The beyond-the-brain consciousness — the consciousness we encountered in our review of near-death experiences, after-death communication, medium-conveyed and instrumental transcommunication, past-life recollections, and in experiences suggestive of reincarnation — is not a material entity in the manifest world.
It is an intrinsic element in the Akasha, the deep dimension of the cosmos.
The idea that consciousness belongs to a deeper dimension of reality is a perennial intuition. The great spiritual masters, poets, and even scientists have been telling us that consciousness is not “in” the brain and is not part of the world in which the brain exists.
It is part of the mind or intelligence that infuses the cosmos. Consciousness appears in space and time as a localized (yet nonlocal) manifestation. Erwin Schrödinger said it clearly: consciousness is one — it does not exist in the plural.
Just as particles and
systems of particles in spacetime are projections of codes and relations
in the Akashic deep dimension, so the consciousness associated with
living organisms is a manifestation — a holographic projection — of the
unitary consciousness that does not merely exist in, but actually is,
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