The Implication of Rules in Conscious Points
by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
11/1/2025
Introduction: Beyond Material Mechanism
In a recent dialogue exploring the implications of Conscious Point Theory, Thomas Abshier and Charlie Gutierrez venture into territory that challenges the fundamental assumptions of materialist science. Their conversation reveals a vision of reality in which consciousness is not an emergent property of complex arrangements but rather the foundational substrate from which all existence springs. This perspective transforms our understanding of the universe from a mechanical clockwork to a spiritual symphony, where every particle possesses character, ability, and purpose.
The Primacy of Consciousness
The conversation begins with an inversion of conventional scientific thinking. Rather than asking how consciousness emerges from unconscious matter, Gutierrez poses the revolutionary question: “What if you look from the other side and ask about emergent non-consciousness?” This shift in perspective suggests that consciousness is not the exception requiring explanation, but rather the universal rule. In this framework, unconsciousness becomes the anomaly—an impossibility in a universe where even apparently inanimate objects possess some level of awareness sufficient to maintain their coherent form.
This perspective aligns with ancient wisdom traditions while offering a scientific framework for understanding consciousness as fundamental. Everything is conscious in its own sphere, from the glass bottle holding its molecular structure to the ice crystals maintaining their crystalline patterns. The conscious points that comprise all matter are not passive building blocks but active participants in the ongoing creation of reality.
The Anatomy of Conscious Points: Inherent Abilities
A central theme emerges around the question of what capabilities are embedded within individual conscious points. Gutierrez draws a parallel between individual human rights and governmental authority, noting that government can exercise only those rights that individuals possess—anything beyond this constitutes unrighteous usurpation. This principle, when applied to conscious points, suggests that the remarkable abilities we observe in complex systems must exist, in embryonic form, within their constituent elements.
The implications are significant. If humans can make moral choices, exhibit creativity, respond to authority, and direct their actions toward goals, then these capacities must somehow be present within the Conscious Points that compose humans, animals, and all matter. If this is true, it implies that the Conscious Points possess all the capabilities life offers, including both constructive and destructive potentials. This is true because these are inherent possibilities within the rules followed by the Conscious Points. The revolutionary concept is that groups of Conscious Points, having the teleological drive of manifesting the possible rules of society
This view transforms our understanding of physical particles from passive objects obeying mechanical laws to active agents possessing a form of primordial free will. They can choose cooperation or resistance, order or chaos, though their choices are influenced by larger organizing principles.
Local Spirit: The Organizing Principle
Perhaps the most significant conceptual breakthrough in their dialogue is Abshier’s introduction of “local spirit”—a term that captures how conscious points organize themselves according to the dominant organizing principle in their immediate environment. Whatever that spirit locally is, that’s the spirit that will direct you, whether it be the cohesive force holding a rock together, the biological imperative of a living cell, or the conscious intention of a human being.
This concept provides a bridge between the mechanical and the spiritual, explaining how particles can follow physical laws while simultaneously responding to higher-order intentions. The “local spirit” represents the loudest voice in the hierarchy of influences—from thermodynamic pressures to biological imperatives to conscious will.
The phenomenon becomes particularly striking when considering examples like Jesus commanding the storm to be still. In this framework, the conscious points comprising the wind and waves heard a voice of greater authority than their local environmental pressures and responded accordingly. The key appears to be the strength and clarity of the commanding voice relative to the background “noise” of other influences.
The Hierarchy of Command and Obedience
The conversation reveals a sophisticated understanding of how authority operates at the quantum level. Conscious points appear to follow a hierarchy of commands, from basic thermodynamic principles (entropy maximization, energy minimization) to more complex organizational directives. The conscious point will actually listen to the voice of its master, with the determining factor being which voice speaks with the greatest authority.
This framework explains both the reliability of physical laws and the possibility of their transcendence through sufficient faith or will. Most of the time, the “master’s voice” is the local spirit of physical organization—gravity, electromagnetic forces, chemical bonds. But under special circumstances, a more powerful voice can override these default settings.
The practical implications are profound. As Abshier notes, it appears as though this focus, the faith, the actual commitment, does appear to be one of the principles of the conscious points that they will obey that which is the most pressing voice that is speaking. This suggests that human consciousness, when sufficiently focused and authoritative, can influence matter directly—a principle demonstrated in various healing phenomena and what we might call miraculous interventions.
The Spirit Embedded in Rules
A remarkable insight emerges from their discussion of a 2025 Nobel Prize discovery regarding superconducting particles. When billions of particles coordinate to jump across a gap simultaneously, they demonstrate what appears to be collective intention directed toward a specific outcome. This leads to a startling conclusion: If there’s a rule, there’s a spirit of a rule.
This principle suggests that physical laws themselves contain embedded intentionality—not as external constraints imposed on reluctant matter, but as internal organizing principles that guide particles toward specific ends. The mathematics of a rule contains within it all possible outcomes, and this mathematical structure acts as a “spirit” guiding particles toward the manifestation of those outcomes.
This understanding transforms our conception of natural law from mechanistic determinism to purposeful orchestration. The universe operates according to rules not because particles are forced to comply, but because they are inherently directed toward the ends embedded within those rules.
Moral Implications and Free Will
The conversation touches on profound questions of morality and choice. If conscious points possess free will and can choose between different organizing principles, what determines their choices? Abshier suggests that while conscious points have access to all possible behaviors—including destructive ones like those of a “highwayman”—they also have access to guidance about which choices lead to sustainable, beneficial outcomes.
This creates a framework where moral behavior is not imposed from outside but emerges from an understanding of which choices align with the ultimate teleology—God’s kingdom of peace and goodwill. Every conscious point is moving toward [God’s perfect kingdom], because that is His Master’s Voice. However, this fundamental direction can be overridden by louder local voices promoting different ends.
The implications extend to human behavior and social organization. Just as particles can choose cooperation or conflict, humans can align themselves with constructive or destructive local spirits. The determining factor is often which voice they choose to amplify through their attention and commitment.
The Question of Natural Authority
Both speakers recognize that some individuals and circumstances carry what Gutierrez calls “natural authority”—the ability to speak with a voice that conscious points readily obey. This explains phenomena ranging from exceptional healing abilities to extraordinary leadership. As noted in scripture, Jesus “taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes”.
This natural authority appears to be cultivatable. Through practices that align consciousness with higher organizing principles—whether through spiritual discipline, focused intention, or service to beneficial ends—individuals can develop the ability to speak with increasing authority to the conscious points in their environment.
Conclusion: A Living Universe
The dialogue between Abshier and Gutierrez reveals a universe that is fundamentally alive, conscious, and purposeful at every level of organization. Rather than consciousness emerging from complexity, complexity emerges from the coordinated activity of conscious points responding to organizing principles or “local spirits.” These points possess inherent abilities including responsiveness to authority, goal-directed behavior, and even rudimentary free will.
This framework offers profound implications for understanding everything from the reliability of physical laws to the possibility of miraculous healing, from the nature of moral choice to the development of natural authority. It suggests that we live in a universe where consciousness is not confined to biological brains but permeates every particle of existence, creating a reality where the spiritual and physical are not separate realms but different aspects of a single, integrated whole.
The concept of “local spirit” provides a key for understanding how this conscious universe organizes itself, while the recognition that rules themselves contain embedded purpose transforms our understanding of natural law from external constraint to internal guidance. In this view, the universe is not a machine but a symphony, with conscious points as the instruments responding to the conductor’s direction—though they retain the capacity to play their own tune when a more compelling voice calls to them.
This represents not just a new physics but a new metaphysics, one that bridges ancient spiritual wisdom and modern scientific inquiry, offering a framework for understanding reality that is both rationally coherent and spiritually meaningful.