宇宙的形成与生命的诞生

?本文选自《个人与群体事件的本质》第872节

意识先于物质形式。意识先于物质宇宙。意识先于其所有显化物。

用你们能够理解的话来说，渴望存在的冲动是没有开始也没有结束的。你们实质的物种就是“存在”之内在物种的显化，或者说是意识之创造性组合的显化——这些组合作为物质模式存在，然后意识再流入其中。那样说来，在一个与想象完全不同的活动架构里，这个世界进入了存在，各个物种出现了，而那样一个架构是无法被科学证实的——尤其是在科学用以自我保护的界限内。

在地球和地球生物的各种模式尚未具体出现之前，它们就如你在脑海里对一幅画的计划一样真实，并且真实得多。用你们的话说，这个宇宙、其中的行星和生物本就一直客观存在着。所有物种的模式也一直存在着，并没有什么先来后到。

我对这些比喻并不满意，但有时候我只能用它们来表达远超正常知识渠道以外的问题。那么，这就好比地球及其所有物种本来就以完整的形式存在着，像一张全尺寸的宇宙底稿，忽然间全部渐次活了起来。鸟类并不来自爬行动物，它们一直就是鸟。它们表达了一种寻求某种形式的意识。可以想象一下，一个高度复杂的梦，其中所有元素突然变成了真实之物，以同样的方式，物种就这样具体出现了——所有的物种都出现了。那么，可以说“精神意象”本就存在，而“在宇宙的灵光乍现中”被突然赋予了完整的物质显化。

就此而言，《圣经》的诠释是正确的。生命是现成的，并且根据其特有的条件自由发展。地球是准备好了的，并且被赋予了生命。意识建造了形象，因此生命永远存在于意识之内。并没有那样一个时间点，让化学物质或原子突然获得了生命，因为它们永远拥有意识，而这是生命的必要条件。

用你们能理解的话来说，你们所知的所有物种都或多或少同时出现了，因为那些精神模式已达到巅峰。它们的活力已强到足以在物质架构内形成分化与合作。

我明白，有些物种看起来消失了，但再说一次，你必须记住可能性，记住那些物种只是曾沿着多个“可能地球”的模式“发展”。你们所涉及的不仅仅是物质的单线发展，却是一种不可想象的创造，你们物质世界的所有版本都存在于这种创造中，而每一个版本对自身的物质属性都深信不疑。有一些衍生的分支是很难形容的，虽然在某种出神状态中，或借助于经过训练的梦，你兴许能瞥见那内在的复杂性，瞥见联结你们眼中的地球与其他“可能地球”的沟通网络。你一再选择自己在物质实相内的时间及焦点，而对于很多有关人类的看似神秘的发展，你的心智有一种内在的理解。

甚至细胞也自由到不受时空的限制——既可以在当下保持一个切身的存在架构，同时又被你们所认为的地球历史的更大知识包围。广义来说，地球及其所有物种都在每个刹那被创造。你想知道是什么将生命赋予了第一个卵、种子或不论什么，你认为这个问题的答案也能解答其他大多数问题，因为在你看来，生命是从那一点才开始延续的。

但到底是什么赋予卵或种子生命，让它继续存活，为它提供能量呢？想象一下伟大的大爆炸理论——解释宇宙创造的理论。这理论说有一个巨大能量的爆炸，不知怎地就转化成了生命，但在这过程中的某处，能量必然会消耗殆尽——如果真是这样，生命会变得越来越弱，但事实并非如此。今天的小孩就与五千年前的小孩一样鲜活，而每个春天也一样的新鲜。

那么，到底是什么赋予了化学物质以生命呢？这才是更像样的问题。所有的能量不只是有觉性的，而且是所有意识组织、所有物质形式的来源。这些代表了意识的架构。用你们的话说，曾有那么一天，梦中世界突然醒转，变成了物质显化的完整实相。这个星球被欲望造访。那里有幻影出游——精神性的建筑物，梦的文明，然后它们变得实体化了。

Consciousness predates physical forms. Consciousness predates the physical universe. Consciousness predates all of its manifestations.

The impulse to be, in any terms that you can understand, is without beginning or end. What you have in your physical species are the manifestations of inner species of being, or creative groupings originated by consciousness as material patterns into which consciousness then flows. In those terms, the world came into being and the species appeared in a completely different framework of activity than is imagined, and one that cannot be scientifically established — particularly within those boundaries with which science has protected itself.

The patterns for the earth and for its creatures were as real before their physical appearances, and far more real than, say, the plan for a painting that you might have in your mind. The universe always was innately objective in your terms, with its planets and creatures. The patterns for all of the species always existed without any before or after arrangement.

I am not pleased with those analogies, but sometimes they are all I can use to express issues so outside of normal channels of knowledge. It is as if, then, the earth, with all of its species, existed in complete form as a fully dimensioned cosmic underpainting, which gradually came alive all at once. Birds did not come from reptiles. They were always birds. They expressed a certain kind of consciousness that sought a certain kind of form. Physically the species appeared — all species appeared — in the same way that you might imagine all of the elements of a highly complicated dream suddenly coming alive with physical properties. Mental images — in those terms, now — existed that "in a flash of cosmic inspiration" were suddenly endowed with full physical manifestation.

To that extent, the Bible's interpretation is correct. Life was given, was free to develop according to its characteristic conditions. The planet was prepared, and endowed with life. Consciousness built the forms, so life existed within consciousness for all eternity. There was no point in which chemicals or atoms suddenly acquired life, for they always possessed consciousness, which is life's requirement.

In the terms that you can understand, all species that you are aware of appeared more or less at once, because the mental patterns had peaked. Their vitality was strong enough to form differentiation and cooperation within the framework of matter.

I understand that it appears that species have vanished, but again you must remember probabilities, and that those species simply "developed" along the patterns of probable earths. You are not just dealing with a one-line development of matter, but of an unimaginable creativity, in which all versions of your physical world exist, each one quite convinced of its physical nature. There are ramifications quite unspeakable, although in certain states of trance, or with the aid of educated dreaming, you might be able to glimpse the inner complications, the webworks of communications that connect your official earth with other probable ones. You choose your time and focus in physical reality again and again, and the mind holds an inner comprehension of many seemingly mysterious developments involving the species.

Even the cells are free enough of time and space to hold an intimate framework of being within the present, while being surrounded by this greater knowledge of what you think of as the earth's past. In greater terms, the earth and all of its species are created in each moment. You wonder what gave life to the first egg or seed, or whatever, and think that an answer to that question would answer most others; for life, you say, was simply passed on from that point.

But what gives life to the egg or the seed now, keeps it going, provides that energy? Imagining some great big-bang theory to explain the creation of the universe gives you an immense explosion of energy, that somehow turns into life but must wear out somewhere along the line — and if that were the case, life would be getting weaker all the time, but it is not. The child is as new and fresh today as a child was 5,000 years ago, and each spring is as new.

What gives life to chemicals now? That is the more proper question. All energy is not only aware-ized but the source of all organizations of consciousness, and all physical forms. These represent frameworks of consciousness.There was a day when the dreaming world, in your terms, suddenly awakened to full reality as far as physical materialization is concerned. The planet was visited by desire. There were ghost excursions there — mental buildings, dream civilizations which then became actualized.