In his book, "Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe," Dr. Robert
Lanza explains his new theory of biocentrism. Biocentrism teaches that life and
consciousness are fundamental to the universe.
It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other
way around.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does
not exist. If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when
the body dies. But if the body receives
consciousness in the same way that a radio tuner receives radio waves, then of
course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In
fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able
to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is
non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.
In support of Dr. Lanza's theory, two world-renowned quantum
scientists claim they can prove the existence of the soul. American Dr. Stuart Hameroff and British
physicist Sir Roger Penrose developed a quantum theory of consciousness
asserting that our souls are contained inside structures called microtubules
which live within our brain cells. Their idea stems from the notion of the
brain as a biological computer, "with 100 billion neurons and their axonal
firings and synaptic connections acting as information networks".
Dr. Hameroff and Sir Roger have been working on the theory since 1996. They argue that our
experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects inside
these microtubules -- a process they call orchestrated objective reduction
(Orch-OR). In a near-death experience the microtubules lose their quantum state
but the information within them is not destroyed. Or in layman's terms, the
soul does not die but returns to the universe.
Dr. Hameroff explained the theory at length in the documentary
"Through the Wormhole," which was recently aired in the US
by the Science Channel. "Let's say the heart stops beating, the blood
stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state," Dr. Hameroff
said. "The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed,
it can't be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at
large. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go
back into the microtubules and the patient says 'I had a near death experience'.
In the event of the patient's death, it was possible that this quantum information
can exist outside the body indefinitely -- as a soul."
This quantum theory of consciousness explains things like
near-death experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even
reincarnation without needing to appeal to religious ideology. The energy of
your consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some
point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some
other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.
