People have long wondered about abiogenesis – the emergence of life from non-life. In the Two-Phase cosmology, what matters is the first appearance of conscious organisms, and abiogenesis gets thrown in for free, because it is necessarily on the path from non-life to consciousness. I use the term “psychegenesis” to refer not only to the emergence of conscious life from unconscious life, but to the entire process that made this possible. The resulting explanations are related to the Anthropic Principle – the idea that it is only in cosmoses or timelines where intelligent beings like humans exist that anybody asks questions about how their world came into being. The Psychetelic Principle (“psyche” + “telos”) says that a cosmos is only realised if it can host a subject, and that its history was always destined toward the conditions that let consciousness arise. Psychegenesis is the long, directional drift of matter toward structures that can carry a point of view, and once that point of view appears, the cosmos locks into the form that consciousness can inhabit. In other words, the Psychetelic Principle provides a mechanism, not just an unsatisfying explanation.
The first phase shift event – the one involving LUCAS – is unique in two ways. Firstly it selects an entire cosmic history stretching back to the big bang, not just a small part of it. Secondly it is the original selection, and this cannot be “invoking” or “compelling” the Void to involve itself in the situation. The problem here is that Pythagorean Ensemble of Phase 1 must contain infinite examples of possible structures which arrive at the Embodiment Threshold. If each of them had the power to compel the Void then it would need to respond to all of them simultaneously (and possibly even repeatedly). This situation would be even more ontologically bloated than MWI, but is easily avoided by assuming that only one cosmos is realised at any one time. If this model is correct then there are an infinite number of realities-in-waiting, and eternity for it to be their turn. I call them “cosmic eggs”. Somehow a particular reality must be chosen for realisation when the previous cosmos has run its course. The determination of which of these cosmic eggs are selected into reality, and in which order, is an interesting question. I am skeptical that it can be random, because I can't imagine where randomness could come from. It is possible that some informational rule determines this original selection. Perhaps there is some other explanation. All we can say that it does indeed happen, and our own cosmos was the most recent cosmic egg to hatch.
However, that there is one cosmos/reality does not imply that there can only be one conscious organism, and once a cosmos and timeline has been realised at the collapse of the primordial wave function then any future instances of ET-crossing organisms can indeed “invoke” the Void. If they satisfy the physical conditions, then they will become conscious. This must be true under this model, for it is the reason why any physical organism capable of becoming conscious actually does become conscious. Once Phase 2 has begun then Brahman is always ready to become Atman when a view from somewhere is available.