Experiences verify that consciousness is primary

"Every single scientific fact has its source in the emergence of matter and energy, space and time, from a hidden state in the quantum domain. This is where reality comes from." 

“If the mind is primary and matter is secondary, then we live in an intelligent universe. All the aspects of human intelligence are invisibly wrapped up in every atom. We are creative because the universe is creative. Our lives have purpose and meaning because the universe is creative."

"Matter arises, then, because cosmic intelligence needed a way to express itself. Nothing about the unfolding universe from the instant of the Big Bang has been random, then. Randomness is a mere appearance, like the stirring of water and flour when a baker kneads his dough. Flour and water molecules whirl around with no discernible order as the kneading proceeds, yet we know that a completely purposeful outcome.

"On the other hand, if matter is primary in creation, then mind arrived much later, after billions of years of random interactions between atoms and molecules. There is no underlying purpose or meaning to the emergence of mind. It just happened."

"No matter when you look, the visible universe is fundamentally a set of signals. Yet these signals all hold together, turning totally meaningless vibrations into full-blown experiences that have human meaning."

"The truth is that your body exists in you, inside your consciousness. Nothing about our hand—movement, touch, pain, dexterity, et cetera—exists anywhere except in consciousness."

"You are like a light radiating not photons but consciousness."

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, revised and updated (Bantam Books, 1989 and 2015), 130, 145-146, 153, 251.