Libro: The Physics of Consciousness: In the Quantum Field, Minerals, Plants, Animals and Human Souls (Existence - Consciousness - Bliss)

What if consciousness came first?
Not as an idea inside the brain.
Not as a side effect of matter.
But as the field in which matter, life, identity, and the soul appear.
The Physics of Consciousness explores one of the deepest questions a human being can ask:
Who am I, really?
Are you only a body moving through time — or the awareness in which body, thought, memory, and the world itself are known?
Ivan Antic presents an expansive vision of reality in which consciousness is not the final product of biological evolution, but the foundation of existence itself.
From the quantum field to minerals, plants, animals, and human souls, this book follows one central insight:
Consciousness and existence are not separate.
They are one reality seen from two sides.
Modern physics has challenged the old image of matter as solid, fixed, and separate. Ancient wisdom traditions have long pointed toward a deeper unity behind the visible world.
What if these two paths are not opposed?
What if matter does not produce consciousness — but appears within it?
Drawing on quantum physics, ancient metaphysical insight, and more than four decades of Buddhist and Zen meditative practice, Ivan Antic offers a clear, wide-ranging inquiry into consciousness, existence, and the soul — from the structure of the physical world to the mystery of self-awareness and the deeper meaning of human life.
This is not a conventional book about the brain.
It is a book for seekers, thinkers, spiritual readers, and anyone who feels that life cannot be fully explained by matter, chance, and survival alone.
The Physics of Consciousness invites readers to reconsider the relationship between matter and mind, body and soul, science and spirituality, nature and human awareness.
It opens a deeper way to understand reality, life, and the Self — not as separate fragments but as expressions of a single underlying field of consciousness.
If you have ever wondered what consciousness is, what the soul may be, or whether your deepest identity is larger than the body and the mind, this book offers a profound new way of seeing.
Explore The Physics of Consciousness and discover a deeper way to understand reality, nature, and yourself.