Is Consciousness the Unified Field? A Field Theorist's Perspective - John Hagelin, SAND11

John Hagelin, Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy Director of the Board of Advisors for the David Lynch Foundation

Progress in theoretical physics during the past decade has led to a progressively more unified understanding of the laws of nature, culminating in the recent discovery of completely unified field theories based on the superstring. These theories identify a single universal, unified field at the basis of all forms and phenomena in the universe. At the same time, cutting-edge research in the field of neuroscience has revealed the existence of a unified field of consciousness‚ a fourth major state of human consciousness, which is physiologically and subjectively distinct from waking, dreaming and deep sleep. In this meditative state, the threefold structure of waking experience‚ the observer, the observed and the process of observation‚ are united in one indivisible wholeness of pure consciousness.

These parallel discoveries of a unified field of physics and a unified field of consciousness raise fundamental questions concerning the relationship between the two. We present compelling theoretical and experimental evidence that the unified field of physics and the unified field of consciousness are identical‚ i.e. that during the meditative state, human awareness directly experiences the unified field at the foundation of the universe.

We show that the proposed identity between consciousness and the unified field may indeed be required to account for experimentally observed field effects of consciousness. We present the findings of a National Demonstration Project‚ the largest controlled sociological experiment in history‚ in which 4,000 advanced meditators markedly reduced violent crime in Washington, DC. We briefly explore the practical applications of proven meditative procedures for developing total brain functioning, higher states of consciousness‚ preventing social conflict and promoting peace on a national and global scale.

[michaeldique]

Are we finally seing the beginning of a new paradigm where science can combine the illusory material world with the realm of pure consciousness here? Bravo!!!

[Favourites]

prior to objective knowledge I knew this. It is a natural understanding beyond  thought. It is the source of the philosophies and sciences.

[ratty]

Austin Powers understands this stuff when he says "It's all just one big groovy happening baby."

[lightcatcher]

ultimately, the answers to what is consciousness are found when a person investigates their own awareness by going within.  to see without eyes, hear without ears, feel within and at a distance.  this is called in the Eastern tradition, Knowledge,   direct experience  as the saying goes from the upon experiencing the infinite reality, the foolish become wise and the wise become silent"   similar to perceiving sublime beauty, when the mind becomes completely still, in awe.    and then begins expansion.. just as a colored drop slowly dissolves into the ocean of clear water, it loses it's color until it is just a tincture.   every being that dissolves back into that sublime reality brings a little color, a little 'personality', to the infinite field.
 

[litwriter]

That is in particular the interpretation of Advaita Vedanta, the predominate philosophical school of Hinduism as espoused by Shankara, the school’s greatest philosopher. The entire thrust of linking QM with AV was initiated by the physicist Fritjof Capra in his 1975 book The *Tao of Physics*. Some “New Age” drivel has emerged from this, but some respectable physicists take it seriously. See Amit Goswami, for example. He has several YT video lectures as well as books on the subject.

[MUSTAVATUG]

The equation you are all looking for is simple ...

D + M + T

[MALCURIA]

God = unified field = universal super-consciousness.

[Adamkww]

So is this unified field basically what many people would call source energy, or God?

[Paddyllfixit]

from Eastern mystics to Quantum Mechanics, fundamentally there is no Reality, only perception. Or, the subjective world is more "real" than the objective world. There is a whole world within each one of us. Or God Is Within.

[PhanteusZ]

We will never complete the puzzle because all models make what seems to me to be a faulty assumption: they assume that anything complex and intelligent can be explained by dumber and simpler parts. For example, that consciousness comes from jumping electrons or something smaller, or that particles are made of simpler particles or strings or anything tinier. It may be the other way around, and that matter evolves out of consciousness as described in ancient Indian wisdom
-Fred Alan Wolf phD.

[clockworkcookie]

This is amazing. I'm too humbled by these concepts to say with certainty if they are true or false, but I love just entertaining the idea.

[DLBurggraf]

You can know it but you cannot express it.
But John comes close.

[khaefhun]

State of pure consciousness called Samati = สมาธิ (Thai)
what a great discovery for myself!!! I've been knowing it for all of my life but never thought of how powerful it is until now!!

[continentalgin]

Synchronicity is proof. "Looking through a glass onion..." --- John Lennon

[bigox]

At that time there were two Bhikshus who were discussing the topic of the wind and a flag. One said, “The wind is moving.” The other said, “The flag is moving.” They argued incessantly. Hui Neng stepped forward and said, “The wind is not moving, nor is the flag. Your minds, Kind Sirs, are moving.” (Zen Master Huineng's Platform Sutra)

Praise and blame unmoved, looking at the courtyard's flowers bloom and fall.
Come and go unattached, beholding the sky's clouds roll and unfold.

[bigox]

Yin=0, yang=1, yin=vagina, yang=penis, to get turned on push 1, so 1 is yang is heaven is dad, to enable joint harmony needs 0 is yin is earth is mom. When the on-off power symbol (line within a circle) is pushed magnificence arises, giving birth to standby symbol (line partially within a broken circle) and thus I was born, between heaven and earth I stand, yin within yang, yang within yin, the infinite multiverse and internet, big without outside small without inside, this is the way of taichi.

[bigox]

"The Buddha once asked the future Buddha Maitreya (founder of Consciousness Only or Yogacara School) when the mind has a thought, how many thoughts and how many intentions and consciousnesses are there? Maitreya said, 'The instant of flicking a finger, there is 320 trillion thoughts (micro thoughts), thought after thought create matter (material world.), every matter has consciousness (spiritual, informational), it is extremely fast, thus should not be attached.'" 1.28 quadrillion frames/sec.

[hirak]

Yeah, because he is clearly a Hindu :) In my opinion he completely lost it somewhere after the middle, when he identified physics with consciousness based on structural similarity with vedic scripture.

[OneMove]

So where can i find about these transcendental meditation techniques?

[StephenCRose]

Limitations of binary thinking. Thought versus the rest of it.