Can you be deeply spiritual and entrenched in the physical Material world? Yes, you can. What seems to happen though is that the more spiritual you become the more you become aware of ‘something’ that connects you to a greater reality. If you never questioned it, your life would still proceed along a spiritual path of compassion, Love and service to others. Great people throughout history that we would deem saints have followed this kind of spiritual path. If, however, you read their writings, you realize that their ‘inner sight’ gave them an understanding of what lies beyond the ‘veil.’ The shamans of indigenous cultures were well aware of all of this. Indeed, it is why they were the shamans. Today, we seem to be in a transition where it is not the saints who are the ones seeing beyond the veil, but literally millions of people around the world who are awakening to an understanding that something has to change, and whether we accept the non-mainstream ideas (that I am explaining in these posts) or adhere to the mainstream reality consensus, that change is happening already.
Karl Pribram and David Bohm researched about the universe and concluded it was a holographic reality and the brain was a non-local holographic processing system. In early studies of vision, Pribram discovered that the visual information a monkey receives via its optic nerves does not travel directly into its visual cortex but is first filtered through other areas of its brain. Numerous studies have shown that the same is true of human vision. It is thought that less than 50 percent of what we ‘see’ is actually based on information entering our eyes. The remaining 50 percent plus is pieced together out of our expectations of what the world should look like. The eyes may be the information receptor organs, but it is the brain that sees. And what we think we see can be enhanced, manipulated, and changed through drugs, meditation, and even simply changing a belief system. Physical reality is not concrete, it is pliable!
Much neurobiological, psychological, and biophysical research now shows that our perceptions are merely the way we decode information that is around us. Those perceptions are then shaped by the social, cultural, and ultimately personal biases within our brain to produce our experiences that become our reality consensus. That is, we all agree at a consciousness level what reality should look like – and that it is an illusion of being solid. Since I am claiming energy is a crucial component of who we are, let’s talk about something that is verifiable. Around every person, centered in the heart (not the brain) is a measurable ‘tube torus’ of electromagnetic energy. It extends about 8ft from the body (maybe further, but our current Gauss meters/magnetometers are only sensitive to this field to 8 ft). Several quantum physicists speculate that this field may reach infinitely, which raises some fascinating ideas about this quantum universe. Quantum Entanglement is where two particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by light-years of space – a change induced in one will affect the other. This has been validated by several labs and emphasizes that it is the energy that connects the particles. As an analogy, think about the light from a star a million light years away. The light reaching your eye is already one million years old, yet all the light emanates from that one star along a path between you now and that star from a million years ago to exactly as it is now (a million light years away). The heart field shows that we are indeed, energy beings. If you allow yourself to consider that maybe you are more energy than solid, then you can see a different picture of reality forming. This is important because from a practical standpoint, I want to explain simulations and a potential purpose for everything in our universe.
In the Startrek: The Next Generation TV show’s, the Holodeck was a place that the characters could play out fantasies and simulations before returning to the ‘real space world’ of the Starship Enterprise. What quantum reality physicists are proposing is that this world we live in is like the holodeck and the real world is a quantum world where we exist as forms of energy. Now research into the pharmacological effects of psychotropic chemicals give us interesting results. DMT is one chemical that exists endogenously within our bodies, and yet we have no idea what it actually does. Experiences while under mind altering drugs like LSD, or Psilocybin, which affect the brain through the endorphins receptors (receptors that inhibit pain and produce euphoria), produce psychedelic experiences. The effects from DMT are uniquely different. The reports from participants while under controlled DMT experiments are quite similar from people who have undergone Near Death Experiences (NDEs) – this is well researched by mainstream scientists (Conscious observations from a perspective outside the actual body). Neurobiologists have tried to explain these NDE experiences as merely the consequence of endorphin receptors firing randomly while the brain is starved of oxygen or has apparently flat-lined. The problem with this explanation is that the experiences ‘while out of the body’ are too detailed and full of verifiable observations external to the body that they could not possibly be a brain simply hallucinating under stress. (I should note here that psychotropic drug responses are greatly affected by the mental attitude of the users. Shamanic use was always through tightly controlled and guided ritual ceremonies, and never through random use to get ‘high.’ Unprepared use has led to many people having bad trips as they move in to altered states of consciousness for which they have no experience in their present mental state. This is partly why replication studies are so hard.)
It has been speculated that the pineal gland produces a chemical pinniline that triggers production of endogenous DMT. At this time there hasn’t been any hard research to confirm or deny this. It does seem that the effects of DMT seem to be on the imagination rather than the intellect. This leads to it being too readily discounted, yet many researchers in the transpersonal psychology field claim that the intellect acts merely as the processing chip while imagination is the whole quantum intelligence beyond the body. Mechanistic views believe that our thoughts and memories are somehow held within the neuronic pathways within the brain. Quantum views believe that they are part of a quantum field around us. One of the biggest problems with all the research in this area is that it is filtered and interpreted through a belief system, which always comes down to the question – what is reality? Are we simply a bag of chemicals or are we a being of energy? If the former, then you are born, life’s a bitch and then you die. If the latter, then you are a energy being having an illusionary physical experience on a holodeck called the Earth. Whether you are a proponent of one or the other, what is crucial here is that the fact we have a DMT chemical in our bodies that produces incredibly strange results for connection to a different reality that we cannot explain with mainstream science. This in itself is worthy of more deep research. What is presently a fascinating debate could ultimately be a mind-boggling explanation into the nature of our reality and consciousness itself.
I’ve no intention of going into detailed quantum theories (there are plenty of great books out there, although mainstream critics call them new age so as to cast doubt on their validity). A recent book The Everything Answer Book: How Quantum Science Explains Love, Death, and the Meaning of Life by quantum physicist Amit Goswami, says: “Goswami’s basic premise is that quantum physics is not only the future of science, but is also the key to understanding consciousness, life, death, God, psychology, and the meaning of life. Quantum physics is an antidote to the moral sterility and mechanistic approach of scientific materialism and is the best and clearest approach to understanding our universe. In short, quantum physics is indeed the theory of everything.” If you accept what I am saying, great. if you are a doubter but still here, come along for the ride. Our brain is a quantum chip that processes information. You don’t actually see, hear, touch, smell, or feel anything. Your five senses are merely sensors that bring in information. The brain then processes this information through its belief structures to give you a world you ‘think’ is in front of you. We are responding to what we think, and expect, is there, we don’t always see what really is there. Neurophysiologists have long been aware of this fact. Our consensus reality is literally that – a consensus generated by our cultural upbringings. Nearly all of us are all tuned into the same frequency from which this consensus arises. We can, however, change this frequency just like we can change a radio station by adjusting the frequency dial! We can simply change our frequency once we awaken to the fact that we are just living in a consensus and it doesn’t have to be that way.
Many mainstream researchers claim that consciousness is generated within the brain itself, however, there seems to be no evidence that supports this, despite decades of searching. Transpersonal psychology researchers like Stanislav Grof, for instance, have verifiable explanations that are fascinating. Renowned Physicist, Michio Kahu, speaks of multiple universes that can co-exist in the same space. We exist at one specific frequency and this is our universe. If we could change our frequency we would see that different realities existed simultaneously in the same space we occupy. An analogy for this is your television. If you are tuned to one station, then that show you are watching is your reality on that screen. If you want another screen then you would tune to another frequency. All the frequencies of all the other stations exist all around you but you are only tuned to the one frequency, one at a time. And yes, you can change your own frequency once you realize and accept that you have that option! So if a world of war, violence, greed, hate and anxiety are not your preference, then we literally can change to another one of peace, love, harmony, and respect. Ok, obviously there is a lot more to talk about yet but we’ll get there. Ancient and indigenous cultures have a lot to teach us. We know from anthropological and archaeological evidence that our ancestors were not always at war and fighting each other in a world of greed and power. The history we think humanity has had for the last 10,000 years is only the one taught to us in schools today (notably framed through the consensus reality we currently have). I outlined this at the end of the last post. If you can break out of the notion that our ancestors were simple and unsophisticated people then you can open up to the ideas that explain many experiences we poo-poo today. There are many things within indigenous belief systems that are completely baffling from mainstream science and anthropological Newtonian based research. They lived within the physical world, yet, understood it as something attached to an energetic reality. So many branches of the rabbit hole to go down here – which one next? Let’s go deeper into what I talked about above, let’s talk about simulations.
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