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Scientific evidence for the continual presence of consciousness with or without connection to a living organism

• Examines findings on the survival of consciousness beyond life, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, and reincarnation

• Explains how this correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics theories on superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices

• Reveals how consciousness manifests in living beings to continue its evolution

Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the brain, such as when the brain is temporarily incapacitated, as well as to the survival of consciousness after death. Conventional science prefers to dismiss these findings because they cannot be accommodated by a materialist view of reality. Spirituality and religion embrace the continuity of consciousness and ascribe it to a nonmaterial spirit or soul that is immortal. As such, spirituality/religion and science continually find conflict in their views. But what if there truly is no conflict?

Based on a new scientific paradigm in sync with experience-based spirituality, Ervin Laszlo and Anthony Peake explore how consciousness is continually present in the cosmos and can exist without connection to a living organism. They examine the rapidly growing body of scientific evidence supporting the continuity of consciousness, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, reincarnation, and neurosensory information received in altered states. They explain how the persistence of consciousness beyond the demise of the body means that, in essence, we are not mortal--we continue to exist even when our physical existence has come to an end. This correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics, which posits that things in our plane of time and space are not intrinsically real but are manifestations of a hidden dimension where they exist in the form of superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices.

With proof that consciousness is basic to the cosmos and immortal in its deeper, nonmanifest realm, Laszlo and Peake reveal the purpose of consciousness is to manifest in living beings in order to continuously evolve.

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“In this important and well-written book overwhelming evidence is provided for the continuity of consciousness after physical death. After reading this wonderful book it seems obvious that we are and always will be instantaneously interconnected with each other, because our eternal consciousness will never end; it is beyond time and space. We are then forced to reconsider the never proven hypothesis that the brain produces mind. Highly recommended.” ― Pim van Lommel, M.D., cardiologist and author of Consciousness Beyond Life

“Hands down, this is the best collection of evidence from near-death experiences, apparitions, after-death and medium-transmitted communication, past-life recollections, and reincarnation ever put together. Laszlo and Peake skillfully weave all of this into the deeper dimensions of consciousness and creation, what many call the Akasha, to establish the immortality of the soul and the purposefulness of the human experience. Real, irrefutable evidence.” ― P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., author of The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences

“Finally, leading scientific theory meets highly suggestive research for the continuity of consciousness after physical death. As a result, The Immortal Mind routs the dead-end dogma of scientific materialism like no other book you’ll read.” ― James O’Dea, former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

“Combined with a discussion of quantum physics, Laszlo and Peake present a convincing case for nonlocal consciousness. A most enthralling read that highlights we are undergoing a very exciting paradigm shift.” ― Penny Sartori, Ph.D., RGN, author of The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences

“We are entering in to a new paradigm of understanding consciousness and its relationship with the brain and beyond. In The Immortal Mind, Laszlo and Peake provide a concise and lucid overview of the data for consciousness beyond the brain. Exploring a revolutionary new mechanism of consciousness-brain interactions using the principles of modern science such as quantum physics and string theory, this book is a welcome addition to the current paradigm shift of consciousness and a great asset for any student of the subject.” ― Manjir Samanta-Laughton, M.D., author of Punk Science and The Genius Groove

"Ervin Laszlo with Anthony Peak take serious steps toward answering this grand question: does a part of our consciousness carry on after death and, if so, what evidence is there to support this contention? If taken seriously, the proof uncovered by the authors will hopefully shake a few foundations and lead us onto the correct path once and for all so that, as individuals, we might have some insight into what happens once the final curtain on this life comes down." ― New Dawn, Bruce Stringer, October 2015

About the Author

Ervin Laszlo is a systems scientist, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he is the founder and president of the international think tank the Club of Budapest as well as the Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study. He lives in Tuscany. Anthony Peake is a writer, researcher, and author of 7 books, including Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences, which received a “highly commended” award from the British Medical Association. He lives in Crawley, West Sussex, U.K.

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Chapter 8
Consciousness in the Cosmos

The beyond-the-brain consciousness--the consciousness we encountered in near-death experiences, in after-death communication, in pastlife recollections, and in experiences suggestive of reincarnation--is not a manifest entity in the manifest world. It is part of the Akashic deep-dimension of the world.

Spirituality and religion can accommodate this claim; they can interpret the discarnate consciousness persisting beyond the grave as our immortal soul or spirit. Mainstream science cannot make such an accommodation: it maintains that all things in the world are material and limited to a given point in space and in time. A disembodied consciousness is neither material nor local.

But science is not static, and it is possible that scientists could expand the scope of their theories to recognize that consciousness could exist beyond the brain. Whether it exists in that discarnate form is a researchable question that cannot be dismissed out of hand. Scientists need to look for an answer by considering an observation-based scheme that could integrate these anomalous observations into the catalog of accepted theories. Such a scheme can be found, and discovering its major contours is the task we undertake here.

The Akashic Concept of Cosmos and Consciousness

The Akasha paradigm maintains that the world we observe has two distinct but not separate or separable dimensions. There is the deep Akashic dimension--the A-dimension--and the manifest M-dimension. Consciousness is associated with the deep A-dimension.

This claim is supported by the fact that how we access consciousness is fundamentally different from the way we access entities and events in the manifest world. Unlike the entities and events of the manifest world, consciousness is not an observable. Only “I” have access to my consciousness, and I do not observe my consciousness; I experience it.

There is a definite difference between third-person observations of matterlike things and first-person experiences of the immaterial flow I know as my consciousness. If the manifest world is a world of observable things, and if consciousness is not an observable thing, then the logical conclusion is that consciousness is not part of the manifest world. This is logical reasoning, and there is empirical support for it. But there is also evidence indicating that consciousness exists not only in association with the brain but also beyond it. We now state some key facets of the new concept and examine its fit with our knowledge of the world.

If consciousness is not in, and is not a part of, the manifest world, then the place of consciousness is either in a transcendent realm, such as that described in spirituality and religion, or it is part of a nonmanifest dimension of the world, the A-dimension. The question is, then, what exactly is the deep dimension, or A-dimension? What would that dimension be if we could experience it? It would be, we suggest, a cosmic domain of consciousness.

Cosmic Consciousness Enters the Manifest World

How does the cosmic domain of consciousness enter, act on, or “inform,” the manifest world?

This is a difficult question that concerns the physical effect of a nonphysical agency. It is elucidated, however, by recent explorations at the frontier where quantum physics interacts with neuroscience. The basic concept is the work of physicist Roger Penrose and neuroscientist Stuart Hameroff.

The principal tenet of Penrose’s physics is Orchestrated Objective Reduction, or Orch OR. This extends Einstein’s general relativity to the Planck scale, the basic level of spacetime. According to Penrose a particle in one state or location is a specific curvature in spacetime geometry, and the same particle in another location is a curvature in the opposite direction. The superposition of the curvatures in both locations make for simultaneous curvatures in opposite directions, and these constitute bubbles or blisters in the fabric of spacetime. The ripples are unstable and collapse in the fine structure spacetime to one particular state at one particular time. Each quantum collapse introduces an element of consciousness into spacetime. If consciousness is intrinsic to the Akasha and spacetime is the basic structure of the manifest world, then through Orch OR the A-dimension enters the M-dimension.

The human brain is part of the manifest world, and Orch OR introduces an element of consciousness into its fine-structure. The relevant finding is that the brain does not decode information from the world around it uniquely through its neuroaxonal networks. The latter are only one of the brain’s systems information-processing networks: there is also a vast hierarchy of networks below this level, extending all the way to quantum dimensions. These networks are built of cytoskeletal proteins assembling into microtubules. Microtubules are cylindrical polymers of the protein “tubulin,” a major component of the cell’s cytoskeleton. They create the cell’s architecture, regulating synapses and communication between cell membranes and genes in the cell nucleus, acting as the cell’s nervous system. The number of subneuronal networks vastly exceeds the number of elements in the neuroaxonal network: there are approximately 10^18 subneuronal microtubules in the brain, compared with merely 10^11 neurons.

The microtubular networks enormously raise the brain’s capacity to process information. Rather than a few synaptic bits per second, 10^8 microtubules per neuron communicating in the 10^6 Hertz range produce as much as 10^14 bits per neuron per second.

The subneuronal networks, operating at the quantum level, are sensitive to objective quantum-state reduction. Each reduction signifies the entry of consciousness in the manifest world at the most basic level of spacetime. The selection of the entry through Orch OR is not random; it is defined by the fine structure of spacetime geometry. Embedded in spacetime at the Planck scale there are precursors of physical laws, physical constants, and fields and forces. The deep dimension carries information, and it affects the manifest world accordingly.

The entry of the cosmic consciousness of the A-dimension is not limited to the human body and brain; it extends to all manifest entities. Every quantum, every atom, and every multi-atomic structure is “informed” by the Akasha; the deep dimension of the cosmos.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Inner Traditions; 1st edition (October 23, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1620553031
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1620553039
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Ervin Laszlo, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and Chancellor-Designate of the newly formed GlobalShift University. He is the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group and the author of 83 books translated into 21 languages. He lives in Italy.

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Joseph J. Truncale

A fascinating book about how our consciousness may be immortal.

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In my younger years I refused to believe in anything that could not be proven using the scientific method and I only believed in scientifically proven evidence. A good friend of mine at that time, who was a math and computer expert, would debate with me about esoteric and spiritual topics. He would insist that there is more than the material world, but philosophically I could not accept this view at that time; however, now that I am well into my senior years I realize my thinking errors and flaws when it comes to the esoteric and spiritual.

I also began reading numerous books in the esoteric fields the last few years. It may be because as one enters the senior years and the end of this life is closer there is a change in the thinking processes. In any case, I just finished reading this fascinating and interesting book (The Immortal Mind: science and the continuity of consciousness beyond the brain by Ervin Laszlo with Anthony Peake) which I purchased on Amazon. This book explores the evidence for near-death-experiences from new research in this area.

Since I had read various books lately on out-of-body travel (Astral projection and astral travel) I found The Immortal Mind a fantastic read. The question this book answers is “Does our consciousness, soul, or spirit end with the death of our body?” Once I began reading this volume it was difficult to put down. This is the kind of book that will force you to think more deeply and give hope that there is indeed something real about the astral world.

The three parts this book covers includes the following: Part one: The evidence: near-death experiences, apparitions and after-death communication, medium transmitted communication, instrumental Trans communication, past-life recollection and reincarnation. Part two: The science: the rediscovery of the deep dimension, and consciousness in the Cosmos. Part three: The explanation: re-experiencing consciousness: the recall from Akasha and death and beyond: the return to Akasha. There is also an afterword and an appendix section: Conscious immortality: the dawn of a new dew era, confirming views from extraordinary sources.

If you are interested in learning about the evidence for our consciousness continuing even after our death this is a must book to read. I loved it.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: A poetic tribute to Autumn: The most beautiful time of the year).

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The Immortal Mind, by Ervin Laszlo

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This is a good primer about the topic. Laszlo writes clearly and simply and makes the topic accessible to everybody. There are better books out there. Those who want more detail and evidence might read Irreducible Mind, edited by Edward and Emily Kelly.

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This Answers "The Big Question"

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The Big Question is whether human consciousness survives the death of the body. This book provides robust evidence that the answer is yes. The book is divided into three parts to address this question.

Part I explores evidence supporting the "supernatural" phenomena of near-death experience, apparitions of deceased individuals, medium transcommunication, instrument transcommunication, past life recollection, and reincarnation.

Part II examines the possible scientific bases of these phenomena, relying heavily on quantum entangle, cosmic holography, and the idea that information comprises the fundamental "substance" of the universe, and that space, time, matter, and energy are secondary and illusionary aspects of reality.

Part III offers an explanation of the phenomena explored in Part I: That every one of them are different manifestations of the same reality; i.e., that there is only one consciousness and our separate consciousness are part of an indivisible whole. Moreover, these individual consciousness do not come from our physical brains, as material reductionism insists, but are just manifestations of the cosmic consciousness that are transmitted through our brains. Furthermore, our experiences, thoughts and emotions are indelibly encoded in the akasha record and these can be retrieved and relived by other living brains.

I find the basic premise of this book to be quite believable. It touches on the groundbreaking work by Hameroff and Penrose into the quantum nature of consciousness, recent cutting-edge experiments involving quantum entanglement, and a lifetime of research and field work by Dr. Ian Stevenson in collecting evidence for reincarnation. The book also references strong anecdotal evidence for near-death experiences such as the very well-documented case of Pamela Reynolds.

"The Immortal Mind" also explores some of the world's belief systems, including ancient Greek, Hindu, Buddhist, and others in order to glean additional insights into The Big Question from the world's great philosophers.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, which I completed in just two days and four sittings. I highly recommend it for a general audience as well as for those having a scientific background like myself.

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Today I completed the Ervin Laszlo Anthony Peake book in the pic below. Oh my god! I was spellbound by all the after death info, and stopped when I got to the science part because this small volume packs incise, scientific proof of the continuance of consciousness after death and my mind was jam packed by then. Dug in this afternoon and Anthony, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this first ever complete understanding of how it all works! I FINALLY get it. I was able to explain it all to my father so I know it's tight in my consciousness and I will never be the same again. You took every paranormal, visionary, out of body experience I've had and put them together like a da Vinci. It's as if at last I know why the Mona Lisa smiles. Paul Eno, Bill Hall

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Rather a dull repeating of many examples

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Rather a dull repeating of many examples. The stories them selves are interesting, but it gets tedious after awhile. I read it in short bursts.

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A must for your list of 'to read'

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One of the best books I've read on the science of immortal consciousness. Highly recommended for anyone with an enquiring mind.

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Don't go without reading this book.

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This is my THIRD copy of this book. I have now bought an extra two copies as presents for family and friends. I highly recommend this wonderful work.

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The reality of eternal life

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Ervin Laszlo with Anthony Peake, The Immortal Mind: Science and the continuity of consciousness beyond the brain, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2014, 170 pp.

Ervin Laszlo is a Hungarian-born philosopher of science and author or co-author of more than fifty books. Anthony Peake is a writer who specializes in studies of consciousness.
The opening chapter deals with near-death experiences (NDEs). Physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists and neurophysiologists have attested to the fact that the dismissal of such events by materialist scientists as fraud or fantasy is totally misguided. NDEs (together with OBEs and contact with the discarnate covered in the next chapter) provide the most extensive evidence that the mind can continue to function – and in ways not accessible to the rational and mentally active being – in a deceased or comatose person. A more detailed account of NDEs can be found in Pim van Lommel’s Consciousness Beyond Life.
So Chapter 2 deals with Apparitions and After-Death Communication. We know that mind or consciousness can still function when a patient is moribund or comatose and not awake enough for meaningful communication. Here, the authors explore communication by souls who are no longer among the living. This chapter concentrates on direct contact between subjects and deceased friends and family: contract through mediums is handled in the next chapter. It does not matter whether the experiencers are religious, agnostic or atheists and the discarnate being may not even be directly known to them, as in the case of combat soldiers being in contact with the spirit of an enemy soldier they have killed. There’s an interesting summary here of the formation of the Society for Psychical Research in1882 by physicist Sir William Barrett and colleagues. Apparitions that appear to the living are often clothed in what they were wearing at the time of death and are seen in the environment in which they died, especially if they reappear soon after death.
Chapter 3 moves on to Medium-Transmitted Communication. The authors focus on contact with discarnate souls and remain sceptical about teleportation and other physical manifestations. This is an interesting summary with several fascinating examples but more extensive and thereby more convincing details can be found in books by Stafford Betty and by Michael Tymn. The authors of the present book question whether the information supplied could really originate from the discarnate soul ‘or is it produced in some way by the mediums themselves?’ They conclude that the communications are indeed genuine because the knowledge expressed could not have originated from the mediums.
Chapter 4 deals with the relatively new technique of ‘Electronic Voice Phenomena’ where messages from the discarnate are conveyed through electrical equipment – primarily radios and telephones. This technique has really only been developed since the 1970s.
Chapter 5 is about a technique that has also been developed only recently and that is past-life regression through hypnosis. This is a more systematic and reliable study than the ‘hunches’ and ‘déjà’vu’ feelings that very many people claim in their normal waking lives or occasionally dream states. Again, this is a useful if short summary but much more can be found in the books by Michael Newton, Roger Woolger, Brian Weiss, Robert Schwartz and others. The authors’ conclusion is that ‘the consciousness of a person who had once lived does not vanish with the death of that person but can be re-experienced by a living person’.
Reincarnation memories related by subjects in a fully wakened state and dealt with in Chapter 6, are even more persuasive. Children seem to be more in touch with the spiritual realm than adults (except those for whom mortal death is approaching) and the studies by Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker have many anecdotal accounts from the children they investigated. More than one thousand cases of reincarnation involving adults have been reported by British psychiatrist Alexander Cannon (d. 1963).
The most exciting parts of this book for me as a scientist are the Parts 2 and 3. Part 1 has presented the factual observations of phenomena that lie outside explanations in terms of the Newtonian physics we all learnt at High School: NDEs, psychic phenomena, the fact that the mind is not confined to the brain but continues to function in some sense after mortal death, communication with discarnate souls in the afterlife through mediums, the eternal life of the soul, and reincarnation. To understand the new ideas in this latter part of the book readers really need some background in science. These ideas have been gaining acceptance even in mainstream science ever since the creation of quantum physics a century ago.
To express the authors’ conclusions without the detailed scientific explanations they give: the physical world we see is underpinned by a deep dimension as envisaged by the rishis who created the religion of Hinduism. This physically unknowable deep dimension is called the akasha or quantum cosmic field and it produces the physical world: “the basic entities of the universe are not independent material things even when they are endowed with mass; they are part of the unified matrix that underlies space.” Consciousness and the afterlife world are manifestations of this matrix, also known as the akasha. There is instantaneous and eternal interaction or “entanglement” between the smallest identifiable units of matter-energy: “this instant interaction transcends the boundaries of the classical concepts of space and time”. That interaction with one another and with the cosmic energy field applies also to the individuals who make up humankind.

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interesting

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interesting and comforting, but less mystical scientifical explanations can be found for issues , experiences and anecdotes treated in this book.

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L'apologie de l'esprit collectif, notion découverte par le Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky

Reviewed in France on December 31, 2014

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L'auteur, Ervin Laszlo, a dévoué sa vie à l'épanouissement de l'être humain. Ce qui préoccupe de nombreuses gens, c'est ce qui se passe après la mort. Les religions offrent des réponses très contradictoires les unes par rapport aux autres, et imaginent des déités soumises aux mêmes normes de moralité que les êtres humains, dont ces normes varient énormément d'une culture à une autre. La réponse à l'angoisse de la mort, l'immortalité de l'esprit, a été reprise par Carl Jung, et lui est attribuée à tort, car Velikovsky l'avait publiée deux ans plus tôt, avant de la lui expliquer. Mais c'est grâce à Jung que cette notion fondamentale d'une forme de permanence de nos esprits a été répandue dans le grand public. C'est la réponse à la question : nos vies servent-elles à quelque chose ? Nos joies et nos peines, nos amours, s'effacent-ils aussitôt que nous mourrons ? Laszlo répond par un "non" catégorique.

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