A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“, published in the USA, has stirred up the Internet because of the notion that life does not end when the body dies and can last forever.
The author of this publication, scientist Robert Lanza, has no doubts that this may be possible.
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and a scientific director at Advanced Cell Technology Company. While he is known for his extensive research on stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.
But not so long ago, the scientist turned his attention to physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since.
The theory implies that death simply does not exist. It is an illusion that arises in the minds of people. It exists because people identify themselves with their bodies in the first place. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking that their consciousness will disappear too.
According to Lanza, consciousness exists outside of the constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. That fits well with the basic postulates of quantum mechanics, according to which a certain particle can be present anywhere and an event can happen in several, sometimes countless, ways.
Lanza believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. These universes contain multiple ways for possible scenarios to occur. In one universe, the body can be dead. And in another, it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness that migrated to this universe.
This means that while traveling through the ‘tunnel’, a dead person ends up in a similar world and thus stays alive. And so on, infinitely, according to biocentrism.
This hope-instilling but extremely controversial theory by Lanza has many unwitting supporters – not just ‘mere mortals’ who want to live forever, but also some well-known scientists.
These are physicists and astrophysicists who tend to agree with the existence of parallel worlds and who suggest the possibility of multiple universes, known as the Multiverse theory.
Science fiction writer H.G. Wells was the first to come up with this concept, which was proposed in his story “The Door in the Wall” in 1895. 62 years after it was published, the idea was developed by Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at Princeton University.
It basically states that at any given moment, the universe divides into countless similar instances.
And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar way. You may be present in some of these worlds – you may be reading this article in one universe or watching TV in another.
The triggering factor for these multiplying worlds is our actions, explained Everett. When we make certain choices, one universe instantly splits into two different versions of outcomes, according to this theory.
In the 1980s, Andrei Linde, a scientist from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Russia, developed the theory of multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University.
Linde explained: “Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on to infinity.
In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.“
The notion that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the Planck space telescope. Using the data, scientists created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic microwave background radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe.
They also found that the universe has a lot of anomalies represented by black holes and extensive gaps.
Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from North Carolina University argues that the anomalies of the microwave background could exist because our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks from neighboring universes.
So, there is an abundance of places or other universes where our soul could migrate after death, according to the theory of neo-biocentrism. But does the soul exist?
Professor Stuart Hameroff from the University of Arizona has no doubts about the existence of an eternal soul. He believes that consciousness does not perish after death.
According to Hameroff, the human brain is the perfect quantum computer, and the soul, or consciousness, is simply information stored at the quantum level.
It can be transferred, following the death of the body; quantum information carried by consciousness merges with our universe and exists infinitely. In his turn, Lanza claims that the soul migrates to another universe. That is the main difference his theory has from similar ones.
Sir Roger Penrose, a well-known British physicist and expert in mathematics from Oxford, supports the multiverse theory as well. Together, scientists are developing a quantum theory to explain the phenomenon of consciousness.
They believe that they have found carriers of consciousness, the elements that accumulate information during life, and “drain” consciousness somewhere else after death.
These elements are located inside protein-based microtubules (neuronal microtubules), which previously have been attributed to a simple role of reinforcement and transport channeling inside a living cell. Based on their structure, microtubules are best suited to function as carriers of quantum properties inside the brain.
That is mainly because they are able to retain quantum states for a long time, meaning they can function as elements of a quantum computer.
What do you think about biocentrism? Does this theory seem feasible to you?
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Thoughts can get sick and have disorders, but consciousness itself never gets sick and has no known disorders. People never have more than one consciousness, it always operates at the same speed which we perceive as time. Consciousness therefore transcends the physical world, is entirely nonphysical and eternal. The physical world is imagined by God's consciousness, and that includes our brain. The brain is an essentially inanimate object, and has no free will, but is bound by the laws of physics. And for this reason being "alive" is the deadest you will ever be. When your consciousness returns to its source, it is returning to a place that is more real than this reality, like a TV signal returning to the TV studio as opposed to watching the TV show on a TV screen, which is the brain. Don't get confused that the TV show originates in the TV itself. That's where many scientists get it wrong.
The Universe is not physical. It is within the One Mind all who are aware, share. As Albert Einstein says and Quantum Mechanics proves, Time & Space are constructs of mind. The Kingdom really is within.
Is it fair to assume that what we call "consciousness" is a manifestation of quantum interactions occurring in our atoms? Is this the soul? Assuming this to be correct, the soul is beyond space and beyond time.
The larger question is: where did it all come from? I cannot believe the "Big Bang" theory that everything came from nothing. There had to be a creator. Things like automobiles just did not pop into existence. They had to be designed, manufactured, and delivered.
That being said, in the Quantum Universe, things DO pop in and out of existence. One particle can be at two places simultaneously. The mere act of observing an experiment, changes the result.
The laws of physics get very murky at the Quantum level hence the inabilty to produce a Unified Theory of Everything
I can't understand
That could be because All the possibilities of consciousness manifestations exists simultaneously, but only when the there is a consciousness which is aware of itself, starting the separation from the All, and one of the infinite possibilities become alive!
I believe in this concept, but I still find it discomforting. Having recently lost my mother quite suddenly I want to believe that she is still around in as a form of consciousness that I will recognize when my consciousness is released.
I am very much with you on that, Judy. If those who are deceased do retain their consciousness, then why can they not contact those left behind, directly? There are those that say they do, via flashing lights; smells; feathers and other means, but I mean by actually talking to us as they would have done when alive. I have heard some people have had two-way telephone conversations with deceased people - I so wish I could have one with My Mother...
Somehow I feel inferior because I have never experienced my mother's presence while other friends of mine tell me wonderful stories of their parents' "visits." It's like I am not advanced enough or something. I guess it is different for everyone, but it does seem that deceased persons are not actually gone. Physics teaches us that matter continually changes form, so maybe their consciousnesses are elsewhere, and for whatever reason, we just cannot talk to them on the phone!