Conscious Particles, Fields and Waves

"In some strange way an electron or a photon [orrelevant subtle body is stored in this particle (its
any other elementary particle] seems to 'know'composition, frequency, structure and associative
about changes in the environment and appears tomemories). In this way the experiences that the
respond accordingly," says physicist Danah Zohar.subtle body has gone through in a particular
A group at the Weizmann Institute in Israel hasuniverse are stored or are linked to this nucleus -
done a variation of the famous "double-slit"which can be transferred more easily to another
experiment. They used electrons, instead ofuniverse and body through microscopic
photons, and observed how the resultantwormholes.
interference pattern (which indicates wave-likeThe particle is analogous to DNA in the
properties of the particle) dissipated the longerbiomolecular body. DNA is referred to as a
you watched the electrons go through the slits."bioparticle" in the medical literature and it stores
As a wave the electron passes through both slitsor links vast amounts of information about a
simultaneously but if, according to E Buks, itparticular life-form. Hindu metaphysics describes
"senses" that it is being watched, the electron (asthese particles or nuclei as "bindus" and Tibetan
a particle) goes through only one path, diminishingyoga "drops".
the interference pattern. Elementary particlesThe physical-etheric nucleus is transferred to
(such as photons and electrons) appear tohigher energy bodies when the subtle body dies -
possess a certain degree of "intelligence" andserving the same purposes as a "black box" flight
awareness of the environment. Renowned plasmarecorder in an airplane in preserving information
and particle physicist, David Bohm, says "In someabout a particular life's experiences. This nucleus is
sense a rudimentary mind-like quality is presentalso responsible for the life review in a near-death
even at the level of particle physics. As we go toexperience. According to Besant, the permanent
subtler levels this mind-like quality becomesparticles are used to preserve within themselves
stronger and more developed."as "powers of vibrations" (i.e. different frequencies
Consciousness appears to be as fundamental aand waveforms) the results of all experiences
property to elementary particles as propertiesthrough which they have passed. By the end of
that make it "matter" or a "physical force" (forone life in the physical body, the permanent
example, mass, spin and charge). And just asparticle (or physical-etheric nucleus) would have
mass, spin and charge differ from one particle tostored up "innumerable powers of vibration" (i.e. a
another; it is probable that different particles haveset of waveforms of different frequencies).
different degrees of consciousness.A personality is simply a "packet of self-organized
Conditions for Manifesting Consciousnessinformation". If this information can be transferred
Bohm says that "a particle has a rich and complexfrom one body to another that personality "lives"
inner structure which can respond to informationon. Information stored in the physical-etheric
and direct it's self-motion accordingly". This isnucleus allows the personality and its associated
more evident in more massive particles andphysical-etheric body to be "reconstructed" or
Bose-Einstein condensates which behave as super"resurrected" in a similar physical-etheric body
particles.later - in a process analogous to a teleportation.
A single isolated particle would have some degreeAccording to plasma metaphysics, the
of consciousness (or awareness of thephysical-etheric body provides an electromagnetic
environment). However, low-energy andmatrix which plays a critical role in the
low-frequency elementary particles (as describedmorphogenesis of the physical-biomolecular body.
currently in the physicists' "Standard Model") easilyThis provides a basis for reincarnation or a
lose their property of consciousness when theyresurrection (depending on which religion interprets
become entangled with other particles andit).
decoherence sets-in. This state is analogous toThe physical-etheric nucleus enables the transfer
the state of a demagnetized metal object.of information from one body (in one universe) to
Although all the individual atoms are in a senseanother body (in another or the same universe)
magnets, no magnetic fields are observed.during the (physical) death process. If not for this
However, once the atoms in the metal objecttransfer, the experiences in the physical (3d)
become aligned with their north and south polesuniverse may be difficult to access or reconstruct
pointing in the same direction they begin to exhibitat a later date. The information about our self has
the property of magnetism.to be "uploaded" to another "player" (i.e. a body)
In the same way, when groups of particles are into continue our personal existence. The advances
the same quantum state, i.e. when they are in ain Science suggest that the nuclei of the various
state of quantum coherence, the property ofsubtle bodies can carry a large volume of
consciousness is exhibited. A state of ancomplex holographic information about their
extremely low degree of consciousness (forcorresponding bodies and experiences.
practical purposes - no consciousness) is exhibitedConscious Waves
by inanimate matter at macroscopic scales in ourAs quantum physics has shown, elementary
highly decoherent low-energy classical universe.particles also behave as waves - depending on
Hence, elementary particles will exhibit theirthe experimental set-up. Bose-Einstein
intrinsic degree of consciousness when isolated orcondensates can behave as super particles - and
when a group of particles share the sametherefore also as waves. If a gas is cooled to a
quantum state. This means that bulk matter in afew millionth of a degree above absolute zero,
non-coherent state is effectively unconscious. Thethe atoms lose their identity as individual particles
study of conscious particles is referred to asand behave as a single entity, a kind of "super
"quantum metaphysics" by this author.atom" with characteristics similar to a laser. They
Particle Memorythen take on the weirdness of quantum objects -
In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman pointed outincluding wave-particle duality and the ability to
that all the words written throughout the historyquantum-tunnel out from one place to another.
of the world could be contained in a cube ofConscious particles can therefore also propagate
material one tenth of a millimeter wide - providedas waves.
those words were written with atoms. Now,The Conscious Zero Point Field
scientists have done just that, creating anStuart Hameroff believes that a kind of
atomic-scale memory by using atoms of silicon inproto-consciousness is a fundamental feature of
place of the 1s and 0s that computers use tothe universe as a whole and exists at the
store data. Scientists at the University ofnear-infinitesimal Planck scale. "Could
Wisconsin at Madison have been able to read andproto-conscious qualia simply exist in the empty
write at room temperature to a memory unitspace of the universe?" he asks.
that uses a single atom to store a bit. TheZohar says there is no reason in principle to deny
memory density of this memory unit isthat any structure, biological or otherwise, that
comparable to the way nature stores data incontained a Bose-Einstein condensate might
DNA molecules.possess the capacity for consciousness. She
How much information can an atom store?argues that for there to be one integrated "self"
Scientists have written the word "OPTICS" on asomething must account for the unity of brain
single atom, demonstrating the huge informationstates associated with each element of an
capacity that exists even in an individual hydrogenexperience. In a sense the separate elements
atom. This was done by sending one of itsmust become in-phase with each other. A
electrons into a "Rydberg state", in which it noBose-Einstein condensate typifies this kind of unity.
longer exists as a cloud of charge enshrouding theShe suggests that the brain has two interacting
nucleus but instead becomes a 'wave packet' thatsystems: the coherent Bose-Einstein condensate
circles the atomic nucleus like a planet around theassociated with consciousness, and the
Sun. By applying a series of pulses a set of wavecomputer-like system of individual neurons.
packets can be created that combine with eachAccording to her, the electrical activity observed
other like water waves and cancel each other outon the EEG may be a bridge between the two -
at specific places to form patterns around theif either system is excited, it would produce an
atom. Carlos Stroud of the University ofelectrical field that acts on the other.
Rochester and Michael Noel of the University ofThe zero point field (or the quantum vacuum)
Virginia point out that an electron in an n=50itself can be considered a Bose-Einstein
Rydberg state has 2,500 possible states ofcondensate, filled with photons and other bosons
angular momentum which can be combined inof zero energy. This arises from the commutation
various ways - evidencing the enormous potentialrules where the field is quantized according to
for even elementary particles to store andBose-Einstein statistics. This provides a basis for a
transport vast amounts of information.field of consciousness that is present everywhere
Can a person's memory with all its visual, audio,in our universe.
tactile and other information be conveyed in aThe Atman Field
wave-particle? It is remarkable that howeverAccording to quantum electrodynamics, particles
complicated a wave, it can be described as aare considered excitations in a field. Hence, all
combination of many simple sine waves ofparticles have fields associated with them and all
various frequencies and amplitudes. This is how anfields have particles associated with them. Fields
entire orchestra can be heard from the singleassociated with (conscious) super particles would
vibrating cone of a loud speaker. When switchedexhibit consciousness and intelligent behavior.
on and off at irregular intervals, or modulated inConscious fields, like electromagnetic fields, would
intensity or in frequency, waves can carry a largenot have any form in the way that a physical,
amount of information. The higher the frequencytangible object has.
the greater the amount of information the waveThe various elementary particles come in strictly
may encode. Storing memory in waveidentical copies. One electron is no different from
interference patterns is remarkably efficient, andany other electron. In fact, Richard Feynmann
would be able to accommodate the vastness of(following-up on a remark by John Wheeler)
human memory. For example, holographicspeculated that all the electrons we measure may
encoding of wave-interference patterns wouldactually be one and the same electron.
enable all of the books in the US Library ofWe may call the conscious zero point field the
Congress to fit onto a large sugar cube"atman field". Each individualized atman or "atman
The Physical-Etheric Nucleusparticle" can be considered a fundamental unit of
Each subtle body has a nucleus - whichconsciousness and an excitation in the atman field.
metaphysicists Charles Leadbeater and AnnieEach elementary atman particle is indistinguishable
Besant have called a "permanent particle".from another. When the excitation subsides the
Leadbeater calls the nucleus of the higher ethericparticle disappears and is indistinguishable from the
double a "physical-etheric atom". According tofield.
Leadbeater and Besant, information about the