consciousness creates reality (the power of observation)

Materialists challenge idealists with rocks, yet miss that minds trained themselves to see rocks as such. Before humans existed, no rocks existed, only vibrating atoms indifferent to labels.

Flowers blooming toward sun, rivers carving paths through mountains, grains of sand responding to environment. Every element from smallest to largest participates in awareness, not requiring human-like minds to possess consciousness.

Every individual experiencing life operates through accumulated assumptions so deeply ingrained they forget making them. The rock exists as habit, reality itself functions as habit.

Entire populations participating in collective belief create nations, currencies, traditions, laws - mental constructs made solid through agreement. When enough people believe in something, it takes shape.

Giordano Bruno, Renaissance philosopher burned at the stake for heretical cosmological ideas, proposed universe as vast infinite living mind rather than dead mechanical system.

Individual minds resonating with others like nodes in cosmic thought network, simultaneously creating and being created by the reality they inhabit.

Thomas Nagel posed famous question in essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” arguing consciousness includes irreducible subjective aspect. Even understanding brain’s physical processes can never reveal subjective experience of other creatures.

We are not passive observers but active participants in constructing our experience of the world. Each individual’s consciousness shapes the reality they perceive.

Joan of Arc, teenage girl claiming to hear voices from celestial beings, convinced hardened warriors to follow her into battle through sheer force of belief made manifest.

Neuroscientist Karl Pribram developed theory that mind operates as hologram. Like holographic images where every fragment contains entire picture, every part of brain holds blueprint of entire universe.

What we call “you” is simply experience arising within vast interconnected field of awareness. No separate self exists in world; no consciousness exists as isolated entity.

Vedic tradition in Hinduism teaches that individual self, Atman, is ultimately identical with Brahman, the universal consciousness permeating all things. No individual self exists outside this larger consciousness.

Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi in Talmud teaches paradoxical truth: every individual should see themselves as if entire world was created for them, yet also remember they are but dust and ashes.

Many who experience deep spiritual awakening report unsettling realization: they are alone in world, not in conventional social sense but recognizing their consciousness as only certainty. Mystics and philosophers throughout history have circled this understanding like moths around flame.

Esoteric traditions and Kabbalists teach that physical reality serves as school for consciousness rather than ultimate destination. This world is liminal space, corridor before the world to come.