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Part 2 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - What the Bleep style thinking & the Bicameral Mind

There’s a meme of growing popularity, largely due to the success of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, that can be summed like this:

We create reality through conscious observation. What we choose to think, decide, and observe has a literal input into the creation of the reality around us.

You write on page 64 that “we are doing more than just “throwing the dice” as quantum observers, and in fact each of us are actively influencing the outcome through the choices we make.”

To what extent can this idea be taken that we create our own reality? Is this a meaningful perspective to have over how we live our lives or is it an idea that only applies at the quantum level and not in our day to day living?

With the popularity of “The Secret” now, the whole “thoughts become things” movement (which has been around for many years) appears to have gathered new steam. I would describe the Secret as being a very simple and direct version of the What the Bleep ideas.

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An excerpt from the The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yesterday I was at Whole Foods drinking a Yuengling and reading The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in the outside cafe. This book is the best I’ve found so far on Buddhism - especially because it intertwines an understanding of quantum physics and neuroscience into a Buddhist framework for understanding the mind and the nature of reality. I love it!

Anyhow, I found this gem of a passage that I want to share where the author compares lucid dreams to our experience of reality while awake.

On page 82, we learn that:

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The Biological Basis of Mysticism? | A review of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman

As you’re well aware of, I’m a geek for questions about consciousness. I love to think about issues such as understanding and defining experience, the nature of reality, the essence of the spiritual experience from both a physical and mental standpoint, and so on.

So when I stumbled upon a book with the title of “DMT: The Spirit Molecule – A Doctors Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences,” you can imagine that I nearly wet myself with excitement.

I didn’t think anyone was allowed to do research like this anymore. And if they were, I’d fear the culture of the scientific establishment would prohibit any conclusions not ordained by skepticism.

But someone did. And thankfully, they published the results for the world to see.

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The Astonishing Hypothesis

Try to wrap your mind around this:

“The Astonishing Hypothesis is that “You,” your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.”

Francis Crick

Can our sense of self be so callously and casually dismissed?

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Science & Religion: having my cake and eating it, too…

Can you guess where the quote below comes from?

I’ll give you a hint: he’s a famous religious figure.

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Philosophical Speculations on Life, Death, Reincarnation, and Consciousness

Disclaimer: emphasis on the word speculation.

It wasn’t too long ago that I realized that expanding consciousness is the same as eradicating consciousness. When one exclaims a feeling of oneness with the universe they are paradoxically expanding their consciousness at the expense of their individual sense of self. Meditation, rhythmic dancing, etc all lessen the connection to ones self in order to feel a sense of self that has expanded to encompass all that is around them.

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