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Biocentrism How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740
Straight up blows my mind. 5-star read no question about it
Biocentrism. It's a really interesting look at how the universe is shaped by consciousness and the scientific search for the meaning of life http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1935251740?pc_redir=1396332448&robot_redir=1
If you want to further your understanding of the universe you should read this and this. 2 of the most mind altering books I've read.
There is actually a whole theory about this;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
This is a very detailed working out of a kind of stoicism/epicureanism. I appreciate the thought you've put into this. Some books I've enjoyed on stoicism and philosophy of life:
Thought-provoking books that challenge naturalism from a secular perspective:
These are not fast questions, haha.
>What do you think is on the other side of the black hole?
Theoretically, if the black hole is part of a pair that were created from entangled subatomic particles, then they would be connected by an Einstein-Rosen bridge, and (again, theoretically) if you were to allow yourself to be sucked into one of them you'd emerge wherever the other one happens to exist. This could be in another galaxy, or yeah, some people think it's possible you could end up in another universe.
>Is there a lot of universes?
Theoretical physicists (particularly those working in string theory) are starting to think that yes, there are. Brian Greene and Michio Kaku have written reasonably accessible books on this theory, if you're interested.
>what about aliens?
Of course. It is highly unlikely that in a universe filled with billions of galaxies, each of which contains hundreds of millions of stars, only one of them would have a planet in its orbit that is capable of sustaining life. Robert Lanza hypothesizes that, in fact, the universe is biocentric - that life and consciousness are not mere accidents, but what the structure of the universe is based around. This, too, would suggest that life cannot then be confined to one planet.
>What happens to the infj emotion after their death? Are you thinking of reincarnation?
Not reincarnation exactly, no. My beliefs are pantheistic in a way that isn't really compatible with reincarnation in the traditional sense. My concept of "God" is, essentially, "the combined energy of the universe". Part of this energy is used to power my body and mind; what some might call a soul. But my "soul" isn't a discrete entity; it is made of energy, which is fungible. So, when I die, that energy (and therefore, I) will return to "everything". Of course, it will then be used to power other things... perhaps another life form, perhaps a star, or wind, or electricity. But it won't be the "same" energy - just as, if you pour a cup of water into the ocean and then fill another cup from it, it won't be the "same" water. It comes from the same source, but the individual molecules are probably going to be different. But I do think our thoughts and memories remain, as a sort of... resonance, let's say. They become part of everything, too. When people talk about remembering past lives, most likely they are accessing these resonating memories. But, not because your soul has moved into their body - rather, because you, and they, are part of the same whole.
Which, I guess, might sound like quibbling - it's not that different from reincarnation, not really. It's just that one view sees every soul as separate, and the other does not.
Check out Biocentrism by Dr. Robert Lanza. His entire life's work is a theory that amounts to this - that the physical world as we know it is derived from biological experience; in essence, we are all rendering our personal video game within a server that manages the bigger picture. It's really, really compelling.
His answer is that the tree in the forest doesn't exist in the first place, so there's nothing there to make a sound if no one is rendering it. He actually uses that example several times in the book.
If anyone wants to know what this guys getting at read the book Biocentrism by Robert Lanza. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1935251740?pc_redir=1411497125&robot_redir=1
Uhmm, no, sorry but Psychic Phenomena has been proven in laboratory settings. Hell even Quantum Physics is starting to acknowledge the relationship between mind and matter, just look up the Observer Effect.
A close family member calling you out of the blue, somehow "sensing" or "knowing" that youre contemplating suicide isn't a "coincidence".
https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Minds-Extrasensory-Experiences-Quantum/dp/1416516778
This is precisely what is wrong with this world. We are psychic beings by nature, but because of the selfishness of a handful of fear oriented "Elites" who've decided that they need to have more perceived material wealth than others and privilege and prestige have done everything within their power to chemically and culturally lobotomize this out of us (via Sodium Fluoride, Vaccines, and primary "education" and media enculturation, and now GMO foods).
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=14949
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/fluoride-affects-consciousness-will-act/
To make matters worse (or to have a poster child to spread the fear oriented, hopeless gospel of the "Elites") we had the emergence of Mechanistic Reductionistic Science via Rene Decarte and this related nonsense that if a million monkeys typed on keyboards randomly for a million years eventually the entire works of Shakespeare will be produced.
No. Sorry. Divine Intelligence is a part of it. Reincarnation is real. ET's are real. Having to karmically deal with suicide, which I believe is the point of this life for me (to deal with the karma of suicide via a time out, possibly as a ghost) is a real potential consequence of said act.
https://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479113035&sr=1-1&keywords=biocentrism+by+robert+lanza
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Truth-Forbidden-Steven-Greer/dp/0967323827
So yeah, this really irks me when I hear people chalk up psychic experience to random happenstance.
They then invariably go on to claim that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of interactions of bio-chemistry within our nervous system.
What a crock.
I personally prefer the idea that the human brain is a filter that allows us to function in this exquisitely compelling virtual reality experience (as both Albert Einstein and more recently where we incarnate ad infinitum to learn and grow as spiritual beings.
If we were to see the glory of all of existence without said filter we would be overwhelmed and incapable of functioning in this plane.
Back to psychic phenomena, I mean please explain away a few dreams I've had where weeks later I was doing exactly what I was in the dream I had a few weeks earlier, or all of those moments knowing that something specific was going to happen moments before it happened, or hey, how about this one, which most everyone has, knowing someone is going to call you, sometimes to the point where you look at your phone, think of that person, and then your phone rings. Or how about all of the dogs that know their owners are coming home (Rupert Sheldrake).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-That-Their-Owners-Coming/dp/0609600923/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=
Mainstream Science has become the new high priesthood tasked with perpetuating the current [failed] paradigm, the Status Quo, the current order (any coincidence here between the Elites poisoning and literally brainwashing you and paying people large sums of money to confirm the idea that youre just having this one finite life experience on this little lonely rock floating in space and then that's it? Sounds like a great way to bring out the worst in people, to create a world seething with conflict as everyone "has just this one life so I better fucking get mine, even if I have to step on your head to do so" all of which benefits the "Elites"), just as the Catholic Church was tasked with doing the same in the 16th century and locked away Galileo under house arrest for daring to suggest that our planet occupied a helio-centric orbit around the parent star and not the other way around. Now it's the same thing all over again with Quantum Physics and the dawning realization that mind and matter are related, that we can influence others through intent and prayer, and that we are likely eternal spiritual entities occupying temporary host bodies for: boredom, entertainment, lessons, pick one or all of the above. (our actual psychic potential is far more extensive, to include, yes, telekinesis via yogic lore etc. and astral projection, remote viewing, hell the CIA was paying remote viewers in the 1980's at Stanford Research Institute to spy on the Russian's and they wouldn't have paid millions of dollars without first ascertaining the effectiveness! I can't make this up, look up Project Stargate, I'm tired of posting links).
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
My $ .02. Sorry if I offended anyone here.
Hold the door open for me, I'm right behind you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq69-MI9TA0
"Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" - Albert Einstein
So interesting! I had exactly the same thought the other day and meditated on it. My interpretation is that our physical senses help us perceive what is inside us (the physical world). It is the past, the distillation of causality through our bodies, and that our intellectual, emotional and spiritual senses (brain, heart and soul) help us perceive what is outside of us, it is the future and the space of "free form causality". Almost as if the role of our selves (body + soul) was to convert free-form causality into reality like plants convert mud, energy and CO2 into physical structures (the plants themselves).
There is an interesting book on the topic by the guy who cloned the first embryos http://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415340655&sr=8-1&keywords=biocentrism and a section on this in Pickover's book here: http://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Wonderland-Visual-Adventures-Fractal/dp/031212774X
For those interested, here's the relevant book:
http://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=la_B004NDEASI_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408994278&sr=1-1
It's also available on iTunes as an audiobook, which I found interesting for the most part. And I think you'll see more of what the article title implied was in the article.
This same man wrote a book on Biocentrism which will blow your mind.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biocentrism-Bob-Berman-Robert-Lanza/dp/1935251740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462720932&sr=1-1&keywords=biocentrism
Hey man, I read a really interesting book which talks about this whole conscious-centric where there exists no objective reality. We could very well be the centre of the universe. Do your research on the author before reading the book if you want. The book's called Biocentrism by Robert Lanza. Have an open mind and maybe, just maybe, your view of the world could be wrong. It's worth seeing an in-depth perspective of the other side, one which makes a lot of scientifically proven claims (it's not a pseudo-science-y kind of book). Anyways, yeah it's up to you. Just putting it out there.
>I didn't even imply that, speaking of intellectual shortcomings. Furthermore, I could just snipe back and say your intellectual shortcomings are quite obvious if you don't recognize pragmatism as bullshit. Can we not do this?
>I'd have much more respect for you if you bothered tackling what I actually said.
>So instead of wasting our time pointlessly going back and forth like that, I'll just repeat what I said and see if you deal with it this time.
>1) I said that most everyone understands "truth" to have a particular meaning, and if you use "true" to mean something else, you're going to mislead and confuse people. That is entirely independent of whether or not pragmatism has any merit.
Everyone once thought the Earth was flat. Just because something is widely accepted doesn't mean it's right (or true)
>2) I said there are other words you could use that mean the same thing you're trying to say, but are not going to needlessly confuse people.
I agree that saying knowledge is much easier to understand. Jordan is just using the lingo that pragmatic philosophers use
>3) Peterson should have acknowledged that and used another word. "When I say "true" I mean X, but I realize that's confusing, so instead I'll say it like this."
See question #2
>4) Peterson's refusal to do so shows he has an ulterior motive. This is, I believe, being able to say some religious belief that has no evidence is true.
Again he is going off of a previously formed philosophy. He never once every says Religion is historical fact, or true. Only that it is useful. I explain it more below.
>4a) This is a bastardization of pragmatism.
No it isn't. You guys keep getng stuck on this one word and not the actual views Jordan is presenting.
If you expand your understanding to something other than Material Realism, we could actually have a decent conversation. His argument is that you can't form an ought to be from an is. Science cannot answer it all, and Mythology is just as important to forming a usable truth (I would call it something like "necassary knowledge" but I understand why JP uses truth, as in science sometimes provides, or could provide, insufficient truths)
Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism, both by Dr. Robert Lanza, are good books if you're looking for an opposing view from Material Realism.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1935251740/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
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Summer reading my friend