The human mind cannot readily comprehend GOD, who is self-existing.
Self-existence is a mystery at the center of any and every origin hypothesis.
What is not quite as mysterious is the hard data indicating that mind is being "transmitted through a medium", it is NOT being "produced" by the brain. In this thread I have pointed out 52 points of scientific research and some very strong survival cases, more than 100 data points total. Anyone who wants to see the scientific evidence can study these strong cases and start to think about these data points, just like the
eminent researchers who made similar observations and analyses.
The first cause is one that is self-existing and cannot be known in any way, this is called an Ultimate Religious Idea and it is marked Unknowable. Even though the answer is unknown, GOD has some actualities that validate his existence. On the other hand, there is ZERO evidence of a self-existing universe or any other self-existing thing!
not only that no current hypothesis is tenable, but also that no tenable hypothesis can be framed.
§11. Respecting the origin of the Universe three verbally intelligible suppositions may be made. We may assert that it is self-existent; or that it is self-created; or that it is created by an external agency. Which of these suppositions is most credible it is not needful here to inquire. The deeper question, into which this finally merges, is,
whether any one of them is even conceivable in the true sense of the word. Let us successively test them...http://www.constitution.org/hs/first_prin.htm