2025-10-09
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Clif High is an extraordinary polymath of vast learning and exceptional life experience. Following his teachings is also an exceptional experience, by which perhaps many may be unpersuaded, but which I find logically compelling as his notions fit in well with my intuitive (yet not so far very practical!) understanding of how this universe works.
The critical question (which perhaps Science as we know it gets backwards) is:
"Which acts as foundation for the other: consciousness or 3-dimensional matter?"
You may agree I think that the question is fundamental!
If consciousness is the foundation of matter, then it follows that if we wish to understand matter then we must first understand consciousness, whereas if somehow consciousness arises from matter then we must first understand the material universe (the default "scientific" approach).
If matter is derived from consciousness, then we arrive at an understanding (in some ways supported by "science") that "matter" is, despite our experience of it and relationship to it, only an illusion (perhaps along with "time" and "space").
The scientific approach as we know it has a nasty (and in my view quite unjustified) habit of dissociating itself from matters religious and/or spiritual, but I contend that no true science can neglect to understand and account for all facets of our universe - to arbitrarily exclude matters spiritual and religious is cowardly or ignorant, or both. What are these "scientists" afraid of? And how do they think that consciousness arises from matter? Have they actually observed it happening (other than from already living beings)?
Enough of my ramblings - Clif endorses the notion that the 3D universe and all its content (a.k.a. "gritology") arises from consciousness (a.k.a. "the ontology") - a currently revolutionary notion that reverses the foundational assumptions of modern science. If we would explore the ensuing ramifications then I know of no better guide than Clif High.
But please be prepared to accommodate his perhaps overly "spicy" style of language. He's only human after all ...
