pstrongA Journey from Consciousness to MatterstrongppIn Vedic philosophy, creation is modeled as the creative activity of consciousness. Just as an artist creates a painting by first thinking about it and then embedding his ideas into matter, so the creator of the universe creates the world of objects by expressing meanings in His consciousness into undifferentiated matter.ppstrongCreation Has Six CausesstrongppCreation in the Vedic view proceeds from the unconscious, to conscious experience, to material objects. Each of these three features has a subjective and objective aspect, thereby creating the six causes for which the author dedicates a chapter, as follows ppemThe Personal Cause of Creationem explores the properties of consciousness, its quest for meaning and self-knowledge and how that quest forms the basis for the creation of the universe.ppemThe Efficient Cause of Creationem describes the mechanism by which the quest for meaning gradually becomes thoughts, desires, judgments,