From Grammar to Science New Foundations for General Linguistics Book

Peter Russell offers an easy to understand work that describes his new “paradigm of paradigms”. I was first enlightened by him through watching his video lecture,
“The Primacy of Consciousness”, which I highly recommend. His simplification that light may be the fundamental source of existence is a good starting point, but I don’t think he is really saying that. In my interpretation he seems to be saying that light is a good place to look to get closer to a fundamental source. In the above video lecture, he presents another idea that may be more profound. There, he looks at the manifestation of light, but he also points out that all of known physics is a description of the fundamental quality of action. In other words, although it may be helpful to equate the fundamental substance of consciousness with light, I think Russell is really saying that light is the manifestation of consciousness in this universe. Consciousness may not be a substance, but it is a process. If we add physicist David Bohm’s ideas about an emergent universe, we may go a little further beyond what Russell is showing. For me, Russell has been a great teacher and this is an excellent book with profound ideas. But, Russell doesn’t quite go far enough. He doesn’t explore how the fundamental process of consciousness that he believes creates our universe may be derived from an un-emergent dimension of unified consciousness.