Pseudoscientific theorist, author and reporter Graham Hancock, whom I respect greatly, shared his opinions on consciousness, saying the following:
"Within our brains are mysterious minds, we have the capacity to re-tune the receiver wavelength of the brain, and to pick up other realities which are there, but which are normally not accessible to our senses or to our scientific instruments. So what I'm suggesting is that supernatural experiences are another modality of perception. Just as we have eyes and ears, and we feel things and taste things, that there is another modality of perception that allows us to tune in, if you like, to other dimensions and this can happen spontaneously to people, some people's brain chemistry is such that they can just spontaneously, in an instant, at the drop of a hat, tune into the supernatural realm.
Others of us may be affected by the atmosphere or environment in a particular place, and this is what I think has a lot to do with haunted houses, that that will have an effect on our consciousness that will allow us to access these other realms of being. And last but not least, the shamanic cultures, shamans from tribal hunter-gatherer cultures around the world for thousands of years, and this is where the Amazon is really important, because the Amazon is still a home to ancient shamanism. Those shamans have developed a variety of techniques, among which are the uses of visionary plants, that we call hallucinogens in the West. A variety of techniques which will re-tune the receiver-wavelengths of the brain and allow us to make contact with, what has traditionally been called the spirit world, the spirit realm, and allow us to make contact repeatedly and in a testable and reliable way with those other realms.
And shamans are the masters of these technologies. It isn't only hallucinogenic plants, it's also rhythmic dancing, certain kinds of music, fasting for forty days will put you into a visionary state. Our scientists who are rooted and grounded in the materialist paradigm, which says that there is nothing more to the world than the material reality, our scientists who think that these visions, these so-called hallucinations, are just illusions of the brain, cooked up in the brain, they haven't considered the possibility that the brain may be a far more sophisticated instrument than we imagine..."
To me, even though this is just his theory and opinion, this is the only and ultimate truth, as far as something can be called "truth" at all. Our minds are indeed capable of much, much more than we think they are, and it is only when we dive headfirst into the depths of our subconsciousness and experience a complete ego dissolution that we can truly start having a grasp at that possibility.
What are your opinions on consciousness. Where do you think it comes from? What creates it? And what IS it?
"Within our brains are mysterious minds, we have the capacity to re-tune the receiver wavelength of the brain, and to pick up other realities which are there, but which are normally not accessible to our senses or to our scientific instruments. So what I'm suggesting is that supernatural experiences are another modality of perception. Just as we have eyes and ears, and we feel things and taste things, that there is another modality of perception that allows us to tune in, if you like, to other dimensions and this can happen spontaneously to people, some people's brain chemistry is such that they can just spontaneously, in an instant, at the drop of a hat, tune into the supernatural realm.
Others of us may be affected by the atmosphere or environment in a particular place, and this is what I think has a lot to do with haunted houses, that that will have an effect on our consciousness that will allow us to access these other realms of being. And last but not least, the shamanic cultures, shamans from tribal hunter-gatherer cultures around the world for thousands of years, and this is where the Amazon is really important, because the Amazon is still a home to ancient shamanism. Those shamans have developed a variety of techniques, among which are the uses of visionary plants, that we call hallucinogens in the West. A variety of techniques which will re-tune the receiver-wavelengths of the brain and allow us to make contact with, what has traditionally been called the spirit world, the spirit realm, and allow us to make contact repeatedly and in a testable and reliable way with those other realms.
And shamans are the masters of these technologies. It isn't only hallucinogenic plants, it's also rhythmic dancing, certain kinds of music, fasting for forty days will put you into a visionary state. Our scientists who are rooted and grounded in the materialist paradigm, which says that there is nothing more to the world than the material reality, our scientists who think that these visions, these so-called hallucinations, are just illusions of the brain, cooked up in the brain, they haven't considered the possibility that the brain may be a far more sophisticated instrument than we imagine..."
To me, even though this is just his theory and opinion, this is the only and ultimate truth, as far as something can be called "truth" at all. Our minds are indeed capable of much, much more than we think they are, and it is only when we dive headfirst into the depths of our subconsciousness and experience a complete ego dissolution that we can truly start having a grasp at that possibility.
What are your opinions on consciousness. Where do you think it comes from? What creates it? And what IS it?
