Food for Thought

Food for Thought

It seems strange that after several hundred years of scientific thought so many huge gaps exist between our understanding of reality and the actual nature of it. Ever since I embarked on my engineering career, my curiosity has always prompted me to keep track of science's progress toward improving mankind's understanding. However it seems that there is a persistent gulf that exists between our theory and the real nature of things.

For example- we have discovered that Newtonian physics, the stuff we still use navigate and land men on the moon, and put machines on mars, turns out to be only a close approximation. Some of Einstein's theories seem to be the same, an approximation. It's like the science of figuring out our world is a sort of fractal: the more we know, the more accurate our predictions become, but as we look with more and more precision, there always remains a gulf between how we think things work, and how they do work.

As the Tevetron helped us uncover secrets, the size of the secrets just seem to shrink accordingly. And now as we smash particles with the LHC we find the same thing. It seems that we are taking half sized steps toward a wall and finding that at this rate, we will never reach the wall.

About 100 years ago we found something quite extraordinary- a set of theories including Heisenberg's uncertainty principal and Quantum mechanics, that essentially show that we can't really understand what we seek (which is why we are told to “shut up and calculate”), and even more incredibly (with Quantum theory) that it may take human consciousness to actuate reality in the first place. This caused me to think a lot about the most incredible experiment of all time- the double slit: which illuminates this, but which is a whole separate topic of its own so deserves it's own post (stay tuned).

The next logical step for me was one where I started to sense we have a "hidden mind". One which thinks independently and which actually remembers all that we have ever experienced. This came out of a dream where I remembered the detailed physical surroundings of a day in the 3rd grade. It included the long forgotten names and even phone numbers of my all my friends. Two amazing facts were apparent-
1- that this information was all still intact somewhere and somehow, and
2- that I have some sort of second level of mind, a deeper and more capable one that was able to access the information in such a vivid way.

We'll get into the details of this dream in a later post.

Intuitively it seems to me that the brain is simply not big enough or complex enough to contain this fantastic amount of information. The fact that we have a level of thinking that goes way beyond our normal waking thought process seems amazing.

This leads to a whole line of thinking that points to dreams (where this super-conscious mind seems to “live”) and where, it turns out, amazing stuff like lucid dreams are possible.

I had a particular lucid dream that demonstrated an apparent communication with some higher entity which I will share at some point. And even if my experience was somehow imagined (don't think it was but how would I prove such a thing?), there are many documented cases similar to this where unknowable information was communicated: in some cases the only person who knew this information was then dead! Also via various NDE type experiences we've demonstrated the ability to (re)aquire knowledge from a previous personal life, or even from another person's life. Which exposes the probability that memories of experiences exist outside of the human brain. Which would also explain many paranormal activities where one person can access another's experiences.

And what about the many tales of savants who spontaneously speak another language without having been exposed to it, or to play a symphony with ever learning to do so? A model of information being held outside of a person's biological brain addresses many of these and other unexplained and currently scientifically impossible things.

Another thing that came out of my train of thought involve stories of hypnotic regression to birth and beyond which supports and explains two incredible things- 1- reincarnation. 2- what Dr Michael Newton discovered, and calls "Life between lives".

For those who would say that hypnotic regression is inherently unreliable I would point out two things:
1- in many cases, using this technique unknowable info has been uncovered about these prior lives.
2- spontaneous child recollections have uncovered the same sorts of stories without the hocus-pocus of hypnosis.

There is enough proof here for anyone who really looks at the evidence.

If you eventually accept the life between life phenomenon, you need to look at the huge number of corroborative stories that talk about a number of levels of spirit and the eternal nature of existence. All of which ties seamlessly back to all the NDE and shared NDE stories. All of this creates one very seamless story line where all of these paranormal things offer a single amazing view of the nature of reality.

Is that enough for you to chew on?

Want to know more?

Check out Skeptiko website listed under useful websites on the right of this blog. This is a amazing resource where the host, Alex Tsakiris, interviews all sorts of people on a huge range of subject matter, who's views cover the spectrum ranging from hard core skeptic to convinced "practitioner" and all points in between.

Also, when time allows, I will be posting a pretty extensive listing of books and other resources where you can find the details on all of the topics I cover here in this blog.