The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness: A Physical Basis for Immaterialism

By Samuel Avery

Written for both the layman and the professionsl this may be the long-awaited revolution in physical science. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964629100
• ISBN13: 9780964629103
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Samuel Avery, Publisher
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book has pride of place on my shelf. As a neurochemist with 30 years experience in the sciences I have always been interested in consciousness and its relationship to reality. This book tackles this subject head on, and wins me over! The book will not be easy reading for everyone. Those without a background in this area may find certain passages heavy going. Knowledge or physics is not assumed. However, without some background knowledge of the philosophy of the New Physics, some of the statements in this book have to be taken on faith. Still the book is about consciousness and how its dimensional structure is created, not theoretical physics. The message in the book is simple and is one that has been stated in many other books. What distinguishes this book from many others is that it discards the usual waffle and mystic lingo and concentrates on a simple description of how consciousness evolves to create a dimensional view of reality. From this view comes our concept of space, time and matter... all products of awareness. You may find this book difficult to understand if you have not read other books on the subject, or if you take conscious experience or reality at "face value". As a neurobiologist, I am well aware how the brain is able to build its own view of reality. Try reading some of the works of Douglas E. Harding first before reading this book, if you feel that would help. At any rate, the book is short, so there is little to be lost by reading it. Every scientist should read this book. Reading it should make them ask the question, "what does it mean to discover some new scientific fact?"

Paradigm of Observational Consciousness

A very interesting book. Written by a layman and there are three quotes of recommendation by spiritual leaders on the back. This right away intrigued me, as it reminds me of other authors of physics who recognize the religious or spiritual nature of science. In this book, Avery relates how our senses appear as separate dimensions, dimensions that share the same area of consciousness or interactions with light infiltrating all in a different way in itself. I found interesting is Avery's explanation of the quantum jump or leap to a far distance. In that it can only land at certain particular points, leaving a tunnel of space to question where this particle was traveling at what time? But only the locational points can be observed. What Avery does not point out is the idea I have read by David Bohm, and I'm sure a lot of others, that there may be no traveling at all, no tunnel, but a non-locality, a space-free, time-free dimension where the quantum jump, or illusionary jump, takes place. The interesting thing here is the dimensions spoken of remind me of Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields. Although there are large amounts of different fields, while the dimensions here spoken of are 6 and in addition, the is not about formative causation in morphic resonance. So is dimensions, touch, taste, sight, hear, think, and this observer consciousness, which Avery believes to be another dimension. "Trying to see or hear life is very much like a single cell trying to "feel" sound or light. Life in observers can be experienced only when experience is not limited to perception." p. 98. And then he finds that all of these 6 dimensions, to be recognized at once, have to all enter this "one" consciousness" to be shared by all of us, the collective. The paradox here is the collective in just one consciousness. Now it stands to reason, logically, that solipsism is the only logical answer. Solipsism is the belief that you, you reading this, is the only reality, real and only one consciousness, the rest are created by your mind and imagination. Your reality is only you . . no you, no reality, no consciousness. With this problem of solipsism, Avery comes up with an interesting answer for his paradigm. It is that the collective, that is, all the people, are evolving, as in evolutionary growth, into a society that shares all of its information, creating a one schematic for information patterning, a one collective screen or perception (not a perceptional or subjective experience as much as a collective objective) to pattern and order the informational facts. In turn, this will be the answer to quantum interpretation of all consciousness as one. "As human civilization evolves, direct perceptual experience becomes less a part of consciousness as a whole. We learn more about the world through other people, and observational experience becomes increasingly important. We talk, read books, watch moves, and gain information through electronic technology. We use the telephone, l

A small book that tells a lot

This is a small book and it goes straight to the point - no beating around the bush. It will help you to grasp the process of thoughts transforming into material reality and the fact that the only difference between a thought and a tangible thing is a difference in vibration (dimension). If you only read through the book, all that you will have left is a little bit more of intellectual understanding - but don't stop there. Armed with understanding about the fact that your thoughts influence the energy, which expresses as matter, create your own experiments, use your mind to intend specific outcomes and create the experiences in your life you'd like to have. The understanding from this book will open new doors for you, making you aware of the fact that some things which might have seemed impossible before are possible, if you invest your thoughts to create them.

Highly Recommended

The essence of the book revolves around the idea that was part of all inner teachings of spiritual traditions and is now part of the quantum physics - that the universe is composed out of intelligent energy, and that therefore physical reality is also composed out of energy, which appears solid to physical senses only because our senses register particular vibrations as solid. From this worldview, a thought of a table is just as real as the table - the only difference is that they vibrate at different frequencies and are thus said to exist in different dimensions.

A New Approach To The Basis of Everything

This book leads beyond the basic immateriality of the universe as posited by particle physics and quantum mechanics. His thesis is that consciousness is the basis of everything and he has an interesting theory of dimensionality in its various ramifications. Most of the books on modern physics do not explore any theory of consciousness at all, so this one is a refreshing and interesting change. I recommend it highly to all those interested in philosophy and physics.