The Creation of Reality

 Absolutely everything humans experience can only be real whether abstract or material. The only real illusion that humans experience in life is the idea that illusions exist. If a person feels it or thinks it, it is real. Consciousness cannot experience anything that is not real. Consciousness is that very necessary engine of the universe that makes everything that it experiences real.

False combinations of real ideas or feelings can cause a person to arrive at a false conclusion that illusions exist. But all false combinations of real experiences are only systems that inevitably comprise real elements. False combinations are like mistakes in arithmetic, but yet all of the signs and numbers that compose elements of that false system are real. If one feels it or thinks it, it is real. Consciousness makes it real.

Materialists believe that all of life's thoughts and feelings, and even consciousness itself, are but illusions because all of life is based on material chemical reactions. But humans can only know about chemical reactions by being conscious of them. If intelligent consciousness happens to be but an illusion, then chemical reactions must also be an illusion. Once one has subtracted all of the illusory elements of illusory consciousness, one can only conclude that nothingness produces illusions. After all, how can an illusory consciousness have real experiences. This conclusion is as absurd as the materialists assume life is.

Yet, even nothingness cannot produce illusions because nothingness itself is no more than a useful idea in consciousness. If even the idea of nothing cannot produce illusions, then some unknown factor which cannot be anything at all must produce illusions. This thing must be less than nothing. It can only be an absolute nothingness which does not exist anywhere or at any time. One is then left with the conclusion that absolute nothingness produces illusions which are ordered and have laws that govern them. In other words, a non-existent entity which can be nowhere and at no time produces an ordered universe governed by laws, and can produce a consciousness which can be aware of it all as but an illusion. This conclusion amounts to the height of absurdity. Why not just make the logical conclusion that everything of which consciousness can be aware must be real?

Consider the consciousness of a corpse. Those who observe a corpse will say that it has no consciousness; that is, its consciousness equals nothing. But its consciousness cannot equal nothing because nothing can only be an idea in consciousness of which the corpse has none. This condition can only cause one to conclude that the corpse has no consciousness whatsoever. In other words, the corpse has a non-existent consciousness which can only non-exist nowhere and at no time. It is an absolute nothingness which can produce absolutely nothing.

The materialists may counter these arguments by saying that consciousness can have illusions. True, but the word illusion happens to be but a useful idea in consciousness that indicates the presence, or actually the non-presence, of absolute nothingness. Consciousness cannot experience absolute nothingness, but consciousness can use the idea of nothing to indicate its non-presence. Illusions only non-appear when something goes wrong with consciousness; that is, when consciousness makes mistakes, has hallucinations, optical illusions, or merely misapprehensions. In other words, consciousness can make false combinations, but it always uses real objects or ideas to make them. For instance, one can observe an illusion called a "ghost," but a ghost comprises an opaque mist or a shadow which are real ideas derived from prior experience. One can make a mistake in arithmetic which is always a false combination comprised of real ideas. 2+3=6 is a false combination, but all of its signs and numbers are real ideas. All illusions comprise false combinations of real objects or ideas.

But if an illusion always comprises real objects or ideas, then where is the falsity of the illusion? One can argue that illusions are completely useless, and therefore, they equal nothing. But nothingness is a real and useful idea in consciousness that indicates the presence, or actually the non-presence, of non-existence. A unicorn does not exist although horns and horses are real. The real and useful idea of nothing cannot be the same as the non-existence of the unicorn because that combination cannot be real and the idea of nothing is real. Consciousness can never get a real idea of non-existence because it never appears to consciousness. For this reason, illusions are never real. Non-existence equals absolute nothingness.

If the non-existence of the consciousness of a corpse can only be nowhere and at no time, then it equals absolute nothingness. A corpse cannot be conscious of itself or anything else. The only consciousnesses that can locate the corpse in time and space are the others who are conscious of it.

If objects with no consciousness cannot be conscious of themselves, then the only power that can make them real is consciousness. This condition can only mean that all of the potential real objects in the universe before consciousness arrived, if there were any, would have to be equal to absolute nothingness. The universe would be like a corpse. All of the potential real objects in this universe would have to be nowhere and at no time until they could be located and made real in time and space by consciousness, and separated from each other as individual objects by the use of the idea of nothing in consciousness. Only consciousness can raise something above the level of nothing and create something from absolute nothingness. All of this put together can only mean that before the advent of finite consciousness, an Infinite Consciousness had to exist in order to create and establish the reality of the universe. Genesis 1:1.