Have you ever wondered what it's really all about? How does this little life of ours fits into the larger picture -- into a reality so huge the Universe itself is but a speck?
We go to and fro our affairs, baking cookies and digging up Sarah Palin bikini pictures, unaware of just how massively primitive our understanding of life and existence really is. Biocentrism, a new theory of everything, suggests we're so far off the mark we might as well be reading comic books instead of textbooks on evolutionary biology or quantum physics. We peer out at the edge of the universe with our radiotelescopes, yet it's only recently that scientists have started to question a worldview that stretches back to the beginning of civilization. It's time to say goodbye to this old paradigm.
In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant declared space and time were properties of the mind. More recently, Einstein acknowledged "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." According to biocentrism, space and time are biological constructs, suggesting there are other information systems that correspond to other realities based on logic completely different from ours. These algorithms are the key to consciousness and why space and time and the properties of matter are relative to the observer. Biocentrism suggests they're not the only tools to experience reality. Although we experience a world of up and down, these algorithms could be changed so that instead of time being linear, it was for instance, 3-dimensional like space. Your consciousness would move through the multiverse, and you could walk through time like you walk through space.
Everything you experience is information occurring in your head. Space and time are just our way of making sense of things. They're not objects, but rather the software that like in a DVD player, molds information into multidimensional experience. We take for granted how our mind weaves everything together. Even in dreams, it generates a reality, replete with a functioning body that interacts with a surrounding physical environment. Although a mental fabrication, you're able to think and experience sensations just as real as you do now.
If you add that everything physically possible has to happen (as many physicists believe), what does that mean about our ultimate destiny? Where does your life and consciousness begin and end? It seems simple invertebrates may only experience existence in one dimension of space. Evolutionary biology suggests that life has progressed from a one dimensional reality, to two dimensions to three dimensions, and there's no reason to think the evolution of life stops there. Ultimately, consciousness runs upward by insensible degrees from the lowest forms of life through to vertebrate existence, and far beyond us to extracorporeal (transcendental) existences that we can't even begin to fathom. Although we experience them piece by piece, like the songs on a record, they represent parts of a unitary reality that exists outside the classical divisions of space and time.
It's time to embrace this broader vision of reality. This became clear to me one afternoon, when as a boy, a small cottontail rabbit ran by me. There was nothing remarkable in that; nor did I think it unusual when he stopped a moment, holding up his paws and looking at me with the curious glance of the White Rabbit, as if to say, "Why, Robert, what are you doing out here?" But when the creature looked into my eyes and twitched its whiskers, I felt the Élan Vital in him, a certain sense of consciousness that cut across space. Then it ran off, and I too. You see, there was a joining, a projection of desires across the species boundary. For just a moment, I could feel the guide hairs on the back of my neck, even as the rabbit might have felt them himself.
Some people will say the sun was hot upon me that day, and that I shouldn't burden my readers with this affair. They don't think there's any other explanation left. However, you've probably heard about the two-hole experiment, the quantum Zeno effect, and other experiments that suggest the structure of the physical world is influenced by human observation. The results of these experiments are fantastic, I agree. But when quantum physics was in its early days, even some physicists dismissed the findings as impossible. It's curious to recall Einstein's reaction to the experiments: "I know this business is free of contradictions, yet in my view it contains a certain unreasonableness." Yet later he admitted quantum mechanics doesn't contain any logical contradictions and is logically unexceptionable. Maybe so, but I've spent my entire career studying the basis of life. I have faith in life, not a set of equations.
No doubt the equations are right, but perhaps it's wiser to interpret nature in terms of life rather than in terms of wave functions. To me, my interaction with the creature that inhabited that field was more complicated, and will in the end penetrate closer to the secret of the universe than any experiment that ever was carried out in a laboratory. As I have grown older, I have found myself puzzling over that little episode. Somewhere in it, I was sure, lay the secret.
It was only with the fall of objectivity that scientists began to consider again the old question of comprehending the world as a form of mind. Einstein, on a walk home, asked Abraham Pais if he really believed the moon existed only if he looked at it. Since that time, physicists have revised their equations in a vain attempt to arrive at a statement of natural laws that doesn't depend on the circumstances of the observer. But in these days of disconnected theory, one point seems certain: the nature of the universe can't be divorced from the nature of life itself. Indeed, quantum theory implies consciousness must exist, and that the content of the mind is the ultimate reality. Only an act of observation can confer shape and form to reality -- to a dandelion in a meadow or a seed pod.
But that's not all. The late physicist Heinz Pagels once commented: "If you deny the objectivity of the world unless you observe it and are conscious of it (as most physicists have), then you end up with solipsism -− the belief that your consciousness is the only one." This may not unsettle you, except perhaps if you were standing in a meadow when everything was bathed in such pure light. But there I was, the creature a few rods off, its eyes fixed on mine.
I knew then that Pagel's conclusion about solipsism was right. Only it wasn't my consciousness that was the only one, it was ours. There was no doubt; that consciousness which was behind the youth I once was, was also behind the rabbit. Aye, behind the mind of every creature existing in space and time, and beyond them to intelligences in other realities we can't fathom. "There are," wrote Loren Eiseley "very few youths today who will pause, coming from a biology class, to finger a yellow flower or poke in friendly fashion at a sunning turtle on the edge of the campus pond, and who are capable of saying to themselves, 'We are all one -- all melted together.'"
Yes, I thought, we're all one. There was a crackling of some twigs, and I jumped up in alarm. In another moment I popped down the large rabbit-hole under the rock. Down, down, down into a world of the unfathomable.
"Biocentrism" (co-authored with astronomer Bob Berman) lays out Lanza's theory of everything.
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I know from my own experiences in out of body,when you become self-aware,you are pulled back into this consciousness.
IT is not anything I can do at will,it is only when I am relaxed to the point that my mind is free of everything,that I can do this.
I have no idea how long it even last,is it a second,or minute,or an hout.I couldn't tell you.The only thing I know is I become self-aware and come back.
You lost me here...........cause it doesn't fit into a picture....large or small.
today one hour earlier than scheduled John Hagelin will speak on quantum cosmology , consciousness, vedic science [ foundation of physiology] at Global family chat on maharishi channel 3
Sorry 'bout your luck folks.
5. When we corrupt our past history for personal or political advantage (very common), we have created a paradox in history. This also sets up varied and multiple dimensions of reality, which can not actually change the past but our perception of them changes with our memories, written materials, etc.. Since our minds are quantum instruments, our (perceived) changing past reflects in a changing future. This in turn changes the possible future outcomes and so the likelihoods of every possible future changes with them. With the changing future possibilities comes an altered 'information stream' originating in the future.
The confusion comes in when we see these varying paradoxical dimensions (both past and future) as altering the present 3 dimensions. This precise moment in time is where the 'rubber meets the road'. It is not an illusion. Nor can we simply choose to disregard it and step into a different present moment. Reality is not 'software'.
Respectfully submitted.
I think that explains the current mind set of the extreme right. In order to observe, one cannot have filters and must be open to accept those observations.
Rather than arriving at an internal perception first, prior to observing and then mandating that everyone now accept that personal internal view as everyone's reality.
In essence the far right does not only "Not" see without using internally made filters, but rather serves the internal reality and tosses it out as a realistic observation. Which is a false one to begin with.However it is packaged as real and is expected to be accepted as the reality of the universe. For which all others must adhere to.
Maybe I need more coffee and missed this by a long shot.:-)
So how did the spores or particles get into the air?Are they real?
But between you and me, I think insects and animals would be quite adept at hearing it. The question don't allow for the natural realities of the area.
Much like an elephant during the moments prior to a tsunami, as it runs up the mountain to safety before the waves hits the shores. Is the Tsunami real if no one sees it coming? Of course. Especially in areas where the same tsunami has already hit .
We probably ought to leave that question as it was intended, as an exercise in the classrooms of intro to logic 101:-)
Here is the perspective from the troll kingdom:
1. Information is not subject to the boundaries of 3-dimensional space.
2. What we call 'the passing of time' is not an illusion. It is the aging of and movement of matter--through those 3-dimensions, where they are quite stuck.
3. While Einstein may be considered a 'god' to many scientists and academics, in the troll kingdom, he was a gifted mathematician but not much of a philosopher and not infallible, even in physics. Me thinks he applied mistaken assumptions carried forward from his 'special relativity' to arrive at the oft cited quotation about the past and future being an illusion. The past and future are NOT 'illusionary'.
4. Since information is not tethered to any point in time, it can be used (most commonly) by referencing the past but also, in a much smaller way, can be retrieved from a future which has not happened yet. This is where the 'multiple dimensions' come into play. Because the future exists based on every possible outcome. Thus competing and even contradictory bits of information can be referenced simultaneously. The more likely events have the stronger information streams but these streams also change the likelihoods. (Cont'd)
Do we actually know whether there is a force that permeates time, space the universe that somehow connects all to past, future, now, life and death. So much is unknown; and Dr. Lanza, you have succeeded in making me think outside the box again. I really enjoy your articles here.
The squirrel is probably thinking:
I know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion and that this clicking human standing in front of me is probably a construct of my own mind.