Many people, including many physicists and philosophers, allow the concept that this consciousness is the sort of Almighty God who envelops the Universe, albeit not one as described, for example, in the Bible as violent and narcissistic and frankly, a little crazy.
This new God is love and blinding light creating and experiencing the Cosmos, primarily through us, the humans.
So, the story goes, humans create Reality with guidance from that all-embracing consciousness.
