Consciousness As Yet Undefined

I stepped out and away from really big thoughts for quite a while.  I guess I needed a break for a bit.  But, lately consciousness as a topic of thought calls from that precious place I left it some time ago and it tells me I’m not done yet.  Have you any idea the frustration this causes or why?  There have been over 200 papers written on the topic of consciousness and yet, we are still unable to pin point exactly where it begins and ends. The theories are abundant.  Some are very outlandish and some seem so rational and logical.  I cannot help but wonder though, if it remains truly illusive because we are looking for it with the wrong perspective and possibly, the wrong equipment.

What if consciousness is a type of energy field pervasive in its existence to the point it cannot be defined in terms of beginnings and endings?  What if it is such an intrinsic part of this world we experience that we will be unable to differentiate it coming from the mind or soul because both are a part of consciousness?  If we raise ourselves up to the consciousness of spirit and beyond, we still could not define its borders because we cannot get outside of it in order to fully look at it.  We have a word or a concept that carries multiple meanings only because we have no words to define the fullness of the essence of the infinite.

I had to stop looking it this for a while.  I had to cut myself off from thinking about it.  Not because it was a problem I couldn’t solve or it was frustrating or anything like that.  I had to stop looking at it to reconnect with it in a better light.  It has been a stressful year for me in so many ways I just won’t bore you with.  But that stress has been the impetus for my return to aware consciousness.  I think, sometimes, we need something painful to bring us back to the center of our being where there is peace, there is comfort and there is this vast and depthless expanse of pure consciousness we are always engaged with, plugged into and a very focal part of.

I guess in all my inquiry about consciousness, contemplating all the theories, I guess I have to smile and say “Yes” all are not only plausible but likely in some way.  There is no mind over soul over body here in terms of origins.  I think the reality would be much closer to a “yes” to quite possibly all theories.  I have no scientific proof but you see, science cant really measure it from the inside.  It hasn’t got the proper tools or the right perspectives yet to see itself from the inside.  It would be like a fish trying to formulate the existence of the ocean?  What would that be to a fish?  It is in it and so how could it be defined properly?  What framework would the fish use?  You might have to catch glimpses where you could step outside of consciousness but I ask you, how on Earth would you do that?  How in any realm could you do that?

I like to think of us all as interactive processors in a way.  We take in data at various frequencies, process that data and put out a world view that suits us but realize that output is dependent upon our processing equipment.  Not all of us process data in the same manner and even if we are comprised of similar components, the way we were put together creates many and varied ways in which we see, process and output information into the realities that we embrace.  No two processors (humans) are fully alike and each will have his areas of focus based on how he or she was created (and I’m including here genetic memes and psychology as well as environmental psychology and social impact upon our development).  So, within consciousness, how do we see consciousness when we are actually processors of consciousness?  I don’t have the answers.  I, like many others, only have questions. 

At some level, I think I can accept the concept of being conscious, in a sea of consciousness, I consciously interpret to exist within a larger global shared consciousness.  At first this sounded so silly to me but then I stepped back, stopped thinking about it so much and it became more clear to me.  What purpose would it serve for me or anyone to define the indefinable at this point in our human-conscious development?  In this frame and within this plane of existence at this time, I do not think we have yet developed the right equipment, thought processes or perceptive ability to definitively articulate what precisely consciousness is.  Clever as we may be, the best we can hope for, I think, is to define aspects of it and maybe coin some better words to contain the aspects we define…like Spirit, Soul, Sub-Conscious, Latent Consciousness and Awake/Aware Consciousness.  But those are merely points on a spectrum that is really not limited to just the points.  What about the whole plane?  What about the other planes?

I’m more content today knowing I don’t have the tools to do a job I somehow started to take on without realizing it.  Rather than drive myself mad, I am happy to look for the right tools to begin to define component parts, go back to the studies and reread them, go back to the world of rich, beautiful and amazing experiences within the global consciousness and allow what is to manifest to, well, manifest with much greater ease and much less intense thinking on at least this topic in particular.  Because we exist to process and respond to what we both take in and put out, we bring naturally, this space-time continuum into the mix of consciousness.  We are the crossroads or culmination of time and space and the consciousness that keeps these things dimensionaly in tact in our experience.  Hmmm, more thoughts to come.

 

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Consciousness, Breath and the Perceptions of Experience

It takes great restraint to contain oneself to the boundaries of just this present moment.  The mind rebels and fights to reach backwards and forwards in time.  It’s so funny how that works.  It takes some understanding of the mind to know that it prefers to be anywhere else but here in the present.  It also takes a great deal of awareness to understand when the mind is leaving the present and weaving its way back and forth into former and potentially alternative future realities.  We are just wired for safety and security seeking.  In a world as crazy as ours with humans at a full spectrum of development and also, lets be realistic, seeming lack of development who seem to plunge helplessly into the darker parts of existence, it is difficult not to worry or move ahead, compare to the experience and see where we are and if we can feel safe.

But what is feeling safe?  How do we know if that is real?  How do we know that not being safe is real?  One could argue that whatever is perceived is the only reality there is but is that sufficient enough an argument to make it true in terms of the totality of reality?  I don’t think we can say that with certainty and yet at the same time, I fully understand how it is that we just cannot ignore the perceptions of our experience.  It just seems so very real.  But then, I cannot help but ask, “Why are we wired like this?”  You see, I believe that we are perfectly designed to our tasks and that it is quite possible that we misunderstand just how big of a game we are participating in.  How do we know what is real, what is perception, what has been horribly skewed through the filters of our own psychology and what stands independent with 100 percent certainty?

The theories are abundant, vastly different and some so very similar.  I’ve read them, taken them in, tried them on to see how they feel and every time the only thing I can say with 100 percent certainty is “that may be possible.”  I’m not so naïve as to proclaim that the reality I see is real because I perceive it because I know that is not necessarily true.  And, I know that isn’t necessarily true because I understand the unreliability of perception.  One tiny example from among a million might be the application of something very cold to the skin that gives the perception of burning.  But burning in our common understanding requires heat.  There is no heat in icy cold. There is, however, sensation and there are certain hot and cold sensations that occur at such a degree that they seem similar but in reality they are not.  You can take two individuals and put them on a city street.  One person may thrive in the moment feeling the exciting energy of city life, the hustle and bustle of their present surrounds exclaiming they love the city and its splendor.  Another soul may take in the very same scene and proclaim it horrendously noisy, dirty, crowded and energy draining.  Who would be right?  If perception can be considered the truth then one must deal with the idea that one person’s perception over anothers is correct and the rest of us are faulty and wrong incapable of the right perception.  How many arguments would we put to rest of everyone understood that perception was unique to the perceiver and to argue over it with another who perceives is a ridiculous waste of energy?

There seems to be an interesting challenge when we try to label a thing with certainty.  Is a table a table?  What if someone experiences it as something else?  Is an experience invalidated by a different experience?  We can contemplate these inquiries and come up with all sorts of answers that we might term plausible or implausible but I don’t think we can come to certainty for everyone equally.  So, to me that means our experience, our perception and everything we take in is very unique to the make up of our person or being.  Maybe we are like a computer processor that merely takes in information and processes based only upon that data we are able or willing to recognize but not necessarily with the ability to fully contextualize reality.  So, how do we feel safe and secure in that?

If you can close your eyes and calm your thoughts by merely focusing upon the breath as it comes in and then out, over and over again, you begin to move into something not dependent upon labels to exist.  There is a void at the top and bottom of each breath.  That space is not dependent upon experience and everyone has this space whether long or short equally – that pause between breathing in and breathing out.  That is one thing that is definitively consistent across living humanity in that it exists independent of our thought about it or not.  That tiny little span between the in breath and the out breath or the out breath and the in breath is something spectacular.  In that tiny little moment, I think that we can free ourselves from the concerns or worry about any perception or experience we consider ourselves to have taken into our processing systems for the seeming span of our lives.  In that tiny little pause lies the totality of our existence not jaded by experience or tainted by sketchy perception.  It exists until we no longer are physically existing and then, seemingly, we move into the space of that pause.  From there, I cannot say what happens as I’m only there fleetingly with every breath.  In between my last breath when my heart stopped many years ago and the first breath when they brought me back, I was in a place I cannot define, or label or even fully describe other than it was eerily similar to that pause between breaths with eyes closed.  Words are meaningless to define what was more of a feeling.

It made me more curious about life and less afraid of death and I suppose in that, there was a bit of safety and security because it meant no matter what happened in my life, through my perceptions and my experience I judged only to determine safety and security.  I will wonder about that some more as these thoughts develop more into understanding.  I share them now only as more food for thought.  So, can we attain safety and security?  I think yes in fleeting moments and the rest of our lives will likely be wavering between other moments and challenges that compel us to continue seeking that safety and security.  I guess, that is the way we learn.  Fear and complacency or boredom creates in us the need for change to get to a place where fear, complacency or boredom no longer need to exist but these sensations or observations are so different for all.  So, we have this wealth of life on planet Earth with so very many different situations to create experiences to get us to move into a space of safety and security or even for some, the opposite.  I’ll stop before I dive into another tangent about psychology and drivers. 

Consider spending some time noticing those moments in between the breath.  What do you observe?  How do you feel about it?  What is different about it compared to your daily existence?  What you notice is something truly shared by all physical beings, how does that make you feel?  There are many things we can explore and the beauty of life is that we are given that.  I seek to bring understanding to life so that we can live better no matter what we perceive, so that we might understand each other better no matter what our experience.  So, we breathe. The safety and security will be left to what we allow ourselves to perceive.

Rev. J.L. Harter, Ph.D. (Editor/Contributor)  See Bio section for more information.

A Narrative First-Person/Third-Person Experience and Six Mugs of Beer

Abstract

This paper provides a first-person (me) and a third-person’s experience (colleague) of me while drinking six mugs of beer. It is an attempt to describe the experience commencing with the first sip and ending with the last sip of beer from a first-person (my) perspective and a third-person’s perspective. The third-person’s perspective here is purely based on the observation of my behaviour which has been narrated in third-person by my colleague. The observation of this study indicate that there is a substantial sever between my personal conscious first-person experience when compared to a third-person’s experience of me, that can lead to contradictory conjectures when contrasted.

Key Words

First-Person, Third-Person, Beer, Consciousness, Experience

It was a warm and sunny afternoon and to gratify ourselves we decided to go out for a drink. My colleague does not drink alcohol, but has always accompanied me when I do so; for he considers it as his recreational time. He loves sipping on juices or mocktails and is happy with the place if the music and the ambience are fine. It was 4 o’clock and it was hot and humid and therefore we ended up at a nearby pub. To our surprise when we reached the pub we got to know that it was happy hours. Happy hours are usually kept during odd hours of the day, and during this period a customer gets another drink absolutely free. After bearing the sweltering heat outside we were all eager to plunge into our drinks.

My First-person experience

I had already decided that I would drink beer today, while my colleague decided to sip on a mocktail. Since I had walked down in the afternoon heat, I was eager to see my first mug of beer. That golden sparkling drink and its ability to quench my thirst, was all that was running through my head and the thought itself was making me drool. As the bartender placed the mug of beer in front of me, my eyes twinkled and I sat up erect; I was eager to take my first sip and I could resist no more. In a flash, I picked up my mug, said a loud ‘cheers’ and sipped it. With the first sip I felt my body go numb; the experience of my vanishing thirst was out of this world. I felt a tingling sensation on my tongue; my taste buds were all soaked with beer and were waiting for my next sip. I felt my mind getting empty, all my thoughts seemed far away; I was relaxed. I threw a smile at my colleague and in the next sip, my mug was empty. Wow!! I felt the beer roll down all through my gullet and fill my stomach; it felt like the experience of gushing water during the first rain. The fragrance of the beer had filled the air; I felt as if I was sitting in a bathing tub filled with beer. Would water have had the same feeling, on a sunny day like this? I guess not, water would have only quenched my thirst, but the beer was doing something more. I was not high; I usually have a good hold on my capacity while drinking beer, especially when it is draught beer or stout beer, variable to the state of my mind.

The experience was blissful; I felt pleasant as we chatted about work and life. In no time I summoned for another mug of beer. The beer came but since I felt a bit full I decided to take a break; I waited until my colleague finished his first round of mocktails, even though he told me to go-ahead. The taste of the beer changed from the unusual bitter taste to a sweet taste by the third round; it surged with no restriction. I had now begun to feel light-headed as everything around me slowed down, in fact my colleague’s voice seemed farther away than usual; it was getting a bit hard to hear him with all that loud music around us. Strangely in the beginning the music was pleasant but slowly got louder; definitely there was some effect due to the beer, but I felt strange. My body had somehow cooled-off completely, the feeling was getting better and better; I had all the time in the world for I was aware about the next three rounds of beer waiting to be consumed. Was I in an altered state of mind? Didn’t seem like, as I was completely aware of my surrounding; I was definitely conscious and was aware of what I was speaking and doing; I was convinced I was not drunk but I decided to slow down. The music was really loud now but somehow it relaxed my nerves; the feeling was good and then all of a sudden I felt the urge to pee.

All that beer inside me, had made my bladder full, my liver was definitely going berserk with all that alcohol that it had to detoxify. That washroom visit was a relaxation; a wonderful experience; maybe not for many but for me it was ‘the’ experience. After all the beer had been washed out of my system, I was all ready to gulp down some more. My stomach felt light, but my body felt restless; in all this there was some kind of congeniality that prevailed. The experience of this niceness was unknowingly superlative; I am sure it may differ from person to person and during the different states of mind, but at this moment the experience for me was excellent. The next three rounds were completely different from the first three rounds wherein every sip of the beer was making me feel heavy and lethargic. I was not sloshed, I was fully aware of what was happening around me; the music seemed fine, but there was something else that I was doing which I did not realize until I paid attention to it. I was being disconcertingly observant; everything around me just seemed clear and bright; it seemed beyond my actual consciousness. I was extra vigilant; I kept looking around; listening attentively to the music that was playing louder than before; drinking my beer; simultaneously talking to my colleague; laughing, suggesting, analysing, etc. everything seemed to go on concurrently. It felt as if I was in some unknown place multi-tasking effortlessly; and there definitely was not scope of getting tired. Was it the beer? Was it my mind? Why was everything moving so rapidly? I knew that I was not drunk, because I stood up and walked to the washroom; I had to pee again.

The experience after the pee remained the same, there was no change; blissful. The beers were over and it was time to go home. As we discussed and paid the bill, my colleague kept giving me this stare as if I was an alien from another planet. I decided not to ask, as it seemed like I would end up in an indefinable situation. As we stood up and walked out of the pub, I experienced a sense of satisfaction and content; the feeling was good and my thirst was quenched; but I was not drunk. I bid my colleague a good bye and thanked him for his company; I walked back home pleased of the experience.

 A Third-person’s Experience of Me

As we sat at the bar table waiting for Contzen’s beer to come and of course my mocktail, I noticed that his behaviour was a bit different today, he was a bit side-tracked or unfocussed. Maybe it was the heat, as it was very hot and humid outside and we had walked all the way to the bar. The bartender placed the mug of beer in front of Contzen and the mocktail saying that we were lucky to have come during happy hours and therefore we were entitled to get an additional drink free. As soon as the bartender left, I noticed the expression on Contzen’s face change; he seemed all happy about the offer and suggested that we stay for a couple of drinks rather than just a few. At that very moment I was convinced that it was definitely the heat that had affected his behaviour and I was hoping it would change. It was not the first time I was with drinking with Contzen, we have had many good times together and he is always good company. As a person, I always believe in giving some breathing space to an individual and therefore I was not keen to know why was he behaving in that manner. Today he did seem in a state of despair, which was evident in his eagerness to drink; it was something that I had never experienced before. Maybe he was drinking beer after a long time and so the pining was visible in his expressions and behaviour.

As soon as the beer was served, Contzen grabbed his mug, shouted out a loud ‘cheers’ and took a really big sip. It felt as if he was distraughtly waiting to drink that beer. At that very moment a thought ran through my mind, why is he behaving so desperate for beer? Has he become an alcoholic? Is the beer important or is meeting up with me important? Nevertheless, I have known Contzen for quite some time now; maybe today is a bad day for him, so I will pull along. My mocktail was great and refreshing, so much so that I had forgotten about the heat outside and was in a relaxed state of mind. Contzen’s behaviour began to change once he had finished his first mug of beer. He kept smiling for no reason, laughed unnecessarily and started speaking a bit louder; but he didn’t seem drunk. I know him; he doesn’t get drunk so easily. Maybe all that was playing on his mind was the reason his mood was changing. I too have a lot of problems in life, but whenever I go out for a drink with a friend I keep them aside, so that it doesn’t come in my way and spoil the meet. Was Contzen’s behaviour annoying? It definitely was not, but for sure it was strange.

An opinion can differ from person to person and therefore behaviours can sometimes change based on one’s present thoughts; this maybe the reason I was noticing Contzen’s mood change as he kept drinking his beer. Contzen was on a drinking spree today, before even the mug of beer was over, he would ask for the next one. Then all of a sudden he stood up and asked me the direction to the washroom. He seemed a bit shaky as he walked towards the washroom but he was not drunk, I guess he was aware of what he was doing as it didn’t seem like he needed help. As he walked back he had this impish smile on his face, as if he had met someone and was about to share the conversation with me; but to my surprise he came back and sat down on his seat; but never spoke. He was already three mugs down and had the next three mugs to go; all thanks to happy hours. Post his return from the washroom, Contzen seemed a bit different, he kept smiling all the while but seemed serener and stiller. Did he puke? Was he high? Was he feeling sick? Should we stop and just go home? These were some of thoughts that ran through my head, but something kept telling me he was okay and there was no need for me to be worried.

The next round of beers came and Contzen confidently pick up his mug, clicked it to my glass and drank with no hesitation; I was relieved. But the thought kept coming to my mind that there was a change in his behaviour, so I decided to keep a watch over his drinking. His drinking pace had slowed down considerably after the fifth mug and now I was getting worried, but fortunately the look on his face was not alarming. When he was on his sixth round, I started to notice that he was getting a bit restless; he kept looking around as if he was searching for someone; he had kind of lost focus. What was going on in his mind? He stood up several times and sat down and when I asked him what was wrong, he just smiled. I was done with my mocktails and I definitely couldn’t drink anymore, so I just sat and watched him drink his last mug of beer.  He seemed drunk but in the next moment he was up and walking towards the washroom again. I observed him as he walked to the washroom; there were no signs of shaking or tottering; he was fine.

When he came back there was still that subtle smile on his face; it was definitely an experience to be observed for I did not know what was going on in his mind at that moment that made him smile like that. He stood there and asked me whether we should settle the bill and then move back home. We settled the bill and walked out of the pub; I kept observing his gait and his moves just to be sure that he was okay to walk back home. He looked at me smiled again and assured me that he was fine and not drunk and could walk back home.

Conclusion

A third-person’s perspective is usually based on behavioural observations which may or may not be the first-person’s experience, as observed in this study. A first-person’s experience is always unique to the individual experiencing it and therefore can be misinterpreted by an observer. The human mind is capable of analysing the mind of the other but to a limit of what is observed; what is perceived and the way it is interpreted by the knowledge acquiring processes. Drinking beer is an experience of its kind and therefore it was chosen to explain the experience from a first-person and third-person perspective.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my colleague who unfortunately has decided to stay anonymous in this paper, for providing me with the third-person experience and for being a great and wonderful drink buddy. 

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

"Let there be light” and the light was eternal: A meta-religious understanding of creation and consciousness

Abstract

“God is the light of the world and may his light shine before all” (Mathew 5: 14-16). The creator is the symmetric light which gave rise to asymmetric matter along with abundant cosmic energy that currently resides in the matrix of the universe; for the symmetry was broken with the big bang to create the universe. In the physical world, matter gave rise to biological structures to possess the electromagnetic soul and its processes; a localized form created of the cosmic energy, we call the Spirit. Eternal cosmic energy is the source that supports the localized cloud of photons or the electromagnetic soul within temporary matter; propagates information across the systematic biological make up of matter; a key to the phenomenon of consciousness within the physical. Matter if corrupted or altered, leads to an imbalance in the life processes which can be healed with support from the eternal cosmic energy, as a healer for the soul. God is light; and in him there is no darkness (John 1: 1-5); for the creation was created of this light; filling the cosmos with the Spirit. Thus, we may know the ‘how’ of creation of the universe, its matter and its consciousness, but the ‘why’ shall remain eternally phenomenal.

Key Words

Consciousness, Creator, Matter, Light, Cosmic Energy 

Metaphysics of Light and Matter

God said, “Let there be light”: and there was light (Genesis 1:3). If this chapter of Genesis was written by a physicist, this statement would have read as – God said, “Let there be electromagnetic radiation”: and there was electromagnetic radiation, an asymmetry beyond imagination. Michio Kaku, puts it in much more scientific manner, “In the beginning, God said that the four dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric second rank tensor equals zero and there was light”, and “there was light, and it was good “(Kaku 2006). According to the “Philosophy of Illumination” as stated by Suhrawardi, light is the producer for all forms and operates at all levels; produces immaterial intellects such as angels, souls of living beings and the body (Walbridge 2000). According to the Koran, 'Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth,' and which also correlates with ancient Hindu writings, 'Lead me from darkness to light, lead me from the unreal to the real.' (Surat An-Nur 24:35; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.3.28.). The creator that we humans call ‘God’ is the symmetric form of light; the cosmic energy; the creator of matter and all of matter and the universe; the asymmetric forms of light.

The creation began with the formation of the most primitive energy form; the cosmic energy that gave rise to asymmetric matter in a phenomenal event differing the law of matter and anti-matter annihilation. This gave rise to forms such as electromagnetic radiation, an important ingredient of life; for he knew that there would not be life without an energy source. Connected through energy and with the energy that resides within can make us understand each of our desires, to understand the created universe and to appreciate its beauty (Pereira 2015). Electromagnetic radiation is a primitive form of energy and currently our knowledge and use of this energy is need-based, just like the brain; we use it only to the limit of our requirement (Fenchel 2003). Electromagnetic radiation is an energy source that has great potential and was created, so that it could be utilized by every living creature in this universe to perform tasks beyond imaginations powered by the cosmic energy. This radiation is mediated by the electromagnetic force generated by photons; small packets of energy that hit an atom to excite electrons from a ground state to a excited state and bring about a cascade of excitations and relaxations, a process known as the ‘photoelectric effect’ (Cassidy 2004).

Matter is a form of asymmetric light and is made up of atoms, which are comprised of sub-atomic particles. The living being is a form of organized matter that is shaped and designed by atoms and sub-atomic particles. The creator, the physicist, the symmetric form of light, created matter which can never be altered or changed, created or destroyed, but can definitely be transformed from one form to another. Every living being, is made up of matter; with matter forming the biological structures and eternal matter its driving force along with the cosmic energy. The architecture of the being and its biological structures are said to be complete, only when all the structures, pathways and its contents are appropriately shaped and perfected to acknowledge the eternal matter to propagate life and the Spirit. “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God and that you are not your own? (Corinthians 1: 6:19).

Metaphysics of Existence

Life exists, because of the creation of asymmetric matter and guidance is provided to every living being by means of the Spirit through matter (Corey 1993), for everything is matter other than God and the Spirit, according to the Thomistic philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Phillips 2015); here the Spirit is the cosmic energy while within the physical body resides as photons; the electromagnetic soul. Matter has weight, occupies space and can be touched and measured, which does not apply to the Spirit, who are immortal; non-physical. In the old testament, Moses said, “And the Lord your God spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; ye only heard a voice” (Deuteronomy 4:12) this has been confirmed in the new testament by Jesus, who defines God as “Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape; for God has no form or shape” (John 5:37). Eternal matter is the soul; an incorruptible form of energy created from asymmetric matter and made up of a blend of photons of scores of wavelengths, supported and guided by the cosmic energy we call Spirit; the eternal symmetric light.  

Temporary matter is susceptible to corruption, which will result in slow decay of the matter when in an undesired state, eventually leading to death or release of the electromagnetic soul to the non-physical form. For Aquinas, temporary matter is a biological structure, vulnerable to corruption and dissolution, as they are composed of materialistic things (Fitzpatrick 2013). A corrupted temporary matter can be healed by the electromagnetic soul but up to a certain threshold, in case the damage is beyond repair, it would lead to death and liberation of the electromagnetic soul. Ageing is also a form of programmed corruption that is guided by the electromagnetic soul and increases with multicellularity, which is a price paid to reduce entropy (Navratil 2011, Bortz 1986). When the interaction is new, it is highly energetic and effervescent, but with age, this interaction starts becoming insubstantial as the electromagnetic soul strives to keep up with the corrupting biological structures, which in due course is released on death. All temporary matter emits electromagnetic radiation in the form of photons, which unite with the overall electromagnetic soul or eternal matter to be reprocessed. Biophotons or ultra weak photons (UPE) are persistently being emitted in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum from biological systems (Cifra et al 2015) and increase in amounts during stress (Rahnama et al 2011).

God does not decide fate; God guides the process of evolution that decides the fate of living beings. Henry Laurency wrote in “The Knowledge of Reality”, “The great cosmic evolution does not work according to a predetermined plan. Only the final gal is laid down; all monads acquiring omniscience about the whole cosmos and evolution itself creates the conditions and possibilities of its growth” (Laurency 1979). Higher intelligence, leads to higher disorder and is considered as higher entropy in the laws of physics and with evolution the life cycle of intelligent beings is abridged; a price paid to reduce entropy (Wissner-Gross and Freer 2013). Amoeba proteus is a protozoan that is considered to be immortal, as it never dies, but it transforms from one form to another (Obstfeld 1996). This protozoan has the capability of transferring its soul during its biological life cycles, which is definitely a property lost with multicellularity and intelligence. Intelligent and multicellular beings have a higher dependency on the electromagnetic soul for their life processes, as compared to a unicellular organism and therefore, the creator has created superfluous amounts of cosmic energy in the universe, for it was known at some point of time, consciousness would promote evolution of higher and intelligent beings, which would lead to higher entropic changes. The creator for sure is a planned biophysicist; the one who created all it.

Life is an acquaintance created by the confederation of the electromagnetic soul and the biological make-up of temporary matter and its complexity, gives rise to local consciousness, which grows and helps to grow with the evolution of multicellularity and division of labour. The plan of the creator is one without any flaws and if ever there is a flaw it would not be considered as one, as the creator and the Spirit are non-local, pure and incomparable to immaterialistic bound matter.  Everything is good and everything was created from goodness to be good and to remain good, all that needs to be grasped is the goodness that resides in the cosmos and within us (Pereira 2016).

Metaphysics of Consciousness

To be conscious means to be aware, and to be aware means to perceive; a facet created by the creator, by intermingling matter with matter. Propagation and interaction of the electromagnetic soul with the biological make-up of temporary matter generates localized consciousness; a sense of awareness used as a support system by living beings to perform valuable life processes. Consciousness generates knowledge through perception, which is displayed by living beings as intelligence (Gregory 1997). Biological structures help build a level of intelligence in living beings which grows with multicellularity and division of labour (Kuyucu et al 2010). According to psychiatrist Richard Bucke, level of consciousness differs with intelligence, higher the intelligence greater is the level of awareness of the universe (Bucke 1905) which has been deciphered by Hameroff and Penrose in their “ORCH OR’ theory (Hameroff and Penrose 2014). The creator created the electromagnetic soul fed by the cosmic energy, to guide the flow of consciousness through biological structures and to maintain its uniformity during the process of evolution, for the creator was aware of the new multifarious structures that were in the progression of being created. 

Intelligence is knowledge gained through awareness or consciousness and is present in all living forms with or without a neural system but can be differentiated based on the complexity of multicellularity. A single biological cell is intelligent, but a collection of cells, demonstrates higher intelligence, which can be observed in bacterial biofilms when compared to the nervous system (Westerhoff et al 2014). As per the plan, the electromagnetic soul propagated consciousness, which helped build structures or organs with a higher level of intellectual capability like the brain. During the course of evolution, intelligence in beings was limited to nutrition and survival, which then focused on reproduction and now is dependent on the brain, which manages all functions in higher beings (Nunn et al 2014). Today, the human brain is the smartest organ known and is constantly evolving towards a level of superior performance to support complex cognitive functions (Bressler and Menon 2010). But despite the complex architecture in the brain and its multicellularity, the key to intelligence and consciousness stays with the irreplaceable interaction of the localized electromagnetic soul and temporary matter but is yet to be understood from a non-local stand-point. 

Corruption of temporary matter prevents the propagation of the electromagnetic soul, leading to an obstruction of consciousness and bereavement of intelligence. According to Socrates, “The soul is not the sort of thing that can have intrinsic principles of deterioration or corruption” (Plato 428BC-348BC) for it is eternal matter, while Plato explains the body as a hindrance to the pursuit of wisdom (Phaedo, 61C-69E), which can be subjected to corruption and deterioration. Corruption can therefore be healed by the electromagnetic soul guided by the Spirit; the eternal cosmic energy, but in case the damage is beyond repair, it leads to death, and releases the electromagnetic soul that merges with the non-local cosmic energy. During this process, there is high state of excitation and release of photons, which is an attempt of revival of consciousness by the electromagnetic soul and wholly depends on the level of change exhibited by the temporary matter.

Conclusions

Several years after the creation of life, Jesus described God as “I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life”. The electromagnetic soul was created from the cosmic energy, to guide eternal matter and propagate local consciousness, for it was known, that consciousness was needed to be transmitted across the biological architecture for life to exist; it needs to travel speeds greater than that of light. In the process, the creator created a localized unicellular quantum based system, that eventually evolved to form a multicellular quantum based system which now processes and functions at speeds beyond imagination, maintaining a higher cognitive state of performance. In actuality, the non-local world is in itself superluminal and in fact slows down when trapped in matter, to control consciousness and intelligence.

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Dr. Contzen Pereira, Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India

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