A Mysphyt Revolution: The logical nature of spiritual enlightenment

Published in the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2009 A Mysphyt Revolution The logical nature of spiritual enlightenment by James E. Beichler, Ph.D. P.O. Box 624 Belpre, Ohio 45714 Email: [email protected] Abstract: A large gap between science and religion has existed since Natural Philosophy was wrenched from the hands of religion during the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Since then, a clear line of demarcation has separated spirituality and scientific inquiry, to the detriment of both. Spirituality and mysticism, the most fundamental aspects of religion, deal directly with intuitive and emotional interpretations of reality supported by faith, while physics, the most fundamental of the sciences, deals with the logical and reasonable interpretations of physical reality based on verification. Yet both areas of inquiry are examining the same reality, so it should be suspected that both intuition and logic would come to the same conclusions about physical reality at some point in time. Within the past few decades these two roads to understanding the nature of reality have been progressing toward a common revolutionary understanding of reality, which is embodied in the person of the mysticphysicist or mysphyt. As the mysphyt revolution emerges, new theories of the nature of reality will finally explain such complicated issues as consciousness and matter as well as enlightenment. In fact, a new theory of physical reality is already beginning to break down past barriers as well as extend and enhance the continuing evolution of human consciousness. There is a higher dimension to our common physical reality than that which is normally experienced by everyone and studied by scientists. That is neither to say nor claim that it is not a proper subject for scientific study, nor that it has never even been directly sensed by a few individuals. Higher dimensions have been used in science for some time, but they have not been accepted as physically real for the most part and only considered mathematical formalisms. Nor is the concept unknown to others outside of the scientific, academic and scholarly communities, but again the higher dimension is granted no more reality by those others than what is inherent in its general use (or misuse) in science fiction. Yet the direct experience of this higher physical dimension by Mind through Consciousness forms the true basis of mystical enlightenment. The light that people see during enlightenment is merely how the three-dimensional materially oriented Human Brain interprets and justifies the higher-dimensional reality that it experienced, but cannot make sense of or logically understand. The physical reality of the higher dimension is already implied in normal everyday science by standard electromagnetic theory in the concepts of magnetic potential and longitudinal waves, both of 1 which are part of the scientific model, but neither of which has ever been directly measured or detected in our material three-dimensional world. The higher dimension is also implied by general relativity (Albert Ei stei s theo of g a it ) when the curvature of space-time is interpreted as a e t i si property of the four-dimensional space-time continuum. A scientist named Theodor Kaluza even used this higher dimension to unify electromagnetic theory and general relativity in 1921, while Einstein and his colleagues worked on further developing the Kaluza five-dimensional model of space-time throughout the 1930s. More recently, superstring theorists have extended the five dimensions of Einstein and Kaluza to as many as ten, eleven and even twenty-six, but no more than a single higher dimension of space has ever been needed to develop the physics to explain everything that is already known about the physical universe including Life, Mind, Consciousness and enlightenment. By accepting the reality of a fourth dimension of space, which would be the fifth dimension of the space-time continuum of relativity, science could finally unify all of physics in a single physical framework and understand what is meant by sti s he the speak of e lighte e t , while those individuals who have experienced enlightenment could better and more fully understand exactly what they have experienced. In fact, the reality of the fourth spatial dimension even has important consequences for understanding human evolution. Neither Human evolution nor evolution in general ended with the emergence of Human-level Consciousness and the subsequent enlightenment of a few individuals. The whole of humanity continues to evolve toward a new higher level of Consciousness that encompasses enlightenment. Some skeptics may not be happy that science seems to be reducing Consciousness and enlightenment to logical models, but this is not a reduction as much as an explanation and description of a physical phenomenon and physical state of being that are perfectly natural to physical reality. On the other hand, enlightenment is certainly not the illusion that some hard-core positivistic scientists believe it to be; it is a real and natural level or state of Consciousness. Both sides can and will benefit from this new model of Consciousness. It may even seem strange that physicists are paving the way toward understanding Mind and Consciousness instead of Psychologists, but physics deals with material and physical reality as well as how they are interpreted by Mind and Consciousness. So physicists need to determine how Consciousness interprets our sensations of matter to understand the nature of matter itself, and that is one of the most important goals in all of physics. On the other hand, Psychology is only concerned with behavior and Psychologists are taught early in their careers not to speculate or seek the underlying mechanisms and processes behind behavior, such as Mind and Consciousness. The physical concept of a higher dimension is not a new plot or plot twist in a science fiction story. Instead, this higher physical dimension of space is an unsuspected part of our natural world and studying it yields a perfectly logical model of Life, Mind and Consciousness that corresponds quite closely to the mystical and intuitive concepts of Life, Mind and especially Consciousness. Unfortunately, two major misconceptions seem to dominate the common as well as the scientific attitudes toward the reality of a higher dimension. The first misconception comes from the common belief that hat is material is physical and vice versa, but this is not always true. On the other 2 hand, many people, including scientists, believe that the higher dimension is another place altogether, both different and separate from our normal three-dimensional space. Both contentions are wrong and lead to gross misinterpretations of the science as well as the non-scientific aspects of higherdimensional phenomena. They are therefore detrimental to understanding the truth of human spirituality, mystical thought and enlightenment itself. It is the ei d ess of the fou -dimensional geometry and reality, relative to our three-dimensional environment, which lends a sense of mystery to the sti al hile all of ou o al logi al, easo a le a d s ie tifi e pe ie e is dedi ated to ou three-dimensional reality down to the very neuronal structures within our Brains. In reality the higher dimension exists inside every point within three-dimensional space and is extended to distances as big as our whole universe within each and every point in three-dimensional space. While hat is ate ial is also ph si al, the opposite is ot e essa il t ue. What is ph si al i nature can be material, but then again it is not always material. So, physical and material things are not the same all the time. For example, electric, magnetic and gravity fields are physical and no one would ever claim otherwise, but fields of this type are completely non-material. We perceive material objects as solid and thus discrete from other material objects because their whole volume, or total extent in three-dimensional space, is filled with matter, or so we assume. But simple material objects, like tables, chairs and even living bodies, are not completely filled with matter. The actual material content of solid bodies takes up less than one-tenth of one percent of the total spatial extent of the body. The material content only consists of the protons, neutrons and electrons that constitute the atoms and molecules within the body and nothing more. The rest of the extended space ithi a solid o je t is filled with electric and magnetic fields, which gives the object its appea a e , and perhaps even the illusion of solidity. The individual material particles are just suspended within those fields in their atomic and molecular st u tu es. Whe e see o tou h a solid ate ial o je t, e a e actually interacting with the internal electric fields that constitute the object and not actually coming into direct contact with any matter. Electric and magnetic fields fill absolutely every infinitesimally small point inside solid ate ial objects, even if the material bodies are living organisms. That point is well worth remembering because it is significant. Even our universe as a whole is constructed from physical fields, each associated with one of three fundamental forces: Electricity, magnetism and gravity. These and only these forces hold the elementary material particles that constitute our universe together to form everything from atoms to galaxies and beyond. Each force is associated with a particular physical field and all three of these fields are merely different specialized structures within a single precursor field that occupies all of fourdimensional space and thus five-dimensional space-time. Electricity and magnetism together constitute the electromagnetic field, while the gravitational field is separate in three-dimensional space. However, all three are unified in a stati o o e ta sli e of the si gle field that o pletel fills the fou dimensions of space. As time progresses forward, the state of these fields in the present moment is entangled at the quantum level with their next future state to complete the continuous single field that fills all of five-dimensional space-time. These fields are not force fields. There is no such thing as a force field ; the o ept is pu el science fictional. They are fields of potential that only render a force and/or potential energy when a 3 material object is placed into and interacts with them. Potential exists at each and every infinitesimally small point in the space that the fields fill, so space and the single field are continuous. Everyone is familiar with electrical potential, which is measured in volts, but magnetic potential also exists according to electromagnetic theory. However, the magnetic equivalent of electrical volts have never been measured, detected or even perceived because they are in the higher dimension of space. We are also familiar with gravitational potential. When someone places a material object at some point in a gravitational field, the matter in the object interacts with the gravitational potential at that location in space to create weight. Volts and weight are three-dimensional artifacts of the higher-dimensional si gle field , literally how three-di e sio al ei gs e pe ie e the si gle field i th ee-dimensional space. When all the various elements in this model of physical reality are put together, it clearly becomes evident that every point in our bodies, and indeed the bodies of every living being, has gravitational potential, electrical potential and magnetic potential associated with it, but the same is also true for every non-living material object. The difference between the non-living and living material bodies is in the biochemical interactions that characterize Life. The energy changes that particles undergo during chemical interaction would look like little bumps and hills moving up and down in a sheet when they are modeled as metrics of space-time curvature. So the sustainable biochemical interactions constituting Life form continuous and non-ending stable metric patterns of space-time curvature, which the chemical reactions in non-living bodies do not form. These metrical patterns are outwardly stable, but vary internally over time and they continue without end until a living body dies. They are Life itself. In all, there would be three types or levels of such stable patterns. The first level is due to the material content of the atoms themselves and is defi ed as the et i of spa e-time that corresponds to material motions (or energies) involved in the chemical processes. This stable pattern is Life, that so ethi g e t a e o d the individual biochemical processes that distinguish and define living organisms. Some scientists also call this the Biofield, because Life has a field structure. The et i defines the space-time curvature that is Life, according to general relativity, and that curvature is extrinsic to the th ee-dimensional space-time continuum, or rather it is extended into the fourth dimension of space. By the same token, the biochemical interactions are electrical in nature; remember the exchange and sharing of electrically charged electrons. So overlapping the metric or extrinsic curvature pattern in the fourth dimension of space, there is also an externally stable but internally varying pattern of variations in electrical potential. The electrical potential pattern controls the motions of electrons and charged particles in the biochemical processes that define Life, so it is none other than Mind. Mind emerges from Life, but it also controls Life. And finally, moving electrical charges generate magnetic fields around them, so the exchange and sharing of electrons establishes another overlaying pattern of magnetic potential variations in the fourth dimension that is even more subtle. It varies internally at the smallest levels of material reality, but is externally stable relative to the whole living organism. The magnetic potential pattern guides the motion of electrical particles and thus guides Mind, which controls Life. So the magnetic potential pattern forms Consciousness. 4 The electrical potential pattern of Mind is three-dimensional, but extends (follows the metric curvature) into the fourth dimension, while the magnetic potential pattern of Consciousness varies along the fourth direction of space. So the electrical potential pattern gives the magnetic potential pattern its three-dimensionality, while the magnetic potential pattern gives the electrical potential pattern its four-dimensionality. They are thus mutually coherent as are the Mind and Consciousness that they constitute. All Life must therefore have some minimal level of Mind and Consciousness; or rather simple living organisms have a pre-emergent Mind and a pre-emergent Consciousness. At this lower level, Mind and Consciousness are just non-coherent or irregular patterns overlaying the metric curvature until they emerge as coherent patterns or complexities through evolution. This particular model is vastly oversimplified in that internal organs and other complex systems within living organisms, which would amount to patterns within patterns in the above model, have not yet been taken into account. As a simple living organism evolves, it becomes more complicated through the development of internal functional organs and systems until it reaches a point where it requires a special organ to control the others, the Brain. Brain develops through evolutionary processes at precisely the same time as Mind emerges. So Mind works through the Brain, even though Life, Mind and Consciousness are essentially existent in each and every point within a living body. After Brain evolves and Mind emerges, Mind olle ts o e o es the olle tio o fo electromagnetic signals sent from the Brain. These signals, in the form of longitudinal waves, form new coherent memory patterns and memory patterns within patterns until they become so complicated that a fundamentally new hierarchy or complexity of memories emerges, which is commonly called Consciousness. Memories are stored in Mind as specialized magnetic potential patterns by small tubular or cylindrical protein complexes called Microtubules. The Microtubules form the cytoskeleton system in neurons and they are spread throughout the body by the nervous system, but they are concentrated in the Brain by the neuronal bundles and networks that constitute the Brain. When enough memories have been stored and connected to form the specialized patterns whereby Mind can differentiate between here and there, or local and non-local positions in space, as well as the past, present and future, or rather local and nonlocal positions in time, a new awareness of self as opposed to the rest of the universe emerges. This new super-pattern or complexity of memories is called Human Consciousness. Once Consciousness has emerged, it rewires the Brain and DNA so that Consciousness becomes an inherited characteristic of the Human race, although the scientific model would be the same for any other sentient race of beings. Newborn humans come with empty Consciousness patterns in Mind and then develop their own memories to fill out that pattern. In this a e , a i di idual s Co s ious ess a o ti ue to e ol e and expand during the Life of the individual. If a i di idual s Co s ious ess e ol es to a high e ough le el du i g life, that i di idual ultimately gains an awareness of the higher fourth dimension of space and intimate connections between all things in the universe that exist within the single field that fills the higher dimension. This knowledge can come from either logical or intuitive explorations of physical reality such as the systems of thought represented by science and mysticism, respectively. In both cases, individuals are trying to understand the same physical reality in all of its various aspects. In the case of an intuitive search for 5 truth, the actual experience of coming into direct contact with the single field in the higher dimension defines the event called sti al e lighte e t . Otherwise, individuals can develop a philosophical k o ledge of enlightenment a d e e a s ie tifi k o ledge of the single field and the higher dimension, but these do not guarantee enlightenment unless the single field is directly perceived or experienced. Yet the philosophical and scientific knowledge of the higher dimension together should increase the probability of having such an experience as well as give an individual a greater understanding of the experience after it occurs. Only Consciousness can make direct physical contact with the single field, which is why experiencing enlightenment is so difficult. I esse e, hu a o s ious ess is e e hu a ei g s direct window on the single field and the higher dimension of space which it fills. The experience of actually coming into physical contact with the single field in the higher dimension then alters the basic and fundamental contextual structure of memory patterns in Consciousness to allow a conscious or waking awareness of the experience, with the level of awareness in Brain depending on the intensity of the initial enlightenment event. When people have Near Death Experiences (NDEs), the also tou h this highe ealit e o d thei o di a fi e se ses, so NDEs a e e ui ale t to lo le el e lighte e t experiences. The light that the person senses in either of these cases is merely the collective effect of se si g all of the a es a d f e ue ies i the ele t o ag eti spe t u that fill all of the single field in the higher dimension. After the experience, the waking Mind and Brain try to put this experience into language and thought patterns that were developed (or evolved) to describe a three-dimensional material reality: The closest thing to the experience that the Mind can grasp is seeing the combined frequencies of the whole visible electromagnetic spectrum, which is a pure white light. The e pe ie e e o es a memory in Mi d a d it ust e sto ed a d atego ized i Mi d fo futu e efe e e, so the e o is pla ed i the overall memory pattern where it best fits in with the memories gathered throughout life from threedimensional events and experiences, where it will make the most sense. In other words, the memory of the enlightenment experience must be placed within and interpreted within the overall threedimensional worldview of the experiencer to be of any lasting value. The clearer the memory of the enlightenment event, the better or more successfully it was placed within the overall complex pattern that is Consciousness. Once this higher dimension and the connections with the rest of the universe that are afforded with contact of the single field are experienced, the experiencer has to mentally cope with the experience, i.e., put the experience into terms that can be understood and/or communicated within a three-dimensional world. That is when the individual must come to realize that the fourth dimension of space is not another place, it is neither separate nor different from the normal three-dimensions of space, but its geometrical structure is nothing like the normal three-dimensions of space. Paradoxical statements like it is everywhere and nowhere are just attempts of the Human three-dimensional Brain to cope with a geometry whereby the fourth dimension is inside of every single point in threedimensional space, but each single point in three-dimensional space is extended to the size of the universe in the fourth direction. Ea h i di idual s fou -di e sio al ei g is i side his o he od , ut it is also both an extension of and separate from their three-dimensional material body. So Life, Mind and 6 Consciousness are in every point of a living body, even between the particles that make up the matter in a body, even while every point in the living body is just a three-dimensional material slice of the higher four-dimensional space. The fourth dimension is a paradoxical notion, but it is mathematically and scientifically sound. We o l see to ha e li ed ou hole li es ithout a k o ledge of this highe di e sio . I tuitio is based upon our inherent and natural knowledge of the higher dimension, existing below the threshold of awareness. Yet the fourth dimension of space is needed to logically explain our entire Universe and everything in it, in spite of its paradoxical nature. Any other dimensions that might exist are beyond our universe at present, i.e., they are not relevant or even physical in any sense that we would understand the word and thus have no physical effect on our world. M sti s tea h that e ust dissol e the self , let go of the self o o e to ealize that the self is not the reality of our being. Our true being is the four dimensional extensions of our material body, while our material body is just the three-dimensio al sli e of true four-dimensional being (existence) that e o all e pe ie e. In a sense even this is only partly correct, because out truer reality is the four-dimensional space-time slice of the greater five-dimensional reality. When the truer fivedimensionality is taken into account, even the passage of time disappears as a mental illusion just as the mystics claim. E e the o ept of self efe s o l to the lo alit of the ate ial od that houses our four-dimensional extended being against the non-locality of the rest of the material universe within the three-dimensional slice of the four-dimensional space. And finally, mystics teach of the great connection to the rest of the universe that comes with enlightenment, but this is no more than the conscious waking awareness or realization of the fact that each and every living being is just a part of the greater whole that is found within our existence in the single field. We are individual but extremely complex patterns in the single field, which defines our true selves, but we are also connected to everything in the universe because everything in the universe is just another specialized pattern within the same single field. A vaster and truer enlightenment can be gained by the experience of contact with the single field in the higher dimension of space when it is accompanied by a logical knowledge of exactly what has been experienced, the single field within the higher dimension of space and space-time. At that point, science and mysticism come together and the Mysphyt (literally a MYStical PHYsicisT) emerges within our world, initiating the next step in human evolution. 7