Pure Consciousness

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Many a philosopher or those with a pioneering spirit from many other disciplines might argue about the concept of what precisely consciousness is.  From each of their individual perspectives and disciplines they may all be right, they might be partially right or they may be all wrong.  To define a bit:

The dictionary meaning of the word consciousness extends through several centuries and associated cognate meanings which have ranged from formal definitions to somewhat more skeptical definitions. One formal definition indicating the range of these cognate meanings is given in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary stating that consciousness is: “(1) a. awareness or perception of an inward psychological or spiritual fact: intuitively perceived knowledge of something in one’s inner self. B. inward awareness of an external object, state, or fact. C: concerned awareness: INTEREST, CONCERN – often used with an attributive noun. (2): the state or activity that is characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, or thought: mind in the broadest possible sense: something in nature that is distinguished from the physical. (3): the totality in psychology of sensations, perceptions, ideas, attitudes and feelings of which an individual or a group is aware at any given time or within a particular time span – compare STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.”

Spend any time researching the topic of consciousness and pretty soon you’ll find yourself half mad with theories, hypotheses and words like qualia and awareness and many philosophical ideas of what consciousness truly means from so many different angles.  Hundreds of papers have been written on consciousness and still we are no closer to pure understanding but maybe pure is part of something we might need to branch off into and along with "pure" add consciousness and create a new term to explore.  

What is pure consciousness?  Well, I believe that it is that state where you experience not one single thing else but consciousness.  There are no thoughts, no sensations, no input no matter what the mind throws up, you let it slip away as rain down the side of a mountain.  Pure consciousness is like a mountain and something far beyond it as it has no limits or boundaries or definition at all.  From a state of pure consciousness, none of this matters, has bearing on or impacts pure consciousness in the slightest. 

Unless you have experienced this state it is a little hard to explain other than as I have.  The only way I know of to get to a state of pure consciousness is through the practice of meditation and it takes much discipline and practice to get to that state of pure consciousness.  To be honest, I first experienced it during an NDE (Near Death Experience - story for another time).  Knowing what it feels like, I took up meditation again out of curiosity and a desire to explore an experience and it took so many years to see it again, I don’t even want to tell you.  But you can learn to get to it.  The question I ask is, even if you get there and even if you find it and become "enlightened" at the finding of it...“And, so?”

Why would we expend so much effort to project ourselves into a physical existence if all we want to do when we get here is spend all of our time in meditation to make this world disappear?  Didn’t we want to be here in the physical for a reason?  So why not then see it through and learn why it has the parameters it does.  Aren’t you at least a little curious why or how you come to be here? There must be a reason and I think that it must be your reason alone. I don’t wish to know the meaning of life right now.  I’m focused instead on the concept simply stated as "I am."  I can’t tell you what it’s for but it relates to a focus on consciousness.  I can point you to a teacher if you are curious (just let me know).  What I teach is part of consciousness but focused more on the day to day stuff but this topic is never ending and all consuming if you let it be that.

I believe that we are consciousness.  We are part of the great unknown…The All of Everything...The Great Mind...the Source…God….Goddess – choose your term but focus as you do on the feeling when you contemplate consciousness and say I Am.  I Am is complete all by itself.  It needs nothing else but I resist it.  I resist it and yet I experience it every night in meditation…a vast nothingness of pure void, black, dark, beautiful, peaceful and wonderful.  It’s funny having experienced a concept and then rejecting it on another hand but only in a way and maybe it is just semantics and there is no resistance at all but instead an alternative angle of understanding present that will morph into some other understanding that might entertain my psyche for a bit.  It doesn’t matter, none of this matters. Being everywhere and nowhere and understanding what that means in terms of consciousness – now that is priceless.

This may make no sense from the outside looking in.  But if you cut off the outside entirely, breathe slowly and deeply, let your thoughts slide away like rain down the side of a mountain, you might understand what I mean.  In the stillness and quiet we taste a bit of who and what we are.  What does that matter?  I don’t know that it does other than to help you understand that you are more than flesh, bones, brain and a bundle of nerves.  You are that too but so much more.  Add emotion and you have the perfect storm of wonder that humanity is.  It’s truly beautiful.  You are truly beautiful.  Our consciousness from whatever angle for whatever purpose we design is amazing regardless of who is right, wrong or somewhere in between.

Source:

 http://dreamintime.blogspot.com/2015/12/pure-consciousness.html

  Dr. J.L. Harter, Editor see bio section for more information.

Understanding Memories...

Understanding memories of a near-death experience from the perspective of quantum entanglement and in the presence of the supernatural

Contzen Pereira and Janice Harter

Key Words

Near-Death Experience, Quantum entanglement, Memories, Supernatural, Sub-atomic cloud

Abstract

Near-death experiences are a big challenge to the fields of science and philosophy; termed as hallucinatory by neurologists and “stuff of which fantasies are made off” by sceptics, there are some unique near-death experiences which defy these claims. Memories generated during these experiences are of specific interest as they are created without a body and can be recalled post the experience. Call it the mind, soul, psyche or consciousness, if deliberated as a form of quantum generated energy, a strong correlation under a reductionist based perspective can be obtained. Life at a macroscopic level may not be similar to life at a quantum level, and has been proved in quantum physics through its spooky properties like quantum entanglement. Self-sustaining quantum generated energy through entanglement is the answer to all mystical realties and the answer lies in believing in its existence in and around us. It is this energy that brings in the awareness of one’s existence and which performs tasks beyond the imagination of the current self; an energy created at the creation of all that exists; a true supernatural force. This paper reviews a unique void near-death experience and hypothesizes quantum entanglement to be involved in the conception and storage of these energy-based memories in a quantum subatomic cloud which can be restated if returned back to the body or lost to the environment upon death.

Introduction

Be it the soul in philosophy and religion; the psyche in psychology or the mind or consciousness in science, there seems to be a resilient correlation or similarity with each of these concepts, especially in relation to its preposterousness and absurdity. From a scientific reductionist based perspective, if we reduce these notions to pure energy generated at the level of subatomic particles that exists all around us, it may seem unswerving. The problematical part is to prove the ability of these entangled subatomic particles to create and store reminiscences outside the body. Quantum studies are now revealing aspects in relations to subatomic particle energy and its ability to perform beyond the imagination of what one can accept and visualize. Quantum entanglement is a unique property in quantum physics that best describes the mysterious behaviours that take place at a quantum level with its effects observed at a macroscopic level (Peres 1993).

Near-death experiences may be termed absurd by some and hallucinatory by many (Mobbs and Watt 2011) but there sure is some depth of existence if we look at it from the perspective of quantum generated energy; a pure subatomic energy that exists in the unruly microscopic quantum world; an energy that supports the existence of what we have been addressing as the soul, psyche, mind and consciousness; the oldest form of energy created and present all through the cosmos. With consciousness alone, multiple disciplines have attempted to pinpoint what consciousness is precisely and the best academia has to offer at this point in time is the hard and easy problems of consciousness.  Perhaps our lack of understanding of consciousness has inadvertently ruled out the possibility that consciousness does, in fact exist in part outside the brain-body. If it does exist etherically as a field of energy, this may be a game-changer in terms of how we view this phenomenon of the near death experience.  This paper evaluates an experience different from the mainstream and more typical accounts of the near death experience in that this one was a positive void–based near-death experience and attempts to hypothesize this experience to be a result of quantum entanglement with the interference of the supernatural force that exists beyond the dimensions of space and time (Harter 2014).

A void-based near death experience

A near-death experience occurs at the moment of anticipated death just before biological death during which a patient is quite often clinically dead or very near death (Schroter-Kunhardt 1993). Most of the near-death experiences studied and evaluated are broadly categorized as positive and negative.  Positive near-death experiences involve a feeling of peace and tranquillity, a sensation of floating through a tunnel towards a bright light with a complete life review, while a negative near-death experience is more horrific, which is usually accompanied by unpleasant feelings of fear and panic which may or may not be associated with a life review (Blanke and Dieguez 2009). In both forms the most common and important aspect of the experience is the ability to remember the experience as a reminiscence post the experience.

Janice, whose experience I would be sharing in this paper experienced a void near-death experience, which was surprisingly a positive one along with a past and future life review. This experience is definitely unique in comparison to other near-death experiences and can bring in a correlation of her thoughts, memories and experience with the mysterious quantum world that yet needs to be fully explored. Since most near-death cases of the void are negative and associated with a feeling of fear and darkness, her positive experience along with a future life review is a unique experience which retained as a memory that changed her life post the experience.

Her experience – She was 36 weeks and 9 days pregnant and was completely healthy when she went into labor in hospital. Upon admission she was given a medication called Breathine (Turbutaine) and within seconds of administering the drug intravenously, she felt her body temperature rise and she passed out.  Breathine is a bronchodilator, which dilates the bronchial openings of the lungs by relaxing them for much better flow of air in and out of the lungs. It was surprising that this drug was administered despite of it not being recommended for treating prolonged (more than 48 to 72 hours) premature labor. Fatal side effects, that includes fast or irregular heartbeats, high blood sugar and low potassium levels, fluid accumulation in lungs and heart attack have been reported after use in pregnant women. While passing out she felt her heart beat stop and felt as if she had moved from one reality to another while retaining conscious awareness. For her, the time elapsed in the void seemed around 30 – 45 minutes which was actually 3 – 4 minutes hospital time, wherein the doctors considered the case as code blue and administered a medication to counter act the first one, to revive her.

The reality that she experienced was a pure black form of nothingness; a void space which somehow didn’t seem frightening to her. She was curious to know whether she could feel her hands and legs but there was none; she was aware that she was in a place of pure transparency. In this state of transparency, she was consciously aware and was convinced that she was out of her body as she felt lighter than what she would have felt in her heavy physical body. The time spent in the dark void seemed eternal as she watched the most important sequences of her life through a life review, which stopped at a point where she had children and she could not perceive the review further. In the void there was a presence of an entity with her; she could not see it but could feel it as an inner voice, which she described as a tone. When her life review was complete, this entity sent her a thought, “Are you ready to go?” At that point of time, she was unaware of the reason why she was in the hospital and therefore within the void she confided in the thought that was sent to her by the entity and was ready to go at that moment, for in the void she considered that she had done the best of everything in life.

The tone asked her whether she was sure to go and then it showed her the moments that she had spent with her older children which ended with her the baby that was not yet born and what she would look like when she was 2 years old. Post the experience Janice gave birth to a girl and the daughter resembled the same baby she was shown during the future life review, the only thing odd was that during the review the two year old girl had shoulder length blond curly hair which was turned out to be the case with her daughter when she was two years old. This life review changed her thought; she felt love; felt a sense of incompleteness which was not until the entity showed her the future life review which was subdued within the void which seemed more self-oriented. A longing for completeness of her life review lead the entity to grant her wish and within a single spin of her heart beat she was back into her body and she heard the voices of the hospital staff as they spoke of not disclosing her state to her friends who were present during the event for fear of upsetting her in her delicate condition.

Quantum entanglement as a reason for memory retention post the near-death experience and the interference of the supernatural force depicting the future

According to reductive science, matter is nothing but a form of energy; an energy created by the bizarre. In quantum physics when two particles are entangled they behave as one and not as two separate particles, so what happens in the quantum world is completely different from what we perceive in the macroscopic world, which also holds true for the world of quantum biology. In an entangled state of sub atomic particles there will be a constant exchange of energy between these particles which somehow interacts with one another resulting in information gathering. Hameroff and Chopra suggest that quantum entanglement of low-energy particles could interact even outside the body suggesting a near-death experience; therefore the existence of a quantum soul (Hameroff and Chopra 2012).

In order to justify this theory, we need to hypothesize that the flow of energy within the body occurs through quantum interactions for which the microtubular network is the ideal support framework that is known to quantum compute information. Based on this hypothesis, it can be suggested that the information gathering may occur as a result of quantum entanglement of the sub atomic particles within the microtubules resulting in the formation of a subatomic cloud that acts as a holographic image processor. The subatomic cloud of energy is therefore in a constant state of exchanging energy with the cosmos with an ability to retain memory through holographic processing to commute consciousness. During a near death experience, a shutdown of the body may result in a change in the state of this quantum entangled subatomic cloud of energy wherein post shutdown the microtubules cease to compute consciousness but the holographed memories, identity and cognition with emotion and function remains intact within the sub atomic cloud, until the body can be revived or resuscitated.

The experience in the void for Janice was reportedly beautiful as well as peaceful and these memories changed her life thereafter. Based on the above hypothesis, her subatomic particle cloud, with her past memories remained intact outside her body as she experienced her past a life review. The most important memory to be noted in her experience was the awareness of her being outside her body. Her curiosity to feel the presence of her hands and legs assured her that she was in a state of pure transparency which confirms her awareness within the void, where she could differentiate between her physical and non-physical body; she could feel the presence of her own subatomic energy cloud. Based on her experience it can be assumed that this awareness was computed within the quantum entangled subatomic cloud outside the body creating a holographic image within this cloud to be retained as a memory which was reiterated when she was rescusitated.

The ability to see her life review of the future was unique to her near death experience. Life reviews of the past has been observed in many near death experiences and is surely a link to the recalling of memories that may be stored as holographic images within the quantum entangled particles within the microtubular network of the brain and body. But a future life review is rare, especially when it comes true, which was obvious in her experience. The image of her daughter before she was born during the experience is more inclined to the presence of a supernatural form; a form which creates experiences within and beyond the domains of space and time; a form who resides over all possible dimensions; the symmetric form of light that created all of what exists.

The beauty of such a memory lies in the image created of something that does not exist; in this case the image of her daughter was created and was holographed within her subatomic cloud to be stored and to be observed in the future. A supernatural force may sometimes seem irrational during such a scientific discussion but science sometimes does not have an answer to every question and impetuses one to be more open to the consideration of the possibility of a supernatural. This does not mean that there is no science behind the supernatural; rather it is the supernatural that utilizes science to make us appreciate our existence. Experiencing the creation of the supernatural is the true appreciation of the subjective experience of one’s consciousness, for like the supernatural, it will always remain a beautiful mystery ( Pereira 2015).

Conclusion

Self-sustaining energy is the answer to all mystical realties and the answer lies in believing in its existence in and around all living beings; that which brings in the awareness of one’s existence and which performs tasks beyond the imagination of the current self awareness; an energy created at the creation of all that exists; a supernatural force beyond our imagination. Near death experiences cannot wholly be definitively referred to as hallucinations as they do not correspond with such objective reality. For during a near-death experience the brain is inactive and as of now there is no study that has detected activity in the vision centre of the brain during a near-death experience. A biophysical visual representational model has been developed to show the involvement of low-energy quantum entanglements during near-death experiences (Bokkon et al 2013).  

The quantum world is mysterious; the entanglement of particles at a subatomic level within a biological network of the microtubules is where memories and awareness gets computed. The subatomic energy cloud has the ability to perform within the system as well as outside the system, which is clearly demonstrated during a near-death experience. Awareness and memories is therefore fundamental; a form of energy that exists all around us, created by the supernatural and computed by particles in the quantum world and our bodies are like quantum processors that are an emerging creation meant to increase its intelligence and build its identity. Memories can therefore be created with and without the presence of a body; for it is computed within the realms of the quantum world that lies beyond the imagination of oneself evident during a near-death experience. 

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Dr. Contzen Pereira Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India Corresponding Author. Address: Nandadeep, 302, Tarun Bharat Soc, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 099, India. Tel: +919819642456, +912266750530 Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

Rev. J.L. Harter, PhD, Founding Editor.  Please see Bio Section for additional information.

Frequency of Connected Consciousness

I don’t have studied works for you today.  Today I have something all together different.  An observation, perhaps and I’m not quite sure where it is going.  As I sit here beside the open window, I hear the wind rustling through the tree leaves and I see the pale light of a just rising sun beginning to etch all of my world in a fine gold and silvery light.  Consciousness in tact, as always and ever it is, I observe the things in my world just now.

The breeze is strong enough to tickle the wind chimes outside my front door into motion sending out a beautiful tinkling.  The air not quite crisp but cool sends waves of sound that include the chirping of birds, the vehicles on the freeway a half block away already en route to some physical destination and the sound of that something I can’t quite put my finger on.  The former, I’m certain are generated physically from my perception of the physical world.  The latter, I’m not sure anyone hears but me sometimes.  I’m not sure how to define this frequency, vibration or sound I perceive at times.  It varies in pitch or tone.  Sometimes it is steady and sometimes only just there a moment.  Sometimes it isn’t there at all.  When I find the tone generators online, they produce a near similar effect with one thing missing, the feeling that naturally accompanies what I hear.  It isn’t there all the time but when it is, it flicks on like a light switch and its pulse is strong enough to disrupt all thought and action.  It is strong enough for me to feel its accompanying vibration from inside out and yet another… a feeling, non-physical, I cannot define.

The sensation of sound, vibration or frequency (or all 3 as the case may very well be), is typically preceded by an invisible barrier that seems to enshroud my being temporarily.  I liken it to an absence or distancing of perception.  It is the best way I can think to define it.  What is this, or It’s back, I often say to myself when I encounter it off on and on throughout my days and weeks now.  What is this sound, frequency or vibration that it is I am hearing?  Sometimes, at work, I’ll be mid-sentence and the energy flicks on and I’ll notice a sensation about the ears or maybe it’s the hair on the back of my neck standing up, I’m still not sure.  I feel things around me and as crazy as that sounds, it brings me a great sense of peace.  There is a knowing in the feeling…that I am not alone.  It is so very hard to understand until you’ve experienced it and you’ve noticed the difference between tinnitus and this sensation or a barometric pressure change and this shift in perception.  This is non-physical, this sensation.  Again, it is a bit hard to adequately explain.  But I wonder even more, what is it for?  Why am I experiencing it at all?

Some very quick searches for information have left me with an explanation that this perception, this thing that I am experiencing is merely the Aum or Ascension Symptoms.  I think I could find more solace in the meaning behind the Aum in, “The Sound of the Center of the Universe.”  Is it really even a sound if I’m hearing it inside of me?  This thing, whatever it is, has a steady-state frequency that gives off a sense of awakening and it isn’t always the same tone.  Sometimes the hertz are well up into 5 digits and beyond and are joined by harmonizing tones.  With all due respect for the perspective of others, I don’t “believe” in ascension symptoms that run the gamut of every symptom normally attributed to stress, menopause or the common cold.  I see no evidence to support it so see that as a hypothesis not yet tested.  Another reason I don’t share the belief in the concept of ascension symptoms is that I know that we are already awake and a part of us so very Consciously (Big “C”) aware.  You can blame your anxiety and bad days on a thing but I can’t.  I can see there is nothing to blame in this universe.  If I feel a certain way, there is an experience I intentionally sought.  If I hadn’t, it would not be.  I have enough self-case studies in my time from a variety of topics to support this contention at least in enough areas to convince my self.

I was once merely an observer of physical life but something changed many years ago following my NDE (Near Death Experience) and then deepened in the years leading up to my Big C Consciousness awakening following a surgery and some of the most intense life lessons I’ve ever contended with and that awakening continues.  I don’t see it as an ascension, I see it as remembrance of who and what I truly am.  And each will come to this conclusion in his or her own time.  There is a knowing that accompanies this feeling and even the non-physically perceived sound that I have wondered about all of these years.  There is a part of me that knows what this frequency or vibration is and why it seems I “hear” it.  In a very simple way, with intent, I am merely remembering…remembering home.  Home is not a place that we try to put into the constructs of our third-dimensional framework.  Rather home is a state of being, a state of remembering the connected nature of all things and not only remembering but also feeling the connected nature of all things.  There is nothing more beautiful in this world.  That feeling to me connects directly with the feelings evoked by watching a beautiful fiery pink, silvery gold and orange sunrise over the mountain tops framed in low-lying clouds or even the same colors, ever more vibrant as the sun sinks slowly into the powerful ocean.  If you’ve not felt these things and their accompanying vibrations then my words won’t do them justice by any measure…for there is no measure or words I have to truly define the powerful beauty of the experience. 

I cannot prove my experience with this non-physical perception or feeling may be a better word.  I think that others share this experience I am trying to define who have found themselves in a similar state of feeling the Consciously Connected nature of all things that leaves them in awe, blissful and filled with compassionate love and deeper understanding.  If you have encountered this feeling or something similar to what I have been trying to articulate here, I would very much like to hear about your perspectives or experiences.  Write me, if you’d like to share.  Jaiehart@gmail.com.

Blessings of Love and Greater Awareness in the Wholeness of your Beautiful Being!

Rev. J.L. Harter, PhD, M.Msc., B.Msc., Author, Blogger, and Spiritual Counselor, Editor of the JMCC.  See Bio section for more information.

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