Cosmic Consciousness

Some scientists think the brain creates consciousness – but they say they don’t know where or how this happens. 

It seems more likely that our conscious experience doesn’t arise from the brain and furthermore, it cannot arise from any physical process.

What is consciousness?

To start with, consider this:

When we use our eyes we say we are looking at the external world, as if it is a solid, unmoving reality, but what are we really seeing?

The external world is actually blank. It has no colour, brightness, shape or form. Our world is made of what we call magnetic fields and electrical pulses, they come and go in very complex ways.

We think we use our eyes to look at a solid, unchanging world but we use our eyes to look at light. Eyes are light receptors and light moves as a wave or pulse, an electrical pulse with magnetic fields.

Within our eyes, we have around six million cone shaped cells and each one can be triggered when they’re hit by an electromagnetic pulse – electricity is then released.

That electricity travels through a cable pathway into the brain and into the occipital lobe at the back where there are literally hundreds of billions of cells. 

That’s six million cells perceiving in our eyes and hundreds of billions of cells being stimulated in the occipital lobe.

The stimulation or sensation we experience is colours; blue, red, yellow, all colours creating forms and shapes – and that’s what we’re “seeing” at this moment as you look around you.

The room you are in – the external world – is being created in your brain, moment to moment as a result of electromagnetic impulses.

We can’t see electricity and we can’t see magnetism, we see light.

To understand that, we can take a peek at the science of quantum mechanics.

The Double Slit Experiment

I first heard about the double slit experiment back in the 1980s.

The original experiment was performed by Davisson and Germer in 1927 using photons.

Here’s a simplification of the double slit experiment with electrons:

• An electron is a subatomic particle of matter that is found in all atoms
• What we refer to as just light is not matter it is energy, physicists refer to packets of light energy as photons

1. Physicists set up an experiment consisting of a screen, onto which electrons would land.
2. They put a barrier in front of the screen that electrons couldn’t penetrate.
3. They cut two slits, side by side into the barrier.
4. They fired the beam of electrons across and when they went through the slits they didn’t form clusters onto the screen, based on whether they passed through one slit or the other.
5. They split into two waves which then interacted on the other side of the slits and hit the screen.
6. The screen showed a pattern that seemed to conclusively prove that the electrons traveled in waves.
7. The physicist wanted to stop the waves interacting as they went through the slits
8. They sent one electron at a time through the apparatus to control which slit the electron went through.
9. The instant they did that, the wave pattern on the screen went away and was replaced by a series of bullet holes.
10. The wave had been replaced by particles.
11. An electron is described as a fundamental particle – it can never divide under any circumstances, so the nature of the electron was changing.
12. The electron went from being a wave to being a particle at the instant the physicists interacted with it by observing it.
13. The act of observing the electron changed how it behaved.

The double slit experiment is a demonstration that light/photons and matter/electrons can display characteristics of both waves and particles.

Consciousness affects photons and electrons, it affects where they exist, what they are and how they behave.

The double slit experiment showed that the consciousness realm affects – or is inseparable to – the immaterial and material realm.

Conscious doesn’t arise from our brain or physical body but our experience of the world does.

Our brain is a function of what we refer to as life.

Consciousness is the universe, not the individual life.