dave_a_mbs
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HI agan -
According to Buddhism, everything is "consciousness" and the universe is an hallucination that is so defined that each experience etc is consistent with every other experience etc, so that it appears to be a seamless extended system existing within the confines of a single logical system. However, this is not the only way to "have a universe".
When we dream, we are in an identically defined universe, but one in which the rules and logic are different. When we seek to rescue a "stuck soul", the "stuck soul" is in a similarly self-defined universe, which is why they are "stuck". The entire program of physical science is ultimately supported by our individual subjective experiences and beliefs, since that's how we form opinions with which to build a definition of the situation and of self. Whether it is anything else is not readily available for inquiry. However, because of the amount of subjectivity involved, it might be wise to view physical science and its phenomena, like black holes, magnetism, space and time, relativity etc as phenomena limited to the set of definitions by which the universe was projected out of its initial causal beginning into a 3-space definition.
Another example, if you are looking at a situation and begin to increase dimensional awareness, the degree to which the prior view dominates perception decreases as new perceptual elements present themselves. Thus, the prior view seems to recede. This might look as if one is going down a tunnel. However, to others it might merely change to gain translucence, or perhaps a sense of distribution of the "self" spread over a wide expanse of space etc. Seemingly "physical" perceptions thus may arise from the relationship of the viewpoint to prior states of being, which has little to do with the rules of physical science in a limited 3-space continuum.
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