Transcending the Speed of Light: Consciousness, Quantum Physics, and the Fifth Dimension PDF
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For Lois, the light of my life TRANSCENDING THE SPEED OF LIGHT “How is it possible for consciousness to exist in the physical universe? This is the classic mind-body problem that has eluded philosophers for many generations. Now it appears that answers are within reach. The depth of Marc Seifer’s scholarship and the clarity of his thinking make this book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the frontiers of consciousness research.” JEFFREY MISHLOVE, PH.D., DEAN OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH “This book by Marc Seifer is truly a tremendous work! It represents a remarkable accomplishment of gathering an enormous amount of relevant material and taking the reader through a lifetime of meticulous research! I know of no other book that does all of that so thoroughly, and I highly recommend this book to any and all readers who are seriously interested in the puzzling problem of the nature of mind and consciousness. Marc’s work is an epochal achievement that will offer new thoughts to the reader for many decades to come.” COL. TOM BEARDEN (RETIRED), AUTHOR OF EXCALIBUR BRIEFING A CKNOWLEDGMENTS This book would not have been published without the support of Inner Traditions. I would like to thank Ehud Sperling, Jeanie Levitan, Mindy Branstetter, Nancy Yeilding, and the rest of the ITI staff. I would also like to thank: Daniel G. Freedman, my master’s thesis mentor at the University of Chicago; Roger Pearson, the dean at Providence College, for encouraging me; Howard Smukler, the first director of the MetaScience Foundation; Professor Stanley Krippner, who oversaw some of my graduate studies on such topics as synchronicity and precognition; Elliott Shriftman, Sandy Neuschatz, Godfrey Jordan, Lynn Sevigny, Tom Bearden, Ron Hatch, John White, Uri Geller, my brother and sister Bruce Seifer and Meri Shardin, and Edwin Gora, professor emeritus, for giving me numerous articles on the quantum physics of consciousness; and my father, Stanley Seifer, and my mother, Thelma Imber Seifer, for sending me numerous cogent articles related to this topic. The book has been heavily influenced by such writers and thinkers as G. W. Leibniz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Arnold Sommerfeld, Charles Musès, Nikola Tesla, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, Rudolf Steiner, Lobsang Rampa, Andrija Puharich, Uri Geller, Henri Bergson, John Ott, Royal Rife, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Landis, Paul Kammerer, and Carl Jung. Some important inspirations stem from the work of Dennis Gabor, the discoverer and developer of holography/3-D photography, and such books as George Gamow’s Thirty Years That Shook Physics, Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics, books by Lincoln Barnett and James Coleman that explain Einstein’s theories, and the amazing P. D. Ouspensky and his masterwork, New Model of the Universe. C ONTENTS Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Foreword by Stanley Krippner Preface 1 Consciousness and the Anthropic Principle COINCIDENCE OF MATTER AND MIND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS HIERARCHY OF MIND I AM 2 Parapsychology and Esoteric Thought TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY THEORIES ON LAWS OF MIND OBSCURE OCCULTISTS A SKEPTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BEYOND STORIES OF INFINITY 3 Toward a Physics of Consciousness IRA EINHORN AND CHRISTOPHER BIRD ARTHUR YOUNG: INTENTIONALITY AND UNCERTAINTY BEN BENTOV: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE COSMOS TOM BEARDEN: CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME ANDRIJA PUHARICH: TACHYONIC REALMS E. HARRIS WALKER: PARAPHYSICAL MIND LIGHT INTERLUDE 4 The Birth of the New Physics ETHER AND SPACETIME IMAGINARY NUMBERS, RELATIVITY, AND QUANTUM THEORY TODAY’S ATOM IMAGINARY NUMBERS KALUZA, KLEIN, AND WEYL TWISTING FASTER THAN LIGHT SPEED EINSTEIN’S CRITICS A FRESH LOOK AT MICHELSON-MORLEY EINSTEIN’S ETHER LECTURE 5 Ether Theory Revisited CURLING LIGHT NEW ETHER THEORISTS THE HIGGS FIELD AND DARK MATTER GRAVITY WAVES SCALAR WAVES 6 Ether Theory: The Mental Aspect HOLOGRAPHY THE GALAXY IS A HOLARCHY PRE-GEOMETRY AND MINKOWSKI SPACETIME TIME AND GRAVITY ETHER THEORY AND URI GELLER THE MIND OF THE OBSERVER THE SEARCH FOR REAL TIME AKASA THEORIES OF HARMONICS AND WILL LUCID DREAMS FINE MATTER: THE MISSING LINK? CONCLUSION 7 Coevolution of Science and Spirit KARL PRIBRAM: THE HOLOGRAPHIC PROCESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS DAVID BOHM: THE IMPLICATE ORDER, COSMOS, AND CONSCIOUSNESS DAVID BOHM AND KARL PRIBRAM: THE NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT ROLAND FISCHER: ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN: MEDITATION AND HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 8 Monad of Mind THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN THE BRAIN AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE COSMOS THE SENSE OF I 9 Synchronicity SOME PERSONAL EXAMPLES OF SYNCHRONICITY THE KICKER SYNCHRONICITIES INVOLVING MOTHER NATURE TELEPATHY AND ESP BIRTHDAY SYNCHRONICITIES SYNCHRONICITY WITH TWINS PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY AND SYNCHRONICITY POSSIBLE MECHANISMS FOR SYNCHRONISTIC PHENOMENA DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 10 Precognition and the Structure of Time PRECOGNITION AS A FORM OF TELEPATHY THE SEARCH FOR PURE PRECOGNITION THE SPACETIME MIND CONTINUUM J. W. DUNNE: AN EXPERIMENT IN TIME FIVE-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE OUSPENSKY, HYPERSPACE, AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION COUNTERSPACE: THE PRIMARY VIRTUAL REALITY SUMMARY 11 Six-Dimensional Universe THE PHYSICS OF HIGHER DIMENSIONS SPIN THE MYSTERY OF SPACE PENROSE AND THE TWISTOR 12 Patterns of Prophecy GURDJIEFF’S LAW OF THE WILL ASTROLOGY AND PLANETARY FORCES APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES PLANETS, PERSONALITY, AND BRAIN STRUCTURE ASTROLOGICAL TYPES 13 Another Look at E = mc2 MOMENTUM BEYOND LIGHT SPEED 14 Final Thoughts Endnotes Bibliography About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Copyright & Permissions
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