Harp’s Universal or God Consciousness

Physicist and “spiritual scholar” Dennis Harp, who seeks to unify theoretical physics and spiritual teachings, claims that “each of us exists as consciousness attached to a mind and body, making sense of the universe by experiencing individual states in a causal sequence.” Motivated by a personal NDE as well as NDE research, Harp asserts that with contemplative practices, we can learn (eventually) “to detach from the body and explore the universe in a non-physical manner. Finally, we detach from the mind as well, and experience the entire universe at once in the shared view called Universal, or God Consciousness. Thus, what we call consciousness is somehow the union of this Universal or God Consciousness with our mind and body (Harp, 2022).

To Harp, theoretical physics “is comfortable with the possibility of the infinite complexity of infinite universes, along with universal waveform collapse and reinflation every instant in order to explain causality.” However, he says, “causality is only necessary as long as the mind is interpreting, or ‘making sense’ of the universe. Since consciousness can experience the universe independent of the mind, beyond the realm of space and time, it experiences all quantum mechanical states simultaneously, and no interactions occur at all. This static universe unifies theoretical physics and mystical teachings” (Harp, 2022).