Are We Living inside a Brain?
Living Inside a Mega Brain
Metaphysicists identify the records imprinted on the zero point field as the "Akashic records". This forms the "memory" of the universal brain-mind or computer. According to metaphysicist, Charles Leadbeater, if the observer is not focusing on them, the records simply form the background to whatever is going on. Under such conditions they merely reflect the mental activity of a greater consciousness on a far higher plane which is accessible to us. We are in a sense living in this much larger brain. This suggests that all human beings (and other life-forms) can and do use the shared (information processing) services of a "universal brain". Observing the dynamic and visual Akashic records would be like watching the larger brain's movie from a distance. As you move closer and focus on what is going on in a particular scene, you are immediately in the scene, surrounded by all the characters. The characters of course cannot see you. Neither can you change anything in the scene. In this way, a person can time travel as an observer, without violating causality. What you see is sometimes in the past and sometimes in the future. The rate at which "the story unfolds" can be altered. Genuine psychics and most people during near-death experiences have access to these records. Leadbeater warns that the Akashic records must not be confused with mere man-made thought-forms, which exist in abundance in the higher energy planes or spheres. It is possible that if the right brain is not shielded effectively from the usually dominant left brain (the "theory maker") many errors will arise when reading the records.
"The Akashic records or 'The Book of Life' can be equated to the universe's super computer system." – Kevin Todeschi, Edgar Cayce scholar
The Universe is a Computer
According to Science reporter J R Minkel, in his article "If the Universe Were a Computer", information theory says that every physical system, from a glass of water to a microchip, holds "1"s and "0"s in the states of its component particles. Changes in those states could be called "computation", just as your desktop machine computes by changing the information in its memory. The only possible outcomes of measuring an electron’s spin are "up" and "down". You can choose any axis to measure the spin but once that axis is chosen only two results are possible. These outcomes could just as well be labeled as "1" and "0" – as they are in digital computers. According to Seth Lloyd in a paper called "Computational Capacity of the Universe", all physical systems register and process information. The laws of physics determine the amount of information that a physical system can register and the number of elementary logic operations that a system can perform. The universe can therefore be considered a physical system or a gigantic computer. As a computer the number of elementary operations the universe has performed to-date has been calculated to be 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits.
Filaments and Nerves
It is interesting to note that the higher energy universes (as described by plasma metaphysics), composed of filaments punctuated with galaxies, bear an uncanny resemblance to our brains, composed of nerve fibers punctuated with neural cell bodies. These successive universes can operate as the many layers of a gigantic electronic brain (analogous to the cortex and sub-cortex in our biomolecular brain) inside which our own subtle brain-bodies live and think. The filamentary structures carry current — just as nerves (to some extent) do. It would not be difficult to incorporate logic gates and arithmetic units into these structures. The computational power required to generate a tiny living ant, which responds to multiple inputs from the environment and with its unique structure and behavior, would be challenging even to our current supercomputers. Considering that there are maybe trillions of life-forms on this planet alone, only the computational power of a series of higher energy universes (equivalent to the many layers of a universal brain) would suffice. This is the source of "universal intelligence and creativity".
One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena. - David Constantine
© Copyright Jay Alfred 2007
Earth's Brain, Akashic Records and Paranormal Imprints
Neural Circuits and Memory
The neuron is a cell surrounded by electrically charged particles called ions. Some of these ions have a net positive charge and some are negative. If there are more negative ions inside the neuron, the neuron has a negative electrical charge; conversely, if there are more positive ions inside, then the neuron has a positive electrical charge. When the neuron is resting it has a negative electrical charge. However, when the neuron gets information, an electrical signal is propagated through a network of neurons by a wave of positively charged neurons. Neurons in networks with numerous synapses and feedback loops constantly receive inputs from other neurons, integrate them and generate electrical activity patterns in response. These complex interactions allow neural circuits to process and encode information, support cognitive functions and control behavior. The neural circuits in our brain are similar to electrical circuits. Canadian psychologist, Donald Hebb, explains memory as a reactivation of the same pattern of neurons that were activated at the time of the original experience. Thinking of the Sahara desert activates one network of neurons, while thinking of rats fires up an entirely different network. Over the years, some of the neurons die or are incorporated into circuits that represent different experiences. Repeated activity between any two neurons or a network of neurons, however, strengthen their connections and the memories they represent. When one neuron is activated it tends to activate the others, which collectively re-create the original pattern that was generated during an experience. Individual neurons are involved in many different circuits and thus participate in many memories simultaneously. It is this connectivity that gives our brains the enormous capacity to encode a vast amount of information.
Holographic Encoding in the Brain and Universe
Following Karl Lashley's work, Karl Pribram, a neurophysiologist at Stanford, proposed that the brain stores information in the same way as interference patterns are encoded on holographic film. Every element in the original image is distributed over the entire film. Trillions of brain cells all contribute to a single memory by recording and combining all the signal patterns at once, including the sensory inputs into the brain. It is the combined firing pattern and interference of trillions of cells that defines a memory. This unique way of storage allows the brain to recall in linear sequences and at the same time access multiple memories. But it is not only the brain which encodes holographically. David Bohm, separately, recognized that the universe itself appears to be a hologram – being projected from the boundary of the universe. This idea has been taken forward more recently by physicists Gerard t' Hooft, Lee Smolin and others under the banner of "the holographic principle". This is not the only property that the human brain shares with the universe.
Neural Networking in the Cosmic Brain
According to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), "All recent computer-simulations of the early universe have one prediction in common: the first large-scale structures to form in the young universe are long filaments connected at their ends in 'nodes'. The models typically look like a three-dimensional spider's web, and resemble the neural structure of a brain." Now, astronomers have actually detected a "universal web" - vast filaments of hot gas tracing the web have been "seen" in the current universe. Astronomers using NASA's X-ray satellite observatory, Chandra, "viewed" the filaments stretching for millions of light years through space, with one passing through our own galaxy. Astronomers say that the filamentary structures are so hot that it would generally be invisible to optical, infrared, and radio telescopes. These invisible filaments are detected only because higher density ordinary matter tends to accumulate and condense in them - generating radiation which can be measured by scientists to confirm their existence in intergalactic space.
The visible galaxies in the universe are not isolated and disconnected but are interwoven by a filamentary web-like structure - which is the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe. The web-like structure is both a signature feature of invisible dark matter and magnetic plasma. The appearance of this web bears an uncanny resemblance to a cross-section of the brain. (Refer: Mouse Brain vs Universal Web, above.)
But it is not only the morphology (i.e. structural aspects) of the large scale structure of the universe which is similar to the human brain but also the physiology (i.e. the functions). These filaments carry currents of charged particles (ions) over large distances that generate magnetic fields – similar to a nerve fiber. And they form circuits, just like the neural circuits in the brain. The high degree of connectivity is what sets the brain apart from an ordinary computer. Connectivity is also apparent in the cosmic web. Galaxies are formed when filaments pinch or cross each other. A nexus of filaments (including thousands of tiny filamentary currents) will provide the connectivity for the transfer of not only energy but information from one galactic nucleus to another. This web-like structure of filaments and vortexes is also similar to the acupuncture meridian system – which includes vortexes called "chakras".
According to Dr David Tansely, "The seven major chakras are formed at points where standing lines of light (or meridians) cross each other 21 times. The 21 minor chakras are located at points where the energy strands cross 14 times." These meridians are supported by probably thousands of other smaller filamentary currents. This provides a significant amount of connectivity in our subtle bodies. Similar filamentary currents in the large-scale structure of the universe also provide a high degree of connectivity in the "cosmic brain". Over time, tiny filamentary currents grow into large filaments as the amount of current flowing through them increases; in others the current decreases according to plasma dynamics. These filaments form networks that reflect the state of the universe at a point in time. The filamentary currents therefore appear to be able to generate the same mechanics that occurs in a brain – enabling memories to be encoded.
Magnetic fields are generated across vast regions of space and have been detected by astrophysicists. Electrical currents in the brain also generate magnetic fields which can be observed by measuring the magnetic fields they generate outside the skull in a technique called magneto-encephalography, or MEG. Cosmic and planetary consciousness can have a valid scientific basis once we realize that the filaments and galaxies in space, and the web-like structure of filaments and vortexes on Earth, can encode information. Surely, if we can accept an electro-chemical basis for the encoding of memories, why not an electromagnetic one in space and interpenetrating the Earth (as in computers using neural networking technology)?
Earth's Brain
In the author's article Acupuncture Meridians and the Terrestrial Web, 2007 it was noted that the lower physical-etheric body of the Earth is also interpenetrated by a web of filaments and vortexes. This structure is even more apparent in the Earth's higher energy 3d-Double. These signature structures bear an uncanny resemblance to our brains - composed of nerve fibers punctuated with neural cell bodies. Just like in the cosmic brain, the Earth's (electromagnetic) brain provides a suitable infrastructure for the encoding of memories.
From the 1930s onwards, Wilder Penfield developed a surgical procedure that allowed him to operate on a patient’s exposed brain while the patient remained fully conscious. As he applied his electrode to the patient’s temporal lobe, his patients described complete flashbacks to episodes earlier in his life. If music was involved, this followed the precise original tempo; the full score of which the patients would be able to hum with total accuracy — much as an autistic savant would be able to reproduce music with almost complete accuracy — like a recording on a video or compact disc.
Penfield, in his book The Mystery of the Mind recounted, "They were electrical activations of the sequential record of consciousness, a record that had been laid down during the patient's earlier experience. The patient 're-lived' all that he had been aware of in that earlier period of time as in a moving-picture 'flashback'." He said, "Each time I re-stimulated, she heard the melody again. It began at the same place and went on from chorus to verse." Penfield concluded that the brain stores everything its owner has ever experienced in its original form. The flash-backs seemed to play themselves out in their proper order like scenes in a movie. "Since the electrode may activate a random sample of this strip from the distant past," he reasoned, "and since the most unimportant and completely forgotten periods of time may appear in this sampling, it seems reasonable to suppose that the record is complete and that it does include all periods of each individual's waking conscious life."
But it is not only personal memories that can be accessed. Forensic psychics actually see the scene through the "eyes" of the victim (even in cases where the victim had already transited to the next universe) or assailant. Paramahansa Yogananda, a modern mystic, recounts (in his book Autobiography of a Yogi) how his consciousness, while in meditation, was transferred to a captain of a sinking ship far away. He lived the harrowing experiences of the captain for several minutes. As the dying captain slipped into unconsciousness, the locus of consciousness was transferred back to Yogananda. This not an isolated case - cases like this have been reported and documented many times. How does the brain housed in one cranium receive information from the brain of another person (dead or alive) from a different part of Earth? Some say a psychic is reading the 'Akashic records'.
The Akashic Records
The movie-like record of experiences that Penfield observed is similar (almost identical) to what has been observed by readers of the Akashic records and also near-death experiencers during "life-reviews". Metaphysicists have identified the records imprinted in space as the "Akashic records". These records are said to be memories encoded in the fabric of spacetime. (The term "Akashic" is derived from a Sanskrit term which means "space".) Or perhaps they are encoded within the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe i.e. the web-like structure of filaments and vortexes that surround and interpenetrate the universe and the Earth. According to metaphysicist, Charles Leadbeater, if the observer is not focusing on them, the Akashic records simply form the background to whatever is going on - reflecting the mental activity of a greater consciousness on a far higher plane which is accessible to us. We are in a sense living in this much larger brain. This suggests that all human beings (and other life-forms) can and do use the shared (information processing) services of Earth's "brain". Observing the dynamic and visual Akashic records would be like watching a larger brain's movie from a distance. Associative memory ensures that thoughts relating to the same matter are connected – resulting in databases and specific types of environments – as evidenced in the Akashic records. Both heaven and hell may be accessed through the Earth's brain. No doubt, this is also the basis of Carl Jung's "collective unconscious".
Earth's Memory and Paranormal Imprints
There is evidence that Earth encodes memories. According to the paranormal literature, ghosts sometimes do not appear to be conscious. They are completely oblivious to observers, and always look and act the same – almost like a movie being replayed over and over again. These are called "imprints" or "residual hauntings" in the paranormal literature. Paranormal researchers believe that imprints occur when a vast amount of paranormal energy is left behind and is replayed time after time at the same location and often at the same time of day. Events that trigger such an energy release are fights, murders, rapes, kidnappings, or wars. Famous examples of imprints include the many Civil War Battlefields across the United States. In the battlefields of Gettysburg Pennsylvania the roar of cannon fire and the sounds of gunshots can often be heard in the evening hours. The smell of gun powder can also sometimes be detected in and around the road where fierce fighting took place for many hours during the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg Maryland. It is still not generally understood how these "energy imprints" takes place. Some popular theories include the notions that the building materials "soak up the energy" of the location and replay these stored energies at a later time or it is energy stored in the atmosphere which is activated by changes in the atmosphere.
According to plasma metaphysics "imprints" in the paranormal literature can be attributed to interactions between our brains and the Earth's brain. Every time a person intrudes into a location in the Earth's brain in which a memory is encoded, the memory is activated and replayed - similar to the memories that were activated and replayed by Penfield when he applied an electrode to specific locations in his patients' brains. However, most of the time these activated memories remain in our subconscious - only a powerful memory (usually endowed with strong emotions) in the Earth's brain can pop-up in our conscious awareness. Psychics, however, may sense Earth's memories and are conscious of their replays more often than others.
Interactions between Earth's Brain and our Brains
When forensic psychics access the memory of a victim or an assailant in a crime scene; or the memory associated with a particular location, a continuous flow of information could be taking place between their brains and the "Earth's brain". This may also be true when we access the Akashic records intentionally or unintentionally. Similarly, in "group consciousness", telepathy and remote viewing, the Earth's "neural networks" may be used by the participants. When the locus of consciousness of an individual moves into the Earth's brain, the individual identity is transcended.
Internalization of the Universe and Individuation
Butterflies have more photo-receptors in their visual system than we do. Because of this, their visual systems are much better than ours in certain respects. While we have a big occipital lobe in our large brains to process visual information the butterfly does a superior job with brains that are mere specks two millimeters in size and which is able to process larger amounts of information coming from its more numerous photo-receptors. Scientists have no clue as to how they do it. Plants and amoeba go about their complex activities without having brains. The single-celled slime mould even solves mazes every time it is tested. Brains are made of cells but this single cell (slime mould) behaves as if it had a brain. Where is this intelligence and information processing power coming from? Many discoveries, scientific and artistic ideas come about when scientists or artists are not actively thinking about them. Where does this intelligence emanating from below our conscious radar come from?
It appears that as bodies evolve brains (in particular, the cortex) that become larger (in proportion to the body) the more the life-form gets cut-off from non-local universal intelligence and has to rely on local intelligence in the brains housed within their bodies. Human beings, in particular, have become increasingly estranged from universal intelligence. We create our own universes within our brains which compete with the universal brain for our conscious attention. The memories generated by our personal universes then get fed back into Earth's brain resulting in public apparitions such as the Marian apparitions, apparitions of UFOs and other apparitions. The only times we reconnect with the universal brain is when certain persistent neural processes or circuits in our brains are intentionally (as in meditation or induced trances) or unintentionally (as in brain damage due to accidents or medical conditions) broken down or "switched off". The life-forms lower down the evolutionary chain (with no or tiny brains), however, may be using universal intelligence almost all the time.
Universal Brain and Cosmic Consciousness
The Earth appears to have a brain but how does it get sensory inputs? One way is to generate life-forms. The myriad of life-forms (including human beings) on Earth are in fact the many eyes and ears of the Earth. The networks of currents in the brains of life-forms are an integral part of the network of currents in Earth's brain. It is in the universe's interest to generate life-forms so that it can see, hear, taste, touch and smell and become aware of itself. If we are indeed connected to the Earth's brain, which is connected to a universal brain, it also means that we share a universal brain which can have contact with the brains of other planets that nurture life-forms that generate their own memories. Intelligent life-forms can send information (either intentionally or unintentionally) via the universal brain directly to our brains.
© Copyright Jay Alfred 2007
Akashic Records and the Brain
Harman and Rheingold believe that the research on remote viewing suggests that "the creative/intuitive mind could be getting information in ways other than from the lifelong learning of the person. Research on telepathic communication suggests that we are all joined at a deep level; research on psychokinesis indicates a connection between mind and the external environment." Researchers are probing the savant mind from the inside; using both gene mapping and PET scans. Neuroscientists believe that "savants tap into areas of the mind that function like supercomputers, compiling massive amounts of data from the senses to create a working model of the world." But where is this supercomputer located…in our wet biomolecular brain? From the 1930s onwards, Wilder Penfield developed a surgical procedure for epileptics, involving the use of a local anesthetic to open up and operate on a patient’s exposed brain while the patient remained fully conscious. When he applied his electrode to the patient’s temporal lobe, the patient began to describe a complete flashback to an episode from earlier in his life. The scenes always moved forward, and only forward. If music was involved, this followed the precise original tempo; the full score of which the patients would be able to hum with total accuracy — much as an autistic savant would be able to reproduce music with almost complete accuracy — almost like a recording. The temporal lobe has also been implicated in near-death experiences where "life reviews" occur. Life reviews have been described as viewing a movie, a video, a vivid 3d color display of your entire life or segments of your life. Some have described it as viewing a three-dimensional hologram of your life in full color, sound, and scent. Betty Eadie recounted that her life appeared before her in the form of what we might consider extremely well defined holograms, but at tremendous speed. The scenes can also go into a preview mode, viewing scenes of your life in little bursts; at random, with the scenes of your life skipping from one scene to another; in fast-forward mode, viewing scenes of your life at a tremendous speed; in slow-motion or paused, in order to focus on a particular detail of your life. You may also enter the scene and relive your entire life with scenes of your life projected around you. This is very similar to how metaphysicist, Charles Leadbeater, described reading the "Akashic records" – almost a century ago.
The role of forensic psychics in fighting baffling crimes appears to be growing. The psychics often felt the pain of the victim and in some cases viewed the crime scene from the attacker’s point of view. They were literally re-living the events. This is also obviously very similar to reading the Akashic records or undergoing a life review in a near-death experience. It is believed that the Akashic records make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible. Some psychics who do past life readings claim to receive their information from the Akashic records. Forensic psychics, who assist the police in investigations, appear also, quite frequently, to be accessing these records. The information received in precognitive dreams (clairvoyant dreams relating to an event or a state not yet experienced) is often said to be ultimately derived from the Akashic records. The "Akashic records" was a term coined by the Theosophical movement (which originated in the 19th century) and referred to a universal filing system which records every thought, word, and action. These records are embedded or imprinted in the "Akasha" — which is the Sanskrit word for "sky", "space" or "ether".
Records Imprinted on the Fabric of Spacetime
Einstein displaced the theory of the ether with his 1905 Special Theory (of relativity) and then resurrected the concept with the idea of a spacetime manifold in his 1915 General Theory (of relativity). Based on a modern interpretation (and a simple substitution of terms) the Akashic records would be said to be written on this spacetime manifold. In fact, Edgar Cayce said just that: "Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity — as in relationships to its environs, its hereditary influence; as directed — or judgment drawn by or according to what the entity’s ideal is." When Cayce was asked to explain what was meant by "The Book of Life" he replied that it was, "The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space…" World-renowned Cayce scholar Kevin Todeschi says that "The Edgar Cayce readings suggest that each of us writes the story of our lives through our thoughts, our deeds, and our interactions with the rest of creation" — echoing Lynne McTaggart’s description of the dynamic interaction of the universe with the zero point field. Science reporter, Lynne McTaggart, says, "If all subatomic matter in the world is interacting constantly with this ambient ground-state energy field, the subatomic waves of the [zero point] field are constantly imprinting a record of the shape of everything. As the harbinger and imprinter of all wavelengths and all frequencies, the zero point field is a kind of shadow of the universe for all time, a mirror image and record of everything that ever was."
Is it a Record or an Alternate Reality?
The well-respected Australian metaphysicist Robert Bruce defines the Akashic records as "an infinite, never-ending, inter-dimensional, energetic echo field, containing perpetual echoes [similar to the zero point field] generated by each and every act of consciousness, in energetic form. [Different] levels of the Akashic records can be accessed and perceived [or viewed] in various ways during an out-of-body experience, with the most common being the traditional 'library' scenario." Bruce considers the records to be an energetic medium as opposed to the common belief that the records are a structured repository of information. Cayce alluded to the fact that the Akashic records were not simply a transcription of the past but included the present and the future. Max Heindel said that in a "higher world" the "Memory of Nature" is read in an entirely different manner; covering the essence of a whole life or event. In 1899, Leadbeater reported that on a "very high plane" the past, present and future are all existing simultaneously. He gives the analogy of a passenger in a train. "The passenger, if he could never leave the train nor alter its pace, would probably consider the passing landscapes as necessarily successive and would be unable to conceive their coexistence." Leadbeater apparently anticipated Einstein's "block universe" concept and the relativity of simultaneity through his direct experience with super universes.
Paul Davies explains, "Physicists prefer to think of time as laid out in its entirety — a 'timescape', analogous to a landscape — with all past and future events located there together." This is generally described as the "block universe" concept in physics. According to Davies, "Human experience is temporal. Hence, we generally believe that only the present is real; while the past no longer exists and the future does not yet exist. We also frequently believe that the future is indeterminate and contingent. By contrast, in the block universe past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. All events are fully determined, and none are contingent." Physicist Brian Greene says, "Just as we envision all of space as really being out there, as really existing, we should also envision all of time as really being out there, as really existing too." Einstein's block universe bears a strong resemblance to descriptions of the nature and dynamics of the Akashic records in higher planes — by Edgar Cayce, Max Heindel, Charles Leadbeater and other metaphysicists. The question now arises: Are the dynamic Akashic records being continuously written as situations occur in our world or is it simply an alternate reality where time behaves differently? It is possible that when we "read" the Akashic records, we are actually peering into another reality where the measure of time is different. The observer may in fact be experiencing Einstein's block universe – unencumbered by the restrictions of time. But how exactly do we read or experience the Akashic records?
Are the Akashic Records in the Brain?
It appears that cells in the brain are somehow "hyperlinked" to some non-local memory. In 1908 Leadbeater explained that there is an affinity between any particle of matter and the record which contains its history — an affinity which enables it to act as a kind of conductor between that record and the faculties of anyone who can read it. "The scenes through which we pass in the course of our life seem to act in the same manner upon the cells of our brain through which our mind is put en rapport with particular portions of the [Akashic] records," he says. Medical science and those associated with it assume that the information a person has is buried inside the brain. But can this information be non-local? If so, how does the brain communicate and retrieve this information from non-local sources? Does the visible brain have an invisible superstructure through which such communications are processed? The invisible superstructure that supports the activities of the brain, which has been discussed in the author's book Brains and Realities, is a good candidate for this task. This invisible superstructure, which includes a complex of subtle electromagnetic bodies, transmits and receives information from non-local sources. The electromagnetic nature of these subtle bodies makes them better candidates to carry-out the complex calculations and recall that savants have. A "photographic" recall, CD-like audio recall, fast calculations and video player-operations such as "fast-forwarding" and "rewinding" suggest an electromagnetic substrate which can be found in subtle (higher energy magnetic plasma) bodies. These are only "uncovered" or "unveiled" more fully when biochemical operations in the brain fail.
According to "Hebb’s rule" in neuroscience, when neurons repeatedly fire in a particular pattern, that pattern becomes a semi-permanent feature of the brain — i.e. it becomes a memory. If the connections so formed should later prove of little use, resulting from infrequent firings across the previously strengthened synapses, the connections weaken on their own from the lack of stimulation. Yet we know from the study of autistic savants that they can remember prodigious amounts of information from just one encounter with the stimulus spontaneously even decades after the event with photographic clarity. There appears to be no need for rehearsal, reinforcement or constant recall to strengthen synapses. How does Hebb’s rule fit into all this? Surely this suggests a different type of memory mechanism which is clearly not explained in current neuroscience – which studies only the biomolecular brain. However, this type of memory mechanism would fit well with the workings of an "electronic brain" within electromagnetic subtle bodies.
Conclusion
So long as neuroscientists are fixated on the visible brain, they will never realize that the biomolecular brain acts, just like a TV, basically as a receiver and tuner. The scientist, who exclaims, "See, we have proof — the PET scans show that the neural activity in the brain has changed," is missing the point. All experiences can be interpreted by changes in the brain because the transmission passes through the brain. Unless the critic takes a wider view — gets his eyes off the TV and looks around to see the background infrastructure of TV aerials or cables, he will be oblivious to the fact that the signals are being transmitted from a broadcasting station. In fact, all explanations become easier and more natural when we take the view that the biomolecular body and brain that is visible to us is just the tip of an iceberg. There are invisible superstructures (according to plasma metaphysics) that Science is only beginning to suspect. In order for the paradigmatic shift to occur in neuroscience, neuroscientists must look to cutting-edge physics for the wider view. There are current scientific theories (taught in mainstream physics) which tell us that less than 5% of the universe is visible to us. If that is the case, why treat the visible brain as an end in itself? Isn’t it logically possible for an invisible superstructure to be supporting the more complex operations observed and currently being misattributed to mysterious processes in a wet biomolecular brain?
© Copyright Jay Alfred 2007
Subtle Bodies, Supercortical Structures and Brain Lateralization
Missing Brains
Across the world, there are hundreds of cases of people with hydrocephalus. This is a condition where large cavities form in the brain. The cavities are sometimes so large that they can account for 95% of the brain’s mass. Contrary to established medical thinking, there are hundreds of cases where people have either been born with an underdeveloped brain, or have had large areas of their brain damaged in an accident, but are still able to function normally. Some scientists believe that the remaining cortex takes over the functions once provided by the removed cortex. However, this explanation becomes questionable especially in cases where hardly any brain is left in the cranium. There is justified cynicism on the question of the brain's spare capacity to take over the functions provided by the parts of the brain that have been removed or damaged. "To talk of redundancy in the brain is an intellectual cop-out to try to get round something you don't understand," says Patrick Wall, professor of anatomy at University College, London. Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital agrees: "Certainly the brain has a remarkable capacity for re-assigning functions following trauma, but you can usually pick up some kind of deficit with the right tests, even after apparently full recovery." Some neuroscientists say that, perhaps, we have underestimated the work of the deep sub-cortical structures in the brain. "For hundreds of years neurologists have assumed that all that is dear to them is performed by the cortex, but it may well be that the deep structures in the brain carry out many of the functions assumed to be the sole province of the cortex," says Wall. Nevertheless, scientists have studied the sub-cortical structures intensively. There is no hard evidence that these sub-cortical structures in a normal brain can actually perform the cognitive functions currently attributed to the cortex. Instead of sub-structures we have to turn our attention to super-structures.
Invisible Supercortical Structures and Meta-Neurology
One explanation is that the physical-biomolecular brain is supported by an invisible superstructure, composed of dark matter, which develops during life. Although there is much indirect evidence of the existence of dark matter (it is mentioned in every current textbook on physics and is estimated to contribute up to 96% to 99% of the mass-energy of the universe) current scientific instruments are unable to detect it directly. It has been noted that children who have undergone brain removal at an early age develop more or less normally. Adults who have their brains removed have a harder time coping. It was also found that the instances in which brain loss do not interfere with normal life are cases where the condition develops slowly. Gross surgical lesions in rat brains are known to inflict severe functional disruption, but if the same damage is done bit by bit over a long period of time, the dysfunction can be minimal. Just as rat brains appear to cope with a stepwise reduction of available hardware, so too do human brains in some cases of hydrocephalus. This time delay allows invisible superstructures of higher energy matter to form and link to the remaining visible structures. The study of these invisible structures and their interactions with the physical-biomolecular brain are the subject of a field that the author has called 'meta-neurology' and has been more extensively dealt with in the author's book Brains and Realities.
Brain Lateralization and Subtle Bodies
Metaphysicist Barbara Brennan (a former NASA scientist and now a "subtle energy healer") observes that the higher energy subtle bodies alternate between structured and structureless bodies. The structured (or crystalline) body is associated with a "mental" body; and the structureless (liquid or fluidic) body an "emotional" body. The nature of these bodies has been discussed in detail in the author’s book Our Invisible Bodies.
Metaphysicist Charles Leadbeater points out that every part of our (biomolecular) brain is mapped onto these higher energy bodies. If that is so, then it logically follows that there must be a correlation between the alternate mental and emotional bodies described by Brennan (and in general, the metaphysical literature); and the left and right brains, respectively. The evolution of brain lateralization in life-forms on Earth (including human beings) allowed these life-forms to access the processing capabilities of higher energy body-brains in parallel (higher energy) universes. Alternate higher energy bodies undertake cognitive processes corresponding to the left and right brains. This means that when neural activity is shifted from the left to the right brain, or vice-versa, different subtle bodies are activated. The fact that different brain activities are localized in the left and right hemispheres of the brain in a consistent manner has already been discussed elsewhere – including the author's book Brains and Realties. Studies of split brain patients show that the localization may be so pronounced that the two hemispheres are seen to represent almost two different persons living in a single body! The two minds (or persons) can even have different opinions about people and things. We also now realize (with some astonishment) that the structure of our brain has a profound effect on our post-mortem states.
Effect on Post-Mortem States
Brennan identifies four "physical bodies" — the physical-biomolecular, with which we are familiar; and three other "physical-etheric" bodies. The first is a "template body". The second and third are the emotional and mental bodies; which correlate with the right and left brains, respectively. According to the metaphysical literature; during the death process (of the physical bodies), the mental body dissolves and contracts into the "physical-etheric nucleus" around the heart region. It then travels through a meridian (which would appear to it to be a tunnel) in the template body and exits out of the head. This can sometimes be seen as an orb of light. (In fact, the genuine orbs that are seen during ghostly encounters evidence the bright physical-etheric nucleus which has become disassociated from the physical-biomolecular body.) It will subsequently be absorbed by the next higher energy body (effectively reincarnating into a new body). The physical-biomolecular body and the template body (which is closely integrated with it) will then start to disintegrate. So what happens to the emotional body (which is mapped onto our right brain)? If it does not dissolve, it will "loiter" in familiar places and subsequently be attracted to places where other similar bodies (with similar resonant frequencies) congregate. Since the higher energy emotional body is a magma (or magnetic plasma) body; and because magnetic plasma with similar physical properties naturally come together, all these non-individualized emotional bodies would gradually be attracted to each other and slowly coalesce and, in time, evolve into demonic or divine archetypes that appear in our collective unconscious. (The collective unconscious is simply the rest of the multiverse that we are generally not conscious of.)
Hence, during the death process, there is a "division of consciousness" as evidenced by the separation of the emotional body (which correlates to right brain awareness) and the mental body (which correlates to left brain consciousness). This has been reported by Peter Novak in his book, The Division of Consciousness, and is consistent with the metaphysical and religious literature. Novak describes the emotional body as the "soul"; and the mental body as the "spirit". Emanuel Swedenborg (the seventeenth century mystic) claims that following the post-mortem "life-review", a person’s conscious mind (correlated to the left brain) separates from the "unconscious" mind (correlated to the right brain), and thereafter the unconscious soul enters into heaven or hell. Novak says the conscious spirit then reincarnates into a new body.
Dr Fredric Schiffer says that one of the most important findings of split-brain research is that each hemisphere of the brain has a mind of its own. He hypothesizes that in many people, one mind may be less mature and more disturbed by past trauma than the other. Similarly, when the mental and emotional bodies of the physical-etheric ensemble go their separate ways, they may behave very differently from each other. The "unconscious" emotional body, separated during the death process and correlated to our right brain, will exhibit characteristics which will be similar to a left-brain damaged patient or the person in the right brain of a split-brain patient (and conversely for the "conscious" mental body). The study of these split-brain patients would therefore throw much light on the behavior of our post-mortem minds which are separated — including dysfunctional spirits and ghosts. Psychological counseling would therefore be as relevant to dysfunctional ghosts as they are to embodied persons who are dysfunctional.
Completing the Picture
Novak's theory of a division of consciousness summarizes religious and metaphysical literature over several centuries. It has brought into prominence the post-mortem division. However, it appears to be incomplete against the background of wider metaphysical theories. It appears to address only the split of bodies at the lowest rung of the energy ladder. The higher energy groups of bodies which succeed the physical bodies also alternate with mental and emotional bodies. As each ensemble of bodies (with their emotional and mental components) "dies", the mental and emotional bodies go their separate ways. The splitting between the "soul" and the "spirit" (as described in Novak’s book The Division of Consciousness) may be seen as the lowest horizontal division. It is not a split between all the mental and emotional bodies in the whole spectrum of higher energy bodies. Each ensemble of higher energy bodies also vertically divides during the death process. For example, the physical bodies first vertically divide from the higher energy bodies during the death process of the physical bodies. Then they horizontally divide in respect of the physical-etheric emotional and mental bodies. The higher energy spectrum of bodies are not affected by the splits at the bottom - they continue to exist as components of an integrated individual.
Novak observed curiously (in contradiction to his theory) that "apparitions and visitations of the recently dead, often reported by family members shortly after the death, suggest that such souls are not suffering from any after death division at all. These visitors from the next world seem to have all their wits about them; with functional minds, logic, memories, and senses of identity still intact. These souls have apparently not experienced the division predicted by the BSD [Binary Soul Division]." He then asks, "The question is, have they permanently avoided it [i.e. the division], or has it not just caught up with them yet?" The answer, based on a broader theory, is "both". The split did occur. However, further splits will occur as the higher energy spectrum of bodies "unzips" further and each higher energy duplet (i.e. a pair of mental and emotional bodies) separates and goes its own way. Contents and other structures, or even whole bodies, that cannot be integrated with the spectrum of higher energy bodies which are seeking to go to a higher plane or sphere are expelled as "soul fragments". They may be considered left-over products — which have other uses in the wider scheme of things (just as the biochemicals in a decomposing physical body which is buried are absorbed by plants which in turn provide nutrition to animals which eat them). The unconscious fragments that were left behind are now not supported by higher intelligence. They are known variously as "shades" or "shells" in the metaphysical literature and have been written about extensively by Leadbeater. They eventually coalesce into larger bodies as a result of the natural dynamics of magnetic plasma, as already discussed above.
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