these phenomena are real, and we must try to understand their nature if
we want to comprehend the reality of our existence.
We have been seduced into thinking that the scientific world view is
fast approaching a Theory of Everything (or TOE), which would not seem
to leave much room for our soul, or spirit, or for Heaven, and God. My
journey deep into coma, outside of this lowly physical realm and into the
loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably
immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring
realm of God.
Each one of us is more familiar with consciousness than we are with
anything else, and yet we understand far more about the rest of the
universe than we do about the mechanism of consciousness. It is so close
to home that it is almost forever beyond our grasp. There is nothing about
the physics of the material world (quarks, electrons, photons, atoms, etc.),
and specifically the intricate structure of the brain, that gives the slightest
clue as to the mechanism of consciousness.
In fact, the greatest clue to the reality of the spiritual realm is this
profound mystery of our conscious existence. This is a far more
mysterious revelation than physicists or neuroscientists have shown
themselves capable of dealing with, and their failure to do so has left the
intimate relationship between consciousness and quantum mechanics—
and thus physical reality—obscured.
To truly study the universe on a deep level, we must acknowledge the
fundamental role of consciousness in painting reality. Experiments in
quantum mechanics shocked those brilliant fathers of the field, many of
whom (Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Erwin
Schrödinger, Sir James Jeans, to name a few) turned to the mystical
worldview seeking answers. They realized it was impossible to separate
the experimenter from the experiment, and to explain reality without
consciousness. What I discovered out beyond is the indescribable
immensity and complexity of the universe, and that consciousness is the
basis of all that exists. I was so totally connected to it that there was often
no real differentiation between “me” and the world I was moving
through. If I had to summarize all this, I would say first, that the universe
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