Is this collective concisiousness? - The Physics of Collective Consciousness

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Dear Sohniya,

 

What you have experienced is the very basic and faint awareness of

Collective Consciousness, generally regarded as " coincidences " .

 

It is difficult to grasp what Collective Conscious really is but we

should know that all our Sahasraras are identical and linked to each

other like a giant computer. Another way to look at it is to regard

ourselves as individual cells of a Single Mind.

 

Over the years i have found out that the Adi Shakti in every

Sahasrara knows exactly what all humans am doing. By this i mean the

Adi Shakti in my Sahasrara and yours knows simultaneously what i am

doing, even though you do not (and vice versa). Multiply that by

billions of humans and you will begin to understand the complexity

and flawlessness of this Cosmic Mind, regard as Collective

Consciousness by scientists.

 

i have experimented a number of different ways with the reality of

Collective Consciousness to confirm that it is indeed true i.e. the

Shakti is the Cosmic Mind/Consciousness that is omnipotent,

omnipresent and omniscient. In the 2,200 page SHRI ADI SHAKTI: THE

KINGDOM OF GOD evidence of these attributes are given under these

titles:

 

" You Have To Project That Depth, That Reality That Is Within You " 545

The Microcosm Within The Macrocosm (Brahmanda Pinda) 548

The Case Of The Double Vision 550

The Case Of The Double Talk 551

The Case Of The Double Witnesses 553

The Case Of The Double Time 554

The Case Of The Double Mothers 555

The Case Of The Double Bodies 564

The Case Of The Double Worlds 565

Homo Sapiens: Discover Your Self! 567

The Parable Of The Kingdom Of God 569

The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of God 572

" There Is Nothing To Look Outside, Everything Is Inside " 576

The Knowledge Within 578

The Offended Fools 584

The Revelations Of The Sacred Pujas 587

The Guru Puja 589

The Birthday Puja 598

The Easter Puja 600

Sahasrara Puja 602

The Divine Musicians of Maa 604

Jagoh Savera Aya Hai 607

The Praises Of The Multitudes To The Almighty Creator 608

Omar Khayyam's Legacy 609

The Supreme Spirit Of God Almighty 610

 

Sohniya, there are more pages/titles but the above should be

sufficient. However, if you want to understand all the above you

have to first grasp " The Physics of Collective Consciousness " by

Attila Grandpierre. He is talking about the Collective Consciousness

that we are all part and parcel of. The individual Sahasraras of all

humans (Kingdom of God) are all linked up to form this Collective

Consciousness. Feeling the chakras of each other is just one of the

countless connections we have in Collective Consciousness. It is

just too vast and complex a reality for even spiritual seeker and

well-educated. It is even more difficult for the religious masses

and illiterate.

 

jagbir

 

 

 

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The Physics of Collective Consciousness

by Attila Grandpierre

Attila Grandpierre, Ph.D. Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian

Academy of Sciences

H-1525 Budapest P. O. Box 67., Hungary

February 6, 1996

http://www.mediastorm.hu/grandpierre/200201/pcc.htm

 

ABSTRACT: It is pointed out that the organisation of an organism

necessarily involves fields which are the only means to make an

approximately simultaneous tuning of the different subsystems of the

organism-as-a-whole. Nature uses the olfactory fields, the acoustic

fields, the electromagnetic fields and quantum-vacuum fields. Fields

with their ability to comprehend the whole organism are the natural

basis of a global interaction between organisms and of collective

consciousness. Evidences are presented that electromagnetic

potential fields mediate the collective field of consciousness. This

result offers for the first time experimental access to the study of

collective consciousness by measuring the field-related information-

carrying potentials and their derivatives, the electric and magnetic

fields between different individuals. The electrodynamic interaction

of different brains/minds generates induction and in this way

excitement, enhancement in the baseline of the interacting

brains' activity. A list of empirical evidences is presented here

proving the existence of this `interactive excitement' effect

in the known phenomenon of collective consciousness. The fundamental

phenomenon of the collective consciousness is known as `social

facilitation' or `group effect'. The character and

completion of consciousness are outlined in the frame of this

picture, and the role of the `group effect' or `social

facilitation' as a primary factor in developing consciousness is

described. A quantum-physical model of a multi-layered consciousness

is presented, where the layering is expressed by the subsequent

subtlety of the masses of the material carriers of information. I

show that as the mental levels get deeper and more sensitive the

couplings are on more and more global scales of their environment. I

point out that direct, immediate action in distance actually exists

in the electromagnetic field, which is the coupling, mediator field

between waves and particles. I show how the environmental, natural

and cosmic fields are determinative sources of our consciousness.

The results presented point out that the Collective Field of

Consciousness is a significant physical factor of the biosphere. I

show that the morphogenetic field has an electromagnetic (EM)

nature. EM fields are vacuum fields. Different basic forms of vacuum

fields exist, and all kinds of fields, including the particle-

mediated fields as well, when overlapping each other, seem to be in

a direct resonant coupling, and form a complex, merged biofield. The

vacuum model of consciousness presented here points to the inductive

generation of consciousness, and to its self-initiating nature.

Individual and collective methods, as well as the experimental

possibilities of a global healing and improving the consciousness

field of mankind are suggested.

 

 

1. Introduction

 

It is generally accepted that consciousness evolved parallel to the

biological and social complexity of the living systems. This

observation suggests that the basic nature of consciousness is

related to collective influences, and therefore consciousness

is 'per se' a collective phenomenon. Endre K. Grandpierre (1996) in

his essay " Cosmic Systems of Consciousness, Their Development, Two

Principal Branches and Evolution from the Golden Age until the

Present " has shown that consciousness is the manifestation of

interactions. Ervin Laszlo (1995) has shown that a holographic

information field is responsible for the physical, biological and

paranormal phenomena. This holographic field is actually a non-

linear vacuum field. The information field in biology is termed as

biological or morphogenetic field and it appears in society as a

collective field. Unfortunately, the presence and nature of social

fields have not been explored yet to a degree when it is clear how

they are related to the biological fields. If the nature of

consciousness is based on elementary interactions, as suggested by

Endre K. Grandpierre (1996), then we have to explore whether the

interactions of known physical fields may serve as mediators of

consciousness and may produce the fundamental phenomena of

consciousness, the 'group effect'.

 

 

2. The Evolution of Consciousness

 

It is widely believed, that the way evolution manifest is from parts

to the whole, from the inorganic matter through the unicellular

organism towards the multicellular ones until the appearance of

consciousness. This process is accompanied by a growing degree of

complexity. This direction of the evolution of consciousness is

naturally extrapolated towards the appearance of collective

consciousness and the Consciousness Field of Mankind (Grandpierre,

A., 1995). But why complexity is a necessary condition of a higher

form of consciousness? I suggest a plausible answer: because the

sensitivity to any stimulus may be increased through the

interconnectedness of the constituents of the organism. The

increased degree of sensitivity in groups is available through the

interactive creation of collective states having energetic states

with smaller net energy differences between each other than within

the constituents themselves. Therefore they may interact with more

subtle stimuli. According to my theory, this basic phenomenon works

effectively when the energetic states of the constituents are close

to each other. The maximal sensitivity of a system consisting of a

fixed number of elements may be reached when the system builds up

from almost identical constituents. Examples of this 'collective

effect' are multicellular organisms, societies of insects, animals,

and humans, and celestial bodies. The Earth, the Sun, the stars, and

the galaxies are also systems consisting of similar components.

Their organic nature has not been revealed in a scientific context,

but now the new research shows that planets and stars do show

fundamental life-phenomena and signs of sensitive interconnectedness

(Grandpierre, A. 1996a, b, c, d). Regarding the large number of

their constituents, the degree of attainable consciousness of these

cosmic systems has to be enormously larger than that of humans. As

Endre K. Grandpierre (1996a, b) showed, the evolution of the

consciousness of cosmic systems divides into a cosmic and a

biological branch.

 

This chain of thought places collective phenomena into the centre of

evolution and the generation of consciousness. Our argumentation is

substantiated by wide-range observations, e.g. that of L. Thomas

(1974): " A solitary ant, afield, cannot be considered to have much

of anything on his mind; indeed, with only a few neurones strung

together by fibres, he can't be imagined to have a mind at all, much

less a thought. He is more like a ganglion on legs. Four ants

together, or ten, encircling a dead moth on a path, begin to look

more like an idea. They fumble and shove, gradually moving the food

toward the Hill, but as though by blind chance. It is only when you

watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around

the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole

beast, and now you observe it thinking., planning, calculating. It

is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for

its wits. " On the other hand, the 'group effect', a phenomenon of

psychology which I suggest has a fundamental significance, arises in

the same circumstances. Ants work three times more effectively if

nearby co-working ants are present (Chen, 1937). Not only the

presence of co-working partners, but also, the mere presence of

passive 'observers' facilitates their activity (Dashiell,

1930). 'Social facilitation' is a general phenomenon accompanied by

an enhanced level of brain activity appearing in the whole range of

social animals, including humans as well (Triplett, 1898; see a

review of the phenomenon in Atkinson et al., 1993).

 

To establish the proper context and assess the significance of the

phenomenon, I gathered here a whole list of collective consciousness

effects. Allport (1961) noted, that among developing children, the

sense of other humans develops much earlier than the sense of self-

identity. I suggest that this 'social primacy' is related to the

frequently observed " emotional fertilisation " in kindergartens.

Children cry and laugh even if they do not have any motive except

that in their close environment somebody else acts in the same way.

The phenomenon of " noise-ecstasy " usually appears among adolescent

people, in classrooms. " In the age of adolescence whole classrooms

become involved in the 'mass state', which is a state which

developing through mutual emotional infection. On these occasions

the whole classroom become crazy, they make incredible noises, dance

wild dances, rhythmically move, or simply produce a wild chaos.

Every pupil participates in the orgy of the upheaval, even those

ones, who are not inclined to behave that way within normal

conditions and who immediately after the event regret having acted

so " (Clauss, Hiebsch, 1964 ). Kurt Tepperwein notes that hypnosis

becomes more effective if it is applied in groups, as a consequence

of " spiritual infection " and imitation of the others (Tepperwein,

1977). The increase in the number of already hypnotised people

facilitates the hypnosis of the next one. This phenomenon suggests

the existence of a collective field. Large number of people (tens of

thousands of people) were involved in epidemics of psychoses on

several occasions and for long times (years) (Farkaslaki, 1939) in

the medieval age. Similar occasions took place in the modern era,

such as tarantism, demonopathy, dancing mania, mass hysteria

(Smelser, 1962), mental epidemics, 'mass psychogenic illnesses' (see

the recent review of Bartholomew, 1994). The transference of the

anomalous behaviour was described as when the number of people

showing the anomalous behaviour reached a certain threshold, the

behaviour spread much more easily (Turner and Killian, 1972; Miller,

1985). The " Reutler-effect " shows that the contraction of the

muscles of a person may enhance the contraction of the muscles of

another person from a distance (Reutler, 1928). Stefán Figar

(1959) showed that bodily changes related to special mental

activities may easily be transferred to other people independently

of their knowledge about each others' actions.

 

I have to point out, that all of these phenomena may be interpreted

by an electromagnetic field model of consciousness, including the

phenomenon of hypnosis. If consciousness is organised with the help

of the EM field, this EM field may be able to transcend the borders

of the organism emitting the waves (see the evidences later on), and

interact with the consciousness field of another person nearby. This

possibility is allowed by the measurements of Ravitz (1962), who

showed that EEG changing during hypnosis presents a waking state

pattern. Collective consciousness fields are suggested to act in the

ancient Japanese no-theatre and in the truly cathartic theatre

performances (Vekerdy, 1974). As Vekerdy formulates, the artist may

exert an effect on the audience in three ways: using words, through

hearing, by movements, through seeing, and using intense emotions,

which exert their effects through telepathy, extra sensory

perception. In an experiment conducted by Charles Tart, two graduate

students were mutually hypnotising each other. He had Anne hypnotise

Bill and after he was hypnotised, he had Bill hypnotise her in

return. Anne and Bill in this state experienced the same fantastic,

hallucinated reality (Tart, 1969). Richardson (1995) experienced

that an imaginary playmate, observed independently and consequently

by nine children, was also observed by one adolescent male and also

perceived by herself, the teacher personally, as a real 4-year old

person. Richardson writes 'In my own case, during the contact, I was

not aware of suspecting that she was an apparition until I had the

thought " She does not belong in our yard and she is not even dressed

right for this century. " At that moment we made eye contact and she

vanished, dropping the baseball cap.' We may observe that

consciousness is fundamentally related to (external and internal)

collective, or social interactions, and is elicited through enhanced

emotional levels. The collective consciousness field effect is

especially amplified when a large number of participants are

involved. Therefore, the collective consciousness field of mankind

may not only be influenced by nature but also by a modification of

social origin, e.g. when significant amount of people are involved

in mutual hypnosis. Psychological researches have shown that

creativity is triggered in intense emotional states. The hypothesis

that the determining factor of consciousness is related to emotional

states is developed, considered and evidenced later on.

 

 

3. Collective Biological Fields

 

Experiments show that collective biological fields may dominate the

individual field (Popp, 1994). The nature of the biological fields

has not been understood, although it is clear that they are related

to electromagnetic fields (Bauer, E., 1920; Gurwitsch, who worked at

E. Bauer's institute, 1922; again an assistant of E. Bauer, Koltsov,

1936; Spemann, 1938; Weiss, P., 1939; Burr, 1956; Ravitz, 1962;

Sheldrake, 1981, 1988; Popp et al., 1989; Bischof, 1995). Recently,

H. Oldfield's life-long work substantiated that the biological field

is mostly of electromagnetic nature, and postulated the hypothesis

of a purely electromagnetic (in the followings EM) morphogenetic

radiation (Oldfield, Coghill, 1988). Two other basic books on

bioelectromagnetism are the ones by Becker and Selden (1985) and

Smith and Best (1989).

 

I have to point to a yet unnoticed circumstance regarding the nature

of the morphogenetic fields. If constituents of a group interact

through electromagnetic fields, they have to be able to detect EM

information coming from their environment, and also to be able to

emit EM signs carrying information about their internal states. In

that case they have to be EM antennas, receiving and broadcasting EM

waves. But we know, that antennas are specially designed to be

sensitive to a certain wavelength of EM radiation, and that the

characteristics of the EM spectrum, as well as their receptive

characteristics, depend on their sizes, and in general, on their

geometrical forms. Interactive elements of a group, when using EM

waves, are sensitive to each other's geometry, i.e. forms. It is

easy to see that organic EM antennas regulated by the interchanged

EM signs may be described as influenced by their 'morpho-genetic'

field, i.e. any EM field acts as a morphogenetic field. This theory

seems to be able to interpret e.g. the fact that the shape of the

smelled molecule determines its information content (Thomas, 1974).

If atoms are arranged in precisely the same configuration, by

whatever chemical name, the compound molecule might smell as sweet.

 

What is the function of the biological fields? In every cells

hundreds of thousands of reactions set up every second. Most of the

reactions of the cells have a substantial life-function, therefore

they cannot happen by chance, but need specific guidance, timing and

regulation, as they fulfil a function for the cell as a whole. Their

regulation need a much quicker regulative system than the time scale

of their reactions, since it requires an overview of the actual

states and possibilities and the basic needs, and the co-ordination

of the different factors. The regulative mechanism of the cell

therefore has to work with subtle energies. The regulative system

has to proceed the relevant informations in due time. Therefore, it

has to work with the most effective information carriers, i.e.

waves. The regulative mechanism of the organisms has to apply

ultrafast interaction in order to be able to inform and co-ordinate

the different reactions of the organism approximately simultaneously.

 

 

4. Physical Conditions of Consciousness

 

The physical means of information exchange between an organism and

its environment is determined by the physical conditions, the size

of the organism, and the biological time-scales. The regulation of

the reactions with biological functions require processes faster and

subtler than the reactions themselves. Acoustic waves propagate with

a velocity of v = 1.4 km/s in the human body. Taking a

characteristic size of the human body l = 2 metres, we can calculate

a value for the characteristic acoustic frequency of the human body:

 

fac,human body = v/l = 103 Hz, (1)

 

therefore the characteristic time scale of these acoustic waves is

 

tac, human body = 10-3 s. (2)

 

Using electromagnetic waves, the human organism has another

characteristic frequency and time-scale, with l = 2m,

 

fEM,human body = 108 Hz = 100 MHz, (3)

 

tEM, human body = 10 -8 s. (4)

 

Larger frequencies belong to smaller wavelengths, therefore to inner

signs, smaller frequencies mediate information from the environment.

EM waves originate from the body, as well. Brains emit EEG waves

between 1-40 Hz, in the range of the EM waves of the Earth, the

Schumann waves (Schumann and König, 1954). The frequencies of the

Earth's EM waves can be calculated using L = 40 000 km, as

 

fEM, Earth = 300 000km/s /40 000 km = 7.5 Hz. (5)

 

The researches of Ludwig (1984) showed that Schumann waves are

necessary as biotropic stimuli for the living organisms. Tsuvayev

(see Merkulov, 1978) showed that the growth and development of

mushrooms and water-plants ceases when isolated from environmental

magnetic field. It is interesting that the acoustic resonant

frequency of the human body falls into the range of 7-8 Hz. The

human body is extremely sensitive to signs at this acoustic

frequency. Noises with this frequency, if they are intense enough,

may sensitively alter bodily functions. It seems to be strange that

the resonant frequency is not the one determined on the basis of

purely acoustic conditions. The coincidence of the acoustic resonant

frequency with the EM frequency of the Earth and the EEG alpha-waves

may suggest the close resonant coupling of these fields of different

nature. It is another interesting coincidence, that the surface of

the Earth also appears to have mechanical (acoustic) vibrations

within the 10 Hz bands.

 

Schumann waves penetrate through the body to approx. 94 %, and are

absorbed in approx. 6% at the specific frequencies the organism can

resonate (Ludwig, 1984). It means that the source of the brain's

activity may be triggered from outside the body. One part of the EM

spectrum (f <100 MHz) is the outer, natural and cosmic source of our

consciousness, the other part, with f >100 MHz, is the inner source

of our consciousness. Regarding the fact that the smaller

frequencies, i.e. larger wavelengths are related to EM quanta of

smaller, subtler energies, we obtain a result that the more subtle

levels of the organisms' regulation belong to a hierarchy of global

consciousness, to natural and cosmic sources of consciousness. In

this context, it is interesting that the frequencies and time-

development of the Schumann and EEG waves are similar (König,

Angermüller, 1960).

 

The more subtle level behind the EM one is the level of quantum-

vacuum interactions (QVI). Laszlo (1995) proposed that QVI may offer

the solutions for the present problems of cosmology, biology,

psychology and parapsychology. I worked out a quantitative model

which shows the relationship between the different levels of our

environment and the progressively deeper mental levels existing

within us (Grandpierre, 1995a, b).

 

It is pointed out that the deeper mental levels (Grandpierre,

1995a), on which the 'aware consciousness' builds up, have larger

capacity, are faster, therefore they require more subtle material

carriers beyond the molecular and neural units, reaching the quantum

range. Assuming a finite energy exchange between the vacuum field

and the brain within the bounds of the uncertainty principle, a

relation is found between the physical size of the brain and its

relevant time scales. Using the time scales for information

processing within the brain as a whole and within its cells, the

characteristic frequencies of the electromagnetic and vacuum waves

are obtained in the visible and the ultraviolet spectral ranges. It

is pointed out that the formula derived for the couplings between

the different mind levels gives values for the frequencies between

the Universe and Man which are physically possible and actually

plausible.

 

 

5. The Levels of the Mind

 

The 4* 1010 neurones of the brain, having 103 synapses,

respectively, each of which has 102 levels of " strength " , would give

us a mental " universe " consisting of maximum 1015 elements. This

number is too small even if we consider the classic von Neumann

estimate of 1020 bits as conscious information obtained during a

lifetime. Taking into account that the amount of information

reaching us from our environment through our external senses is

estimated to be around 109 - 1010 bits/sec (see later on), this

neuronal model becomes insufficient within 106 sec, i.e. within 10

days, even if we count only the information coming from the

environment. We can use a finite state model of the brain, but we

definitely need much more states than the neural model can provide.

The phenomenon of creativity gives an even more stringent constraint

on the number of states of the brain (Grandpierre, 1995a).

 

The simple, exclusively neural model of consciousness is also

counter-indicated by some basic observations, e.g. the spontaneous

excitation of neurones, when their activity potential develops

spontaneously, i.e. not from the sensorial input. It means that an

underlying mechanism exists on which the brain activity is

organised. Already Szent-Györgyi drew attention to the need of sub-

molecular biology and the role of spontaneous electron transfer in

the cell's life activity (Szent-Györgyi, 1968). He pointed out

that cell division may be regulated by donor-acceptor interactions,

processes in which electrons go spontaneously from one molecule to

another. Evidences were given that the electrons are moved by the

energy of light from one molecule to another (Szent-Györgyi,

1968). He remarked, that electrons are necessary also in regulating

the organism as a whole, and as a physical carrier of thinking since

there is a basic need for a fast enough process, much faster than

the biomolecules can be (Szent-Györgyi, 1974). This essay here was

inspired by his lecture, trying to apply and extend it. Recently

Ladik defended Szent-Györgyi's views on the proteins as good

electrical conductors by numerical quantum-chemical calculations.

Free electrons are present within proteins and they are substantial

in DNA-protein interaction, therefore in the genetic regulation, in

rapid signal transfer within biopolymers, and they play an important

role in the self-regulation of the cell (Ladik, 1987, and more

references therein). A new branch of science grew from the ideas of

Szent-Györgyi, bioelectromagnetism. There is a tremendous

literature studying the ultraweak electromagnetic radiation from

cells, the biophotons (Popp, Li and Gu, 1992; Bischof, 1995) and

bioelectromagnetism (Adey, 1981; Becker, Selden, 1985; Oldfield,

Coghill, 1988; Popp et al., 1989; Smith and Best, 1989, Smith, 1995).

 

David Bohm expressed a view that in human consciousness, what

actually happens in its ground level - beyond neural states

representing results of only activity related to aware consciousness-

may be very fast and related to pre-space, the implicate order

behind space-time, to a creative factor, from which the whole

phenomena and the space-time structure enfolds. These fast mental

processes have characteristics common to microphysical processes

(Bohm, 1986). Ultimately, thinking is related to the unconscious

until its deepest ranges.

 

The problem of creativity is present in every field of science

(Laszlo, 1995). He suggested that quantum-vacuum interactions play a

significant role in the fields of cosmology, physics, biology and

consciousness.

 

There are thoughts, which are related to the execution of some

functions of the organism (Libet's experiments). These are related

to some kind of action potentials above a certain specific threshold

or amplitude. Non-executive thoughts, which do not trigger bodily

changes, do not necessarily develop well defined action potentials.

I have developed the idea that the conscious mind works with

information processed by deeper mind levels, which are not embodied

in activation potentials, but by more subtle changes in the brain.

It is well known that the speed of information processing of the

conscious mind in average conditions is estimated to be around

C1=100 bit/s, while the information processed by deep mind may be

estimated to be larger than the information reaching the organism

from the external world through the outer senses, which is around

C2=109 bit/s (see e. g. Elsasser, 1958, Griffith, 1970, Drischel,

1972, Woody, 1982, Silbernagl, Despopoulos, 1991, Scheffer, 1994).

To have a feeling of these numbers, the often cited examples are the

reading speed, estimated to be 50 bit/s if one needs 20 seconds to

read a page of 1000 bits (one letter is around 4.5 bit, but there is

a considerable redundancy in a page). One may assume that speed

reading is an attempt to use the eye and conscious mind at full

speed. An extreme speed reading champion reads less than 100 words

per second, i.e. approximately 500 bit/s, because in an ordinary

text you have less than 5 bits per word (Shannon, 1951). On the

other hand, a TV screen mediates 106-7 bit/s, estimated by the

number of pixels and their information content (Scheffer, 1994). The

deep mind processes information from the outside world coming into

the organism through external senses, and, parallel with it, the

input data coming from the deeper mind levels. Our behaviour

expresses around 107 bit/s through speaking, mimics and bodily

movements. The ability to express information through speaking,

being definitively slower than reading, is estimated to be around

only 10 bit/s, if we take a time of 100 sec to read a page. The all-

or-nothing picture of the neurones representing 1 bit information

expressed by their ability for activation (firing) or inhibition

cannot store and process such a gigantic flow of information.

 

 

6. Quantum-Vacuum Interactions in the Brain

 

Eccles (1986, 1994) built up his model of thought-process based on

the probabilistic change of the quantum mechanical wave function,

assumed to occur without energy supply. Actually, the reduction of

the quantum wave function needs energy, as it is pointed out by

Károlyházi (1966), recently by Albert and Vaidman (1989) and

Pearle and Squires (1994). I assume that the energy is taken from

the zero-point-fluctuation of the vacuum field, as described by

quantum electrodynamics (QED) or stochastic electrodynamics (SED;

Boyer, 1975). This assumption is inspired and substantiated by the

quantum-vacuum interaction (QVI) theory of Ervin Laszlo (1995). I

assume that the collapses are associated with the sizes of the

relevant thinking units ('brains'). This assumption seems to be

plausible if we regard the experimental results of synchronisation

processes of neurones in diverse part of brains (Crick, 1994). These

assumptions, if they turn to be correct later on, give the strength

of the main arguments below.

 

Here we first calculate the size of a brain working with a kind of

material carrier. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle tells us that

quantum measurements cannot be arbitrarily precise regarding both

energy and time:

 

D E*D t ~ h/ 4p (6)

 

The above law limits the time-span of the total energy E of virtual

particles to D t. Virtual particles are created and annihilated with

energy E for time D t in accordance with

 

E*D t ~ h/4p (7)

 

Gu and Rauch (1994) noted that the coherency threshold (2) is the

one at which the rate of uncertainty for the real particles is

minimal and so is the critical value when the signal-to-noise ratio

is at a maximum. Similarly, the relationship between the position

and momentum of virtual particles in the quantum vacuum is

 

D p*D x ~ h/4p (8)

 

Equations (7) and (8) describe constraints on the physical

properties of virtual particles.

 

I assume that the quantum wave function of a real particle collapses

as it interacts with the energy carried by a vacuum wave:

 

E(vacuum wave) ~ D E(quanta) (9)

 

Here for a real particle we note p =mv and E = p2/2m. For simplicity

we adopt a co-ordinate system in which po = 0, Eo = 0. Then we can

express position and energy together with momentum. Using m, a

quantal carrier of mass as the basis of information, we obtain the

following relationship between the overall size of a natural 'brain'

and the time-scale of the information processing within it, using

(9), (8) and (7):

 

D x ~ (hD t/8p m)1/ 2 (10)

 

Here D x stands for the width of the quantum wave function of the

real particle which carries the thought process in the actual brain.

A collapsed wave function, a particle is in a quantum state which is

best approximated by a wave packet. The spread in momentum (i. e. in

the velocity) values implies that the wave packet will spread in

time. The more localised a particle is, the more quickly it spreads.

The same formula (10) is derived by Károlyházi (1974, formula

4. 1. 1), without applications in biology. Therefore, D t has a

meaning of a coherency length, t , the time of the spread for

doubling the width of the wave function.

 

 

7. Applications to Human and Cellular Brains

 

First of all, it is interesting to calculate the material carrier of

global human brain. It is possible to calculate the mass of this

carrier with formula (10) if we use values of the parameters

characteristic to the human brain. Using for D x=10 cm and for D t

the time necessary for the development of an activation potential in

a neurone is t = 10-3 s (S. Rose, 1973). Formula (10) then gives an

exciting result of m@ 10-33 g. This result suggests that the human

brain interacts with the vacuum waves through the electromagnetic

field quanta.

 

Now let us use formula (10) the other way around, looking for brains

with electrons as material carriers of thought, with mass me ~ 9 *

10-28 g. With the help of these given values, we can estimate the

size of the macroscopic brain thinking with electrons:

 

L (natural electronic brain, t =10-3 s ~ 10-2 cm ......(11)

 

This limit is close to the size of cells, namely 10-3 cm - 10-2 cm.

This result means that if we want to construct a brain processing

information through interaction of its electrons with vacuum waves,

the brain has to have a size characteristic of the cells, if its

biological characteristic time scale is t = 10-3 s. The consistency

of this result may indicate that cells process information through

electron-vacuum wave interactions. Nevertheless, if cells absorb

energy from the vacuum, it should be possible that they give back

this amount of energy to the vacuum, otherwise the interaction may

decelerate quickly. We know that cells are able to give back the

energy from their free energy reservoir, a general characteristics

of all living system (Bauer, 1920).

 

At the same time, the cells may simultaneously use a faster, lighter

material carrier of information processing, because their

environment is much smaller and therefore changes much more quickly.

In the estimation of this time scale one can use the fact that the

human organism processes 109 - 1010 bit/s information unconsciously,

while at the same time the conscious mind is only able to cope with

102 bit/s ( refs. cited above). If the time scale of the cells'

information processing is proportional to the rate of the conscious

information processing and that of the deep mind, which seems to be

a reasonable assumption, then the time-scale of this more subtle

cellular information processing is t = 10-9 s. This value is

substantiated by the reaction rates in the interior of cells, known

to be around 108-1012 s-1 (Ruth, 1989). Moreover, the lifetime of a

hydrogen bound within a living cell is again 6* 10-9 s. A typical

lifetime of the electronic excitations in normal metabolism is 10-8

s (Bauer, Borsdyko, 1936). Formula (10) with D x @ 10-2 cm with t @

10-9 s then gives a value of 10-32 g for the mass of this material

carrier, which can be appropriate for the mass-energy of a photon (E

@ 10 eV). This result points, interestingly enough, to the presence

of electromagnetic waves in the cell regulation. Independently from

the ambiguity of the time scales accepted here, if the trend of

acceleration of thought processes towards deeper mental levels is

real, than we are supplied with an insight by formula (10) that

electromagnetic processes dominate in a certain mental depth. I have

to point out, that bioelectromagnetism is based on the fact that

cells are regulated by electromagnetic processes.

 

Now let us look for the time scale of the human brain, in connection

with the electron-vacuum quantal interaction! We use m@ 10-27 g for

the electron mass, and D x@ 10 cm, the time scale D t@ 400 s. A

longer time is needed for the brain to extract information and

energy from the vacuum field through electrons than through photons.

Regarding the fact that the large molecular tracks are built up by a

long series of electronic events, we may get a physical picture of

the time scale of long-term memory.

 

 

8. Coupling Between Global and Local Brains

 

Formula (10) suggests that the thinking process takes place in

different time and space scales. Nevertheless, any organisation

should act as an integrated unit, a system regulated globally, with

all the necessary information gained. This fact points to a need to

couple the different scale processes, transferring their information

content to the level of decision making. We can study the nature of

these couplings if we consider formula (10) from that point of view.

 

Let us assume, that the (necessary, but not sufficient) condition of

any coupling between the different level (global or local) processes

is the identical time scales, as any direct interaction may occur

only between two simultaneous processes. Now we can start to look at

what happens if the neural (local) and global brain phenomena are

coupled. Using the neural time scale of t =10-3 s, with the

electrons extended to the brain as a whole (D x=10 cm with formula

(10)), a material carrier may contact in a neural time scale in a

whole range of space localisation. As we take smaller scales, the

mass of the carrier grows if we fix the time scale, in accordance

with formula (10). At each selected size two masses should be

followed: one that arise from (10), growing as D x decreases, and

another which is actually present in the selected size of volume in

the human brain, m@r* (D x)3 , decreasing as D x decreases. The two

masses are equal when D x@ 10-6 cm. The corresponding mass is 10-13

g, a value just at the upper limit of the quantal range of the

microscopic world as given by Károlyházi (1966). One can

visualise the coupling now as the electron, subtracting information

from the vacuum, present in a free state, interacts with a part of a

neurone. The size and mass of that part of the neurone, which may be

coupled to the global brain on the neural time scale, is close to

the microtubules. It is interesting to note here that recent

measurements of electromagnetic emission from living matter at CERN

show that the time-dependent pattern of the emitted biophoton

radiation shows a self-similar structure through ten orders of

magnitude (Popp, 1994). This fractal structure of the emitted

radiation enhances the empirical basis of the global-local coupling.

 

 

9. Frequencies of Interaction Between Different Brains

 

Now we are ready to estimate the wavelength of the information-

carrier substances. The energy of wave quanta is E(wave) = hf, where

f is the frequency of the wave with a wavelength of l= v/f. At

first, we can work with a quanta of waves having a mass-energy

m=E/c2 in (10). In this way we can obtain the result by the

following formulas:

 

m=(ht )/(pl2) (12)

 

The relation between the wavelength of the informative wave and the

brain's space-time dimensions is

 

l @ 8p (D x)2/(ct )* (v/c) @ 2h/(mc)* (v/c) (13)

 

For the human brain we take Dx = 10 cm, t = 10-3 s, and v @ c. This

results in l@ 8* 10-5 cm = 800 nm, or f @ 3* 1014 Hz which is at the

blue edge of the visible spectral range. For cellular information

processing

 

D x =10-2-3 cm, t = 10-10 s , and the wavelength l@ 3* 10-6 cm = 300

nm,

 

f @ 1015 Hz, which is within the ultraviolet spectral range.

Remarkably, these two wavelengths are close to the value of lcrit .

The frequency is 1015 Hz which is just the value belonging to the

activation energy of the cells' enzymatic reactions. What is more,

the spectral range belonging to the mitogenetic radiation is just in

the same one. The mitogenetic radiation is observed to be emitted by

dividing cells at and shortly before cell division. The history and

the present state of the experimental investigations on ultraweak

photon emission/mitogenetic radiation is presented by Ruth (1989,

and F. A. Popp, K. H. Li. And Q. Gu, 1992). Notably, the above

calculated wavelength is the same one at which the energy surplus of

living protein is radiated away in the process of dying (Bauer,

1935, this phenomenon is known as the " degradation radiation " , see

also Ruth, 1989). Ervin Bauer, the greatest forgotten biologist of

the century, developed a quantitative mathematical description of

the most basic biological processes: growing, metabolism, dying,

replication and sensitivity. He showed that in a living organism the

molecules are in a deformed, elongated and electrically polarised

state containing surplus, free energy, i.e. the free energy is EM

energy.

 

 

10. Quantum Energy Transfer Between the Brain and the Material

Carriers of Thought

 

Let us estimate now the amount of energy transfer between vacuum and

quanta. The uncertainty principle (7) gives us a tool to estimate

the energies relevant to the individual time scales. When using t@

10-3 s, we have for E @ 5* 10-25 ergs, while for t@ 10-9 s, E @ 5*

10-19 ergs. The energy change of the electron localised to a human

brain is estimated to be

 

E = p2/2m @ h2/(32p2(D x)2m) (14)

 

i. e. 10-30 ergs with D x= 10cm for electrons.

 

On the physical basis presented here one can construct the following

chain of events for an interaction between the mind and the brain.

 

In the first step the information is contained and mediated by the

vacuum field. These vacuum waves may interact with electromagnetic

waves in giving them their information in the second step. The

electromagnetic waves then may interact with the biomolecules of the

brain, like sunshine interacts with chlorophyll molecules

transferring the energy of the sunlight into chemical free energy.

From this available chemical energy the activation potentials of the

neural networks are built up. Nevertheless, all four steps could be

simultaneously influenced by the vacuum waves.

 

The frequencies of the vacuum waves obtained here are remarkably

close to the observed frequencies at cell divisions. This

circumstance suggests that the way vacuum waves interact with

material waves can be a resonant phenomenon. The vacuum waves may

transfer their energies and information content to material waves at

the same frequencies. The real energy transfer could be necessary

only at the onset of some material processes in an upper level of

the mind. Here, I suggest a picture in which the different levels of

our minds may work with progressively more subtle material carriers,

while the deepest one works with vacuum waves without any net energy

transfer taking place in the end, because the energy taken out from

the vacuum may be put back by the brain itself when reading

important information from the psi-field. It could be the reason why

only living organisms with a significant free energy content are

able to react on the basis of the information read out.

 

 

11. Quantum-Vacuum Interaction in the Universe

 

The sizes of a brain thinking with electromagnetic waves are within

the range of

 

L(EM brain) @ 10-8 cm - 1.6* 109 cm @ R(atom) - R(Earth) (15)

 

being the limiting values. The atomic size arises from formula (10)

working with t = 10-14 s as the lifetime of the van der Waals bonds

choosing for " m " the mass of the most energetic electromagnetic

waves m(gamma rays) @ 10-27 g. The upper limit arises from the time-

scale of the global brain, t @ 103 sec and the lower limit from the

mass-energy of the least energetic electromagnetic waves m(radio

waves) @ 10-43 g. It is interesting to note here, that the frequency

belonging to the largest electromagnetic brain is around 1 - 100 Hz,

in the range of the brain and Schumann terrestrial EM waves.

 

One can calculate the wavelength belonging to a thought process

occurring in a cosmic dimension with the size of the Universe. Using

for D x ~ R(Universe) in (10) we get for l (Universe)

 

l (Universe) @ 2p (ct ) (v/c) (16)

 

Taking for t ~ the age of the Universe , ct ~ R(Universe) because

the Universe is expanding with a velocity close to the speed of

light. It means that the size belonging to a thought process

occurring in a duration with the age of the Universe has just the

same order of magnitude as the size of the Universe.

 

Using different values for t belonging to a certain system in (16)

we get different values for l which belongs to a vacuum wave of

different wavelength. Equation (16) offers the description of the

coupling between the thought processes of the Universe and its

organic elements, another global-local coupling. Namely, using the

time-scale of the human consciousness, t ~ 10-3 s, we get the

resonant wavelength of the Universe to Man as l ~ 2* 108 cm when

using a value of v ~ c. This magnitude is again close to the size of

the Earth, and with v > c it is possible to get even larger sizes.

The size of a brain thinking with vacuum waves can be

 

L(vacuum waves) ~ L(human brain), R(Earth), R(Sun), R(Universe).

 

The different vacuum waves couple us in a different scale to the

cosmos and to our bodies and brains, while the electromagnetic and

electron waves present couplings between our environment, our brains

and local neural processes. These couplings to the different scales

of the outer world represent couplings between our different mind

levels, simultaneously. In this context it is important to note,

that these outer sources of informations - the Earth, the Sun, the

stars, and the Universe as a whole - do show a whole range of

generalised organic processes (Grandpierre, A., 1995a, 1996a,b,c,d).

 

In my essay (Grandpierre, A., 1995a) I argued that every element of

the Universe is a kind of a double-pyramid consisting of

hierarchical levels i.e. conscious mind, deep-mind, genetic-mind,

cosmic mind (inner world pyramid of a human being), Earth, Solar

System, Galaxy, Universe (outer world-pyramid of a human being). The

difference between the organisms of the Universe is only what is

outer and what is inner for them, but the levels in their pyramids

are similar, consisting of the same constituents. In this context it

is interesting to note, that our calculations show that the

different organisms interact with the same range of universal

fields, but their sizes determine, what is 'outer' and what

is 'inner' for them, and which are the long and short wavelengths

compared to their physical sizes.

 

 

12. Spontaneous Targeting

 

The fundamental difference between the inanimate, inorganic systems

and organic, self-organising systems is the appearance of such life

phenomena within the latter ones as metabolism, sensitivity, growth,

multiplication and homeostasis. It is clear that an

inorganic 'object' is one which lacks free energy and

mobile 'tentacles', mobile external sensors and executive

instruments. We observe in nature that all 'objects' with free

energy and movable surfaces spontaneously organise themselves

into 'systems', e.g. atoms, molecules and crystals. 'Systems' are

objects which are mobile enough to organise themselves into a

hierarchical order, generating a level where they can act freely and

so can organise their activity in their environment. This

spontaneous organisation is 'automatic', it is a universal

characteristics of material 'objects', therefore we usually ignore

it. Nevertheless, spontaneity is a remarkable property of the system

formation from its elements. The formula H2 + O --> H2O expresses,

that by mixing the components water molecules form automatically,

spontaneously if the mix is supplied with the necessary amount of

energy to trigger the process. But the question arises: how do the

molecules of hydrogen and oxygen find each other? If they follow a

heat motion, a brownian random motion, only a minute part of the

molecules with proper impact factors (distance and velocity) could

collide in the manner necessary to form the compound molecules

during the short time interval given by the trigger heat and the

explosion. This observation makes it clear that a yet

unnoticed 'spontaneity' acts as an organising factor even in the

sphere of inanimate systems. A new and independent evidence appeared

and this underlies the above argument. A recent result substantiates

the spontaneous targeting phenomenon in H2 + O --> H2O ( Hemley,

1995 ). This reaction between hydrogen and oxygen is surely one of

the best studied chemical reactions, but details of the reaction

kinetics have always been enigmatic. Loubeyre and LeToullec (1995)

found that the normally explosive reaction is shut down by pressure

and a new compound is formed. It means that the factors organising

the reactions are sensitive to pressure and temperature.

 

The organisation of the biologically active configurations of

proteins from an unfolded polypeptide chain presents another enigma

known as the Levinthal-paradox. C. Anfinsen showed in the early

1970s that a protein having been unfolded by chemical denaturants

could refold spontaneously when the denaturing conditions were

reversed. Levinthal pointed out in the late 1960s that the number of

possible states of an unfolded protein is larger than 1060. Assuming

that the protein " hunts " for the biologically active configuration

in a random process at a rate set by vibration frequencies (about

1013 searches per second), for a single protein molecule to arrive

at the folded state would take longer (1030 times) than the age of

the Universe. But proteins can fold completely within hours -

sometimes within milliseconds - and early steps occur on time-scales

far shorter than milliseconds. It is shown, that interactions

between secondary structures - i.e. long-range intramolecular

interactions between a-helices and b-sheets - are important in the

folding process, which is sensitive to temperature and

electromagnetic fields (Callender et al., 1994). Remarkably, new and

independent results substantiate our arguments on the phenomena of

spontaneous organisation. Hess and Mikhailov (1995) pointed out,

that in living cells the enzymatic subsystem within normal

conditions represents a coherent molecular network, the entire

population of the network is in continuous communication and

undergoes collective evolution. These molecular networks are in

close analogy to neural networks and insect societies. Mikhailov and

Ness (1995) showed that when a new protein molecule is produced at a

membrane, it is loaded into a budding vesicle which then moves

through the cell until it reaches its target at another membrane

location. They presented evidences for their assumption that

vesicles detect the direction leading to their targets and can

actively move towards them. Thus, the behaviour of vesicles

resembles that of entire cells in chemotaxis and in the phenomenon

of cell-to-cell communication. The intrinsic reference frame needed

for detection of the motion direction by vesicles could be provided

by the intracellular chemical gradients and/or by the electrical

fields present inside a living cell.

 

The same problem of the existence of a targeting mechanism seems to

work in the olfactory field, as well. How could the odorant

molecules find automatically their receptors? Lewis Thomas (1974)

noted that eels have been taught to smell two or three molecules of

phenylethyl alcohol. An average man can detect just a few molecules

of butyl mercaptan. How the olfactory cells are fired by an odorant

is not known. The substance may become bound to the cells possessing

specific receptors for it and then may just sit there, somehow

displaying its signal from a distance.

 

I suggest the term " spontaneous targeting " for this general

phenomenon present in the inanimate and animate worlds as well.

Spontaneous targeting is just a sub-phenomenon of the more general

spontaneous organisation pervading the whole Cosmos (Endre K.

Grandpierre, 1996a, and also in this volume). This spontaneous

organisation factor is the one which organises any system with the

proper conditions (free energy, movable perceiving surfaces, etc.)

into biological organisms. Of course, a totally inanimate object

will never 'resurrect' to an organised system, therefore the mere

presence of life anywhere in the Universe indicates the universal

presence of an organising factor.

 

 

13. Global Organisation and Action-in-Distance

 

If a system is able to develop a level of phenomenon which is

independent from mere physical and environmental determinations, it

develops its own laws on this level. In order to be able to follow

these laws, it has to find a way to handle the energy and

information which reached the system from a global perspective,

transporting the energy and information easily to the place where

they serve the global project. This 'global organisation' assumes

the existence of an 'action-in-distance', first of all, because the

global organising centre has to contact - within the shortest time

of the reaction time scales - not only the state of affairs in the

whole system, but also it has to process the information and reach

the proper decision. The system has to be 'transparent' for the

information needed. On the other hand, the system also has to be

filled with free energy stores in order to make the energy easily

available when the decisions reach local parts of the system. This

informational transparency requires an informational action-in-

distance. If there an informational transparency exists within the

system, it may also be used to gain access to interact with other

systems in the informational level. This intersubjective

informational transparency is the first form of perception that

nature applied, in generating always the global system first and the

subsystems subsequently, e.g. the Metagalaxy first and the Galaxy

afterwards, the species first, the individual later. Therefore,

informational transparency is as basic for the individuals of a

species as for the cells within the body of the organism. Actually,

this informational 'action in distance' is based on a co-operation

of similarly tuned units of organisation, at cells, organisms,

groups, in and between different species, until the biosphere as a

whole and the Universe as a whole. This primal perception is the way

how cosmic tuning (Grandpierre, A., 1992), and an anthropic, life-

containing Universe (Barrow, Tipler, 1986) are produced. The

transparent exchange of information is a kind of perception which

was necessarily developed upon the origin of Metagalaxy, and divided

afterwards into its subsystems, all of which kept some primal

patterns of its antedescent organism in order to be able to organise

itself as a whole. This informational perception turns out to be a

primal, cosmic perception which developed before the origin of

external senses. The primal perception is a direct unfolding and

exchange of all basic information present in the Cosmos. This primal

perception is the first - still unnoticed- life phenomenon developed

in the Universe. The primal perception still preserved some of its

characteristics in the phenomena of group effect.

 

 

14. The Fundamental Problem of Electromagnetism and Quantum Physics

 

Electromagnetic fields are known to mediate information extremely

effectively through e.g. light waves. The wave-particle duality has

been known since the two-slit experiment of Young in 1801. This

duality describes a spherical spread and a parallel guidance, as

expressed in a local sudden collapse into a 'particle', photon at

the site of interaction. The nature of this duality is still not

well understood (Newton, Wigner, 1949). I suggest that the solution

of this fundamental problem of the field theories of physics, in

electromagnetism as well as in quantum field theories, lies in the

fact that an immediate mediator field exists which mediates

information or structural patterns from the wavefronts immediately

into the place of interaction, e.g. the site of observation. In my

interpretation besides the wavefronts of the electromagnetic waves

an ultrafast or immediate 'mediator' field exists which is able to

transform the wavefront in a glance into a photon particle. This

mediator field acts faster than the speed of light, immediately, and

gives a clear picture on the nature of electromagnetic wave

propagation. This ultrafast mediator field is able to interpret the

fundamental variational principles of physics. This EM mediator

field exchanges energy and information between the extended magnetic

field of the current and the circuit itself. The existence of this

fundamental field is the only solution to the still unrecognised

fundamental problem of electromagnetism i.e. the energy of the EM

field seems to be present in its whole amount in the circuit and, at

the same time, in the EM field. If it means an actual simultaneity,

it would lead to a doubling of the energy, which is absurd.

Therefore the only solution is the one I suggest here, and that is

an EM field which is able to 'act in distance'.

 

As early as 1892 Maxwell recognised that the EM energy is present in

the circuit and the EM field simultaneously. He understood that the

current is able to perform electrolysis locally, to develop Joule-

heat locally, and the ability to do work locally involves local

energy. At the same time, the energy is also present in the form of

field energy. Maxwell suggested that a part of the EM energy is

present locally and the remaining part is present globally (1892,

Vol. II, p. 212). Nevertheless, the calculations lead to equal

amounts of energy, and when one form of EM energy changes, the other

form changes simultaneously. Feynman, the founder of quantum

electrodynamics, expressed a view that the energy is present in the

field globally- but he is silent about the local EM energy (Feynman

et al., 1963). The presence of this primary EM field offers for the

first time the actual, immediate 'action in distance', which has a

significance of overall importance, in the understanding the nature

of the field of consciousness, as well. It is interesting, that

Maxwell himself, in the last chapter " Theories of action at a

distance " of his book recognized the instantaneous character of some

EM effects: " An electric particle sends forth a potential, the value

of which ee'/r, depends not only on e, the emitting particle, but on

e', the receiving particle, and on distance r between the particles

at the instant of emission " (Maxwell, 1892). This primary EM field

may serve as a physical basis for the 'spontaneous targeting'

introduced above, the 'spontaneous collapse' of the waves to the

site of interaction or observation, thus solving the central

measurement problem of the present day quantum theory, and

the 'primary perception', which is a yet unnoticed effect, but

discovered independently and simultaneously by the present author

and Endre K. Grandpierre (this volume). This primary EM field may

help in maintaining the 'global organization' and 'informational

transparency' described above.

 

 

15. The Source of the EM Field

 

The presence of the immediate mediator EM field is clear from the

followings, as well. Let us imagine the sudden appearance of an

electric charge at a certain point. We know that the law of

conservation is valid for the electric charges but the thought

experiment also works with a sudden separation of a new-born

electron-positron pair. Regarding the fact that the EM waves spread

with the speed of light, and thinking that they start from the

appearance of the charge - or the separation of the dipole - , we

have to think that the electromagnetic field of the charge

propagates with the speed of light. If the energy of the charge is

in the field then with the spreading of the EM wavefront the energy

in the field grows. But the electric charge conserves, therefore its

energy and charge do not change. Following this line of thought we

can think that the conservation law of energy is violated. Thinking

the same thought experiment with a suddenly separated dipole, the

sudden appearance of the dipole leads again to a continuous

propagation of the EM field, even if we stop the separation at a

certain moment. This means that the field is able to rearrange

itself from one form into another form, and the expanding EM field

is able to draw energy from its previous, latent form. The three

forms of EM fields- wavefront, photon, and coupling mediator field,

are able to exchange energy and information within each other

immediately, as if they were one unique existent, or living in a

complete symbioses. They may be regarded as being in a resonant

coupling. I suggest, that the collective consciousness field extends

this symbiosis to the overlapping particle mediated fields, like the

acoustic or the olfactory field, as well as to other forms of vacuum

fields besides the EM forms, the quantum-vacuum holographic fields

(Laszlo, 1993, 1995). Their symbiosis, the inclusion of all of them

into resonant coupling, is the key generative factor of the

flexible, ultrasensitive organisation phenomena observed in the

Universe, biosphere and societies. I suggest that the spell of the

music may be understood by the coupling of the acoustic field of the

body to EM vibration fields.

 

 

16. Collective EM field of the Biosphere

 

The EM field, as a part of the consciousness field, is shown to be

able to directly trigger electric activity in the neuronal cells. On

the other hand, the EM field emitted by the brain's activity is a

measurable field. This result makes available a physical means for

measuring consciousness field from point-to-point, for measuring the

guidance of the consciousness field (or psi-field) between two

people. Human brain works with a power of 20 Watts. We know that

large amount of this power becomes waste heat and cools the brain.

Nevertheless, all the energy produced by the organism in the course

of metabolism goes through a significant step, the free energy,

which is in direct relevance to EM energy. Since all the energy of

metabolism goes through the EM phase, all the energy has to be

present simultaneously in the EM field energy, a significant part of

which leaves the body. We may think that if later on this EM energy

is transformed into other forms of energy by mechanical work or

heat, this is irrelevant in our estimation of the environmental EM

field of the organism. Nevertheless, this view is not correct, if,

as we have shown, all the EM energy of the organism is

simultaneously present in the environment.

 

Mankind's brain activity involves a work of 1011 Watts, comparable

to the electromagnetic power entering the earthly magnetosphere from

the solar wind. The biomass of the Earth is a substantial factor of

the source of the EM fields at the surface of the Earth. Scott

(1962) measured the electric field of a bean root in the surrounding

solution of the root. The measured total power dissipated

electrically to the environment by the root is 10-9 W. Remarkably,

the electric field shows a spontaneous and truly endogenous rhythm

with a 5-minute period which coincides with the periods of the

acoustic modes of the Sun. It is interesting to note here the remark

of Cox and Giuli (1968) on the close value of the specific energy

production rate of the solar core and of the specific energy

liberation rate of the human metabolism, both of which are around

100 ergs/g/s. The so-called dry-matter content of the biomass is 846

g/m2, i.e. 4.3 1017 g, which, taking a factor of ten for the water

content, would give a value of 1014 W (as we know that 80% of the

mass of the living matter is water). The plants of the biosphere

transform half of the energy of the incoming solar radiation to its

plant matter, i.e. 1.72 1017W. One percent of this energy is

transformed to energy contained in form of food. The original living

form of solar energy as it was firstly bound in plants when reaching

the food-eater predators, suffers a ten-thousandfold loss, to 1013 W

(after Odum, 1971). The produced biological free energy, as

calculated from the dry-matter content, is 20 810 Kcal/m2/year of

the plants, 3 368 Kcal/m2/year of the herbivorous animals, and 21

Kcal/m2/year of the large predators (Fábián et al., 1975).

These numbers give a biological energy of the plants around 1.43

1015W. If only ten-thousand part of this biological free energy was

expressively radiated out to the environment, this value still would

be significant enough to be comparable to the geophysical factors.

We have to realise, that plants, and EM fields of animal and human

origin may be a substantial part of our EM environment. The EM field

of human origin is of a smaller amplitude, but this relative

difference may be balanced by the relative ease with which we can

tune to human frequencies. If we are able to tune ourselves to the

plants' field, we can feel their overwhelming, galvanising EM fields.

 

 

17. Collective EM field of Human Subjects

 

Burr (1935) formulated a concept that EM fields organise the living

processes. " The pattern of organization of any biological system is

established by a complex electrodynamic field which is, in part,

determined by its atomic physiochemical components and which, in

part, determines the behavior and orientation of those components.

More than establishing pattern, it must maintain pattern in the

midst of a physiochemical flux. Therefore, it must regulate and

control living things, it must be the mechanism, the outcome of

whose activity is 'wholeness', organization, and continuity. "

 

Burr (1956) measured the relatively steady-state standing potential

of a tree for more than a decade. The potential shows diurnal,

monthly, and seasonal variations of considerable interest and, over

the years, and suggested a correlation with sunspot activity. It has

been adequately demonstrated that a living organism, a tree, is an

electric system, exhibiting all the properties of an electric field.

It is remarkable that in its most fundamental electromagnetic

regulation the cosmic effects appeared so pronouncedly.

 

Ravitz (1962) was able to show, by working out 50 000 field

determination on some 500 human subjects at Yale, Duke, and

University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine, that " the variations

of the EM fields of the human subjects provide an objective profile

of similar variations in the feeling and behaviour states, and open

the door to both long- and short-range predictions in time.

Electrocyclic phenomena seem to be governed both by exogenous and

endogenous factors. Primacy of the exogenous component is suggested,

however, not only by plotting similar field excursions on diverse

representatives of the plant and animal kingdoms within the same

intervals, but also by demonstrating parallelisms between

simultaneously recorded atmospheric, earth, and tree potential

differences. "

 

Biological organisms show extreme sensitivity for external EM signs,

as the new branch of science, bioelectromagnetism has discovered

(see the references above, Sect. V.). Recently, Kuznetsov (1982)

reviewed the results of laboratory experiments with synchronous

yeast cells Candida Utilis. " The presence of external rhythms'

influence on the yeast cells growth in a batch cultivation system

was established. The results of statistical processing of the

experimental data showed the statistically significant presence of

160.009± 0.006-minute oscillations in the variability of the

specific growth rate of the yeast population. The fact testifies in

favour of the 160.01-minute global solar oscillations influence on

the Candida Utilis growth rate. " These oscillations were

independently discovered in 1976 by two solar research groups in

Crimea and Birmingham. Their results pointed out that the solar

surface shows oscillations with a 160-minute period. Arguments

proving the existence of this period in solar oscillations are given

by Kotov (1995). The amplitude of this oscillation is low, only 1

m/s, changing permanently. The origin of this oscillation, contrary

to the 5-minute oscillations, is not known, and inexplicable by the

standard solar model (Kotov, 1985).

 

It is well known, that the ionosphere and the surface of the Earth

form a cavity for the electromagnetic waves, therefore every

electromagnetic disturbance in its attenuation may be transformed

into a standing wave determined by the size of cavity (Schumann and

König, 1954). The standing terrestrial electromagnetic waves,

termed as Schumann waves, have a characteristic frequency of 7.5 Hz,

coinciding with the range of the most creative brain EEG

frequencies, a -waves, which are produced also in the REM phase of

sleep. Moreover, the time characteristics of Schumann oscillations

and the EEG a -rhythm, as well as storm-related fluctuations of

electric field and the EEG d -rhythm show a noticeable similarity in

their temporal variations (König, 1989). These circumstances may

substantiate a hypothesis that human brains/minds are able to

interact with the information field of the terrestrial organic self-

maintaining system.

 

Human consciousness fields primarily interact at the a-level in

frequencies around 7.5 Hz, therefore the creative state of mind is

the same one as the most influential source of the collective

consciousness field. Moreover, the human a-field interacts with the

earthly a-field, with the Schumann waves. The b-field, the field of

awake consciousness, in the present societies seems to be largely

inactivated and, in contrary to the alpha-field, does not form an

effective collective consciousness field. The reason for this

anomaly is that the awake state is not in a continuous resonance

with the a-field, as a result of the schism of breaking our mind

into two antagonistic parts (see Grandpierre, E. K., this volume).

This psychic anomaly is the factor behind the sporadic and low-level

ESP abilities of the Homo sapiens sapiens. Inactivated information

fields can only be actualised if consciousness turns against its

deeper generating levels. The b-field of individuals is generally in

an extraordinarily low-intensity state because most part of its

energy is consumed in the repression of the deep-mind. Nevertheless,

the way in which we can reach healthier consciousness fields is the

development of the high-intensity b-field, which is filled with the

powers of the deeper mind levels in a natural resonance. The d-and

J -fields are related to cosmic electromagnetic wave fields

(Grandpierre, A., 1996d). The natural sources of collective

consciousness fields are the plants, animals, (non-manipulated)

humans, the Earth, and, through the cosmic interface of the Earth,

the magnetosphere, the Moon and the Sun, and, through the

heliosphere, the whole Galaxy and Universe. Exploring and

understanding the working of consciousness may help in tuning to its

natural, more powerful sources, regaining a harmony between its main

constituents, and opening a perspective to the experimental

exploration of collective consciousness fields.

 

 

18. The Physics of the Evolution of Consciousness

 

The evolution of consciousness - as the evolution of the Universe

shows us - actually is in contrast to the presently accepted

evolutionary theories, which want to build up the whole from the

parts. In reality, evolution started from the whole and

progressively differentiated into parts, from the timeless-spaceless

form (e.g. the 'implicit order', or 'pre-space' of D. Bohm and J. A.

Wheeler), through galaxies, through the development of the Solar

System and the Earth, the appearance of the biosphere and mankind,

until the development of smaller and smaller subsystems of

consciousness, until the human individual. 'Cosmologies of

wholeness' are emerging (see Laszlo, E., 1993; Harris, 1988). All of

the cosmic evolution formed sub-systems within systems. Evolution

begins with 'systems', 'elements' develop only later on. Every

system originates as a subsystem of a larger, inclusive system. The

organisation of the sub-system is made by the creator system, and

the organisational factor acts from within, as well. This fact

assumes that the creator system is in a certain way transformed into

the to-be-created subsystem, the 'whole' is transformed to

the 'part'. This global-local transformation is a necessary

condition of the generation of the new system. Therefore the

Universe acted continuously as an agent with organisation ability,

and is progressively transformed from the largest of its subsystems

into the smallest ones. The trend of evolution is simultaneously

going towards a higher complexity and this way towards more and more

complex subsystems, and in this way the real evolution is also

accompanied by the state of becoming more and more complex and

towards higher and higher forms of consciousness. Ervin Laszlo

remarked: " Evolution acts on species and populations and not only -

or even mainly - on individual reproducers. Individual variations do

not contribute significantly to the emergence of new species. " This

trend, the primacy of 'global' over 'local' appears in the history

of mankind (Grandpierre, E. K. this volume), starting with cosmic

consciousness in the Golden Age of mankind. Later a break set up in

the trend of human evolution, attempting to cut down the 'whole'

from the 'part', the Cosmos from the living beings. The complex

subsystem of human collectives preferred only one side of this

cosmic trend, the more and more divided and separate complexity, the

specification to individual human being, at the expense of general

context and cosmic laws, drawing away and retiring from the growing

collective order, loosing the connections to the larger, embracing

levels of existence. As Andras Angyal expresses it the autonomous,

self-maintaining tendency dominates over its dual brother, the

homonymous, self-completing tendency (1941), the basic need for

direct, sensual, artistic life-experiences. According to my

research, the three inevitable motivating, life-long motivational

instincts in our lives are the life-instinct, sustaining our

individual life, the species-instinct, sustaining the life of our

species, and the world-instinct, sustaining the life-functions of

the Universe. The world-instinct is the basis of the other two, and

it involves the imagination, intuition, curiosity, the desire for a

meaningful life, to form healthy, alive communities, to correspond

to larger units, to the Nature and the Universe (Grandpierre, A.,

1991), therefore it is the world of the primary perception.

 

If we do not want to leave the road of cosmic evolution for ever, we

may find again the path how to reveal our natural completion, the

already hidden powers which the all-embracing cosmic evolution

generated in our genes and basic constitution. Unfortunately, it has

not been explored until now, how far we reached from our first-

handed, natural drives, and what is the meaning that the Universe

mediates to us. In order to form again a human, collective society,

in which every individual sees the meaning of her/his activity and

life, a meaning which is able to give an ultimate, lifelong

satisfaction, we should recover the destination of mankind, and,

besides it, the destination of the Universe. There is not any other

task, which may be able to give a common perspective to all of us,

than to explore and regain our destiny, to regain the harmony with

the Nature and the Universe. Only this elevating and touching task

may give back our harmony with ourselves. To do this, first we have

to explore the nature of the Universe and understand the super-

organism called biosphere - an organism with a collective

consciousness.

 

 

19. Origin of Consciousness and its Relation to Emotional States

 

Psychological researches teach that consciousness is vital when it

is filled with emotional drives. Positive emotions enhance the

dominating role of the neocortex in the brain activity ( Völgyesi,

1962). Our research (see Endre K. Grandpierre, this and a later

volume) shows, that the basic and first step of any conscious

activity is an interaction. If consciousness works through EM

fields, its activity in every step involves changes in its EM field

and the interaction of its EM field with another EM field - outer or

of an inner subsystem. It means that EM induction results, which

generates naturally a higher level of electromagnetic activity

besides the overlapping and superposition of the two interactive EM

fields. Consequently, the interactive EM fields when they are

active, generate a subsidiary EM field, a 'daughter' field. This

induction effect is suggested to be the physical basis of the 'group

effect', the enhancement of the basic activity level when entering

into interaction with another human being, consciously or without

being aware of it. Therefore, the consciousness can not be regarded

developed and healthy, if its 'exploration drives' and 'general

activity drives', emotional motivations and desires are passive, and

are hindered by the aware consciousness. Consciousness develops

through the phenomenon of 'emotional infection', widespread among

children, and also present in rituals and when masses of people form

a community. In new-born children, the movements originate from

spontaneous emotional reactions, their sources are within the

emotional system (Wallon, H., 1946). " At the origin of evolution,

in contrast with the traditional conception, an undivided state

existed in which the outer and the inner were not separated. " The

propensity to interact originates from the nature of emotions, of

their mutuality (Endre K. Grandpierre, this volume) and field-

nature, which is the basis of the well-known phenomenon

of 'transference' , the easy transfer of emotions in the trance-

state from one person to another. This is the basis of the

transference of emotions, its epidemic character, as well as the

wide range phenomena of mass psychosis and collective impulses, when

the individual consciousnesses merge into one single common

consciousness (Wallon, ibid.).

 

 

20. The Common Field of Consciousness

 

Emile Durkheim (1899) showed the existence of collective psychical

fields. He showed that the reality of the collective psychical

fields is of the same degree as that of the physical fields, since

it is measurable (through social indexes), and its relations and

consequences show the same rate of stability. The collective

psychical field generates a remarkably stable rate of suicides in a

given nation. Individuals forming the society change from year to

year, but the rate of suicides remains stable. This rate is

different in different nations, and seems to be determined by moral

factors. Moral life is per se a collective phenomenon, and the

collective psychical field is an expression of the background moral

fields of individuals. Our moral convictions are a certain kind of

concerted brain activities, formed from our common characteristics.

This is expressed also in the changes of the social indexes of e.g.

suicide. Durkheim observed, that the activity of the society follows

a seasonal rhythm, its intensity grows from January to July, and

then decreases. Durkheim pointed out, that the suicidal index of the

people living in marriage shows the same ratio to that of people of

the same social class being widows, indifferently from the selected

class. The simple reason for this is that the judgement of the

society is of a general character, independent of the actual group

of the society, although the social conditions of life sensitively

change from group to group, therefore becoming widow would show a

larger relative loss in the lower classes. Moral judgements are

closely related to emotions, therefore we are led to the inference

that common field of consciousness consists of emotions.

 

The rate of suicides is observed to grow with the age, and shows a

tenfold increase from the young to old age. Accepting the plausible

view that the social environment of the people does not show

necessarily a more and more hostile face as they grow older, but

remains more-or-less the same during a lifetime, we observe the

existence of an effect independent from the immediate social

environment. This effect is probably mostly of subjective character

indicating the growing sensitivity of the people to the accumulating

social influences. This effect lays an emphasis on the 'tuning' of

individuals to the different influences, to the weakening of

their 'psychic immune system' because of manipulation.

 

The 'everyday consciousness' of the people is the expression of

useful informations, beliefs, habits and traditions. The basic

behaviour, the modus vivendi and the actual activity is mostly

determined also by the world-view of the person, which directs

her/his system of values and conscious decisions. Determining

factors of the world-view are the religious faith and the cohesion

to the nation. Analysing these factors, we may observe that beliefs,

habits, religions, traditions are related to the prehistory of the

nation and mankind. The fundamental influence of the world-view to

our activity is certainly explained by the still surviving factors

of Nature and Cosmos within our psychic life. In this way, the

everyday consciousness seems to be determined by the Universe,

Mankind and nation - therefore, by the common fields of

consciousness.

 

I know that emotions are a certain kind of taboo in the western

civilisation. Emotions and thoughts should be separated forever - a

principle almost generally accepted, in scientific circles as well.

Nevertheless, thoughts are closely related to emotions, they may be

regarded as the expression of them, as two stages of the same

process. Our brain is made up as a community of 4* 1010 neurones.

From this enormous number of neurones, only ten-fifteen million is

waiting for stimuli. The time-period of the building up and decay of

the activation potential is around 10-3 s. It means that our brain

activates 1010 neurones in a second. This data is consequent with

the data given above (Sect. V.) for the information processing speed

of the whole brain in forms of neurones, 1010 bits/s. Only a

millionth or less is the speed of the conscious information

processing, less than 103 bits/s. The process in which

the 'unconscious' becomes 'conscious', is based on a certain

selectivity, which may be paralleled with the process of the

development of a conscious thought from an unconscious emotion.

Blocking the emotions involves blocking the basis of consciousness,

while keeping emotions does not lead necessarily to uncritical

decision, since it is the normal way of the brain's activity to

select the information by their content and choose which should be

involved in aware consciousness. The large territories of unused

neurones sign that our emotional world is poor as compared to its

original capacity in a rate of 1/4 000. There is not any other part

of the body which would work with such a low efficiency. The

electric work made by the heart, e.g., is 40-60 times of that of the

brain's as a whole (Rein, G., 1995, personal communication),

although it also participates in the general atrophy of the

organism. It is important to note here, that the decrease of the

basic level of the EM activity of the brain decrease of health of

the whole organism (Oldfield, Coghill, 1988). The organ which is not

used, dies. It is known in medicine that a whole range of illnesses

is related to the anomalously low activity of brain, between

cerebral innoculation and subsequent cellular malfunction of the

body (Oldfield, Coghill, 1988). Psychosis, neurosis seems also to be

related to undervitality of the brain. The brain's activity is

largely parallel to the emotional intensity, when we feel that

something important is happening to us. The brain may conquer back

its lost territories, long-forgotten vast fields of untouched

neurones, at a rate of 4 000 times, and million times of that value,

when the activity of the brain is at full speed. Compared to that

state, our present use of the brain is something when we see through

a small tube which shows one-millionth of the field of vision

without the tube. Since the under-utilisation of the brain leads to

the self-destruction of the organism, psychic and somatic illnesses,

emotions can not be exiled from the centre of the brain to its

highly controlled peripheries. Elevation of the consciousness of

mankind is unimaginable without the elevation of its basic level of

activity, without a significant role of emotions.

 

After coining the term 'primary perception', I became aware of the

same term already introduced into science. The phenomenon

of 'primary perception' is known in child psychology (Pearce, 1977)

denoting the extrasensory perception of children. Eloise Shields

presents an evidence that telepathic ability peaks at age four, at

which time their parents may begin to be aware of such activity

(Peterson, 1974). The term 'primary perception' surfaces in

electromagnetic context, as well, denoting the perceptions of plants

through EM fields (Backster, 1968). Primary extrasensory perception

was known in ancient cultures, such as 'seeing' (látás) in the

magic world-experience of ancient Hungarians (Vekerdy, 1974).

 

The 'merged consciousness' within proper conditions, by the help of

a careful attention, represents a higher expression of human

existence, as in cases of entering a new era of mankind, like the

origin of natural sciences at the Greeks or the renaissance, or at

the formation and enlargement of collectives or groups. If we to

develop a more evolved form of consciousness, we have to live with

emotionally driven states of consciousness. The more the

consciousness will be filled up with human, natural and cosmic

motives, love, eagerness to act and desire to fulfil our

destination, the more it will open up, and the more it will be

active, powerful and intense. Consciousness when finding its natural

field of action, its natural roots and natural harmony, is able to

regain its cosmic power again.

 

It is important to point out that the suggested inductive model for

the generation of consciousness offers a way for the 'freedom of

thought'. The laws of the complete, original electromagnetism of

Maxwell (1892) are richer and more correct than their simplified

forms presented by Heaviside and Gibbs, known as Maxwell-equations,

valid only within special conditions. Recently, Cornille (1995)

pointed out that " the presence of the Ampere-force in the complete

EM implies that a charged capacitor can accelerate its centre of

mass without external help if it has an absolute motion with respect

to ether. " One can expect that spontaneous effects may be induced by

the Lorentz force. I suggest that this spontaneity may be related to

the observed spontaneous phenomena in the inorganic and organic

world, especially in the collective fields of consciousness, where

spontaneous induction may regularly occur.

 

 

21. On the Destination of the Universe

 

There are experiences for reaching the completion of our personal

lives, for recognising our special talents and working on their

developments. Nevertheless, when we reach a special emotional state,

filled with galvanising powers, sometimes we experience a one-to-one

correspondence to the genuine, original content of our personal

life, when whole worlds being born inside us and getting flame with

the lights of Eternity. Cosmic pathways open up in us only when our

motivations are alive in a rate behind a certain threshold, and when

a natural force develops them into a higher form of existence.

Emotions are at the core of the existence, and behind their accepted

role of colouring the fixed forms of reality, they have the power to

shoot up the reality into a much more complete, fresh, nascent,

creative and natural state. Emotions are creative, and creative

imagination is the basic principle which forms and drives our lives,

as well as the Universe as a whole (Petocz, 1838; Froschammer,

1878). Emotions, like a field, have a nature to be shared by others,

to extend to landscapes and enter into other consciousness. When

emotions are alive and vital, they driving us to share them with the

others. The material universe is only a skin of a much more alive,

filled Universe, the body of which is constituted of emotions which

are much more real than the known forms of reality. This reality is

an intense, free, sparkling river of natural forces of emotions. We

can conceive that the known material Universe is only a far side-

descendant of the core Reality, of the real Universe, of which the

fundamental nature is emotional, therefore much more free,

inductive, self-fulfilling and human. Losing this real Universe

generates a schism and an emotional emptiness, and the void is

filled - as history teaches us - with brutality, hate, power and

destruction.

 

To illustrate the occasions of free emotional inspirations, I

present here an example.

 

" Shortly before her 17th birthday, Rosalyn Tureck was playing the

Bach fugue in A minor from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier when

she lost all awareness of her own existence. As she came to, she

recalls, she saw Bach's music revealed in a completely new light,

with a new structure that required the development of a novel piano

technique. Over the next two days she worked out this technique on

four lines of the fugue and then played it at her lesson. Her

teacher told her it was marvellous, but impossible, that it couldn't

be done.

 

" All I knew " , says Tureck, " was that I had gone through a small

door into an immense living, green universe, and the impossibility

for me lay in returning through that door to the world I had known. "

 

Tureck went on to become a renowned concert artist, the first women

invited to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and author of

several books, including one in the works that links the structure

of Bach's music to two physical theories. " (S. Weisburg, 1987).

 

The experience of the deeper, alive Universe still survives on the

rare occasions of the sparks of inspirations. Regarding the fact

that social influences have a propensity to accumulate and amplify

each other, high forms of states of consciousness, if widespread,

could serve as a basis of a more human reality. If we have a

realistic picture of the present, it helps in maintaining this

reality, but the exploration of a deeper, more real reality is

easily able to surface and resurrect when more and more people and

collective shares the proper experiences and attitudes. When

awakening the alive green universes within us, mankind may reach a

stage in its evolution when above a critical threshold, these alive

green universes become interactive, and begin to form a basis of a

new type of reality, a much more human and much more conscious one.

 

 

22. The Deformation of Consciousness in the Western Civilisation

 

The well-known historian, Collingwood (1938) remarks, that " the art

is the treatment of the community to the most horrible illness of

the mind, the degeneration of consciousness " . Tamas Vekerdy (1974)

makes an attempt to solve the schism of our mind: " Consciousness,

when turning against its roots, becomes an idol destructing and

degenerating every life; but, when connected with the unconscious,

becomes a vital factor. Intensifying consciousness may liberate

almost the whole range of the unconscious " . As Allport (1961)

observed, " the self of the western people sticks out (from its inner

world) as a thumb put up. " The roots of this rectangular dysfunction

go back to the absolutization of the self from the selves of the

others, from the environment, Nature and the Universe. None can

count as 'normal adult', or 'full-right warrior', if he/she does not

accept the dogma of perfect alienation of men from each other.

 

Western culture, in aiming to domesticate consciousness, assumes the

a priori degeneration of the human mind, which if undomesticated,

shows an evil, rotten, natural born killer face. This way western

culture degraded consciousness with a terror to a largely inert,

practical, narrow-minded slave, full of fear (Endre K. Grandpierre,

this volume). This is why consciousness compensates itself also with

his own terror and domination over every other factor of life,

including the 'unconscious mind' and the other fellow people,

generating hostility, criminality and down-to-hell thinking.

 

 

23. Super-Organisms and Planetary Consciousness

 

The evolution of consciousness is related to the social co-

operation, to the collective consciousness. Collective consciousness

itself may reach its completion through a co-operation supra-social.

In this context, it is important to consider that the existence of

super-colonies in Nature has been studied recently (Higashi,

Yamauchi, 1979). They observed super-colonies of red Japanese ants

Formica yessensis. Their super-colonies consists of 45 000 colonies

occupying 270 hectares, with 300 millions of workers and 1.1 million

queens. These colonies are interconnected with a web of 100 km long

paths. There is a permanent exchange of workers and queens between

the groups. There is no aggression between the members of the super-

colonies.

 

According to my theory outlined above, larger aggregates of

individual units, when forming a group, with a global organisation

background, may turn to be more sensitive to subtle outer, natural

and cosmic influences. This result is consistent with the view of

Goldberg, who points out that nations are not products of a lately

evolution, but are primary facts of life. It is a universal,

spiritual form of life to form a community (Hamvas, 1943).

Interactions between the members of a healthy, well-organised

society involve the possibility to easily reach information from all

the members of the society. In optimal case, when the organisational

activity of the society is well developed, all the information is

processed and exchanged, shared and 'sacred' by sharing, therefore

forming a Common Field of Consciousness of the society. Perceiving

the nature of the Common Field of Consciousness of the society is a

substantial part of a healthy society, as being a condition of the

individual participation in the life functions of the society as a

whole. Perceiving the natural and cosmic informations is again a

substantial function, which is a condition of the harmonious

relation of the society to its immediate and cosmic environment. The

physical conditions to this refined sensing are given just by the

cohered tuning and co-operation of individuals, acting as a larger

whole, sensitive to radiation with larger wavelengths. Planetary

consciousness may be approached when global-scale activity is in

development. The presence of Schumann waves, and their direct

interaction with the individual's brain activity give an additional,

natural basis for the development of consciousness of mankind into a

planetary consciousness.

 

 

24. Healing of the Collective Consciousness Field of Mankind

 

The formation of a group is not automatic at humans. Spontaneous

targeting - e.g. when finding the proper members of a group to form -

seems to be sporadic. The 'group' as a higher level entity is the

envelop which keeps together the individuals. Until this envelope is

not formed, one can find the peoples to be an aggregate and not in a

group. But what is the nature of this 'envelop'? As Didier Anzieu

expresses, the most important factors are the network of implicit

and explicit rules, the established habits, the rites, the facts and

actions with accepted values, which contribute to the formation of

an inner space and a proper timeliness (Anzieu, 1984). I have to add

as a substantial characteristic of any group a similar sensitivity,

sharing some basic elevating or interest-expressing ideas,

conceptions and motives to act, and propensity to similar emotional

states and emotional drives. Being in a faceless mass, in an

atomised society, in the absence of communities, without emotions to

be shared, sooner or later will generate stress, anxiousness and

tension, deforming the natural states of consciousness, degenerating

our mind, which may enhance aggression and destruction. The

formation of a real community, giving the frame to a meaningful

life, is the task of the present societies.

 

To do this, it would be helpful to explore the physical conditions

and physical forms of consciousness, and determine the proper

conditions of the natural states of consciousness fields, therefore

being able to create physical conditions which may generate

favourable conditions to regain our physical and mental health.

Learning that consciousness is basically an EM field (which is

resonantly coupled to the vacuum field), and its sources are the

cosmic systems of Sun, Earth and the Moon (Grandpierre, 1996d),

together with the natural sources of the biosphere, especially the

natural fields into which we can tune most easily, the physical

field emitted by the human organisms, we may be able to measure and

broadcast wave fields which heal the stress, intensify, galvanise,

correcting the distortions of the natural fields, like stress and

alienation, and then to broadcast fields which induce in us urge to

participate in the collective forms of consciousness. Measuring the

healing spectra of special sites like water-springs, nascent

forests, solar and lunar oscillations of the earthly magnetosphere,

we may be able to sample them and re-radiate them in forms of

Schumann-waves.

 

Searching the conditions of the tuning of the individuals to the

natural healing EM fields has the same importance as the possible

explorations of changes in our EM environment, which do have a

healing effect. Psychological research shows that the efficiency of

tuning in between different people is determined largely by

emotional connections, i.e. transpersonal connections are the most

effective between lovers, parents and children, friends tuned to

each other. This result suggests that mankind may heal itself if we

are able to tune us more effectively to the natural sources of

consciousness, to the natural powers living in us, revealing the

natural beings behind the manipulated masks which are developed by

an unnatural society's norms, and when our emotional bounds are

strengthened towards the wider ranges of our personal existence,

towards Nature and the Universe.

 

It is suggested that new types of mental techniques may be developed

to explore the subjective effects of mental intensification

(Grandpierre, 1995c). If Vekerdy (1974) is right and the cathartic

effect of the theatre is based on the extrasensory transference of

the emotions generated in the actors, we can imagine a theatre in

which everybody participates simultaneously. The idea of

the 'telepathic theatre' suggests a play in total darkness and

silence. The actors play the real drama on stage, intensifying their

emotions and consciousness, and the participants are measured

simultaneously through EM detectors positioned in the performance

hall. The facilitation effect of the large number of harmoniously

tuned participants could be detected directly.

 

Moreover, in recognising the hidden social drives of human beings,

we could mobilise these immense inner natural forces, and as a new

form of art, we may invent socio-mental group therapy, when people

meet and form a community to inspire each other not with de-

intensifying meditation, but strengthening the opposite tendency,

the vitality, flexibility, mental intensity and freshness.

Certainly, the whole society could got a vital lightning by becoming

aware of its real, socio-natural-cosmical nature.

 

Neural mind is connected to executive functions of bodily changes,

an already fixed form of the mental processes. Consciousness, as

understood by mainstream science, is an extremely small part of this

executive neural mind. Our calculations and arguments strongly

suggest, that consciousness may be and, by nature, has to be of a

much wider range. Beside the quantitative intensification of the

neural mind, we can develop and improve the quality of our brains'

activity, spontaneity, tuning in to the much faster and subtler

electronic, EM and quantum-vacuum minds. Consciousness may regain

its natural functions only when finding a partnership with his

parental, subtler minds, with human communities, with Nature and the

Universe.

 

The Physics of Collective Consciousness

by Attila Grandpierre

http://www.meta-religion.com/Physics/Consciousness/physics_of_

collective_consciousness.htm

 

 

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