A Journey from Consciousness to Matter

In Vedic philosophy, creation is modeled as the creative activity of consciousness. Just as an artist creates a painting by first thinking about it and then embedding his ideas into matter, so the creator of the universe creates the world of objects by expressing meanings in His consciousness into undifferentiated matter.

Creation Has Six Causes

Creation in the Vedic view proceeds from the unconscious, to conscious experience, to material objects. Each of these three features has a subjective and objective aspect, thereby creating the six causes...

What If Matter Is Different Than How Science Describes It?

The clash of ideologies between science and religion-this book argues-is based on an incorrect understanding of matter, disconnected from consciousness, and an incorrect notion of God, disconnected from matter, space and time. The ideas of soul, morality, God and afterlife can also be scientific, but in a new science that studies meanings instead of objects.

Informed by Vedic philosophy, this book is structured into 10 short essays:

Is the Apple Really Red? provides an overview of the Vedic view of matter, which is described...