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August 6th, 2009
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The fundamental nature of reality is actually consciousness. In his documentary Peter Russell explores the reasons why consciousness may be the fundamental essence of the Universe. Many have made such claims from metaphysical perspectives, but the possibility has always been ignored by the scientific community. In this talk, he discusses the problems the materialist scientific world view has with consciousness and proposes an alternative world view which, rather than contradicting science, makes new sense of much of modern physics. He presents a reasoned argument that shows how they are pointing towards the one thing science has always avoided considering – the primary nature of consciousness.
This documentary basically seeks answers for these questions: What is consciousness? How could consciousness arise from matter? Paradigm shifts in science. The materialist meta paradigm. A new meta paradigm. Consciousness is in everything. Everything is in consciousness. Matter is a mental construct. Relativity and light’s point of view. Light lies beyond space, time and matter. Photons and the quantum of action. Parallels between light and consciousness. Consciousness as the fundamental reality. The mystical experience of consciousness. Who am I? What is the self? The meeting of science and spirit.
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As soon as he said that remote viewing, reincarnation and healing are all problems/anomalies that science has not explained, and are on the same level as the ‘anomaly’ of consciousness…. my Baloney Detection Kit went off. Watch it… but keep in mind Peter Russell ‘studied’ with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. This is not where the forefront of consciousness science research is at the moment, so watch with skepticism.
Both remote viewing and healing have been studied in scientific trials, by scientists, a couple decades ago. Both studies got very promising results.
I would recommend the book ‘The Field’ by Lynne McTaggart. She outlines many different studies that have been done under rigorous scientific protocol, looking at the abilities of our individual consciousness to alter and interact with the world around us (telepathy, remote viewing, healing, etc). All the scientists looking at this got excellent results, but have been shunned by the scientific community at large. And these studies were being done decades ago.
I didn’t have a problem yet with him mentioning reincarnation & remote viewing, they’re neither proven nor ruled out in my book. Skepticism is not out of place anyway… he said much of what I feel to be true about consciousness but had trouble to express, that it is more fundamental than anything in the universe. Brilliant, for the most part… up to the final 5 minutes or so when he comes to “god”. Over one hour: a great, insightful lecture. The final few minutes: simply BS.
Very interesting speech! We are consciousness.
Very good speech, thanks for sharing it with us. I really enjoyed the historical part of it, especially the Planck’s quote. I didn’t know it, but unfortunately, it’s still quite an accurate description of how science is done. Of course things change now with internet and servers like arxiv.org, but not without the help of Nature, as bad as it sounds.
As for light – it is electromagnetic radiation – so even if in its own frame of reference the proper time is zero, in our frame of reference, which is important to us, that proper time is not zero. It is important part of many physical processes, so we shouldn’t forget about its very practical value.
And I really failed to understand the connection between light and consciousness. Even if I share most of the beliefs in the talk, still, this was kind of unclear to me.
But the talk was very good, especially the last 5 minutes. I second them completely.
P.S. I’m kind of surprised on the places people laughed at.