The Source Field Investigations

BOOK REVIEW: The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies by David Wilcock (Dutton) 2011

By Andrew W. Griffin

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Are you fascinated with the Mayans, their calendar and their ancient prophecies relating to something scheduled to happen on Dec. 21, 2012?

If you are then The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies is the book for you. In fact, quite coincidentally (if you believe in that sort of thing) a good friend of mine purchased Wilcock’s new book on the very same day I did. He just got his in the mail a day ahead of me. And while we read it, we would share thoughts and notes and just smile, knowing that there was some very special, inside info that the author was revealing.

For instance, in a chapter called “Time Slips, Time Warps and Vortex Phenomena,” Wilcock states: “The Source Field is the master key – a fluidlike energy that ultimately creates space, time, matter, energy, biology and consciousness.”

Wilcock grabs your attention with this bold and striking statement. He follows it in the next sentence, stating: “The ancients appeared to know vastly more about the Source Field than we ever gave them credit for. They built stone structures that may well have created enough coherence to harness ‘natural stargates’ that appear in the earth – when the geometry inside the earth aligns with the geometry in the solar system.”

Wilcock goes on. And that’s just the beginning of chapter 17. There’s so much more going on in The Source Field Investigations that it’s hard to keep up with Wilcock’s train of thought at times. But you sense the excitement of his discoveries and are grateful to be reading the information he has uncovered and is sharing in this easy-to-read book that comes in at 462 pages.

Over the course of this thick tome, full of amazing ideas, philosophical notions and alternative science. Wilcock received a lot of exposure on his multi-part video series called The 2012 Enigma.

Who is this David Wilcock and how did he come up with this information? Well, he’s a 38-year-old lecturer and author from Los Angeles who is a regular of Coast to Coast AM and has been featured as an expert on the popular History Channel series “Ancient Aliens.” He also runs a fascinating blog called Divine Cosmos.

Some would say that for Wilcock to tie in the idea of some “event” taking place in 2012 is just some get-rich-quick scheme by some New Age guru or someone playing on the fears of the same folks who stocked up their basement with jugs of water and Ramen noodles prior to Y2K.

I would like to say that I was a little skeptical with some of the 2012 stuff but something about Wilcock’s book caught my eye. I am starting to think there is something more to all of this the more I read about it and The Source Field certainly opened my eyes.

And with Wilcock, that would include the “third eye” or the pineal gland. Wilcock notes, in an early chapter, how the Roman Catholic Church has embraced all sorts of mysterious symbology, including the pineal-gland-linked “Court of the Pinecone” at the Vatican, which features a large, ancient bronze statue of a pinecone. This was the main item I wanted to see during a recent Vatican visit. And he also notes that the “pinecone” imagery is “an extremely important symbol” for the Roman Catholic Church, particularly when it is placed so prominently at the Vatican. Many, many ancient cultures embraced the pinecone symbology, usually on a staff, as seen on the Pope’s own staff.

Near the giant Vatican “pinecone” is a large “eyeball” a “sphere-within-a-sphere” that seems to be sending a pretty clear message about the importance of the pineal gland in the brain, or the third eye.

So, what of 2012? In a chapter titled “Pyramid Power – Our Key to the Golden Age,” Wilcock said that the Pyramids at Giza, Egypt are great sources of power and that in the Golden Age triggered by the coming events in 2012 are of great importance. Wilcock explains that pyramid power can help Earth and humanity by reducing radiation, closing up ozone holes, reducing the damaging effects of earthquakes and severe weather, purify water, improve crops and help people with diseases. He also said that “this hidden force” that he is discovering is connected to pyramids and that at the DNA level, humanity could improve by tapping into this celestial energy.

Asks Wilcock: “Is it possible that the DNA code is somehow written into the basic energy of the galaxy itself, so that we are actively being transformed into a whole new level of human evolution?”

In another chapter, this on “The Gravity of the Source Field,” Wilcock explains that a Russian scientist, Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev, stumbled upon this energy field – “This was when he first realized that he had not merely discovered the flow of time. It was not just an energy that flowed in and out of physical matter. It was the energy of the Mind as well. The Source Field. With this discovery, Kozyrev could now prove that our thoughts were not locked away privately in our own brains – they created measurable signals that his detectors could pick up.” Again, the power of the Source Field at work, posits Wilcock.

Wilcock also shows, in later chapters, that the United States of America is part of this long-range plan and the shift into the Golden Age, post 2012. He shows that back of the $1 bill and the pyramid and the “eye” acting as the capstone. Apparently on the levels of the pyramid they are divided into 13 levels of 19.7 years each, from 1776 and ending in 2012. This 13th level began in 1993 and ends next year, according to the book and that from 2012 to 2032, “the pineal gland opens.” Will that really happen? Well, there are enough people in positions of knowledge and power who believe it will.

For instance, Graham Hancock, the respected author of Fingerprints of the Gods, among others, gives Wilcock’s book a very complimentary introduction, writing: “(I)f David is right, the hidden Source Field generating the lucid dream we call reality can be expected to make its presence and its influence felt with great power and persistence in the coming years – and to have profound effects on human consciousness.”

Concluding, Wilcock writes that “Clearly there is a wealth of evidence suggesting that the anciencts were absolutely convinced that major events would be heading our way as we go through the shift into the Age of Aquarius. We’ve seen proof that the Maya calendar corresponds to real cycles in the solar system that may well be driven by the galaxy – cycles that are now causing us to experience interplanetary climate change as we head into the Age of Aquarius.”

The Source Field Investigations may not be for everybody. David Wilcock is undeniably a controversial figure. But if this author is on the right track – and I suspect he is – the coming events and change in consciousness will affect all of us in one way or another. This is an important book.

Copyright 2011 West Marie Media

(Source: BOOK REVIEW: “The Source Field Investigations” by David Wilcock)

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Space Weather

On 31 January 2011 Susan Joy Rennison held a presentation titled Space Weather: Implications for planet Earth and humankind. Here is a short description of this more than two and a half hour long presentation:

According to Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division: “Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. I believe we’re on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather. We take this very seriously indeed.”

For a long time we believed that we lived in a gravity driven universe. According to Susan Joy Rennison, and many others in the meantime, we do not; instead, we live in an electromagnetic universe. At this time thousands of scientists are studying the behaviour of the sun to predict Space Weather. Plasma and particle bursts can and have disrupted satellites, high frequency radio communications, GPS failures, power grids etc. and looking at the rather turbulent life our sun is presently leading, more is on the way.

Most textbooks and literature about cosmology are completely out of date, reason for Rennison to educate people about why scientists studying Space Weather find that they have had to abandon many old ideas. But the understanding of an electromagnetic universe is already over 100 years old, having been promoted by great Nobel Prize winning minds like Hannes Alfvén. Rennison thinks engineering students need to realize that during severe Space Weather events, uncontrolled electric currents will flow through virtually everything on the planet. Discussion of quantum mechanics will not help. It is more important for people to realise that in the bombardment of planet Earth we are also receiving dark energy and dark matter and scientists have tried to understand how that will effect Earth, but, Rennison claims, the astronomical impact is still discussed from an outdated point of view.

This is where Rennison combines modern science with a more spiritual approach. It has been over 35 years since Fritjof Kapra wrote his book The Tao of Physics, an attempt to bring Western science and Eastern philosophy together. Even as much as 100 years ago, physicists wondered about quantum physics and its consequences of a relation between mind and matter. Since that time science has been divided between those who believe matter stands on its own in a gravity controlled universe – the majority of scientists – and those who believe we, as human observers, co-create the conscious universe we live in.

Are all the world’s crises a sign that something really has to change in our way of thinking and acting? Susan Joy Rennison discusses the latest press releases from NASA and ESA and other books and articles published since she wrote her book Tuning the Diamonds in 2006, on the relation between electromagnetism and spirituality.

Since then, many of her ideas have become reality as Space Weather is becoming more and more of an issue in everyday life. Although hardly discussed in the media, Space Weather is strongly affecting our life. Both in the technology we use and in our bodies, which are after all electromagnetic systems as well. There is, Rennison states, a serious problem with the electromagnetic understanding of the human body. Most scientist prefer people to think of themselves in terms of chemicals. Yet DNA is a nanotube that obeys quantum mechanical laws. Progress in DNA research has shown that DNA behaves in a much more adaptable way than earlier assumed.

(Source: TU Delft – Online lectures)

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Thomas Campbell – The Monroe Institute Lecture

From Thomas Warren Campbell Jr on Vimeo

Campbell was one of the original consciousness explorers at The Monroe Institute (TMI) in Virginia in the 1970s and the explorer identified as “TC Physicist” in Bob Monroe‘s book Far Journeys. Campbell, working alongside electrical engineer Dennis Mennerich, discovered what is now known as Hemi-Sync, the binaural-beat approach to inner exploration that came to be almost synonymous with TMI.

As Bob Monroe’s protégé, Campbell worked in the TMI lab and participated in explorer sessions as a subject. He was one of the first trainers and finished his tenure at TMI as an advisory-board member.

Using his mastery of the out-of-body experience as a springboard, he dedicated his research to discovering the outer boundaries, inner workings, and causal dynamics of the larger reality system. In February of 2003, Campbell published the My Big TOE trilogy, which represents the results and conclusions of his scientific exploration of the nature of existence. This overarching model of reality, mind, and consciousness merges physics with metaphysics, explains the paranormal as well as the normal, places spirituality within a scientific context, and provides direction for those wishing to personally experience an expanded awareness of All That Is.

(Source: Thomas Campbell – The Monroe Institute Lecture on Vimeo)

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My Big TOE

The trilogy My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell in the language of contemporary Western culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds, are brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.

If you have a logical, open, and inquisitive mind – an attitude of scientific pragmatism that appreciates the elegance of fundamental truth and the thrill of breakthrough – you will enjoy this journey of personal and scientific discovery.

Based upon careful scientific research and logical deduction, this is a book for all who have an interest in the nature of the reality in which they exist. My Big TOE is not only about scientific theory, function, process, and discovery – but also speaks to each individual reader about their innate capabilities. Readers will learn to appreciate that their human potential stretches far beyond the limitations of the physical universe.

This trilogy delivers the next major scientific conceptual breakthrough since relativity and quantum mechanics raised scientific eyebrows in the first half of the twentieth century. No catch, no megalomania, no hypothetical wackiness, no goofy beliefs, no unusual assumptions – just straightforward science that better describes the totality of our experience and provides a wealth of practical results and new understanding that can be applied personally and professionally by scientists and nonscientists alike. This is the real thing.

My Big TOE is about life, purpose, personal significance, physics, evolution, and the reason why. The acronym “TOE” is a standard term in the physics community that stands for “Theory Of Everything.” Such a theory has been the “Holy Grail” of physicists for more than fifty years. My Big TOE delivers the solution to that scientific quest at the layman’s level with precision and clarity. This book is an adventure into the overlapping worlds of science, philosophy, and metaphysics. It is tightly analytical and logical as all good works of science and philosophy should be, while at the same time down to earth, easily understandable, and full of good humor. No leaps of faith or beliefs of any sort are required to get to where these books will take you.

Campbell did not put the “My” in My Big TOE to flaunt pride of authorship. Nor does the “My” indicate any lack of generality or applicability to others. The “My” was added to be a constant reminder to you that this reality model cannot serve as your personal Big TOE until it is based upon your personal experience. On the other hand, personal or subjective experience is only one piece of the reality puzzle. In the objective physical world of traditional science, My Big TOE delivers a comprehensive model of reality that subsumes modern science, describes our objective material reality, and is universally applicable. Contemporary physics is shown to be a special case of a more general set of basic principles.

Synopsis of the My Big TOE books

Book 1: Awakening provides in Section 1 a partial biography of the author that is pertinent to the subsequent creation of this trilogy. This brief look at the author’s unique experience and credentials sheds some light upon the origins of this highly unusual work. The unusual associations, circumstances, and training that eventually led to the creation of the My Big TOE trilogy are offered to provide a more accurate perspective of the whole.

Section 2 lays out and defines the basic conceptual building blocks needed to construct My Big TOE’s conceptual foundation. It discusses the cultural beliefs that trap our thinking into a narrow and limited conceptualization of reality, defines the basics of Big Picture epistemology and ontology, as well as examines the nature and practice of meditation. Section 2 logically infers the nature of time, space, and consciousness as well as describes the basic properties, purpose, and mechanics of our reality.

Book 2: Discovery develops in Section 3 the interface and interaction between we the people and our digital consciousness reality. It derives and explains the characteristics, origins, dynamics, and function of ego, love, and free will. It derives our larger purpose. It also develops the psi uncertainty principle as it explains and interrelates psi phenomena, free will, love, consciousness evolution, reality, human purpose, and entropy.

Section 4 lays out an operational and functional model of consciousness that further develops the results of Section 3 and supports the conclusions of Section 5. The origins and nature of digital consciousness are described along with how artificial intelligence (AI), as embodied in AI Guy, leads to artificial consciousness, which leads to actual consciousness and to ourselves. Section 4 derives our physical universe, our science, and our perception of a physical reality. The mind-matter dichotomy is solved as physical reality is directly derived from the nature of digital consciousness.

Book 3: Inner Workings presents in Section 5 the formal reality model in detail. In this section the mechanics of reality are explained. You will find out how the past present and future are formed, how they can be altered, and how you interact with the larger reality as an individuated unit of consciousness. Here is explained inter and intra dimensional awareness and is probed the theoretical possibilities of teleportation, time travel and a few of the more fun ramifications of this reality model.

Section 6 is the wrap-up that puts everything discussed into an easily understood perspective. Additionally, Section 6 points out My Big TOE’s relationship with contemporary science and philosophy. By demonstrating a close conceptual relationship between this TOE and some of the establishment’s biggest scientific and philosophic intellectual guns, Section 6 integrates My Big TOE into traditional Western science and philosophy.

Physics and Science

Modern science and technology are only now providing the combined knowledge by which metaphysics can be understood. It should not be too surprising that science, in its relentless explorations of the unknown, would one day arrive at the roots of existence itself. As it turns out, the nature of reality has both an objective and a subjective component. My Big TOE  provides a thoroughly scientific description of an objective Theory Of Everything that covers all aspects of reality in an entirely general way. Additionally, it provides a remarkably practical, personally significant understanding of subjective consciousness, and explains how you individually are related to the larger reality.

You will be astounded to discover that My Big TOE has explained, derived, and pulled together, within a single coherent theoretical framework, the best theoretical efforts of contemporary science. This trilogy represents serious science – it builds a logical bridge between physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, normal and paranormal. It delivers a comprehensive first look at a Unified Theory Of Everything – not the way traditional science expected it, but then, if it was the way traditional science expected it, it couldn’t actually be a Big TOE, could it? If you want to see the unified Big Picture, you must step out of the conceptual box that limits your understanding and knowledge to what can be derived from only local (little picture) experience.

Philosophy

Modern analytical (logic based, not belief-based) philosophers have been hot on the heels of a larger more primary reality that is based upon mind, consciousness, or spirit. They have been much closer to Big Truth for centuries than the scientists but didn’t know how to integrate their knowledge with the physical world. These philosophers did not fully appreciate the subjective component of reality, or that subjective information requires an objective assessment before its value can be determined.

Without these understandings it was difficult for philosophers to differentiate knowledge from pseudo-knowledge. In an age mesmerized by the results of objective science, narrowly focused critics had little trouble discounting the significance of philosophy’s contribution toward understanding a reality defined entirely by physical measurement.

A profound understanding of reality, a coming together of science and philosophy, can occur only within the Big Picture. When our understanding is complete and whole, all the puzzle pieces fit nicely together. As long as our understanding remains fragmented by our limiting beliefs, competing culturally correct cliques within the little picture will define and therefore limit our vision of reality. The breakthrough solutions that the scientists and philosophers have been seeking for many decades lie outside the little picture; one cannot get to them without stepping beyond the limitations of a local objective causality.

Metaphysics – East and West

The My Big TOE trilogy fully integrates a subjective, personal, and holistic worldview with objective science. East and West merge, not simply as a compatible or mutually reinforcing mixture, but as a fully integrated single solution.

The stunning success of science and engineering in the twentieth century would seem to prove the usefulness as well as the correctness of the materially focused Western view. The result is that many people, whether from the East, West, North, or South of our planet, view reality from an objective and materialistic perspective that often coexists with some culturally based traditional form of religious and social dogma.

Thus, a balance, or standoff, between our inner and outer needs evolves into a practical worldview that encourages Western material productivity. A pragmatic materialism that depends on objective causality is used to generate the appearance of a manipulatable, rational, stability on the outside, while a belief-system of some sort provides the necessary personal security on the inside. To eliminate the discomfort of these conflicting worldviews, the two ends of this bipolar conceptual dichotomy are typically kept separate and do not mix or integrate to any significant depth. Each supports the other superficially as they together produce a materially focused, responsible, upwardly striving worker with a good work ethic, cooperative values, an inclination toward dependency, and a high tolerance of pain.

Theology

A truly Big TOE must explain everything – matter and mind, physics and metaphysics, normal and paranormal – the spiritual as well as the material aspects of existence. An accurate and comprehensive Big TOE cannot help but shed new light upon the theological questions that have gone unanswered for millennia. Though My Big TOE is about science, not theology, it provides a new scientific basis for a grand rethinking and restructuring of fundamental theological concepts. No belief systems of any sort are required to clearly understand what lies beyond physical experience, or why.

Ontology and Epistemology

My Big TOE develops a theory of being that will permanently reorient the ontological and epistemological landscape. With its clear understanding of the origins, nature, and mechanics of consciousness, My Big TOE  answers long standing questions of the point, purpose, meaning, and mechanics of existence as well as the significance of human interaction within that existence. My Big TOE approaches these problems and founds its specific detailed solutions on straightforward scientific analysis. No beliefs of any sort and no unusual assumptions are used to unravel the mysteries of being, consciousness, and the larger reality.

Truth and Big Truth (relative and absolute truth) are formally and logically defined and differentiated. The fundamental difficulty of separating knowledge from belief is thoroughly explored and a methodology to facilitate the separation process is developed.

Cosmology

The Big TOE trilogy develops a detailed description of the origins of our physical universe within the context of a reality that is much larger than the physical universe. The Big Digital Bang is integrated within a larger picture of existence that clearly answers many of the outstanding cosmological issues concerning the origins of the universe. Our universe is described as one among many local realities within a larger reality system. The nature, origins and mechanics of this larger reality system are clearly and specifically described.

Consciousness – Artificial Intelligence

The My Big TOE trilogy develops a theory of consciousness that fully explains and models human experience – all of human experience – normal and paranormal, material and spiritual. The origins, nature, and mechanics of consciousness are described in detail. Consciousness, existence, values, emotion, experience, individual identity and group interactions all are integrated in one comprehensive detailed model of cognitive awareness. This model of consciousness not only accurately describes human consciousness in all its aspects, but also develops the theoretical connection between consciousness, reality, experience, brains, and digital computers. A blueprint for developing artificial or machine intelligence is discussed in terms of consciousness hosted within digital systems. The theory of consciousness and the theory of digital systems are merged to form one unified understanding of the origins, nature, and mechanics of both objective and subjective experience.

Paranormal Events

My Big TOE provides a sound theoretical scientific basis for the paranormal. Paranormal or psi events are shown to be normal events from the perspective of an expanded understanding of reality. Once the nature of reality and consciousness are clearly understood, paranormal events become entirely understandable and amenable to scientific analysis – no beliefs, hocus-pocus, or odd assumptions are required.

The apparent problems of measurement within the study of parapsychology are shown to be a function of the experimenter’s perspective and limited understanding. The purpose and methodologies for evolving and acquiring individual psi capabilities are clearly described. How the manipulation of psi energy works, its natural limitations, and the mechanics behind psi events are described in detail.

Readers will find out that what we experience as paranormal events within our local (little picture) reality, represents normal energy transfers and well defined scientific processes that obey a higher level (more general) causality within the larger reality. My Big TOE describes the physics of this more general causality and shows the paranormal to be as normal as gravity within its own local system. The allowed interactions between causal systems are described in terms of the psi uncertainty principle. Nothing spooky here – just good science that accurately fits the data and provides parapsychology as well as spirituality with a theoretical basis in hard science.

Time – Past, Present, and Future

Any successful Theory Of Everything (TOE) must include a thorough explanation of time. Once the larger reality is successfully and accurately modeled, a clear understanding of time falls naturally from that model. What is time? How is it created? Can the future be foretold, can it be manipulated? What are the mechanics behind precognitive dreams? Does the past still live? Is time travel possible? If possible, how can it be accomplished? All of these questions are answered clearly, unequivocally and in detail. My Big TOE takes you to the beginning of time and far into the future – it fully explains the origins, nature, and mechanics of time as well as explains the everyday experience of time in technical terms that you can easily understand.

Free will and Determinism

Once the larger reality is successfully and accurately modeled, a clear understanding of free will falls naturally from that model. The origins, processes, mechanisms, and limitations of free will are clearly and logically deduced. What is free will? What is its function? How is it generated and maintained? What is its purpose and where does it come from? What is the relationship between free will, consciousness, and experience? All of these questions are answered clearly, unequivocally and in detail. Additionally, the existence of a deterministic causality within each local reality system is shown to be a requirement of free will and the larger reality system.

Theory Of Everything – Reality Model

Albert Einstein began working on a Theory Of Everything (Unified Field Theory) early in the twentieth century. Since that time, physicists have been trying to unify all physical theory under one overarching theoretical understanding with little success. The My Big TOE trilogy explains why physicists have thus far failed to produce even a little TOE (unifies only the physics of our physical universe), much less a Big TOE (really does explain everything – physics and metaphysics, science and philosophy, normal and paranormal, body, mind, and spirit). Big TOEs are thought neither to exist nor to be within our grasp to formulate or understand. To the contrary, the My Big TOE trilogy derives a comprehensive Big TOE that scientifically and logically makes sense (accurately describes the data) of your total experience – subjective as well as objective.

Physics and parapsychology, hard science and philosophy, mind and matter, normal and paranormal, body, mind and spirit – we have always intuitively known that someday they would come together under one consistent understanding – that they are all coherently, purposefully, and logically (scientifically) interconnected within the Big Picture. My Big TOE delivers us to that day.

Mathematics

The My Big TOE trilogy introduces several new mathematical concepts. It clearly explains why geometric fractals accurately represent natural objects such as clouds, rocks, landscapes, and mountains. It introduces the concepts of a process fractal (as compared to a geometric fractal) and of fractal ecology.

Evolution

Within My Big TOE, the everyday concept of evolution is generalized and raised to an entirely new level of understanding as it is applied to technology, organizations, societies, economics, governments, and complex systems in general. The evolution of the larger reality and of local reality systems are followed from their humble beginnings to their present states.

Ecosystems – Ecology

The concept of ecosystems and ecology within complex interactive self-modifying systems are generalized and raised to an entirely new level of understanding. The concept of ecological interrelated wholeness is applied to consciousness, digital systems, and the greater reality.

Psychology

The My Big TOE trilogy delves deeply into the roots of human motivation. Once the larger reality is successfully modeled, a clear understanding of human psychology falls naturally from that model. This Big TOE logically and scientifically derives the nature, origins, and mechanics of human values, emotion, fear, love, ego, needs, wants, desires, humility, and compassion as well as defines an optimal personal mental balance and provides a fundamental non-relative measure of mental health. You will leave this trilogy with a deep understanding of why individuals and societies are as they are.

Systems Theory and Systems Analysis

The My Big TOE trilogy is built upon a theory of complex self-modifying interactive systems. Many of its results are generally applicable to all such systems.

Meditation and Meditation Techniques

In an aside in Book 1, a detailed analysis of the mechanics and function of meditation is offered to help the reader become personally acquainted with his or her consciousness. What meditation accomplishes, how and why it works, and a set of techniques, with instructions applicable to everyone, are described.

Personal Development

Once the larger reality is successfully modeled, a clear understanding of the dynamics of consciousness quality falls naturally from that model. Increasing consciousness quality is equivalent to spiritual growth. Thus spirituality becomes an attribute of individual consciousness – a dimension of being. The connection between consciousness, spirituality, psi, love, fear, and human development is logically developed without employing belief systems of any sort. How and why you are connected to the larger reality, the greater significance of your existence, and the purpose of your life are clearly derived from a scientific analysis of the larger reality. The direction and understanding you need to develop to optimize your personal potential is laid out in specific, easy to understand, detail. You will find out unambiguously how you fit into the Big Picture – how you are personally connected to the whole.

Potential Impact of My Big TOE

Any major new branch of science must begin its unfolding as a top-down big picture analysis of the pertinent data. New scientific paradigms generally begin at a broad conceptual level and then eventually move, over time, toward more specific applications. Such a top-down process often begins with the discovery of a more general relationship between common objects or events. Typically, the old paradigms become special cases of the new – applicable only under certain conditions.

The basic conceptual foundation must be clearly laid-out and thoroughly assimilated before the more traditional bottoms-up scientific approach can be constructed upon it. Only after scientists achieve a certain minimum level of basic understanding can they begin to profitably calculate and experiment their way toward a deeper and more productive knowledge.

The point is: The public message of My Big TOE is focused on developing the conceptual foundation upon which a more traditional future science will one day be based. You see, Campbell has not written My Big TOE to frustrate and torture left brained techies with incalculable theory; the time for massive calculation has simply not yet arrived. At this point in the conceptual revolution presented by My Big TOE, everyone can come along on the journey. Scientists have no particular advantage over nonscientists because Campbell has been careful not to couch his descriptions in techno-jargon or to be too techno-boring. In fact, at the front-end of discovery, right brainers, and better yet, whole brainers, have the decided edge in leaping new paradigms in a single bound.

Some patience is required. My Big TOE provides a rational, logically consistent Theory Of Everything, develops the required new paradigms to support that theory, constructs a solid scientific foundation for future explorations to be built upon, and explains the interfaces and connections between newly derived knowledge and the existing database of scientific and personal experience. This trilogy subsumes physics, redeems philosophy, and explains many public as well as private phenomena. A broad conceptual top-down exposition of the fundamentals of Big Picture Reality is where this train must start.

If and when the Big TOE conceptual brain-train begins to move and pick up speed, it may well initiate the beginning of an independent outpouring of Big TOE science, social science, and philosophy that will begin to take root immediately, and slowly produce fruit over time at ever greater levels of specificity. That is how science moves from concept to application – very slowly, and with casts of thousands. Increment by increment, discovery by discovery – the more people who get involved and apply their brain power, the more quickly the train picks up speed.

(Source: About the Books)

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Ervin Laszlo

The quantum computer in your head
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Is the quantum computer the computer of the future, or is it just science fiction? Whether or not it will be actually produced remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: quantum computers already exist. They are in your head. They are known as your brain.

If Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer, Can It Connect You To The World?
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Could it be that the Internet mirrors something about how we really communicate (or could communicate) with each other and with the world? I’d like you to consider the possibility that nature embodies within herself a kind of Internet, and that through our brain we might be able to communicate with it.

Using Your Quantum Brain to Connect to the World
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Put simply, the way to enhance your connectivity to the world is to cultivate altered states of consciousness. This means taking time to enter into communion with yourself: meditating, praying, daydreaming, or just relaxing, allowing your mind to empty and your thoughts and ideas to flow freely.

Quantum Brain, Spirituality, and the Mind of God
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Physicists seek the one equation that would account for all the laws of nature and explain everything that ever happened in our integrally whole universe. Of this equation Einstein said that knowing it would be reading the mind of God….

Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
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The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity — and could also enable us to surmount the problems that threaten our life and our future.

Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then why the Controversy?
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The debate among conservative Christians, Muslims, and Jews (the “creationists”) and natural scientists and the science-minded public (the “evolutionists”) centers on biological evolution. But on a deeper look, it concerns the universe in which life has evolved—or in which it was created.

The Dis-ease of the Western Mind
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Western civilization—more exactly, the Western mind that creates the civilization—has a serious disease. It’s a “dis-ease” that affects all of us of in the West. And now we can have a better idea of what’s behind it.

The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The mission of The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality is to produce new thinking and language capable of integrating the age old schism between science and spirituality. The Forum grew out of Dr. Laszlo’s involvement in the Chopra Foundation’s Sages+Scientists Symposium in February, 2010.

Round 2 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The second round of our Forum’s discussions offers deep but entirely rational statements of the nature of spirituality, and throws fresh light on the factor that could link spirituality with science: a more evolved consciousness.

Round 3 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The third Round of our debates, discussions and consultations on the possible meeting ground of science and spirituality convey a message that’s clear and loud. The meeting ground exists—it’s under our very feet, we just need to open our eyes to see it.

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The Physics of Star Trek

‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss
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Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including The Physics of Star Trek.

New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future | Technology Review
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What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.

Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon | PhysOrg.com
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This movie from Cassini, made possible only as Saturn’s north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.

Richplanet.net documentary Crop Circles – The Hidden Truth
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Richard D. Hall’s documentary tackles the controversial subject of Crop Circles in the most objective way possible. Colin Andrews has endorsed the film. First screened on EMTV Controversial Television Sky 200, featuring David Cayton, Robert Hulse and Roy Dutton. …

Cymatics – The Science of the Future?
www.world-mysteries.com
Is there a connection between sound, vibrations and physical reality? Do sound and vibrations have the potential to create? In this article we will see what various researchers in this field, which has been given the name of Cymatics, have concluded.

The Conscious Heart | Brainwaving
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Rollin McCraty reveals the discovery that neural activity within the heart appears to influence our conscious perception, cognition, and emotional processing, which suggests that the traditional role attributed to the heart as the seat of our deepest emotions may be true after all.

‘Waterworld’ planet six times the size of Earth discovered
www.telegraph.co.uk
A steamy ”waterworld” planet six times bigger than the Earth has been discovered orbiting a small faint star 40 light years away.

Strange Physical Theory Proved After Nearly 40 Years
www.livescience.com
Physicists have finally created a trio of bound particles that connect at increasingly higher energy levels, a phenomenon long predicted but never before seen.

NASA -Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery
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December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

The Next 5 in 5 | IBM Social Media
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Its that time of year here at IBM – when look to the future and make five predictions of technological trends that will change the way we live in the next five years.

Crop Circles : Crossovers From Another Dimension
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Crop Circles : Crossovers From Another Dimension is a fascinating documentary made by Norwegian Terje Toftenes, who has 25 years of experience as a video and film maker in Norway, and has won several awards for his productions.

Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy
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Over many years Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation, being verified and confirmed in their major aspects.

Substance dualism
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Since ancient times, many attempts have been made to account for the relationship between mind and body. This video examines the inherent flaws in the philosophy of substance dualism, along with some of the fallacious reasoning often put forward to support it. …

Time Control Technologies and Methods
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Comparison of ten different approaches to controlling time. Each approach is compared based upon its potential for time travel to the future and past, transport of matter or information, and viability based upon present or near states of technology, materials and power needs.

What Keeps Time Moving Forward? Blame It on the Big Bang | Scientific American
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A timely Q&A with physicist Sean Carroll about how our one-way trip from past to future is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe.

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Crop circle

85-minute documentary on crop circles
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Investigating the overall assumption of hoax, balls of light, sacred site connection, media and people’s reaction to the phenomena, and outlining the basic understandings arrived at so far.

The Square Root of One Percent
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Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect: the finding that one percent (or even the square root of one percent) of the population practicing meditation improves the larger community’s quality of life, as indicated by such changes as reduced crime and sickness in the larger society.

Ervin Laszlo – Adventures in Quantum Coherence
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Ervin Laszlo, quantum, entanglement, big bang, Akashic field, David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, coherence, sub-atomic, intelligence, General Evolution Theory, System Theory, consciousness, quantum vaccum, quantum plenum, …

Ancient Maya’s Evolution of Consciousness and Contemporary Thinking
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Tadeja Jere Lazanski presentation @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/Presentation_CASYS_09.pdf and CASYS 09 The Best Paper Award @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/sporocila_za_javnost/Tadeja_Jere_Lazanski_CASYS_09-The_Best_Paper_Award.jpg

Toward a Scientific Explanation of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
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ITC (communication with deceased persons through an instrument such as a radio) is a repeatedly observed phenomenon that has lately been experimentally tested. It is queried here for its authenticity, and an interpretation is explored in the framework of the vacuum field theory.

The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication | MIT Technology Review
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The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research.

“Science and the taboo of psi” with Dean Radin
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Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association.

Splitting Time from Space – New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
www.scientificamerican.com
Buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their Newtonian roots.

Does DNA Emit Light?
www.viewzone.com
Russian scientist, Pjotr Garjajev, had managed to intercept communication from a DNA molecule in the form of ultraviolet photons — light!

Sacred Geometry by Charles Gilchrist
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The Universe is Vibration, and the principles of Sacred Geometry are directly correspondent to ALL wave form phenomena … ALL vibration. Science agrees, the Universe Is Vibration, and geometry IS vibration manifest on the visual, time/space planes.

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence! | International Space Fellowship
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Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy.

Russian DNA Discoveries – MIND BLOWING! | AEONIA
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The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques and much more.

The Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist
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Featuring Fred Alan Wolf, Peter Russell, Professor Al-Khalili, York Dobyns, Robert Anton Wilson, Dean Radin, Richard Alan Miller, Michael Talbot, Gregg Braden, Professor David Deutsch, David Wilcock, Khemp Yurmed Tinly, Nassim Haramein, John Hagelin, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, David Bohm, Bill Hicks.

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DNA MONTHLY October 2009
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Read “Embracing the Immaterial Universe,” by Bruce Lipton and “Revolution in Scientific Consciousness,” by Allen L. Roland

Entangled Water: Life, Consciousness, Memory
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Water is the missing, often overlooked piece of the puzzle. Since water has consciousness and memory, everything we do and feel begins to make more sense. We are in fact moving bodies of water, able to connect psychically with other bodies of water.

Revolutionary New Discoveries about Water!
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Amazing new discoveries about the properties of water could revolutionize our world! Filmmaker and mystic ecologist David Sereda discussed some of the amazing properties of water– it may actually have memory and consciousness, he said.

Vortex Based Mathematics by Marko Rodin
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Marko Rodin has discovered the underpinning geometry of the universe, the fabric of time itself. His Vortex-Based Mathematics shows the dimensional shape and function of the universe as being a toroid or donut-shaped black hole.

Bruce Lipton – Fractal Geometry
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Bruce Lipton – As Above So Below, An Introduction To Fractal Evoloution

Coast to Coast AM – 15 Sep 2009 – Evolution & Mind
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Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. and Steve Bhaerman who co-authored with Lipton their new book Spontaneous Evolution, spoke about ways humanity can evolve by freeing itself of old belief systems and programming.

The Anthropic Principle | What Is Reality?
www.ipod.org.uk
Some of the fundamental physical constants in the universe appear to have been fine-tuned, otherwise life could not exist. Are “multiverse” solutions the answer to this mystery?

Consciouness, Unified Field Theory and World Peace
www.viddler.com
Dr. Hagelin is unique among scientists in being the first to apply this most advanced knowledge for the practical benefit of humankind. He has pioneered the use of Unified Field-based technologies proven to reduce crime, violence, terrorism, and war and to promote peace.

The Primacy of Consciousness
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A beautiful presentation by Peter Russell illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality is consciousness.

Martin Armstrong and market cycle theory | The New Yorker
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“The New Yorker” magazine October 12, 2009 issue which includes a brief biography of Armstrong and his “PI” Cycle Theory. Read the full article here.

Hidden World: Cymatics
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The work of German photographer Alexander Lauterwasser is presented in the context of Cymatics, the study of vibration and its effects on form-making. A brief history of Cymatic research is presented starting with the sound-figure experiments of Ernst Chladni and Hans Jenny.

First black hole for light created on Earth | New Scientist
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An electromagnetic black hole has been built in a lab – and may one day be adapted to generate limitless solar energy even on a cloudy day.

Scientific evidence for a connection between mind and matter
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I have collected lots of scientifically provable evidence showing that our mind, our consciousness is connected to all matter and it can act on it instantaneously. This evidence was presented in K KLUB (28/08/2009 at 18:00), Detva, Slovakia.

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
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The heliosphere is different from what researchers have previously thought. Data show an unexpected bright band or ribbon of surprisingly high-energy emissions.

Organic Universe, book by Giuliana Conforto | Responsibility.tv
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The visible universe, scientific instruments show us, is just one of infinite levels of reality; it is probably the lowest energy one, less than 5 per cent of the entire calculated mass, and is expanding at accelerating rates.

Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today
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In just the past week, three different research teams have released their findings in their attempts to create black holes – or at least conditions analogous to them to advance our understanding.

Quantum Physics & Consciousness
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Quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami talked about the “science within consciousness,” and how the paradigm is shifting from a materialistic world view into one that incorporates spirituality.

The Quantum Activist | Documentary film & DVD with Dr. Amit Goswami
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The new documentary The Quantum Activist tells the story of Dr. Amit Goswami, “a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality.”

Haramein on the Sun
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Haramein describes the dynamics of our sun as the result of a singularity black hole structure at its center he calls a “spin horizon.” From the special features of the “Crossing the Event Horizon” DVD set.

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology | h+ Magazine
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The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them.

A Conversation With Amit Goswami | Lightworks – The Monthly Aspectarian – September, 2009
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Guy Spiro: Amit, I usually like to start by asking people to briefly tell their story. How did you get from where you started to where you are now with your work and your understanding?

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A fractal holographic universe | hydrogen2oxygen
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Prominent researchers from various disciplines discuss the nature of reality from a quantum physics perspective… Is ours a holographic universe?

Martin Armstrong Economic Essays
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Essays written in prison covering global economic history; future trends and first hand accounts of market manipulation by the largest financial institutions (“The Club”) “untouchable” by the U.S. Justice System.

Project Camelot interviews Dr Pete Peterson
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David Wilcock and Dr Peterson discuss about: The “information field” and how the body, the mind, and DNA really function • Healing modalities which work very rapidly and effectively

The Four Myth Perceptions of the Apocalypse
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In this video Dr. Bruce Lipton explains four myths that were universally accepted until very recently. Now that they are known to be false, medicine will inevitably change.

Crossing the Event Horizon
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In this 4 DVD presentation, Nassim Haramein will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce an all-encompassing Unified Physics.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
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Dr Wayne Dyer summarises the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, which is a collection of 81 verses offered by a man named Lao Tzu some 25 Centuries ago.

The Orion Project
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The Orion Project is a not-for-profit corporation created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and enlightened abundance.

lanl.arxiv.org e-Print archive mirror
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Open access to almost 600,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Hunting Hidden Dimensions / Science News
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Black holes, as the most gravitationally dense objects in the universe, might provide another way of testing the extra-dimension hypotheses. Black holes know a thing or two about gravity; the trick is getting them to reveal their secrets.

The Shift in Human Consciousness | DNA MONTHLY
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Humanity is in the middle of a long-awaited Shift in consciousness predicted in hundreds of indigenous cultures all over the world.

The Non-Expanding Universe | FQXi Community
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Time doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t really expanding. And if you want a theory of quantum gravity, look to the man who inspired Einstein, says Julian Barbour.

What Is Reality?
www.ipod.org.uk
This site asks the most fundamental questions about reality, considering quantum theory, the anthropic principle, and the simulation argument.

Embracing the Immaterial Universe: Toward a New Noetic Science by Bruce Lipton
www.brucelipton.com
Materialism and reductionism engender the idea that humans are disconnected from, and above, nature. The noetic vision emphasizes that life is derived from an integration and coordination of both the physical and the immaterial parts of the universe.

The Biology of Belief meets the Tao of Change
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Conversations to Awaken your Soul. Live from the Hay House “I Can Do It” conference in Las Vegas. A conversation with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Bruce H. Lipton, PhD.

Scientists Stumped By “Telepathic” Abilities of DNA
www.dailygalaxy.com
DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn’t be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

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The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena

Dan Brown’s hotly anticipated novel The Lost Symbol hit bookstores in September, introducing readers to Dr. Katherine Solomon – love interest to Robert Langdon, and a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Though the character is fictional, both the institution and the science behind it are very real. Dean Radin, a senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), provides astonishing answers to the questions raised in The Lost Symbol in his recently released book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.

Described as “a mix of curiosity, scholarship, technical expertise, and sly wit” by The New York Times, Radin’s The Conscious Universe unveils persuasive empirical evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. Shattering the myth that surrounds parapsychology, and revealing the extent to which corporations, governments, and academia have embraced it, Radin exposes what the effects will be when – inevitably – mainstream science and society embrace it as well.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Conscious Universe:

In science, the acceptance of new ideas follows a predictable, four-stage sequence. In Stage 1, skeptics confidently proclaim that the idea is impossible because it violates the Laws of Science. This stage can last from years to centuries, depending on how much the idea challenges conventional wisdom. In Stage 2, skeptics reluctantly concede that the idea is possible, but it is not very interesting and the claimed effects are extremely weak. Stage 3 begins when the mainstream realizes that the idea is not only important, but its effects are much stronger and more pervasive than previously imagined. Stage 4 is achieved when the same critics who used to disavow any interest in the idea begin to proclaim that they thought of it first. Eventually, no one remembers that the idea was once considered a dangerous heresy.

The idea discussed in this book is in the midst of the most important and the most difficult of the four transitions – from Stage 1 into Stage 2. While the idea itself is ancient, it has taken more than a century to conclusively demonstrate it in accordance with rigorous, scientific standards. This demonstration has accelerated Stage 2 acceptance, and Stage 3 can already be glimpsed on the horizon.

The idea is that those compelling, perplexing and sometimes profound human experiences known as “psychic phenomena” are real.

This will come as no surprise to most of the world’s population, because the majority already believes in psychic phenomena. But over the past few years, something new has propelled us beyond old debates over personal beliefs. The reality of psychic phenomena is now no longer based solely upon faith, or wishful thinking, or absorbing anecdotes. It is not even based upon the results of a few scientific experiments. Instead, we know that these phenomena exist because of new ways of evaluating massive amounts of scientific evidence collected over a century by scores of researchers.

Psychic, or “psi” phenomena fall into two general categories. The first is perception of objects or events beyond the range of the ordinary senses. The second is mentally causing action at a distance. In both categories, it seems that intention, the mind’s will, can do things that – according to prevailing scientific theories – it isn’t supposed to be able to do. We wish to know what is happening to loved ones, and somehow, sometimes, that information is available even over large distances. We wish to speed the recovery of a loved one’s illness, and somehow they get better quicker, even at a distance. Mind willing, many interesting things appear to be possible.

Understanding such experiences requires an expanded view of human consciousness. Is the mind merely a mechanistic, information-processing bundle of neurons? Is it a “computer made of meat” as some cognitive scientists and neuroscientists believe? Or is it something more? The evidence suggests that while many aspects of mental functioning are undoubtedly related to brain structure and electrochemical activity, there is also something else happening, something very interesting.

This is for real?

When discussing the reality of psi phenomena, especially from the scientific perspective, one question always hovers in the background: You mean this is for real? In the midst of all the nonsense and excessive silliness proclaimed in the name of psychic phenomena, the misinformed use of the term parapsychology by self-proclaimed “paranormal investigators,” the perennial laughing stock of magicians and conjurers … this is for real?

The short answer is, Yes.

A more elaborate answer is, psi has been shown to exist in thousands of experiments. There are disagreements over to how to interpret the evidence, but the fact is that virtually all scientists who have studied the evidence, including the hard-nosed skeptics, now agree that there is something interesting going on that merits serious scientific attention.

(Source: The Conscious Universe)

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