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The current worldview has it that everything is made of matter, and everything can be reduced to the elementary particles of matter; [however,] everything starts with consciousness ... consciousness is the ground of all being.

Dr. Amit Goswami, University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics

Titus Rivas: Why it Makes Sense to Explain Near-Death Experiences by the Survival of Consciousness

Peter Russell, From Science To God: Peter starts with the “hard problem” of consciousness - why do we have an inner world of experience? Diving into his eye, and into his mind, we enter a surreal world in which we discover that all we ever know directly are the forms and images arising in the mind. But, he asks, where does consciousness itself come from?

Personal Statement #3: An Introduction to The Scientific Evidence for The AfterLife: "I'm not allowed to tell you too much about what it's like over here, because some of you might try to end your mortal lives just to get here a little faster"

Personal Statement #28: Love In The AfterLife: The Perfect Storm of Ultimate Human Suffering: Exploring Cosmic Meaning in Separation from a Soulmate Lover: Making Your Music Pure

Personal Statement #46: Love In The AfterLife: Romance at the Pinnacle of Existence! The Ultimate Dualistic-Halves of Eternal Twin-Soul Love! Why Your Deepest Yearning is the Voice of the Universe Proclaiming Its Truest Cosmic Message! I will love no other! no other!

Personal Statement #62: The Awesome Power of Sacred Directed Purpose: How to call into Being the deepest desires of your Soul! Why all seemingly impossible obstacles will eventually bend to your Sanctified Targeted Intentions; and why Jesus said, Embrace this God-Life, and no Mountain will dare stand in your way! It's as good as done! You cannot be stopped!

Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe: "Quantum theory has been one of the most successful theories in history, but like any theory, it is an approximation of the world, not the world itself. If ten years from now PSI research convincingly demonstrates that quantum theory is merely a special case of a more comprehensive theory ... it will come as no great surprise to historians and philosophers of science."

Carl Jung: "It is almost an absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have immediate knowledge is psychic [i.e., mind, our own sense of consciousness]. We might as well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses."

Don Juan: "We are perceivers. We are an awareness ; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us."

Albert Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili & Vince Rause, Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief: "Neurologically speaking, then, the mind cannot exist without the brain, and the brain cannot exist without striving to create the mind. The relationship of mind and brain is so intimately linked, in fact, that it seems most reasonable to consider the terms as two different aspects of the very same thing. Consider, for example, that the existence of a single human thought requires the highly complex interaction of hundreds of thousands of neurons. In order to separate mind from brain, it would be necessary to think of each neuron as something distinct from its function, which is a little like trying to separate the seawater that provides the substance for an ocean wave from the energy that gives the wave its shape and motion. The existence of the wave requires both elements: without energy, the wave would fall flat; without water, the wave energy would have no expression. In the same sense, it is not possible to separate individual neurons from their functions; if it were possible, then a thought could be freed from its neurological base, and the mind could be seen as something separate from the brain, a free-floating consciousness that would be considered a soul."

Kevin Williams: "Dr. Michael Sabom is a cardiologist whose latest book, Light and Death, includes a detailed medical and scientific analysis of an amazing near-death experience of a woman named Pam Reynolds. She underwent a rare operation to remove a giant basilar artery aneurysm in her brain that threatened her life. The size and location of the aneurysm, however, precluded its safe removal using the standard neuro-surgical techniques... She was referred to a doctor who had pioneered a daring surgical procedure known as hypothermic cardiac arrest. It allowed Pam's aneurysm to be excised with a reasonable chance of success. This operation, nicknamed 'standstill' by the doctors who perform it, required that Pam's body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head. In everyday terms, she was put to death. After removing the aneurysm, she was restored to life. During the time that Pam was in standstill, she experienced an NDE. Her remarkably detailed veridical out-of-body observations during her surgery were later verified to be very accurate. This case is considered to be one of the strongest cases of veridical evidence in NDE research because of her ability to describe the unique surgical instruments and procedures used and her ability to describe in detail these events while she was clinically and brain dead."

Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, Univ. of Arizona, The AfterLife Experiments: "Years ago, when I was a professor at Yale, I stumbled on a hypothesis about how systems store information... it had led me ... to recognize the possibility that consciousness might survive after death... All systems, in the process of becoming and remaining whole, store information dynamically. Systems are composed of component parts that share information and energy - from atoms and chemicals, through cells and organisms, to planets, galaxies, and the universe as a whole... Mathematical logic leads to the conclusion not only that all systems are 'alive' to various degrees, but also that this information continues as a living, evolving energy system after the physical structure has ceased to exist. Following the logical line of reasoning, everything I knew about physics and psychology forced me to entertain the hypothesis of living info-energy systems."

Carl Sagan: Think of what consciousness feels like, what it feels like at this moment. Does that feel like billions of tiny atoms wiggling in place? 

Edward Carpentier: "If you inhibit thought (and persevere) you come at length to a region of consciousness below or behind thought ... and a realization of an altogether vaster self than that to which we are accustomed. And since the ordinary consciousness, with which we are concerned in daily life, is before all things founded on the little local self ... it follows that to pass out of that is to die to the ordinary self and the ordinary world. It is to die in the ordinary sense, but in another it is to wake up and find that the 'I,' one's real, most intimate self, pervades the Universe and all other things - that the mountains and the sea and the stars are a part of one's body and that one's soul is in touch with the souls of all creatures."

Robert Anton Wilson (and the German philosopher, Husserl): "All perception is a gamble." Wilson: All ignorance in the world is the result of not understanding that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see, and we believe our interpretation of it, and we don't even know that we are making an interpretation of it. We think this is reality. This is called naive realism. 'What I see is reality!' Philosophers have refuted naive realism every century for the last 2500 years and yet most people still act on the basis of naive realism. What we think is true is true only relative to the instrument that we are using. There is no vantage point from which we can see full reality. We're all looking at the universe from the perspective of our own reality tunnels. Light is neither waves nor particles until we look, and then it adjusts itself depending on what we are looking at it with. An electron is not anywhere until we look. And, when we look, the electron decides to be somewhere; as soon as we stop looking the electron is everywhere again. Every model of reality we make tells us as much about how our mind works as it does about reality. Any description of the universe that leaves you out is inaccurate, because any description of the universe is a description of the instrument that you used to take your reading. So, any model we make of the universe is not a model of the universe but merely describes what our brains are capable of saying or knowing at this time.

Eugene Wigner, physics Nobel Laureate: "It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts develop, that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of the consciousness is an ultimate reality." Stephen M. Barr, theoretical particle physicist: "This conclusion is not popular among those who would reduce the human mind to a mere epiphenomenon [secondary element] of matter. And yet matter itself seems to be telling us that its connection to mind is more subtle than is dreamt of in their philosophy."

Max Planck, physics Nobel Laureate, "father of quantum mechanics": "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature ... because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

Amit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist, University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics.

The current worldview has it that everything is made of matter, and everything can be reduced to the elementary particles of matter, the basic constituents - building blocks - of matter. And cause arises from the interactions of these basic building blocks or elementary particles; elementary particles make atoms, atoms make molecules, molecules make cells, and cells make brain. But all the way, the ultimate cause is always the interactions between the elementary particles. This is the belief - all cause moves from the elementary particles. This is what we call “upward causation.” So in this view, what human beings - you and I think of as our free will does not really exist. It is only an epiphenomenon or secondary phenomenon, secondary to the causal power of matter. And any causal power that we seem to be able to exert on matter is just an illusion. This is the current paradigm. Now, the opposite view is that everything starts with consciousness. That is, consciousness is the ground of all being. In this view, consciousness imposes “downward causation.” In other words, our free will is real. When we act in the world we really are acting with causal power. This view does not deny that matter also has causal potency - it does not deny that there is causal power from elementary particles upward, so there is upward causation - but in addition it insists that there is also downward causation. It shows up in our creativity and acts of free will, or when we make moral decisions. In those occasions we are actually witnessing downward causation by consciousness.

 

Mystics, contrary to religionists, are always saying that reality is not two things - God and the world - but one thing, consciousness. The problem with science has always been that most scientists believe that science must be done within a different monistic framework, one based on the primacy of matter. Quantum physics showed us that we must change that myopic prejudice of scientists, otherwise we cannot comprehend quantum physics. So now we have science within consciousness, a new paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness that is gradually replacing the old materialist science. The new paradigm resolves many paradoxes of the old paradigm and explains much anomalous data.

Consciousness is the ground of all being... We have to introduce consciousness into science, but to do this consciousness must have some structure to manifest itself. That structure requires mind, vital energies, supra-mentality, soul in other words.

What is the 'only mystery' of science?

May 16, 2011, Editor’s note: Physics Nobel Laureate, Dr. Richard Feynman, once said that quantum mechanics’ Double-Slit Experiment represents “the only mystery” of science! What did he mean? See this youtube cartoon with “Dr. Quantum” as he explains some of the alice-in-wonderland effects.

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