5. Trinity

The subjective consciousness is an inner instance of pure consciousness. An inner area, a section of the infinite potential field. Let us imagine this instance as a potential pot, like a bucket of water from the ocean. From this pot, subjective consciousness generates our reality. How does it do that?


Emergence is dynamics, is an effect, movement. Physicists call the beginning of everything that came into being the Big Bang. In the old Indian philosophies, it was a sound. The sound of the sacred syllable AUM (OM). In Christianity, it was the word. So says the gospel according to John:


"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. The same was in the beginning with God. All things are made by the same, and without the same nothing is made that is made."


Different names, different terms, different metaphors, all trying to describe the same thing that cannot be described by terms, names and metaphors. Whether loud bang, soft sound or spoken word, every vibration is energy, is information. What is a word? A word is not a material thing, it is something immaterial. We use words to communicate, to exchange information. Words are information. Information is the beginning of our world and the basis of all things.


In quantum Physics, one speaks of wave-particle duality. The wave is a superposition of all possible states. It is fixed to a certain state by an observation. By an observation the wave becomes real, becomes a particle. A probability distribution, an abstract wave function, a potentiality, becomes something specific, a concrete particle. In order for something to emerge, dualism needs a third thing, a kind of observer. Which brings us to the trinity.


In the Christian Religion, the Trinity consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the ancient scriptures of Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita, one speaks of the three Gunas: tamas (the inertia), rajas (the movement) and sattva (the light). Physics deals with matter, energy and information, and in psychology, Sigmund Freud speaks of the id, ego, and superego. Trinity is eternal change, is coming into being and passing away.


In many ancient mythologies and philosophies, the number three appears again and again. Lao-tse, a Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism, writes in chapter 42 of the Tao te Ging:

"The Tao creates one.
One produces two.
Two produces three.
Three produces all the creatures of the world."

Translated into the language of this blog:

"Pure consciousness (potential) creates subjective consciousness.
Subjective consciousness produces subject and object.
Subject and object produce classical information, energy and matter.
Classical information, energy, and matter produce all the creatures of the world."