Altered States of Consciousness Distort Time, But No One Knows Why

 We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much longer than week at home.

Time also seems to pass slowly when we are bored, or in pain. It seems to speed up when we’re in a state of absorption, such as when we play music or chess, or paint or dance. More generally, most people report time seems to speed up as they get older.

However, these variations in time perception are quite mild. Our experience of time can change in a much more radical way. In my new book, I describe what I call “time expansion experiences” – in which seconds can stretch out into minutes.

The reasons why time can speed up and slow down are a bit of a mystery. Some researchers, including me, think that mild variations in time perception are linked to information processing....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Dr. Donald Hoffman: Consciousness Shapes Reality, Not the Brain

 Renowned scientist Dr. Donald Hoffman proposes a revolutionary perspective on the nature of consciousness. Hoffman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it is actually consciousness that gives rise to our brains and shapes the reality we experience.

Dr. Hoffman argues that consciousness does not emerge from the biological processes within our cells, neurons, or the chemistry of the brain. It transcends the physical realm entirely.

“Consciousness creates our brains, not our brains creating consciousness,” he says.

His groundbreaking work employs evolutionary game theory to support the idea that human perception is not a window into reality as it is, but rather a construction shaped by the necessities of survival....<<<Read More>>>....

 

Signs You’ve Experienced Altered States of Consciousness

 “Altered states of consciousness” sounds like something from a cheesy 80’s sci-fi movie or a trip down the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland.

But each and every day you and I enter into altered states of consciousness.

Whenever you get transfixed by a screen (aka. your phone or the TV) and dream at night, you enter into an altered state of consciousness.

However, at some point in life, most of us have a bizarre – or even frightening – experience that we can’t quite explain.

Sometimes, these strange experiences are actually blissful and ecstatic. And other times, these odd undergoings are a mixture of both joy and pain.

Have you ever gone through something that blew your mind and temporarily shattered your reality, but you’ve never really understood why it happened or what it meant?What you’ve likely experienced was, in the words of mythologist Joseph Campbell, a “Call to Adventure” or call to walk your one and true life path and find the meaning of life....<<<Read More>>>...

People do not lose their hearing even after death

 No surprise really when it is consciousness that hears not the brain...the ears decipher the signals sent to them by consciousness. 

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It is generally accepted that before death, people’s senses gradually fail, and they are not aware of what is happening around.

But recently, a group of neurologists from the University of British Columbia (Canada) came to the conclusion that dying people do not lose their hearing not only until their last breath, but also for some time after death.

The researchers turned to patients of St. John’s Hospice, recognized as terminally ill, but still in their right mind, with a request to participate in the experiments.

The essence of the experiments was that when the process of dying began, a cap with electrodes was put on the head of the subject. At the same time, completely healthy people who made up the control group also participated in the study.

Both of them were given simple melodies to listen to, changing their tone. At the same time, with the help of electrodes, the reaction of the brain to listening to the compositions was monitored.

Hospice patients were put on music twice – when they fell into an unconscious state, and after death was recorded – that is, after cardiac arrest. And – here is the strangeness – in the control group, and in those who were unconscious, and in those who had just died, the brain in response to the “music” gave out almost the same data. The activity curves almost coincided.

Experts believe that a person hears sounds while the brain gives at least some signs of life (this also happens within a few seconds or minutes after death).

It is possible that the dying also understands what the people around them are saying. There are cases when survivors of clinical death then accurately conveyed the meaning of the conversations that were conducted by those around them – for example, their relatives or representatives of the medical staff. And some described in detail the actions of these people....<<<Read More>>>...

Consciousness of people on the verge of life and death has been studied

 An international team of scientists studied the experiences of people who were on the verge of life and death. The results, according to Medical Xpress, were presented at the American Heart Association Resuscitation Symposium in November this year.

The researchers interviewed 567 people who experienced cardiac arrest followed by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). All participants in the study spoke about what feelings they experienced. It turned out that they were significantly different from hallucinations and dreams.

In particular, as the study participants said, they experienced a sense of separation of consciousness from the body, and this happened without such side effects as pain or agony, and also evaluated their life, actions, intentions and thoughts in relation to other people.

They were also tested for latent brain activity: they all recorded bursts of activity, including gamma, delta, theta, alpha and beta waves, which lasted up to an hour after resuscitation.

Many of these impulses originate in conscious people involved in complex mental processes such as thinking, memory retrieval, and conscious perception.

It has been established that on the verge of life and death a person experiences a unique internal conscious experience....<<<Read More>>>...

Quantum immortality: “I died, but woke up in an altered reality”

Have you had an unexplained accident where you should have died, but due to same random stroke of amazing luck, you managed to survive?

Were you ever so ill, you narrowly escaped death? Afterwards, did you remember events differently from those around you?

One possible explanation is that you may have indeed experienced death in another timeline, but your consciousness continued in an alternate reality.

Quantum immortality started as a thought experiment in the late 1980s, and later was more fully developed by physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark.

It suggests we may die many times throughout our lives. With each passing, our consciousness moves, slides, jumps or shifts to the closest timeline, very similar to the one where we died....<<<Read More>>>...

Consciousness Is Part of the Cosmos – Transmitted and Displayed by the Brain

 [Anomalien]: Your consciousness is not your consciousness. It is the manifestation of the longing of the cosmos for itself. It comes to you through you but not from you.

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, that dimension....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Altered States of Consciousness as a Path of Soul Initiation

[Waking Times]: "Altered states of consciousness” sounds like something from a cheesy 80’s sci-fi movie or a trip down the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland.

But each and every day you and I enter into altered states of consciousness.

Whenever you get transfixed by a screen (aka. your phone or the TV) and dream at night, you enter into an altered state of consciousness.

However, at some point in life, most of us have a bizarre – or even frightening – experience that we can’t quite explain.

Sometimes, these strange experiences are actually blissful and ecstatic. And other times, these odd undergoings are a mixture of both joy and pain.

Have you ever gone through something that blew your mind and temporarily shattered your reality, but you’ve never really understood why it happened or what it meant?

What you’ve likely experienced was, in the words of mythologist Joseph Campbell, a “Call to Adventure” or call to walk your one and true life path and find the meaning of life.

Altered states of consciousness (ASC), also known as a non-ordinary state of being, occurs when we temporarily access a state of mind that isn’t usually available to us. Altered states can be either deliberately stimulated or may occur randomly and without warning...<<<Read More>>>...