Consciousness, a step forward towards scientific interpretation from
spiritual perception
Souvik Basak*
N1.2-B3-15, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 62, Nanyang
Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – 637459.
*Corresponding author:
Mr. Souvik Basak, N1.2-B3-15, School of Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering, 62, Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
– 637459.
E-mail: SOUV0001@e.ntu.edu.sg, Tel: +65-84050193.
ABSTRACT
Theories have been postulated to define consciousness through spiritual
perception, often lacking proper scientific justification to explain it.
However, scientifically it can be encrypted as a physically interacting
self that comprises both matter and force particles. These elementary
entities have been originated from the very point of big bang through the
diversification of force field and subsequent matter-antimatter reaction.
Materialistically, consciousness has been considered as self awareness
resulting from in and out flow of thought waves. With substantial
thermodynamic stability of the universe, the nucleosynthesis reaction
yielded stable atomic nuclei releasing all spread cosmic background
microwave radiation (CMBR). Afterwards, the quantized thought waves had
been found to have energy equivalence with this CMBR radiation. In
addition, emission of biophotons has been proved experimentally to be
important in cell-cell signalling. It also bears similar radiofrequency
vibration with CMBR, thus proving to be carriers of universal
consciousness. In other words, biophotons are correlated with the evolution
of thought waves that churn self consciousness by interaction with the
surrounding atmosphere together with all its macro and micro states.
Keywords:
Consciousness, Spiritual, Big Bang, Thought waves, Biophotons, TCP, TRP.
INTRODUCTION
The driving force of mankind and our civilization is, controversially, will
power and consciousness. The indigenous channelization of consciousness
keeps the civilization ongoing. But the question is that, does the
consciousness lie as a complete spiritual phenomenon or it manifests itself
as an integrated algorithm universe-wide to inter-unite every object
materialistically? Early Vedic knowledge depicts consciousness as a true
self that originates as a framed image from the interplay of brain and
other neuronal networks [1]. Prof Wigner, tried to bridge the gap between
consciousness and science by saying that "The very study of the physical
world leads to the conclusion that the concept of consciousness is an
ultimate reality and, all the possible knowledge, concerning objects can be
given as its wave function" [2]. Professor Ashok Sharma, a former Indian
professor of Applied Physics, who was also a scientist at Harvard
University, has formulated some path-breaking theories and postulations
based on the ancient knowledge. Consciousness, according to Prof Sharma,
“is a non-physical entity, which is essentially different from the four
basic entities of space, time, energy and matter of the conventional
science. Consciousness does not have any physical attribute or property or
action, but is endowed with autonomous will power of creation, retention
and annihilation of the knowledge of an individual or that of the universe”
(Das, http://hinduism.about.com) Thus, scientists have initiated attempts
to interrelate the materialistic world to the spiritual world of
consciousness. In this study, a little attempt has been undertaken to
investigate the interrelationship between science and consciousness.
THOUGHT WAVE
Inside “Planck epoch” i.e. up to the time approximately 10-43
seconds after time zero (t=0) in the space-time continuum, there was
unified force involving gravitational force as a fundamental force. This
was the aboriginal singularity, which latter unfolded into all other
existing physical forces due to “symmetry breaking”. The Big bang theory
suggests that the universe originated from singularity, thus there was
nothing before the singularity. Hence it is a plausible assumption that
everything including life and all other driving forces associated with
this, originated from this singularity [3].
A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion kelvin and
the density was about that of air, combination of proton with neutron
yielded world’s first Deuterium and Helium through a process known as
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
[4]. Most protons remained isolated to form
hydrogen
nuclei. As the Universe cooled, the
rest mass
- energy density of matter went higher to supersede the photon radiation
thus inlaying the gravitational force as a significant force in the world.
After a time period of 379,000 years after the big bang, the electrons and
the nuclei combined into atoms (mostly
hydrogen
); resulting release of the extra energy in form of radiofrequency
radiation. This relic radiation subsequently spread all over the space and
latter has been known as the
cosmic microwave background radiation
(CMBR) [5]. This radiation has been proved to be the medium of thought
waves as described later.
CONSCIOUSNESS
To quantize consciousness, approaches were undertaken to correlate the same
with thought force as acknowledged by many ancient citations. For example,
Atkinson 1908 reported that thought force is a self healing force that can
be generated inside body in case of self-emergency condition [6]. He
acknowledged that nature manifests itself within body through the blood and
other carrier molecules that, under diseased condition, sends signals to
brain. Brain, with thought force, propagates the healing messengers
unimpeded which can be felt with body consciousness as an output of warmth
in special regions.
BIOPHOTONS
The concepts of thought force became furthermore interesting in the 20 th century when the concept of “biophotons” had started
emerging. Scientists reported that radiations had been recorded from cells
such as bacteria, algae, fungi, nematodes and mammalian cells [7-14]. This
radiation lied between Infra-red range (1000-1500 cm-1) to
radiofrequency range (5 kHz-9 MHz), which interestingly matches with CMBR
radiation over the space. The emitted radiation was often named as Ultra
Weak Photon Emission (UPE).
The origination of background radiation was investigated and subsequently
was demonstrated as an output of a series of physicochemical phenomena
occurring inside body. For example, Frolich et al. [15-17] proposed a model
that cellular UPE generates as a result of eletromagnetic vibrations of
charged or polar molecules inside cell. In this model, every polar molecule
inside cell vibrates with a special frequency due to metabolic energy that,
when surpasses a critical level, aligns the molecules coherently in a
single vibrational state. This predicts the emission of electromagnetic
field (EMF) spectra in the range of 100-1000 GHz. Latter it has also been
proved that microtubules as well as mitochondria are also sources of EMF
generation [18].
It has been generally accepted postulate that reactive oxygen species (ROS)
is the main sources of emitting radiation from a biological species. The
ROS produced due to oxidative stress, is often coupled with unpaired
electron in high energy state. The energy is often radiated as conventional
phospholuminiscence phenomenon when electron from excited state comes down
to ground state. Researchers measured this light emission from various
species starting from cytoplasm to plant leaf homogenates [19-21].
Cell communication via EMF or UPE has also been acknowledged by
scientists from past to recent years [22, 23]. According to Galle and Ho,
each biological system can produce a complex wave of characteristic pattern
which is, probably, species specific [24, 25]. It has also been illustrated
that, the EMF wave pattern being alike, interference between two waves are
possible. Thus, two biological systems can interact or communicate with
each other by emitting similar pattern of waves, inducing interference and
thence receiving signal to trigger the intracellular messengers [26].
I believe that this scientifically existing biophoton has been the
quantitative interpretation of thought force that in turn, is quantized
in form of TCP and TRP as described latter.
TCP AND TRP
In recent years, Pal and De mentioned that thought force is carried by
force carrying particle, namely as thought carrying particle (TCP).
Consummative effect of thought carrying particle (TCP) with thought
retaining particle (TRP) results in consciousness that, according to the
authors, is a form of quantized energy. They have also reported the TCP
mass equivalent to 5.5x10-37 g or 3.09 x 10-13 GeV.
According to the authors, the quantized universal conciousness energy
corresponds to the universal temperature that was measured as 2.73 K by
Penzius and Wilson in the CMBR background [27]. Recently, the concept of
thought force was reinforced by
Miguel Nicolelis
(
Duke University
,
Durham, North Carolina
) and a group of researchers involving John Donoghue (
Brown University
), Andrew Schwartz (
University of Pittsburgh
) and Richard Andersen ( Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology). They claimed to have trained Rhesus
monkey successfully to move a set of robotic arms by its own brain signals
and thereby grab fruits to feed itself [28, 29].
CONSCIOUSNESS AS SELF-AWARENESS
Dr. John Hagelin, in a research article, proposed
a technique called transcendental meditation (TM) to centralize
consciousness in a personalized self. “The Transcendental Meditation
technique has been described as a systematic means for taking the conscious
mind from active levels of awareness to more abstract and fundamental
levels of mental activity, resulting in the experience of pure
consciousness”. Subsequently, it has been reported that, this state of
self-accumulating consciousness could eventually lead to alteration of a
plentiful of physiological and biochemical states. The noted observations,
mostly, fall into one of these categories: (1) indicators of deep rest,
which include alternative breathing patterns, reduced blood lactate, and
decreased glycolytic metabolism; (2) signs of increased alertness, such as
faster reaction times and faster recovery of motor reflexes; and (3)
indications of reduced levels of stress and improved resiliency to
stressful experiences, for example, lowered plasma cortisol and faster recovery of normal galvanic skin resistance
following a loud noise [31, 32].
CONCLUSION
To conclude, Scott Hammond has inferred in an article that thought is an
electromagnetic field that creates wave for our brain to communicate with
the cells. According to him, thought force is a unified field that is hold
within DNA during origination of every species. In another way, a matter
can neither be created, nor be destroyed. Thus, when the matter absolves at
absolute zero or inside the blackhole, it is returned to universal
consciousness. Since everything in universe is in order, the universe acts
like a system or a body. Life in universe manifests as its soul; and as a
cohesive unit of this, consciousness spreads unimpeded through the binding
energy of DNA molecules. Singularity, in materialistic sense, is the
depiction of universal consciousness.
.
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