Characterization vs. Utilization of Consciousness
The scientific community has historically characterized consciousness as a product of the brain rather than something that has independent capabilities. For instance, the seating in a car can serve as an environment for facilitating communication with others. However, the far greater benefit of a car is how far it can take you. Likewise, consciousness facilitates communication, but CONSCIOUSNESS can also accomplish the ultimate awareness of everything, everywhere, at the same eternal instant without any risk at all. To dismiss this capability is to assume the millions of similar reports of NDEs are hallucinations devoid of significance, thereby preferring nearly endless incarnations of ignorance instead of focusing on our eventual evolution. So many shiny objects hold our attention while within the physical realm. But these shiny objects always eventually disappear while consciousness does not. And the only practical way to attain our evolutionary goals is to utilize the guidance of a spiritual master who will provide the experiences we need, rather than what caught our attention while reading the experiences of others.
And we can only accept the reality of non-physical aspects of the universe through experience. This is only practical when facilitated through guidance from a spiritual master due to the infinite nature of the entire universe.
It has taken me many years to assimilate my experiences and characterize them appropriately. In the early years of my study I focused on the unification of Quantum Mechanics and spiritual teachings where the spiritual teachings explain what Quantum Mechanics cannot, but I finally realized that would likely only appeal to a tiny group of physicists. Instead, I now realize that the audience most likely to benefit from the practice of separation of consciousness will consist of a percentage of the millions of individuals who have had NDEs and already know the NDEs are real. They don’t need any convincing. And they will likely popularize the evolution of consciousness far more effectively than the scientific community ever could. They will be relating their experiences, not concepts.
According to the Scientific American, “… 5 to 10 percent of the general population is estimated to have memories of an NDE.” And since the world population has topped 8 billion, that’s up to 800,000,000 NDEs, which is far beyond the barrier for statistical significance. This is where we get the most convincing evidence that consciousness is non-physical and survives the body at death. Regarding significance, physical science provides us with countless puzzles as distractions to keep us busy as we search for meaning, until we eventually learn of the Eternal Realm and its significance. The full understanding of life is fundamental and is our ultimate, inevitable goal. And it is extremely common for those who have experienced an NDE to believe that nothing could possibly be greater. I felt that way for 12 years after my NDE. Well there’s good news about that. There is an experience just waiting for you that is infinitely greater. The enormous number of existing NDE reports provide the motivation to study separation of consciousness as the means to attain the experience of universal, or God consciousness, whereas the scientific community provides almost no motivation. My guess is that this means those that had NDEs will constitute the majority attaining the experience of God Consciousness. However, in my extremely small sample of two people and myself experiencing this state, two of them did not experience an NDE.
I consider the Pam Reynolds story to be the most convincing proof that consciousness survives death of the physical body. When I brought this claim to the attention of a prominent consciousness researcher, his response was that he was reluctant to accept just a single data point. That is fair, so I am willing to reduce my claim of “proof” to “evidence”. Evidence sufficient to compel consciousness researchers to test this claim. This researcher stated that he had studied a form of meditation in this regard, but that his effort was “abortive.” This is telling in regard to my mystical study, in that my study supports the claim that God Consciousness extremely unlikely without the personal guidance of a spiritual master. The scientific community is unlikely to ever establish the reality of fundamentality of consciousness without this level of exploration. My personal exploration of mystical teachings provided the experience of God Consciousness in slightly less than two years of contemplative practice, which is far less time than is typically required for a Ph.D. It all boils down to whether the brain creates consciousness for its purposes, or consciousness utilizes the mind and brain to control one’s bodies for the purposes of exploring the realms of time and space and expressing itself. Fundamentally, it doesn’t matter which position is correct, because if the Doctrine of Materialism is correct, all traces of humanity will vanish from the universe as soon as our planet loses the capability to support human life, and humanity will have lost all meaning. On this basis alone, we should adopt a very strong effort to explore mystical teachings. On the other hand, if mystical teachings are correct, it is inevitable that all consciousness will eventually function within the Eternal Realm, and the consideration of when this occurs is meaningless. Whatever day one accepts this truth is one’s personal liberation day. If the Doctrine of Materialism is correct, it is a certainty that climate change will eventually render the Doctrine of Materialism meaningless as the last of us pass away. Take your pick.
In any case, I’m betting that if only 100 million individuals who have experienced an NDE become aware that they can infinitely surpass their NDE by experiencing God Consciousness, they will surpass everything the scientific community is currently on-track to accomplish. The physical realm will still exist, and there will remain the need to understand how to navigate through life as long as they utilize a physical body. Eventually, however, everyone will realize our most fundamental accomplishment is to realize and master our relationship with the entire universe.
