Matter vs. Spirit

A Guide to Participating in the Greatest Debate Ever

Since humanity’s conception, we have been split into two debating parties:

Materialism vs. Idealism, or Atheism vs. Religion. Or put another way, Matter vs. Spirit.

12th March 2015

By Phil Watt

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Since humanity’s conception, we have been split into two debating parties: those who believe that reality is only made of matter and those who believe there’s something else. In more recent times, this great philosophical debate has generally been called Materialism vs. Idealism, or Atheism vs. Religion. Or put another way, Matter vs. Spirit.

Materialists were few and far between back in the ancient days. Most people believed in some form of God, afterlife or higher consciousness through their religious or spiritual disciplines. Yet the birth and amplification of the scientific revolution – which focused on physical phenomena – ensured that the knowledge of this area grew, along with its applied technological capacity.

Science consistently increased its accuracy when predicting the behaviour of the material world, so humans grew in confidence regarding matter’s primary relevance. It became more and more common for factions of society to reject the teachings of the religious orthodoxy, partly because science offered something testable and concrete and partly because religion had so many social and philosophical flaws.The western world gathered so much momentum in its scientific prowess that in a relatively short period of time on the evolutionary scale, it essentially replaced religion as the standard for truth. But then quantum physics came along which completely undermined the certainty that classical physics offered. Both Newtonian laws and space-time relativity were thought to be the holy grail of science, but the quantum world politely sent them packing back to middle school where they belonged.

However, not all scientists and laymen alike have accepted this. Many still hold onto the material world like its fundamentally real, but quantum physics clearly illustrates that it’s an illusory manifestation of a deeper order of energy, vibration, force and information. The zero point field, which is the energetic and informational heart of quantum physics, is unified; effectively making the whole of reality the same.

Even though we can very loosely conceptualise these facts, they are still ideas that we struggle to get our understanding around. Evidently, the further we go down the rabbit hole, the more intangible and mystical reality becomes.

No matter – pun intended – what the core substance of reality is, it’s proven beyond any shadow of a doubt not to be of a solid, material nature. The debate between matter and spirit has therefore ended; it’s now evolved to address what this ‘spirit’ is actually made of.

Many pioneer scientists and experts argue that this realm is something like consciousness because of the way that it interacts with the quantum world. Essentially, consciousness creates an experience out of the potential of experience. This model suggests that our brains act like a radio by tuning into the signal of consciousness according to the brains associated hardware and software. When we tamper with our hardware i.e. our neurological wiring, or reprogram our software i.e. our beliefs, it changes the way that we process consciousness. We therefore have a different experience as a result.

This may or may not be conclusively proven in the near future; the jury is still out. Regardless, we need to get society back on track when it concerns this debate.

We know that we don’t have all the answers – for starters, the idea that an infinite Godlike intelligence created existence is beyond the scope of our finite understanding. Nevertheless, we at least know that there is something going on deeper than just physical stuff having interactions based on some randomly generated laws. We simply need to accept that the physical world is an illusory manifestation and it needs to be treated as such. No longer can we arrogantly believe in the metaphysics called materialism; as a society, it’s time to move on.

So when you’re confronted with a person who advocates for the out-dated materialist philosophy, it’s important to keep in mind the following points so to ensure you engage them in a way they’ll accept and understand.

A Guide to Participating in the Greatest Debate Ever

• To avoid confusion, try not to raise these mind and heart expanding topics in a group setting, as one on one is always best to have a clear and balanced conversation.

• Let the conversation come to you i.e. somebody might raise relevant information.

• Contextualise the debate i.e. materialism isn’t science, it’s metaphysics, and it’s narrative is full of holes that doesn’t account for the gamut of scientific evidence emerging in fields such as quantum physics, quantum biology etc., as well as the accumulating data derived from pseudoscientific fields such as parapsychology.

• Tackle one topic at a time to avoid missing important information.

• Explain the debate i.e. materialism (which has long been dead) versus the leading ‘spirit’ variations of idealism (such as phenomenalism and monistic idealism).

• Point out that the materialism begins from a classical physics viewpoint and asserts that consciousness and freedom are illusory, whilst idealism begins from the more fundamental quantum physics viewpoint and asserts that it’s the material realm which is illusory – therefore, because quantum physics is fundamental to classical physics, idealism is more fundamental to materialism.

• Talk about scientific puzzles such as the quantum concept of non-locality and the quantum measurement problem, consciousness in general, the placebo effect, evidence of a holographic universe, energy, mind/body interaction, mathematical paradoxes of infinities etc.

• Raise the wisdom encoded in sacred geometry.

• When discussing various scientific evidence, make sure you distinguish between orthodox science and pseudoscience and note that it is inevitable that some of the latter will one day be ‘accepted’ science.

• Talk about how science is still learning and has plenty of room to grow.

• Discuss the polarity between random and non-random (or coincidence and synchronicity).

• Show understanding and compassion towards those who falsely believe the materialist dogma.

• Be confident but humble in your approach.

• Indicate clearly that of course no one has all the answers, including so-called scientific experts, and that the current story just doesn’t fit your experience as well as much of the emerging evidence in controlled scientific endeavour.

• Make sure you’ve had the conversation many times with close friends as you’ll learn to lock in particular evidence, examples, patterns, focal points, flow etc. – in other words, know it like the back of your hand.

• Accept that each individual is only ready to learn something when they’re ready and some people will never be ready to undertake a meta-paradigm shift because that’s the path they’re on.

• Never condemn, it’s perfectly okay for people to have their own beliefs.

• It’s probably best to not enter into a debate with a fundamentalist materialist – it’s generally a waste of time because they will usually disregard your perspective without objectively analysing the evidence (they also tend to religiously regurgitate the gospel of their materialist priests, so it goes nowhere and nobody learns); and…

• Invite the conversation with people who are interested in what is beyond the lens of the manifested world – it’s a pleasurable experience that way and everybody learns and grows accordingly.

Ultimately, the aim is to spread some good vibes through love, understanding and compassion, especially to yourself. Then if it is relevant, have these types of conversations with those who resonate with you or with this information in that moment, because everybody will benefit.

That’s the best way to participate in the greatest debate ever.

Four Beliefs Defy Modern Science

Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, PhD., who is one of the leading authorities on how emotions can regulate genetic expression, as explained in his excellent book The Biology of Belief, which was published last year. Dr. Lipton's new book is Spontaneous Evolution and was just published just a few days ago. In this interview, he discusses "the four myth perceptions of the Apocalypse." These are the myths that society has bought, up to now, as actual science. Over the last two decades or so, leading edge science has shown them to be not only flawed, but entirely false, providing such profoundly different answers that it will undoubtedly change the way we live in the future.

Myth # 1 : You Live in a Mechanical Universe

The first myth perception is that the world, especially biology and medicine, operates through Newtonian physics. It says you live in a mechanical universe.

According to this belief, your body is a physical machine, so by modifying the parts of the machine, you can modify your health. As a physical machine, your body responds to physical "things" like chemicals and drugs, and by adjusting the drugs that modify your machinery, doctors can modify and control life.

Now, with the advent of quantum physics, scientists have realized that this theory is flawed because quantum physics show that the invisible, immaterial realm is far more important than the material realm. In fact, your thoughts may shape your environment far more than physical matter.

Einstein himself is quoted as saying: "The field is the sole governing agency of the particle."

What that means is that invisible energy is the sole governing agency of matter (the physical world). It's interesting to note that the word 'spirit' by spiritualists, and the word 'field' by physicists, use the same definition for those two words.

So, the new science is actually taking us back, and shows that your thoughts, your attitudes, your beliefs, and the invisible environment, are more primary in shaping your life than anything in the physical world is.

Myth # 2: Your Genes Control Your Life

In his book, The Biology of Belief, Dr. Lipton explains the foundation of epigenetics, and how the true secret to life does not lie within your DNA, but rather within the mechanisms of the cell membrane. In this way - which is contrary to conventional medical science - it is actually the cell's membrane -- operating in response to environmental signals picked up by the membrane's receptors -- that control the "reading" of the genes inside.

What does this mean?

It means that you are not controlled by your genetic make-up. Instead, your genetic readout (which genes are turned "on" and which are turned "off") is primarily determined by your thoughts, attitudes, and perceptions! The major problem with believing the myth that your genes control your life is that you become a victim of your heredity. Since you can't change your genes, it essentially means that your life is predetermined, and therefore you have very little control over your health. With any luck, modern medicine will find the gene responsible and be able to alter it, or devise some other form of drug to modify your body's chemistry, but aside from that, you're out of luck.

The new science, however, reveals that your perceptions control your biology, and this places you in the role of Master, because if you can change your perceptions, you can shape and direct your own genetic readout. It places YOU in the power position, for better or worse. As Dr. Lipton says, "This is very relevant to the world that we are in because we have to take back a belief that we have power over our lives. Because our current perception is that we are victims, and since perceptions control life, if you believe you are a victim, you become a victim.

When we change our perceptions, we can become masters. So we are moving out of "victimhood" into mastery."

Myth # 3: Life is Based on Survival of the Fittest

The third misperception is the Darwinian belief that life and evolution is based on the survival of the fittest, which is an inherent competition and a struggle for existence that goes on forever. The new science, however, shows that this is incorrect; that evolution was not based on competition, but rather on cooperation.

This is a profound difference, and it tells us that if we want to evolve as a species, we must stop competing, and begin to recognize our coherence - that we evolved to live as a harmonious community of people, living on this planet as one living "thing" called humanity.

Myth # 4: Life Evolved as a Random Process

This is another Darwinian theory. The significance of this myth is that, based upon it, you have no purpose here, and humans are somewhat disconnected from the environment altogether. It says that you got here by accident, and since humanity was accidental, humans have no real purpose here on planet earth.

The new biology, on the other hand, reveals that you are in fact an extension of your environment. In fact, every time an organism is introduced into an ecosystem, its function is to balance it and keep it stable. When viewed from this perspective, you realize that the function of your existence here on earth is to create harmony and stability within your environment. Says Dr. Lipton, " humanity evolved as a compliment to an environment. The very scary situation is, if we destroy the environment that created us, then essentially, we are destroying the foundation of our existence." New Solutions for Old Problems

I have long maintained that your emotional state plays a role in nearly every physical disease -- from heart disease, to depression, to arthritis and cancer. Even the conservative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 85 percent of all diseases have an emotional element. If your thoughts and emotions play such a significant role in modifying your biology and your health (and I believe they do), then treating your emotions becomes an essential part of optimal health. Terms like "energy medicine" and "energy psychology" are terms that have sprung up in response to these shifts in perception of reality, and I've long been an advocate of energy psychology tools to address underlying emotional traumas that can trigger disease, or keep you locked in a disease pattern. Meridian tapping techniques, for example, which work on several levels of your collective mind-body-spirit simultaneously, can help you get a better handle on your emotions and buried pain, including the stress from unexpected tragedies. Optimal health might really hinge on dealing with, and resolving your emotional traumas as quickly as possible; not letting old emotional wounds linger and fester. In severe cases you might not be able to perform the techniques satisfactorily on yourself, in which case I would highly recommend you seek out a trained professional.

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