The War on Consciousness - Graham Hancock

After Skool

"What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we’re just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that’s the end of consciousness, there is no life after death, there is no soul; we just rot and are gone. Actually, many honest scientists should admit that consciousness is the greatest mystery of science and that we don’t know exactly how it works. The brain is involved in it some way but we’re not sure how. It could be that the brain generates consciousness the way a generator makes electricity, if you hold to that paradigm, then of course you can’t believe in life after death, when the generator’s broken, consciousness is gone. But it’s equally possible that the relationship — and nothing in neuroscience rules it out – that the relationship is more like the relationship of the TV signal to the TV set, and in that case, when the TV set is broken, of course the TV signal continues. 

And this is the paradigm of all spiritual traditions, that we are immortal souls temporarily incarnated in these physical forms. If we want to understand consciousness, the last people we should ask are materialist scientists. Instead, we should look at ancient cultures, like the Egyptians, who highly valued dream states. Many ancient cultures around the world used hallucinogenic plants to understand consciousness and expand their minds. However in today's society, visionary plants are highly illegal because they promote a state of consciousness that does not agree with the agenda of profit.

Substances, like coffee, alcohol, sugar and pharmaceuticals, are forced upon the population, but possession of even small quantities of cannabis, Ayahuasca or psilocybin will land you in jail. If we do not recognize the right of adult sovereignty over consciousness, then we can NOT claim to be free. Look at what our moderns state of consciousness has done. We have destroyed the natural gifts of earth in pursuit of short-term, selfish gain. We must reconnect with spirit immediately or else we will encounter disaster. Visionary plants could be the remedy for our current sickness."

Protest of TED at Their New York Office April 2nd: One Year Anniversary of Controversy

The Weiler Psi

The date of the protest is April 2nd, the same day that TED officially removed Sheldrake and Hancock’s videos from circulation.  (You can find my synopsis of the TED controversy here. The controversy is also the subject of my book, which you can find here.)

This protest is being organized by Paul Revis who has founded the organization Set Science Free.  His Website:

 Set  Science Free

The goal of this protest is to show scientific support for Rupert Sheldrake and by extension, to call attention to the scientific controversy over the nature of consciousness.  The organizer, Paul Revis, wrote this on his “About” page:

Set Science Free.org (SSF) was founded in order to provide a community of support and advocacy for scientists and academics that face discrimination and unfair bias, solely based on their chosen field of research or interest in consciousness. We are an independent organization and are not affiliated with any specific group. We welcome comments and suggestions and will assist however we can. Tell us your story and we’ll see if we can help.

In order to convey the scientific nature of the protest, Revis is specifically asking for PhD’s and MD’s to either attend or express their support by signing a petition.  (Here is the petition.)

In response to TED’s action, we are organizing a protest to be held at the TED Headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City. This protest is scheduled to occur April 2, 2014 on the one-year anniversary of the removal of Sheldrake’s talk. This protest will be composed solely of PhDs, MDs, and their personal guests. ALL PhDs and MDs are encourage to attend and sign the petition.

Those who are not PhD’s or MD’s are encouraged to show their support in the comment area of the main page.

I will be interviewing Paul Revis in a future post.