A Model of Existence

This article uses science and logic to describe a cosmological[1] model of existence (MoE). It explains the nature of reality, experience, Consciousness, mind, life’s meaning/purpose, self, and creation and provides a religiously neutral definition of God.

Let me begin at the beginning, well…before the beginning.

The top portions of our MoE diagram above have three concepts:

1. The “Singularity” is in the middle.
2. “Potential Units” are on the left.
3. “Cosmic Consciousness” on the right.

These concepts reflect/describe the primary components of the Universe in which we live. They are the fundamental elements that actualize (realize, make real) our experience of material (physical) reality. I will now briefly describe these components.

Singularity

Until recently, it was thought that before the Big Bang, there was an instant where all the matter and energy in the Universe was concentrated into a single point called the initial Singularity. The Universe’s temperatures, densities, and energies were infinitely large and could have even coincided with the birth of time and space itself.

The MoE uses the term singularity somewhat differently, although it also could have preceded time itself.[2] It proposes that…