The Dashboard and the Ant

Yesterday, I was driving my car south along Highway 400 returning home from cross-country skiing.

While driving, I imagined observing an ant traversing my dashboard.

Then I decided to imagine what it would be like to be that ant and observe that event from its perspective. Of course, and ant doesn't know what the dashboard is. It likely perceives the dashboard as a large , reasonably-flat space along which to travel.

Next, I decided to imagine placing awareness into a quark existing in the same general area as the ant. From reading that I have done concerning sub atomic particles, I learned that there exists vast amounts of empty space between these particles. This space would be roughly comparable in scope to the dimensions of outer space  and analogous to the moving bodies within a solar system. At the subatomic level, particles such as quarks have very little mass and generally have some electrical charge. Therefore, in my imagining, I perceived the quark within the ant as moving within a vast empty domain which would manifest strange characteristics compared to what I experience as a human being living on earth.

Finally, I imagined my consciousness being able to observe the ant crossing my dashboard from a point somewhere within our solar system other than earth. Of course, my ability to observe the ant from that point would be just as challenging as my current ability to observe a quark without some extraordinary piece of technology.

This exercise of experiencing the same event of the ant walking across the dashboard from different perspectives reminds me of the Heisenberg Principle where a scientist observed the same subatomic particle at 2 different locations simultaneously. This was only possible, he reasoned, because the only thing that these 2 apparent events had in common was his consciousness and its ability to observe.

Later, I asked my wife if she had ever seen the face of God. When she appeared confused by the question, I explained that if consciousness is the only reality, then God is must be consciousness.  Every sentient being sees the face of God in every sentient moment.