PART 1: So, Theoretical Physics has a Problem
Dr. Ring’s Study of Apparent Eyeless Vision reported that people who were totally blind, provided precise, corroborated visual accounts from their Near-Death, Out-of-Body Experiences which could not be due to hallucination. Blind people, incapable of forming images in the brain, instantly attained undistorted vision from a position somewhere outside and above the body after physical life could no longer be sustained.
When confronted by such evidence, the scientific community generally accepts that evidently it is common for consciousness and the mind to persist after death, in a non-physical existence outside the body.
However, realization soon sets in that this phenomenon presents a profound and unavoidable challenge to our understanding of physics, in that such perception of images occurs without physical matter absorbing electromagnetic energy. How did the images form if there was no matter, without electrons to absorb the energy? Since the blind develop crystal-clear vision during Near-Death-Experiences without any physical matter processing light, this proves mainstream physics alone is incapable of explaining the universe, and requires inclusion of non-physical processes. Fortunately, a simple interpretation from mystical studies together with quantum mechanics establishes a basis for complete understanding. At this point, it is clearly laughable to imagine that theoretical physics is anywhere close to a Theory of Everything.
It is remarkable that Dr. Ring’s research on Apparent Eyeless Vision establishes the reality of this non-physical process. It is equally remarkable that this forces us to consider the unification of theoretical physics and mystical teachings in order to hope to be able to have a complete understanding of the entire universe.
Upon realizing that the universe consists of much more than purely physical manifestations, one might logically expect that mainstream physics could not possibly provide adequate descriptions of non-physical phenomena. Fortunately, mystical teachings offer centuries of realizations and techniques to explore the full extent of the universe.
My decades of research have convinced me that there are a number of spiritual teachings which rise to this standard, so I do not promote any teaching over another. However, in order to come to my conclusions, I have only had time to sufficiently study one such discipline in depth, and my experiences will reflect that teaching. All of this points to the reality that empirical experience of the individual is necessary to gain complete understanding and freedom within the universe, and out-of-the body travel as taught by various mystical schools provides the means to do so. Much more will be related in subsequent materials.
PART 2: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Quantum mechanics is fundamental to the unification of physics and mystical teachings, and one of its oldest and most widely embraced tenets is the Copenhagen Interpretation, where it is assumed that all quantum mechanically allowable states exist simultaneously. However, one only experiences a single, specific state of the universe at any instant, and never all states at once. This fact caused physicists to reason that whenever any observer interacts in any way with the universe, the infinitude of wave-states instantly collapses into the single state experienced by that observer. And of course, the universe would need to instantly re-inflate to all allowable states to be ready for the next collapse in the next instant, and on and on it goes. This is likely the most egregious insult ever to the principle of Occam’s Razor, that the best explanation of a phenomenon is generally the simplest one.
What you will see is that an exceptionally simple interpretation attributed to an ancient Tibetan, allows complete consistency between quantum mechanics and mystical teachings, without the contrivance of waveform collapse. Perhaps the greatest physicist in history never had any university degrees at all.
To summarize, each of us exists as consciousness attached to a mind and body, making sense of the universe by experiencing individual states in a causal sequence. Eventually we learn to detach from the body and explore the universe in a non-physical manner. Finally, we detach from the mind as well and experience the entire universe at once in the shared view called Universal, or God Consciousness.
We now have a literal understanding of where we are going, and that understanding came through the study of physics, or more specifically, quantum mechanics. And through that understanding, we realize that physics points us to an existence beyond time and space, to the realm described by the mystics. At this point, since mystical teachings have existed for thousands of years, one might claim that theoretical physicists must be guilty of poor scholarship. Why didn’t they seriously consider mystical teachings long ago?
Well, quantum mechanics had to be developed first, and then there is the reality that to receive research funding, professional physicists must largely restrict their research to topics currently receiving funding. Beyond that, anyone serious about researching mystical teachings must also be willing to undertake a decades-long contemplative study.
A purely intellectual study would fail. The second part of the statement attributed to Buddha earlier is that Understanding Without Meditation is Without Fruits. The benefits of contemplation or meditation are purely empirical. Without personal experience, one could not possibly know what they were talking about.
PART 3: The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that mainstream theoretical physics is comfortable with the possibility of the infinite complexity of infinite universes, along with universal waveform collapse and reinflation every instant in order to explain causality. However, causality is only necessary as long as the mind is interpreting, or “making sense” of the universe. Since consciousness can experience the universe independent of the mind, beyond the realm of space and time, it experiences all quantum mechanical states simultaneously and no interactions occur at all. This static universe unifies theoretical physics and mystical teachings, and provides understanding through literal, scientific truth, without the need for metaphor, and we finally have an understanding of an eternal realm. The universe of mainstream theoretical physics is simply a specific interpretation of the more general static universe.
The universe is simple. It is static. It can be completely understood by those willing to learn the techniques taught by those who have mastered separation of consciousness from body and mind. If you restrict yourself to the physical realm, your scientific basis is limited to untestable conjecture based on theories. If you go beyond the physical, contemplation is the laboratory, and only empirical evidence gathered beyond the realm of time and space can be considered complete.
PART 4: The Bottommost Line The physicist in me would love to understand how the mind works. How does it maintain causality for the infinitude of units of consciousness throughout the realms of time and space? For the time being, I’m content with the reality that it just doesn’t seem to matter. The physical realm is akin to the sandbox in the kindergarten classroom for consciousness, and the succeeding realms of time and space represent successively advanced levels of awareness. Once one attains sustained consciousness within the Eternal Realm, one also attains complete freedom within all realms of existence, and at that point, perhaps it really doesn’t matter how the mind works. But at this point, I would still like to know.
And now for a similar presentation with more emphasis on Physics
The Real Theory of Everything
How Necessary is Causality?
I have personal, empirical evidence of a dramatic violation of causality. During the summer of 1969 I was on a saw crew fighting a forest fire in Glacier Park when my foreman shouted my name and screamed “LOOK OUT!” I looked up just in time to see a rock that weighed perhaps 50 pounds coming directly at me and no more than a foot in front of my face. It had been rolling downhill for at least a quarter of a mile and had to be traveling at least 60 miles per hour. I wasn’t doing any calculations in my head at this point, but I instantly knew I would be dead before I could move. Gravity certainly couldn’t pull me out of the way and if there could have been some mechanism to accelerate my head out of the way in time, I wouldn’t have survived that acceleration either. However, in the next instant, I was on the ground. One instant vertical–– flat on the ground in the next. Impossible. But I had an independent witness. My foreman came over and in disbelief asked how that had happened. Of course at that moment I was incapable of processing the event. Reviewing this experience over the years leads me to attribute this fortunate turn of events to something akin to divine intervention rather than any supernatural power of my own, but the point is I could not have survived this without the violation of causality. My best guess is that a spiritual guide chose this to illustrate that causality is not absolute.
The Biggest of All the Big Ideas
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.
