A framework that unites science and religion with human experience under one principle: persistence through information, explored by an author in the field of consciousness studies.
For centuries, physics, biology, and philosophy have grappled with persistent cracks in the narrative: particles that refuse to behave, minds that can’t be reduced to matter, and religions that encode meaning through myth. These challenges, along with technologies that outpace explanation, have intrigued scholars and the author of 'It From Us.' This work weaves these strands together through a radical yet intuitive lens: information comes first. In the realm of consciousness studies, we find that consciousness, civilization, technology, and even phenomena like UAPs and remote viewing make more sense when we stop assuming that matter is fundamental, and instead, start asking what information itself might desire. This perspective enriches the ongoing dialogue between science and religion, inviting us to rethink our foundational assumptions.
What if information, not matter, is the foundation of reality?
Quarks, DNA, consciousness, religion, and technology all carry the same signature: information encoded for persistence.
Particles that behave like waves. Brains that produce awareness we can’t explain. Cultures that encode truths beyond their means.
Not a byproduct of neurons, but the lens through which the substrate edits itself.
Creation myths, rituals, and scripture aren’t primitive mistakes. They’re compression formats for meaning and survival.
Every tool is an externalized memory. Every invention a faster encoding. The ratchet effect never lets go.
Boundaries blur. Biology meets machine. Science meets myth. The substrate folds its layers back into unity.
Remote viewing. UFOs. Near-death visions. What doesn’t fit may be the most important data we have.
Civilizations survive not by wealth or weapons, but by meaning shared across time.
Reality is not fixed. Every thought and action is an edit in the unfolding code of the universe.
Ryan Kralik is not a physicist, priest, or academic by training — and that is precisely his strength. A lifelong seeker with a background in business and the arts, he brings the eye of a pattern-finder and storyteller to some of the deepest questions of existence, blending personal narrative, scholarship, and anomaly into a single framework that reimagines reality as information-first.
In It From Us, Kralik draws on physics, biology, consciousness studies, religion, and technology, to illustrate how coherence — not matter — drives persistence across every layer of existence. The result is both a challenge to old paradigms and an invitation: to see ourselves not as bystanders in a dead universe, but as active participants in its unfolding story.