I have written a little about this a while back-but this is a great article and explains the theory rather well and simply.
A book
titled “Biocentrism:
How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the
Universe” has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a
notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever.
The author
of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most
important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.
1.
BEYOND
TIME AND SPACE
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific
director of Advanced Cell Technology Company. Before he has been known for his
extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several
successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.But not so long
ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This
explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the
professor has been preaching ever since.
Biocentrism teaches that life and
consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates
the material universe, not the other way around.Lanza points to the structure
of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the
universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior
to matter. He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but
rather tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and
time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell
comes off (space and time), we still exist.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It
only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body.
They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their
consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness, then
consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness
in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course
consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle.
In fact,
consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be
anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local
in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In
one universe, the body can be dead. And in another it continues to exist,
absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe. This means that a
dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in
heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive.
And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.
2. MULTIPLE WORLDS
This hope-instilling, but extremely controversial theory by
Lanza has many unwitting supporters, not just mere mortals who want to live
forever, but also some well-known scientists. These are the physicists and
astrophysicists who tend to agree with existence of parallel worlds and who
suggest the possibility of multiple universes. Multiverse (multi-universe) is a so-called
scientific concept, which they defend.
They believe that no physical laws exist
which would prohibit the existence of parallel worlds.The first one was a
science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door
in the Wall”. And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett
in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at
any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances. And the
next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion.
In some of
these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or
watching TV in another.The triggering factor for these multiplyingworlds is our
actions, explained Everett. If we make some choices, instantly one universe
splits into two with different versions of outcomes.In the 1980s, Andrei Linde,
scientist from the Lebedev’s Institute of physics, developed the theory of
multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University. Linde
explained: Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar
spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on
to infinity.
In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each
other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.The
fact that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the
Planck space telescope. Using the data, scientists have created the most
accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background
radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe.
They also
found that the universe has a lot of dark recesses represented by some holes
and extensive gaps.Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North
Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave
background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other
universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks on
us by neighboring universeses.
3. SOUL
So, there is abundance of places or other universes where
our soul could migrate after death, according to the theory of neo-biocentrism.
But does the soul exist? Is there any scientific theory of consciousness that
could accommodate such a claim?
According to Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a near-death
experience happens when the quantum information that inhabits the nervous
system leaves the body and dissipates into the universe. Contrary to
materialistic accounts of consciousness, Dr. Hameroff offers an alternative
explanation of consciousness that can perhaps appeal to both the rational scientific
mind and personal intuitions.Consciousness resides, according to Stuart and
British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in the microtubules of the brain cells,
which are the primary sites of quantum processing.
Upon death, this information
is released from your body, meaning that your consciousness goes with it. They
have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum
gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated
objective reduction (Orch-OR).Consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness is
theorized by them to be a fundamental property of the universe, present even at
the first moment of the universe during the Big Bang. “In one such scheme
proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible
to a quantum process associated with brain activity.”Our souls are in fact
constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since
the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the
proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time.
So is there
really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after
the death of your physical body?Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through
the Wormhole documentary: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops
flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information
within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just
distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”.
Robert Lanza would add
here that not only does it exist in the universe, it exists perhaps in another
universe. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can
go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”He
adds: “If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this
quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a
soul.”This account of quantum consciousness explains things like near-death
experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even reincarnation
without needing to appeal to religious ideology. The energy of your
consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some
point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some
other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.
Sources
used: Learning Mind, Wikipedia, Daily Mail,News.comWhy
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