Final Nudge...

Seminar on the continuity of consciousness starts today!

Final reminder that my new online seminar, Crossing the Threshold: Realms of Consciousness beyond Physical Death starts today at noon EST / 9 am PST / 6 pm CET (get tickets here.) Use the code LATEBIRD for 15% off ticket price at www.theliminalinstitute.com .

The focus of today’s session:

From Scientific Materialism to Monistic Idealism

Scientific materialism derived from the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm that postulated an independent physical world, where consciousness, through the random evolution of species, developed as an accidental byproduct of increasing biological complexity. However, through experiment, quantum physics discovered that consciousness, not matter, is the basis of reality. A definable world only comes into being when an observer makes an observation. What we experience as physical reality emerges from the infinite source field or plenum of consciousness. The new paradigm — explored by diverse thinkers including Amit Goswami, Robert Lanza, Rudolf Steiner, Edgar Mitchell, and more — can be called “monistic idealism.” 

For physicist Amit Goswami:

“The consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being. Therefore, consciousness is unitive. There is only one subject-consciousness, and we are that consciousness.”

According to Robert Lanza:

“Some may imagine that there are two worlds, one “out there” and a separate one being cognized inside the skull. But the “two worlds” model is a myth. Nothing is perceived except the perceptions themselves, and nothing exists outside of consciousness.”

In Signs of Reincarnation, James Matlock notes:

“There is only one substance and that is consciousness.”

Monistic idealism — the new world revealed by quantum physics — allows us to make scientific hypotheses about the workings of reincarnation, the subtle bodies and energy systems, and, potentially, the existence of an afterlife. Once this is generally understood and accepted, it will be possible to supersede scientific materialism and establish a new coherent worldview which allows for psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and the afterlife. As we integrate such subjects into an expanded scientific worldview, they will be made a focus for further investigation. As we supersede scientific materialism and embrace monistic idealism, our priorities as a species will also change radically. 

Some ideas we will be discussing in today’s session:

“The sufficient reason for the existence of the human creature is the capacity to think; not to think just anything, but to think about what matters, and finally, about what alone matters. Man is the only being on earth able to foresee death and to desire survival; the only being who desires to know — and is capable of knowing — the why of the world ... No one can deny that it is in the fundamental nature of man to ask himself these questions and to have, in consequence, the right to answers; and further, to have access to them, precisely by virtue of this right, whether through Revelation or through Intellection, each of these sources of knowledge acting according to its own laws and within the framework of the conditions that correspond to it.” — Fritjof Schuon

“In the “in-itself ” there is nothing of “causal connections,” of “necessity,” or of “psychological non-freedom”; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or “law.” It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed “in itself,” we act once more as we have always acted—mythologically.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope to see you at noon!

Kind regards,

Daniel