Sooner or later the truth is brought home to one's understanding that consciousness is the hidden underside of physical reality.  Once you have realized that there is only one reality with both an inside and outside to it, you can only conclude that consciousness is the invisible continuous unstoppable guiding force behind the creation of experiential visible form.  We cannot see the lawful guiding force creating visible physical phenomena, but we can experience it through consciousness which emanates from the hidden side of the one single reality.

The conscious realm:  Not just humans are conscious, but every animal and every organic being and cell is conscious.  In the simplest sense, consciousness is an awareness of an outside world.  To live, every organic being must sense and respond to its surroundings.  The surroundings become the teacher to living entities by communication of environmental constraints and opportunities.  This mutual awareness acquired by bumping into one another results in mutual reactions and changes in physical forms.  Change in physical form is the result of an active response to an environmental impetus.  Consciousness, is mutual awareness.  Creation is continuous.  The creative conscious mind is not an emergent quality appearing only in later stages of an evolutionary process; creative mind has been present all along, even before the first so-called life forms.

Ephemeral phenomena:  We continue to wonder about what may lie beyond spatial extension, beyond the physical material world that we perceive, that which we experience.  We might say that the phenomena of wonderment and experience itself are manifestations of the invisible hidden side of reality.  For example, an experience is not localized in space as a discrete physical form is and thus does not lend itself to easy measurement or physical observation and manipulation.  We have the visible three dimensions of physical space comprising one side of reality while on the other side of reality we have the invisible, un-measurable phenomena we call experience.  Experience manifests as thinking, remembering, dreaming, feeling, seeing, understanding, etc.  Such invisible phenomena is ephemeral like a puff of smoke that can't be captured and put into a container for observation.

Multidimensional:  We are all more than our physical bodies.  We all have nonphysical, subtle aspects that point to other hidden levels or dimensions of reality; other levels that go beyond our deeply ingrained prejudice that our world consists only of three spatial dimensions and one of time.  The idea of a multilevel or multidimensional reality is somewhat new to the Western way of thinking.  From study and research we continually get clues and evidence for the "reality" of invisible subjective phenomena.  At nonphysical levels, consciousness could be the primary cause behind all physical activity that we experience.  We are only now evolving the capacity to sense other levels or dimensions of reality.  This sensing of other levels of reality only occurs when one can shake off blindly accepted beliefs and assumptions that are held to be sacred or immutable.