Oneness Experiments [proof of non-locality]
The good news is that not one but three separate experiments are now showing that quantum consciousness, the author of downward causation, is nonlocal, is unitive, is God. The first such experiment proving it unequivocally (that is, with objective machines and not through subjective experiences of people) was performed by the neurophysiologist Jacobo Grinberg and his collaborators at the University of Mexico. Let's go into some details.
Quantum physics gives us an amazing principle to operate with - nonlocality. The principle of locality says that all communication must proceed through local signals that have a speed limit. Einstein established this speed limit as the speed of light (the enormous but finite speed of 300,000 km/second). So this locality principle, a limitation imposed by Einsteinian relativity, precludes instantaneous communication via signals. And yet, quantum objects are able to influence one another instantly, once they interact and become correlated. The physicist Alain Aspect and his collaborators demonstrated this in 1982 for a pair of photons (quanta of light). The data does not have to be seen as a contradiction to Einsteinian thinking once we recognize quantum nonlocality for what it is - a signalless interconnectedness outside space and time.
Grinberg, in 1993, was trying to demonstrate quantum nonlocality for two correlated brains. Two people meditate together with the intention of direct (signalless, nonlocal) communication. After 20 minutes, they are separated (while still continuing their unity intention), placed in individual Faraday cages (electromagnetically impervious chambers), and each brain is wired up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. One subject is shown a series of light flashes producing in his or her brain an electrical activity that is recorded in the EEG machine from which an 'evoked potential' is extracted with a computer upon subtracting the brain noise. The evoked potential is somehow found to be transferred to the other subject's brain onto his or her EEG that gives (upon subtraction of noise) a transferred potential (similar to the evoked potential in phase and strength). Control subjects (those who do not meditate together or are unable to hold the intention for signalless communication during the duration of the experiment) do not show any transferred potential.
This experiment demonstrates the nonlocality of brain responses to be sure, but something even more important - nonlocality of quantum consciousness. How else to explain how the forced choice of the evoked response in one subject's brain can lead to the free choice of an (almost) identical response in the correlated partner's brain? As stated above, the experiment, since then has been replicated twice. First, by the London neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick in 1998. And again by the Bastyr University researcher Leana Standish and her collaborators in 2004.
The conclusion of these experiments is radical. Quantum consciousness, the precipitator of the downward causation of choice from quantum possibilities, is what esoteric spiritual traditions call 'God'. We have rediscovered God within science. Moreover we have a new integrative paradigm of science, based not on the primacy of matter as the old science, but on the primacy of consciousness. Consciousness is the ground of all being which we now can recognize as what the spiritual traditions call 'Godhead'.
Amit Goswami
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Amit Goswami is professor of physics at the University of Oregon.
He is the author of five books, including The Self-Aware Universe,
Quantum Creativity, Physics of the Soul, and The Visionary Window.
He also wrote a textbook on Quantum Mechanics
that is well regarded and used.
Proof of God
No, brain activity is NOT 'always thinking'. It is proven that meditative states are directly linked to increased Alpha Wave activity. This is not thinking, but the focusing of conscious awareness, without thought. It is seeing, rather than thinking:
Alpha waves reflect the brains idle function in the awake condition. When we relax with closed eyes, most people produce a certain amount of Alpha waves. The moment you start doing something - concentrating, thinking, liste*ning, etc. - Alpha wa*ves are blocked or reduced in amplitude (see figure). On the other hand if you get drowsy Alpha activity will also drop down. Thus, in order to stay in the high Alpha state, you must keep a certain balance between drowsiness and alertness. Alpha is pure consciousness or being without any doings. It represents a gate between the outer and the inner world between the conscious and the unconscious.
Since research has documented that deep meditation is almost always associated with high Alpha activity in the brain, the high Alpha state has become almost synonymous with deep meditation. When a person is not able to meditate properly, stress is usually the problem. If the person is tense, have a busy mind and a lot of resistance to what is, Alpha activity will be inhibited and it is impossible for the person to meditate.
In order to produce Alpha waves you must control your attention and direct it toward your inner body ignoring all outside stimuli. If any thoughts appear in that state you should not follow them but observe them passively as you would observe drifting clouds in the sky.
Alpha waves reflect a calm, open, balanced mind with a free flow of energy and a good connec*tion to the body and its feelings. During stress, a blocking of energy will result in low Alpha or no Alpha activity, and in the long run this may lead to various stress symp*toms and burn-out.
New Brain - New World
...and stress, where Alpha waves are absent or reduced, is due to thought. So, you see, consciousness is directly associated with high Alpha brain wave output, NOT thinking.
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