Ancient Science of Death and Rebirth
Ancient Science of Death and Rebirth
Ancient Science of Death and Rebirth
Science of Death
and Rebirth
By Anonymous
The Ancient Science of Death and Rebirth
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Table of Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................1
1. Who Dies?..................................................................................3
What is Death?...........................................................................3
What is Life? ..............................................................................5
The Living Force........................................................................6
Which Body Part is Alive? .......................................................8
Matter versus Life .....................................................................9
Recycled Matter.......................................................................11
Brain Recognition....................................................................13
The Elderly Contradiction .....................................................15
Emotional Chemistry? ............................................................16
The Observer............................................................................23
Genetic Anomaly.....................................................................27
The Inner Self...........................................................................35
2. The Death of the Mind..........................................................37
Mind versus Self......................................................................37
What is the Mind? ...................................................................39
Where is the Mind? .................................................................42
Mind Science............................................................................48
The Mind-Brain Bridge...........................................................52
Microtubules ............................................................................71
Memory ....................................................................................73
Subconsciousness ....................................................................92
Mental Death ...........................................................................94
Mind Games.............................................................................96
Mental Escape........................................................................102
3. Living after Death ................................................................107
Clinical Death ........................................................................107
Out of Body Experiences......................................................109
Transmigration ......................................................................111
In Between Lives ...................................................................115
The Ancient Knowledge.......................................................118
The Evolution of the Self ..................................................... 123
4. Becoming Free...................................................................... 133
Nirvana? Enlightenment? ................................................... 133
Our Need for Love ............................................................... 136
Where is Real Love?............................................................. 139
Where is Heaven?................................................................. 141
So Where is Hell?.................................................................. 147
The Perfect Love ................................................................... 160
Attachment and Learning ................................................... 162
Returning Home................................................................... 170
For the Skeptics..................................................................... 172
5. The Pain of Death................................................................ 181
The Anatomy of Pain ........................................................... 181
Tolerating Pain...................................................................... 183
Detaching from Pain ............................................................ 190
Numbing the Pain ................................................................ 195
6. Our Time for Death ............................................................ 199
The Biological Necessity of Death...................................... 199
A Timely Message ................................................................ 204
What Happens when My Body Dies? ............................... 213
Managing our Body’s Death ............................................... 217
Our Death Bed ...................................................................... 222
References and Bibliography................................................ 231
Index .......................................................................................... 249
Introduction
Every body dies. Each and every physical body comes to a
point where it is no longer operable.
Yet most of us avoid the topic of death as though death could
be avoided. As though death affects only some of us. As though
some of us will somehow be able to dodge death, and only the
unfortunate ones die.
When one of our relatives dies, we are shocked. It is as
though it was never supposed to happen. Why did they have to
be taken? As if the person who died should have never died.
As if none of us are supposed to die.
This book is about the reality of death. It is also a scientific
foray into our real identities: Who are we, and what dies?
When one of our family members dies, we often will say,
“they are in a better place.” As their body lies before us in a casket,
devoid of life, we pledge to our family that they are “out there”
somewhere. Why are we clinging onto their life? Why must we
be insistent that they are gone even though their body lies in
front of us? And where is “out there?”
These are some of the many incongruities we find in our cul-
ture pertaining to death and identity. There are many, many
other incongruities.
These are questions that take us into the realm of not only
identity, but purpose. These questions, quite simply, are the es-
sential questions of life. These are questions for which the an-
swer cannot be vague or blurry. The answers must be clear. They
must be scientific. They must be logical.
Here we will resolve these questions logically and scientifi-
cally. Here we will solve the riddle of death and just who is dy-
ing. We will also resolve the whys of death:
Why me? Why my wife or my husband? Why do we die and why
are we born?
And most importantly, we will resolve the question of where
we go: We will clarify, scientifically, what really is “out there.”
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Chapter One
Who Dies?
Death is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a
permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life.” Therefore,
to understand death, we need to understand when the life of the
body ends. We also need to determine what life is.
What is Death?
From a medical perspective, death has become nebulous. The
conventional determination of death for many centuries was the
stoppage of the heartbeat and the cessation of breath. In other
words, once the heart stopped, and breathing stopped, the body
was officially dead. And the time of death was recorded as the
moment the breath and pulse stopped.
With the advent of new lifesaving techniques has come the
ability to revive a person who stopped breathing. With CPR we
can now manually restart the heart. CPR means cardiopulmon-
ary resuscitation: Cardio refers to the heart and blood vessels,
and pulmonary refers to breathing. So CPR means to bring the
body that has stopped breathing or pumping blood back to life.
The technique itself is basic: Begin breathing into the body’s
lungs at intervals to keep oxygen in the body—called rescue
breathing—and periodically compress the chest to keep blood
circulating. A Red Cross first aid course is recommended for
further detail.
CPR is intended to circulate oxygen and blood to organs and
tissues around the body until further medical treatment is avail-
able. This is because the body cannot typically be revived if the
cells around the body, especially the brain, are not bathed in a
constant flow of nutrients and oxygen. Once cells are cut off
from nutrients, necrosis begins to take hold. Necrosis is the dy-
ing of the cells.
While some cells around the body can die without the whole
body dying, the cells of the brain—especially those among the
brain stem—are sensitive to necrosis. Once these neuron cells
die, the whole body shuts down abruptly, followed by death.
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What is Life?
This is the big question. We know the body dies. We can eas-
ily observe that the body no longer functions. Regardless of
which outward signs and symptoms we use, there is a dramatic
change in the body at the time of death. The body ceases func-
tion. The body ceases the display of life and the outward demon-
stration of personality.
Where did this personality go then? Did it disappear into
thin air? Did it evaporate with the final breath? Did this person-
ality die with the death of the body?
Before we can fully understand death, we must understand
life. What is a live person, and what is the difference between life
and death? What is the difference between a dead body and a
live body, and how is the personality we know and hold dear
connected with life?
This means we must delve into the source of the energy and
life of the body. Where is the generator of the body? Who or
what is running the body? This certainly relates to the concept of
identity: Are we each simply a temporary physical body? Are we
simply cellular machines that decompose after a few decades?
If we ask someone who they are, they will most likely de-
scribe their body’s physical features. Or perhaps their body‘s
country of origin. They might say “I am American;” “I am
black;” or “I am five feet tall, weigh 125 lbs, and female with
brown eyes.” The logical question here is: Am I this physical
body? If so, what happens if the body gains 100 lbs of weight or
becomes disfigured? Does my identity change?
Most of us assume that our identity runs deeper than our
physical body. A person with a black body wants equality with a
person with a white body because that person considers that
beneath the skin, we are all of the same substance. Similarly, an
obese person wants to be treated equally with someone of a
more slender stature. Why would we request equality unless we
are assuming we have deeper identities?
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As science has debated this topic, there have been two gen-
eral views (Popper and Eccles 1983): The first assumes a ma-
chine-like information-processing generating system with
various modules of activity, all competing for control. This
“chaos-machine” theoretically builds upon a system of learning
and evolution without any central person or actor.
The other, more prevalent view historically, portrays the
body as driven by an inner self or life force, central and govern-
ing to the body’s existence. Among proponents of this inner self
model, there is also some debate regarding the characteristics of
the inner self. Some suggest it is a small part of the living organ-
ism. They refer to the “soul” as a type of “moral organ.” Others
refer to the soul as part of some kind of trinity: “body, mind and
spirit.” Still others consider the inner self as the central compo-
nent of life. Debate on this topic continues, but empirical re-
search data clarifies the conclusion.
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gic and quadriplegic rights are protected by law; and why Dr.
Steven Hawking, a quadriplegic, is considered one of the today’s
foremost theoretical physicists despite his physical handicaps.
He is regarded as no less of a person than the rest of us. Physi-
cally disabled people are given equal rights because society con-
siders these persons equal in all respects, despite deficiencies in
their physical bodies.
The physical organs illustrate the same logic. It is now com-
monplace in medicine to surgically remove and replace organs
such as kidneys, livers, hearts, hips and other parts in order to
preserve the healthy functioning of the body. Some parts—like
hearts and hip sockets—are now replaced with artificial ver-
sions. Modern medicine has illustrated through many years of
organ transplants that a person’s identity does not travel with
the organ. Otherwise, we might have—as a few comedic theatri-
cal performances have suggested—people whose personalities
reflect their organ donors. Imagine what would happen if some-
one receiving a heart transplant assumed part of the personality
of the dead donor. We’d truly have a mess on our hands.
This situation is analogous to an auto accident: A car is in-
volved in an accident and brought to an auto mechanic. The me-
chanic determines that the car needs a new set of tires, a new set
of bumpers put on, and the engine rebuilt before the car can be
put back on the road. The driver waits for the repairs to be com-
pleted, and then gets back in the car and drives it away. The new
car parts do not affect the driver.
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Recycled Matter
Throughout its physical lifetime, our body is continually
changing, yet we continue to maintain our core identity and con-
sciousness. Research has shown all living cells in the body have
a finite lifespan, ranging from minutes to days to years. A few
cells—such as certain bone marrow stem cells and brain cells—
may exist through the duration of the body.
There are only a handful of these cells compared to the esti-
mated 200 trillion cells making up the body, however. By far the
vast majority of cells in the body will participate in cell division.
Following division, older cells time out. They are broken down
by the immune system and discarded, leaving the newly divided
cells in their place. Using this process the body constantly
sloughs off older cells from the body, replacing them with new
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Brain Recognition
One might propose that since we have yet to transplant
someone’s brain maybe we are the brain. Most of us have heard
of the famous neurosurgical experiments first documented by
Dr. Wilder Penfield, where he stimulated the temporal cortex
and stimulated particular memories during brain surgery. These
results and their confirmations left scientists with an impression
that life must reside in the brain since emotional memories were
stimulated with the electrode testing.
This assumption is disputed by other brain research over the
past fifty years on both humans and animals, however. The as-
sumption that the emotional self is contained in the brain has
been conflicted by the many cases of emotions and memory fol-
lowing the removal of brain parts and even a majority of the
brain. Mishkin (1978) documented that the removal of either the
amygdala or the hippocampus did not severely impair memory.
Mumby et al. (1992) determined that memory was only mildly
affected in rats with hippocampus and amygdala lesions.
According to a substantial review done by Vargha-Khadem
and Polkey (1992), numerous hemidecortication surgeries—the
removal of half the brain—had been conducted for a number of
disorders. In a majority of these cases, cognition and brain func-
tion continued uninterrupted. A few cases even documented an
improvement in cognition. Additionally, in numerous cases of
intractable seizures, where substantial parts of brain have been
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Emotional Chemistry?
Over recent years, various researchers have proposed from
one basis or another that our identities are chemical. They have
proposed that emotions and personality are seated within the
chemicals (such as hormones and neurotransmitters) that flow
through the bloodstream, basal cell network and the synapses of
our nervous systems. Could our identities simply be a mixture of
complex chemicals? A logical review of the scientific evidence
would indicate otherwise.
Emotional responses to environmental stimuli will initiate
any number of biochemical cascade pathways to occur within
the body. A cascade occurs when one chemical release stimulates
the release of another biochemical, and that biochemical in turn
stimulates the release of another. The biochemicals in the cas-
cade might stimulate a particular cell, tissue or organ function.
With each cascade, there are initiating stimuli and subsequent
responses from various tissues and nerves.
Because neurologists and other researchers have seen these
biochemicals involved with emotional response, some have pro-
posed that these biochemicals contain the emotion. They propose
that chemicals such as endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, epi-
nephrine, or acetylcholine each contain the particular emotions
they reflect, and are thus the sources of the emotion. They pro-
pose that these signaling biochemicals connect with receptors
positioned at the surface of the cell; and the response by the cell
is the emotion being released from the chemical. An example
some have used is the famed opiate receptor, linked with the cell’s
reception of morphine or endorphins, and the sensation of euph-
oria. The idea is that the feeling of euphoria is produced when
the ligands like endorphin connect with the receptor.
One problem with this speculation is that no two organisms
respond identically to the same chemical. With opiates for ex-
ample, some may hallucinate while others may only respond
casually. On the other hand, some may have nightmarish experi-
ences. If these structurally identical neurochemicals contained the
emotion, why would each person respond differently to the
same chemical and dose?
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steer the car. Rather, there is a driver within the car who con-
sciously turns the key and drives the car to a particular destina-
tion using the steering wheel, accelerator, and brakes. The driver
initiates the flow of fuel through the injection system. The driver
can also stop the flow of fuel by turning off the car.
When the driver of the body leaves at the time of death, there
are no emotions exhibited in the dead body. Yet all the hor-
mones, neurotransmitters, genes and cells—all the biochemical
ligands and receptors—are still contained within the recently
dead body. The body supports no memory or emotional re-
sponse because there is no longer a conscious driver present. The
conscious driver who drove the feedback and response neuro-
chemistry has left.
Emotions elicited from a response to an observation or other
sensual stimuli would logically come from someone separate
from those stimuli. Because emotion is integral with interpreting
stimuli, an observer would be necessary for that interpretation.
Without an observer, there could be no decision-making: There
would be no optional behavior.
This does not mean that all physiological responses require
conscious interpretation and decision from the self. For example,
should we touch the burner of a stove there is programming in
place within the neural network to instantly react by pulling the
hand away. This will often happen before the self has a chance to
make a decision.
However, this programming does not mean the self cannot
engage in the decision to resist that reaction of pulling away. A
firewalker may intentionally walk on the coals despite his sym-
pathetic system’s programmed response to jump away onto the
cool sand. These observations lead us to understand that the self
can be involved in almost any sensory reception should there be
determination and intention.
Most other stimuli requires the emotional self to respond.
Otherwise, no action would occur. This is where intention comes
in. Upon hearing the alarm in the morning, the self could choose
to do nothing—lying in bed for the rest of the day. The self could
also intend to accomplish something that day, and rise to begin
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the day’s activities. Ultimately, the self creates the intention and
impetus for those activities.
While biochemicals participate in the process of conscious
response and feedback, they are actually conductors for electro-
magnetic wave transmissions. Once sensual stimuli are pulsed to
the neural network after ligand reception, neurons produce spe-
cific information waves. As we will discuss later in more depth,
at any particular point in time, there are billions of brainwaves of
various frequencies moving through the brain.
As the different waves collide—or interfere—they create dif-
ferent types of interference patterns. The neurological research
headed up by Dr. Robert Knight at the University of California
at Berkeley and UC at San Francisco illustrated that the interac-
tion of these interference patterns together formulate a type of
informational transmission and mapping system.
This mapping system forms a type of observational screen
from which the self can view incoming waveform information.
Using this mapping system, the self can view the sensory infor-
mation coming in from sense organs, and combine these with the
feedback from the body, creating a total perception of ones envi-
ronment and situation.
As the self views these waveform interference pattern im-
ages, we can respond with intention. Intention from the self is
typically translated through the prefrontal cortex and medial
cortex to create brainwave patterns that express the self’s re-
sponse. These response brainwave patterns are translated
through the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to produce mas-
ter hormones such as growth hormone, adrenocorticortropic
hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, oxytocin, luteinizing
hormone, and others, stimulating the cascade of biochemicals
that translate the response into action. The brainwave transmis-
sions also stimulate a particular nervous system response which
activate particular muscles, organs and other tissues. The end
result is a physical action combined with certain biochemicals
that stimulate a physical response.
We can illustrate this process more practically. Let’s say that
we heard from a friend that a relative was hurt. The transmission
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The Observer
Consider biofeedback. Sensors are attached to various parts
of the body to monitor physical responses like heart rate, breath-
ing, brainwaves, skin response, muscle activity, and so on. These
sensors are connected to a computer, which displays the various
response levels onto a monitor for the subject to see. The heart
rate amplitude and frequency readings will be displayed on the
monitor in waves, bars, and/or numbers.
With a little practice, most people—once they see their heart
rate with graphics clearly on the monitor—can consciously lower
their heart rate with intention. Biofeedback has thus been used
successfully to teach people to alter physical functions such as
muscle tension, hunger, physical stress, and other autonomic
functions. Biofeedback training also gives the subject the ability
to directly control a variety of physical issues, including stomach
cramps, muscle spasms, headaches, and others—many known to
be part of a biochemical cascade.
The reason why the biofeedback subject can learn to control
certain autonomic functions is that the self ultimately exists out-
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side of these bodily functions. The self is the key participant who
influences physical functions. Once the person intends to make a
change, the mind will facilitate the stimulation of the biochemi-
cals by the appropriate glands to produce a physiological re-
sponse. This can take time, discipline and practice.
Even without biofeedback, a person can initiate various
autonomic responses. Most of us have experienced how a
physiological fear response may be initiated by simply imagin-
ing a dangerous event or situation. This happens every day in
the professional world, where executives stress over events that
may never happen. Stress increases the heart rate and stimulates
stress-biochemical release. Most of us have experienced being
worried about an event that may never happen. The resulting
increase in our heart rate indicates our body’s autonomic re-
sponse to an over-anxious self.
If the self can affect the body’s biochemistry with anxious-
ness, the self is separate from the biochemistry. Furthermore, if
the self can affect the body’s biochemistry intentionally, there is
no question of the self’s ability to direct the body through inten-
tion. The range of control the self has over the body is limited by
design. Still, there is no doubt that intention initiates the se-
quencing of instructional signaling through the body.
This neurochemical process would be analogous to a com-
puter operator operating a computer. A computer will tabulate,
calculate, and memorize data. It will display various graphics
and perform various functions, based upon the input or direc-
tion of the operator. The software and hardware are designed in
such a way to coordinate computer functions very quickly and
automatically within particular limitations.
Regardless of the programming, the operator is required. The
computer operator must decide to turn on the computer and
must decide to input into the machine certain intentional com-
mands to initiate the computer’s programming functions. In the
same way, the physical body, with all of its functional chemistry
and various physical responses, is ultimately being steered by
the personality within: this is the self, the living being—the op-
erator of the body.
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Genetic Anomaly
A newer version of biochemical identity put forth by scien-
tists over the last few decades is the notion that the self is the
genetic information—or DNA—of the body.
The assumption that we are DNA is buried within the theory
that genes accidentally evolved from chemicals. The gene evolu-
tion theory supposes that genes, and life itself, spontaneously
arose from a random pool of chemicals. This theory requires a
process called spontaneous generation. Unlikely as it seems, the
spontaneous generation of life theory was debated by scientists
for hundreds of years, as they observed life seemingly growing
from barren flasks. Finally, Dr. Louis Pasteur refuted spontane-
ous generation by illustrating that this growth was due to the
presence of tiny microorganisms invisible to the naked eye. For
many decades this assumption has continued nonetheless. Many
researchers have attempted to create life from ‘primordial’
chemicals—all without success.
To analyze the likelihood of even one typical protein mole-
cule to have been randomly developed, we can reference Dr.
Francis Crick’s statements in his 1981 book Life Itself: Its Origin
and Nature. Here Dr. Crick calculates that the chance of even one
conservative protein molecule of two hundred amino acids com-
ing into existence is one chance in 10260—the number one with
two hundred and sixty zeros behind it. He furthermore states
that this would be analogous to a billion monkeys typing onto a
billion typewriters and somehow typing one sonnet of Shake-
speare.
The chance of a 1,000-nucleotide chain DNA molecule form-
ing accidentally is more remote. Both Dr. Dawson and Dr. Crick
agree with this. Lester Smith (1975) calculated the probability as
about one in 10600.
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than to have to struggle for survival in the midst of all the envi-
ronmental challenges to staying alive.
A small unicellular organism can be killed by so many envi-
ronmental challenges: Freezing, direct sun exposure and any
number of natural enemies. If there were no distinction between
living or dead chemicals, the path of least resistance would be to
remain dead chemicals. Why try to survive without a benefit for
living? If there were no awareness and desire for survival in the
face of all this resistance, there would be no incentive for genes
to develop and evolve towards greater complexity—the basic
tenet of the evolutionary theory and the ‘survival of the fittest.’
Put more simply, if a living entity could not distinguish itself
from a nonliving entity, there would be no urge to survive.
Without the urge to survive, there would be no motivating factor
to encourage adaptation or mutation. There would be no impe-
tus to evolve because survival is not valuable without an aware-
ness of life.
In his 1977 book The Selfish Gene, Dr. Robert Dawkins pro-
posed that genes themselves somehow became not only selfish
in their orientation, but also somehow acted upon their selfish-
ness. Certainly, we can all agree that in order to become “self-
ish,” there must be a “self.” Without a self, how could something
become selfish? How could there be an orientation towards one-
self without there being a self?
We must also ask, logically, just who would be available to
recognize life in a chemical-based existence? We are being asked
to assume a batch of chemicals developed a state of conscious-
ness, yet there is no individual present the chemicals to be con-
scious of being alive?
The incidental gene theory of life simply has no logical basis.
Genes cannot desire survival. They cannot mutate, or make
changes that promote survival without a conscious self present
within the organism who values life. This living being must be
aware that it is alive, and must therefore value survival. Once
the self values survival, it has a logical basis for making genetic
and physiological adjustments to better adapt to the environ-
ment. Because the self is fundamentally alive when it is inserted
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ton (2007) studied 514 pairs of two to nine year old South Korean
monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Their results indicated that
55% of the children’s pro-social behavior related to genetic fac-
tors and 45% was attributed to non-shared environmental be-
havior. It should also be noted that shared environmental factors
could not be eliminated from the 55%, so this number could well
be higher if shared environments were removed.
In another study from Quebec, Canada (Forget-Dubois et al.
2007), an analysis of 292 mothers demonstrated that maternal
behavior only accounted for a 29% genetic influence at 18
months and 25% at 30 months. In a study of 200 African-
American twins, including 97 identical pairs, genetics accounted
for about 60% of the variance in smoking (Whitfield et al. 2007).
In a study done at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s In-
stitute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (Maes et al. 2007),
a large sampling revealed that individual behavior was only
about 38-40% attributable to genetics, while shared environment
was 18-23% attributable and unshared environmental influences
were attributable in 39-42%. These studies are also confirmed by
others, illustrating a large enough variance from 100% to indi-
cate the presence of an individual personality within each twin.
Distinct identity despite genetic sameness is further evi-
denced by the fact that identical twins will have distinctly differ-
ent fingerprints, irises and other physical traits, despite their
identical genetics. Many twins also differ in handedness and
specific talents. Researchers have found that twins will often
have significantly different lifestyle choices later in life such as
sexual preference, drug abuse, and alcoholism.
For example, say two people purchase the exact same make,
model and year automobile at the same time. Comparing the
two cars in the future will reveal the cars had vastly different
engine lives and mileages. They each had different types of
breakdowns, and different problems. This is because each car
was driven differently. One was likely driven harder than the
other was. One was likely better taken care of than the other
was. They may have been the same make and model, but each
had different owners with different driving habits.
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originate with Aristotle, who described the self with the Latin
telos. Rather than a vague spirit-like organ, telos translates to a
personality with purpose, will, and character. In this context, we
would emphasize that each of us does not possess a soul: each of
us is a soul—accessing the physical plane through a temporary
physical body.
We conclude this discussion with a comment made by the
fifteenth-century physician, Paracelsus:
“The power to see does not come from the eye, the
power to hear does not come from the ear, nor the
power to feel from the nerves; but it is the spirit of man
that sees through the eye, hears with the ear, and feels
by means of the nerves. Wisdom and reason and
thought are not contained in the brain, but belong to
the invisible spirit which feels through the heart and
thinks by means of the brain.”
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ware of the computer—they are the solid objects, while the soft-
ware is the information that instructs the hardware operations.
The software will define how the hardware works, in other
words.
In a computer, the software information is stored on hard
diskettes located within the computer’s hardware. Electromag-
netic pulses are recorded onto the magnetic medium of these
hard disks. This is done through a magnetizing head. Once the
disk information is stored, it can be retrieved using another type
of head—a magnetic reader.
The computer’s operations are ultimately instructed by the
operator, who sits aloof from the computer and its software. The
operator utilizes the computer by staring into the computer
screen while operating a keyboard and mouse. Through the
screen, keyboard and mouse, the operator drives the operations
of the computer. As the operator sends commands through the
keyboard and mouse, the screen indicates the feedback of those
instructions. Through this system, the computer will be driven to
do many complicated tasks, including hunting around the
world-wide web (internet) for all sorts of information, games
and communications with others.
The mind’s software transcends the brain and body just as
the computer’s software transcends the actual hard disk and
other hardware of the computer. Just as the operating system
software provides an interfacing language between the various
hardware devices of the computer, the mind interacts closely
with the limbic system and neural networks of the brain to exe-
cute commands to the body. These commands operate the body
through the means of electromagnetic pulses through neurons.
These electromagnetic pulses through neurons make up a se-
ries of waveforms. A single wave could be compared to a bit,
while a series of interfering waves could be compared to a soft-
ware byte.
Just as the software of the computer must be instructed by an
operator using commands entered through a keyboard and/or
mouse, the mind is ultimately driven by the inner self. The self
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not see any data. We might see a tiny round disk inside of the
drive case—like a miniature CD. If we pulled out the disk from
the case and looked at it, we still would not see any information.
This is because the information is magnetically stored onto the
surface of the disk.
Hard drive disks are coated with a metal alloy like iron oxide
or cobalt alloy. The surface is divided into tiny magnetic regions,
each separated to enable a polarizing of the molecules on the
surface of the disk. A single polar magnetized molecule contains
no information in itself. Nor is the information contained on the
magnetic reader.
The combinations of polarity contain the message, which are
meaningless until they are compiled and converted by the soft-
ware. These on or off permutations must first be arranged into a
sequence code into machine code by a translation program in the
CPU. This code is then translated into operating system instruc-
tions that feed information back to the operator via the monitor.
In the same way, although the physical anatomy of brain
gyrus, neurons and the various organs of the limbic system ap-
pear to contain the information and memory that resonates
through them, they are no more containing our memories than
the metal computer box contains any data. Informational wave-
forms resonate through the neurons, where they are crystallized,
translated and broadcast into the neural net: It is the translation
of the waveform interference patterns that creates the informa-
tion.
The complex exchange of instantaneous waveform pulses
moving through the body is nothing short of astounding. Some
estimate that over six trillion waveform messages per minute are
fired through the nervous system alone—not including the
higher frequency microtubule pulses, the various hormone re-
leases, the intercellular biocommunication and the intracellular
network. These waveforms pulsing through the physical layers
are all sorted for priority and projected through the mind to be
imaged by the self.
Research has illustrated that the left side of the brain is asso-
ciated with the thoughts relating to logic, language, and mathe-
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matics. Meanwhile the right side of the brain has been associated
with art, fantasy, and music. Further to this point of specializa-
tion, certain regions appear to associate with certain mental
skills and particular types of memories.
Auditory communication, for example, is associated with the
temporal lobe, while written motor skills have been linked with
the motor cortex of the frontal lobe. Visual interaction usually
utilizes the occipital lobe. Recent neurological research has con-
firmed that each of these brain functions also run concurrent
with particular types of brainwaves. We also know a hierarchy
of waveforms is slated to each thought-type. The slower waves
like delta and theta tend to accompany sleep and introspection,
while faster waves like beta and gamma waves tend to accom-
pany sensual cognition and information transfer.
This indicates that the inner self’s intentions are expressed
through the mind and brain via these brain waveforms. We can
see this should we gather various opinions from people. While a
group of people may receive the same information through the
senses, a variety of perceptions and conclusions will be made by
each. Even though the mind may meticulously gather incoming
sensory information, the unique self can shape and prioritize this
information through intention.
Scientific research confirms that information is sorted, priori-
tized, organized and prepared for storage after input from the
sensory system. Research illustrates that the visual cortex will
shape and direct spatial visual information as it is being gath-
ered through signaling mechanisms. This process has been
termed retino-cortical mapping (Johnston 1986).
The entire process of the brain and central nervous system
would be impossible without an operator and a power supply
driving the sorting operations of the mind. At the end of the day,
the self is the operator. The mind is the software and the brain is
the CPU. The body is the hardware.
Mind Science
The modern western notions of psychology and mental
health as we know them today have been only recently devel-
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these images. This is located towards the front of the brain, be-
hind and on top of the forehead.
This prefrontal and frontal cortex region provides the gate-
way for the inner self to not only observe the condition of the
body and the environment, but also submit executive orders
through the mind in response. Subsequently, brain researchers
have determined that the frontal lobes are stimulated during the
processing of decisions related to right and wrong, the prioritiza-
tion of consequences, and logical thinking. Through the prefron-
tal region, the self expresses personality and submits executive
orders.
The motor cortex lies just behind the frontal cortex as we
comb back over the head on each side. The motor cortex resides
within a band of neural grey matter (neuron cells) that wrap
around the top of the head on the left and right hemispheres.
Here instructions are conducted through the frontal cortex and
continue a path towards execution. Within the motor cortex re-
side specialized networks of neurons. Each network coordinates
with specific types of motor activity and different aspects of me-
tabolism.
The premotor region contains billions of specialized mirroring
neurons, which reflect and stack the executive decisions trans-
mitted from the frontal cortex. Behind the premotor cortex is the
primary motor cortex. This region contains specialized neurons
able to broadcast specific signals through the neural network to
targeted areas of the body. One group of neurons will submit
instructions to the toes, while another will submit to the feet, and
so on. This organized vertical arrangement of specialized motor
neurons is also referred to as the homunculus motor region, be-
cause each neuron group is connected to different locations
around the body.
While most people have similar homunculus mapping sys-
tems, use the same regions, these motor regions of the brain also
have a significant potential for plasticity. In other words, should
one region of the cortex become damaged or insufficient, another
set of neurons located elsewhere may take over those signaling
activities. This indicates that the brain is a flexible tool for the
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inner self. The person is not the brain or the mind. The person is
the inner operator who is directing the use of the mind and brain
through the facilities offered by the neural network.
Behind the region of the motor cortex is another brain region
called the sensory cortex. The motor cortex has several individual
cortices, and spreads from the top of the head (parietal lobe)
through the back of the head (occipital lobe) and along the sides
(temporal lobe). Among these lobes lie the visual cortex, the audi-
tory cortex, the olfactory cortex, the postcentral gyrus, and the gusta-
tory cortex.
In these respective regions, incoming sensory signals are
translated and processed. The first three cortices—the visual,
auditory and olfactory—are the centers that process the signals
connected to seeing, hearing and smelling, respectively. The
postcentral gyrus processes the sensory signals connected to
touch and balance, while the gustatory cortex processes taste
signals from the tongue. Into each sensory cortex, specialized
neural tracts conduct in and blend waveforms from the sense
organs. The interference patterns of these waveforms blend to-
gether to provide a compiled image for the self to observe.
The limbic system is positioned inside these cortex regions,
towards the center of the brain. The limbic system is made up of
the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, the cingu-
lates, the fomix and the amygdala. Each of these has a slightly
different function, but together they translate waveform data
from the body to observations and memories for the inner self to
perceive. The limbic system’s role is to prioritize and sort this
information according to the intentions of the self.
The hypothalamus and thalamus are the central translation
system for waveforms traveling between the brain and the rest
of the body. They also stimulate endocrine release of hormones
and neurotransmitters, and translate incoming communications
from around the body.
The cingulates are programmed to govern the autonomic
systems such as the heartbeat, breathing, hunger, and so on. The
amygdala, on the other hand, provides a gateway to the lower
neural centers, channeling the self’s focus upon survival into
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fear, anger and other emotions. The hippocampus then sorts and
stacks all this information for memory storage.
The fomix channels the waveform information from the hip-
pocampus through a circuitry of memory processing called the
Papex circuit. Together the limbic system provides a translation
and staging service for waveform information.
We might compare the limbic system to a computer’s operat-
ing system. The software might be stored in a particular location
within the computer. Nevertheless, its programming instructions
govern information translation, assembly, prioritization, storage,
and transmission out to the computer’s peripheral systems.
The brain receives several types of input. The first is called
exteroception, which means information gathered by the five basic
senses of hearing, taste, smell, vision and touch. Interoception is
the reception of signals received by the internal neurons, such as
pain and other feedback responses. The third reception type is
proprioception, which is the internal feedback mechanism gauging
coordinated movements, balance and motor efficiency—often
referred to as kinesthesia. Meanwhile equilibrioception is the feed-
back of motor balance information, which is coordinated with
signals passing through the vestibular system. Nociception is the
reception of pain signals that accompany a threat of damage to
tissues or cells. Finally, thermoception is the sensing of heat or
coldness within the body. Other interoceptions include the sense
of time, the esophageal senses and others. A few other sensations
have been proposed, though most could also be considered a
subset of interoception.
Each of these types of signals is associated with a particular
region of the brain—though most interact in one respect or an-
other within the limbic system and its components. For example,
proprioception appears to be stimulated within the cerebellum.
Thermoception seems to propagate from thermoceptor cells in
the hypothalamus. Nociception is thought to be stimulated
through the anterior cingulated gyrus (part of the cingulates).
As waveforms are stepped up through neural tracts toward
the brain, they are boosted or converted by neural gateways into
waveform configurations that can be managed by the limbic
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In the case of the mind’s web, the viewer and operator is the
inner self. The gateways are the various pathways for waveform
information being received and retained by the billions of brain
cells. The limbic system offers to the inner self a platform where
these information signals can be sorted and compiled.
The inner self uses the sorting facility of the mind to program
the search terms and the priorities for search compilation. Once a
search string is established in acquisition mode, the limbic sys-
tem coordinates a search through the various neuron gateways
to locate waveform information with particular specifications.
The hippocampus is a central locator and search center to the
mind’s web. We might compare it to the placement of informa-
tion throughout a hard disk, or even the assembly of information
by search engine spiders. Located on each side of the brain, in
the temporal lobes, information from the senses and the body
are converted by the hippocampus through a complex staging
process.
As was first published in a 1957 report by Scoville and
Milner and later confirmed by Squire et al. (1991) along with
other researchers, when the hippocampus becomes damaged,
the first symptom is typically disorientation, memory acquisition
loss, and recall deficiency. This is also evidenced in cases of en-
cephalitis, where the hippocampus does not receive enough
oxygen. When the hippocampus is damaged, new memories
cannot be retained or recalled.
The Papex circuit can be likened to the cochlear passageway
that stages and converts air pressure waves into electromagnetic
nerve pulses. In the hippocampal pathway, waveforms from the
cortical field (entohinal cortex, perihinal cortex, cerebral cortex, and
so on), the subcortical field (amygdale, broca, claustrum, substantia
innominata, and so on) mix with pulses from the thalamus and
hypothalamus. These pulses are channeled through the perforant
path consisting of three regions of the dentate gyrus. The signals
pass through the CA3 and CA1 regions and on to the subiculum
and parahippocampal gyrus.
Here, between the subiculum and the parahippocampal
gyrus, information in the form of interference waveform patterns
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the proper cruise control speed, then removes his foot from the
gas pedal. The cruise control will maintain the speed of the car
by accelerating up hills and decelerating down hills automati-
cally. However, should the driver decide to change speeds, avert
running into the car ahead, or even stop the car, the driver can
immediately take over the gas pedal and control the car’s speed
directly.
In the same way, the self is driving the vehicle of the body
through both autonomic programming and executive control.
Most autonomic functions can be manipulated directly should
the self consciously intend to change them. In some cases, this
takes practice, as biofeedback research illustrates. This conscious
insertion of executive command can be initiated even during an
autonomic response, just as the car driver can hit the gas pedal at
any time to change the car’s speed while it is running on cruise
control.
As waveform messages from sensory nerves combine with
physiology feedback and enter the brain’s mapping network
through the limbic system, they can be observed by the self on
the interference ‘screens’ of a particular cortex or a combination
of cortices. (The self can also manipulate, prioritize and distort
these incoming physiological waveforms through the amygdale,
however.) As they blend in the cortex, the self is able to review
the waveforms and if need be, respond with intention. By this
time, however, the programming already in place to process the
particular situation is also ready to respond.
Should a conscious ‘executive’ decision be made by the inner
self, instructional waveforms are initiated through the prefrontal
cortex. These are channeled through the motor cortex, which
formats the waveforms for the hypothalamus. The hypothala-
mus in turn transduces these waveforms into physical response
through the endocrine system and central nervous system. These
instructional messengers may also contain a stop order to over-
ride whatever other instructions may already be in place.
Autonomic responses are established through initialized in-
tentions and a subsequent programming of key web hubs by the
mind. Most of these intentions are related to the survival of the
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body, translated from the self’s fear of dying. This fear becomes
translated into various scenarios that stimulate the programming
features of mind. The programming waveforms stimulated by
the mind are stored in neurons just as memories are, in the form
of standing waves, crystallized by ionic molecular polarity and
bonding sequences. Some autonomic programs are more perma-
nently ‘wired’ into the standing waveforms that make up DNA
bonds. These ‘hard-wired’ programs ultimately are passed on to
the body’s successors through the DNA.
These ‘coded’ standing waveforms with neurons are acti-
vated by certain types of waveforms incoming through sensory
nerves and from interoception translated through the hypo-
thalamus and thalamus. As information moves through this
network, the neural programming indirectly relays the self’s
ultimate intentions of keeping the body alive with specific auto-
nomic responses. The information will also be stepped up to the
mind’s web for viewing through the cortices. When we burn our
finger, our autonomic programming will immediately respond
by pulling the hand away. The self will also be able to view the
incoming information separately, and initiate a separate, con-
scious response, such as tending to the injury or turning off the
flame.
The inner self’s recognition of information within the frontal
cortex (or mind screen) is called cognition. In humans and pri-
mates, the central interface or bridge between the incoming im-
pulse pathways of the nervous system and executive control is
located in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Otani 2002). It is here
waveforms are examined, responded to and their responses re-
layed onto the motor cortex. Simultaneously, goal-directed in-
tentions from the self stimulate the broadcast of waveform
messages back into the neural net through the frontal cortex.
Instructive waveforms are simultaneously pulsed through the
hypothalamus, the specific regions of the motor cortex, and then
broadcast throughout the nervous system.
These instructive waveforms together stimulate the various
elemental channels to respond. In other words, the body is not
shocked or jerked into motion solely from pulses moving out
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Microtubules
During the 1970s, Dr. Stewart Hameroff from the University
of Arizona, and Dr. Kunio Yasue and Dr. Mari Jibu from the
Okayama University began researching the pathways for con-
scious activity between neural cells. One of the mysteries they
probed in independent research was how anesthesia agents such
as chloroform and nitrous oxide could disable the consciousness
of a patient. Through their respective research, they independ-
ently discovered that conscious activity within the body had to
do with a curious matrix of twisted spiral filaments they called
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Memory
Modern neuroscience divides memory into short-term and
long-term processes. Long-term memory is further divided into
three types: Episodic—when memories are unique to the time
and place; semantic—when memories involve concepts or learn-
ing; and procedural—when memories revolve around skills. Epi-
sodic memories relate to events that happened in the past, or
people we knew from the past. Semantic memories relate more
to concept understanding. Procedural memories relate to re-
membering how to ride a bike, write or use a telephone.
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pick up the item with the other hand. In the same way, the self,
using the utility of the mind, can often accomplish the same
purpose using different neurons, cortices and/or limbic compo-
nents.
This doesn’t contradict the notion that should the brain’s
neurons be struck with a debilitating disease or injury, the inner
self may not be able to utilize the instruments of the brain to
recall and retain memories. Memory is in fact a handshaking
process between the mind’s programming, the sensory system,
the hippocampus complex, the various cortices, and the inner
self.
Indeed, memory can be retained using a variety of physical
mechanisms. Humans have utilized various physical tools be-
sides brain cells to replace or augment memory function for
thousands of years. A person may retain memories using a diary
to assist in the recall of particular thoughts, emotions and events.
Projects or objectives may be recorded onto daily planners, elec-
tronic smart phones, or digital voice recorders for later recall.
Most students and businesspeople carry notebooks to every class
or meeting to assist with the retention and recall of lectures and
discussions. These external memory devices replace or augment
limited memorization functions. They also illustrate the inner
self’s intention to remember.
The memory experiments by Dr. Wilder Penfield at the
Montreal Neurological Institute in the 1970s clearly illustrated
that memories typically accompanied emotions and intentions.
When Dr. Penfield’s weak electrical currents excited locations
within the brain, the subject would recall historical facts associ-
ated with past experiences. Their recollections included songs
connected to feelings from the past, aromas connected to experi-
ences, people connected to personal relationships, and events
connected to other emotional events. Dry information such as
what score a person received twenty years ago on a test or sport-
ing event might seem like raw data, but this data can be con-
nected to personal intentions to win or receive a good score.
Without an emotional, intentional attachment, the ability to re-
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Subconsciousness
The theories and concepts proposed by Dr. Janet and Dr.
Freud not much more than a century ago included the notion of
the subconscious mind. Hypnosis provided the basis for these
conclusions. Under hypnosis, patients demonstrated an aware-
ness of events and information seemingly unavailable to their
conscious minds during their normal awakened states.
Because our ‘conscious’ minds appear not to be aware of the
subtle memory programming mechanisms of the mind, the con-
cept of a subconscious mind appeared to adequately explain
these phenomena. We must question this assumption, however.
What is this mysterious subconsciousness? Why can a person
who is brought under trance—which is simply a state of sugges-
tion and trust—suddenly be able to recall things that are not
otherwise recalled? How does the programming of the mind
otherwise operate beneath the awareness of the conscious mind?
Furthermore, what is dreaming?
The empirical understanding of the existence of a transcen-
dental inner self seamlessly explains these mysteries. It is pre-
cisely the positioning of the inner self—the operator—within the
body that creates the ability of the mind to submit to the sugges-
tion of hypnosis. The self simply makes a determination to sub-
mit to suggestion, and the body and mind follow.
It is the cloaking of the self by the veil of misidentification
that is responsible for the mysterious nature of the inner self. Yet
it is the permanence of the inner self throughout the changing
physical body that allows the recall of unmemorized events un-
der hypnosis. This is because, after all, the self still experienced
these events, even though their mental links are gone.
Although the mind and its programming are set up based
upon the intentions of the self, the mind is still different from the
self. The mind has its own design, and sometimes the mind can
get out of control of the self. As the mind’s programming is de-
veloped, it can take us to places we ultimately do not want to go.
It can be carried away with the directives we have given it. The
main directive the self gives the mind is to figure out ways to
achieve physical pleasure. The mind begins to concoct various
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Mental Death
This is not to say the inner self has no memory without the
brain. This is clearly evidenced by near death experiences and
past life regression research. The inner self has the ability to re-
call events regardless of whether they entered the frontal cortex
through the sensory system. In clinical death experiences, the
body may lie brain-dead on the hospital bed, yet the self will
remember the experience and even recalls many events occur-
ring around the hospital bed and among relatives that could not
otherwise be seen.
During this point of clinical death—as we’ll discuss further
in the next chapter—the eyes are closed and brain activity has
stopped. Why is there factual observation and memory without
a functioning brain and sensory system?
Consistent with the religious teachings of the Hebrews, Mos-
lems, Christians, Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists and so many other
religious faiths, and consistent with the philosophies of the
Greeks, Egyptians, Mayans, Aborigines, Polynesians, North
American Indians and other ancient societies, the inner self has a
spiritual identity—transcendental to this physical dimension.
This identity has been described variously as spirit, soul or an-
gel, while its home has been called the spiritual world, heaven
and the transcendental world.
This spiritual being has the ability to retain and remember
everything in the past and present, assuming the self is not cur-
rently locked up within the confines of the false identification of
the physical body and mind.
Just as a dark movie theater blocks our ability to see what is
going on around us as we focus upon a movie, our absorption
into our current mental concoctions and present physical body
buries the self with a mountain of illusion. In a movie theater, it
is dark and the screen in front of us is very large. This set up
makes us focus on the movie. We temporarily escape our real
lives as we focus on the drama of the movie. While we do not
necessarily forget the outside world exists (as we do while we
are within a physical body) we can become involved in the
movie to the point where we empathize with the movie’s charac-
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Mind Games
Again, the inner self is separate from the mind. The inner self
is the user of the mind’s programming, and the viewer of the
mindscreen. By understanding how the mind’s programming
bridges the self with the physical body, we can better under-
stand how we perceive the world. We can understand how we
incorrectly identify ourselves as physical bodies, and we can
understand how we misjudge the temporary the physical world
as permanent.
The goals and intentions of the inner self are converted to
practical strategies by the mind. The mind is a subtle program-
ming tool that embraces the intentions of the inner self, and de-
signs processes to most effectively execute those intentions.
Because the mind operates within the construct of waveform
mechanics, it is designed to manipulate and coordinate wave-
forms through and between the senses and nervous system. Util-
izing this ability gives the mind the opportunity to sort and
arrange the waveforms that accomplish its programming goals.
It prioritizes the various wave patterns moving through the
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self attempts to receive true love from the body’s parents. After a
few years of trying to please the body’s parents without achiev-
ing the satisfaction of true love, the inner self feeds back to the
mind that parental love is not achieving the primary directive.
As a result, the mind concocts—after observing others playing
and laughing with their friends—that achieving certain relation-
ships with others should complete the directive. During youth,
friendships with playmates may subsequently become the goal.
Once these relationships still do not satisfy the primary di-
rective of the inner self, achieving a relationship with the oppo-
site sex may become the current concoction of the mind. The
mind develops various strategies to accomplish this, such as
becoming successful in sports, school, popularity, and so on—all
to gain admiration.
Once a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship is achieved, after
some time again the self will still not be satisfied. The primary
directive of pure love has not been reached. The mind may then
contrive that maybe marriage will accomplish the goal. Maybe if
we possessed the other person, the mind proposes. We soon dis-
cover that this possession was an illusion, and not fulfilling to
boot. Disappointed, the self then directs the mind to look else-
where for the attention and admiration of others in its attempt to
gain the love the self needs.
To accomplish this, the mind develops strategies such as be-
coming successful in a particular career or skill. This strategy is
based upon the observation that others who have become suc-
cessful have achieved the admiration of others. The mind con-
cludes that if we can be seen as a success, we will achieve others’
love—again a failed assumption, as the many suicides by famous
people have shown us.
As the self feeds back to the mind that we still have not ac-
complished the fulfillment we need, the mind will develop yet
another strategy. On this process goes. The mind keeps concoct-
ing new strategies. Once one fails, another is concocted to re-
place it.
This same process works for the other primary directive:
pleasure. The self is constantly looking for pleasure, and this is
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ness. The mind will focus upon those concoctions the self ap-
proves, and those that deliver some sort of positive physical
feedback, regardless of whether they serve the greater purpose
of the body or the self, will capture our attention.
As the mind programs the body to accomplish each succes-
sive concoction, it also facilitates innumerable sub-programs—or
sub-concoctions. These are also ultimately intended to facilitate
accomplishing the central intentions of the inner self. These sub-
programs can range from training the body to accomplish spe-
cific strengths and functionality, to facilitating the body’s auto-
nomic reactions. These also include sub-features such as pulling
the hand away from a fire to avoid losing the hand. If the hand is
lost, many of the primary concoctions of the mind will be hin-
dered. These sub-routines are developed with the self’s ultimate
goals in mind, and they accomplish the tasks of basic survival.
These tasks have been categorized as instinct.
Biologists like to consider survival activities as instinctive,
since many species seem to inherently seek survival with similar
techniques. These are simply sub-routines of the mental concoc-
tions to keep the body alive, however. This can be seen in cases
where children were raised by animals—called feral children. As
the syndrome—Mowgli syndrome—goes, the child turns out emu-
lating the chief caregiver—be that an animal or handicapped
parent. The mind of the child develops concoctions and sub-
concoctions based on the perceptions and choices made available
through association with those in the immediate family or
group. This is also applicable to a child trained in a military
school, or even in a terrorist camp-school. Each will come out
with dramatically different strategies to achieve pleasure and
love.
As the body’s activities are driven by the mind’s concoctions,
its metabolic activities are orchestrated together with the routing
of sensual inputs, memory, and feedback. The body can thus be
said to be shaped by the mind’s programming. The mind does
not create the body, as is proposed by some. The body’s func-
tions are shaped and steered by the mind, however. The mind
has the ability to direct the body to attempt to achieve its par-
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Mental Escape
The mind also cannot avoid trauma. Does the mind create
the trauma of rape or other physical abuses? Is there some defect
in the mind that has somehow attracted that event to the per-
son—as the law of attraction proposes? This is not only an ab-
surd notion, but it is cruel. Its implication is that all the suffering
in the world is caused by our mental derangement.
Rather, traumatic events are learning experiences. The out-
come is dependent upon whether the inner self learns what the
trauma is supposed to teach. The body may be experiencing a
particular traumatic event. However, the inner self only experi-
ences the trauma to the extent the self is connected with the body
and has committed to those related concoctions. If the self can
release from these concoctions and detach from the mind’s
strategies, the trauma will heal because the inner self will have
redirected the mind and body with new intentions.
We can either grow or shrink from trauma. This is our
choice—the inner self has the power to make changes in direc-
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an action they took in the past. The inner self will understand
this in a deeper way, however. Through the decision to not par-
take in that activity, we have essentially learned the lesson,
which will automatically resolve the trauma.
If we do not adequately grow from a trauma, it will likely
bear upon us as a conflict to resolve later. As such, following a
traumatic event, some of us will negatively retain the memory of
the trauma. Most will seek to escape or release from this disturb-
ing web of traumatic events. Often these attempts only serve to
exacerbate the issues, as the intent to escape the memory causes
a resurfacing of the disturbing memory.
Nature’s system is designed to face the self with a resolution
with trauma. This can render a change in direction, resulting in
growth and evolution. If that change does not take place, there
will likely be a continuing disturbance, or at least a buried
trauma, which will emerge later to be reckoned with.
An example illustrating this burying mechanism is the use of
propranolol—a pharmaceutical drug developed in the 1950s for
depression. Propranolol works by blocking the reception of epi-
nephrine on beta-adrenergic nerve receptors. When the epineph-
rine receptors are blocked, the mind can better disengage from
stress because the feedback-response channels through which
the limbic system and prefrontal cortex operate are inhibited,
temporarily disengaging parts of the neural memory net.
Recent research on propranolol has revealed an additional
unintentional effect, however: Clinical results have indicated
that a person can also more easily release from past physical or
emotional traumas by taking propranolol. Researchers observing
these effects have documented women able to release from rape
trauma and soldiers able to release from battlefield traumas, for
example.
This use of propranolol has become controversial. Many eth-
ics scientists have protested that using a synthetic drug to re-
move or disconnect from past trauma interferes with the natural
learning process inherent in nature’s mechanisms of remember-
ing and resolving historical traumas. They correctly propose that
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Transmigration
Transmigration means to move oneself from one location to
another. With respect to the relationship between the body and
the inner self, to transmigrate means to move from one body to
the next. Some also call this reincarnation.
The problem with the word reincarnation is that it has been
overly misused and ill defined. Many people think this means
that the “person” (defined as the body) becomes another “per-
son.” This of course is an illogical proposition. It is also not the
same as transmigration. In transmigration, the transcendental
inner self moves from one body to another, just as a person
might get out of one car and get into another.
One of the most important points to make in this regard is
the fact that each of us has been moving from one body to the
next even during this present lifetime. Consider looking at your
body when it was in grammar school. Now look at your current
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body (assuming you are not still in grammar school!) That little
body looks sort of like your current body in terms of some of the
facial features. But the entire body is different. The body you
wear now is a completely different body. In other words, you,
the inner self, has changed bodies. As the body has gradually
replaced all of its cells and molecules, the entire body has
changed. You have effectively transmigrated from one body to
the next—from your grammar-school body to your adult body.
This transmigration continues throughout life. We might
compare the situation to a waterfall. While the waterfall might
look the same from one minute to the next, it contains com-
pletely different water molecules. The actual waterfall is differ-
ent from one moment to the next.
The manner in which the body changes is based upon the
condition of our mind and consciousness. Those things we—the
inner self—are interested in are expressed through our mind and
body. Once we condition our mind to particular things, the mind
becomes attached. As the mind becomes attached, the body’s
cells and genes cooperate and form around the condition of the
mind.
Thus the form and condition of the body is shaped around
the attachments of the mind. We can see this through this life-
time. A person who likes to eat will gradually develop a body
that is capable of eating a lot of food. A person who likes to
swim will gradually develop a body that can swim very well.
Athletes refer to this as training. When they want to excel in
a certain sport they will train for that sport. The focus of their
mind is concentrated upon conditioning the body. This will
change the shape of the body to excel in that particular sport.
This same mechanism also works between bodies. At the
time of death, the condition of our mind and consciousness will
determine the form of the next body the inner self inhabits.
This reality is confirmed by a vast amount of scientific re-
search performed over the past forty years by eminent scientists.
The process, called past-life recall, was in part discovered by Dr.
Ian Stevenson, a medical doctor and professor of research at the
University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatric Medicine.
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that time with a clarity and experience only possible from hav-
ing been personally in that situation. The research did not stop
there however. Dr. Stevenson and his associate researchers
would confirm the historical accuracy of the account, eliminating
that: 1) the subject could have known these facts otherwise; and
2) whether the facts were historically accurate.
Dr. Stevenson also observed that many children also had
birth marks located almost precisely the location where their
fatal wound was inflicted in their previous lifetime.
For example, he found cases where children recalled being
hung or strangled to death having birth marks around their
neck. He also found children recalling being stabbed somewhere
having birthmarks precisely where they recalled being stabbed
to death.
Dr. Stevenson and others also noticed that certain phobias
were sometimes connected with how the subject died in their
previous lifetime.
Dr. Stevenson’s research along with others indicate that past
life recollection fades by about age seven. Before that age, chil-
dren will often speak spontaneously about their previous lives as
historical individuals, recalling historical details decades’ old
and otherwise unknowable.
Another form of evidence has been provided through hypno-
therapy. A number of other scientists have documented regress-
ing patients through hypnotherapy into verifiable past lives,
including Dr. Helen Wambach (1978), Dr. Morris Netheron
(1978), Dr. Edit Fiore (1978), Dr. Bruce Goldberg (1982), Dr. Joel
Whitton (1986), Dr. Brian Weiss (1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2004,
2011), Dr. Christopher Bache (1994), Dr. Winafred Lucas (1993),
Dr. Marge Rieder (1995; 1999) along with a number of others.
Most of these doctors have impeccable reputations and ex-
pertise. For example, Brian Weiss, M.D. was a Columbia and
Yale medical school graduate and was the Chairman Emeritus of
Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Florida. Dr.
Weiss was a leading clinician who treated a patient using clinical
hypnosis to help her with some phobias. Dr. Weiss inadvertently
regressed the patient into a previous life. Over a series of ses-
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sions with this patient, it became obvious that the patient had
lived prior physical lifetimes. Later Dr. Weiss spoke with the
patient’s spirit guide regarding matters of the spirit world.
One of the more interesting studies was led by Dr. Rieder.
She initially documented regression sessions with a number of
patients that revealed historical information regarding Millboro,
VA—a pivotal village during the Civil War. These subjects accu-
rately described many historical and little-known details of the
war and the town, details that were corroborated historically.
The subjects had no other way of knowing those details. For
example, many of the subjects described the use of a number of
interconnected tunnels and hideaways in Millboro used during
the war. Prior to the hypnosis regression, many of these tunnels
and hideaways were not known even by historians. The regres-
sion detailed the precise location of the tunnels, leading the re-
searchers to discover them for the first time since the war.
In Between Lives
To this we can add the research of Michael Newton, Ph.D.,
Brian Weiss, M.D. and others, who have utilized medical hypno-
sis to regress patients not only into previous lifetimes, but also
found the in-between lifetimes world.
Dr. Newton was a clinical psychologist and master hypnotist
who regressed thousands of patients into previous lives. As he
perfected the hypnosis technology he was able to regress pa-
tients back into the period between their last body and the cur-
rent body, and other in-between lives. Dr. Newton’s patients
consistently told of inter-life judgment scenarios, karma and
other topics in his 1994 Journey of Souls: Studies of Life between
Lives, and his 2000 work, Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life
between Lives.
Dr. Newton was a clinical specialist in pain management
who stumbled onto the reality of past-lives while treating pa-
tients. His texts and those of his associates document two dec-
ades of clinical research with patients who were regressed into
previous physical lives and in-between-body realms.
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We notice here that other great teachers are also being ban-
ished together with Origen. These include Nestorius, who was
the Archbishop of Constantinople in the fifth century; and Apol-
linaris, who was either Apollinaris Claudius, Bishop of Phrygia
or Apollinaris of Laodicea, the Bishop of Laodicea (Syria).
The ancient traditions of gnosis, hermeticism and hellenism,
which descended through the Greek texts from antiquity inclu-
sive of ancient Egyptian teachings, also taught transmigration.
Hermes Trismegistus, revered amongst Christian, Islam and
Jewish sects, is said to have stated:
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Chapter Four
Becoming Free
Most will consider this chapter heading an oxymoron. Can
faith be scientific? As we’ll discuss, there is quite a bit of scien-
tific credibility for the belief in a Supreme Being. When looking
objectively, in fact, a Supreme Being is a more scientific hypothe-
sis than a universe that came into being from an accidental nu-
clear explosion. Let’s investigate some of the tenets of faith from
a scientific view.
Nirvana? Enlightenment?
The modern Buddhist philosophy teaches that if the self is
successful in the human form of life, then after death, the living
being either fades into “nothingness,” or expands into “every-
thing.”
This philosophy proposes that the living being does not have
an individual identity after death: Instead, the now individual
self simply vanishes and evaporates into space—also called the
void—or merging into “everything”—sometimes referred to as
the white light. These assume that before death we are individu-
als, and after death we merge into a vast ocean of consciousness.
This does not meet with logic, nor is consistent with the re-
search. Each of us is an individual; and clinical death, NDE and
OBE research confirm that we remain individuals after the death
of our body.
Each individual self must maintain a unique and distinct
personality in order to conduct life within a body separated from
others. Having an independent will stimulates activities that
differentiate from others. This requires perpetual individuality.
This individuality is expressed through our unique personalities.
It is also expressed through the uniqueness between each of us.
While we each wear a generally similar body, each of us have
unique gene expression, unique fingerprints, unique talents, and
a unique combination of cells, bacteria, metabolism and health
issues.
These unique characteristics also point to an individual exis-
tence prior to birth, as confirmed by Dr. Stevenson’s and others’
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really understands why love has such a high priority, but most
agree that those who love the most are also the happiest.
However, love cannot be accomplished alone. Love requires
a lover and a beloved: a relationship. Love cannot exist without a
loving relationship between at least two distinct and unique in-
dividuals.
This also means that the individuals must be separate
enough to have the freedom to love each other. Love cannot be
forced. This is slavery. Love can only exist when each individual
has the choice to love the other.
True love is selfless and unconditional. Love is the caring of
another without any expectation of a return. Loving someone is
the act of humbly giving oneself to ones beloved. This type of
true love will overwhelm all other aspects of ones life—
minimizing one’s self-regard.
This means that love is connected to service. Service is the
ongoing expression of our love for another. Love without service
is mere sentiment.
True love brings joy to both the beloved and the lover. True
love is the food of the living being. We all need it because it is
part of our constitutional nature: it is part of our true identity.
Every individual has an innate need to give oneself to an-
other and to have the unconditional love of another upon one-
self. That exchange of love; to serve and sacrifice oneself for a
loved one, is aspired to throughout our society as the highest
form of fulfillment. Each of us has tasted a small reflection of the
joy of love to a minimal degree in one respect or another.
Our acceptance of the importance of love in real life contra-
dicts any chemical or evolutionary theories of love. Even the
scientists who propose theories that love is a biochemical re-
sponse still at the end of the day seek out love in their own per-
sonal lives. And even those who do not secrete these
biochemicals well—such as those with Parkinson’s disease—still
seek loving relationships with others.
Every individual needs to exchange a loving and caring rela-
tionship with another individual. This is expressed among birds
that care for their chicks; elephants that fend off for their fellow
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mates; dogs that pine to be stroked; and monkeys who hug and
kiss other monkeys. Living beings have a fundamental, instinc-
tual desire to be loved, to love and serve a beloved. This is the
common universal trait of the living being. Regardless of race,
creed, gender, or species, love is at the very core of our existence.
Although love is often characterized as an emotion, actually
emotions stem from our desire for love. Love comes from a
realm outside the gross physical dimension. Love transcends the
temporary nature of the physical dimension because it is the
very nature of the living being. Just consider the love for some-
one whose body has died.
Does that love terminate when the body’s life was termi-
nated? Surely not. The love for that person continues, despite the
status of their physical body. This illustrates the transcendental
nature of love: It is not limited by the physical elements.
The living being cannot be separated from love. This is why
people need other people to love. Without other living beings to
exchange love with, we whither away in loneliness. This has
been illustrated in studies that show that hospitalized patients
live longer when they are attended to by family. The relation-
ships within the family motivate the self to remain in the body.
We seek to exchange loving relationships with other living
beings because love is a part of our constitutional nature. We are,
in fact, creatures of love.
Since love is only expressed when one gives of oneself to an-
other, love is not distinguishable from ones very being. When
someone truly gives their love to another, they are giving the
only thing they truly own—their decision to give of themselves.
Every other possession is temporary to the living being. We
know this scientifically because we can see that everyone leaves
behind all their possessions at death. Since they leave behind
those possessions, they never really owned them in the first
place—since ownership must include control over the posses-
sion.
The ability to freely give our love, and choose where to put
that love is the only thing we can take with us when our bodies
die. Therefore, it is the only thing we own.
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accept that love is the deeper and necessary aspect of our being,
and we agree that our ultimate identity lies beyond the physical
dimension, we must recognize that there is a living source of
love beyond this physical dimension. After all, how could an
emotion that is specifically exchanged between living beings not
originate from a living being? Since love requires a lover and
beloved, this source of love must also be able to exchange love.
Moreover, since the source of something must contain its ul-
timate nature, the source of love must be an ultimate lover and
beloved. It is like two parents conceiving. This new baby is alive
due to its parents being alive.
According to one of the oldest rules of physics: organized
energy must have an outside organizing force. Nothing comes
from nothing. As Socrates and many others have elaborated, the
ideals of love in this universe must logically have a permanent
source outside the temporary physical dimension.
The very fact that we search throughout our lives for the ul-
timate loving relationship to complete ourselves indicates we
know deep within that an unconditional lover and beloved ex-
ists. Since we are perpetually seeking unconditional love here
without finding it, there must logically be someone who can
receive and exchange that love. Why else would we strive so
hard with the expectation that we will find someone who loves
us unconditionally?
Love is at the very core of our being. It is the essence of our
existence. We seek a loving relationship in order to feel com-
plete. We cannot deny this either scientifically or practically.
Anyone who has “fallen in love” will tell us that they felt more
complete after they found this person.
Unfortunately, the unconditional nature of their love was an
illusion, evidenced by the fact that every one of these relation-
ships end in breakup, divorce or at the very least, mutual aggra-
vation and compromise. We realize in the end that they are not
the perfect person we hoped they would be. If we are lucky, we
can settle for a relationship of mutual respect and friendship—
maybe even with some conditional love mixed in.
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Where is Heaven?
Heaven has been presented to us by spiritual wise men and
saints for thousands of years. Heaven’s existence has been docu-
mented in every theistic scripture of the world. Even still, there
is great controversy and speculation about heaven and its loca-
tion. Why is this?
It is due simply to a lack of trust in those who have already
presented heaven to us. While faith is often thought of as joining
a particular religious sect or denomination, the real definition of
faith is trust: Do we trust what the great saints such as Abraham,
Moses, Solomon, David, Jesus, Mohammad, Ramanuja, St. Fran-
cis, Vyasadev and many others have written or spoken about
heaven? Or do we simply want to speculate?
Here we will present neither speculation nor a sectarian posi-
tion. We will simply provide the position that is consistent with
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relationship with Him. (Why else would God have created us?
Everyone—even God—wants a playmate, friend and lover.)
Time does not exist in the spiritual dimension. Since time
does not exist there, none of the rules governing the physical
relationships of distance, speed, age and death apply. Like the
physical universe, there are a variety of different locations and
environments within the spiritual universe. Different living be-
ings inhabit those different locations.
We each have a particular relationship with the Supreme
Person, and our home is a particular location within the spiritual
dimension where that relationship is expressed. This does not
mean that we cannot be within the physical body and still be
exchanging that relationship with God. Should we be ready, we
can begin to re-establish our original relationship with Him
while still inhabiting this physical body.
This is why Moses, Jesus and all the saints have taught:
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest com-
mandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two com-
mandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus quoting Moses)
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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his
wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, “The
man has now become one of us, knowing good and evil.
He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take
also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So
the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to
work the ground from which he had been taken. After
He drove the man out, He placed on (in front of) the
east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming
sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the
tree of life. (Genesis 3:21-24)
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In the same way, this physical universe is set up with the il-
lusion that God isn’t around. He is around, however. He is al-
ways there, watching and waiting patiently for us to reconsider
our decision to abandon Him.
The treehouse analogy is a little weak because the treehouse
is usually a simple box nailed into a tree with a ladder. The
physical universe is designed with elaborate mechanisms that
precisely reflect our consciousness and teach us along the way.
At every step, we are given a physical body that matches our
goals, desires and activities. Every activity in bodies of higher
consciousness (i.e., human form) has a consequence. Just as par-
ents often give their children who do bad (or even good) conse-
quences to learn and grow from their actions, God sets up a
consequential relationship between our activities and our future.
For example, child psychologists are now saying, after many
years of research, that the best way of teaching a child is to set
up reflective consequences for their actions. Say a child throws
some food against the wall. As a consequence, the child will
have to clean up the wall, clean up the room, and do chores to
earn enough money to pay for the food that was wasted. This
exercise, according to behavioral scientists, more thoroughly
teaches the child than, for example, a spanking might.
Rather than it being a selective (prone to error) method as
parents might apply in a consequential situation, God’s physical
universe is set up with an automatic mechanism of reflective
consequences. In other words, He does not have to intervene and
set up a consequence for us. Our bodies and physical environ-
ment are automatically programmed to do that, just as a video
game might be programmed to respond to certain activities of its
game players.
For example, let’s say that we slugged someone at work. This
sets up an immediate consequence for us to experience. Most
likely, the immediate consequence is that we will precisely ex-
perience the pain we inflicted upon the other person when the
other person slugs us back. Now should the other person not
slug us back, we experience an array of other consequences as
we get fired by the boss for our actions. Then we might have
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difficulty finding another job because we got fired for being vio-
lent at work. This might end up in us taking a construction job or
other hard labor job—one that ‘slugs us back’ in different ways.
We discussed this before. In many instances, the full effect of
our consequences will not be seen until the next lifetime. This is
because sometimes this is the only way a precise consequence
can be set up. For example, if we are wealthy, and we use that
wealth to take advantage of poor people, then it would not be
possible for us to experience the full effect of our actions without
becoming poor. So we take on a physical body in a poor family
or society during our next lifetime, and we are taken advantage
by wealthier people. This gives us the full experience of how our
activities affected others.
This reflective consequence mechanism of the physical world
is perfect and completely fair. Many of those who question the
existence of God ask the fundamental question: Why do some
people suffer more than others? And why is there suffering in
the world in the first place?
God created a perfect mechanism. It is perfect because God
set it up with love in mind. Just as a parent has our ultimate
benefit in mind when they issue consequential discipline, God is
seeking our ultimate benefit with the design of the physical uni-
verse. God wants us to grow. He wants us to learn and reclaim
that wisdom we once had before the fall. We must ultimately
remember that these physical bodies are not us. They are tempo-
rary, virtual machines we drive around for a few decades. We
get away unscathed (outside the wisdom we gain).
Why does God want us to gain wisdom? Because He wants
us to enjoy the relationship we once had with Him. Like any of
us, God is motivated by love. Because He loves us, He wants us
to be happy. And He knows that returning to our relationship
with Him will make us happy.
Consider the so many statements by God in Bible. Consider
this statement by God speaking through Malachi:
“But for you who revere my Name, the sun of right-
eousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you
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will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.”
(Malachi 4:2)
Why is God’s Name so important? To revere God’s Name
while in this physical world is to revere God. This is because,
while a name of a physical body is different from the spiritual
self, there is no difference between God and His Name. There is
no duality within the spiritual world. The reference to God is
non-different than Himself. This is why in multiple places in the
Bible it is said:
So Where is Hell?
Many religious philosophies discuss the possibility of going
to hell. As a result, the fear and avoidance of hell is oftentimes
the reason a person begins to attend a church, mosque or temple.
A person threatened with eternal suffering in a hellish atmos-
phere will often react with fear and repentance.
It is taught that hell is a place of suffering: a place of anguish
and unhappiness. It is taught that hell is a place where misery,
sadness, pain, and suffering exist. Hell is said to be a place of
heat and fire. Popular depictions of hell show people chained up
in red-hot, fiery dungeons being tortured by monstrous horned
devils. Anguish and pain are the most common features of this
depiction.
This depiction assumes that we are not in hell right now.
But what about the pain, anguish, torture and emptiness ex-
isting here on this planet right now? What about the wars, the
murders, the terrorists and the starvation around the world right
now? What are these, then? What should we call the state of ex-
istence where millions of people around the world are dying of
starvation? What should we call places that do not have clean
water to drink and millions of people die from dysentery? What
about places were people die from malaria? How about places
where women are raped and murdered with little or no protec-
tion? What should we call the place where greedy bankers,
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cal life satisfying? No. This is because the sexual orgasm is: 1)
only fleeting; and 2) not satisfying to the transcendental inner
self.
Often the sexual effort only leads to additional suffering.
Should the man not perform well, he will be embarrassed and
anxious, as his reputation becomes damaged. Should one of the
partners have a sexual disease, they will both come to suffer
from an often excruciating experience, which might bloom into
AIDS, herpes or a number of other sexually-transmitted diseases.
Our attempts at other physical pleasures can be even more
fleeting. The pleasures of eating good tasting foods, buying ma-
terial goodies or other physical possessions offer brief flashes of
neural feedback. A new car, house or other material item may be
anticipated for many hours, days, or weeks in advance. They
may also be accompanied by struggle and frustration to get
them. They will usually require hard work, planning and deal-
ing with people who want their own piece of the pie.
This is illustrated by the violence surrounding the dealing of
drugs by international drug cartels. Each cartel struggles to
dominate the distribution of their drugs, leading to bloodshed
on each side.
Typically our plan for the acquisition is never what we envi-
sion. We think the new goodie will somehow fulfill us, but it
never does. Once we get it, we are usually disappointed that it
did not deliver any fulfillment. Once we get it, we are stuck hav-
ing to take care of it and protect or maintain it. We have to work
hard to reduce the potential that our acquisition may be stolen or
otherwise damaged.
The ancient texts describe this in detail. They describe the
three miseries attached to material acquisition: 1) The misery of
obtaining the difficult-to-acquire possession; 2) The misery in-
volved in protecting and maintaining the item; 3) And the mis-
ery associated with the loss or damage of the possession.
Most of us live our lives in perpetual fear. As children, we
may be afraid of the bogeyman. Then we may be afraid of
schoolyard bullies. Then we may be afraid of failing. Then we
may be afraid of being embarrassed. Then we may be afraid of
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Some movie sets will be designed to look like a town. The set
will look like storefronts and shops, but then if you look behind
the set, you will find flat painted façades with no actual build-
ings behind them.
The physical body is simply a tool designed for the purpose
of being tricked into thinking this world is real. It is like putting
on virtual reality glasses. The virtual reality glasses provide a
means for imagining the video is real – even though it is obvious
the video is not reality.
In the same way, the body is the vehicle we use to identify
this world as real and believe that we are these physical bodies –
even though it is scientifically obvious that the forms and images
of this world are temporary and fleeting.
We know scientifically, for example, that the forms of this
world are made up of atoms and molecules that are constantly
being exchanged from one form to another. Our body is con-
stantly being resupplied with new atoms from the world around
us as we breathe, eat and drink fluids. And at some point after
we leave our body, the body will become be spread out between
the soil and the critters that decompose the body.
Nevertheless we become attached to our body. We see our
body as all-important. We will do anything to keep the body
alive for a few more years, even though it will die sooner or later
anyway.
This attachment stems from our nature as spirit-persons.
Each of us by nature is attached to the Supreme Being. But when
we are torn away from Him, we become attached to whatever is
around us.
This is why sometimes a child will become attached to par-
ents who abuse them. Even though the parent is abusive, the
child becomes attached anyway.
In the same way, people can become attached to a spouse
who is abusive. We become so easily attached to those around us
because by nature we are attached to the Supreme Being.
When we forget our relationship with God and we take on a
physical body, we become attached to that physical body, and
the names and forms that relate to that body.
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rity and so forth. When we are putting our focus upon re-
establishing our relationship with God, He will gradually reveal
Himself to us, allowing us to build our relationship with HIm.
This is the underlying wisdom that is hidden within the
physical dimension. We can see that so many of us are seeking
that perfect relationship with our soulmate. But we never really
find it here, with those who are like us - not perfect. Only the
Perfect Person can provide us with that soulmate relationship
we are truly seeking. That is the Supreme Being - our only true
Soulmate.
The physical world is designed to teach us. It is designed to
reflect ourselves back at us: Like a grand mirror, all of our greed,
lust and selfishness are reflected right back with our placement
into certain types of bodies and circumstances. This allows us to
assess ourselves, and learn to grow from where we are now.
It is not hard to see that without the selfish activities of its
inhabitants, this physical environment could be a lot more in-
habitable. If the living beings who occupied other bodies were
kinder and more giving, many of the hells of the planet would
not exist. But then again, if we weren’t so selfish and greedy, we
wouldn’t be here in the first place.
The deep-seated sense of joy we feel when we help or care
for others indicates that our natural identity is tied to loving ser-
vice rather than selfish behavior. It is not a coincidence that lov-
ing service helps relieve the suffering of others. What we
probably don’t see is that loving service also relieves our own
suffering. Research has found this proclivity among those who
suffer from depression or post-traumatic stress syndrome: They
find relief when they go out and help others.
The fact that loving service benefits us reveals that our natu-
ral constitution is related to being a servant and a giver than a
self-centered, greedy enjoyer.
We are often shocked at finding out that some third world
regime is causing the suffering of its own citizens. We wince
when we discover that a fellow human has tortured another, or
has blown up a building with innocent people inside. These
things are shocking to us, but those people who did those hor-
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rors do not share our opinion. They do not look much different
than we do. They eat and sleep just as we do. They feel justified
for their acts. Unbelievably, they feel they have a valid reason to
cause the suffering of others.
Research on criminals has discovered that the overwhelming
majority of criminals feel somehow justified in their crimes. They
felt they were somehow forced to commit suffering upon other
humans. Why is this? Are these people evil while we are not?
Are we completely innocent of ever causing the suffering of an-
other, even unintentionally? Quite simply, progressive attach-
ment causes increased insensitivity to others, maturing to a point
where ones selfish concerns outweigh the suffering of others.
The world we live in is a reflection of our activities and our
consciousness. Our original enviousness of our Best Friend is the
cause for our initial fall into this hellish physical world. The root
feeding this hellish tree is our desire to enjoy as the Supreme
Being enjoys. This act of ‘eating the fruit’ of this tree of envy is
the original sin.
The physical world was designed to enable us to recover
from this disease of envy. It was designed perfectly to allow us
to grow and learn that selfishness and enviousness do not make
us happy. This world is designed to teach us that only love will
satisfy us. When we sow love, we receive love. When we sow
hatred, we receive hatred. These reactions should illustrate to us
the preferable consciousness.
Should we decide to exchange our enviousness for a re-
newed relationship of loving service with the Supreme Person,
we would be starting our journey home. Our body and mind
would be transformed from frustrating tools for enjoyment into
vehicles able to help return us back to our original relationship
with God.
Should we decide to return home, our lives would become
surcharged with a renewed purpose and direction. Suddenly,
life makes sense to us. Suddenly, we have a reason for existing.
Then, at the end of this lifetime, or perhaps at the end of the
next, we will return home. We will re-enter the world we intui-
tively belong: A place where everyone cares for each other. A
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Tolerating Pain
This means that every one of us, at some point in our lives,
must learn to tolerate pain. We must learn to deal with it. We
simply cannot make it through a lifetime of the physical body
without dealing with its pain. The body was built to receive
pain. It was built to receive a little pleasure as well. This creates a
balance between the pains and pleasures of our bodies.
Most of us have experienced many of the pleasures related to
the body during the early and middle stages of the body. During
our body’s youth and middle ages, our bodies were fitter and
more capable of fighting off diseases and healing injuries. This
gave the body more opportunity to receive the body’s pleasur-
able responses, driven by neurotransmitter feedback such as
dopamine and serotonin.
During the last stages of the body’s lifetime, the body’s de-
sign makes it more vulnerable to chronic pain and inflammation.
The healing response is slower, and the cells’ ability to produce
dopamine is reduced. This leaves us with a body with a greater
likelihood of pain and less potential for pleasure.
What this all means is that we must gradually learn to toler-
ate the additional pain and the reduced pleasure. It doesn’t mean
that we give up all the strategies to reduce pain, however. We
can still do all the things mentioned above, that will reduce our
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body’s pains. We can also include herbs that tend to calm and
soothe the pain response. These include hops, skullcap, basil,
lavender, sage and St. John’s wort.
While these can help, the solution to greater pain is to rise
above it and reach for spiritual life. This is the actual purpose for
pain—one that brings about a condition of pain tolerance. Let’s
review the science behind pain tolerance a bit further.
Some people are very tolerant and can withstand lots of it.
Boxers, rugby players, football players, long distance runners,
swimmers and other sports persons can tolerate excruciating
pain as they train for and compete in contests. Others, on the
other hand, might run or swim a lap and give up.
Dentists and anesthesiologists understand that there is a
huge range of pain tolerance between people. At the dentist’s
office, some people do not even need Novocain. Others want to
be knocked out with nitrous oxide. Some people cannot tolerate
even the faintest pain sensations. They exert great effort to avoid
it. Others will approach life head on—colliding with painful ex-
periences on their way towards accomplishing their goals. This
variance in pain tolerance is because we all have relative degrees
of pain sensitivity with our bodies.
Indeed, many cultures have varying acceptable notions of
pain. Some cultures undertake such traditions as fire walking
and body piercing. Other cultures pamper their bodies with air
conditioning and hot baths; whimpering with the slightest of
temperature deviation. Soldiers have been known to endure ex-
treme pain, while their leaders are often sensitive to the slightest
of discomforts or challenges.
We also can also see huge variances between tolerances for
suffering among different societies around the world. Some
countries consider a small percentage of the population being
homeless and cold as great suffering. Other societies deal with
massive starvation, dehydration, and even mass genocide. Al-
though none of these situations is acceptable in a world where
some live in excess, it is easy to see a range of tolerance when it
comes to human suffering around the world.
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miles and bring this sort of pain upon themselves? Is this not
much different than self-mutilation?
Athletes and self-mutilators are not much different. They are
both simply focused upon achieving a particular objective,
which at that moment outweighs the importance of comfort.
Their attachment to the intended result overrides the pain.
And what are they both focused on? Fulfillment. They are
each seeking fulfillment. The slow marathon runner who knows
he or she will finish 75,000th or worse feels that by completing
the race, they will somehow become fulfilled in some other way
other than winning. Just completing the race might fill the empty
hole. In some cases, attention from their family members or
work associates might play a role as well.
This type of detachment also explains how prisoners-of-war
can tolerate extreme conditions of torture and survive. During
their torture, they are forced to detach from the pain as they try
to focus upon other things. As a result, prisoners often pray and
in general become focused on their spirituality. This detaches
them from their horrible physical circumstances.
If we look at areas of the world that are poor and suffering
we see the same thing. We see that people who are suffering
tend to put more focus upon God. This detaches them from their
suffering. For example, in a study done at the International Cen-
ter for Health and Society at the University College London
(Nicholson et al. 2009), 18,328 men and 21,373 women from 22
countries in Europe were surveyed. Those who attended reli-
gious services were significantly less likely to describe their
health as being poor. This relationship was even stronger among
people with chronic and longstanding illnesses in the study.
Because these people had put more focus on their spiritual
lives, they became more tolerant of their suffering. Because
chronic illnesses are most likely to be accompanied by pain, we
can see that this directly correlates with pain.
We can see the relativity of pain sensitivity elsewhere in our
lives. For example, the more attached we are to a particular
event or person, the more something affecting that event or per-
son might cause us pain, trauma or frustration. We can see this
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to use the physical body for a spiritual purpose (ergo, in the ser-
vice of God). These activities give more than hope for fulfill-
ment—they actually bring fulfillment.
This overall detachment is simply accomplished by realiza-
tion. We can immediately become detached philosophically. We
can realize that we are not these physical bodies. We can realize
that our inner selves will live on, long after these physical bodies
are rotting in their graves. We can realize that our happiness is
based not on our physical condition, but upon our spiritual
growth.
Once we achieve this simple philosophical realization, we
can then move on towards practical realization. This means act-
ing upon the knowledge that we are eternal and not these physi-
cal bodies.
In other words, the greater our focus upon the higher pur-
poses of life—such as spiritual growth and our relationship with
God—the less sensitive we will be to the various aches and pains
of the physical body. We will still feel these pains. We cannot
simply wish them away. But because we will be refocused on a
longer perspective, our current aches and pains will be under-
stood as temporary. This might be compared again to the long
distance runner who feels the pain, but knows that the pain is
temporary. The runner knows as soon as the race is finished, the
pain will be over. So they keep going, with their mind focused
upon winning (or completing) the race.
Consider if we were on a boat and we were sailing towards a
distant port. For many days, we will be focused on the condi-
tions of the boat: what we are eating, the condition of the cabin,
and so on. The boat is our main focus. Without the boat, the seas
will swallow us. Then one day, we sight land. Suddenly, our
perspective changes. We are no longer that interested in the
daily minutia of the boat and its quarters. We are now glued to
the binoculars as we determine where we are going to point the
boat to arrive safely at port.
This is analogous to our situation as we approach the body’s
death. For decades, we have been focused upon every little
whim of the body: When the body is hungry, we eat. When the
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take the pill. Pain medication may also cause dependency, and
we will continuously need more to provide the same pain relief.
One of the best health professionals to approach for chronic
pain is an acupuncturist. Clinical research on acupuncture has
repeatedly shown it to be a successful treatment for pain of all
types. Acupuncture has been used successfully for anesthesia for
many centuries in China. Acupuncture has little risk and a long
history of safety with little or no negative side effects. Acupunc-
ture is a medical science and a medical art. The skill level of each
practitioner and his or her connection with that type of pain
might vary substantially. Therefore, we might consider going to
another acupuncturist if one does not help before we give up
altogether on acupuncture. Treatment cost is very low compared
to other modalities, and success rates are high in many chronic
pain disorders.
We should feel good about any treatment plan before we
embark upon it. If we not feel comfortable with it, there is usu-
ally a good reason, and we might consider looking for an alter-
native. It is best to not ignore our intuition when it comes to
healing. If we are not feeling comfortable, we should first proba-
bly discuss this with the health professional treating us at that
time along with others. They may be able to remove our hesita-
tions or provide an immediate alternative.
If we have some particular information gained from the
internet or books about our treatment, we should present this to
our health professional. We should at least fax or email the arti-
cle or web pages and have the professional evaluate and respond
to them. If they are not willing to do this, another professional
should be approached to discuss these alternatives.
When seeing any professional for pain, we might also con-
sider bringing in whatever supplements or medications we are
taking, so they can look at the labels and consider what is al-
ready being taken before they prescribe others. This is a double
concern for western medical doctors, as prescribing multiple
medications with conflicting mechanisms has been occurring
with greater frequency.
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A pain diary is also very useful. We can rate our pain each
day and see if the pain is increasing or decreasing, depending
upon our diet, lifestyle and medication changes.
The bottom line is that we can empower ourselves during
and between visits with health professionals. Empowerment
strategies include keeping our own medical files, with a copy of
every lab, x-ray and treatment plan in it. We can put into this file
the medication information sheets (side effects) we are given;
our pain and symptom diaries if we keep them; and any infor-
mation or research data we gather relating to our pain or medi-
cal issue. We can bring this file into every health professional
appointment to help substantiate our questions and concerns.
This file can prevent medical errors. When we bring our file
to our visit, we can quickly access our information to show the
health professional. This can greatly accelerate the quality of the
information and advice we receive from our health professional.
At the end of the day, resolving our pain is our responsibil-
ity. Health professionals can offer advice and prescribe treat-
ment, but we must be the ones who provide the effort and make
the necessary changes.
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A Timely Message
The dying of the body has a clear message: It is time for us to
exit. We have arrived at a point where the lessons of this lifetime
should have been learned. Now it is time for a new journey. It is
time for us to move on.
Death is like being shown the door. When we are visiting
with friends at their house and our hosts suddenly get up from
the sofa and begin to slowly walk towards the door, we know it
is time to leave. It is time to thank our host for their hospitality,
and move on. It is not time to start up another conversation. Or
go back and sit on the sofa. Should we do this, we will probably
be accused of overstaying our welcome.
This is not too dissimilar to the scenario playing out in most
hospitals today.
The natural body is simply not designed to live forever. This
is observable by any scientific study. Yet our modern medical
institutions tease us with notions of new technologies that might
keep the body alive forever.
We should know this will happen. Nor is it a good use of our
precious time while still here. The laws of nature have a reason.
We inhabit a physical body for a short time to learn specific les-
sons. It is a short-term vehicle. The body is not meant to house
the living being forever. It is like putting on a spacesuit with a
particular oxygen reserve.
Once within the temporary spacesuit, a smart astronaut does
not waste time debating about why there is not more oxygen in
the tank. It is what it is, and the astronaut has a particular job to
do before returning to the space ship.
The problem is that we falsely identify with the physical
body after a few years in it. This is also by design. Once this mis-
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the anger, the violence, and the poor judgment. At the same
time, we see the good decisions we made that helped others. We
are peering at our lives as though it was a microscope allowing
us to instantly see everything we did along with their conse-
quences. We are saddened by actions that hurt others, and glad-
dened by actions that helped others.
While this flashback was intended for our review, it is also
accompanied by a judgment from God (if present) or God’s rep-
resentative(s). While we understand that the judgment has al-
ready been made, it is displayed before us in order for us to
understand its perfection. The judgment takes into account all of
our decisions, consciousness and desires as a whole, and sums
them into a direction and location to move on to.
We instantly understand that the judgment given is a fair
one. For as our physical life is flashed back, we can see our de-
linquencies and deficiencies. In the presence of God’s represent-
ative we can clearly understand the areas that need improve-
ment. This understanding naturally evolves into the decision of
where we go next.
While this decision is not ours, we do indeed participate.
This is accomplished because of the love and compassion of
God’s representatives. As they communicate the judgment, we
see its wisdom.
Where we go depends upon the activities of our physical
lives. It depends upon the condition of our consciousness. As we
lived within the body, we developed certain tendencies. These
might be violence, animosity, jealousy and anger. Or they might
be wisdom, compassion and curiosity. In the former case, we are
directed to giving birth in a new physical body. This might be
the physical body of a violent animal: One that can express our
anger with fewer restrictions.
Or in the later case, we might move on to another human
form: one that will allow us to further develop our spiritual
growth while at the same time reaping the results of our activi-
ties—good and bad. Regardless, we realize it is a perfect system,
and accept our fate.
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stance. (The comments here are not legal advice. Consult a legal pro-
fessional for specific advice regarding the living will, advanced medical
directives, health advocate and/or other solutions.)
Without advance medical directives or such a living will, we
could be given medications we cannot or do not want to physi-
cally, mentally, emotionally or spiritually tolerate for long peri-
ods of time. We may be given treatments that leave our bodies
alive in suspended animation long after the body’s intended
death. Our bodies may end up being indefinitely hooked to life
support equipment without our consent. In a suspended state,
we may not be able to communicate our wishes to be let go. This
is a frequent issue for families, doctors and hospital administra-
tors as they debate the costs and treatments for comas, permanent
vegetative states (PVS), or minimally conscious states (MCS).
Comas will often be temporary, from a few hours to days,
weeks or months. The vegetative and minimally conscious states
are typically permanent, however. MCS is accompanied by cog-
nitive ability, while PVS and the coma state leave observers with
a question of whether the person is even there. MRI brain scans
have illustrated that MCS patients can both recognize speech
and respond—if not physically, through their brainwaves. Most
coma and PVS patients appear to not be aware of their surround-
ings at all, however. The difference between a comatose and a
PVS patient is simply that the PVS subject appears to be awake.
This is deceptive, however, because there is no apparent aware-
ness in the PVS patient. All three states require life support sys-
tems—at least feeding tubes—to maintain metabolism. MCS and
PVS may only require a feeding tube, while PVS and coma states
may also require ventilators.
People do wake up from comas. Waking up from PVS or
MCS is rare, however. For this reason, the question of whether to
maintain life through artificial means is quite controversial. Since
the U.S. court system does not recognize coma, PVS or MCS as
death, in the absence of specific instructions by the patient or
their legal guardian, the hospital may keep these patients alive
indefinitely. It is an ethical question that brings into focus the
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reflect our desires and consciousness, they are the direct result of
how we lived our lives.
If we have lived lives of violence and a struggle to be king of
the hill, our dreams will likely contain lots of fighting and
struggling. If we die during these dreams, we are likely to take
on a body of a violent animal, or an animal subjected to violence.
If we lived our lives focused upon spiritual growth and our
relationship with God, our dreams will also reflect this. We will
die just as we lived, and our future destination will be
determined in kind.
If at some point before our death we release our hopes,
dreams and desires to God and completely give ourselves to
Him—trusting that He will guide us and bring us complete
fulfillment—then we will be happy in this life and the next. He
will take us into His Arms and completely fulfill us.
How do we get to this place where we are ready to give all
our hopes, dreams and desires to God at the time of death? How
do we accomplish this consciousness? It takes work and
discipline. It requires focus prior to the time of death. It is not as
if we can live our lives in complete greed with no dedication to
God and then right before our time of death we can suddenly
change our consciousness.
Our consciousness at the time of death is not determined at
death. It is determined over a progressive lifetime within the
body. It is determined with each and every decision we make. It
is determined by whatever hopes, dreams and desires we have
been striving for through our lives. It is this developed
consciousness that will automatically arise at the time of death.
This doesn’t mean that even up to the time of death we can
make changes. We might realize even moments before we leave
the body that we were wrong about so much during our lifetime,
and we suddenly decide to give our lives to God. This decision
can be made at any time. God is ever-merciful. He is ready to
take us back at any time, assuming we are committed to giving
ourselves to Him in love.
This is not the same as praying at the last minute because we
are afraid of hell. While it is certainly helpful to pray out of fear
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INDEX
synchrony, 225, 241 trauma, 18, 74, 80, 81, 87, 88,
television, 41, 46, 58, 84, 85, 89, 90, 102, 103, 104, 105,
86, 99, 184, 205 183, 213
temperature, 241 tryptophan, 25
temporal, 227, 228, 229, 233, twins, 31, 32, 33
239, 240 unconditional love, 137, 140,
terrorism, 156 141
testosterone, 238 ventilators, 211, 212
thalamus, 44, 45, 63, 66, 70, violence, 88, 142, 148, 150,
240 152, 154, 156, 157, 173, 208,
thermal, 228, 239, 241, 242 209, 218
thermoception, 64 virus, 31, 105, 196, 233
thyroid, 234 visual cortex, 48, 56, 58, 63,
touch, 226, 238 67, 82, 90
transcendental love, 161 waveform interference, 22,
transfusions, 19, 211 44, 46, 47, 61, 67, 73, 87, 88
transplants, 9, 205, 211 withdrawal, 81, 105, 159
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