Eastern philosophies have always believed every particle has three aspects: consciousness, energy and matter. In 1888, in her The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky wrote: “Yet this cosmic dust is something more; for every atom in the universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it and is, like the Monads of Leibnitz, a Universe…
Eastern philosophies have always believed every particle has three aspects: consciousness, energy and matter. In 1888, in her The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky wrote: “Yet this cosmic dust is something more; for every atom in the universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it and is, like the Monads of Leibnitz, a Universe in itself and for itself. It is an atom and an angel.” (page 55, Abridgement of The Secret Doctrine: Preston and Humphrey).
This proto-consciousness, as you accurately put it, may have no more similarity to its expression as human consciousness then an acorn to the oak tree.
Eastern philosophies have always believed every particle has three aspects: consciousness, energy and matter. In 1888, in her The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky wrote: “Yet this cosmic dust is something more; for every atom in the universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it and is, like the Monads of Leibnitz, a Universe in itself and for itself. It is an atom and an angel.” (page 55, Abridgement of The Secret Doctrine: Preston and Humphrey).
This proto-consciousness, as you accurately put it, may have no more similarity to its expression as human consciousness then an acorn to the oak tree.