2011 Is Everything Energy - or is Consciousness a Lie?

      In the video titled “everything is energy” uploaded by youtube user awakening alchemist, the narrator makes the claim that it is a scientific fact that 99.99 percent of all matter is empty space and in fact an artifact of our consciousness. And therefore, he claims, that the material world is an illusion.

Firstly, there is no such thing as a scientific fact. All science is guesswork and opinion. In fact, there are few, if any, scientific principles which have not changed throughout the course of history. And it is quite arrogant actually, for anyone, scientists included to act as if they have a monopoly on the truth and facts, when by definition their entire profession is founded upon the principle that nothing can be proven, in fact.

Secondly, why is it that the scientist cannot see the obvious 
common sense that what he perceives appears to be energy because he is using energy to perceive. It is a fallacy, in fact, to claim that one know anything about the physical reality, when one has deliberately separated oneself from the physical reality into a personal, compartmentalized bubble, called the mind.

      It should not be surprising that when one belief oneself to be energy and thus exist only as energy that one would only perceive in terms of energy, that one would live only in terms of energy. To claim on this basis that everything is therefore energy is actually to refuse to see beyond oneself and beyond the illusion that one has created for oneself.

But beyond this obvious misuse of knowledge and apparent authority, when we look at the underlying message of the statement that ‘everything is energy’ - it becomes obvious that this statement is in fact a justification to actually ignore and neglect the physical reality of the world that we live in.  If physical matter were indeed an illusion, then why would this world and the behavior of humans within be so predictable?


Why would we eat?

Why would we study information and go to work?


      Isn’t it obvious that this line of argument, that ‘everything is energy’ is in fact an elitist argument and a justification for why some in this world should have the right to live in fantasy worlds where they have no cares and no concern for anything other than their own personal experience of themselves as energy?  And if we take this argument to its logical conclusion, why should anyone believe in the existence of anything outside of themselves? Why should anyone care if others starve or suffer?

Isn’t this the argument that many make for why humans have the apparent right to abuse a d sacrifice animals in the name of the ‘human experience’, because they do not exist as ‘energy’ and consciousness’ in the same way the human does?

      It is thinking like this that has been at the root cause of all the actual physical problems in this world - the thinking that energy and consciousness are somehow prior to matter and that matter does not in fact exist and thus may be disregarded.  But isn’t obvious by even a casual observation of the events happening daily in this world, that there are consequences to our physical actions? And that the more we ignore the physical reality that is actually here, for example the mistreatment of the poor and uneducated which leads to rioting and violence - the more we create physical consequences that will become increasingly difficult to deal with even for those in positions of advantage and comfort .


      To claim that everything is in fact energy is actually an excuse to abuse the physical reality that is here.  It is the excuse of the drug addict who neglects his hygiene and the relationships in his life to get high. It is the excuse of the religious zealot who blows up a bus to secure an experience of heaven in the afterlife.


      Science has not found anything profound or of any value to the current human or world condition. It has simply reformulated the basic premise of human nature and its propensity for abuse into new vocabulary. Time to wake up and consider what is real in this world and what is the illusion.