizes its relationship with its surroundings.
However, for understanding the truth of all existence, the most interesting and most significant fact is that consciousness cannot be observed in any way—neither through the senses nor beyond the senses—even though it is the only possible natural force and phenomenon that exists as the performer of all conceivable, sensorially and extrasensorially observable physical and psychological actions in the universe. Actions that cannot be claimed to exist by themselves, but that only consciousness always and exclusively exists, regardless of whether it performs those actions or not.
Yet, although there is no possibility of observing consciousness—neither through the senses nor beyond the senses—there is one possibility by which the existence of consciousness can be proven. The method by which this can be demonstrated is self-proof. Self-proof is the method by which consciousness can prove its existence only to itself and to no one else. And only at the moment when, through its physical and psychological actions, it brings itself into a state of awareness of itself and its surroundings. In that state, it is aware of both itself as the performer of its physical and psychological actions, and of the actions it performs. Thus, for example, when consciousness performs the psychological action of thinking, it is aware both of itself as the thinker and of its act of thinking, at which moment it can rightfully say to itself: “I think, therefore I exist!“—and it needs no other proof of its existence. In the same way, it can prove to itself that it exists by means of any of its other physical or psychological actions. This method of self-proof of the existence of consciousness was discovered by the French philosopher Descartes 400 years ago, and all other attempts by scientists to prove the existence of consciousness in different ways are mistaken and will never produce any results.
Therefore, we arrive at the conclusion that only the immaterial and unobservable reality—namely, consciousness and its seven physical and psychological abilities—truly, i.e., absolutely and eternally, exists. And that the observable universe, as a physical and psychological action of consciousness, does not exist absolutely, but only relatively, during the time when consciousness begins to perform its physical and psychological actions, and it ceases to exist when consciousness stops performing them.
Understanding the concept of “existence”
It is very important to be aware that without a complete understanding of the concept of “existence”, it is impossible to understand the eternal and ultimate truth about the existence of matter, life, and the universe.
And this means understanding that the term “existence” can refer to nothing other than consciousness and its seven physical and psychological abilities. These are: exertion, movement, observation, feeling, memory, thinking, and comprehension. Consciousness and these seven physical and psychological abilities are what is meant when we say that only the unobservable reality exists.
Specifically, the unobservable reality that exists is what physics refers to as the “immaterial quantum vacuum”, from which, through its self-motion, the observable matter, life, and universe have arisen.
Matter, life, and the universe are a reality that cannot be regarded as truly existing, because matter, life, and the universe are sensorially and extrasensorially observable physical and psychological actions of consciousness. Namely, it is logical that no physical or psychological actions can have the meaning of existence, because they cannot exist by themselves without a performer who has the abilities to carry out physical and psychological actions. Who, together with its abilities, always exists, regardless of whether it performs actions or not. The only difference is that this performer of actions is observable (but “only” as energy, i.e., as movement) when it performs actions, and is not observable when it does not perform them.
The problem, i.e. the trick, is that when we observe actions, we do not realize that we never actually observe any actions at all, but always and only the performer who carries out those actions, without being aware of it. For example, we can never observe a person’s action of moving; we always and only observe the person who is moving. With the note that the true “person” who moves is not the person’s body, but the person’s consciousness, which is the inner, subjective, aware essence of the human being and their primary driving force. Which we perceive as a material human being in motion. This is the same consciousness that existed before it exerted itself and began to move, when it was in an immaterial and unobservable state known as the “quantum vacuum”, and which, through movement and action, took on the form of the universe, of a human being, or of anything else.
It is worth mentioning and knowing that there has long existed a philosophical school called “pantheism”, which holds the view that God and the universe are one and the same. Naturally, when we speak of God and the universe and say that the two are one and the same, this should be understood to mean that the cause and the effect are one and the same. This is equivalent to saying that the hen and the egg, in their roles as cause and effect, are one and the same. Or, likewise, that a human being—from the moment of conception, through birth, and all the way to death—is simultaneously both their own cause and their own effect. In such a case, human consciousness and its physical and psychological abilities always play the role of the cause, while the physical and psychological actions play the role of the effect.
To make the difference between existence and non-existence even clearer, the following should also be understood. The word “existence” can refer only to that “something” which is capable of existing by itself, which has never come into being, which has existed forever, and which can never cease to be. And the word “non-existence” can refer to everything that cannot exist by itself from eternity, but can only arise from that “something” which already exists by itself, and which, just as it came into being, can also cease to be. Meanwhile, that which has existed forever remains untouched and unchanged, regardless of whether something arises from it or disappears into it. For this reason, that which arises and disappears can be regarded only as the temporary state of that which exists.
Thus, for example, it is neither logical nor correct to claim that the immaterial quantum vacuum and the material universe that arises from the quantum vacuum exist, because these are only two different states—a state of rest and a state of motion—of that which truly exists.
Light and darkness, likewise, are not existence, but only temporary states of that which exists, capable of alternating from a state of light to a state of darkness and back again.
Love and hate also do not have the meaning of existence, but only the meaning of psychological states of that which exists.
The same applies to the concepts of good and evil.
And everything else that we can observe, whether through the senses or beyond the senses, is not existence, but only a temporary state that can both arise from and disappear into that which truly exists.
The fundamental characteristic of that which exists is that no one has ever observed it—neither through the senses nor beyond the senses—because that is impossible, since that which exists is not material. What is observable, sensorially or extrasensorially, are only its physical and psychological states, i.e., its physical and psychological manifestations, which it is capable of producing through its seven physical and psychological abilities and actions: exertion, movement, observation, feeling, memory, thinking, and comprehension. These physical and psychological actions have the meaning of an effect, while that which exists and performs these actions has the meaning of a cause. This implies that only the cause has the meaning of existence, and not its physical and psychological actions, which have the meaning of effects, through which that which exists brings itself into various physical and psychological states. And through these states, it succeeds in existing by itself, forever and always, eternally having and playing the role of both its own cause and its own effect. This implies that cause and effect are inseparable from one another and are always two halves of a single whole, or two sides of the same coin.
And most importantly, in the end, it must be said and understood that that which truly and absolutely exists is what we call “consciousness” in science and everyday life, and what the world’s religions call “God“. While that which exists calls itself, in all its forms and states, by the name “I“.
It is also important to state and to know this as well: that Consciousness or God, as the cause, and everything that arises from it as the effect through its physical and psychological abilities and actions—its various physical and psychological manifestations, actions, forms, or states—are one and the same.