Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24393519-20140107171445/@comment-8986886-20140127173214

Shar.qaan wrote: Modern physics is slowly coming to be acknowledged as a science of consciousness, the latter understood as the ground of being -- a field giving rise to all else, including matter-energy. The conception of mind-in-body is a common fallacy following from the outdated materialist world-view. A more apt analogy might be to say that body is a localization (space-time projection) of mind.

I'm not sure who you are referring to, when you say that modern physics is more and more acknowledged as a science of consciousness? The Ground of Being stems from the German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich.

"One of the sophisticated concepts used by great Christian theologians is that of "The Ground of Being." This concept indicates, not that God is the fact of things existing, but that God is the basis for the existence of all things. God is more fundamental to existing things than anything else. So fundamental to the existence of all things is God, that God can be thought of as the basis upon which things exist, the ground their being. To say that God is The ground of being or being itself, is to say that there is something we can sense that is so special about the nature of being that it hints at this fundamental reality upon which all else is based."

I'd say the distance between theology and modern physics is as wide as that of heaven and earth.