Consciousness and the Non-Local MindPosted: 2025-02-15
As children, we maintain a degree of openness to possibility. If we were all able to remain child-like, staying humble and open to accepting something that defies our own rooted beliefs, the walls society has created to separate us would begin to dissolve. When we cling to ideas that we, or others, insist upon, we limit our ability to gain new knowledge. This is evident in the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics with classical physics; while science is progressing, there are well rooted beliefs that are difficult to suspend when discordant information becomes available. We’ve made tremendous progress in understanding the science of matter, yet we are only just beginning to appreciate the energy behind matter. Removing matter from the equation, we’re left with pure potential, the zero point field, all possibilities existing simultaneously until one possibility is observed. What we perceive as material is simply energy that vibrates within a specific frequency. All matter is composed of the same basic elements, yet some matter is endowed with consciousness that we can perceive. We often attribute consciousness as a byproduct of the evolved mind; the capacity for self-awareness. Does consciousness arise from physical matter and, if so, why would it present itself only when physical matter is arranged in a specific biological form? Or, is it possible consciousness exists beyond perceptible matter and in this way all consciousness is connected to some degree. Consciousness has various meanings depending upon the understanding and relationship one has to the term. A scientist will describe it differently than a mystic. For this article, think of the mind as the part of us that has individual preferences, dreams and worries, the part shaped from experiences and interactions with this world - culture, family of origin and upbringing. The mind categorizes, describes, confines and limits. The mind being the mechanism that keeps us alive. Consciousness residing on a different level of awareness. A state that’s accessible when we can silence our own thoughts and “tune in” to the world around us. A state that can often be reached with various forms of meditation. My earliest thought was before I was a year old. Because the thought contained complex words which I understood at the time, I’ve always felt a keen distinction between consciousness and the mind. There are countless studies, both ad-hoc and academic, that seek to test what we currently identify as psychic phenomenon. Studies in telepathy have been on-going for the past 100 years and include institutions like Harvard, Duke, Cambridge, Cornell and Stanford. Of 122 experiments performed, comprising 4,674 individual sessions, the rate of chance expected in accurately identifying an image that was projected was 25%. The actual results came in around 32%. Even scientists that were openly biased against telepathic communication who conducted their own experiment admitted that the results were “…precariously close to demonstrating humans do have psychic powers.” – Meditators vs Magicians: New Study on Focused Intention and Real Magic by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2024. We perceive ourselves as individuated, creating boundaries where the perception of physicality has borders, yet if all consciousness is born from the same source as matter (all is energy), is it such a stretch to believe that we are more connected than we've allowed ourselves to believe? The term psychic has garnered some negative attachments in our culture. Perhaps psychic is just a term for our actual degree of connection with each other and the world around us and that, maybe, some of us are more attuned to this experience. I conducted an experiment in telepathy over eight sessions where I projected one of three shapes and one of ten numbers for 10 minutes each. Participants followed a quick protocol to get into a state of receiving the projection. Intended shapes and numbers are posted below followed by a summary of the overall results.
The chart below reflects the accuracy rate of the shape, the number or the combination of both by relationship. The dark green bar (F/F) represents friends and family; the orange bar (A/Other) are acquaintances or unknowns; the yellow bar (JH) is the individual with the highest accuracy rate; the light green (Total) bar represents results across all categories. The blue line reflects what would be expected by chance alone while the white line across the dark green bar reflects corrected results if the individual with the high accuracy rate is removed from that category. In summary, all relationship categories scored higher than chance. By removing the single participant with high accuracy the results across different relationships are fairly consistent. The single participant with an incredible accuracy rate is one of my children and not the one where I would have expected to see a strong correlation. We are separated by 1,000 miles and they didn't always participate at the time the experiment was run. I can only speculate on possible interpretations of their accuracy rate. It's certainly left me with more to explore. What I took away from this experiment, and the research that went into it, is that our thoughts have tremendous power. This is evident in our own lives (what we believe we see reflected back to us) but thoughts don't necessarily originate and terminate in our own mind. As experiments in this genre tell us, our thoughts can impact others. If we want to create a world with more beauty, joy and connectedness it starts in our own mind. When we learn to redirect thoughts that don't support the world we want to live in and cultivate thoughts that do our individual lives change. To understand the power we have through thought alone is to understand a portion of the power we have to create a beautiful world.
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