Life: A bubble of consciousness born of matter and energy transformations

As per the classical mechanistic model of physics, they assumed this universe to comprise matter and empty space beyond. This approach was basically born of looking at things in exclusivity, strictly defined by separate boundaries, i.e., end of one and the start of the other. But if things were so exclusive, how would the matter scattered in the universe interact, and get into a transformative process, across the barriers of empty space in between?

Further researches convinced the scientists of the existence of a zone of interaction, the buffer zone floating between matter and emptiness (as they visualized space then) in the form of electromagnetic and gravitational forces in the empty space. The latter were taken as mere ripples (or effects) of the matter floating in the emptiness of space.

Then the quantum scientists went ‘within’ and more and more ‘within’ into the supposed solid, indestructible wombs of particles. Layers after layers of once solid particles were peeled off only to land at flashes of energy at the fag end. The solid matter turned out to be mere clumps of energy. More importantly, the empty space, hitherto supposed to be the medium for electromagnetic radiation and force of gravity (once presumed mere effects of matter) turned out to be the same extension of the quantum field which manifests as matter in the areas of high energy clumps. So it leaves us with one entity: a quantum field where energy is going cyclically.

So now it’s accepted that it’s just singular energy field involving infinite lot of virtual interchanges of subatomic particles giving rise to cosmic blizzards. An infinite potentiality of transformations and cyclical handovers from one state to another, just change, no give, no take, no loss, no gain. Merely a cyclical transformation of energy in the universe in which the apparent matter (in the form of clump of energy) simply happens to be a transitory stage. The present cycle of universe began with the big bang to continue expanding till the big implosion, the cosmic crunch, only to go round like an endless journey along a circle. Simply a cosmic heart beat, with the beat interval of billions of years.

Like an infinite circle is composed of little series of straight lines, similarly this cosmic multidimensionality also comprises definite patterns of linearity, not in the strict sense of straight lines but in the definiteness and specificity of patterns. A circle is merely a clump of numerous straight lines across its periphery. Similarly, the cyclical transformation of energy in this mammoth circle cannot just go randomly. Its basic building blocks have linear patterns in the directions of evolution.

Suppose there is rainfall on the slopes of a mountain. Under the law of gravitation, the water has to flow down. It cannot move up or stay where it lands. So gravity is the superior law defining this particular process. It has to flow down or at least retain its tendency to flow down if there is some obstruction; in that case, that tendency takes the form of potential energy. So each and every ounce of this existence is simply a manifestation of one energy transforming into the other. When the water moves down, the potential energy changes to kinetic energy, which goes into changing into many types of actions that are a result of the water’s movement.

Now raindrops fall randomly. But the process later on cannot remain on the same scale. Here things acquire a shape. The water coming down acquires stability over a period of time after the initial moments of randomness handed over by the falling rain. It stops at obstructions, takes a recourse and very soon, without any choice and prejudice, as per the supreme law of self-sustained spontaneity, establishes a little water channel. Many such individual channels, make a rivulet, and many rivulets go into making a mainstream, which cuts its valley where its initial turbulence is changed into effortless flow in broad winding stream in mature and old age.

Same is the course of flow of energy streams in the forms of apparent matter (clumps of energy at specific frequencies). The supreme law is that the net energy is zero, and to have zero you can have countless, infinite plus and minus components, balancing out each other for a zero net result, like at each stage you add and subtract the same amount. You are at liberty to have infinite interplays. So under the supreme law, it has to flow in cyclical transformations. Visualize a circle and try moving your finger on its rim. There is a journey without end till you get tired. But your getting tired or losing interest in continuing with the job is no benchmark to set up an ‘end’ to the journey. The path still stays with its potential for infinite movement. However, with our limited sense perception, we have a linear, fragmented view of things and phenomena. To make things tangible to us, we have to have a straight line of cause and effect, a simplifying linearity, which presents a convenience to us to make our world run. However, in a cyclical transformation, the movement is endless without net loss or gain. Same set of energy, on and on. The apparent diversity of the matter is simply due to the existence of different frequencies on the path of transformation.

Now this energy also cannot transform randomly. It has to develop a pattern over a period of time, just like water falling in the raindrops over the slope cannot flow randomly forever and finally acquires suitable channels given the geography. Its freedom to flow under the force of gravity also gives it a duty to acquire a definite pattern over a period of the time so that it adapts to the platform of its action, that is, the terrain, so that it becomes one of the parts in the holistic scheme of self-sustaining ecosystem. Similarly, the energy transforming itself under the supreme law of cyclical transformation acquires a shape, a pattern, a design, a specificity, a definiteness. Like the random drops acquire an order in the form of stable channel over a period of time, this consciousness evolving through matter/energy transformations in a particular direction turns into a recognizable entity, a flow, a spontaneity.

The flow of matter/energy in one particular direction gets a definite shape in the form of individual species of animals, trees, birds, reptiles and much more. Take for example Homo-sapiens. It’s merely a flow of matter/energy in this specific direction which has acquired a particularity after cutting down its path through the choiceless speadework on the terrain of creation. The choicelessness itself handing over the reward where it appears like there is some freedom of flow in a well set course.

In the case of humans, the flow of this matter/energy over the path of its passage has ingrained certain characteristics just like it has for any other species. That repetition, that linear ease for a smooth passage, gets imbibed as the genetic pool in the DNA to give rise to a species, a temporary but tangible part in the passage. The milestone but stands notified as a species.  And these millions and millions of distinct courses in the form of manifestations of energy, apparently linear, are the constituents of the big circle of nothingness. But in this ever-shifting play, the evolution of a definiteness, the cementing of its course, facilitated by the so called gene pool, is tangible as a collective consciousness primarily. A big identity. Simple fact is that, in one particular direction, the flow of matter/energy allows the pathway, like the water channel does for the random drops of rain, for the propagation of a particular species. The overall, tendency which allows this choiceless emergence of such patterns is the cosmic consciousness. The supreme awareness facilitating the establishment of patterns in continuous flow is the ultimate law.

Now just like water in the collective consciousness of an established course, i.e., river, comprises many water molecules, the collective consciousness of a particular species also comprises numerous, individual consciousness. Again under the simple law: whole is just an assortment of parts; part is merely a miniature of the whole. So the individual consciousness also ingrains its identifiable characteristics within the collective of that particular stream. In humans we call it the karmic imprint. It’s an assortment of the processes and stages passed in the early stages of the journey experienced by one individual consciousness.

Like a well established river course is not inclined to take a sudden recourse, the divine momentum in an individual consciousness makes it inclined to retain its course. Consciousness is just the set of an individual course within the collective course of the particular species, the latter itself being an individual consciousness within the super-sea of cosmic consciousness. It’s the self-evolving program running the hardware of energy transformation processes.

These countless strands of individual and collective consciousness, comprising the overall cosmic consciousness, are mere virtual fuel-tanks facilitating the cyclical transformations of energy. Take a small example. A neighborhood woman has very nice emotions for my mother. She finds my mother outside the house and she shows concern for the wild growth there. She has seen a snake there. This information is born of her concern for my mother’s safety. I decide to go out once their chat is over. Yea there is wild growth. But there is something more important. I have been thinking of planting a peepal or banyan plant for some time. I have even sown seeds for it. No germination. A big disappointment. I see a small peepal there. My day is made, I feel so happy. A beautiful emotion born of care and even fear in a woman triggers my little walk to the place and I see the most holy plant in Hindu and Buddhist system of belief. A bird ate a fruit somewhere and dropped its bird-drop and there grows the uncared peepal which won’t grow despite best of my efforts with the help of internet research. Her good emotion for my mother sets in motion a chain of events that will help in a story that started with a bird eating a fruit to the planned replanting of a nice tree and my emotions born of my individual consciousness involved in between. Isn’t the so called ‘individual consciousness’ merely a virtual fuel to facilitate the cyclical transformation of energy around us?