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Contemplating Consciousness
Future Awareness
How defining the architecture of Consciousness may lead to improved wellbeing.
Per Stephan Schwartz, remote viewing can be defined as ‘the ability to use nonlocal consciousness to acquire nonlocally sourced information.’ Defining nonlocal consciousness is as problematic as defining consciousness. We simply don’t know what it is. For remote viewing to work, one might suspect, though perhaps argumentatively not necessarily so, a continuity of self that extends beyond physical life. Humans have been using words to describe this aspect of awareness since the invention of writing, if you consider the yoga powers of Siddhis in Sanskrit as evidence. Schwartz is adding or changing language to describe the data of a nonphysical realm. He suggests there’s an architecture that can be reasonably defined. Others have hinted as much. The language of what that looks like is changing. Do we need new language to interface better with this phenomenon?
The Rutgers article, Beliefs about the Soul and Afterlife that We Acquire as Children Stick with Us, implies that our beliefs as individuals and society are static, and culturally derived. There would be no evolution of ideas if humans were so static. Mostly, we cling to what works until we absolutely must part with it. Sometimes we…
