In this post, I first summarize the source document. Then, I query how the theories contained in that document can be used to pursue TMT (Transmaterialization Technology), EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) research. I used Open AI’s Chat GPT4 as an assistant in writing this post.
Source document is 33 pages
https://www.academia.edu/21253262/THE_ROLE_OF_CONSCIOUSNESS_IN_EMERGING_NEW_PARADIGM_SCIENCE_TOWARD_AN_IDEALIST_PARAPHYSICS
Summary
The Spectrum of Worldviews
– There is a spectrum of worldviews that range from extreme materialism to extreme idealism.
– Different forms of neutral monism provide views of wholeness in between dualism and materialism.
Constructional Realism
– Constructional realism, proposed by Karl Pribram, suggests that the universe is made up of informational structure.
– The brain processes spatial and temporal frequencies holographically, creating interference patterns within neurons.
The Nature of Reality
– The nature of reality can be experienced differently based on perspectives.
– There are both materialistic and mentalistic experiences of reality.
Idealism versus Dualism
– People’s beliefs about reality can fall anywhere on the spectrum from idealism to dualism to materialism.
– Scientists like Stephen Hawking who hold physical reductionist views but also believe in God may fall towards the dualist end of the spectrum.
Assessing Worldviews
– The values and actions of individuals can reveal their worldview.
– Physical reductionists prioritize physical objective reality, while idealists prioritize non-physical consciousness.
Dualist Perspectives
– Dualists can either accept the unreconciled dichotomy between physical and non-physical realms or strive to reconcile them.
– Many individuals in consciousness research and related fields tend to fall towards the dualist middle of the worldview spectrum.
The Challenge of Dualism
– Many dualists in consciousness research are intellectually or emotionally challenged by the duality between internal and external, non-physical and physical.
– This challenge motivates them to build bridges between different aspects of reality.
Variety of Worldviews
– Among researchers in consciousness science and related fields, there is a wide range of worldviews present.
– However, there are relatively fewer individuals who lean towards the extreme end of the spectrum, considering all is consciousness or spirit.
Frustration with Cognitive Science
– Attended cognitive science seminar at UC Berkeley
– Presenters focused on reductionist models of consciousness
– Longed for higher-dimensional context
– Missing semantic and pragmatic levels
John Searle’s Chinese Room
– Person in closed room conversing in Chinese characters
– Questions about consciousness and understanding
– Reminded of Turing Test for artificial intelligence
Missing Consciousness in Reductionist Models
– Meaning and consciousness missing from language use
– Syntax and semantics not separated
– Spherical nature of thought and experience not accounted for
Alive in Higher Dimensional Semantical Space
– Cognitive scientists alive in conscious, semantical space
– Contrast with airless flatland contraptions
– Poetry needed to capture the essence of consciousness
Consciousness and Scientific Endeavor
– Consciousness more accepted than parapsychology
– Related to cognitive science and sub-fields
Consciousness and Different Fields
– Consciousness is studied in fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science.
– Parapsychology and psychotronics make the scientific establishment uncomfortable.
– These fields suggest interactionism and a dualistic or material monist universe.
Treatment of Consciousness as an Emergent Epiphenomenon
– Consciousness is treated as an emergent epiphenomenon of the brain/body.
– The ‘hard problem’ in consciousness studies is how subjective consciousness arises from physical matter.
– This problem assumes physicality as the primary reality.
Bridging Physicality and Consciousness
– Few scientists attempt to bridge the physical and non-physical domains.
– Some scientists acknowledge possible higher dimensional domains and subtle energies.
– There is a need to bridge the physical-reality-dominant science and the realm of consciousness.
Attempts to Bring Rigor to Consciousness Studies
– A brave few attempt to bring rigor and experimental validation to consciousness studies.
– They apply analytical discipline to the non-physically constituted domain.
– However, they are often not part of the scientific establishment.
Examples of Scientists Bridging Physical and Non-Physical Realms
– David Bohm introduced implicate and super-implicate order to unite physical and mental realms.
– He used the concepts of ‘soma’ and ‘significance’ to reframe manifestation and consciousness.
– Bohm depicted the implicate order as a neutral monism frequency holographic domain.
Bohm’s View on Consciousness- Bohm’s view presents the challenge of explaining how consciousness emerges from quantum physics.
– They propose a marriage of an all-inclusive consciousness field with quantum physics modeling.
– This allows mental/subjective and physical/material domains to be considered as interactive subcomponents of a basal quantum consciousness field.
Amit Goswami’s Mental Monist Perspective
– Goswami theorizes that the universe is a ‘self-aware universe’ where consciousness is responsible for collapsing the wave function.- He sees the brain as both a measuring apparatus and a quantum system. This perspective suggests that all phenomena, even classical objects, are objects in consciousness.
William Tiller’s Bridging Model- Tiller explains the relationship between the trans-physical and physical using a modeling that includes multiple dimensions.
– He proposes a downstepping process from spiritual to physical domains.
– However, the exact mechanism of this process is not fully explained.
Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek’s Systems Thinking Model
– Schwartz and Russek present a model of a ubiquitous, intelligent ‘living energy universe’.
– Consciousness is said to be everywhere and systemic memory is connected through the zero point energy.
– Their model suggests that consciousness arises from a reciprocal cybernetic feedback relationship.
Parapsychology’s Study of Consciousness and Matter
– Parapsychologist Dean Radin has conducted research on the impact of mass consciousness events on random number generators.
– His hypothesis suggests that the physical-level reality of the planet may function similarly to a natural random number generator.
– This research provides grounds for a potential neutral monism viewpoint, where order is the common link between mind and matter.
The ‘Hard Problem’ in Consciousness Research
– The ‘hard problem’ refers to the challenges of explaining how consciousness emerges from the physical domain of the brain.
– Scientists like Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, and Jack Sarfatti propose that activity in microtubules within neurons contributes to bridging the dualism between the physical and conscious realms.
– Their perspective includes concepts like wave-function-collapsing micro-components, computational power, and the anthropic principle.
Extending the Concept of Consciousness
– Viewing consciousness as a collapse of wave functions at the molecular level provides explanations for the emergence of objective material reality.
– However, this perspective may feel limited in capturing the multidimensionality of living consciousness.
– Exploring concepts like possibility, virtuality, and probability may lead to a more comprehensive understanding of consciousness.
– There is a need for further contemplation and exploration of the true nature of consciousness.
The Other Hard Problem in Consciousness Studies
– The traditional hard problem asks how consciousness arises from purely physical matter and energy.
– However, from an idealist perspective, the hard problem is reversed: how does physicality arise from consciousness?
– In the idealist view, physical reality is seen as an emergent epiphenomenon of consciousness.
– Explaining how physicality arises from consciousness is relatively easier from this perspective.
Consciousness and its Experiences
– Consciousness is fed by and imbued with the background reality of consciousness and awareness.
– Consciousness can experience objects within its field of consciousness as physical through state-dependent perception.
– Objects within consciousness arise and are maintained for a while within the same consciousness field.
Berkeley’s Idealism and Johnson’s Refutation
– Berkeley believed that the physical universe exists as a perception of the divine and human minds.
– Johnson refuted Berkeley’s idealism by demonstrating the physical reality of a rock through pain.
– To refute Johnson’s refutation, an idealist must bridge the gap between physical and mental domains.
Toward an Idealist Paraphysics
– Physicalizing the mental reduces consciousness to interactions in physics and brain processes.
– Mentalizing the physical sees physical reality as epiphenomena of a universal consciousness.
– Addressing the hard problem of consciousness requires bridging the gap between physical and mental perspectives.
The nature of consciousness
– Consciousness is the experience of qualia within a being that possess consciousness.
– Objective reality is actually experienced by and within consciousness.
The unsettling experience of false waking within a dream
– Many have experienced false waking within a dream, where everything feels completely real.
– In these dreams, people can engage in activities and experience sensations as if they were awake.
– Upon waking up, they realize they were lying in bed all along.
Paraphysics as a way to discuss physicality
– Paraphysics refers to ways of talking about physical reality in terms of consciousness.
– It is an inclusive discipline that extends beyond traditional physics and psychology.
– The goal is to understand the entire physical universe as the activity of a single universal consciousness.
G.W.F. Hegel and his perspective
– Hegel’s philosophy posits that all that exists is pure ‘Absolute Spirit’.
– He explores how Spirit can be aware of itself as Spirit through interaction with other aspects of itself.
– Hegel’s work offers insights into awareness and the infinite inter-relations of Spirit.
Returning to the thesis state
– Hegel explores how Spirit can return to the state of pure self-consciousness.
– Synthesis processes are used to overcome antithesis relationships.
– The ultimate reality is Universal Absolute Spirit self-conscious of itself as Spirit.
Dissolving physicality from antithesis perspective
– It is impossible to dissolve the experienced physicality from an antithetical frame of reference.
– Johnson’s rock is experienced as passive matter when viewed from a non-fully aware perspective.
– All subjects and objects exist within the infinite-dimensional being of Absolute Spirit.
A unified field theory of consciousness
– We need a unified field theory that explores the relationship between spirit and consciousness.
– Spirit is only aware of itself to the extent that it possesses self-consciousness.
– At any given time, Spirit is hidden from its true identity as Spirit.
The complexity of interrelations
– Spirit exists within a vast, enfolded, labyrinthine system of Being.
– Interactions and interrelations define the nature of consciousness and self-awareness.
Spirit experiencing itself in endless perspectives
– Spirit experiences itself in endless modes of self-awareness or being asleep to itself.
– The ghost of the thesis state guides Spirit through processes of synthesis.
– Spirit becomes self-conscious of itself as Absolute Spirit.
Dissolving Johnson’s rock
– The frame of reference of the rock is part of the self-consciousness of Absolute Spirit.
– Johnson’s relative antithesis state is an example of Spirit working with its own substance.
– There are various ways to dissolve Johnson’s rock, from classical mechanics to transsubstantiation.
Spirit as localized human form
– New paradigm science and technology approaches are forms of Spirit in local human form.
– These approaches are relatively anti-thesis state, exploring the interaction between mental and material domains.
– The psychotronic engineer is an artificer, working creatively with Spirit as substance.
Awakening to the thesis state of Spirit
– To dissolve Johnson’s rock, one must awaken to the thesis state of Spirit.
– Spirit confronts the rock as Spirit within the self-consciousness of Absolute Spirit.
– Antithesis conditions maintain rocks as separate from Spirit.
The afterlife and interactive consciousness
– In the afterlife, consciousness interacts from a less-antithetical, more-thesis state.
– Psychological seeds are nurtured by an omnipresent light with a loving intent.
– Perceptions work upon the objective world landscape to give it its final form.
Hegel’s contribution to the unified field theory
– Hegel’s philosophy contributes to a post-dualist relativistic idealist monist unified field theory.
– The field theory involves multiple forms of creativity through imagination and thought.
– The mind forms the world pattern of objects and events.
Separation of elements and the objective division in spirit’s work
– The separation of elements from which spirit as artificer starts has become objective to spirit in its work.
– Spirit’s further endeavor is to cancel the separation of soul and body, and to endow the body with soul.
Unity of self-conscious spirit and purification of shapes
– The activity of the artificer comes face-to-face with an inner being equally self-conscious.
– In this unity, spirit’s blending with the unconscious state of immediate shapes of nature becomes purified.
The absolute substance and self-consciousness
– The absolute substance exists as an object for sense experience.
– Substance empties itself of itself and becomes self-consciousness, while self-consciousness empties itself and becomes the form of ‘thing’.
Spirit’s knowledge of itself and its expression
– The inherent nature of spirit means that the concrete actual world-spirit has reached this knowledge of itself.
– Spirit exists as a definite self-consciousness and is an object for immediate experience.
Incarnation of the Divine Being and Absolute Religion
– The incarnation of the Divine Being has the shape of self-consciousness.
– Absolute Religion is the Divine Being’s consciousness that it is Spirit.
Spiritualization and the notion of spirit
– Spiritualization occurs when substance becomes subject.
– The notion of spirit arises when what is absolutely in opposition recognizes itself as the same as its opposite.
Transcendence of self and universal self-consciousness
– When the self-conscious Being cancels and transcends its immediate present, it becomes a universal self-consciousness.
– Absolute Being is a transcended self and any other being external to it is an empty name.
Local frame of reference and expressive contribution
– Hegel’s artificer can be re-construed as the meaningful utterance creator in Foucault’s universe of discourse.
– The language user generates language based on a shared archeology of knowledge, a local frame of reference, and his/her consciousness.
Summary Point 1
– The speaker’s level and kind of consciousness determine their expressions
– Expressions are generated based on the speaker’s relative knowledge or ignorance of themselves as Spirit
Summary Point 2
– The private cast of consciousness works upon the objective world landscape
– The resulting expressions form the moving- and standing-wave external utterances
Summary Point 3
– The conditions necessary for the appearance of an object of discourse
– The historical conditions required to ‘say anything’ about it
Summary Point 4
– Expressions originate ‘within’ and become ‘external’ reality
– Material objects studied by physics are like constantly reiterated nouns and forces are like verbs
Summary Point 5
– Objects exist under positive conditions of complex relations
– A space is articulated with possible discourses and systems of relations
Summary Point 6
– Discourses form practices that systematically form the objects they speak about
– Objects are formed in relation to the body of rules that enable them to become objects of discourse
Summary Point 7
– The world of otherness and exteriority consists of standing wave systems of utterances
– These systems operate within an idealist syntactical, pragmatic, and semantical superposed space
Summary Point 8
– Each individual as Spirit creates/expresses discursive formations of otherness
– These expressions reflect their knowledge and self-consciousness
Separation and Consciousness
– Spirit appears to localize and separate itself from its identity as All-as-Spirit.
– We create and perceive separate substances due to our sense of separateness.
Potential of Absolute Spirit
– If we operated with the belief that we are Spirit interacting with Spirit, we could access non-local, unified-field omniscience and omnipotence.
– Manifestations of ESP, remote viewing, and PK mind-matter interactions could become more prevalent.
Multiplicity of Spirit
– There are multiple levels, dimensions, and densities of Spirit, each with transient manifestations and varying degrees of self-consciousness.
– This includes fellow Spirit beings like the dead, extraterrestrials, and other-dimensional beings.
Cosmological Dissociation
– The concept of cosmological dissociation expands across all realms, from psychology to metaphysics.
– It involves a lack of flow, continuity, or connection in terms of identity, awareness, cognition, and causal efficacy.
Dissociation as Split Perspectives
– The Universe can be seen as an enormously vast dissociated Being with countless dissociated cosmological sub-personalities.
– These sub-personalities experience the Universal Absolute Spirit in terms of many-ness, otherness, and non-conscious Substance-nature.
Domains of Cosmological Dissociation
– We experience cosmological dissociation within ourselves (intrapsychically), between each other (interpersonally), and in relation to Universal Absolute Spirit.
– Overcoming cosmological dissociation is a challenge in cultural, spiritual, and scientific endeavors.
Engineering Non-local Identity
– Psychotonics and new paradigm science aim to overcome cosmological dissociation in our conscious engagement with Spirit as the non-conscious substance of the environment.
– By overcoming dissociation, we can access our true identity as Absolute Spirit and achieve non-locality in universal identity condition.
The Hegel Metric
– The Hegel Metric classifies worldviews based on the level of cosmological dissociation.
– At Hegel 3, there is maximum separation and identification of objects.
– At Hegel 2, there is less dissociation and increasing interpenetration between dualistic domains.
Summary Point 1
– Consensus reality on this planet is still in Hegel 3.
– Increasingly more individuals are moving into Hegel 2.
– Occasional transient taste of Hegel 1 guides individuals back to their true identity.
Summary Point 2
– Ether-like monist substance gives rise to basic building blocks of form.
– Universal consciousness field can be treated as temporally physicalized mental.
– Interaction between parts of the universal consciousness field creates organic forms.
Summary Point 3
– Idealist perspective struggles to account for physical particles giving rise to patterns.
– Local consciousness has access to programs within the universal consciousness field.
– Force for vibrations comes from the same field of consciousness.
Summary Point 4
– Hegel 2 meets Hegel 1 allows for conscious manipulation of patterns.
– Continuous energy field or discontinuous particulated system can be transformed.
– Local consciousness can dissolve physical matter back into universal consciousness.
Summary Point 5
– Manipulation of patterns operates within an ethical/moral space.
– Consciousness closer to Hegel 1 state expresses harmony, compassion, and love.
– Coordinated tapping into universal consciousness field seeks balance and omnibenevolence.
Summary Point 6
– Exceptions exist within the present-day consensus reality dominated by Hegel 3.
– Minority of individuals are in Hegel 2 state of consciousness.
– Rising awareness of Hegel 1 state guides individuals towards a utopian-sounding picture.
Interacting with the Universal Consciousness Field
– The Universal Consciousness Field can be accessed at different levels of consciousness.
– Hegel 3 consciousness can manipulate the consciousness field and bring dreams to fruition.
– Hegel 2 consciousness allows for discovering new modes of accessing the consciousness field.
– However, Hegel 2 consciousness may lack omnibenevolence and omnicompassion.
Understanding Holography and Consciousness
– Holograms are generated by interference patterns of split light beams.
– Consciousness is essential for experiencing holograms and operates within the universal consciousness field.
– Consciousness is the underlying source of everything and experiences local awareness as part of Absolute Spirit.
Manipulating Light and Self-Manipulation
– Manipulating light coherence can create phantom objects and events.
– Working with light as a living, all-knowing, and all-loving entity is possible.
– Returning to the radiant ground state of light is achievable.
Exploring the Zero Point Energy Field
– The zero point energy (ZPE) field holds immense energies and higher dimensionality.
– Efforts to tap into the ZPE’s potential are being made.
– Zero-summing or canceling electromagnetic waves and creating coherence within the ZPE are explored.
Engineering Local Matter-Energy Configurations
– Coherent portions of the incoherent ZPE can be manipulated for local alchemical mining.
– Various approaches use harmonic resonance, wave guides, and tuning technologies.
– Consciousness at the Hegel 3 level limits the use of reductionist approaches.
Conceptualizing a different relation to ZPE as Hegelian artificer
– The article proposes conceptual play with how to relate differently to the Zero Point Energy (ZPE) as a Hegelian artificer.
– The ideas laid out in the article provide a starting point for empirical play and experimentation.
Build on Hegel metric and cosmological dissociation idealist thinking
– The article discusses the Hegel metric and cosmological dissociation idealist thinking.
– It explores the state of Hegel 1, which is coherent and transparent, and the states of Hegel 2 and Hegel 3, which involve dissociation from the self.
Challenges and solutions in overcoming cosmological dissociation
– The article raises questions on how to overcome cosmological dissociation and become a cosmological sub-personality.
– It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and gradually overcoming the state of dissociation.
Accessing and manipulating the underlying coherent radiant state
– The article explores how to access and manipulate the underlying coherent radiant state as Absolute Spirit.
– It discusses the ability to transform antithetical systems and gain access to the potentials of Absolute Spirit.
Standing forth as Absolute Spirit and bringing efficacy from Hegel 1
– The article emphasizes the need to stand forth and utter the knowledge of oneself as Absolute Spirit.
– It discusses the capability to bring efficacy from the state of Hegel 1 into the cosmologically dissociated realm.
Learning the true nature of causal self-efficacy
– The article highlights the importance of learning the true nature of causal self-efficacy.
– It encourages individuals to believe in and know their competence to overcome cosmological dissociation.
Accessing state-specific capacities by becoming more transparent
– The article suggests accessing Hegel 2 state-specific capacities by becoming more transparent to the transcendence of Hegel 1.
– It proposes self-dissolving as a way to access these capacities and overcome cosmological dissociation.
Operationalizing the conjectured processes
– The article acknowledges the need to operationalize the conjectured processes.
– It suggests learning common themes, such as the true nature of causal self-efficacy, in order to bring about actual change.
Self-efficacy and individualization in the Hegelian state
– Exercised self-efficacy is necessary for individuals to manifest their potential in the predominantly Hegelian state.
– The opaque environmental otherness and separateness of the state causes individuals to be lost to themselves as Spirit.
Coherence and Bose-Einstein Condensate
– The concept of coherence is important in understanding the connectivity of quantum systems.
– Can a Bose-Einstein Condensate be initiated at will and spread activation from micro to macro levels?
Ethical space and cosmological dissociation
– Operating within an ethical/moral space is essential when dealing with cosmological dissociation.
– How can cosmological dissociation be overcome to connect to Hegel 1 and work as an artificer?
Quiescence, superconductivity, and cosmological dissociation
– Superconductivity allows for flow and connectivity, freeing the system from blockages and frictions.
– Overcoming cosmological dissociation is necessary to connect to Hegel 1 and work with surrounding material.
Future directions
– Further discussion is needed to explore the bridging between idealist monism and current scientific systems.
– Concepts such as symmetry breaking, superstring theory, particle-pair creation, and more need to be situated within the proposed paraphysics.
References
– Karl Pribram’s article on mind/brain issues – The American Psychologist, 1986.
– Jon Klimo’s book on channeling – Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, 1987.
– Thomas Kuhn’s book on the structure of scientific revolutions.
– David Bohm’s books on wholeness and the implicate order, and soma-significance.
– Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne’s book – Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, 1987.
– Amit Goswami’s book – The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, 1993.
– William A. Tiller’s book – Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness, 1997.
– Gary E. R. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek’s book – The Living Energy Universe: A Fundamental Discovery that Transforms Science and Medicine, 1999.
– Dean Radin’s book – The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, 1997.
– Robert Penrose’s book – Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, 1994.
– Stuart R. Hammeroff and Roger Penrose’s research on orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in microtubules and consciousness, 1996.
– Jane Roberts’ book – The Afterlife Journal of an American Philosopher: The Worldview of William James, 1978.
– G. W. F. Hegel’s book – The Phenomenology of Mind.
– Michel Foucault’s book – The Archeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language.
– Jon Klimo’s work on parapsychological research.
Toward a Universal Grammar
– The paper titled “Toward a Universal Grammar” was published in the proceedings of the United States Psychotronics Association in 1996.
– It discusses the topic of universal grammar and its implications for language acquisition and understanding.
Application to TMT, ITC and EVP
Designing a device for communication between physical and non-physical beings, taking into account the presented context, involves a complex, multi-faceted approach to bridge traditional scientific paradigms with the other realm of parapsychology, psychotronics, and the spiritual. Each summary heading is detailed further:
1. Understand the Nature of Non-Physical Beings:
Non-physical beings, presumably conscious entities not bound by physical characteristics, characterize an area of research beyond mainstream science. Theories ranging from dualism to the more extreme mental monism posit their existence, which may impact or interact with our physical world. Understanding these entities is vital in developing a medium to facilitate conversation.
2. Bridging Physical and Non-Physical Realms:
Bridging the gap between the physical-reality-dominant science and the seemingly subjective, spiritual world requires a paradigm shift. The challenge involves either “physicalizing the mental” or “mentalizing the physical.” An engineered device might use a scientific framework capable of making non-physical phenomena measurable and meaningful within our physical reality and the semantic constructs therein.
3. Paraphysics, Subtle Energies, and Higher Dimensionality:
Considering the hypothesis of non-physical consciousness affecting physical matter, it’s paramount to explore paraphysics, subtle energies, and higher dimensions. The device needs to tap into these domains, potentially employing emerging quantum theories, biofield hypotheses, or vibrations that resonate with the frequencies of these subtle energies.
4. New Paradigm Technologies:
The development of new technologies that can interface with non-physical realms is crucial. Such technology should leverage insights from neurophysiology, quantum computing, and advanced AI to interact with non-physical consciousness and transpose it into a form compatible with human comprehension.
5. Experimental Validation:
The developed device should undergo rigorous experimental testing to verify if it truly enables an interchange between physical and non-physical beings. This means creating metrics to assess transmission precision, information veridicality, and consistency across sessions and subjects.
Lastly, ethical considerations around such interaction should be assessed, including potential consequences, mitigations, and the implication of living in a world where such communication is commonplace. This vast endeavor remains largely speculative but pushes the edges of our current scientific understanding.