IMPORTANT CORRECTION: I mentioned C.S. Lewis. Of course I meant Lewis Carroll. Senior moment, sorry. The quote is "Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."


Consciousness is the foundation of all being. This is the book I was talking about today: The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World by Amit Goswami


And here is another similar one on the same subject: Panpsychism: The Philosophy of the Sensuous Cosmos by Peter Ells


Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. This book is a serious philosophical work, giving solid reasons for rejecting materialism, and proposing an alternative metaphysical framework.


The video I recommended, by my friend Mark Bajerski, can be found here: https://youtu.be/9lNn4WsRER8