Posts Tagged ‘mysticism’

Memory is a relationship… across time between past experiences and present ones. The brain is… like a television receiver [which] doesn’t store all the images and programs you watch on it; it tunes in to them invisibly… The whole of the past is potentially present everywhere, and we access it on the basis of similarity……

…[I]f the theory of consciousness presented in this paper is correct, then all the contents of consciousness — including our visual sensations — lie in a space, or brane, of their own outside the physical universe. Normal perception, in this theory, is mediated by the causal chain object–photon–retina–brain–(cross to a new brane)–visual field. Hallucinations involve…

It is suggested that objects in physical space enter our perceptual space via phase space. A hyperspace is a phase space with more than 3 dimensions. It is our conjecture that consciousness is better described in its relationship to hyperspace than to an anatomical place.1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201004/ [↩]