continued from my examiner blog . . . http://www.examiner.com/interfaith-spirituality-in-columbus/spirituality-halloween-the-hereafterHere are some bigger minds weighing in on the possibility of continued existence and continuing consciousness. Author Michael Talbot says, in The Holographic Universe, ‘At a 1985 symposium on the possibility of life beyond biological death held at Georgetown University and convened by U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell, physicist Paul Davies expressed, ‘We are all agreed that, at least insofar as human beings are concerned, mind is a product of matter, or put more accurately, mind finds expression through matter (specifically our brains). The lesson of the quantum is that matter can only achieve concrete, well-defined existence in conjunction with mind. Clearly, if mind is pattern rather than substance, then it is capable of many different representations.’ Even psycho-neuro-immunologist Candace Pert, another participant at the symposium was receptive to the idea. ‘I think it is important to realize that information is stored in the brain, and it is conceivable to me that this information could transform itself into some other realm. Where does the information go after the destruction of the molecules (the mass) that compose it? Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, and perhaps biological information flow cannot just disappear at death and must be transformed into another realm,’ she says. . . . In discussing levels of reality and continuance of consciousness, University of London quantum physicist and protégé of Einstein, David Bohm says, ‘the separation of the two- matter and spirit- is an abstraction. The ground is always one.’ pp 270-271.
Drawing from physics and study of how the brain stores information neuro-psychology researcher Karl Pribram developed the idea of the brain as a hologram. He said in a Psychology Today article, ‘It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t objects out there, at one level of reality. It’s that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hitherto remained inexplicable scientifically: paranormal phenomena, synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events.’
Author Michael Talbot explains the idea that the universe itself may be a giant hologram thus: ‘there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it-from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons-are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.’ (p1 The Holographic Universe) This view defies the typical mechanistic, atheistic or religious boxes many reside in, and help to explain what might be termed ‘super-natural’ in scientific terms. In this view, ghosts and energetic ‘ghostly memories’ that some might experience can be potentially explained. One example, ‘Bloody Lane’ at the Antietam Battlefield of the Civil War, where thousands died, is 11 degrees cooler -to this day- than the surrounding air temperature. There are still ghostly soldier sightings.
Hindu sage Sri Aurobindo claims that spiritual beings are pure vibration. ‘In his two-volume work, On Yoga, he even likens their ability to appear as either a form or a vibration, to the wave-particle duality discovered by modern science. He said most humans beings possess a ‘mental screen’ that keeps us from seeing beyond ‘the veil of matter,’ but when one learns to peer beyond this veil one finds that everything is comprised of ‘different intensities of luminous vibrations.’ He asserted that consciousness is also composed of different vibrations and believed that all matter is to some degree conscious. Like Bohm, he even asserted that psycho-kineseis is a direct result of the fact that all matter is to some degree conscious.’ (p 264 The Holographic Universe)
Drawing from physics and study of how the brain stores information neuro-psychology researcher Karl Pribram developed the idea of the brain as a hologram. He said in a Psychology Today article, ‘It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t objects out there, at one level of reality. It’s that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hitherto remained inexplicable scientifically: paranormal phenomena, synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events.’
Author Michael Talbot explains the idea that the universe itself may be a giant hologram thus: ‘there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it-from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons-are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.’ (p1 The Holographic Universe) This view defies the typical mechanistic, atheistic or religious boxes many reside in, and help to explain what might be termed ‘super-natural’ in scientific terms. In this view, ghosts and energetic ‘ghostly memories’ that some might experience can be potentially explained. One example, ‘Bloody Lane’ at the Antietam Battlefield of the Civil War, where thousands died, is 11 degrees cooler -to this day- than the surrounding air temperature. There are still ghostly soldier sightings.
Hindu sage Sri Aurobindo claims that spiritual beings are pure vibration. ‘In his two-volume work, On Yoga, he even likens their ability to appear as either a form or a vibration, to the wave-particle duality discovered by modern science. He said most humans beings possess a ‘mental screen’ that keeps us from seeing beyond ‘the veil of matter,’ but when one learns to peer beyond this veil one finds that everything is comprised of ‘different intensities of luminous vibrations.’ He asserted that consciousness is also composed of different vibrations and believed that all matter is to some degree conscious. Like Bohm, he even asserted that psycho-kineseis is a direct result of the fact that all matter is to some degree conscious.’ (p 264 The Holographic Universe)
There is so much to learn, so much to explore- past, present and future, that those who remain rigidly dogmatic and refuse to engage in interfaith, intercultural and scientific inquiry may face a very big surprise. Perhaps more our better responses are a) agnostic, with a wink; b) humanist with a twinkle in the eye; or c) studied believer with an open heart and mind.
[Benjamin Joseph Sheppard house-1880's N.C. shown here]
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