Mind = Reality? · The CTMU Club

Mind = Reality?

"Mind Equals Reality." Without Reality, there is no Mind, and without a Mind, there is no Reality. This is, of course, true at a human scale: we would have no experience of the world and no way to interact with or control reality if not for our mind, but what does this have to do with reality theory?

This confusion marks an inescapable dualism in human thought between the human being and reality. We see ourselves as separate entities living 'inside our skins', and our intelligence, creativity, drives, needs, and desires are ours and ours alone. According to materialistic cosmology, we are alive, and the universe is dead. But the CTMU presents a radically different worldview: we are alive, and the universe lives (in part) through us. We are not APART FROM reality. We are A PART OF reality and hence produce a conscious experience of reality by itself. The CTMU says that there is only ONE BEING in all of existence (the universal mind), and we are interconnected in ways not discernible on this plane of reality. Reality is both logical and experiential, meaning that part of the way that the universe shapes its evolution is through experience, which manifests in our minds as conscious awareness of being a separate entity.

But, in reality, we are not separate entities; we are not "inside our skins" but shape reality through agentive telesis, forming an integral part of reality's structure and dynamics as observer-participants. Reality itself is fundamentally mental: our individual minds emerge from the fabric of reality, which contains by its very structure the potential for human consciousness. We are not individuals; we are, in reality, EXPRESSING ITSELF as an individual. Reality itself contains the unified viewpoint of every mind and beyond, producing a bright and vivid experience of reality and the universal self, which language can only begin to describe.

The universe is ALIVE and conscious, and we are IMPORTANT, not because of our physical size but because of our incredible mental ability. It is through the connection of our minds that we are attached to the MIND OF GOD, in whose image and likeness we are made.

"Perhaps the most profound change in our worldview will come from learning that living, breathing human beings are essential and logically necessary ingredients of reality, not just “emergent phenomena” which “supervene” on brute physical processes. In the CTMU, human beings comprise a class of entities with a very specific mathematical formulation and an essential role in the structure and dynamics of reality. Once this role is properly understood, the spiritual and scientific realms fall back together of their own gravity." -- Christopher Michael Langan

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