I just heard a lovely explanation of how it works that I posted about here: Maulbeere's Ramblings and Shiny Things - #179 by Mulberry
What this calls “consciousness”, underlying everything, I call Tao. Tao is what manifests literally everything you can think of, and all the energies that go into the universe including the electromagnetic energy, the magnetic energy, gravity, time, physical matter and how that all interreacts to form the various states of multidimensional beings and matter.