What If God Is Energy? The Radical Possibility That Consciousness Was Here All Along
We have been taught to think of God as something separate from the universe. A creator somewhere beyond creation. A supernatural intelligence who existed before everything else and brought the universe into existence. Science, meanwhile, has increasingly described the universe in completely different terms: matter, energy, fields, forces, particles, information and mathematical relationships. But what if these two pictures are not necessarily as far apart as we think? What if the thing we call God is not an old man in the sky, not a supernatural personality sitting outside the cosmos, but the fundamental reality underlying everything that exists? And what if that reality is conscious ? It sounds radical. It may even sound impossible. But consider the alternative. According to our current understanding of physics, energy cannot simply be created or destroyed. It changes form. Matter itself can be understood in relation to energy. The universe is filled with interacting fields and...