71. THE ANTI-VERSE

Welcome back to the Further Adventures of the Monad. In this presentation I wish to revisit, what many think is the most baffling of all esoteric concepts. It is the one topic that most theologians and scientists like to avoid if at all possible. The topic is, ‘what was there before there was anything’? In the previous series of presentations, I spoke of a monad that I referred to as the ‘Absolute’. I think I am going to make answering the question, what is the Absolute, into a presentation on its own. Let’s start with the concept that the Universe is something and before it was there, there was nothing. This is a start. So, somehow, something came from nothing. Does that make sense? Perhaps a better way to approach this topic is to say that in the Universe we have something that is potentially visible and whatever existed before this was invisible. OK, now we have two states and they are somehow related. How is that?

This is where we take our trusty friend, the Hylozoic Framework, out of our pocket and see what it has to reveal on the matter. Hylozoics states that there are five states of matter. One is unmanifest and is called Primordial Matter and the other four are designated Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary matter. All these four states of matter exist in our current universe. There is clearly a progression here, starting with Primordial Matter, so let’s look at it first.

Where is reality based? Is it in a Universe that comes into and goes out of existence or is it in a state that exists before creation? If you think it is the latter, then we are in agreement. I have given this state of existence the name the Anti-Verse, as opposed to the Uni-Verse. Just as a quick aside, note the term ‘Uni’, meaning one. Could this mean there are others? So the ‘Anti’ is implying that it comes before the ‘Uni’. This state of being has something in it that I have mentioned several times already. The clue is in the word ‘Primordial Matter’. This state before anything else exists is composed of matter.  Now all you budding Hylozoician’s out there could say, we have no problem with that. We know matter is the foundation of everything. It is, but philosophically most frameworks differentiate matter from spirit. We don’t.

So, now let’s imagine what Primordial Matter could be. It is composed of monads. Lots of them. In fact, an infinite amount of them. What makes this collection of monads special, is that they are so tightly packed together that there is absolutely no space between them. Why is this so significant? Because in our universe, no one atom, let alone a monad, ever touches another piece of matter. There is always a field that separates them. You could consider this to be a magnetic field but Hylozoics calls it consciousness. So, if in the Anti-Verse, all the monads are cheek-by-jowl, they must be completely unconscious.

If there is no space between any of these primordial monads, then there is no space anywhere. If there is no space, there can be no dimension, so we can not say the Anti-Verse is this or that big. It is there but infinite. That is a difficult concept for us to get our heads around because there is always ‘space’ in our universe. If from this infinite space you suddenly get a universe and this universe does have space in it, then going from a state of no space, to space, introduces another concept that of time. There is a time before a universe comes into existence and then assuming what expands could also then contract, a time when again there would be no universe. So in the universe time exists, but in the Anti-Verse, it does not. The Anti-Verse has no dimensions and is devoid of time. This is convenient, because when someone asked you, “well, when did this Anti-Verse come into existence?”, you can answer, “it did not” it always was and always will be”.

Now, Hylozoics states that the Anti-Verse is infinitely dense, yes we get that, there is no space to be found anywhere. It also states that it is infinitely elastic. Why should this characteristic be worthy of mention? This is where things get tricky. Let us model this Anti-Verse as being everywhere and then somehow a universe is going to pop up in its midsts. How can it do that if it is infinitely dense? It does it by being elastic as well. It expands to allow the universe to manifest within it. Yet no matter how many universes there may be in existence, the Anti-Verse is never going to be stretched to breaking point. It is infinitely elastic, not to mention that it does not have any boundaries.

One way you can model this is that if a bubble appears in a solid and that bubble contains matter that was previously in the solid, there is no net change in volume. The difference between this non-space, the Anti-Verse and the ‘space’, which is our universe, is that the monads in the universe do occupy more space than they did in the Anti-Verse and therefore the Anti-Verse does need to stretch to accommodate the Universe.

Well, now that we have the mechanical details out of the way, let’s look at what the Anti-Verse represents. If the Anti-Verse is limitless and has the potential to give rise to limitless numbers of universes, then the defining characteristic of the Anti-Verse is that it has Limitless Potential. What happens in a universe is anyone’s guess. Based on what goes on with us we know the best-laid plans can be stuffed up. So, from this infinite source of matter, comes the potential to do or be anything within certain guiding principles. The most obvious of these is that whatever happens, it happens to a monad. This unit of being is un-dissolvable. It is also as small as you can get. You can build things up from it, but you can not break things down smaller than it. The monad sets the limits of what is and what can be.

It may have escaped your attention, but in my musings about the Anti-Verse, I have stated something that has huge implications for the way we perceive ourselves. One pervading theological myth is that somehow God ‘created’ us. If you accept what I have been saying so far, then you can see that this is not true. If the Absolute is responsible for creating the Universe, it does so by creating a space, note the word space and populating it with monads from an infinitely dense and elastic Source. Those Primordial Monads, however, already existed. They have always existed because where they exist has no time, as there are no cycles present in the Anti-Verse. It is from cycles that you get time. All the Absolute has done, is transfer a primordial monad/atom from a state where it has no space around it, to one where it does have space. In this one act, the Absolute has given the primordial monad the opportunity to develop consciousness. It has the space to do so now. How consciousness functions in the Anti-Verse, I have not got a clue, but these individual primordial monads are not consciousness. How do we know that? Because as soon as they pop out into a universe, they are still unconscious, except now they have the potential to become conscious and that is what the whole point of creation is about.

On that bombshell, I will leave it there for today. I hope I have not given you a headache. If I have stirred some questions in you, please feel free to comment on YouTube or on my website, the links for which are posted below. Please like and subscribe if you have not already done so. The Lords of Karma have informed me that you will gain great merit for doing this.