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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The theory is almost correct. Within thirty years people will figure out the way life and death works and scientists will agree that consciousness and the soul carry on indefinitely. I am a medium and my spirit guides have taught me that there are many different worlds in death states. Believe it, you are going to live forever. Karen
It seems to me "hard-atheist-skeptics" have a hard time embracing this new way of thinking in science, since it has a lot of "spook" in it,and maybe starting to resemble metaphysics. Everything for them is mechanical and we are no more than bio robots..Everything is so perfect just by chance..what a lame world..
"The brain is a macroscopic structure, so quantum effects will not affect it."? One thing doesn't imply the other. The eletrons in our brain should be connected to inumerous counterparts - entaglement - and even our whole body, meaning we could be existing simultaneously in multiple universes..
Let me start off by saying of coarse life will last forever. It's like this, if I say I am alive in the 31 century, it won't mean I'm actually alive then. You can call an apple and apple but that doesn't make it an apple. So if I won't be alive then, how do I know I'm alive now? I can't say I'm alive because it's just a word. So if I can't say I'm alive, how can I ever die? Death is an illusion. The mind can be anywhere like this paper explained. I have a gift to see things no one else can like reliving someone else's experience in their body and more. What I do is prove God indeed exists. All I have to do is prove that what atheists say is unintelligent is in fact intelligent. Look for example atoms are aware that they are being watched. This paper is saying what I have always said especially for quantum physics. What I can't understand is how a writer wrote about science fiction and all the sudden people are looking for parallel words. I already knew about information being stored on the quantum level like this paper said. How can you be intelligent and not the material you're made of? This paper here is about life continuing onward but the truth of the matter is not that life continues, it's that the universe is alive and aware. Even Einstein knew that. " anyone who becomes serious in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that there is a spirit manifest in the laws of the universe, a spirit vastly superior to that of man." I don't even know why people still haven't come to a conclusion about the universe.
The opposite of death is not life, it is birth. Both birth and death are portals, entry and exit points life uses for this plane of existence. The whole purpose of life is the evolution of awareness. How this all works is not really important. Awareness is.
Since one can not remember anything before they were born, people should know what the absence of one's own life is.
The most plausible conclusion is that when you die, you go back to that state. When you die, that's it. No more you. Now, this of course is very very or in fact impossible to accept by people desperately trying to survive, but... that really is the most plausible explanation. We think we're special. Except, we're not.