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
with the death, 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.
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.
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 universes.
Soul Quanta
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.
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