Quantum Paranormal 002 (The Mind Body Delima)
~Written By Don S. Wilson~
    In order for me to start the ball rolling as far as regarding quantum physics and its relationship to paranormal research, I must mention that I am not trying to empress on anyone anything other than theory on my part. I feel that a good place to start this study is with the living, not the dead, for it is within us all that clues about the other side are found.
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    For years scientists and philosophers have been trying to understand where human consciousness resides, where long term memory is stored, and what effect our emotions have on our thought process. Until more recent years, it was thought that the consciousness or soul, along with our long term memory resided within our brain. Indeed, around the turn of the last century some experiments were conducted to find out if the soul actually had a measurable mass. Theory was that the body contained the soul and that at the time of death, the soul would leave the body, thereby producing a weight loss of the body that could be measured.
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    A respected surgeon of the day, a Dr. Dunkin MacDougall who happened to know of a few consumptive patents, devised the idea that if you weigh a person at the time of death you should be able to see a difference in weight at the moment the soul leaves the body. Although he claimed that there was a sudden loss of twenty-one grams at the time of death, skeptics at the time attributed the weight loss to insensible perspiration, or rapid evaporation of body fluids excremented at the time of death. Its intresting to note that many of these experiments were performed over the years with both animals as well as humans, and in the case of humans, to this day no weight loss has ben reported. However according to a report by a Lewis E. Hollander, Who performed this same experiment with goats and sheep in 2000, reported a temporary gain. So what are we to make of these conflicting results?
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    Enter: Quantum Physics. Most people today are familiar with the term zero point energy or zero point field. It is talked about widely on science programs about the universe and physics. But just in case you haven’t heard of it, I will explain in quick simple language.The zero point field or ZPF is basically a sea of quantum particles in a total electromagnetic state, that consists of trillions of resonant frequencies that vibrate in wave patterns randomly like the surface of an ocean. The ZPF is the source of all the energy in the universe and is where all expended energy returns.
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    If we understand that the brain is a physical organ and the mind/soul is a non-physical entity, it becomes fairly easy to place the soul as a resident of the ZPF. Think of the soul as a hard drive so to speak. Think of the brain as a receiver that does what the soul tells it to do by way of a spirit rope or cord we call consciousness. The brain simply keeps our bodies functioning by telling our hart to beat, it tells us when to eat and so on. Our soul stores all of our memories, and lends them to us as needed. It regulates our emotions, and allows us to put our life before someone else’s.It justifies our personalities and tells us when we need to fight for our lives. The soul also knows when its time give up the battle. The spirit rope is responsible for delivering these messages back and forth between the brain and soul. When the time comes, the soul will tell the spirit rope to disconnect from the brain and leave the physical body behind. “This is called crossing over”
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    It is perfectly logical to believe that both the living souls as well as the ones who have crossed over reside in the same ZPF. Next time I will discuss how this works during a paranormal event, and maybe open the door on some serious thought about why these events happen the way they do.
Don,
I’ve been watching and waiting for someone to tackle this subject in such a rational and thoughtful manner. Excellent job!
I think it is important to note that memory has been shown to be quite physically based, e.g. a series of activations of specific neuronal pathways–permanent physical changes in the brain brought about by a series of chemical reactions, then differentiation in structure and pathways that represent memory (and learning). These effects are roughly visible via some of the neuro-imaging devices. And, there is every indication that the field of neuro-imagery will continue to improve. We will soon be able to actually ‘see’ memories.
But, even the most advanced imaging device will probably never really be able to show us what the memory really is. We may be able to get a good picture of it, but whether the person is thinking of an apple or an orange, or the smell of the ocean on a sunny summer day, is something that only that the specific person exhibiting the memory can tell us.
There is always going to be something beyond physical structure and function as you so succinctly put forth. I’m very interested in how you feel about quantum physics assertion of multiple dimensions and how this plays into the overall situation, but that’s another day.
Anyway, heavy stuff my friend.
Bobby Elgee; Sights Unseen Paranormal
Bobby Elgee,
Thank you for your comments. It would be easy for me to understand how a neuro-imaging device could show a travel path along the neuronal pathway and those chemical reactions you refer to are the result of the communications along that path telling the brain what to do.
At some point there must be a junction, a point when the spirit/soul effects a physical reality, or the brain. what you are seeing on a neuro-imaging device may well be this juction. However, I must wonder if this is only half of the story because this device can only measure the physical not the spirit. Could this give the impression that memory is stored in the brain?
I would think that in order to tell if a person is thinking of an apple or an orange we would have to be able to determine what freq. that persons spirit is on. In a sea of trillions of freq. floating in the ZPF. The preverbial heystack from hell…LOL.
We are talking about frequencies that we can’t even get with our tech. today. Or should I say you or I do not have access to such a divice.
As far as multiple dimensions, This is what I see in my studies of the quantum…
If we take the apple/orange approach you mentioned before. In order for me to be able to choose between one or the other, both posssibilities must exist. Maybe I will choose both, so that is a third possibility, or maybe I will take nither. So in all four choices are possible.
In order for those choices to exist at least four seperate universes or dimensions must exist.
A wave fuction,,,Once the choice is made the other three choices will collapse. Wave function collapse, and reality for you will seamlessly go on. But the theroy goes on to say that you or I made all those choices in seperate dimensions, and each one is just as real as the one we experience from our perspective.
The mind body delima and M-theory, or string theory is what I base my research on. So far it has worked well for me.
Don S. wilson
The “binding principle” is what you are referring to whereby the mind is connected (or bound) to the body by some mechanism. From our own consciousness we know that the mind does inhabit the body when we are awake. What happens when we sleep is up to interpretation. During sleep we are no longer fully conscious and ideas enter our minds that we did not deliberatly put there. Where do these ideas (i.e. dreams) come from? Are they just mismashed thought forms created in our brains? I doubt it as dreams tend to have very strong elements of reality in them and not utter nonsense. There IS something that organizes our dreams and makes them seem real enough to us.
EMFs on the brain are one theory towards resolving the binding principle. Measuring brain waves and fields at various stages of consciousness is not new. Alertness, sleep, and mental illness have been demonstrated by monitoring the distinct brain waves of each. Clearly EMF has a LOT to do with our consciousness and our mental functioning.
One reason why so many people use EMF meters to investigate paranormal phenomena is the idea that ghosts may be stray EMFs without bodies. The trouble is that we have no way to prove that the mind or any EMF for that matter can exist without a source to generate and sustain it. Just like batteries store energy, magnets produce EMF, etc., there is always a physical basis for the observed phenomena. Energy does not simply linger. It returns to the lowest energy state (i.e. ground) very rapidly. How then would an EMF from one’s brain survive after death and continue to interact with the world? It would seem more likely that the consciousness could somehow travel or linger away from the body while one was still alive as the body would continue to be the source of the EMF.
Here’s a wild idea. Could our dreams actually “play out” in the real world with our stray consciousnesses acting like ghosts? Could others “experience” our dreams in real life and think that they had just seen a ghost?