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<aside> 🧡 It is difficult to appreciate what is must have been like to live at the dawn of the 21st century. The climate was spiraling out of control, viral outbreaks were endemic and the global economy was failing. Demigods were the rulers of the day [...] It was not until the mid-21st century that hints of resolution began to appear. Necessity had cracked entrenched scientific dogmas, allowing new ideas to be heard. The resulting brainstorms revealed that the multiple threats were reflections of a single, underlying dilemma - an impasse that new technologies could not solve.
The challenge was rooted in humanity’s faulty understanding of consciousness, which, as we now know, is the fundamental glue that binds the fabric of reality. This truth was widely scorned in the early 21st century because it evoked age-old fears and preconceptions about what scientists of the day naively called magic. It took many generations to advance beyond those beliefs. Historians today argue the tide turned when scientists first conclusively demonstrated the plasticity of physical reality.
The evidence that the speed of light and other physical constants were mental constructs, not inviolable absolutes, provided a clear path to global harmony. By mid-21st century science had firmly placed consciousness on a continuum with matter and energy. By 2160, the World Federation of Magi was formed and neo-magicians throughout the world were tasked with restoring the earth and eradicating disease
Dean Radin, PhD, Real Magic
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The dominant materialist science paradigm of the 21st century reduces everything to matter. Materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we’re just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that’s the end of consciousness, there is no life after death, there is no soul; we just rot and are gone.
The biggest problem with their argument is that scientists should admit that consciousness is the greatest mystery of science and that we don’t know exactly how it works. The brain is involved in it some way but we’re not sure how.
It could be that the brain generates consciousness the way a generator makes electricity, if you hold to that paradigm, then of course you can’t believe in life after death, when the generator’s broken, consciousness is gone. But it’s equally possible that the relationship — and nothing in neuroscience rules it out – that the relationship is more like the relationship of the TV signal to the TV set, and in that case, when the TV set is broken, of course the TV signal continues. And this is the paradigm of all spiritual traditions, that we are immortal souls temporarily incarnated in these physical forms.
If we want to understand consciousness, the last people we should ask are materialist scientists. Instead, we should look at ancient cultures, like the Egyptians, who highly valued dream states or we should look to quantum physicists who are rewriting our understanding of the material universe.
<aside> 💡 "There are some dark clouds in physics. People will tell you, 'we just need to figure out which particles makes the dark matter, it's just another particle. It has some weak interaction, and that's pretty much it.' But I think there is a very good chance that we are missing some very important ingredients that a brilliant person might recognize in the coming years. The potential for a revolutionary physics breakthrough today is not smaller — it's actually bigger right now than it was in Einstein's time.
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Physics is stuck - and needs another Einstein to revolutionize it, physicist Avi Loeb says
Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness - Adam Frank | Aeon Essays
What we perceive as our physical material world, is really not physical or material at all, in fact, it is far from it. This has been proven time and time again by multiple Nobel Prize (among many other scientists around the world) winning physicists, one of them being Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist who made significant contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
Many of us have been taught a classical materialist version of physics. That knowledge is now incompatible with what physicists at the forefront of the field know today. There are aspects of quantum physics that show us the divine nature of reality and the interconnectedness of all that is. The easiest way to crack open that box is to talk about consciousness or God as energy.
<aside> 💡 “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” – Niels Bohr
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For a long time after the discovery of molecules and atoms in the seventeenth century, scientists assumed that molecules and atoms consisted of solid particles. But according to quantum physics, developed in the early twentieth century, there are no “particles” per se: Energy is the basis of material reality. Every type of particle is conceived of as a quantum vibration in a field: Electrons are vibrations in electron fields, protons vibrate in a proton field, and so on. Everything is energy, and everything is connected to everything else through fields. At its most elementary level, matter does not show up as isolated little particles; all matter is essentially one and indivisible, a connected, dynamic tissue of vibrating fields of energy.
As physicists explored the relationship between energy and the structure of matter - the belief that a physical, Newtonian material universe that was at the very heart of scientific knowing was dropped, and the realization that matter is nothing but an illusion replaced it. Scientists began to recognize that everything in the Universe is made out of energy.
<aside> 💡 “Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual” (1) – Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University (quote taken from “the mental universe)
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Therefore, if we really want to observe ourselves and find out what we are, we are really beings of energy and vibration, radiating our own unique energy signature -this is fact and is what quantum physics has shown us time and time again. We are much more than what we perceive ourselves to be, and it’s time we begin to see ourselves in that light.