Survival of consciousness conference
In January 2008 I'll be speaking at this conference on the survival of consciousness.
Skeptic agrees that remote viewing is proven
Excerpt from a January 2008 item in the UK's The Daily Mail newspaper: In 1995, the US Congress asked two independent scientists to assess whether the $20 million that the government had spent on psychic research had produced anything of value. And the conclusions proved to be somewhat unexpected. Professor Jessica Utts, a statistician from the University of California, discovered that remote viewers were correct 34 per cent of the time, a figure way beyond what chance guessing would allow. She says: "Using the standards applied to any other area of science, you have to conclude that certain psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, have been well established. "The results are not due to chance or flaws in the experiments." Of course, this doesn't wash with sceptical scientists. Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, refuses to believe in remote viewing. He says: "I agree that by the standards of any other area ...
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Why do you say that psi suggests that brain and mind are not identical?
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While conversing with him, he told me: "I need you to pass on a message to my friend Peter Onisquius (not sure of name). He will know it is me when you say to him that Bell said Hey pecker, what the heck is this about? It is Bell and his crap again."
"Once you say that, he will know that you've spoken to me so he can accept that even though he himself could not prove it, the theorem of non-locality is true."
I looked up physicists to find out who this Peter might be but I couldn't find it. So, I am submitting it to you since it is your book I am reading.
I am not a scientist but I am an avid reader of scientific and non-scientific works.
I believe in the psi world because I have had countless experiences that relate to it.
Keep up the good work. You validate what many people are not willing to talk about.
I do believe in survival of mind/consciousness after death. I communicate telepathically with spirit guides (one was able to confirm his existence to me by using a sort of code word in a foreign language I had to look up!). At one point I questioned my guide "Are you an individual, separate entity or are you just an aspect of my own mind?" He responded with another question: "Does it matter?" What a great teacher - really got me thinking! I realized that when the individual mind (sense of self) expands into the realm of comprehensive consciousness (what Jung coined as the collective unconscious), in effect, that mind is united with all other minds and there is a sense of oneness, all is One Mind, and yet by some means individual mind is also retained within that One Mind (even in the discarnate state after death). Both states exists at once, whether the psychic is just visiting the realm of the One Mind or joins it after the transition of physical death. So my understanding is that while sometimes the entities one perceives by psychic means seem to be entirely separate, individual entities complete with their own personalities and vibrational frequencies, they are also - because we are all essentially One Mind - seemingly aspects of the individual mind. The individual mind exists within the pool of the One Mind - they overlap - so it can sometimes be confusing; it takes practice to discern if the voices and images one perceives are just a creation of one's own brain/imagination, or coming from beyond the brain, from some other individual entity/consciousness as part of the One Mind.
The names you received seem to contain parts of a Latin phrase. Not sure who Peter and Bell are, but take the rest of those names together and you get "Theorem" and, since you weren't sure of the spelling, maybe a garbled version of "omnis quis" - in other words, having to do with the theory pertaining to the why/how of the all/everything. Makes perfect sense in light of the reading material - Entangled Minds and psi related to quantum mechanics. Physicists were (and still are) constructing unifying theories to explain everything in the Universe.
The use of Latin (which you don't know - neither do I, had to look the words up in a Latin glossary) indicates you were definitely getting this message from some other entity beyond your own mind. This is exactly the way my own spirit guide confirmed his existence to me - with a strange Latin word/name!
Cool experience, Marie!!
"Theorem Bell" is an obvious reference to Bell's Theorem as it relates to quantum mechanics. Bell died in 1990 - so he's definitely a discarnate entity/mind/spirit. The Peter of "Peter Onisquius" may be physicist Peter L. Knight, who is living and publishes profusely on the American Physical (Physics) Society's (APS) "Physical Review Online Archive" - five of his articles are related to Bell's Theorem.
The link is here:
http://prola.aps.org/search/query/7eb6ed94f395ed2860e0763b028e8d7a
Although I haven't read all the papers, it seems Peter doesn't always agree with Bell. It seems that perhaps (if I've identified the correct "Peter" as P.L. Knight), Marie indeed got a message from Bell for Peter from beyond the grave. Bell is still hanging around, taking keen note of what's going on in the world of physics... It would be very interesting to contact Dr. Knight and find out if this message (via Marie) means anything to him. We might just have some tangible proof of survival of mind after death - communication via an unrelated, unknown medium (Marie) who just happened to be interested (entangled?)in the subject matter regarding psi and quantum physics/non-locality...
WOW is all I can say!!!!!!
Dean, perhaps you should be the one to follow up on this, contact P. L. Knight???? Let us know what you learn.
Peter L. Knight is a theoretical physicist who teaches and conducts his research at Imperial College in London. His bio is here:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/qols/about_qols/peter_knight.htm
In describing his research, he and a colleague formulated a very successful model which they dubbed "CRAPOLA"!!! So, in the message Marie received, "crap" seems to be the secret code word here. (Maybe "Onisquius" is some nickname Bell had for Knight.)
Absolutely amazing! I just don't think these can be mere coincidences.
Another interpretation of "Peter Onisquius" may be Peter Onus Quis, or "Peter Who Is a Burden."
Seems Bell is ribbing this Peter, whether as an old friend or antagonist, only Peter would know for sure. BTW, Peter L. Knight came up with his CRAPOLA model in the 1980s it seems, and Bell died in 1990. Apparently these two knew (or at least knew of) each other's work in the world of physics. Apparently Bell is still keeping track of Peter's work from the other side, and he wants him to know it, LOL!!
FANTASTIC!!!
However, I am still inclined to be cautious. Ultimately all that a reader of any blog is confronted with is email communications, plus whatever information can be derived from Internet research. Accordingly, my cut on this requires that all the logical possibilities be at least identified. Other possibilities that are at least not logically impossible are: (1) subconscious confabulation aided by cryptoamnesia, since all the information does exist in various printed forms, and Marie at least in principle could be subconsciously remembering brief past exposures to the information, (2) subconscious confabulation aided by super esp, and (3), hoax.
I liked the last one by David the most. Therefore I will respond since it almost sounds like a challenge to me :-)
This is my story:
The past seven years have been quite interesting for me because I was suddenly confronted with voices that I did not know where they were coming from. I have learned from them a whole lot and continue to do so. Every morning that I wake up there is something new that I need to go research from antiquity/past civilizations, to religions, to ordinary people, to nature, to languages, to everything you can name, things I have no knowledge of. (By the way, I get to see them in dreams in vivid colors too.)
My very first word was Assurbanipal in October of 2000. I did not know what that was, who that was or what it was all about. I swear to you that I thought I was going crazy but I went online and searched that word. Since then, the sky has been the limit.
I started channeling angels recently with some fear I want you to know because this is so new to me.
"Theorem Bell" was the very first time I was able to channel a spirit. It happened right after I wrote in Entangled Spirits "I agree with Bell" for his theorem. I recognized the pain I felt on my right side because I had attended two months ago a meeting where a medium told me that there was a spirit next to me and I had felt the same pain.
I am a nurse with a Ph.D. in Health Administration. I started reading on quantum physics last year because a voice mentioned it. Obviously, I did not know anything about it before then.
A question that I have for Dean Radin is the following: why am I able to dictate how many shadows of myself that I see. All I have to say is "you can do better" and immediately, they start multiplying. I have counted twelve one time, some passing me, some coming from the opposite direction, some stuck to each other, some behind me when I turn my head to look. I keep searching online if it is maybe an optical illusion.
Another time, I had just read another quantum book and I thought of waves and suddenly, while walking in the park, the whole street was nothing but shadows of waves.
There are so many more experiences I could mention such as communicating mentally with my friends the squirrels, the birds or the raccoons and seeing them joining me, lifting their paws to me. Mind you, I have no food to give them except my love and appreciation for being a part of nature.
This morning was wonderful because for the first time, I channeled my uncle (learned from Bell) for my mother because she loved him so much. I had tears in my eyes and my mom just now started crying when I read it over the phone for her. I made sure he said something that only she would remember from their childhood.
I want to say thank you regarding the various interpretations to the Bell comment. My resolution for 2008 is to be able to accomplish something different everyday without fear.
By the way, because of all these extraneous events in my life, I lost husband, house, luxury cars, expensive goods but I gained something that cannot be acquired with money: inner peace, harmony and a love for mankind that I would not relinquish for all the gold in the world. I now believe in interconnectedness because I have become so empathic that I have taken on my patients' pain for myself and seen their relief, without them knowing about it. Healing others has been another forte.
It has been and continues to be a journey. Through it all, my love for humanity stands tall and firm and bears no negotiation.
I hope this has helped. If wanted, I can type the whole conversation I had with Bell. It was quite interesting.
It is possible the unconscious or super-conscious mind is just bringing information to waking consciousness, but why create such a cryptic, detailed conversation?
To consider confabulation of information, whether unconsciously (previous absorption of the information via normal perceptions) or super-consciously (via psi), or even the creation of a hoax - one must realize that's a lot of trouble to go to for an individual mind to concoct - in a backward, very convoluted manner! - and carry on such a detailed conversation (with a separate person/entity the experiencer has never even met!) - within one's own head. Why? For what purpose? I've asked myself this question many times regarding my own telepathic experiences, and being sane of mind, it makes no sense that's one would just concoct such an elaborate conversation in one's own head!
So let's rule out mental illness. Marie comes across as a very normal, well-educated person (as do we all here!), and Dean did a great job providing evidence in Entangled Minds that among psi believers/experiencers, measures of schizotypy were not associated with psychological ill-health. To quote Dean - and I love this! - psi experiencers/believers "just see farther into the depths of the world than other people do."
To me - again from my own similar experiences - the simplest answer (even if science isn't able to prove/explain it yet, which should not rule it out) is that Marie was in contact with Bell's consciousness, and he asked her to pass a personal, probably purposely cryptic message on to a living physicist named Peter (which message may only have meaning to Peter), as a means to rib the latter and to provide evidence of the survival of consciousness after death.
www.acim.org/ACIM/HowItCame.htm
Where this sort of information comes from no one knows for sure, but there's no doubt that some people sometimes receive information that proves to be enduringly useful. The Seth materials also come to mind in this regard.
Marie, you kindly offered to type in your entire conversation with "Bell." I'd like to see it, if it isn't too long.
Theorem Bell.
What? I say who are you?
I told you I am Theorem Bell.
Why do you use Theorem?
So that you know that you are talking to the right Bell, the physicist.
What do you have to say to me?
I want to say first of all that it is incredible that I am able to prove my theory in you. For years I had been saying that my idea of non-locality is true but I had yet to find someone in the non-professional field to transcribe my theory. I am glad I found you today.
It comes as a surprise to me to tail you and to encounter you by chance. Your thought must have called on me or vice versa. I have been looking for a while to transmit this information. I am glad finally it is possible. First of all, I am quite surprised to see a non-physicist reading such material. It is incredible that you could have been interested in a topic that is so controversial. Quantum Physics is not yet accepted by all physicists. As a matter of fact, many such scientists despise the notion that paranormal experiences could fall under physics. They are so full of it. But anyway, that is not why I am with you today.
Let me first say that what you think you know is nothing compared to what I see in the world that I am in. It is amazing that humans feel they are so knowledgeable. My God, there are zillion of things that are incomprehensible to the regular mind. Spirits if you want to call them that way are so advanced that I do not know where to start.
A thought is faster than light itself. The speed of light is determined by the waves created in the universe. Well, a thought goes on the same path, a pattern of waves that are communicated from mind to body and body to mind in less than a second. I am using easy terms so you can follow what I am talking about.
What I could not understand on earth, I am able to understand now. The universe is such a grand plane that one does not have enough intelligence to capture all that it comprises. Let's talk about non-locality which is my forte. When I was on earth, I brushed on it because I had no real proof that my theorem could be true. That is why it was so debatable. Now I can see I was right all along.
I need you to pass on a message to my friend Peter Onisquius. He will know it is me when you say to him that Bell said "Hey Pecker, what the heck is this about? It is Bell and his crap again." Once you say that, he will know that you've spoken to me so he can accept that even though he himself could not prove it, the theorem of non-locality is true.
We do not have to hold hands to be connected. We do not have to physically talk to each other for it to be a reality. You are communicating with me, yet you can't see me. You can't say you hear me. You can't say you visualize me. None of that is true and yet here we are talking to each other. We have crossed borders that scientists would want to deny. Anyway, it is nice talking to you.
Are you friend or foe?
I would not be talking to you like that if I were foe.
What could you tell me to help me progress in this world of Alice in Wonderland?
I will say keep on chucking. The sky is the limit if you keep an open mind. Those that continuously refute what's not visible or what cannot be measured are simply fools. They will die never knowing real truths or real realities. I pity them because the Universe is open to all willing to absorb some of its knowledge.
You mentioned raccoons, so I take it you're American? Another clue that you were communicating with physicist Bell was his use of the term "keep on chucking" - which is British slang, derived from cricket (chucking = pitching), which means hang in there, keep at it, don't give up. Bell was British (Irish).
So unless Marie has spent a lot of time in the UK or conversing with Brits, the phrase "keep on chucking" would likely not be part of her usual vocabulary. This lends credibility to her experience.
All very fascinating!
I am American but I spend most of my time these days speaking Spanish/French with friends/family and English with my kids and acquaintances. I have not lived in the UK but visited it twice. I live here in the States.
I have no way of knowing if this Peter exists nor any proof that it was Bell except for what I heard.
As a final word, if what I heard was true, the real Peter will come forward.
It was nice sharing this information.
Some of your experiences sound very much like mystical experiences. I have been doing research 16 years into the mysteries of life and find yours interesting. I have a PhD in a science field but now retired. I.e. a PhD can be a hindrance (know it all mentality) but it does give one the interest and confidence of being able to do research.
William
In these past 16 years I have found many interesting books would love to share with you if interested.
Has your position on survival changed or do you still think the jury is not out yet? I remember in 2004 on a close to truth segment you stated that there is some doubt, then it seems like you progressed more to the middle where you weren't sure - so I was wondering if you are still in the middle or have more certainty now?