Death may not be the end of consciousness!
A Wider Realities take on the dearly departed for All Hallows Eve
The top headline is a recent teaser for a Popular Mechanics podcast.
OK. I’ll bite. Or at least nibble a little.
Turns out, after the body shuts down, the brain remains active. It fires off “a huge spike in gamma brainwaves—those linked with memory, awareness, and sensory experience—after patients are declared clinically dead. The discovery basically challenges everything we thought we knew about what it means to die.”
I can and will provide a much bigger challenge, just to be snotty about it. But they deserve points for moving the needle a little. Careful, now fellas. That science box is looking a little frayed around the edges these days.
Scientists, as a microcosm of society at large, worship the brain as the most important part of the human being. I quibble with that in favor of the heart, but I digress.
And, if that oh-so-revered brain is somehow alive after body death, then could what scientists thought they know about death be wrong?
Cue the eye roll. Yes and no. What scientists know about death (and most everything else) is merely incomplete and backwards, from a wider realities’ perspective.
And it does beg a seasonally appropriate the question. Could there actually be disembodied consciousness (ghosts) roaming the world? My short answer: Yes. And we can communicate with them, too. Again, I meander a tad.
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No news department
Consciousness surviving physical death is not news to some of us. Consciousness is energy. A field of energy that surrounds and precedes the physical body. That field of energy-consciousness continues after the physical body dies and exists before any physical body appears.
This really should not be news to scientists, either. After all, a rather famous physicist developed an equation stating the fundamental equivalence of matter and energy. It was published in 1905: E = MC2.
Albert Einstein’s theorem equating energy and matter at once overthrew the entire field of Newtonian physics. Boom. Gone.
From a wider realities’ perspective, this equation also puts paid to science’s entire understanding of reality. Scientists, however, can be rather close minded about things that threaten their insistence that there is only a physical reality, nothing more.
Sigh. So tiresome.
The cart before the horse
The point of my rambling is this. Consciousness does not require a physical brain to exist and function. Rather, the brain requires and arises out of consciousness. Without consciousness, there is nothing physical, or nonphysical, too.
Stop putting the cart before the horse. In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda tells Luke that life creates the force and makes it grow. Nope. It is the force that creates and sustains physical life.
That’s because the force consists of consciousness — and a certain type of energy and love. Plus matter. Matter is in there, too, since matter and energy are equivalents.
But then so are energy and love. By energy, I mean the ability to love, not the capacity for or the ability to do work, as science defines energy. And by love, I mean unconditional love. No judgments. No hooks. No standards. No expectations.
Unconditional love/the ability to love/consciousness/matter all join forces, as it were, and voila. Here we are on earth amid the multiverse of unlimited dimensions and size.
The G-word (God) belongs here somewhere, but I left it to the end so as not to scare off any secular, left-brained types who miraculously read to this point.
While I am not holding my breath, at some point the field of science will either wise up or melt down entirely. I cannot for the life me decide which I prefer.
If it melts down, the perhaps something useful will arise out of the goo. (Like our distant ancestors supposedly arose out of the primordial soup to walk on land.)
But if science wises up, maybe a more useful science that includes true spirituality (not religious dogma) will emerge. The ways things go on planet earth, the unthinkable will happen and the high priests of science will form a most unholy alliance with the high priests of organized religion. (Conservative Christian, of course.)
Dogma backed by (cooked) data. We’re all toast.