As a result, the distinction between matter and spirit, in metaphysical terms, is a difference of degree rather than kind, as measured by the rate of vibration.
This concept is shown by the fact that, despite the fact that all vibrations are qualitatively identical, vibrations between 16 and 60,000 are gross and audible to the physical sense of hearing, but vibrations below 16 or beyond 60,000 are not.
The vibration of awareness is so delicate and strong that no crude equipment can detect it. Consciousness is the only thing that can comprehend consciousness.
Only aware humans are capable of detecting the conscious vibrations of others. Those who reside in a room impart a vibratory power to that room, which may be sensed by others. The complexity of consciousness' vibration and the grossness of matter's vibration are only superficially different. They differ simply in degree, but the vibratory energy of the Spirit distinguishes them so clearly and specifically that they look different in kind as well as degree to human awareness.
Consciousness is said to be a finer vibratory force that exists within a covering of a grosser vibratory force known as matter; or, to put it another way, consciousness is the initial vibration of Spirit, and matter is the outcome of the grosser vibration of consciousness.
The Ego directly cognizes awareness and indirectly cognizes matter (e.g., the body) through consciousness (sensation, perception and conception).
In man's polluted intellect, there is a lot of misunderstanding concerning the oneness that exists between matter and awareness.
When a living body and a dead corpse stand side by side in life, man becomes aware of the illusive distinction between body and awareness. When a man sees a dead body (i.e., a body without consciousness) and a living body (i.e., a body with consciousness), he begins to reason about the radical difference between body and consciousness, forgetting that both the sight of a dead body and the sight of a living body may be produced by the sustained power of a hallucination or in the dream state of human consciousness, and are so similarly prodigious.
