From the Author of the Strangers Trilogy
The Aware Universe
What consciousness, cosmology, and the expanding void might be telling us about where we are
The Strangers trilogy asked who is running your life, who is running your world, and what happened between all of us. This book asks the largest question left. What if consciousness is not what the brain produces, but what the universe is?
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“You are the universe looking at its own origin. Whether that looking was implicit in the beginning is the question this book is asking.”
— Martin Rothery, The Aware Universe
What this book is
This book IS
- A serious engagement with the best physics of the last hundred years
- An honest look at what that physics tells us about consciousness
- A companion to the Strangers trilogy — same question, bigger sky
- Where cosmology, philosophy, theology and psychology meet
- A book for curious minds who want the real questions asked clearly
This book is NOT
- A religious text or a spiritual self-help book
- A dismissal of science or physics
- Pseudoscience dressed in physics language
- Comfortable reading that confirms what you already think
- A book with easy answers to questions that don’t have them
The Question
The question sitting at the intersection of
the best physics and the oldest intuitions.
There is a question sitting at the intersection of the best physics of the last hundred years and the oldest intuitions of every culture that has ever seriously tried to understand the nature of reality. It is not being asked clearly anywhere. Not in the physics journals, which tend to stop at the equations. Not in the philosophy departments, which tend to stop at the arguments. Certainly not in the self-help section, which tends to stop at the affirmations.
The question is this. What if consciousness is not what the brain produces, but what the universe is?
The universe began in a state of undifferentiated unity. It produced a rounding error that became everything. It released light when it became transparent. It has been cooling and organising and complexifying into structures capable of asking questions about themselves ever since. Whether the asking was implicit in the beginning — whether consciousness is something that was there from the start and has been organising itself into increasingly expressive forms — is not a mystical question. It is a physics question. And the physics does not have a clean answer.
This book asks it clearly. Then follows the question wherever it leads.
Inside the book
Eighteen chapters across physics,
philosophy, cosmology and consciousness.
Who this is for
This book is for you
if any of this is true.
- You have read the Strangers trilogy and want the next question
- You find physics fascinating but nobody ever connects it to the things that matter
- You are curious about consciousness beyond the standard neuroscience account
- You want someone to take the physics seriously without dismissing the mystical traditions
- You are a practitioner who wants the largest possible frame for the work you do
- You have always suspected that the materialist account was incomplete
- You want real questions asked seriously rather than comfortable answers delivered warmly
- You are the kind of person who finishes a book and immediately wants to read it again
About the Author
Martin Rothery
Martin Rothery has spent 38 years in the deepest rooms of human psychology. He is the creator of Sanomentology, the Nine Realms, and a body of work that maps human consciousness, change, and transformation more completely than anything that existed before. He writes because he no longer has anything to be careful about.
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