The Existence Theory is all encompassing. It solves cosmological mysteries and reveals our place in it all.

It shall include:

A theory of knowledge. A philosophy of mind. A connection to physics.

Big Bang theorists tell us there was a gravitational singularity and spatial dimensions were at size 0. This could mean the spatial dimensions didn’t exist then, which means spatial dimensions could be temporary. Energy cannot be created or destroyed due to the law of conservation of energy, so if there were no spatial dimensions existing at the time of the Big Bang the energy may have existed in a dimension of spaceless time, meaning that time could already have existed before spacetime in a spaceless time dimension.

The Eternal Knowledge Dimension

Truth is eternal and objective. If it changes then it wasn’t the truth. Anyone who denies the truth exists has to be able to claim they are telling the truth, making their claim impossible to be true. Furthermore mathematics proves truth to exist. 2×2 = 4 is undeniably true.

However, knowledge is a perfection, it is impossible to have any knowledge without having all of it because you can never know if new knowledge will undermine what you thought you knew. But as pointed out above there are things such as mathematics that we can have very high certainty about, but they still are not knowledge due to potential unknown unknowns, such not knowing if we are insane.

Knowledge is is an awareness-body of truth, similar to how the ocean is a body of water. The omniscience knows the truth by being aware of it, rather than by having beliefs about it that may or may not be justified, like us.

The classical definition of knowledge is that it is a justified true belief. However, this is inadequate because everyone will have different of amounts of justification and no one can say when all or enough of the justification has been understood for it to qualify as knowledge.

What is true is eternal and never changes. If something is true now, once circumstances have changed it will forever be true that it was the way things were. Because knowledge is a awareness-body of all truth and truth is eternal, it means that knowledge too is eternal and it only exists in its eternal state of omniscient perfection where there are no unknown unknowns. If truth exists and can be known, then that knowledge has to exist somewhere. If spatial dimensions are temporary then it can’t exist in them.

Therefore there must be a dimension of eternal knowledge.

If something is eternal and perfect, then it doesn’t change. If there is no change in the eternal knowledge dimension, then there is nothing for time to contrast against for its passage to be marked by. For this reason, the eternal knowledge dimension could be considered to be outside of time. However, no change at all could mean non-existence. So rather, the omniscience of this dimension doesn’t change but other aspects of it could change, which will be touched upon later.

Knowledge also requires infinite existence, because if existence was limited then there would be something on the outside of it that the eternal knowledge didn’t know about so it would not be perfect eternal knowledge and it would cease to exist, which means the truth would not exist either which is impossible.

Recap:

– A spaceless time dimension existed before the Big Bang, which is why the measure of space at the start was 0.

– Knowledge only exists as eternal omniscience in an eternal knowledge dimension.

Knowledge and Certainty

Knowledge requires certainty. If you don’t know that you know something, you don’t know it. Certainty is an emotional state. This means knowledge requires emotion. It’s not something a computer can ever possess.

You have to feel it and think it. And be right. And you can’t be at maximum certainty about anything without knowing everything else! (because those unknown things could undermine your existing certainty).

How certain can we be and what if we feel certain about something that isn’t true?

We can feel very strongly about things that aren’t true. Terrorist groups think they have god or “Allah” on their side and murder random people with the belief they will be rewarded in the afterlife. This has been going on since the Stone Age. There are probably times ourselves when we have felt certain about something only to find out we were missing something later on.

Certainty in feeling has to be corroborated with rational thoughts. Even then it’s still not knowledge. The rational thoughts could be wrong. Maybe we are biased. Maybe the strong emotion can be explained as a bi-product of evolution.

Knowledge is a perfection. It can be analogised to being like opening a locked door. It’s locked at first, but then you go from 0% to 100% knowledge instantly in an ascension event when the door of omniscience is opened. This doesn’t mean all ideas or information is equal though, it’s just an analogy.

Another analogy would be a piece of software that is loading. Even at 99% loaded it still won’t work. But you can be certain more information has been gathered the closer it gets. The quest for knowledge may be like that.

Emotion and Certainty

Sometimes when a tragic or very happy event happens we will feel the emotion before the rationalisation arrives. Reason and emotion can therefore be analogised to thunder and lightning. Light travels faster than sound and so during a storm we see the lightning first before we hear the thunder. Emotion therefore, could be like a bolt of lightning that we feel before the reasoning catches up.

Emotion could be an important clue or signal about what to bother thinking about and it could give us a clue about our motivations, informing us about the direction our thoughts are rolling in from. Being aware of our emotions could help our thinking be less biased, as well as empowering it with motivation and inspiration.

After all, Hume said “reason is the slave of the passions” and Alan Watts said “thoughts are a good servant, but a bad master.” They can only take you so far, despite their vital role in the knowledge quest toolkit.

Understanding the Truth leads to Morality – Know Thyself

The Ancient Egyptians, one of the oldest civilisations on Earth invented the aphorism “Know Thyself“.

There is a body of moral philosophy that strongly makes the case for morality being a rational thing.

How does morality connect to the cosmos?

The Eternal knowledge dimension includes all knowledge, of which knowledge about morality is but one example. It knows what is right and wrong, if it didn’t, it either wouldn’t be omniscient or there would be no morality. If there is no morality, then life is worthless, in which case anyone who really thought that wouldn’t continue living. The fact you are alive proves you think there is something of value in life, which leads to a value system, which is what morality is. If your life is worth something, then other lives must be worth something as well.

Therefore it is true that altruism or benevolence is rational and so the eternal knowledge dimension is inherently benevolent, good, altruistic etc.

Not only is altruism confirmed by reason, but it is simply what happens when you are seeing reality clearly. It also leads to a happier life, called Eudaimonia by ancient Greeks, the bliss of blamelessness by Buddhists and the joy of serving God by theistic believers.

Morality is also something only a mind can understand. A non living thing can’t have morality. An immoral loaf of bread would be absurd, though tasty.

What is the Mind?

The mind is not measurable spatially. When our senses send information to the brain that’s just new information coming in, the mind isn’t getting bigger and smaller depending on the size of the room or natural landscape we are in. It doesn’t suddenly stretch to outer space when we look at the stars. That is light from the stars reaching our eyes, informing the mind. So the mind doesn’t change size. It doesn’t appear to occupy any space at all. Yet it exists, it has to exist somewhere. The only way to deny it is to say the mind doesn’t exist, in which case, why listen to someone who has lost their mind?

Therefore the mind, or part of it, exists in an extra-dimensional. When the physical body dies, part of it may be free to go elsewhere.

Where will it go after Death?

If there is an eternal knowledge dimension and other dimensions are temporary it would be rational to predict that the architecture of the temporary dimensions is related to the eternal knowledge dimension and not random. If what defines the eternal knowledge dimension is it being a place of perfection and that is what makes it last forever then the other dimensions can be predicted to be defined by their relationship to perfection as well.

The temporary dimensions therefore don’t randomly appear and disappear, because the defining characteristic of dimensions is their relationship to perfections such as knowledge, among others, including eternal love. Temporary dimensions such as the spatial dimensions form in relationship with the eternal perfections and then energy flows though them. Energy is a lower-dimensional manifestation of perfection. This means energy is wisdom and beauty, which are expressions of knowledge.

With the perfections such as knoweldge as the fundamental substance of existence, the mind therefore travels extra-dimensionally after death to a place matching its understanding of truth, or perfection level.

However, from neuroscience we know that the contents of the mind directly correspond to the brain. So once the brain dies there will be no sensory input and all memories will be lost. So what survives?

The part of the mind that is non-spatial is the consciousness. Its experience of being in space is defined by the senses, so the consciousness is the non-spatial part that it is rational to believe survives. But wouldn’t it just be an empty consciousness, everyones being the same by that point?

Consciousness isn’t just a substance that sits around in the mind, the exact same for everybody during our lives. It is the tool of perception. What we are aware of changes depending on how we direct our consciousness. We wield it with our attention and focus, our wisdom. Perceiving reality is therefore an art form. It is this art of perception that makes the consciousness unique for each individual.

What it is like after death of the brain and body could be visualised like a piece of transparent and conscious jelly, with a fingerprint on it. An unwise life would leave a grubby mark, making it harder for the consciousness to perceive reality without the senses informing it. A person who has galvanised their mind and cultivated the art of perception, would have a less obscuring mark on their consciousness making it easier for them to choose a better rebirth from the previously described dimension of spaceless time where their consciousness is now existing.

This is written about in more detail in: What happens after we die?

The Psychedelic Nature of life

Psychedelic means mind-manifesting. If the consciousness exists in an extra dimension we are on some level already ascended. Yet we are not omniscient. One theory about this is known as the reducing valve by Aldous Huxley which he wrote about in his 1954 essay, the Doors of Perception. He postulated that the brain is a reducing valve for consciousness. Rather like an antenna on an analog TV, we may be receiving a signal. He gained his ideas by taking the psychedelic drug Mescaline. The term Entheogen is also used for such a substance which means “generating the divine within.”

Studies have shown that when under the influence the psychedelic drug, LSD, the normally stable brain regions that produce a sense of self are disrupted. If the sense of self can be disrupted by a drug, while maintaining or improving other functions, such as enhancing our emotional sensitivity to music and impairing fear recognition and enhancing emotional empathy and sociality as well as reducing fear of death, then the sense of self may not be as fundamental to our existence as it may seem instinctually and could provide a clue about the nature of reality.

DMT, the most potent hallucinogen known to man is produced naturally in the brain. It has been theorised to be the “spirit molecule” by Rick Strassman.

If the consciousness exists in an extra dimension and travels after death to a place in the infinite extra-dimensional cosmos according to its knowledge level, then it is manifesting a life in relation to its own characteristics. This is what is meant by the psychedelic nature of life. This class of drugs manifest our minds into our reality. Likewise our minds manifest our knowledge into reality in the form of our life.

The Existence Theory So Far:

1. Knowledge only exists as omniscience in the eternal knowledge dimension.

2. Temporary dimensions including the spatial dimensions have a non-random architecture that forms in accordance with their relationship to the eternal perfections, such as knowledge.

3. Energy flows through the lower dimensions because it is the nature of omniscience to exist infinitely.

4. The consciousness of the mind is extra-dimensional and survives physical death of the body.

5. We can ascend after death by using the understanding of truth that we have gained in life to find our way to the eternal knowledge dimension.

Note that this is not limited to necessarily to humans, there is no reason to constrain ascension and say evolution has ended with humans, especially with digital super intelligence expected to arrive this century. It is not an anthropocentric position but rather life centric and knowledge centric.

Is this actually true ?

It’s not going to be possible to capture fundamental truth in the written word, especially when written by a non-omniscient person about such a subject. The Existence Theory is designed to stimulate thinking. Due to knowledge being a perfection only available to the omniscient, reasoning cannot capture truth, from this perspective, reason is art. Consider it a sketch of all existence, in words. The Existence Theory is thought art.

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