The Background
The Background is the term Arthur Eddington used to point to the Fabric of Consciousness which formed the non-material substrate (i.e., background) of Creation.[1]
Eddington's Terms
Actuality, The Background, The Story Teller
Syncretic Terms
Fabric of Consciousness > Absolute Mind, Adhi Buddha, Ain Soph Aur, Al-Haqq, Allah, Ancient One, Anima Mundi, Blazing Star, Brahman, Brahmic Splendor, Central Order, Crown, Divine Fire, Field of the Universe, First Mover, Formless, God, GodHead, Govinda, Great Artist, Great Being, Great Breath, Great Gardener, Great Light, Great Self, Guardian Angel, Immortal Spirit, Ineffable Light, Kether, Mind at Large, Nam Shé, Nirguna Brahman, Nondual God, Nonlocal Mind, Oversoul, Primal Self, Primum Mobile, Purusha, Realms of Consciousness, Simurg, Spirit, Subliminal Seed Regime, Supreme, Supreme Spirit, The Dreaming, The Lord, The Old One, The One, The Power and the Glory, Transpersonal Realm... further results
Quotes
"Science has at last revolted against attaching the exact knowledge contained in these measurements to a traditional picture-gallery of conceptions which convey no authentic information of the background and obtrude irrelevancies into the scheme of knowledge."[2]
"We have dismissed all preconception as to the background of our pointer readings, and for the most part we can discover nothing as to its nature. But in one case—namely, for the pointer readings of my own brain—I have an insight which is not limited to the evidence of the pointer readings. That insight shows that they are attached to a background of consciousness.[3]
"If we must embed our schedule of indicator readings in some kind of background, at least let us accept the only hint we have received as to the significance of the background—namely that it has a nature capable of manifesting itself as mental activity."[4]
"It is in this background that our own mental consciousness lies; and here, if anywhere, we may find a Power greater than but akin to consciousness."[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 259.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), xi.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 259. Italics added.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 260.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 282.
