The antithesis of material realism is monistic idealism.
The centerpiece of this new paradigm is the recognition that modern science validates an ancient idea—the idea that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being…
… Both the world of matter and the world of mental phenomena, such as thought, are determined by consciousness. In addition to the material and the mental spheres (which together form the immanent reality, or world of manifestation), idealism posits a transcendent, archetypal realm of ideas as the source of material and mental phenomena. It is important to recognize that monistic idealism is, as its name implies, a unitary philosophy; any subdivisions, such as the immanent and the transcendent, are within consciousness. Thus consciousness is the only ultimate reality…
… It [consciousness—the ground of being] is within our intellects, souls and bodies, in heaven, on earth, and whilst remaining the same in Itself. It is at once in, around and above the world, super-celestial, super-essential, a sun, a star, fire, water, spirit, dew, cloud, stone, rock, all that is…
… the one consciousness is said to come to us through complementary manifestations: ideas and forms, Nama and Rupa, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya, yang and yin, heaven and earth.
– Amit Goswami
