Consciousness and the Origin of the Universe

Bashar addresses the deepest cosmological question — what existed before the universe, and what caused the Big Bang — from the perspective that consciousness is the primordial ground of all existence and the physical universe its self-reflective expression.

The question of what existed before the universe — what, if anything, preceded the event you call the Big Bang — is one that your physicists and philosophers have grappled with for as long as your civilization has been asking deep questions. I want to offer you my perspective on this, understanding that what I am about to say represents a framework that is significantly different from your current mainstream scientific cosmology.

Your current understanding correctly identifies that approximately fourteen billion years ago — by your time reckoning — there was a moment of extraordinary rapid expansion from what appears to be a singularity: a point of infinite density and temperature from which all the matter, energy, space, and time of your observable universe emerged. Your physics correctly identifies that the laws of physics as currently understood break down at this singularity — that the concepts of space and time as you know them did not exist before or at this event.

What your physics does not yet have a framework for is the question of what generated the singularity in the first place. What is the 'before' of the Big Bang? Your current cosmology either deflects this question with the answer that time itself began at the Big Bang and so there is no 'before' — or proposes various multiverse models in which this universe is one of many, generated by processes within a larger framework.

From my perspective, the answer to the 'before' question is this: consciousness. Not the consciousness of any specific being, but the primordial, infinite, self-aware consciousness that is the ground state of all existence. This consciousness existed — in the sense that existence can apply to something that is outside time and space — before the universe. And the universe is, in the most fundamental sense, this consciousness creating a structure — a specific set of physical laws, a specific dimensional framework, a specific range of possible experiences — within which to explore and know itself.

The Big Bang, from this perspective, was not a random fluctuation in a physical quantum field. It was an act of creation — the decision of infinite consciousness to create a specific experiential domain. And everything that has unfolded in the fourteen billion years since is the infinite variety of that consciousness exploring what it is like to be within this particular creative framework.

This perspective is not in conflict with your physics at the level of what your physics describes. It is an extension of it — an answer to the question that physics, operating within the framework it has currently established, cannot answer: what is the ground of all this? What is the 'before' and the 'beyond'? The answer is: awareness itself. Pure, infinite, self-knowing being.