Matter

Matter is a concept invented by the Greeks two and a half thousand years ago to account for that part of our experience that takes place outside mind. They didn't have a word for Consciousness in those days; they called it 'mind'. So 'matter' was the name they gave to the stuff that seems to exists outside Consciousness.For two and a half thousand years it seems to have passed our civilization by that we have never found anything outside Consciousness. Physicists are still looking for the nature and cause of this stuff called 'matter'. They've been looking for it for two and a half thousand years; they've never found it, and they never will. It's not there.The belief that there is a world out there made out of matter is predicated on the belief that there is a self in here made out of mind. However, if, in order to know the nature of itself, the mind turns its attention away from the objects that it seems to know and redirects it towards the knowing with which it knows its experience, its attention is gradually drawn back and back and back towards its source - infinite and ever-present Consciousness