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In the ancient Egyptian texts of The Hermetica it is also written that God is Oneness and that everything is part of one Supreme

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Being - an invisible universal consciousness, or mind - which has created all things from an original impulse, and yet which also resides within all of creation simultaneously. What relationship does the human mind have to the universal mind? Are our minds part of an interconnected 'divine consciousness', or are they individual and separate, merely the result of the activity of the physical brain?,

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It is, I believe, entirely an aberration, ignorance and arrogance of Western materialistic scientific thinking to assume that 'consciousness' or 'mind' is a quality possessed by human beings alone, or that this 'awareness' is entirely a function or by product of the physical brain.

The brain, like all physical body parts and material forms, is absolutely finite and depends on this self same omnipresent universal energy for its very existence. By this simple fact alone, the brain itself cannot be considered capable of producing thought or consciousness per se - because it is ultimately a finite material form and like all finite material forms cannot have either life or consciousness without energy. Rather, it may be that the brain acts as a medium by which 'consciousness' or thought expresses itself on the material plane. In this view, the brain is considered a physical organ that can only be activated via a continuous series of electrical impulses.

Once you deprive the brain of these electrical impulses as in death, the brain will automatically stop functioning. It may remain perfectly intact as a physical mass, but it is the electrical energy that both creates and stimulates it. Switch off the electrics - and the brain is nothing more than a jelly-like mass of grey matter waiting for an electrical fix - like the monster Frankenstein waiting for the gift of life from a lightning bolt. .

Therefore, even though the brain may survive physical death intact, in exactly the same state it was in just before death, it is no longer of any use; it is no longer activated. The electrical force, which once generated activity in the brain itself, has withdrawn with the original organising energy field, which created it in the first place.

Although Western medical opinion is generally of the belief that it is the brain which secretes thoughts 'like a liver secretes bile', current evidence is beginning to prove otherwise.

Mathematician and cognitive scientist David Chalmers is one of many who now believe that consciousness may be fundamental in the universe, perhaps equal with matter and energy neither 'derivable from or reducible to' anything else, including the brain.

Do we have any evidence to support this claim?

Yes. We do. As we shall see later during our investigations into the ever-increasing reports of the out-of-body and near-death experience, the 'consciousness' of the individual appears fully able

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to separate from the physical body itself during life and describe distant locations - and even more remarkably - also appears to survive and be able to communicate after physical death itself.

If consciousness were truly restricted to the physical brain and brain function, it would be impossible for anyone to do this.

According to the concept of divine omnipresence, which suggests that divine consciousness is inherent in all form, the physical form is said to contain this inherent energy field that is simultaneously the source and mind of the form itself, whether it is a rock, an animal, a plant or a human. All life forms, in this philosophy, are equal and equally endowed with divine universal 'consciousness'. This is the meaning of omnipresence. It means that God is not separate from creation, but intrinsic within it, and that God is everywhere and everything simul­ taneously.

It is only in our human arrogance that we assume that we are unique in the possession of 'consciousness'. But how does consciousness function in a form without a brain and five senses as we know them? A plant for instance - how can a plant have consciousness? It has no brain. It has no eyes, ears or nose. And yet scientific experiments confirm that plants can have awareness of their environments and can suffer emotional extremes of happiness and pain in the same ways that we can. How a carrot must cry then when it is picked, no less than the cry of a fully universally-conscious lamb heading for the slaughter.

Man, carrot and lamb all contain this same universal substance - this same universal consciousness. Just because carrots and lambs do not share our interest or skills in computer technology, literature, fashion or space travel is no reason to assume they are not conscious or do not possess 'a wareness', 'feeling' or 'consciousness'.

In

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authors Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird describe scientifically controlled experiments where plants were either actually hurt, or the thought of the intent to hurt focused on them. In all cases, the plants - which were attached to extremely sensitive electrodes - showed an extreme emotional reaction - whether they were actually hurt, or merely had the thought - the intent - projected at them.

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in ample detail, a further selection of plants were either physically or mentally attacked by an individual unknown to the researchers.

The researchers were later able to identify the attacker from a large number of possible suspects - entirely by the reaction of the subject plant when it encountered the aggressor. Conversely, as any gardener or green-fingered soul will tell you, plants respond extremely well to love and affection.

This research data implies that plants not only react to various stimuli in a conscious and emotional way, but are also able to read our thoughts as in the case of the plants who telepathically reacted to aggressive mental projection.

How can they do this? Now, plants may not have a brain, but they are absolutely capable of consciousness because they contain electromagnetic energy like everything else in the universe and it is this self same energy that possesses consciousness, not the form itself. (The consciousness, spirits or souls of plants have long been known in Celtic mythology as the Devas of the plant kingdoms - fairies, pixies, and elves who are said to be endowed with special powers. The oak tree, for instance, is one of the 12 sacred trees venerated by the Druids and Pagan Britons. Socrates called it 'The Tree of Wisdom'. Why were these trees considered sacred? How could they have influence or consciousness?)

Now, because everything in the universe is composed entirely of atoms, and because these atoms contain both a positive and negative electrical charge, the resulting effect is that every single physical form in the universe is possessed of an electromagnetic force field.

What does this force field look like? It looks like light. How do we know?

In 1950, two Russian scientists, Simyon and Valerina Kirlian discovered that they could scientifically photograph a strange luminescence which appeared to surround and interpenetrate all living things, rocks, stones, plants, animals and humans alike.

By laying film or plate in contact with the object to be photographed and passing through the object an electric current from a high frequency spark generator which put out 75,000 to 200,000 electrical pulses per second, the whole body of the physical object in question appeared to be suffused with an inner

light which radiated in varying colours and intensities around the

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object - fluctuating with internal and external changes. The Kirlians started by photographing plants, which seemed to emit showers of different coloured lights from channels in their leaves and progressed to humans who also appeared to have these fine sheaths of light emanating from them. They also subsequently discovered that the energy field - the field of light - would display positive or negative changes on the energy field itself before these changes became apparent on the physical form.

Two physically identical leaves for example - when subjected to Kirlian photography - showed that although they appeared thus to normal vision, one of them actually had a very strong luminous auric field, whereas the energy field of the other was extremely weak. The latter soon became sick and died, showing the same irregularities on the physical form as it had already displayed on the auric field. The former continued to live and retained its healthy glow (see Figure 7).

The same phenomenon has been proved with the study of human energy fields. The field of preventative medicine could surely benefit enormously from such technology.

In all life forms, it is the quality and quantity of energy within the form itself that determines its health and strength. The energy within the form however, can be affected by internal emotional and physical factors, as well as external electromagnetic forces being received from other life forms. The human energy field is also affected by the magnetic fields of the planets that are being continually absorbed by the Earth's magnetic field. These fluctuations in magnetic energy are then detected on the auric field as a disturbance in wave energy.

Plants, animals, humans, even rocks, are all are continually giving out positive or negative energy fields, depending on its own state of health and being. They all have their own electromagnetic fields, which are all interacting with each other at the sub-atomic level.

In 1953 Dr Mikhail Kuzmich Gaikin, a surgeon from Leningrad, confirmed that the auric photographs the Kirlians had produced showed identical points where vital energy of life force could be tapped. These coincided with the 700 acupuncture points he had learnt about from Chinese doctors during World War lI.

The Earth itself is also surrounded by an enormous vital energy or electromagnetic field of its own, and this magnetic shell is

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