Jing Yue (Diana) Chen -- Week 1 Blog Entry

Week 1 Blog Entry: Spirit Realm and Near Death Experiences

A reading from this week that related to the theme of spirit realm and near death experiences is the work of Contzen Pereira and J Shashi Kiran Reddy, who attempted to explain non-local consciousness (disembodiment), something that is largely ignored by science, in scientific light (Pereira and Reddy, 952). They hypothesize that the overall state of the body is formed by bodily consciousness (which regulates bodily and cell functions) and functional consciousness (which is likely the main cause for non-local conscious experiences during a person’s near death experience) and quantum entanglement between these two forms of consciousness are responsible for the capacity of “storing information holographically within a vacuum” and create memories beyond the limitations of our physical brain and body.

This hypothesis is supported by several individuals with NDE experiences. Among them is Anita Moorjani, who held a Ted^x talk called “Dying to be Me.” She explains her fight with terminal cancer and talks about an experience of “expanded consciousness” in her comatose state. She explains the NDE as an event that turned on the floodlights in a pitch-black warehouse where she saw only with a flashlight beam. Her awareness is much increased now even though the lights have been “switched off.”

A question I had about the reading is: if death means the shift of one’s consciousness from one dimension of the hologram to another (Pereira and Reddy, 963), is said consciousness retrievable from the new dimension? Can it be accessed by, say, shamans or others who experience NDE?

References:

Contzen Pereira, and J Shahi Kiran Reddy. "Near-Death Cases Desegregating Non-Locality/ Disembodiment via Quantum Mediated Consciousness: An Extended Version of the Cell-Soul Pathway." Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research. Volume 7, Issue 11 (2016).

Video reference: http://www.theearthchild.co.za/woman-dies-and-comes-back-to-life-with-this-incredible-message-for-humanity-1/