The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity — and could also enable us to surmount the problems that threaten our life and our future.
But just what is quantum consciousness — QC? I have spoken about QC in my previous posts, but the question merits a further, deeper look.
First of all, what is consciousness? The commonsense assumption is that consciousness is a stream of experience produced by the brain. As long as the brain functions, there is consciousness; when the brain shuts down, consciousness vanishes. This, however, is not necessarily the case. It could be that our brain no more produces consciousness than the radio produces the symphony that comes through its speakers. The symphony, too, disappears when the radio is shut down, yet we know that it’s not produced by the radio. Both the radio and the brain pick up signals, transform them, and display the result in our stream of conscious experience.
According to received wisdom, the things and events that make up our experience of the world originate in the world. People and things around us reflect light and make sound; for the most part they can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted. The corresponding signals reach our eye and ear in the form of waves in the electromagnetic field, in the air, and in the physical, chemical, and biological fields in and around our body. Our exteroceptive senses transform this information into nerve signals, and the signals are analyzed, sharpened, and interpreted by our brain. The result is the experience that appears in our consciousness.
This is the gist of the standard scientific explanation of our perception of the world, but it’s not complete. It’s incomplete not only because it fails to solve the age-old philosophers’ puzzle, how physical signals can transmute into intimately felt conscious experience (is this transmutation the work of the brain, or does the brain also transmit forms of consciousness from the external world?), but also because it doesn’t account for all the things that appear in our consciousness. Some of the things that appear in our consciousness convey information about the world even though we cannot see how they could be based on sense-perceivable events. Happily, unlike the philosophers’ “hard problem,” this is no longer an unsolved puzzle. We now realize that our brain is not limited to capturing sense-organ conveyed information, for it’s not just a classical biochemical system. It’s also a “macroscopic quantum system,” and such a system can “resonate” with the world. On the quantum level it can capture and process signals that far exceed the range of the signals available to the bodily senses.
The quantum-perception of the world is just as real as its sensory perception. Here, in brief, is why.
All things in space and time emit waves, and these waves interact with the waves produced by other things. They create wave interference patterns. Pressure waves in the air, and electric and magnetic waves in the EM field diminish with distance and the patterns they produce are limited to our immediate vicinity. Quantum waves, however (waves that propagate in the nearly infinite virtual-energy domain that fills cosmic space), move instantly over any distance. The kinds of interference patterns they create constitute quantum holograms, and quantum holograms are “entangled” with each other — they are instantly connected. As a result the information carried by one quantum hologram can be transferred to any other quantum hologram. Thus a system that can “read” the information in one hologram has access to the information carried by all. Our quantum-resonance-decoding brain could in principle capture information on anything and everything that creates quantum-interference waves in the universe.
Evidently, to capture this kind of information our brain must have the corresponding receptivity. Scientists are now beginning to understand how quantum-hologram receptivity might be built into the brain.
It appears that quantum-level signals are picked up by microstructures in our brain’s cytoskeleton (the cytoskeleton is a protein-based structure that maintains the integrity of living cells, including neurons). The neurons in the brain are organized into a network of microtubules of microscopic size but astronomical number. There are about 10**18 microtubules in the human brain, and “merely” 10**11 neurons (though this number is still larger than the number of stars in the galaxy). With filaments just 5 to 6 nanometers in diameter, our network of microtubules — the so-called “microtrabecular lattice” — is believed to capture, process, and convey information.
Physicist Roger Penrose and neurophysiologist Stuart Hameroff claim that consciousness emerges from these quantum-level elements of the brain’s cytoskeleton. The microtrabecular lattice could be responsible for the quantum-receptivity of our brain, picking up, transforming, and interpreting information based on phase-conjugate resonance.
If this is the case, there is not just one mode of perceiving the world available to us, but two. We have what neuroscientist Ede Frecska and anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna call the classical “perceptual-cognitive-symbolic” mode, based on information conveyed by our bodily senses, and we also have the “direct-intuitive-nonlocal” mode, enabled by the quantum receptivity of our brain’s microstructures.
In today’s world we tend to perceive the world in the classical mode, yet we could, and sometimes do, perceive aspects of it in the direct mode as well. However, our left-hemisphere dominated perceptual mode represses information that doesn’t accord with our established ways of thinking. Only in spiritual, religious, or mystical experience does such information penetrate to our everyday awareness — and then, just fleetingly.
Yet our brain could operate in a more balanced way: the cerebral functions underlying our everyday awareness could be more embracing than those in the classical perceptual mode. Operating in this way is possible, and has already been achieved by a few people. This was the finding of British psychophysiologist Maxwell Cade, who in the 1970s examined the EEG patterns of more than 3,000 individuals. He had found four typical patterns, made up of specific combinations of alpha, beta, and theta waves. (He did not consider dreamless deep sleep, where delta waves predominate.) Each combination turned out to be associated with a particular state of consciousness. The consciousness accompanying dreamful sleep, the state between waking and sleeping, and deep meditation each exhibits a typical combination of EEG waves. Dreamful sleep, the transitory state between waking and sleeping, and meditation all show pronounced alpha and theta waves. Our state of ordinary awareness is dominated by beta waves.
But Cade also found a “fifth state.” This is the remarkable state that comes to light in the EEG-portrait of accomplished healers. Cade called the consciousness associated with this state “awakened mind.” Here alpha and theta waves are strong, much as in the meditative state, but there are also beta waves. In some healers this state has become the norm, maintained not only during active healing, but also in everyday life.
Just as remarkably, in the fifth state the EEG waves are balanced across the left and the right hemispheres. This is important. The brain-state underlying ordinary consciousness is left-hemisphere dominated, and we know that the left hemisphere filters out experiences that do not mesh with our established beliefs and expectations. We also know that deep prayer and meditation activate the right hemisphere, and tend to synchronize the two hemispheres. A hemisphere-synchronized brain can operate in the direct quantum-resonance mode: as experiments I have witnessed myself demonstrate, expert meditators synchronize not only their own left and right hemispheres, but can also synchronize their left and right hemispheres with the synchronized hemispheres of others who meditate with them. And this synchronization occurs in the entire absence of sensory contact among the meditators. They can be in different rooms, different cities, even on different continents. (I reported on these experiments in my book, Science and the Akashic Field, and in other books.)
Unfortunately, a state of deep prayer and meditation is not functional in the everyday context: in most cases we need to sit with closed eyes, detached from the world around us.
A truly evolved consciousness would have the quantum-receptivity of deep prayer and meditation, but it would operate also in the everyday context. It would display a broad EEG wave-spectrum, embracing alpha and theta as well as beta waves. And it would show that the two brain hemispheres are highly coordinated, so that the information processed by the quantum-mode receiving right hemisphere is readily communicated to the sensory-information processing left. An evolved consciousness is wider and deeper than the everyday consciousness of people today, and more functional than the consciousness of those engaged in deep prayer and meditation.
In the past this kind of consciousness has been limited to exceptionally sensitive and creative people: to healers and poets, prophets and spiritual masters. In the future it could spread to a wider segment of the population. Humanity could be evolving its consciousness.
In closing, let us return to the example of the radio. Tuned to the right station, our radio can pick up and bring to us a great symphony. Imagine what our quantum brain could bring to us when, in the expanded and balanced mode, it would be tuned to the information encoded at the heart of the cosmos. This would be veritably a cosmic symphony. Of course, we could never capture all of it — only God could do that — but we could capture far more than we do today. This would make us more empathetic as individuals, and more cooperative as citizens in our interactive and interdependent global community. The rise of these attributes in a critical mass could be the key to our continued survival. QC may be not only the next step in our species evolution; it could also be our collective salvation.
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OPINION AND PERSPECTIVES
Quantum-Holographic Informational
Consciousness
Francisco Di Biase
Abstract
The author propose a quantum-informational holographic model of brainconsciousness-
universe interactions based in the holonomic neural networks of
Karl Pribram, in the holographic quantum theory developed by David Bohm, and
in the non-locality property of the quantum field described by Hiroomi Umezawa.
I consider this model an extension of the interactive dualism of Sir John Eccles, of
an interconnection between brain and spirit by means of quantum microsites
named dendrons and psychons. I propose a dynamic concept of consciousness
seen as a holoinformational flux interconnecting the holonomic informational
quantum brain dynamics, with the quantum informational holographic nature of
the universe. This self-organizing flux is generated by the holographic mode of
treatment of neuronal information and can be optimized through practices of
deep meditation, prayer, and others states of higher consciousness that underlie
the coherence of cerebral waves. In brain mapping studies performed during the
occurrence of these harmonic states we can see the spectral array of brain waves
highly synchronized and perfectly ordered like a unique harmonic wave, as if all
frequencies of all neurons from all cerebral centers played the same symphony.
This highly coherent brain state generates the non-local holographic
informational cortical field of consciousness that interconnect the human brain
and the holographic cosmos. The comprehension of this holonomic quantum
informational nature of brain-consciousness-universe interconnectedness allows
us to solve the old mind-matter cartesian hard problem, unifying science,
philosophy, and spiritual traditions in a more transdisciplinary, holistic, integrated
paradigm. In this new arrangement cosmovision, consciousness and
transpersonal phenomena becomes part of Science and of the very
holoinformational nature of the Holographic Conscious Multiverse.
Key Words: consciousness, quantum holography, quantum Information, mindbody
problem.
Corresponding author: Francisco Di Biase
Address: Albert Schweitzer University, Switzerland; World
Information Distributed, University, Belgium and Clínica Di Biase,
Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
e-mail: dibiase@terra.com.br
Introduction
Here I present a quantum-informational
holographic model of brain-conscious-universe
interaction based on the holonomic neural
network model of Karl Pribram (Pribram, 1977a;
b) and relying on the ontological interpretation
of quantum theory developed by David Bohm
(Bohm, 1983; 1987; Bohm and Peat, 1987), with
extended nonlocal properties of the quantum
field as described by Hiroomi Umezawa (1993). I
consider this model an extension of the
interactive dualism developed by Sir John Eccles
(Eccles, 1952; 1989; 1993; 1994; 1998) and
extended by Richard Amororso (Amoroso, 1999;
2000; 2003; Amoroso et al., 2000). Eccles’ idea
of an interconnection between brain and spirit
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by means of quantum microsites named
dendrons (bundles of nerve dendrites) that
couple to psychons, (Eccles philosophical
construct of mind that interacted with or
coupled to brain dendrons.)has deeply
influenced the development of my conception of
consciousness (Di Biase, 1981; 1995; Di Biase
and Rocha, 1998; 2000). I propose a dynamic
concept of consciousness seen as a
holoinformational flux interconnecting
holonomic informational Quantum Brain
Dynamics (QBD) (di Biase and Rocha, 2000;
2004; Di Biase and Amoroso, 2005), with the
quantum informational holographic nature of
the universe (Di Biase and Amoroso, 2008). This
self-organizing flux is generated by a holographic
mode of neuronal information that can be
optimized through practices of deep meditation,
prayer, and other states of higher consciousness.
The quantum potential in Bohm’s ontological
interpretation of quantum theory is a guidance
principle (called the pilot wave by de Broglie)
and was introduced to ‘steer’ evolution of the
wave function. of which may effect the
coherence of cerebral waves (Di Biase, 1995; Di
Biase and Rocha, 1998; 2000; 2004).
Brain mapping studies performed during
the occurrence of these harmonic states have
shown a highly synchronized and perfectly
ordered spectral array of brain waves that form
unique harmonic waves, as if all frequencies of
all neurons from all cerebral centers played the
same symphony. This highly coherent brain state
generates the nonlocal holographic
informational cortical field of consciousness
interconnecting the human brain and the
holographic cosmos (Bohm and Hiley, 1993). The
comprehension of this holonomic quantum
informational nature of brain-consciousnessuniverse
interconnectedness allows us to solve
the historic mind-matter Cartesian hard problem
(Chalmers, 1995a; 1995 b; 1996 ), unifying
science, philosophy, and spiritual traditions in an
expanded transdisciplinary, holistic, paradigm. In
this new cosmovision, consciousness and
transpersonal phenomena becomes parts of
science and of the very holoinformational nature
of the universe (Amoroso et al., 2000).
In this holoinformational cosmovision
brain and universe are conceived as quantum
holographic informational systems
interconnected by an instantaneous universal
nonlocal holoinformational flux. This
instantaneous holoinformational brain-cosmos
dynamics is based on three pillars of modern
science:
1) The holographic neural network
processing of brain systems described by
neuroscientist Karl Pribram (Pribram,
1969; 1980; 1991; 1993; 1997; 1997b).
2) The quantum-holographic theory of
the universe developed by physicist
David Bohm (Bohm, 1987; Bohm and
Peat, 1987; Bohm and Hiley, 1993).
3) The quantum principle of nonlocality
developed by physicist Hiroomi
Umezawa, in his theory of the quantum
field (Zurek, 1990).
For a more comprehensive exposition of
my text I am going initially to define the terms
nonlocality and holographic.
Nonlocality
Nonlocality is a fundamental property of the
universe, proved to exist at the quantum and
macroscopic level, responsible for instantaneous
interactions between all cosmic phenomena – a
mathematical consequence of Umezawa’s
Quantum Field Theory (Umezawa,, 1993) that
unifies the electromagnetic, nuclear and
gravitational fields in a subjacent indivisible
totality.
Quantum Field Theory explains all
subatomic, atomic, microscopic and even
macroscopic phenomena, as well as
superconductivity and lasers; and is considered
the most fundamental physical theory of the
universe. Besides being mathematically similar
to the gravitational and electromagnetic fields,
the quantum field doesn’t exist physically in 3D
spacetime giving rise to it’s peculiar nonlocal
property. As a nonlocal phenomenon it
influences instantaneously all others regions of
spacetime, without necessity of any change of
energy.
According to classical and relativistic
physics nonlocal phenomena do not exist. This
theoretical impossibility generated the famous
Einstein-Bohr controversy and the celebrated
Einstein-Podolski-Rosen (EPR) Paradox. Einstein
and his associates wouldn’t admit that quanta or
information could travel faster than light and
created a thought experiment to demonstrate
that quantum physics was therefore incomplete.
But contrary to their initial proposition, the
existence of nonlocality has been dramatically
and convincingly proven to exist in modern
physics experiments. According to Bohr, if an
atom simultaneously emits two opposite spin
particles, and if we alter the spin of one, even if
they are separated by an enormous distance (for
instance, one in a lab on Earth and the second
on the other side of the galaxy), the spin of the
second is instantaneously modified..
Holographic Systems
Holographic systems are systems that can
generate three-dimensional virtual images. The
virtual image or hologram is created when a
laser falls upon an object and reflects on a plate
and a second laser or rectilinear reflected beam
falls on this plate generating a mix of the waves
from the two beams. This wave interference
pattern stores all the information about the
form and volume of the object, and when it is
reflected it generates a three-dimensional image
of the object in space. The relevancy for us is
that we can prove mathematically and
experimentally that in holographic systems
information about the whole system is
distributed in each part of the system. If we
break the holographic plate, each part of it will
display the entire three-dimensional image of
the object in space, showing us that in
holographic systems the whole is in the parts as
each part is in the whole.
These holographic transformations form
spacetime order from a spectral dimension of
frequencies the description of which is
dependent on the pioneering mathematical
formulations first described by a concept called
monads developed by Leibniz. In the Twentieth
Century Dennis Gabor described the
mathematical principles of holography, winning
him a Nobel Prize. The mathematical
formulations that describe the harmonic curve
resulting from the interference pattern of waves
are called Fourier transformations, after the
18th century French mathematician that
described it. Gabor applied Fourier
transformations to the creation of the hologram
showing how Fourier transforms of the
interference pattern can be used to rebuild the
virtual image of the object by the application of
the inverse process. Gabor showed that from a
dimension of frequencies objects in spacetime
can be rebuilt in a virtual form!
Holographic Neural Networks Fields
Karl Pribram has demonstrated with his
holonomic theory of brain dynamics that the
cerebral cortex is the site of a holographic
information process he calls a multiplex neural
hologram that is dependent on local circuits of
neurons without long fibers that do not transmit
ordinary nervous impulses. “These neurons
function in the undulatory mode and are above
all responsible by the horizontal layer
connections of the neural tissue where
holographic interference patterns can be built”
(Pribram, 1993). Pribram presents evidences
that at the level of conscious experience,
information processing in the brain is basically
Gabor-like rather than binary (as in Shannon’s
information measurement theory). He shows
that the process takes place in a phase space
created by a multiply interconnected web of
teledendrons, synapses and dendrites, called
synaptodendritic web.
The neural hologram is build by the
interaction of the electromagnetic fields of the
neurons similarly to the interaction of sound
waves in a piano. When a piano is played the
keys strike the strings generating a vibrational
standing wave between the two ends of the
string, creating an interference pattern (This
interference can be destructive or constructive).
Nodes of constructive interference, of these
sound frequencies, create the harmony or
harmonics that are the notes making up the
music we listen to. Pribram has demonstrated
that a similar process is continuously occurring in
the cerebral cortex by means of the
interpenetration of the electromagnetic fields of
the adjacent cortical neurons, generating a
harmonic field. According to Pribram’s model his
harmonic electromagnetic field distributed in
the cerebral cortex, holographically stores and
encodes a huge information field responsible for
the emergence of memory and consciousness.
As the music is not in the piano but in the
resonating field that surrounds it, so our
memories and consciousness are not in the
brain, but in the holographic information field
that surrounds it.
Pribram’s neural wave equation
(Pribram, 1993), describing holographic neural
network processing is similar to the Schrödinger
wave equation of quantum theory with the
addition of the de Broglie-Bohm Quantum
Potential. This is not coincidental and opens the
possibility of holographic interaction between
receptive fields in the cortex with the
holographic quantum universe described by
David Bohm. This new holographic paradigm
allows us to rethink the manner in which
information processing occurs in the nervous
system. In this context, Pribram’s quantum
holonomic theory of brain function is one of the
most brilliant and revolutionary contribution to
neuroscience in the 100 years since the initial
studies of Sherrington!
Information
The notion of information implies a certain
ambigüity, meaning the bit capacity of a physical
system (Shannon), or the semantic content
(meaning) conducted by the bits during a
communication. In the information theory, the
organization, the order expressed by the amount
of information in the system (Shannon’s H
function) is the information measure that is
missing to us, the uncertainty about the system.
The classical theory of information
situated at the level of “bit capacity”, is unable
to provide the proper connection to non-local
information and consciousness (Clarke, 1995). So
we need a more radical view of information for
a more radical view of the fundamental nature
of consciousness.
Non-local quantum information
According to Bohm, De Broglie’s model is a new
type of field, which activity is dependent upon
the information content that is conducted to the
whole experimental field. Adding to its
equations a Quantum Potential that satisfies
Schrödinger’s equation, that depends on the
form but not on the amplitude of the wave
function, Bohm developed a model in which this
quantum potential, carries “active information”
that “guides” the particle along its way. This
quantum potential is subtle in its form and does
not decay with the distance.
Information Physics
Developed by Wojciech Zurek (1990) and others,
propose that the physical entropy would be a
combination of two magnitudes that
compensate each other:
1-the observer’s ignorance, measured by
Shannon’s statistical entropy
2-the disorder degree of the observed system,
measured by the algorythmic entropy which is
the smallest number of bits needed to register it
in the memory.
During the measurement, the observer’s
ignorance is reduced, as a result of the increase
in bit numbers in its memory, remaining,
however,constant the sum of these two
magnitudes, that is, the physical entropy.
Quantum Informational View of the Universe
In this informational view of the universe the
observer remains included as part of the system,
and the quantum universe changes because the
observer’s mind unleashed a transfer of
information at a subatomic level.
From this all results a Law of
Conservation of Information as well as or more
fundamental than the law of conservation of
energy. So, as put by Stonier (1993):
Information is the cosmical organizational
principle with a “status” equal to matter and
energy.
In another paper (Di Biase and Rocha,
2000), I defined information as “a intrinsic,
irreducible and non-local, property of the
universe, capable of generate order, selforganization
and complexity” . Chalmers (1995a;
1995b; 1996), defines consciousness as “an
irreducible aspect of the universe, like space and
time and mass”. So we conclude that
consciousness is non-local information with a
status equal to matter and energy
3. The Holographic Multiverse
The mathematical formulations that describe the
harmonic slope resulting from wave interference
are Fourier transformations that Dennis Gabor
applied to the development of the hologram,
enriching it by the application of the inverse
process, a model in which the interference
pattern rebuilds the object in a virtual image. In
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other words, from the spectral dimension of
frequency one can reconstruct mathematically
and experimentally the object in spacetime
dimensions!
This holographic organization mode is
also what Bohm applied to quantum theory to
develop his holographic quantum theory of the
universe. In Bohm’s universe model, space and
time are mixed, “folded” into a dimension of
frequencies that is an implicit hidden order
without spacetime relations. In this field of
frequencies dimensional fluctuations occur,
more intense “undulations” like holographic
patterns, to build a spacetime dimension (Peat,
1987). This explicit order is our manifest
universe. According to Bohm (1983):
“In the implicate order everything is folded
into everything. But it’s important to note
here that the whole universe, is in principle
enfolded into each part actively through the
holomovement, as well as the parts. Now
this means that the dynamic activity-internal
and external- which is fundamental for what
each part is, is based on its enfoldment of all
the rest, including the whole universe. But of
course, each part may unfold others in
different degrees and ways. That is, they are
not all enfolded equally in each part. But the
basic principle of enfoldment in the whole, is
not thereby denied. Therefore enfoldment is
not merely superficial or passive but, I
emphasize again, that each part is in a
fundamental sense internally related in its
basic activities to the whole and to all the
other parts. The mechanistic idea of external
relation as fundamental, is therefore denied.
Of course such relationships are still
considered to be real, but of secondary
significance. That is, we can get
approximations to a mechanistic behavior
out of this. That is to say, the order of the
world, as a structure of things that is
basically external to each other, comes as
secondary and emerges from the deeper
implicate order”.
4. Towards a Holoinformational Theory of
Consciousness
Experimental research developed by Pribram
and other consciousness researchers like
Hameroff (1994; 2007) and Penrose (Hameroff
and Penrose, 1996; 2003), Jibu and Yassue
(1995), confirm the existence of a Quantum
Brain Dynamics in neural microtubules, in
synapses and in the molecular organization of
the cerebrospinal fluid. This Quantum Brain
Dynamics can generate Bose-Einstein
condensates and the Fröhlich Effect. Bose-
Einstein condensates consist of atomic particles,
or in the case of the Fröhlich Effect biological
molecules, that can assume a high level of
coherent alignment, functioning as a highly
ordered and unified informational state, as seen
in lasers and superconductivity. These quantum
dynamics show us that the interaction process
between dendrons and psychons, described by
Eccles, are not limited to the synaptic cleft, as
stated by Eccles, but a much wider embodiment
throughout the whole brain. Psychons are
presumed to operate on synapses by way of
quantum processes.
Pribram (1991) demonstrates good
evidence that Eccles’ dendrons make up
receptive fields in cortical sensory units.
Dendrons are composed of pre-synaptic
teledendrons, synapses and post-synaptic
dendrites. They compose the fine fiber structure
wherein brain processing occurs. As Pribram
states (1991), “as sensory generated receptive
fields they can be mapped in terms of wavelets,
or wavelet-like patterns such as Gabor
Elementary Functions. Dennis Gabor (1946)
called these units Quanta of Information. The
reason for this name is that Gabor used the same
mathematics to describe his units as had
Heisenberg in describing the units of quantum
microphysics. Here they define the unit structure
of processes occurring in the material brain”.
Like Pribram , I see this quantum
holographic interactions not as a contradiction
but as a natural extension of Eccles ideas (Eccles,
1952; 1989; 1993; 1994; 1998; Popper and
Eccles, 1977).
I expanded my conjecture that the
interconnectedness between brain and cosmos
is an instantaneous nonlocal connection and to
the concept of a holoinformational flux, from
which both mind and matter are in-formed, that
resembles Bohm’s holomovement. But in this
new concept, quantum holographic brain
dynamic patterns are conceived as an active part
of the universal quantum-holographic
informational field, and capable of generating an
informational field interconnection that is
simultaneously nonlocal (quantum-holistic) and
local (Newtonian-mechanistic), i.e.,
holoinformational. Taking yet in consideration
the basic mathematical property of holographic
systems in which the information of the whole
system is distributed in each part of the system,
plus Bohm’s holographic quantum physics data,
and the experimental data of the holonomic
theory of Pribram, we propose that this
universal interconnectedness (Laszlo, 2003)
could permit us to access all the information (Di
Biase and Rocha, 2000; 2004; Di Biase and
Amoroso, 2005; 2008) codified in the wave
interference patterns existing in all the universe
since its origin. The quantum-holoinformational
nature of the universe interconnects each part,
each brain-consciousness, with all the
information stored in the holographic patterns
distributed in the whole cosmos, in an indivisible
irreducible informational cosmic unity (Bohm
and Hiley, 1993; Di Biase and Amoroso, 2008;
Zurek, 1990).
As a consciousness exercise, analogous
to Einstein’s thought experiments, we could
compare this universal informational
interconnectedness with the following
metaphoric quotations from various spiritual
traditions: As above so below (Alchemy). All that
is outside is inside (Upanishads). The father is
inside us (Christianity). As in the earth so in the
heavens (Christianity). This universal
interconnectedness could be perfectly
understood as a Cosmic Holographic
Consciousness.
Consciousness in this conception is the
holoinformational flux that permits the
interaction of the Holonomic Informational
Quantum Brain Dynamics – that we can consider
as extended dendrons – with the quantumholographic
nature of the universe, that we can
view as an extended cosmic psychon.
As I have already put Pribram states, that as
sensory receptive fields dendrons can be
mapped in terms of Gabor’s Elementary
Functions or wavelet-like patterns, and Gabor
called these unities Quanta of Information,
because he used the same mathematics to
describe it as Heisenberg did in describing units
of quantum physics. Yet Pribram shows:
They define the unit structure of processes
occurring in the material brain. However,
Gabor invented his function, not to describe
brain processes, but to find the maximum
compressibility of a telephone message that
could be sent over the Atlantic Cable without
destroying its intelligibility. The Gabor
function thus describes both a unit of brain
processing and a unit of communication.
Brain is material, communication is mental.
The same mathematical formulation
describes both. The elementary structure of
processing in Eccles material dendron is
identical to the elementary structure of
processing of a mental (communication)
psychon. There is a structural identity to the
dual interactive process (Amoroso, 2003).
Richard Amoroso, creator of Noetic Field
Theory (Amoroso, 1999; 2000; Amoroso et al.,
2000), tell us that “Consciousness pervades
atoms, is the organizing power deeper than
gravitation (unitary field), that frames the
universe, causes gravitation, and the flux or élan
vital which gives life and is the ‘light of the
mind’… this basic holistic framework
incorporates the implicate and explicate order
described by Bohm” (Eccles, 1989; 1994). This
noetic definition of consciousness is as radical as
our holoinformational consciousness, and I think
we are saying the same thing with different
approaches.
5. Transpersonal States of Consciousness as
highly synchronized harmonic brain state
Through practices of deep meditation, prayer,
and others states of higher consciousness that
elevates the coherence of cerebral waves, this
universal interconnectedness becomes
expanded by synchronizing the functioning of
the cerebral hemispheres and unleashing a
highly coherent brain state that optimizes the
holographic treatment of neuronal information.
In brain mapping studies this highly
synchronized harmonic state shows brain waves
highly synchronized and perfectly ordered, in a
unique harmonic wave, as if all frequencies of all
neurons from all cerebral centers played the
same symphony. In my concept this highly
harmonic synchronized state generates a
nonlocal holographic informational cortical field
creating a holoinformational flux of
consciousness interconnecting the human mind
with the Holographic Cosmic Consciousness. A
survey of these electroencephalographic and
clinical studies can be found in my Portuguese
books (Di Biase, 1995; Di Biase and Rocha, 1998;
2004), and the mathematics of it can be view in
a recent paper I published with Richard
Amoroso, we presented in Belgium (Di Biase and
Amoroso, 2008).
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“The powers of the sympathetic nerve are neither entirely physical nor spiritual, but are between the two (systems). The nerve is connected with both. Its phenomena shall be perfect when its spiritual and physical relations are normal.
When the material world and the divine world are well co-related, when the hearts become heavenly and the aspirations grow pure and divine, perfect connection shall take place. Then shall this power produce a perfect manifestation. Physical and spiritual diseases will then receive absolute healing.”
“There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.”
On another occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said with regard to the same subject, “All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition.”
great post as usual!
“Gravitation Force is the Ultimate Creator”, I presented this paper at the 1st Int. Conf. on Revival of Traditional Yoga, held at The Lonavla Yoga Institute (India), Lonavla, Pune in 2006. The Abstract of this paper is given below:
“The Universe includes everything that exists. In the Universe there are billions and billions of stars. These stars are distributed in the space in huge clusters. They are held together by gravitation and are known as galaxies. Sun is also a star. Various members of the solar system are bound to it by gravitation force. Gravitation force is the ultimate cause of birth and death of galaxy, star and planets etc. Gravitation can be considered as the cause of various forms of animate and inanimate existence. Human form is superior to all other forms. Withdrawal of gravitational wave from some plane of action is called the death of that form. It can be assumed that gravitation force is ultimate creator. Source of it is ‘God’. Gravitational Field is the supreme soul (consciousness) and its innumerable points of action may be called as individual soul (consciousness). It acts through body and mind. Body is physical entity. Mind can be defined as the function of autonomic nervous system. Electromagnetic waves are its agents through which it works. This can be realized through the practice of meditation and yoga under qualified meditation instruction. This can remove misunderstanding between science and religion and amongst various religions. This is the gist of all religious teachings – past, present and future.”
Very illuminating article. Perhaps you would like to take a look into Alice Bailey book, edited by Luicis Trust. They are 24 books on esoteric philosophy. They state just what you are saying.
Cirdially,
Pablo Drbal MD
I am very inspired by your work.
What you refer to as Quantum waves could very well be what Dr. Hartmut Müller calls “standing density” or “pressure waves” in the universe. Please see the following article about his work based on his Global Scaling Theory:
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=748
http://www.global-scaling-institute.de/files/gscompv18_en.pdf
Hope to hear and see a lot more of you in the future!
Many Blessings
Random thoughts. 2
The author with his limited knowledge of modern science and Hindu philosophy has tried to explain from his own understanding and introspections, the wild goose chase of modern science in its search for Reality.
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1. Creation is a mental projection of ‘Consciousness’ and we are but the characters in that projection. This is similar to the dream that we have. While dreaming we are all too taken up with the dream and think that it is true. On waking up we come to realise that it was but a dream; during the dream our mind believes (witnessed by the Consciousness) that it is real and we even perspire and pant on waking up from a particularly fearsome one. Even this ‘Awake- condition’ which is the reality now for us, is but a dream from which we have to wake up to come to terms with The Reality as it is.
2. All these are but mere mental projections of Consciousness; which when winds up these mental projections, similar to our waking up, drops the function of the mind and stays within itself, by itself as a ‘Singularity’ or Unitary Consciousness. This is the realm of ‘Nirvana’ or Liberation. While the consciousness is conjuring up the mental projections, we the characters believe that we are real individuals transacting in this world. The reality we feel is but ‘Maya’ or illusion. We also believe that we have a Free will and have a choice in all our transactions. Such belief is necessary for the illusion to be maintained.
3. We have come into this dreamlike creation with a certain quota of experiences and we have to fulfill them willy-nilly. This quota of experiences is actively aided, in and during its ongoing compilation, by our mental reactions to each precedent activity, even though we had no choice in undergoing the preceding activity. Our Free will comes into operation only with regard to our desire for Liberation or Nirvana. This freewill is given to the Jivathma (human) at the time of Creation by the Consciousness (There is no creation really as it is a piece of mental activity only to the Consciousness, of which we are but parts of the dream). The ‘One Consciousness’ decided that it will become ‘The Many’, and as such we became its parts. A Jivathma who appears to be one of the many in Creation has the power to spring back to the original ‘Oneness’ when it/he firmly denies creation and its/his own part in it; his compiled experiences thus far are automatically cancelled with this denial and the desire to get out of the game. The Consciousness which is a witness to all the activities in the Dream is always ‘One’ only even though our own experience is to the contrary.
4. As the Creation drama happened when the One Consciousness decided to become the many, an activity similar to Big Bang postulated by modern scientists may have happened and the Singularity exploded to become the many to fulfill (being Conscious) its own desire. The dreamy fragments became the space, air, fire, water, earth and its particles to conjure up the Universe in the realm of Maya or illusion. The path for involution or dissolution of the Universe from the standpoint of a Jivathma is called ‘The Apavadha’ theory or retracing to Singularity or Advaitha (meaning ‘non- dual’; as there was never anything other than Singularity, -‘not duality’ is just a thought process for those who now believe out of ignorance, due to their experiences in the manifested Universe, that they are but ‘one of the many’).
5. Ramana Maharishi, of whom the author would like to believe to be his Guru and would also like to believe that he has understood at least some of his teachings, has no use for the Adhyaropa and Apavadha theory; he says that the Jivathma (human), the Universe that he experiences, and the God who projects the Universe- all come into existence at the same time and get dissolved at the same time, supported and witnessed by the One Consciousness or Reality (if you understand that the manifested god is also but part of the creation). The experiences seem to be the only watchword that matters and the rest of the creation is merely designed to provide those, for the benefit of the Consciousness – they are mere appendages conjured up to provide those experiences. The witnessing Consciousness is not particularly exhilarated or altered by the experience. It does not make judgments nor is affected by them!
(My reference to Ramana Maharishi’s thoughts anywhere in this collection of thoughts may be in error and is based on my own understanding of His thoughts.)
6. According to Ramana Maharishi (even a personal) God can function only when supported by the Consciousness, the same that supports the experiences of a Jivathma. (Consciousness itself is referred to as Parabrahmam in our scriptures. This Parabrahmam is similar to the Reality envisioned by modern scientists; the main difference being that, the scientists are looking for the tiniest particle in manifestation and may never accept that it is actually Consciousness; that it is spiritual in nature and pervades the entire manifested universe without any break in between!) Hence God and Jivathma are like two concentric circles with the same center point. For the Jivathma, the God is the infinity and the Consciousness is the Singularity or locus around whom he operates. This probably is the reason why modern scientists say that the entire Universe is in perfect symmetry irrespective of the locus of observation of the observer, in whichever direction he looks at.
One would like to even imagine that God is but the Master Software system of the Universe, of who the human is but the nth degree subsystem. The human at any particular time or space, is controlled by a chain of the previous steps of the software (meaning events of the past), while his present activities in turn control some of the following steps (meaning the events to follow in future).
7. The Universe as an event at any particular time is a web of collective control of the humans and the various inanimate objects of the Universe. This web of collection is called Easwara or god. This is referred as the ‘Oathaprotham’ or web of warp and weft of the fabric of universe in our scriptures. This is perhaps the Karma theory that is postulated by the Vedic philosophy. This is also somewhat similar to the space-time diagram/graph discussed by Physicist Richard Feynman while discussing the space-time events. Vedic philosophy (Vedanta-literally those thoughts appearing at the concluding portion of the Veda) describes man in his physical form as Vaiswanara controlled by the collective Virat during the waking state, as Taijasa controlled by the collective Hiranyagarbah during dream state and as Pragna controlled by the collective Easwara during deep sleep state. Viswanara, Taijasa and Pragna are projected to be different bodies assumed by the same Jivathma in order to enjoy/suffer the quota of experiences assigned to him!
8. Now imagine a Jivathma under the influence of a particularly disagreeable or fearful dream. Beyond a point he shudders and wakes up. He now has a body to wake up to, which was missing in experience of the dream (otherwise he would not be able to do some of the activities in his dream like flying, which is impractical during waking stage). When the Jivathma goes thro’ the experience of dying, with no ‘body’ to wake up to (at least not a body that he is used to), the dream will be endless and this is what is probably described as hell (Or heaven for that matter if the dream is most agreeable)! In fact the word swa-r-gam (heaven)–probably meaning the world earned or reached by the human through his thoughts/actions- could be heaven or hell defined only by his experiences in that realm!
9. The arguments of Rebirth as ‘possible or not possible’, is due to a misunderstanding of the term brought about by the limitations of the language. The body that dies is, never really reborn; perhaps it goes thro’ transformations as suggested by the scientific laws that govern matter/energy. The soul or Jivathma never dies, so there is never a question of rebirth! The Jivathma has no birth or death, and all his sufferings & limitations start when he mistakenly believes that he is in fact the body.
10. The wave-mass phenomenon of a particle has a similarity in Hindu thoughts. The Ardhanariswara tatwa envisions god Eswara/Siva as the right half and Sakthi as the left half of an androgynous form. This is also sometimes pictured as a fearsome female form standing/sitting astride a lying male dead body- the female form being Sakthi (power or Energy), and the male form being that of Eswara. This imagination implies that mass is energy and energy is mass, as no existence is possible for one without the other. In its transcendental aspect it has no form and so no qualities. But in the manifested state, Consciousness takes the form of ‘mass’ which is Eswara, presided by Sakthi or Energy for the continuation of the drama of creation. Wherever Siva or Parameswara is imagined or meditated to be the Consciousness it/he does not manifest as matter and is transcendental. This in fact is the original state prior to manifestation in any form.
11. In the Bindu (a point or Singularity) state the form has all potential energy and has no motion. In creation or manifestation the ball is set rolling and Sakthi is the Kinetic energy astride and riding/driving every creation of particle or mass. In non-sentient beings the Sakthi is in a state of Inertia and is called Jadasakthi. A desire to set things in motion for creation to be commenced/ sustained is described as Ichha Sakthi, and the creation enlarges. When the creation is maintained and activity is manifest, it is due to Kriya Sakthi. The final desire for liberation/ involution is described as Gnana Sakthi; this envisages a keen desire to go back to the abstract state or transcendental state of being. All things in manifestation get back into the Bindu or Singularity and even the Bindu vanishes as there is no one or nothing outside of it to witness! This is a state of Consciousness where it even looses its own desire to witness or experience. The Consciousness remains in this abstract realm for eons before the next movement happens to destabilize it to a realm, desiring Creation! How and whence this desire happens is beyond our imagination, but probably arises out of the law of probabilities presided by its own potential.
12. It looks as if the chase for isolating the God particle now called Higgs Boson, may end in fructuously in the LHC corridors (or for that matter any manmade contraption) if my above surmises are anywhere near correct. If they do succeed in isolating a particle called Boson, then it may not exclusively be the God particle that they are expecting it to be; everything in creation is nothing but God in manifestation! It is even like the Dalton’s atomic theory which states that atom cannot be split after identifying one; in stead, if he had only stated that the last indivisible particle may be described as ‘atom’ the theory would have stood the test of time! -the reason for this assertion being that the God and Creation are one and the same, and one cannot be isolated from the other. The Consciousness that recognizes both is the Single Consciousness in its dream; the seemingly fragmented individual consciousnesses which form differing opinions about it are the reflected consciousness of the Jivathmas. The objective creation or the Universe is God’s form and the total energy is the Energy of Parasakthi. They are inseparable ever. It is one big dream of Consciousness; it may come into manifestation or it may not according to its own will & desire and no subservient part of the dream can alter this!-much less objectively perceive it to prove/disprove it.
13. Gnanis of any religion or belief who claim to have witnessed God, do so from mere illusion, as the apparition is a Manomaya creation or their own mental projection; any statement that liberated Gnanis witness god is also incorrect as there is nothing other than their own Self to intuitively witness, for them; Gnanis liberated even while alive see the entire creation as nothing other than their own extension, just as if in a dream; even this vision of the Self vanishes when it becomes Sahaja Nirvikalpa. This (in italics) is an assertion made by Sri Ramana Maharishi, and those proponents of Advaitha who have been liberated while alive.
14. This description makes one wonder whether their observation of the Universe may be similar to a semi tuned TV picture tube where the picture is hazy in dots/pixels; as an extension of their own body which is also seen as pixels and part of the total observed entity. When abstracted they may also see the entire creation in all entirety of Sthula, Sukshma and Karana Sarirams in pixels and in motion of interaction! If so, this description fits that of the scattering matrix theory of modern scientists.
15. As regards Dark Energy envisioned by the modern scientists, the Goddess Kaali (Black or Dark female form) with her cavernous mouth swallowing parts of creation, wearing human skulls as necklace and carrying deadly weapons and parts of freshly severed organs in her hands totally fits the bill. The recent pictures of Dark Energy ripping galaxies apart and swallowing them could not have resulted in a better description than that of Kaali, in the intuitive imaginations of the Rishis of yore.
16. There is a great likelihood that the string theory postulated by scientists, may actually refer to the Kundalini Sakthi (explained as a string with three and a half turns) and now said to be sleeping in the Muladhara Chakra of Jivathmas, in Yoga Sastra. It is mentioned therein that the Parasakthi separated from Sadasivam residing at the thousand petalled Lotus called Sahasrara (brain), came down the Sushumna Nadi inside the spine and established various Devathas and principles at the different Chakras and finally ended in the Muladhara; there she established the remaining Devatha Lord Ganesa and some of the remaining principles and promptly went into yoganidra*. Whatever energy she exudes at this stage is the energy of the Jivathma or the human. In involution she wakes up and gathers all the Devathas and principles from the various Chakras and returns to the Sahasrara only to be united with her beloved Sadasivam, which act is termed as Liberation or Mukthi. According to Ramana Maharishi even this does not lead to Self-Realization or Moksha. The Sadhaka has to attain knowledge of the self by further enquiry which will then take the Sadhaka thro’ the Satya Nadi from the brain to the heart. This is termed as the final step of Liberation, by him.
Once he arrives there and gets established, there is nowhere else to go, no activity to be performed, and no new knowledge to be gained. He becomes one with Sadasivam or has attained Singularity; this realm is called Liberation or Nirvana.
*Yoganidra mentioned above invokes the Blue figure of Lord Vishnu lying on the thousand headed snake Adhisesha, or the figure of the most beautiful blue hued Krishna lying on the Alila. Both signify the male form of Parasakthi or particularly Kundalini here, and envisages a desire for creation to be maintained!- maintenance of status quo and not ready for liberation. While thinking about Adhisesha, what can be the balance at the beginning of anything? – a kind of brought forward account balance from the previous accounting year, signifying those Jivathmas who were not liberated in the previous creation.
Radhasoami Faith View of Modus Operandi of Creation of Universe
There is cosmological evidence for God and the Universe existed before Big Bang please.
Stephen Hawking writes in The Grand Design, “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.” Hawking said the Big Bang was merely the consequence of the law of gravity. In A Brief History of Time, Hawking had suggested that the idea of God or a divine being was not necessarily incompatible with a scientific understanding of the Universe.
Although Hawking is very close to Truth yet he is not perfect in his views while discarding the role of divine being. I consider the role of eternal gravity uppermost but I strongly differ with Hawking on the role of divine being. I consider Divine Ordainment is the cause of Creation of Universe.
Now I give Radhasoami Faith view of Creation Theory. In Sar Bachan (Poetry) composed by His Holiness Soamiji Maharaj the August Founder of Radhasoami Faith the details of creation and dissolution has been described very scientifically. It is written in Jeth Mahina (name of Hindi moth) in this Holy Book: Only He Himself (Supreme Father)and none else was there. There issued forth a great current of spirituality, love and grace (In scientific terminology we may call this current as gravitational wave). This is called His Mauj (Divine Ordainment). This was the first manifestation of Supreme Being. This Divine Ordainment brought into being three regions, viz., Agam, Alakh, and Satnam of eternal bliss. Then a current emerged with a powerful sound (this was the first Big Bang). It brought forth the creation of seven Surats or currents of various shades and colours (in scientific terminology we may call it electromagnetic waves). Here the true Jaman or coagulant was given (in scientific terminology this coagulant may be called as weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force). Surats, among themselves, brought the creation into being.
These currents descended down further and brought the whole universe/multi verse into being i.e. black holes, galaxies etc. were born.
I would like to add further that sound energy and gravitational force current are non polar entity and electromagnetic force is bi-polar. Hence spiritual polarization, if occurred, is occurred in the region of Sat Lok and region below to it only.
Infinite expanse of gravitational force field is the region of dark energy.
In Bible it is written that in the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God; and the Word was God.
According to Radhasoami Faith “Shabd (Word) is the beginning and end of all. The three loks (worlds) and the fourth Lok, all have been created by Shabd.” (Sar Bachan Poetry)
“The process of His creation hath had no beginning, and can have no end.”
“As regards thine assertions about the beginning of creation, this is a matter on which conceptions vary by reason of the divergences in men’s thoughts and opinions. Wert thou to assert that it hath ever existed and shall continue to exist, it would be true; or wert thou to affirm the same concept as is mentioned in the sacred Scriptures, no doubt would there be about it, for it hath been revealed by God, the Lord of the worlds. Indeed He was a hidden treasure. This is a station that can never be described nor even alluded to. And in the station of ‘I did wish to make Myself known’, God was, and His creation had ever existed beneath His shelter from the beginning that hath no beginning, apart from its being preceded by a Firstness which cannot be regarded as firstness and originated by a Cause inscrutable even unto all men of learning.
That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today. The world of existence came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between the active force and that which is its recipient. These two are the same, yet they are different. Thus doth the Great Announcement inform thee about this glorious structure. Such as communicate the generating influence and such as receive its impact are indeed created through the irresistible Word of God which is the Cause of the entire creation, while all else besides His Word are but the creatures and the effects thereof. Verily thy Lord is the Expounder, the All-Wise.
Know thou, moreover, that the Word of God—exalted be His glory—is higher and far superior to that which the senses can perceive, for it is sanctified from any property or 141 substance. It transcendeth the limitations of known elements and is exalted above all the essential and recognized substances. It became manifest without any syllable or sound and is none but the Command of God which pervadeth all created things. It hath never been withheld from the world of being. It is God’s all-pervasive grace, from which all grace doth emanate. It is an entity far removed above all that hath been and shall be.”
“Every thing must needs have an origin and every building a builder. Verily, the Word of God is the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world—a world which is adorned with the splendours of the Ancient of Days, yet is being renewed and regenerated at all times. Immeasurably exalted is the God of Wisdom Who hath raised this sublime structure.
Look at the world and ponder a while upon it. It unveileth the book of its own self before thine eyes and revealeth that which the Pen of thy Lord, the Fashioner, the All-Informed, hath inscribed therein. It will acquaint thee with that which is within it and upon it and will give thee 142 such clear explanations as to make thee independent of every eloquent expounder.
Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise. Were anyone to affirm that it is the Will of God as manifested in the world of being, no one should question this assertion. It is endowed with a power whose reality men of learning fail to grasp. Indeed a man of insight can perceive naught therein save the effulgent splendour of Our Name, the Creator. Say: This is an existence which knoweth no decay, and Nature itself is lost in bewilderment before its revelations, its compelling evidences and its effulgent glory which have encompassed the universe.”
“As to thy question whether the physical world is subject to any limitations, know thou that the comprehension of this matter dependeth upon the observer himself. In one sense, it is limited; in another, it is exalted beyond all limitations. The one true God hath everlastingly existed, and will everlastingly continue to exist. His creation, likewise, hath had no beginning, and will have no end. All that is created, however, is preceded by a cause. This fact, in itself, establisheth, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the unity of the Creator.”
–from the Holy Writings of Bahá’u'lláh
Great discussion point, thankyou.
The discussion seems to highlight the fact that it is not necessarily what we “know” – but more about how we “behave” that matters
I wrote the following to myself a number of years ago after years of doing things, or behaving in ways, which I “knew” were wrong and despite “knowing” that (For example perhaps even minor displays of anger or frustration).
“Knowing is one thing
Being another
Distraction the reality
Illusion it’s brother”
(The distraction and illusion originating it would seem in the left hemisphere of my brain!)
With the human race the answers to it’s life issues are not always to be found through increased knowledge.
I believe It is “conscience” rather than “consciousness” that we may need to concentrate upon in order to “shift” things.
We can advance from our current behavioural position right now, by using our individual “conscience’s” in a collective approach, without any increase in “knowledge” being required.
I do agree however that to do this we need to raise everyone’s “Consciousness” of that fact!
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to comment
Egal Bohen..
Dear Prof. Laszlo,
reading your books gave me – the first time ever – an explanation for extraordinary psychic experiences 27 years ago (today I`m 68 years): in a follow-up of an intense therapy (primal therapy invented by Arthur Janov) I was overwhelmed by a cascade of myriads of insights for several months. Supposingly I had been an Asperger fellow the first part of my life. At that time I became “normal”.
Where did I get the myriads of insights from which helped me to become normal??
Your books gave me the answer: my – plastic – brain connected (was in-formed by) to the quantum vacuum and received all the (mainly emotionally) knowledge from it which I didn`t have and didn`t read about before .
After the therapeutic period I entered intense phases of mystic experiences. In these phases I got the impression that the knowledge I could gather beyond normal reality is related in a holographic manner (fourier transformed manner) to everyday experience. As I am physicist I`m used to scientific metaphoric thinking.
By the way, today I`m a German pioneer of EEG-Biofeedback (neurofeedback). Maxwell Cade whom you spoke of and Anna Wise prepared the training route for normal people to reach “peak performance states” of consciousness.
That`s not enough: elaborated EEG-Biofeedback today guided by skilled trainers offers new and exciting therapeutic pathways!
Thank you,
Dr. Uwe Gerlach from Germany
So in essence the left brain is the logic which we see leads to insensitivity and cruelty on its own. And the right brain is the interpreter of the heart which leads to over sensitivity on its own.
So we just need to develop both and incorporate learning to use them toghether with awareness.
Awareness is our true nature. If you are thinking a thought, then who is thinking you?
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