Biocentrism

""We believe in death because we've been taught we die.""

In another article, you claimed that you were taught by others, I believe by scientists, that a creator isn't needed with our existence. Is it just me, or is this a conflict of theory?

If you have two individuals that are still navigating the universe that is the mind, and we all are considering our lifespan being so short, it would seem that learning, even if a life long process, would be the route to take when it comes to faith rather then being taught by others.

Thanks for the article Robert. I appreciate the multi-disciplinary wisdom you bring to this topic

In our world, Ralph Waldo Emerson is dead.

Very good article, Dr. Lanza. As quantum theory becomes more widely accepted at quantum fact, I sincerely hope our species will grow to accept the observer is entangled with the observed, and therefore we're inescapably 1) a part of the universe and 2) subject to cause and effect. I suggest the psychological root of our perceived disconnection (Einstein's 'Optical Delusion of Consciousness') might stem from a universal aspect of human nature (1).

Westen D, Blagov PS, Harenski K, Kilts C, Hamann S., Neural bases of motivated reasoning Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 11/06;18(11):1947-58.

Biocentricism packed a lot of complex intangibles into an accessible stream of consciousness. It was easily digestible for me as I recognized the thoughts as ones I've pondered as a child - without the evidence from quantum physics to back them up. Hearing your own witnessing of the world and life - if you take a moment to listen, you may hear what Robert Lanza is saying to be the narration setting the scene.

Has there been studies on the link between biocentricism and peak experiences?

And does no one see that Lanza is simply modifying the mad idealism of George Berkeley? Berkeley held that perception of objects is what makes them exist, and that the universe only exists because "god" is constantly perceiving it. This--minus the obvious religious implications, though Lanza seems to be in the unfortunate intelligent design camp--is not dramatically different from Lanza at all.

And I find that disturbing.

"So how can a particle change its behavior depending on whether you watch it or not? The answer is simple - reality is a process that involves your consciousness."

"Watching" would seem to mean energy is imparted.

Another presumption is that their really "particles". But every distinction that ever is and will be was just made up. Physics is indeed a model and what you call a "particle" isn't what most people commonly, conventionally, call a particle.

[Just because] physics works doesn't mean it's really a description of reality. Einstein one-up'd Newton, then Heisenberg, then Bell's Theorum, etc., and dark matter, etc. etc.

There's no way to know when the end of the model is and there's no evidence that there's anything that's not part of our conventional reality because if it were measurable it, by definition, wouldn't be meta physical.

If there is a multiverse with other versions of "me", how would the death of my body here impact another "me" elsewhere? Would my essence somehow be transferred to another universe? If it is not, then how would my essence/soul/consciousness not disappear with the death of my body?

...I read something trying to connect quantum theory with psychology or consciousness. My skepticism meter jumps way up, rather like as it does when I listen to Deepak Chopra speak.
Interesting speculations... but, just speculation at this point.

Why shouldn't it be connected with psychology? Jung did it years ago!

"Amazingly, if you add life and consciousness to the equation, you can explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. For instance, it becomes clear why space and time—and even the properties of matter itself—depend on the observer. "

Not really. Other way to put it is that such properties depend on the *measurement* made by the oberver, which is not dependant of consciousness, but merely a physical interaction which a conscient being will use in order to make such measurement/observation. It will often be said in such way that causes this confusion, but there's nothing but an assumption of solipsism that suggests that such properties are "waiting" for an actual consciousness to be aware of them, rather than being just a physical reaction of the measurement procedure.

You know, I love this article and it doesn't contradict my belief in God. In fact, it helps me understand it better and makes a great deal of sense, if you ask me.

I'll be curious to see what the universe presents after I die.

Does Einstein really suggest death is an illusion?
He wrote this in a condolence letter to Robert S.Marcus:

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind"
-- Albert Einstein, February 12, 1950

I'd like to apologize in advance for my poor English but it's not my mother tongue.

Each time science approach notion such as death it always inclines people to react with passion because for most of us the after death has always been considered a religious topic.

The science start is a reaction to the religious domination to explain all the natural or supernatural phenomena we can observe around us (from planet rotation to death). We created science to get a better understanding of the natural and the religious questions.

We’re starting to have some and the funny part is that you could have twist a little bit first Buddha’s words to describe some part of the quantum physic.

Only a crazy man can think we get it all right in the manner we understand and apprehend the physical world. Of course there is different levels and in some or all the others there is probably no space and time. A lot of the physical phenomena we observe are just the result of another level waves. We’re like the ants in our world, they probably call us the fingers ;o)

So we should just keep our ears opened and enjoy the fantastic relativity such approach can bring to us ;o)

and I believe I've now printed it twice I find it so fascinating.

And to Cyril: your English is just fine; I enjoyed reading your post and I agree with what you say. The only thing I didn't get was the reference to the ants and fingers. What did I miss?

I can't wait to see what happens when my body wears out and dies. Well, not that I want to hurry anything along, but the idea of death doesn't bother me, simply intrigues me.

Thanks for sharing these thoughts, Dr. Lanza.

I certainly don’t doubt that we lack a complete understanding of the way consciousness relates to physical reality. However, as previously stated Ralph Waldo Emerson is no longer available in this world. That fact cannot be ignored.

I like to think the self-styled philosopher, mystic, physicist Ouspensky was on to something with the idea that different levels of reality exist and that and the laws governing one level don’t necessarily apply in another level, thus the difficulty in arriving at a unified field theory and the difference between the quantum world and the one we live in.

Consider every particle a different dimension of our universe and you will be amazed then to consider that when you break a particle in half that it creates two more particles and another dimension to our universe rinse and repeat and there is the big bang.

also, consider how amazing computer technology is especially when you consider that it is only based on binary code ones and zeros?

How is it any different from the universe? Can't it be based on binary code? Waves and Particles?

Time is an illusion.
Perception is Relative.
Perspective is wisdom and intelligence.

My Ongoing Mission – A Concluding Overview

After nearly thirty years of rigorous self-analysis, comprehensive religious, philosophical and psychical research, and the publication of copious associated literary works since my cosmication in 1980, I remain the unsung hero of my very own mythological quest to blaze a sensible trail through today's minefield of conventional and mostly outmoded thought and deed. Not surprising, I guess, when the message I was cosmically tasked to disseminate is generally at odds with five thousand years of conventional divide-and-rule, specious, politically-motivated and partisan beliefs that have infected today’s world with the almost incurable cancer of competitive cultures and rabid extremism. And let’s face it – Who but a few would willingly deign to heed and acknowledge the psychically-inspired utopian vision and wisdom of an almost non-entity known as Brian, the Lambeth Pilgrim, and his symbolic Rainbow Men cosmic ambassadors? Nevertheless, I know full well that many folk talk a lot about me; but most choose not to talk to me; and I don’t have to be too psychic to understand why. Therefore, let me remain the unsung hero in the jaundiced eyes of a mainly deluded world, yet be happy in the knowledge that my Psychic Master’s most cogent resurrected message has been duly delivered and is slowly but surely being spread by bush telegraph. And this is the way the message was meant to be dispensed. ‘No more religions and no more martyrs, Brian’ was an important proviso relative to my extraordinary and very exacting introduction to the astral realm of the Psychic Master’s Cosmos Club.

That the Great Pyramid of Cheops was involved in putting me ‘On the Square plus One’ is beyond doubt, and all that has since happened to authenticate what was psychically fed into my mind in 1980 has now made me more and more convinced that I was then, over four days and nights without sleep, subjected to similar initiation process that would have been used to initiate far more spiritually-prepared adepts at the Ancient Egyptian Mystery School of Cheops into firmly believing in life-everlasting and death as just an illusionary aspect of one’s eternal journey towards conscious perfection. However, because I was not more spiritually-prepared before my own ‘crash course’ initiation into such mysteries, I conclude that the severe mental trauma I suffered as a result of my initiation, and the fact that it then took me ten years to sensibly equate with it, was not really to be unexpected. Fortuitously, though, I survived to fulfill the cosmic task expected of me. And this done, I now intend to conclude my written and verbal overtures to the public with the following bold statement, which has also been posted at the Cosmos Coconut Club in Sri Lanka. This said there seems little more worth my adding in the future, as in illumined Kundalini circles I once again have to repeat that to those who understand no further explanation is necessary but to those who do not no further explanation is possible. The statement reads:

COSMOS COCONUT CLUB INTENT FOR 2009 AND ONWARDS…

Psychically, I was initiated into the Egyptian Mystery School of Cheops in 1980 for it seems one reason – To impart spiritual wisdom and a reassurance of life-everlasting to all those who by self-experience within the sanctum of their own existence are desirous of heeding the message.

In this respect, explanation from the www.opencheops.org website seems in order – The initiate system, prevailing in Egypt, was based upon one tremendous point, that the individual should learn factually, actually, and beyond question through personal experience that death is an illusion. Immortality is the summit of man’s problem. They had developed a science by which they could communicate the fact, example, and circumstance of death directly to another person. In other words, the initiates of the Mystery Schools were persons who had lived, died and been born again in this world.

I WAS NO EXCEPTION TO THIS PROCESS.

The above statement as well as this article now concludes:

THE AWAKENING OF ANY INDIVIDUAL IS DEEMED A COSMIC EVENT.

Brian
Cosmos Coconut Club
Sri Lanka