WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
Max Planck a Nobel Prize winner in physics, says, “I regard consciousness as fundamental”.
According to the world of quantum physics, reality appears to us in two forms. There are the empirical, energetic and material things and behind these there are the hidden, invisible and non-empirical domain that doesn’t consist of things, but of waves of potentiality.
Religions of all ages have always insisted that the essential reality isn’t found in the material world, but in some transcendent part of the universe. In order to experience an invisible world, look inside you, where your feelings and the images of your mind are real. But where exactly are these? They are not in the brain because when it is opened up, there are no such images to be seen. They are part of our consciousness.
Wilder Penfield, the well-known neurosurgeon and mind researcher, discovered through many exhaustive case studies that consciousness or the mind has no unique location within the body. According to Fred Alan Wolf, a professor in physics, “The mind appears to be everywhere. It is observing on the scale of atoms and molecules, neurons, cells, tissues, muscles, bones, organs – in other words, it is observing on all scales of physical existence”.
One of the important abilities that our brain has acquired in the course of its evolution is its sensitivity to light waves. It has done that by developing eyes with which we can see. In his book, Infinite Potential, Lothar Schafer states that “It is possible to think that the brain has also evolved some sensitivity to potentiality waves by evolving ‘eyes’, or neuronal structures, that can receive signals out of the cosmic field and, in turn, take forms of our consciousness back into the cosmic field”. In the first half of the 20th century, Carl Jung developed a theory of the human mind based on principles of this kind; he described empirical evidence for the thesis that our mind can be affected by a field of invisible forms, which he called archetypes (these are patterns of thought and images passed down from our ancestors) which can influence “our imagination, perception, and thinking”. He called the realm where these forms exist the “collective unconscious”.
One of the absolutes of science is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; consequently, the energy associated with our identity doesn’t disappear at death (Lanza, 2009). Bruce Lipton, a cell biologist asks, “Does this mean that our unique energy profile transcends this one world we’re aware of and transfers to other worlds?”
This seems to be borne out by the thousands of people who believe that they have experienced past lives, near death experiences and nonphysical realities. Near death experiences refer to an out-of-body encounter with “going to the Light”, which is associated with feelings of overwhelming love and peace and where people who have this experience often report that they communicate with deceased family members and friends who have already “crossed over”.
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Jung, C. G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Lanza, Robert M.D. “Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No.’” Huffington post.com, Nov. 17, 2011.
Lipton, B. H. The Biology of Belief. Hay House, 2015. P223.
Penfield, W. The Mystery of the Mind (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), p. 109.
Shafer, L. Infinite Potential, What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live. Deepak Chopra Books, 2013. P24.
Wolf, F. A. “Taking the Quantum Leap”. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York. 1989.
