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So I caught this interview on NPR yesterday about the extreme-G research that a Dr. James Winnery has been doing.
He used a giant centrifuge and would spin pilots until they would go into full black-out and lose consciousness.
The Doctor even once spun himself into unconsciousness five times in a row, only to find that later, when he was walking down the hallway to his office, his consciousness was above and behind his body.
IMO this is what happened…he basically “loosened” the confines of his consciousness by his body.
This occurred due to loss of consciousness because of lack of blood to the brain.
Here is the NPR story and another that I found on Dr. Winnery.
I was there.
But I, like, wasn't there.
I was floating.
I was looking at myself from outside of myself.
If it hasn't happened to you, it's likely happened to somebody you know.
And whether or not you believe it, about one in ten people report having had one. "Out of body" experience, it's a dirty word in many circles.
Which is perhaps why pilots call it "G-LOC" (gravity-induced loss of consciousness, pronounced "G-lock" not "glok").
Turns out this kind of experience (call it what you want) occurs quite frequently among fighter pilots.
Producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler bring us the story.
We'll hear from pilots Tim Sestak, and Col. Dan Fulgham on what it's like to lose yourself, unfortunately for us skiddish passenger-types, while flying a plane.
Finally we'll hear from Dr. James Whinnery, who simulates G-LOC by placing pilots in giant centrifuges.
His research monitors their brain activity as they accelerate to speeds inducing this loss of consciousness.
But Doc Whinnery isn't just a scientist, he's a subject.
And his research has taken him to some surprising places.
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The scientific method requires a phenomenon to be able to be reproducible under laboratory conditions for it to be declared a "real" phenomenon.
In the early days, near-death experiences were thought by some to be just "phantom" visions and nothing more than imagination.
But then Dr. James E. Whinnery, a chemistry professor with West Texas A&M, became involved with research involving fighter pilots being subjected to extreme gravitational forces in a giant centrifuge to simulate the extreme conditions that can occur during aerial combat maneuvering.
Strangely enough, it turns out that under extreme g-forces, fighter pilots lose consciousness and have a near-death experience.
Whinnery wrote a technical report for the National Institute for Discovery Science about the phenomenon and in doing so proved the near-death experience to be a real phenomenon.
The following is a summary of his technical report of how NDEs are triggered by severe gravitational forces.[/TD]
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Scientific research has tried to unlock the secrets of death and what happens to consciousness after death.
Our scientific understanding of the mind / brain chemistry involved in the processes of death remains relatively limited.
In spite of the findings reported from these studies, little emphasis has been placed on the loss of consciousness.
The results of the loss and recovery of consciousness experiments in healthy humans may provide insight into the normal processes in the brain that occurs in association with NDEs.
This report focuses on the mind/brain events associated with acceleration gravitationally-induced loss of consciousness, also known as G-LOC, in completely healthy individuals.
Acceleration of gravitational stress is a unique aspect of flying fighter aircraft during aerial combat maneuvering. Modern fighter aircraft can attain high levels of gravitational forces that puts most humans at risk for G-LOC.
The gravitational-stress reduces blood flow to the head and causes pooling of blood in the abdomen and extremities which result in G-LOC.
A solution for the G-LOC problem requires a thorough understanding of the alterations of consciousness.
Although preventing further losses of aircrew and aircraft is the goal of fighter aviation medicine, the results from experiments involving G-LOC in completely healthy humans should be of interest to a broad range of scientific disciplines.
The results to be discussed represent data collected from over fifteen years of acceleration research and more than 700 episodes of G-LOC that occurred in fighter aircraft and during gravitational centrifuge exposure.
The research subjects averaged in age of 32 years.
All of them were healthy after having successfully completed a military physical examination.
The G-LOC episodes from the centrifuge were all recorded on videotape for analysis.
When gravitational stress is applied well above tolerance, there is a short time period during which normal brain function persists, despite loss of adequate blood flow.
At the end of this period, consciousness is lost, and the gravitational stress is reduced back to normal conditions. The length of the unconsciousness averaged 12 seconds with a -5 to +5 standard deviation and a range of 2 to 38 seconds.
The estimated average length of time blood flow to the central nervous system was altered during the loss and recovery of consciousness was approximately 15 to 20 seconds.
Convulsive activity was observed in 70% of the G-LOC episodes.
The convulsive activity began on the average 7.7 seconds after the onset of unconsciousness and lasted 3.9 seconds.
The convulsions would cease with the return of consciousness.
Upon recovery of consciousness, there is a period of relative incapacitation that lasts on the average about 12 seconds, in which there exists confusion/disorientation.
It is possible to classify the G-LOC episodes.
The G-LOC experience includes specific visual symptoms (tunnel vision through blackout), convulsive activity, memory alterations, dreamlets, and other psychological symptoms.
The major, overall G-LOC experience characteristics that have commonality with NDEs are shown below.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style15, bgcolor: #F4F4FF"]1. G-LOC Characteristics in Common With NDEs[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Tunnel vision / Bright light[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Floating[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Automatic movement[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]4.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Autoscopy[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]5.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Out-of-body experience[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Not wanting to be disturbed[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]7.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Paralysis[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]8.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Vivid dreamlets / Beautiful places[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style19"]Dissociation[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]9.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Pleasurable[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]10.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Psychologic state alteration[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Friends / Family inclusion[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]12.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Prior memories / Thoughts inclusion[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]13.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Very memorable (when remembered)[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]14.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Confabulation[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]15.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Strong urge to understand[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]The G-LOC syndrome, however, suggests that loss of consciousness may be considered to be an evolutionarily developed protective mechanism that is evoked in a stepwise sequence in the face of excessive gravitational stress, well before any pathologic alterations of the nervous system occurs.
Specific states of consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness are induced during loss and recovery of consciousness.
One additional state of consciousness, a state that corresponds to a critically low range of blood flow, is where death occurs.
The magnitude and duration of the gravity induced reduction of activity in the cephalic nervous system determines just how near to the state of death the individual comes.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style7"]Altered brain states, whether resulting from G-LOC or the NDE, can produce vivid experiences to those who have them.
Some differences between G-LOC and the NDE would be expected, if for no other reasons than the circumstances that cause them and the magnitude of the insults to the nervous system, which are different.
The G-LOC syndrome symptoms are the normal responses of completely healthy individuals to relatively minimal periods of cephalic nervous system ischemia.
If there are unique characteristics associated with the NDE, then their isolation would appear to be facilitated by focusing on what the real differences are in the individuals, their physical states, the environmental situation, the type of insult, and the symptomology between G-LOC and the NDE.
The mind / brain events of the NDE may be at least partially open to experimental investigation in healthy humans and not solely upon clinical happenstance.
The need to understand the states of consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness, along with the mechanisms that cause the transition between these states is shared by those investigating NDEs and G-LOC.
Loss-of-consciousness episodes of all types appear to have an explainable physiologic basis.
They are, therefore, open for scientific investigation.
At least the loss of consciousness aspect of the NDE, therefore, has a potentially explainable and experimentally explorable basis.
It would be odd if the symptoms associated with loss and recovery of consciousness were not part of the NDE.
The fact that many of the NDE symptoms are very similar to those resulting from loss and recovery of consciousness suggests that individuals who report their NDEs have provided accurate symptom descriptions. This includes those symptoms beyond the scope of G-LOC experimentation, which are unique to the NDE.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style7"]"When snatched from the jaws of death, tooth marks are to be expected."- Hal Story, near-death experiencer[/TD]
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He used a giant centrifuge and would spin pilots until they would go into full black-out and lose consciousness.
The Doctor even once spun himself into unconsciousness five times in a row, only to find that later, when he was walking down the hallway to his office, his consciousness was above and behind his body.
IMO this is what happened…he basically “loosened” the confines of his consciousness by his body.
This occurred due to loss of consciousness because of lack of blood to the brain.
Here is the NPR story and another that I found on Dr. Winnery.
Out of Body, Roger
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91527-out-of-body-roger/
(This link contains the streaming episode ((15 mins.))
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91527-out-of-body-roger/
(This link contains the streaming episode ((15 mins.))
I was there.
But I, like, wasn't there.
I was floating.
I was looking at myself from outside of myself.
If it hasn't happened to you, it's likely happened to somebody you know.
And whether or not you believe it, about one in ten people report having had one. "Out of body" experience, it's a dirty word in many circles.
Which is perhaps why pilots call it "G-LOC" (gravity-induced loss of consciousness, pronounced "G-lock" not "glok").
Turns out this kind of experience (call it what you want) occurs quite frequently among fighter pilots.
Producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler bring us the story.
We'll hear from pilots Tim Sestak, and Col. Dan Fulgham on what it's like to lose yourself, unfortunately for us skiddish passenger-types, while flying a plane.
Finally we'll hear from Dr. James Whinnery, who simulates G-LOC by placing pilots in giant centrifuges.
His research monitors their brain activity as they accelerate to speeds inducing this loss of consciousness.
But Doc Whinnery isn't just a scientist, he's a subject.
And his research has taken him to some surprising places.
The Trigger of Extreme Gravity: Dr. James Winnery's NDE Research
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The scientific method requires a phenomenon to be able to be reproducible under laboratory conditions for it to be declared a "real" phenomenon.
In the early days, near-death experiences were thought by some to be just "phantom" visions and nothing more than imagination.
But then Dr. James E. Whinnery, a chemistry professor with West Texas A&M, became involved with research involving fighter pilots being subjected to extreme gravitational forces in a giant centrifuge to simulate the extreme conditions that can occur during aerial combat maneuvering.
Strangely enough, it turns out that under extreme g-forces, fighter pilots lose consciousness and have a near-death experience.
Whinnery wrote a technical report for the National Institute for Discovery Science about the phenomenon and in doing so proved the near-death experience to be a real phenomenon.
The following is a summary of his technical report of how NDEs are triggered by severe gravitational forces.[/TD]
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Scientific research has tried to unlock the secrets of death and what happens to consciousness after death.
Our scientific understanding of the mind / brain chemistry involved in the processes of death remains relatively limited.
In spite of the findings reported from these studies, little emphasis has been placed on the loss of consciousness.
The results of the loss and recovery of consciousness experiments in healthy humans may provide insight into the normal processes in the brain that occurs in association with NDEs.
This report focuses on the mind/brain events associated with acceleration gravitationally-induced loss of consciousness, also known as G-LOC, in completely healthy individuals.
Acceleration of gravitational stress is a unique aspect of flying fighter aircraft during aerial combat maneuvering. Modern fighter aircraft can attain high levels of gravitational forces that puts most humans at risk for G-LOC.
The gravitational-stress reduces blood flow to the head and causes pooling of blood in the abdomen and extremities which result in G-LOC.
A solution for the G-LOC problem requires a thorough understanding of the alterations of consciousness.
Although preventing further losses of aircrew and aircraft is the goal of fighter aviation medicine, the results from experiments involving G-LOC in completely healthy humans should be of interest to a broad range of scientific disciplines.
The results to be discussed represent data collected from over fifteen years of acceleration research and more than 700 episodes of G-LOC that occurred in fighter aircraft and during gravitational centrifuge exposure.
The research subjects averaged in age of 32 years.
All of them were healthy after having successfully completed a military physical examination.
The G-LOC episodes from the centrifuge were all recorded on videotape for analysis.
When gravitational stress is applied well above tolerance, there is a short time period during which normal brain function persists, despite loss of adequate blood flow.
At the end of this period, consciousness is lost, and the gravitational stress is reduced back to normal conditions. The length of the unconsciousness averaged 12 seconds with a -5 to +5 standard deviation and a range of 2 to 38 seconds.
The estimated average length of time blood flow to the central nervous system was altered during the loss and recovery of consciousness was approximately 15 to 20 seconds.
Convulsive activity was observed in 70% of the G-LOC episodes.
The convulsive activity began on the average 7.7 seconds after the onset of unconsciousness and lasted 3.9 seconds.
The convulsions would cease with the return of consciousness.
Upon recovery of consciousness, there is a period of relative incapacitation that lasts on the average about 12 seconds, in which there exists confusion/disorientation.
It is possible to classify the G-LOC episodes.
The G-LOC experience includes specific visual symptoms (tunnel vision through blackout), convulsive activity, memory alterations, dreamlets, and other psychological symptoms.
The major, overall G-LOC experience characteristics that have commonality with NDEs are shown below.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Floating[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]3.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Automatic movement[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]4.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Autoscopy[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]5.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Out-of-body experience[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]6.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Not wanting to be disturbed[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]7.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Paralysis[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]8.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Vivid dreamlets / Beautiful places[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style19"]Euphoria[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style19"]Dissociation[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]9.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Pleasurable[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]10.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Psychologic state alteration[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]11.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Friends / Family inclusion[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]12.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Prior memories / Thoughts inclusion[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]13.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Very memorable (when remembered)[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style16"]14.[/TD]
[TD="class: auto-style17"]Confabulation[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]Strong urge to understand[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style17"]The G-LOC syndrome, however, suggests that loss of consciousness may be considered to be an evolutionarily developed protective mechanism that is evoked in a stepwise sequence in the face of excessive gravitational stress, well before any pathologic alterations of the nervous system occurs.
Specific states of consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness are induced during loss and recovery of consciousness.
One additional state of consciousness, a state that corresponds to a critically low range of blood flow, is where death occurs.
The magnitude and duration of the gravity induced reduction of activity in the cephalic nervous system determines just how near to the state of death the individual comes.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style7"]Altered brain states, whether resulting from G-LOC or the NDE, can produce vivid experiences to those who have them.
Some differences between G-LOC and the NDE would be expected, if for no other reasons than the circumstances that cause them and the magnitude of the insults to the nervous system, which are different.
The G-LOC syndrome symptoms are the normal responses of completely healthy individuals to relatively minimal periods of cephalic nervous system ischemia.
If there are unique characteristics associated with the NDE, then their isolation would appear to be facilitated by focusing on what the real differences are in the individuals, their physical states, the environmental situation, the type of insult, and the symptomology between G-LOC and the NDE.
The mind / brain events of the NDE may be at least partially open to experimental investigation in healthy humans and not solely upon clinical happenstance.
The need to understand the states of consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness, along with the mechanisms that cause the transition between these states is shared by those investigating NDEs and G-LOC.
Loss-of-consciousness episodes of all types appear to have an explainable physiologic basis.
They are, therefore, open for scientific investigation.
At least the loss of consciousness aspect of the NDE, therefore, has a potentially explainable and experimentally explorable basis.
It would be odd if the symptoms associated with loss and recovery of consciousness were not part of the NDE.
The fact that many of the NDE symptoms are very similar to those resulting from loss and recovery of consciousness suggests that individuals who report their NDEs have provided accurate symptom descriptions. This includes those symptoms beyond the scope of G-LOC experimentation, which are unique to the NDE.[/TD]
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[TD="class: auto-style7"]"When snatched from the jaws of death, tooth marks are to be expected."- Hal Story, near-death experiencer[/TD]
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Maybe he loosened his etheric body from his physical body. We have several layers as you have previously published.
I have heard on numerous occasions to ground myself - to pull myself back in to me after I just went through a guided meditation on expanding my spherical field out from my body.
I have heard on numerous occasions to ground myself - to pull myself back in to me after I just went through a guided meditation on expanding my spherical field out from my body.
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Absolutely!
Yes, I don’t think they meant to but that is what they did.
This also goes along with the Penrose theory that suggests our brains work as a quantum containment-field generator and this field is what hold the energy that is our consciousness in…and that when the electrical activity stops, then so does the containment field allowing the energy that is “us” to dissipate back into the source or it remains a coherent consciousness and we only know what happens so far there as well.
So if he was causing disruptions in his quantum containment field by causing a lack of blood flow to the brain then why shouldn’t his consciousness “leak out” so to speak?
Crazy.
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Yes. I agree it's a crazy way to see what's on the other side of the veil. :w:
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Quantum Experiment Shows How Time ‘Emerges’ from Entanglement
Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement,
say physicists. And they have the first experimental results to prove it.
Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement,
say physicists. And they have the first experimental results to prove it.
When the new ideas of quantum mechanics spread through science like wildfire in the first half of the 20th century, one of the first things physicists did was to apply them to gravity and general relativity.
The results were not pretty.
It immediately became clear that these two foundations of modern physics were entirely incompatible.
When physicists attempted to meld the approaches, the resulting equations were bedeviled with infinities making it impossible to make sense of the results.
Then in the mid-1960s, there was a breakthrough.
The physicists John Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt successfully combined the previously incompatible ideas in a key result that has since become known as the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.
This is important because it avoids the troublesome infinites—a huge advance.
But it didn’t take physicists long to realise that while the Wheeler-DeWitt equation solved one significant problem, it introduced another.
The new problem was that time played no role in this equation.
In effect, it says that nothing ever happens in the universe, a prediction that is clearly at odds with the observational evidence.
This conundrum, which physicists call ‘the problem of time’, has proved to be a thorn in flesh of modern physicists, who have tried to ignore it but with little success.
Then in 1983, the theorists Don Page and William Wootters came up with a novel solution based on the quantum phenomenon of entanglement.
This is the exotic property in which two quantum particles share the same existence, even though they are physically separated.
Entanglement is a deep and powerful link and Page and Wootters showed how it can be used to measure time.
Their idea was that the way a pair of entangled particles evolve is a kind of clock that can be used to measure change.
But the results depend on how the observation is made.
One way to do this is to compare the change in the entangled particles with an external clock that is entirely independent of the universe. This is equivalent to god-like observer outside the universe measuring the evolution of the particles using an external clock.
In this case, Page and Wootters showed that the particles would appear entirely unchanging—that time would not exist in this scenario.
But there is another way to do it that gives a different result.
This is for an observer inside the universe to compare the evolution of the particles with the rest of the universe.
In this case, the internal observer would see a change and this difference in the evolution of entangled particles compared with everything else is an important a measure of time.
This is an elegant and powerful idea.
It suggests that time is an emergent phenomenon that comes about because of the nature of entanglement.
And it exists only for observers inside the universe.
Any god-like observer outside sees a static, unchanging universe, just as the Wheeler-DeWitt equations predict.
Of course, without experimental verification, Page and Wootter’s ideas are little more than a philosophical curiosity.
And since it is never possible to have an observer outside the universe, there seemed little chance of ever testing the idea.
Until now.
Today, Ekaterina Moreva at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) in Turin, Italy, and a few pals have performed the first experimental test of Page and Wootters’ ideas.
And they confirm that time is indeed an emergent phenomenon for ‘internal’ observers but absent for external ones.
The experiment involves the creation of a toy universe consisting of a pair of entangled photons and an observer that can measure their state in one of two ways.
In the first, the observer measures the evolution of the system by becoming entangled with it.
In the second, a god-like observer measures the evolution against an external clock which is entirely independent of the toy universe.
The experimental details are straightforward.
The entangled photons each have a polarisation which can be changed by passing it through a birefringent plate.
In the first set up, the observer measures the polarisation of one photon, thereby becoming entangled with it.
He or she then compares this with the polarisation of the second photon.
The difference is a measure of time.
In the second set up, the photons again both pass through the birefringent plates which change their polarisations.
However, in this case, the observer only measures the global properties of both photons by comparing them against an independent clock.
In this case, the observer cannot detect any difference between the photons without becoming entangled with one or the other.
And if there is no difference, the system appears static.
In other words, time does not emerge.
“Although extremely simple, our model captures the two, seemingly contradictory, properties of the Page-Wootters mechanism,” say Moreva and co.
That’s an impressive experiment. Emergence is a popular idea in science.
In particular, physicists have recently become excited about the idea that gravity is an emergent phenomenon.
So it’s a relatively small step to think that time may emerge in a similar way.
What emergent gravity has lacked, of course, is an experimental demonstration that shows how it works in practice.
That’s why Moreva and co’s work is significant.
It places an abstract and exotic idea on firm experimental footing for the first time.
Perhaps most significant of all is the implication that quantum mechanics and general relativity are not so incompatible after all.
When viewed through the lens of entanglement, the famous ‘problem of time’ just melts away.
The next step will be to extend the idea further, particularly to the macroscopic scale.
It’s one thing to show how time emerges for photons, it’s quite another to show how it emerges for larger things such as humans and train timetables.
And therein lies another challenge.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1310.4691 :Time From Quantum Entanglement: An Experimental Illustration
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Maybe there's not enough disruption unless you're actually dead for a certain amount of time. Maybe the disruption isn't complete.
Kind of like how insulating barriers have an amount of resistance which can be overcome. Like air is an insulator but plasma can still arc through it above a certain threshold, but if you don't go past that threshold the electricity stays put.
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Plus, if there is entanglement acting over our consciousnesses…then once that field was restored, so would those entangled “particles” be once again contained (no matter how far their consciousness had gone).
This goes along with NDE experiences that say they could only go so far (even though they had already travelled beyond the universe so to speak) without that connection to their body being lost forever.
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Well even entangled particles can escape because they can move spacewise - because proximity is one thing which isn't entangled. So if they're out of the field boundary when it is restored then they're not coming back.
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This is the kind of stuff I enjoy pondering…
I wonder if the “silver thread” or “cord” that is seen both by NDEers but also self-induced out-of-body experiences.
There was even one scientist who made very scientific measurements of the silver cord.
It seems to be wide closer to your body…and becomes very very thin the further away you go…to me, that just screams “wormhole”…which would also make sense in the cases where people seem to travel outside of time and space…I imagine that could be very much like that if one could possibly imagine such a thing.
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Psychologist Says Children With Past-Life Memories Exhibit PTSD Symptoms
Children who report memories of violent deaths in past lives may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to psychologist Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, professor emeritus at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.
From the ages of 2 to 6, children are more likely to talk about being someone else, often someone who experienced trauma–a soldier who died in the line of fire, a pilot who crashed, a murder victim.
After the age of 6, they often lose interest or even forget what they’d previously said.
The memories, whether really from a past life or imagined, can have a negative psychological impact on the child.
Some become emphatic and distressed about having left their other family or home and wanting to return.
Some have debilitating phobias seemingly related to the traumatic death they remember.
Some are haunted by the traumas of their purported past lives in flashbacks or nightmares.
The symptoms may be very similar to those experienced by soldiers returning from war with PTSD.
Dr. Haraldsson cited the World Health Organization criteria for diagnosing PTSD in his paper, “Children Who Speak of Past-Life Experiences: Is There a Psychological Explanation?”:
1. The patient has been exposed to a stressful event or situation of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature.
2. There must be persistent remembering and “reliving” of the stressor in intrusive “flashbacks” or vivid memories.
3. There is either an inability to recall or persistent symptoms of increased psychological sensitivity and arousal shown by any two of the following: difficulty in falling or staying asleep, irritability or outbursts of anger, difficulty in concentrating, hypervigilance, and an exaggerated startle response.
In a study of dozens of children who have reported past-life memories in Lebanon and Sri Lanka (two places with sufficiently different cultural backgrounds to preclude this factor in the children’s behavior, according to Haraldsson), Haraldsson found them to frequently relive the trauma, and to have outbursts of anger.
Some also had more difficulty concentrating, sudden changes in mood, and aggressiveness, when compared to their peers.
Dr. Jim Tucker, a reincarnation researcher at the University of Virginia, wrote in his book “Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives”: “In the cases in which the previous person died an unnatural death, over 35 percent of the children show an intense fear of the mode of death, the kind of avoidant behavior that is part of the official DSM [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual] criteria for PTSD.”
His book includes the example of a caucasian child who seemed to remember being an African American girl of about 7 years old.
The girl saw herself walking along a road on a hot day, noticing her dry hands looked “ashy,” and then being abducted by two caucasian men in an old-fashioned car who raped and killed her.
She had a heightened startle response, which may have related back to these memories or visions she had.
She also had persistent daytime memories of the traumatic event and frequent nightmares about it.
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The War on Consciousness
By Graham Hancock, Guest Writer for Wake Up World, where this article was originally published.
We are told that the “War on Drugs” is being waged, on our behalf, by our governments and their armed bureaucracies and police forces, to save us from ourselves. “Potential for abuse and harm” are supposed to be the criteria by which the use of drugs is suppressed – the greater a drug’s potential for abuse and harm, the greater and more vigorous the degree of suppression, and the more draconian the penalties applied against its users.
By Graham Hancock, Guest Writer for Wake Up World, where this article was originally published.
In line with this scheme drugs are typically ranked into a hierarchy: Schedules I, II, and III in the US, Classes A, B, and C in the UK, and so on and so forth all around the world.
Thus, to be arrested for possession of a Schedule I or Class A drug results in heavier penalties than possession of a Schedule III or Class C drug.
Generally if a drug is deemed to have some currently accepted medical use it is likely to be placed in a lower schedule than if it has none, notwithstanding the fact that it may have potential for abuse or harm.
In the absence of any recognized therapeutic effects, drugs that are highly addictive, such as heroin or crack cocaine, or drugs that are profoundly psychotropic, including hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin, or DMT, are almost universally placed in the highest schedules and their use attracts the heaviest penalties.
The notable exceptions to this system of ranking according to perceived “harms” are, of course, alcohol and tobacco, both highly addictive and harmful drugs – far more so than cannabis or psilocybin, for example – but yet socially accepted on the grounds of long customary use and thus not placed in any schedule at all.
THE FAILED WAR
When we look at the history of the “War on Drugs” over approximately the last 40 years, it must be asked whether the criminalization of the use of any of the prohibited substances has in any way been effective in terms of the stated goals that this “war” was supposedly mounted to achieve.
Specifically, has there been a marked reduction in the use of illegal drugs over the past 40 years – as one would expect with billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money having been spent over such a long period on their suppression – and has there been a reduction in the harms that these drugs supposedly cause to the individual and to society?
It is unnecessary here to set down screeds of statistics, facts, and figures readily available from published sources to assert that in terms of its own stated objectives the “War on Drugs” has been an abject failure and a shameful and scandalous waste of public money.
Indeed, it is well known, and not disputed, that the very societies that attempt most vigorously to suppress various drugs, and in which users are subject to the most stringent penalties, have seen a vast and continuous increase in the per capita consumption of these drugs.
This is tacitly admitted by the vast armed bureaucracies set up to persecute drug users in our societies, which every year demand more and more public money to fund their suppressive activities; if the suppression were working, one would expect their budgets to go down, not up.
Meanwhile the social harms caused by the “War on Drugs” itself are manifest and everywhere evident.
In the United States, for example, there have been more than 20 million arrests for the possession of the Schedule I drug marijuana since 1965 and 11 million since 1990.
The pace of arrests is increasing year on year, bringing us to the astonishing situation where, today, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 38 seconds.1
The result, as Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, recently observed, is that marijuana arrests outnumber arrests for “all violent crimes combined,” meaning police are spending inordinate amounts of time chasing nonviolent criminals.2
And it goes without saying that those who are arrested for the use of marijuana and other illegal drugs do suffer immense harm as a result of the punishments inflicted on them–including, but not limited to, personal trauma, loss of freedom, loss of reputation, loss of employment prospects, and serious, long-lasting financial damage.
INVENTORY OF HARM
Such matters are only the beginning of the long inventory of harm caused by the “War on Drugs.”
Western industrial societies, and all those cultures around the globe that increasingly seek to emulate them, teach us to venerate above all else the alert, problem-solving state of consciousness that is particularly appropriate to the conduct of science, business, war, and logical inquiry, and to such activities as driving cars, operating machinery, performing surgery, doing accounts, drawing up plans, accumulating wealth, etc., etc., etc.
But there are many other states of consciousness that the amazing and mysterious human brain is capable of embracing, and it appears to be a natural human urge, as deep-rooted as our urges for food, sex, and nurturing relationships, to seek out and explore such “altered states of consciousness.”
A surprisingly wide range of methods and techniques (from breathing exercises, to meditation, to fasting, to hypnosis, to rhythmic music, to extended periods of vigorous dancing, etc.) is available to help us to achieve this goal, but there is no doubt that the consumption of those plants and substances called “drugs” in our societies is amongst the most effective and efficient means available to mankind to explore these profoundly altered states of consciousness.
The result is that people naturally seek out drugs and the temporary alterations in consciousness that they produce.
Not all people in every society will do this, perhaps not even a majority, but certainly a very substantial minority – for example the 2 million Britons who are known to take illegal drugs each month3 or those 20 million people in the US who have been arrested for marijuana possession since 1965.
And these of course are only the tip of the iceberg of the much larger population of American marijuana users, running into many more tens of millions, who have, by luck or care, not yet fallen foul of the law and are thus not reflected in the arrest statistics.
Needless to say, it is of course exactly the same urge to alter consciousness that also impels even larger numbers of people to use legal (and often extremely harmful) drugs such as alcohol and tobacco – which, though they may not alter consciousness as dramatically as, say, LSD, are nevertheless undoubtedly used and sought out for the limited alterations of consciousness that they do produce.
For the hundreds of millions of people around the world whose need to experience altered states is not and cannot be satisfied by drunken oblivion or the stimulant effects of tobacco, it is therefore completely natural to turn to “drugs” – and, since the “War on Drugs” means that there is no legal source of supply of these substances, the inevitable result is that those who wish to use them must resort to illegal sources of supply.
Herein lies great and enduring harm.
For it is obvious, and we may all see the effects everywhere, that the criminalization of drug use has empowered and enriched a vast and truly horrible global criminal underworld by guaranteeing that it is the only source of supply of these drugs.
We have, in effect, delivered our youth – the sector within our societies that most strongly feels the need to experience altered states of consciousness – into the hands of the very worst mobsters and sleazeballs on the planet.
To buy drugs our sons and daughters have no choice but to approach and associate with violent and greedy criminals.
And because the proceeds from illegal drug sales are so enormous, we are all caught up in the inevitable consequences of turf wars and murders amongst the gangs and cartels competing in this blackest of black markets.
It should be completely obvious to our governments, after more than 40 years of dismal failure to suppress illegal drug use, that their policies in this area do not work and will never work.
It should be completely obvious, a simple logical step, to realize that by decriminalizing drug use, and making the supply of all drugs available to those adults who wish to use them through legal and properly regulated channels, we could, at a stroke, put out of business the vast criminal enterprise that presently flourishes on the supply of illegal drugs.
It ought to be obvious, but somehow it is not.
Instead the powers that be continue to pursue the same harsh and cruel policies that they have been wedded to from the outset, ever seeking to strengthen and reinforce them rather than to replace them with something better.
Indeed the only “change” that the large, armed bureaucracies that enforce these policies has ever sought since the “War on Drugs” began has, year on year, been to demand even more money, even more arms, and even more draconian legislative powers to break into homes, to confiscate property, and to deprive otherwise law-abiding citizens of liberty and wreck their lives.
In the process we have seen our once free and upstanding societies – which used to respect individual choice and freedom of conscience above all else – slide remorselessly down the slippery slope that leads to the police state.
And all this is being done in our name, with our money, by our own governments, to “save us from ourselves”!
WINNERS AND LOSERS
Who benefits from this colossal stupidity and systematic wickedness?
And who loses?
The beneficiaries are easy to spot.
First, the large and ever-expanding armed bureaucracies, funded with large and ever-growing sums of public money to suppress the use of drugs, have benefited enormously.
Everyone who works for them, including the PR people and spin merchants who concoct the propaganda used to sell their policies to us, including their subcontractors both public and private, and including the (often privately run) prisons stuffed to bursting point with their victims, are the beneficiaries of this catastrophic failure on the part of our governments to think laterally, generously, and creatively.
Whether you are a Drug Enforcement Administration agent or a prison guard, you naturally have a deeply vested interest in maintaining the miserable status quo, justified by the “War on Drugs,” that keeps you in your job, that ensures your monthly paychecks continue to come in, and that continuously expands your budgets.
The second main category of beneficiaries is — of course! — the criminal gangs and cartels that the present misguided official policies have empowered as the sole source of drugs in our societies.
Over the past 40-plus years they have earned countless billions of dollars from the sale of illegal drugs which, had they only been legal, would not have earned them a single penny.
Who are the losers?
First and most directly those millions upon millions of good, nonviolent people in our societies who have been jailed or otherwise punished for the possession and use of drugs.
And second (regardless of whether or not they use illegal drugs themselves), virtually everyone else in our societies as well.
For the quality of life of all of us has been diminished by the growth of the police state and by the murderous activities of the criminal gangs enfranchised, and kept in business, by the blind and mindless perpetuation of this failed and bankrupt “War on Drugs.”
So, in summary, the criminalization of drug use has brought no positive effects, only negative ones, and it has not stopped or even reduced the use of dangerous and harmful drugs.
On the contrary, we have been so little “saved from ourselves” by this phony war that the use of almost all illegal drugs, far from decreasing, has dramatically increased during the past 40 years.
LEARNING FROM TOBACCO
A contrary example, but one that is most instructive, concerns the use of tobacco in our societies.
Tobacco has never been illegal; far from that, its use has been actively encouraged by clever advertising campaigns mounted by the multibillion-dollar tobacco industry.
But the use of tobacco does undoubtedly lead to great harms, both for the health of the individual and the health of society at large, and facts about these harms have been widely and successfully disseminated without a single tobacco user ever being arrested or persecuted.
It’s interesting in this connection to compare the success of public information campaigns about the dangers of tobacco use with the utter failure of public information campaigns about the dangers of marijuana use.
The reason the anti-marijuana campaigns have failed is that millions of users know from their own direct, long-term experience that marijuana does not do them any great harm and (with reference to the most recent anti- marijuana propaganda) most definitely does not drive them mad.
It may well be true that very small numbers of fragile teenagers whose mental health was already compromised have had their latent schizophrenia or other similar conditions worsened by the use of marijuana – but the vast majority of marijuana users are not at all affected in this way.
Likewise efforts by government agencies to persuade us that new, stronger strains of marijuana presently available on the market (e.g., “skunk”) are more dangerous to our health than traditional strains of marijuana because they deliver much more of the active ingredient THC to our systems, have not persuaded anyone.
Regular marijuana users presented with a stronger strain simply adjust their consumption, consuming far less of it than they would of a weaker strain in order to achieve the same effect, and feel intuitively that smoking less of any substance has got to be better for their lungs and general health than smoking more.
The consequence of this disconnect between personal experience and “facts” purveyed by official public information campaigns is that huge numbers of people no longer believe anything that our governments have to say to us about drugs.
There is an increasingly widespread recognition that tainted, unreliable, and tendentious information is being passed on – information that cannot be trusted.
And this distrust of official sources of information is, of course, only worsened by the propagandistic character, witch hunts, and scare tactics of the “War on Drugs” and by the realization that the health information purveyed in anti-drug campaigns is not underwritten by caring and nurturing official policies but instead by draconian criminal sanctions and punitive authoritarian attitudes.
Where the health hazards of tobacco use are concerned, on the other hand, since there are no criminal sanctions against tobacco users, no large, armed bureaucracies to enforce them, and no special interests to serve by the dissemination of misleading information, the evidence has been accepted and believed by most rational adults freely making up their own minds, precisely as one would expect.
The result?
While the use of illegal drugs has everywhere skyrocketed over the past 40 years, regardless of the violent persecution of the users of these drugs, the use of tobacco, in a climate of free choice and reliable information, has plummeted to an all-time low.
The consumption of tobacco, once seen as a socially approved, even desirable, and, indeed, “stylish” habit, has come to be regarded as a pariah-creating activity that only idiots would indulge themselves in.
Although there are, of course, still many tobacco users – because nicotine is intensely addictive – their numbers continue to fall dramatically year on year as more and more of us make the free choice to give up the habit for the sake of our health.
Is it not obvious that the “tobacco model” could be applied with equal success to all illegal drugs?
In other words, is it not obvious, if our governments really wish us to stop using drugs, that immediate legalization of adult personal use must follow, that the giant, armed bureaucracies that persecute drug users must be closed down, and that the whole matter must be thrown open, in the way that tobacco use has been thrown open, to the effects of good, reliable information and the sound commonsense of the vast majority of the population?
If that happens then we can be certain that drugs that are genuinely harmful to health and wellbeing (in the way that tobacco certainly is) will fall out of favor with their users in exactly the way that tobacco has done.
And if it turns out that some of these drugs are in fact not so harmful, then it should not concern us at all if some adults make the free choice to continue to use them.
Of course, even against a backdrop of legalization and good information, some adults will make the free choice to continue to use genuinely harmful drugs as well, just as some adults today do continue to make the free choice to continue to use tobacco.
But that, too, is as it should be in a truly free society.
Republican Congressman Barney Frank was spot on the truth of what a free society really means when he announced a proposal in August 2008 to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams (almost a quarter of a pound) of marijuana. “The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government’s business,” Frank said on Capitol Hill. “I don’t think it is the government’s business to tell you how to spend your leisure time.”
It goes without saying that Frank’s proposal is unlikely to succeed in the hysterical climate of disinformation that presently surrounds this subject, and we must ask ourselves why this should be so.
Why are commonsense proposals for the legalization of drugs never adopted, or even seriously considered by our governments?
Why, on the contrary, are such proposals dogmatically opposed with even more propaganda and tainted information emanating from the big, armed anti-drug bureaucracies?
That legalization of drugs would shrink the budgets of those selfsame bureaucracies, and ultimately put them out of business, is part of the answer.
But to find the real engine that perpetuates the “War on Drugs” we need to look deeper and ask fundamental questions about the relationship between the individual and the state in modern Western democracies.
FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
What is Western civilization all about?
What are its greatest achievements and highest aspirations?
It’s my guess that most people’s replies to these questions would touch–before all the other splendid achievements of science, literature, technology, and the economy–on the nurture and growth of freedom.
Individual freedom.
Including, but not limited to freedom from the unruly power of monarchs, freedom from the unwarranted intrusions of the state and its agents into our personal lives, freedom from the tyranny of the Church and its Inquisition, freedom from hunger and want, freedom from slavery and servitude, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of thought and speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to elect our own leaders, freedom to be homosexual – and so on and so forth.
The list of freedoms we enjoy today that were not enjoyed by our ancestors is indeed a long and impressive one.
It is therefore exceedingly strange that Western civilization in the twenty- first century enjoys no real freedom of consciousness.
There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness.
At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are–to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.
So it has to be highly significant that, far from encouraging freedom of consciousness, our societies in fact violently deny our right to sovereignty in this intensely personal area, and have effectively outlawed all states of consciousness other than those on a very narrowly defined and officially approved list.
The “War on Drugs” has thus unexpectedly succeeded in engineering a stark reversal of the true direction of Western history by empowering faceless bureaucratic authorities to send armed agents to break into our homes, arrest us, throw us into prison, and deprive us of our income and reputation simply because we wish to explore the sometimes radical, though always temporary, alterations in our own consciousness that drugs facilitate.
Other than being against arbitrary rules that the state has imposed on us, personal drug use by adults is not a “crime” in any true moral or ethical sense and usually takes place in the privacy of our own homes, where it cannot possibly do any harm to others.
For some it is a simple lifestyle choice.
For others, particularly where the hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT are concerned, it is a means to make contact with alternate realms and parallel dimensions, and perhaps even with the divine.
For some, drugs are an aid to creativity and focussed mental effort.
For others they are a means to tune out for a while from everyday cares and worries.
But in all cases it seems probable that the drive to alter consciousness, from which all drug use stems, has deep genetic roots.
Other adult lifestyle choices with deep genetic roots also used to be violently persecuted by our societies.
A notable example is homosexuality, once punishable by death or long periods of imprisonment, which is now entirely legal between consenting adults–and fully recognized as being none of the state’s business – in all Western cultures. (Although approximately thirteen US states have “anti-sodomy” laws outlawing homosexuality, these statutes have rarely been enforced in recent years, and in 2003 the US Supreme Court invalidated those laws.)
The legalization of homosexuality lifted a huge burden of human misery, secretiveness, paranoia, and genuine fear from our societies, and at the same time not a single one of the homophobic lobby’s fire-and-brimstone predictions about the end of Western civilization came true.
Likewise, it was not so long ago that natural seers, mediums, and healers who felt the calling to become “witches” were burned at the stake for “crimes” that we now look back on as harmless eccentricities at worst.
Perhaps it will be the same with drugs?
Perhaps in a century or two, if we have not destroyed human civilization by then, our descendants will look back with disgust on the barbaric laws of our time that punished a minority so harshly (with imprisonment, financial ruin, and worse) for responsibly, quietly, and in the privacy of their own homes seeking alterations in their own consciousness through the use of drugs.
Perhaps we will even end up looking back on the persecution of drug users with the same sense of shame and horror that we now view the persecution of gays and lesbians, the burning of “witches,” and the imposition of slavery on others.
Meanwhile it’s no accident that the “War on Drugs” has been accompanied by an unprecedented expansion of governmental power into the previously inviolable inner sanctum of individual consciousness.
On the contrary, it seems to me that the state’s urge to power has all along been the real reason for this “war”–not an honest desire on the part of the authorities to rescue society and the individual from the harms caused by drugs, but the thin of a wedge intended to legitimize increasing bureaucratic control and intervention in almost every other area of our lives as well.
This is the way freedom is hijacked–not all at once, out in the open, but stealthily, little by little, behind closed doors, and with our own agreement.
How will we be able to resist when so many of us have already willingly handed over the keys to our own consciousness to the state and accepted without protest that it is OK to be told what we may and may not do, what we may and may not explore, even what we may and may not experience, with this most precious, sapient, unique, and individual part of ourselves?
If we are willing to accept that then we can be persuaded to accept anything.
Updated August 2014
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham Hancock is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven’s Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series for Channel 4 in the UK and The Learning Channel in the US — Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age — have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity’s past.
Hancock graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain’s leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. He was also co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent for The Economist from 1981-1983.
Throughout the early 1980, Hancock’s published 6 books, his breakthrough to bestseller status coming in 1992 with the publication of The Sign and The Seal, his epic investigation into the mystique and whereabouts today of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Fingerprints of the Gods, published in 1995 confirmed Hancock’s growing reputation; selling more than three million copies, it was described as ‘one of the intellectual landmarks of the decade’ by the Literary Review. Subsequent works Keeper Of Genesis and Heaven’s Mirror have also been Number 1 bestsellers, the latter accompanied by Hancock’s three-part television series Quest For the Lost Civilisation.
In 2002 Hancock published Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age to critical acclaim, and hosted an accompanying TV series. The culmination of years of research and on-hand dives at ancient underwater ruins, Underworld offered tangible archaeological evidence that legends of floods destroying ancient off-coastal civilizations were not to be dismissed out of hand.
Hancock’s recent ventures include Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith which explores evidence of the continuation into modern times of a secret astronomical cult, Supernatural: Meetings with The Ancient Teachers of Mankind, an investigation of shamanism and the origins of religion, and his latest work Entangled, a story of a supernatural battle of good against evil fought out across the dimension of time on the human plane; a work inspired by his journey to the Amazon to drink visionary brew Ayahuasca, used by shamans for more than 4000 years.
To learn more, visit www.grahamhancock.com or follow Graham Hancock on Facebook.
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“Consciousness Creates Reality” —
Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual
Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual
“Consciousness creates reality,” a statement that has gained a lot of attention across various alternative media outlets around the world.
Make no mistake, consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality.
What is consciousness?
Consciousness includes a number of things.
It’s how we perceive our world, our thoughts, being aware, our intentions and more.
“Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.” — Nasseim Haramein
Does this mean we as individuals (and on a collective level as one human race) can shape and create whatever reality we’d like for ourselves?
Does it mean we can manifest a certain lifestyle, and attract certain experiences?
Does it happen instantly?
Does it take time?
How do we do it?
Although we might not be able to answer these questions with absolute scientific certainty, we do know that yes, a correlation between consciousness and our physical material world does indeed exist in some way, shape or form.
The extent of that correlation (again from a modern day scientific point of view) is still not well understood, but we know of the correlation, and we know it must have some sort of significance.
“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.”
— R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature 436:29,2005) (source)
The Science Behind The Statement “Consciousness Creates Reality”
The quantum double slit experiment is a very popular experiment used to examine how consciousness and our physical material world are intertwined.
It is a great example that documents how factors associated with consciousness and our physical material world are connected in some way.
One potential revelation of this experience is that “the observer creates the reality.”
A paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Essays by Dean Radin, PhD, explains how this experiment has been used multiple times to explore the role of consciousness in shaping the nature of physical reality. (source)
In this experiment, a double-slit optical system was used to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function.
The ratio of the interference pattern’s double slit spectral power to its single slit spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the double slit as compared to away from it.
The study found that factors associated with consciousness “significantly” correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the double slit interference pattern. (source)
“Observation not only disturbs what has to be measured, they produce it. We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.” (source)
A number of experiments in the field of parapsychology have also demonstrated this.
Sure, we might not understand the extent of this connection, and in most cases scientists can’t even explain it.
However they are, and have been observed time and time again.
Below is a video demonstration from the film “What The Bleep Do We Know.”
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Other examples that we’ve written about are government sponsored psychokinesis experiments, the global consciousness experiment, intelligence agency remote viewing experiments, thoughts and intentions altering the structure of water, the placebo effect, teleportation studies and more.
You can find more details about those specific experiments HERE.
How We Can Incorporate This Information Into Our Lives & Use Consciousness To Transform The World
Change requires action, but the place within which that action comes from is most important.
Modern day science, especially quantum physics, has been catching up to ancient mysticism and concepts that are/were so deeply ingrained in various cultures throughout the ancient world.
One great example of this is the fact that everything is energy, and nothing is solid.
You can read more about that here.
“We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.” — Gautama Buddha
“Broadly speaking, although there are some differences, I think Buddhist philosophy and Quantum Mechanics can shake hands on their view of the world. We can see in these great examples the fruits of human thinking. Regardless of the admiration we feel for these great thinkers, we should not lose sight of the fact that they were human beings just as we are.” — Dalai Lama (source)
You can read more about that here.
So why is this relevant?
It’s relevant because new physics, as mentioned above, is pointing to the fact that the observer shapes the reality.
The way we think and perceive could be responsible and play a vital role in the physical construct we see in front of us.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” - Unknown
How do we perceive it?
Right now, the masses perceive it as being born, going to school, paying bills, raising a family and finding a “job” within the current paradigm to support yourself.
No judgement here, but many people on the planet are not resonating with this experience.
They want change.
We’ve been repeating and perceiving our reality this way for a very long time, with very little information about what is really happening on and to our planet.
It’s almost like we are robotic drones that are trained and brainwashed to accept things the way they are.
To not question what is happening in our world and to continue on with the status quo, only caring for ourselves and our own lives.
As Noam Chomsky would say, our consent has been manufactured.
If we continue down this path and continue to perceive and view reality as “this is just the way it is,” we will, in essence, prolong that type of existence and experience for the human race without ever changing it.In order to create and manifest a new reality for ourselves, our thought patters and the way we perceive reality must change.
What changes the way we perceive reality?
Information does.
When new information emerges it changes the way we look at things and as a result, our reality changes, and we begin to manifest a new experience and open our minds to a broader view of reality.
Not to say that we can’t manifest a new physical form in the blink of an eye, and that we are not capable of doing that, but it appears to be something that takes time, something gradual, something we don’t quite understand yet.
What’s also important about teachings from new physics is that, if factors of consciousness are associated with the creation of our reality, that means change starts within.
It starts with the way in which we are observing the outer world from our inner world.
This touches on the earlier point of how we perceive our reality.
Our perception of the external world might very well be a reflection of our inner world, our inner state of being.
So ask yourself, are you happy?
Are you observing, perceiving and acting from a place of love?
From a place of hate or anger?
From a place of peace?
All of these factors are associated with our consciousness, with our observation, the one (or the many) who are doing the “observing” might play a large role in what type of physical world the human race manifests for itself, what do you think?
We are indeed the observers, can we create change and break patterns to open up new possibilities, change our direction, all through the way in which we observe ourselves, others and the world around us.
I believe that the human race is in the process of waking up to a number of different things, simultaneously.
As a result, the way we perceive and “observe” the world around us (on a mass scale) is starting to drastically change.
So if you want to help change the world, change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mahatma Ghandi
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”
This statement (worldview statement) was by Lord Kelvin in 1900, which was shattered only five years later when Einstein published his paper on special relativity.
The new theories proposed by Einstein challenged the current (at that time) framework of understanding.
This forced the scientific community to open up to an alternate view of the true nature of our reality.
A great example of how things that once were regarded as truth have changed.
“Lord Kelvins statements bares with it the voice of paradigms past…We knew that the Earth was flat, we knew that we were the center of the universe, and we knew that a manmade heavier than air piece of machinery could not take flight. Through all stages of human history, intellectual authorities have pronounced their supremacy by ridiculing or suppressing elements of reality that simply didn’t fit within the framework of accepted knowledge. Are we really any different today? Have we really changed our acceptance towards things that won’t fit the frame? Maybe there are concepts of our reality we have yet to understan, and if we open our eyes maybe we will see that something significant has been overlooked.” —Terje Toftenes (source)
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What Science Is Telling Us About The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence
The wonderful and brilliant scientists over at the Institute of HeartMath have done some amazing work in shedding light on some very significant findings regarding the science of the heart.
The Institute of HeartMath is an internationally recognized nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people reduce stress, self-regulate emotions and build energy and resilience for healthy, happy lives.
HeartMath tools, technology and training teach people to rely on the intelligence of their hearts in concert with their minds at home, school, work and play.
A large portion of their research has investigated heart and brain interaction.
Researchers at the institute have examined how the heart and brain communicate with each other and how that affects our consciousness and the way in which we perceive our world.
Their research has shed light on a number of facts, one for example, is when a person is feeling really positive emotions like gratitude, love, or appreciation, that the heart beats out a very different message.
They’ve been able to determine this by the fact that the heart beats out the largest electromagnetic field produced in the body, and they can gather data from it.
“Emotional information is actually coded and modulated into these fields.
By learning to shift our emotions, we are changing the information coded into the magnetic fields that are radiated by the heart, and that can impact those around us.
We are fundamentally and deeply connected with each other and the planet itself.” - Rolin McCratey , Ph.D, Director of Research at the Institute.
Did you know that your heart emits electromagnetic fields that change according to your emotions?
Did you know that the human heart has a magnetic field that can be measured up to several feet away from the human body?
Did you know that positive emotions create physiological benefits in your body?
Did you know that you can boost your immune system by conjuring up positive emotions?
Did you know that negative emotions can create a nervous system chaos, and that positive emotions do the complete opposite?
Did you know that the heart has a system of neurons that have both short term and long term memory, and that their signals sent to the brain can affect our emotional experiences? Did you know that in fetal development, the heart forms and starts beating before the brain is developed?
Did you know that a mother’s brainwaves can synchronize to her baby’s heartbeats?
Did you know that the heart sends more information to the brain than vice versa?
All of these facts, published researched papers and more can be accessed at heartmath.org
Below is a video from the institute about the intuitive intelligence of the heart.
Definitely worth a look.
[video=youtube;QdneZ4fIIHE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QdneZ4fIIHE[/video]
This Is Why It’s Important For The Human Race To Change The Way We Feel Inside
This Is Why It’s Important For The Human Race To Change The Way We Feel Inside
The Institute of HearthMath does a wonderful job in furthering the importance of why it’s critical for many of us to change the way we feel inside.
Not much can be accomplished from a place of sadness, angst, sorrow and depression.
Our current human experience, the everyday life we all seem to participate in does indeed take its toll on many.
A lot of people are feeling that living the lifestyles we do, struggling to pay bills, constantly working and more is not a natural type of existence for the human race.
It’s an experience which makes it hard to maintain a “high frequency” or positive state for some.
What makes it even more perplexing is the fact that it doesn’t have to be this way, we are capable of so much more.
At the same time, we have a large number of people struggling to feed, clothe and shelter themselves.
The Earth is being destroyed and our time to turn things around seems to be limited.
This hard reality is still present on Earth, despite the number of solutions that have been identified which could alleviate these problems.
It can be difficult to maintain a positive state of mind when we see so many things on our planet that need to change, but we cannot change what we would like to change unless we do it from a positive peaceful state.
Despite all of these experiences, many people experiencing them do manage to find inner peace and moments of joy regardless of their experience, which is quite remarkable.
It’s all about perspective, seeing the bigger picture and changing the way you look at things.
Happiness is no doubt an inside job, but with a human experience that is not resonating with many it can be hard to maintain.
This is evident in a variety of different areas where people are starting to stand up and demand change.
More and more people are wanting to change this entire human experience on multiple levels, one where everybody can thrive, one where everybody can feel good, one where nobody has to suffer or feel negative emotions.
If one is suffering, we all suffer, that’s the way we feel here at this publication, and it’s clear that many are resonating with that feeling.
The funny thing about our feelings is that, for the most part it’s a choice.
We can change the way we feel just by changing our thoughts.
Negative emotions about a person, place or certain experience in our lives or the planet are usually a result of the thoughts we have about them.
At the end of the day, in the grander scheme of things it’s just a human experience, and all experiences are serving us proving opportunities for growth.
Bottom line, positive emotions, feelings of love, gratitude, compassion and more have a larger impact than what we could have ever imagined.
These are all characteristics of consciousness, and as quantum physics is showing us, consciousness plays some sort of role in the creation of our reality (you can read more about that here).
If this is true, how we feel certainly plays a large part, and with the research coming out at the Institute of HeartMath, it’s clear that feeling good and positive emotions (gratitude, love compassion) play a very important role when it comes to the nature of our reality and could be the fundamental key for global change.
“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality.
As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality.
Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.
Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote:
“The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual”
— (R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University)
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Not to try and scare anyone with this story…
But if you died tomorrow or in 2015 or in 2073, are you ready to face death?
If this Russian scientist is correct, Brian May’s Asteroid Day on June 30, 2015, may be too little, too late to save us from a mountain-sized asteroid he recently discovered.
Vladimir Lipunov is a lead scientist on the team which spotted asteroid 2014 UR116 on October 27, 2014, at the MASTER-II observatory in Kislovodsk, Russia.
Estimated to be 370 meters (1214 feet) in diameter, he describes it in a video released this week by the Russian space agency Roscosmos as a mountain-sized object that could hit the Earth with an explosion 1,000 times greater than the surprise Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over that Russian city in 2013, shattering windows, damaging buildings and injuring over a thousand people.
2014 UR116 will cross Earth’s orbit every three years.
Lipunov says he’s concerned about it because it came up on us so fast and its trajectory is constantly and unpredictably affected by the gravitational pull of the planets it passes.
What does NASA say about 2014 UR116 and Lipunov’s warning? Here’s an excerpt from its press release:
"While this approximately 400-meter sized asteroid has a three year orbital period around the sun and returns to the Earth’s neighborhood periodically, it does not represent a threat because it’s orbital path does not pass sufficiently close to the Earth’s orbit."
The release also refers to computations made after observing another object with a similar orbit six years ago.
"These computations rule out this object as an impact threat to Earth (or any other planet) for at least the next 150 years."
Not everyone is that confident.
Viktoria Damm from the Siberian Geodesic Academy Planetarium says Mars could affect the trajectory of 2014 UR116, although not for at least two years.
Natan Esmant, an expert with the official Space Research Institute in Moscow, says a collision is “quite likely” but not for at least a few decades.
“Not for at least …” is not the most reassuring way to start a sentence about possible asteroid collisions, whether it’s from Roscosmos or NASA.
Should we be worried about UR116?
But if you died tomorrow or in 2015 or in 2073, are you ready to face death?
Russian Scientist Warns Earth May Be in Path of Big Asteroid
If this Russian scientist is correct, Brian May’s Asteroid Day on June 30, 2015, may be too little, too late to save us from a mountain-sized asteroid he recently discovered.
Vladimir Lipunov is a lead scientist on the team which spotted asteroid 2014 UR116 on October 27, 2014, at the MASTER-II observatory in Kislovodsk, Russia.
Estimated to be 370 meters (1214 feet) in diameter, he describes it in a video released this week by the Russian space agency Roscosmos as a mountain-sized object that could hit the Earth with an explosion 1,000 times greater than the surprise Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over that Russian city in 2013, shattering windows, damaging buildings and injuring over a thousand people.
[video=youtube;yEV4cRBchKc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yEV4cRBchKc[/video]
2014 UR116 will cross Earth’s orbit every three years.
Lipunov says he’s concerned about it because it came up on us so fast and its trajectory is constantly and unpredictably affected by the gravitational pull of the planets it passes.
"We need to permanently track this asteroid, because even a small mistake in calculations could have serious consequences."
What does NASA say about 2014 UR116 and Lipunov’s warning? Here’s an excerpt from its press release:
"While this approximately 400-meter sized asteroid has a three year orbital period around the sun and returns to the Earth’s neighborhood periodically, it does not represent a threat because it’s orbital path does not pass sufficiently close to the Earth’s orbit."
"These computations rule out this object as an impact threat to Earth (or any other planet) for at least the next 150 years."
Viktoria Damm from the Siberian Geodesic Academy Planetarium says Mars could affect the trajectory of 2014 UR116, although not for at least two years.
Natan Esmant, an expert with the official Space Research Institute in Moscow, says a collision is “quite likely” but not for at least a few decades.
“Not for at least …” is not the most reassuring way to start a sentence about possible asteroid collisions, whether it’s from Roscosmos or NASA.
Should we be worried about UR116?
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OVERVIEW
[video=vimeo;55073825]http://vimeo.com/55073825[/video]
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it.
Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect.
The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
CAST
• EDGAR MITCHELL – Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
• RON GARAN – ISS astronaut and founder of humanitarian organization Fragile Oasis
• NICOLE STOTT – Shuttle and ISS astronaut and member of Fragile Oasis
• JEFF HOFFMAN – Shuttle astronaut and senior lecturer at MIT
• SHANE KIMBROUGH – Shuttle/ISS astronaut and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army
• FRANK WHITE – space theorist and author of the book ‘The Overview Effect’
• DAVID LOY- philosopher and author
• DAVID BEAVER – philosopher and co-founder of The Overview Institute
[video=vimeo;55073825]http://vimeo.com/55073825[/video]
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it.
Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect.
The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
CAST
• EDGAR MITCHELL – Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
• RON GARAN – ISS astronaut and founder of humanitarian organization Fragile Oasis
• NICOLE STOTT – Shuttle and ISS astronaut and member of Fragile Oasis
• JEFF HOFFMAN – Shuttle astronaut and senior lecturer at MIT
• SHANE KIMBROUGH – Shuttle/ISS astronaut and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army
• FRANK WHITE – space theorist and author of the book ‘The Overview Effect’
• DAVID LOY- philosopher and author
• DAVID BEAVER – philosopher and co-founder of The Overview Institute