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Quantum Mechanics, Biocentrism, and Consciousness
“The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
—Albert Einstein
It’s fascinating how more and more scientists are attempting to come to terms with consciousness and spirituality. Quantum mechanics (also known as quantum physics and quantum theory) has come up with a set of scientific principles that explains at the atomic and subatomic level what happens as matter and energy interact.
Although there are a number of notable scientists working within this realm, Robert Lanza, MD, the chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, the third most important scientist alive according to the New York Times, offers a unique yet controversial theory in his book, Biocentrism.
Consciousness Creates the Universe
Lanza’s basic premise is that consciousness creates the material universe—not the other way around. The world around us exists because the our consciousness has manifested it to suit the needs of our body and our mind.
To illustrate his point, Lanza cites the famous double slit physics experiment. At the subatomic quantum level, when there are two slits, a photon—the smallest particle that exists—will go through one or the other when observed by a scientist. However, when there is no observer, a wave will go through both slits (Biocentrism, 62–67).
This now-classic experiment demonstrates that there is no separation between the observer and the observed. Through the act of observation we influence the field. Another implication is that we are all irrevocably connected to everything in the universe, that there is no separation, something mystics and spiritual teachers have been saying for millennia.
Our Presence Creates Matter
Another conclusion Lanza asserts is that our presence not only influences but also actually creates matter (Ibid, 91-93). Consciousness—not the personal you—created your body and the surroundings that provide support for that body to exist. We tend to identify with the body more than we do with the I AM consciousness that has manifested you in all your living glory. Consciousness itself is, always has been, and always will be. It’s eternal.
When you die, it’s your body that is dying. But the you that is consciousness will go on. The energetic patterning that was uniquely you in material form will continue on for a period of time and perhaps manifest again in a slightly different physical form, should you reincarnate.
The Body as a Product
Lanza goes further to assert that since the body and all materiality is a product of consciousness and your body itself is a product, death as we usually think of it is an illusion (“Quantum Physics Proves That There Is an Afterlife, Claims Scientist”, Woollastong).
Because our consciousness associates life with bodies, we assume that once the body dies, that’s all folks! Not only that, but space and time are simply tools that are useful to our minds, and they too are illusions. This is why in certain altered states we can experience timelessness and feel the illusory ego boundaries between self and other dissolve.
Glimpsing these moments helps us remember that we truly are consciousness itself. Our consciousness is required to make sense of the world, and it is continually attempting to do so through our perceptual and interpretive faculties with a fundamental aim of experiencing a material form.
Lanza also believes in an infinite number of universes with simultaneous events taking place, and people there have only slight variations.
Death’s Nonexistence
Another argument for death’s nonexistence is that anything that can possibly happen is also occurring in one of these multiverses. You might be dead in one universe and alive in another. In fact, consciousness exists outside of time and space, able to be anywhere and everywhere simultaneously, inside or outside the body. Consciousness is nonlocal, just as quantum objects are nonlocal (“Scientists Claim That Quantum theory Proves Consciousness Moves to Another Universe at Death,” Truthseekerdaily.com).
Something to think about, isn’t it?
The Constantly Dividing Universe
In the mid-1950s, Dr. Hugh Everett proposed in his graduate thesis at Princeton University that the universe is constantly dividing into an infinite number of similar moments, and as soon as a new universe is birthed, it immediately splits into two. So whatever is happening in one universe, perhaps one you are presently experiencing, there is something different happening in another universe. You’re having your morning cup of coffee in one universe while another you is out jogging in another universe.
Other physicists, through sophisticated measurements, have proposed that there are holes and gaps in the universe through which one’s soul could transit (Everything Forever, ch. 10, Giorbran).
String Theory
Yet another theory emerged when physicists were puzzled as to how an electron can sometimes jump from one orbit to another. They did experiments where they shot electrons into a wall, and occasionally an electron would end up on the other side of the wall. This gave theorists the idea that the entire universe is connected through extremely tiny “strings” that vibrate at different rates. String theory suggests that different universes vibrate at different rates, creating different dimensions. They postulated that the electron that jumped through the wall had traversed through another dimension to get to the other side of the wall! (“String Theory,” Wikipedia)
Further, they theorized that there are eleven multidimensional universes, and the eleventh dimension contains an infinite number of universes. These other dimensions are right next to us, but because we vibrate at a different rate we don’t perceive them (Ibid, Wikipedia). These ideas from physicists further support the notion that time and space are merely an illusion, that we can travel across time and space to make contact with our ancestors.
Conclusions
Phew! It’s somewhat of a stretch to conceive of all this, yet more and more scientists are arriving at similar conclusions. There is so much more to the experience of life than our limited senses can perceive or comprehend, and these models provide explanations as to how we are able to contact those in the afterlife across what we usually think of as time and space.
These different perspectives also give credence to the ideas that not only does consciousness survive death, but since the consciousness that you are has been around since the universe was born and will be around forever, your soul is eternal and there is no such thing as death.
They also give greater support for what I know to be true: that the ancestors are just as real as the people who are around you; they are just vibrating at a slightly different rate. And the ancestors can be accessed readily at any time. The Old Ones—the elders of the ancestral world—know this and will teach you. You are always connected to your ancestors across time and space.
