Robert Keith Wallace’s book “The Physiology of Consciousness” (Maharishi International University Press, Fairfields, Iowa, 1993) describes in some detail the nature of the higher consciousness gained in transcendental meditation, and how it links up with the basic structure of the universe, modern science, human health, world peace, and ancient Vedic philosophy.

It explains the world in a different way from the usual – not as matter giving rise to consciousness as an emergent quality of the brain, but as matter being the “precipitated expression of ..the [unified] transcendental field of pure consciousness”. In other words, Mind came before Matter, not the other way around.

Yet this should not be a big surprise to me, since I have repeatedly written about the Great Wrap-Around. The greater truth is that both views can be correct. We create God – and the unified field can be equated with God – and in turn, God creates us. The unified field is Brahman in Vedic philosophy, our Self is Atman, and it is stated that “Atman is Brahman”. But we can directly perceive this only when we attain a higher state of consciousness. My own grasp is still only intellectual, and so I AM surprised.

It is still a mystery to me just HOW Mind incarnates into Matter. Would it be something like Bohm’s unfoldment and enfoldment? Emergence of Mind and Creation of Matter as two aspects? In this case, Mind and Matter would be co-eval, equally eternal like the Persons of the Trinity. In fact, Wallace uses the term “uncreat.ed”, also used for Jesus in Christian theology (“begotten, not created”).

I am also intrigued by the Higgs field being called the densest manifestation of matter. Of course, all material particles derived their mass from it, but then why can’t we see it or sense it or even (as yet) find it? Is it too condensed for us to see?