The Human Body, Mind, and Consciousness

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/mitchelltj1.php

be well, be love.

david

going home
by thomas j. mitchell

the next step in human evolution will be spiritual, not physical says musician and composer thomas j. mitchell

man is no different from any other species inasmuch as he must evolve, or begin the resulting process of extinction. in this case, the evolution must be a spiritual one if man is to survive his self destructive nature of "evolution by war." before we can look at how this will done, we have to examine man's present makeup and condition so that we can observe what is required if he is to survive his downward spiral to self destruction. truth can be an elusive commodity but in this case the truth of the matter is that man has reached his physical evolutionary goal and and must look to his spiritual progress if he is to evolve any further. to do this he has to take a radical view of what he actually is and what he is not. for too long he has been educated into believing that he is a body first and foremost... a creature of the physical reality which could not be further from the truth. secondly, successive religions have educated him into believing that he is a victim of original sin leaving him with a deep-seated sense of guilt and unworthiness. one has only to take a stroll around any gallery and observe the large medieval religious paintings to get this sense of unworthiness screaming at you from the canvas! this situation which has lasted for hundreds of years has been at the root of many destructive religious wars starting with the crusades to the middle east. man has to somehow find a way out of this destructive religious loop if he is to regain his true spiritual heritage.

science, and physics in particular, are at last coming around to show the way as outlined for instance in a new book on quantum physics, by lynn mctaggart called the field, in which she discusses a number of advances in recent years referring to the zero point field which point up the spiritual rather than the physical nature of the universe. it is a must book for anyone interested in this subject. the way i have come to see it, is that we are part of a "super spectrum" of energies all obeying the same basic laws -- from the basest physical objects all the way to the spiritual aesthetic wavelengths. however, the important fact is, that beyond this point we enter the creative universe of the spirit. for each and every spiritual being on this planet, this is his or her home universe except that on this "prison planet" they have dropped below awareness of this fact. the fact of the matter is that the human being is first and foremost a spiritual being who has a body rather than being a body, and it is from that foundation that the next step in the evolution of the species must take place. certain religious dogma has trapped the being in a mythical belief system which has caused him/her to abdicate from their true spiritual condition. it sits like a schism or a buffer between the being and his true source and bars the way back to his true concept of himself as the source/creator in his own inner spiritual space. once this concept is achieved, the being will realise that he is the creator of his own mind, data and pictures and he will cease to be driven obsessively by his mind and its belief systems. when this realisation dawns, the being's viewpoint is reversed through 180 degrees and he is no longer a "creature of the physical reality" and comes to the realisation that he creates his own world. the freedom from being mind and belief-driven produces an evolved being and a new man, which in turn becomes the first step in the next evolution of the species.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/04/...eise.html#more

be well, be love.

david

science and spirituality - heisenberg's mystical experience?

did werner heisenberg, who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and who proposed the uncertainty principle, have a little known mystical experience that shaped his views of reality? the question is being brought forward by three mexican researchers.

werner heisenberg - image credit: resonance - journal of science education

nikola tesla was one of the giants of science of the last century, but he also had a fine grasp of spiritual matters, a fact documented in a recent article on this site, by velimir abramovich. that article, first published by alexander frolov in his new energy technologies magazine, was forwarded to me by a mexican researcher, jose luis lopez-bonilla.

viktor schauberger is another one of the scientists in a wider sense of the word - he was called the water wizard and proposed a change in technology from explosion to implosion - who obtained their knowledge by linking in to a 'data bank' of a non-physical kind. see technology turned inside-out and schauberger q and a - making the data available.

it has long been my contention that if physics wants to overcome the present state of impasse, it must embrace and investigate the phenomenon of "ultimate cause", the spiritual realities on which the manifest physical universe depends for its existence. actually this site is turning out to be a place where that interface between science and spirituality comes into focus, at least in some of the articles - you will see them listed at the end of this one.

the piece that follows here has also been sent in by jose luis lopez-bonilla, who together with his co-authors is asking an interesting question about heisenberg's life. perhaps one of you readers can help them along with some pertinent information...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...25-reality.htm

be well, be love.

david

is reality a misunderstanding?

april 29, 2007
special to world science

sev*er*al phys*i*cists say they’ve con*firmed strange pre*dic*tions of mod*ern phys*ics that clash with our most bas*ic no*tions of real*i*ty and even sug*gest—some sci*en*tists and phi*loso*phers say—that real*i*ty is*n’t there when we’re not look*ing.

the pre*dic*tions have lurked with*in quan*tum me*chan*ics, the sci*ence of the small*est things, since the field emerged in the 1920s; but not all phys*i*cists ac*cept*ed them. they were undis*put*edly con*sist*ent with ex*pe*ri*ments, but ex*pe*ri*ments might not re*veal eve*ry*thing.

new tests—de*signed more specif*i*cally than be*fore to probe the real*i*ty ques*tion—have yielded un*set*tling re*sults, say re*search*ers who pub*lished the find*ings in the april 19 is*sue of the re*search jour*nal na*ture. one of their col*leagues called the find*ings in*tri*guing but in*con*clu*sive.

[Larry Seyer]

very interesting... so our cells die because of the [bi]resumption[/b] of the intake of oxygen and not the lack of it.

cool!

biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by "reperfusion," the resumption of oxygen supply.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/back...ficproof1.html

be well, be love.

david

the scientific proof of survival after death
by michael roll

here is an extraordinary paradox. only those who can be relied upon to dismiss the findings and conclusions of our pioneers of radio and television are allowed on radio and television!

our scientists who support the british pioneers of radio and television - sir william crookes, sir oliver lodge and john logie baird - have been blocked from speaking on the radio or appearing on television. only a handful of local radio presenters have defied this official and unofficial censorship, notably james whale.

there are two expert opinions as to what so-called paranormal phenomena are, but in this "free" country the british people are only allowed access to the explanation that is politically correct, the first version that is listed below, because it is no danger to the powerful religious and scientific establishments:

1. paranormal phenomena do not exist

the mind and the brain are the same. this is the official teaching across all scientific disciplines. the parapsychologist dr. susan blackmore has been given complete freedom of every radio and television programme that is meant to be examining the subject. this is because she is the establishment mouthpiece and can be relied upon to never mention what is revealed in this pamphlet. dr. blackmore protects the scientific establishment's adopted stance, which only gives a materialistic model of the universe. professor j. wheeler, a top physicist, stated in 1994 that acceptance of survival or paranormal phenomena would destroy the basis of science as taught in our universities.

2. paranormal phenomena do exist

the mind and the brain are separate. this pamphlet carries on where crookes, lodge and logie baird left off. this is what we are never allowed to hear on radio and television or read about in scientific magazines and large circulation papers.

"the suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, it has no place in the endeavour of science."

carl sagan. "cosmos" 1980

a great moment in television history was featured in carl sagan's outstanding thirteen-part series on astronomy called "cosmos". he was pictured in new york library surrounded by millions of books. he pointed to a tiny section and said:

"it is only possible in one person's lifetime to read this many books."
he then turned to the camera and made the following profound statement:

"the trick is to read the right books."

the books discussed in this pamphlet are the ones that the religious and pseudo-scientific establishments are praying with all their might that the people never find out about.

you may have to copy and paste the video links into your browser to view the video.

part i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvthbezbn6i

part ii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exljz...elated&search=

part iii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfxh...elated&search=

part iv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomxz...elated&search=

[soup]

this reminds me of the concept of the matrix in that it seems likely that thoughts and ideas can act to interlink neuron matrices within the mind which then have some correspondance to the thoughts and ideas that fostered the interconnection - but that neuron matrix solution that forms as a result of such acts as thinking may fall short of some potential by forming structural limitations of illusory extents.

alternately, it seems possible that some paranormal influence can likewise act to interlink neuron matrices within the mind which then have correspondance to such paranormal influences. in this case, the neuron matrix solution that forms as a result of such acts as "not thinking" may fall closer to some potential by forming structural advantages having more realistic extents.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak...y_b_50389.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the body (part 1)

by now everyone is familiar with advances in brain imaging and the fascinating insights being produced in many areas of brain research. much less known are advances in locating the mind outside the brain. long considered paranormal and therefore easy to dismiss, the reality of many phenomena is being verified. for a long time there has been a popular belief in esp, clairvoyance, and related abilities. i thought it would be interesting to devote a series of posts to some intriguing studies, but more importantly, there is a major discovery waiting around the corner. science is about to realize that intelligence is a field effect and that this "mind field" surrounds us on all sides, like the earth's magnetic field. it is thanks to the mind field that our brains are able to think and also to connect with other minds, not by physical means but invisibly, the way one magnet is connected to every other on earth.

the latest findings, which got wide publicity in the media, have to do with our ability to sense what is going to happen in the future.

is this really proof that man can see into the future?

london's daily mail reports on a dutch professor of psychology, dr. dick bierman, who is using real-time brain scans to see if people sense things before they happen. "sense" is different from "envision." bierman is working with "presentiment," the physical or emotional feeling that something unusual is about to happen. anecdotally, presentiments have been associated with many if not most great disasters. some people didn't go to work at the world trade center on 9/11 because they felt suddenly sick or uneasy. similar symptoms have kept passengers from flying on planes that later crashed. the french crew of the concorde had dark premonitions before one of the supersonic jets crashed in 2000. children felt uneasy going to school the day a coal-mine disaster engulfed a school in wales in 1966, killing 144 people. one mother reported that her young daughter had a dream the night before of a black mass burying the school, which is exactly what occurred.

bierman wants to quantify such presentiments, following up on a revealing experiment done by dr dean radin, a former researcher on the military project stargate, which looked into the phenomenon of 'remote viewing' and psychic premonition. radin hooked ordinary subjects to a lie detector in order to measure changes in galvanic skin response. he then flashed at random a series of photos, some of which were violent or erotic. one would expect galvanic skin response to spike when such pictures appeared, but radin discovered a strange phenomenon. subjects tended to respond a few seconds in advance of the actual image flashing on the screen. in other words, they sensed an event before it occurred.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

it'll be interesting to see all the results once they're published...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.co...af_that_glowed

be well, be love.

david

the little leaf that glowed

here are the results of the first-ever group intention long- distance double-blinded biophoton experiment — at least what we’re allowed to tell you.

the results are so sensational that we are going to publish them in a scientific journal, which do not allow us publish all the data (such as pictures) anywhere else first.
the intention experiment pilot study used delegates from our london conference sending intention to a leaf at the university of arizona.

mark boccuzzi, one of the scientific team at laboratory for advances in consciousness and health at the university of arizona in tucson, headed by the noted psychologist and consciousness researcher dr. gary e. schwartz, carried out the lab work. he selected two carefully selected and prepared leaves from the same flourishing geranium plant with similar biophoton emissions.

mark chose two geranium leaves, matching them for similar biophoton release, then prepared them with 16 holes / injuries in a 4 x 4 grid — a process that can take two or more hours. both leaves were placed under web cams. then mark stood by.

[David Wilcock]

this is great. not much new research into consciousness science that i've seen, which makes this all the more valuable as it is a rethinking of the whole experimental process and has a nice visual representation.

- david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's part ii.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak...i_b_50609.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the brain (part 2)

if it is true that intelligence arises in a "mind field" that surrounds us on all sides, we must all be participating in it. almost a century ago carl jung proposed that our participation takes place in a "collective unconscious," from which the human race derives its myths and archetypes. the fact that cultures widely separated in time and place produce the same kind of stories about questing heroes, transformation, and hidden worlds suggests that jung is right. but what about active participation? do we consciously use the mind field? one reads of australian aborigines who view the world in "dream time" and map according to invisible "songlines" that cross the boundary between intuition and the five senses. there's an east indian island culture in which the members discuss their dreams collectively every morning, with the belief that in this way they shape the events that will unfold for them in the future.

everyday life in our society feels far from away form those examples. how do we use the mind field? such a link was provided by helmut schmidt, a researcher working for boeing's aerospace laboratory in seattle. beginning in the mid-sixties, schmidt set out to construct a series of "quantum machines" that could emit random signals, with the aim of seeing if ordinary people could alter those signals using nothing more than their minds. the first machine detected radioactive decay form strontium-90; each electron that was given off lit up either a red, blue, yellow, or green light. schmidt asked ordinary people to predict, with the press of a button, which light would be illuminated next.