Remembrance and Understanding
I was reading a Phys.org article on the Quantum Memory Matrix, a new model that suggests spacetime itself is a living archive. According to this framework, reality is made up of discrete informational “cells,” each one recording every event that has ever occurred. Nothing is lost. Every collision, every photon, every vibration leaves an imprint. The universe, in this view, is a field of memory.
At first glance, this appears to be speculative physics. But if you step back, it resonates with a lineage of insights — scientific, mystical, and phenomenological — that have long insisted the universe is not inert matter but Being that knows.
Knowledge and Understanding
The Quantum Memory Matrix (QMM) is pointing to knowledge in its rawest sense: stored imprints, information without commentary. But there is a distinction here. Knowledge is not the same as understanding.
- Knowledge at the level of Being is immediate, unmediated. Being knows itself by being itself.
- Understanding arises only when knowledge reflects upon itself in context. It requires an instrument — a brain, a mind, a soul — to weave meaning from the raw fact of knowing.
A stone knows itself as stone, but it does not understand. The human mind can understand stonehood — its density, symbolism, history — but only because reflection and context are possible. Both knowledge and understanding, however, are facets of the same Supreme truth: all knowledge is Being.
The Mirror of God
This is where mystical traditions intersect with physics. If Being and Knowing are inseparable, then God already knows itself. But to understand itself, God requires a mirror. And so the universe is born.
The Sufi saying expresses it beautifully: “I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known, so I created the world that I might be known.” Creation is not a necessity but a delight — God unfolding into galaxies, stars, trees, and brains so that the hidden treasure can see, know, and understand its reflection.
QMM calls this information. Mysticism calls it remembrance. Almaas refers to it as the Supreme dimension, where Being and knowledge are one, and all knowing is simply Being knowing itself.
Resonances Across Thinkers
- Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum envisioned a pre-space structure, a luminous field of information with which consciousness resonates.
- Walter Russell described the universe as a rhythmic wave of light, endlessly creating and recreating itself.
- Douglas Youvan explored biological coherence, the way life organizes raw information into meaningful patterns.
- A.H. Almaas pointed us toward the boundless dimensions of Being, where knowledge and presence dissolve into one another.
QMM, in its physics language, joins this chorus. It is another way of saying: the universe remembers.
Sound as the First Memory
This is where our own work, Good Vibrations: Primordial Sounds of Existence, enters the conversation. For sound is perhaps the oldest and most direct manifestation of cosmic memory. Vibration is Being’s first act of reflection, the shimmering of knowledge into the possibility of understanding. The primordial sounds — Om, Hu, Amen — are not inventions of culture. They are the universe remembering itself in vibration, the voice of the hidden treasure speaking its own name.
When we chant and listen deeply, we are not adding anything new. We are aligning with what has always been: the memory of Being knowing itself, resonating in sound.
From the Quantum Memory Matrix to Grinberg’s syntergy, from Russell’s radiant wave to Almaas’ boundless dimension of the Supreme, all point in their own language to the same secret: the cosmos is not mute. It remembers. It knows. It is knowledge itself.
To hear the hum beneath all things, to feel the vibration that underlies matter, is to step into that remembrance. This is why primordial sound matters. It is not metaphor but participation in the universe’s self-knowing.
And this is the heart of Good Vibrations: Primordial Sounds of Existence — an exploration of how sound is not merely heard, but is the very way Being comes to know itself in us and through us.
John Harper is a Diamond Approach® teacher, Enneagram guide, and student of human development whose work bridges psychology, spirituality, and deep experiential inquiry. His newest book, Nurturing Essence: A Compass for Essential Parenting, invites parents to rediscover the soul beneath behavior. He is also the author of The Enneagram World of the Child: Nurturing Resilience and Self-Compassion in Early Life and Good Vibrations: Primordial Sounds of Existence, available on Amazon.