Forms are Vessels for Consciousness
Being pure existence, consciousness doesn’t need anything for existence. However, it uses vessels or bodies to project Presence and experience separation within creation. The vessels or forms are tools drawn from the level of interest in creation. For example, to be functionally present in physical reality on earth we need an earth body.
This earth body is drawn from and adapted to the local earth environment. It allows us to experience this particular reality field and to participate actively in it. Once its purpose is served, the body is no longer needed and can be released. It derives from this particular reality field and isn’t useful outside of this. The informing consciousness can integrate back into its own nature.
We have an analogy with sub aqua diving, for example. If we wish to explore the marine world and experience this reality, we can encase ourselves in a diving suit with life support and adapted to this environment. For deep dives we can bring an airline, like an umbilical cord, to provide life sustaining oxygen and maintain contact with the surface. We are now empowered to dive into and explore the undersea world, like the creatures that are already adapted to this environment.
When we’re done, we can ascend back to the surface. We remove our diving suit, which is no longer needed, and continue with our normal reality on the surface.
It’s important to appreciate the difference between forms and consciousness. Consciousness uses forms or bodies as vessels within creation. We experience agency in creation through the medium of these forms. They are the ‘face’ and ‘hands’ of consciousness in creation. We can easily confuse the vessels with the consciousness that informs and animates them. The bodies are more concrete and tangible, while the Life is more abstract.
We can for example assume that consciousness is a ‘product’ of the body, e.g. as a by-product of such as brain or neural function. However, this isn’t sustainable. The bodies and forms are local and temporary. Consciousness in its pure essence has permanent existence. It is a higher order of reality.
It’s also valuable to appreciate the difference between existence and experience. Experience is an interaction with creation. It’s a product of both the bodies with their capabilities and of the animating consciousness. Existence is a direct attribute of consciousness and isn’t dependent on bodies or forms.
There is a progression of bodies or forms, from very diffuse and ethereal close to Source, to the very dense, material and localised bodies we use in physical reality. This is illustrated approximately in the attached diagram. Close to Source we are dealing with very pure and free consciousness. There is little separation and much less need for bodies to relate to or experience such reality. Pure consciousness is very close to this reality.
As we project into greater degrees of separation, we have more need for bodies to interface with and handle the conditions. The bodies carry a density appropriate to the chosen reality field. With greater separation, bodies are more dense, localised, diverse and numerous. This is illustrated by progressive division of bodies and multiplication of diversity down through the diagram towards the concrete physical reality we experience in our present state.
There is a projection or individuation of consciousness into each body, as its animating Life Force. This is illustrated by the yellow colour in each container or ‘cup’. Looking outwards through the body the consciousness is individuated. It is focused in terms of the experiential capacity of that body.
It sees and feels what the body can sense and relate to in its environment, like what a diver can experience with the help of its diving suit. Looking inwards, it holds connection to the layers of collective consciousness, through which it descended into that state, from the unified consciousness of Source. All experience is integrated into consciousness.
Matter
Matter is the substance of creation. It provides raw material and the building blocks for the forms and artefacts, the ‘things’, that arise in creation. Matter has the characteristics of Density and Localisation in space.
In normal physical reality, we experience matter as very tangible, present, mostly stable and enduring. This is particularly the case for solid matter. It provides the ground we stand on, the bodies, the clothes, the buildings, the vehicles and so on we live in and use. We have a very intimate relationship with matter in physical reality.
While we normally experience matter as very substantial, when we probe more deeply into its structure, it presents differing expressions at various levels of interaction. All matter is composed of atoms at a microscopic level. These can form intermediate structures as molecules and / or crystals. The atoms themselves have internal structure, with electrons orbiting a dense nucleus of protons and neutrons. These sub-atomic particles and their relationships, both internal and external to the atom, determine the characteristics of the matter.
The sub-atomic particles only occupy a small portion of the volume of an atom, as illustrated in the simplified diagram attached. Most of the volume of atoms is free space. The particles are dynamic. The electrons are moving constantly. Furthermore the sub-atomic particles themselves manifest quantum behaviour and are subject to quantum fluctuations.
What appears as dense, continuous and stable matter at our level of perception, comprises mostly free space. It is dynamic, energetic and fluctuating at progressively finer levels of detail.
As with other aspects of creation, there is progressive separation and increasing density, solidity and localisation, from the highly refined, unified and integrated states close to Source, to the very concrete manifestations in physical reality. There are progressive levels of Density in creation. There are also progressive degrees of Localisation in creation.
These correspond approximately with the states of matter. Solid matter is locked into specific structures and has well defined locations. Liquid matter, being more fluid, is freer to move and tends to spread out in space. Gaseous matter flows more freely and, generally being less dense, moves to fill available space. Plasma is the fourth and most energised state of matter. This moves the most freely through space, e.g. through inter stellar space.
These four states of matter also correspond with the traditional four Elements – Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
Dark Matter (& Energy) arise in separate Spaces
Matter exists in progressively finer states up through several levels in creation towards Source. Matter also exists in parallel but separated spaces at our own physical level. There is much more matter in creation than we ‘see’ directly in our local physical reality.
Matter interacts with other matter through gravitational force. This gravitational force helps organise matter in structures, e.g. to form planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies and so on. Such celestial structures in our physical universe indicate that there is much more gravitational force present than can be provided by directly tangible physical matter. ‘Dark Matter’ is used to account for the excess gravitational influence. This is matter that has impact in our physical universe, but cannot be ‘seen’ directly. Hence the term ‘dark’.
Matter and energy are inter-changeable. There is also a requirement for additional ‘Dark Energy’ to account for existing celestial structures.
Scientists estimate that ordinary physical matter only accounts for about 5% of celestial gravitation. An additional 26.8% of influence is attributed to Dark Matter and the remaining 68.2% to Dark Energy. So Dark Matter & Energy have enormous influence in our physical universe. But they are not directly visible nor tangible in normal physical reality.
The most likely explanation is that such Dark Matter & Energy are present in separate but neighbouring spaces. The large scale mechanics of creation allow for the manifestation of multiple spaces. These can arise both ‘vertically, in terms of quality or refinement and ‘horizontally’, in terms of the mechanics of separation and polarisation, e.g. matter vs anti-matter.
Space isn’t an absolute nor singular reality. It’s a by-product of processes of separation. These separation processes originate from the transcendent unity and aliveness / consciousness of Source. They lead through successive levels of branching to multiple distinct and diverse realities out in creation. It is Source that is the absolute and singular reality that contains the totality of creation, with its diverse manifest realities or fields of experience.
This illustrates how we can have multiple spaces that are mostly separate from each other, but are still linked by the creation mechanics that generate them. We are not so isolated in physical reality as we may think. Also we can be present to and active in separate spaces. This is somewhat analogous to doing video calls across international boundaries.