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All right, welcome back friends to a another great episode here on learner be learned. This is a very interesting episode to say the least, I hadn't done in a university affiliated episode, I think in two years since Emory. But yeah, I remember interviewing people on the autism awareness organization, and some professors and PhD students and teachers and students and whatnot. But here we are, this is actually a little bit different. I have a project final exam project due in my consciousness class. And for those of you that may know or may not know, I'm getting a master's in higher Veda and integrative medicine, I love medicine. But I didn't fully believe that the path I was going down in the medical field was giving me the information I was seeking, right, I wanted to know how to live a healthier, more balanced life. And that's a whole nother topic for another day. But here I am, I found this master's program. I love it. And I have a few points I'd love to talk about on this episode. That is also for my class, but I think I thought I'd you know, shoot two birds with one stone here and share with you guys to which I think it'd be really cool. So this episode, we're going to kind of touch on the idea of consciousness, this fourth state of consciousness that Dr. John Hagelin as talked about, and slightly touch on this thing called the Unified Field Theory, which I'm sort of starting to grasp, but I don't want to jump too much into it, because I don't really understand it fully yet. But it's for my class. So I do need to touch on it. But let's start with the consciousness. Right? So what exactly is consciousness? To be exact, it's always being debated what what it truly is where it truly stems from. But in a sense, it's the conscious, or I guess, awareness of one's inner and outer reality based on our perceived senses. Which is why it's interesting, because if our perceived senses can be altered, then theoretically consciousness could be altered, then is consciousness really what we believe it? Is it more right? Is there more to consciousness than what we understand? And we'll get into that a little bit. But yeah, I think consciousness is very interesting. You also can see things. You know, when I studied anthropology, there is this thing called a theory of mind, which is basically our God given mental faculties to understand the awareness of not just ourselves, but the perception of others, right, we can understand that someone else might be sad, or why they might be sad, or our ability to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes. That at least the capacity, I know, not everybody, in today's day and age does that, but we do have the capacity for it. And which is interesting, though, because if you're on the autistic spectrum, you actually aren't equipped with all these mental faculties, which is why you see them with diminished understandings of social complexities, or, you know, depending on the spectrum, but usually there is some level of, or to some degree, a diminished ability to understand social complexities. And then you have an interesting one is the ability to grasp the idea of religion. Can they understand it? Yes. But do they? Do they understand it from the perspective of belief and faith? No. Right, which is, I think, is really interesting, because that requires a theory of mind in order to have a belief in religion. And then another interesting point, I'd have to say, is empathy, right, their ability to empathize. Obviously, it's a spectrum. So there is a degree to this but the ability to empathize as a mental faculty given to us in a natural state when when one does have a theory of mind, which I think can also correlate to consciousness. But obviously, it's not exclusive because you can have consciousness and be autistic. Right. So, I mean, not to jump in this rabbit hole. But consciousness, I don't believe at least is mutually exclusive to humans. I think there is consciousness and other beings. Maybe they don't have the exact same mental faculties as as the same tool sets to maneuver through life, maybe we were given something more. But consciousness in itself is awareness right his life. I mean, look at all these today's modern slang, we say we say Mother Nature, we say, you know all these things, which kind of hint towards this idea of consciousness existing beyond us. Right. But to jump in a little bit, I think, you know, today, too many people are so stuck on theoretical knowledge that we've forgotten that experiential understanding is just as important, especially as someone who went through at least half of the medical field journey, I saw a lot of pressure to understand theoretical knowledge. But to me, I think life is the culmination of both you have to have, think about it, right? You, you can study business all day, you can read books, you can listen to people, but if you don't have that experiential understanding, you never did it, you don't truly understand what it's like to know business. Right? Same thing here with consciousness with spirituality, with, I believe this quantum physics, quantum mechanics, science, even as a science, I believe, we are so far into this theoretical knowledge, where we, it's called reductionism. And you see it, which was really cool, because I studied anthropology and theology, but also medicine at the same time. So it was really cool to see this dichotomy where half of my classes were on this experiential understanding. And then the other side was hammering you with theoretical knowledge. And they said, you know, if there's no evidence, it doesn't exist, it's, you know, you get hammered that way. And you start to believe it to the point where you don't actually have faith in anything that's not above theoretical knowledge, which is interesting, because science is always ever changing. But to go back to it, you know, we actually did talk about that in this course, a little bit, the idea of theoretical knowledge and experiential understanding, and I do believe, to truly understand consciousness is not just to read about it or understand it at a theoretical level, or reading level, but also experience it through your awareness, right, just daily life, meditation, calmness, reflection, I think too many of us try to numb out the experiential understanding portion because either it's scary, there's fear attached, there's things we don't want to look at, about ourselves about others, our situation may be, so we, we avoid it, we run away from the other part of life, which is not an which is getting the opportunity to live it. So I think that's really important. But to jump right into this next idea of consciousness. So Dr. Hagglund talks about how there is
there is more than three states of consciousness, right, you have waking, sleeping and dreaming. But he suggests that there is actually a fourth state where he coins I believe, he coined the term, transcendent consciousness, which essentially, is our ability to write so so when he was explaining this, he showed this graph of two brains, one brain had just a normal brain and small parts of the brain communicate with each other, but not very much. And then the other side, every portion of the brain was interconnected. And he called this side the transcendence side. And apparently, what the differentiator was, was meditation, the other person had meditated for three months, and this was the study that was done. So it was really interesting to see how, you know, because of this transcendent state, when they started taking tests and measures, every area of intelligence improved from practical intelligence to fluid intelligence to emotional regulation, amongst the numerous health benefits from, you know, lowered stress lowered risk of health ailments like heart attack, to diabetes to stroke. I mean, this is free, guys. This is just you got to spend time and have faith and belief. You actually do start to notice a difference in at least when I began doing it, I noticed a difference in my emotional regulation, emotional state, my calmness, my ability to handle pressure and stress, as add improved. Yeah, I believe there is some merit for this. And even one of the one of our guest speakers, Dr. Keith Wallace showed a bunch of research showing how meditation reduced all these health health effects as well. So, you know, I do believe meditation is incredible. It's very profound on what it does. And we're still trying to understand it. And I do believe there is a linkage to consciousness with it. Right? So for jumping into this third point, we have this concept called the Unified Field Theory. I'm going to try my best I am. Okay. So we have four known forces, fundamental forces in physics and in science, chemistry, as well. And I believe it's the weak nuclear force, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and then gravity. Right, so the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, I've often seen it in this idea of chemistry when you have atoms and molecules. And this is kind of how atoms and molecules kind of have that attraction for each other in the way they interact. And that's a that's a whole semester of knowledge there. But, but essentially, that's the the glue that keeps the atoms and molecules forming together, which eventually form more and more. And then that's how you're, that's how you have the table you're sitting at, right? How a table is solid and how a table is a table is the intermolecular forces. But then we have electromagnetism, which just basically says that, you know, these interactions and metal, this electricity, this this electromagnetic state, and then we have gravity, right? And then everybody gets to some extent understands gravitational pull of a mass, the heavier the object, the more gravitational pull. But what scientists couldn't understand was the first three made sense, right? Electromagnetism, strong, weak nuclear force, they all kind of go together. They're all like attraction states. But then gravity kind of felt different, because it was like, okay, gravity, pulls things, down to the highest mass, but it's not really an attraction state right? It just to them, they was just mind boggling of how this would relate to the other three. So they kept trying to figure out like how this would occur. And eventually, they are looking at this idea called the Unified Field Theory, which is essentially saying, there is one whole fundamental force that stems towards these other forces, right, there's a unified force. And not to get too much into what this idea really means. But when Dr. Hagglund was explaining it, basically, if you look at the ocean, and the waves and everything, these are the fundamental forces that you see you interacting, but if you go in the depths of the ocean, where it's silent and not moving, that's the unified field theory, that's the unified force, the unified field theory where consciousness can even occur, right? So. And when he was explaining this, he was saying, like, it's not dead, it's not moving. It's almost like reverberating in itself is just kind of like, flowing with potential. And then, you know, things occur from that point of start. And, you know, who knows if this is true or not, but a smarter man than me are looking into it. But from what I can understand, you know, what, something that I thought was interesting is Nikola Tesla's work. And he talks about if you want to understand the universe, think of in terms of waves, vibrations and frequencies. And it's so interesting, because if you think because he's Dr. Haglund, talking about how this is a reverberating state, right, where this is just vibration. So from that vibration creates, the potential vibration creates vibrating states of existence. And then from there, blah, blah, blah, we grow, we grow. And we here we are today. Well, this is like, I know, this is very different episodes pretty deep. It's maybe even a little confusing. But it goes to show that, you know, perhaps there's more to this life than we kind of truly understand if you had to get an essence of what I was talking about in this episode. There is more to life than what we understand even when I remember a few years ago, I mean, I go to India quite a bit. But a few years ago, I was in India and I was I was going on my daily walk in the morning. And I noticed these design patterns they'd put at the front of the house, we call them, we call it golems and Tamil Nadu. But essentially, I just didn't understand why and when I would ask people they didn't really know why either. They would just say it's tradition and Indian heritage. Should is very, very old to the point where I think there is a lot of lost knowledge where we just do rituals to do them. And we don't really truly understand anymore. But I'm always curious, I'm always asking questions. And a few years later on social media, I see this guy doing, he put sand on this vibrational plate, and then he hits different frequencies different hertz on it. And depending on the hurt, it creates a different pattern. And then I looked at I was like, that looks like those columns that I saw, right? The design patterns that they created outside the houses in India, only to make me think maybe, you know, this is a possibility that back then they would create these design patterns as a way of emitting a vibrational state of being outside the house, right, like a positivity thing, like to just kind of every time you enter the home, you enter with positivity. And I think that's honestly a pretty cool idea. Maybe that's where it stems from. And, you know, from the anthropology side, there is definitely lost knowledge. If you look at the temples in India, if you look at the pyramids of Egypt, there's so many unanswered questions of how a structure to that magnitude can be built. Way, way before the level of technology we have now and we even today, we put we couldn't do it to that level they did, which has to mean, there's a gap in our human history and loss technology. I don't know, I think that's just profound to me. But, you know, if you want to enter this creative state, this flow state, perhaps this is slightly like us tapping into this unified field of of our mind is just because when I started doing Transcendental Meditation, the what the way they explained it as you go deeper, deeper in your mind, kind of like an ocean to the point where you're at this, like the bottom of the ocean, where it's like quiet and not moving. And that's how you calm your mind. Right? I know many of us could probably relate to this idea of an overactive mind. But the meditation kind of grounds you and gets you lower, that I believe in to some way. That is like the unified field, which I know in another episode, I talked about how the microcosm and macrocosm almost have a reflection of each other, meaning the little things have a resemblance of bigger things, right how carrots, if you cut a carrot, it looks like an iris. And carrots have carotene which is good for your eyes. Walnut is composed of 70% Fat looks like a brain, your brains composes 70% fat, I believe, and walnuts are really good for your brain. I mean, there is a lot of resemblances, and perhaps that's just another one but
did Google it, it's around 60 plus percent fat, which, which is kind of crazy. There's a resemblance is but you know, without getting too much more into it. I know this was a very in depth and very heavy episode compared to the usual content. And, you know, I think the more I take this course and the more I understand this master's program, the better I will get at understanding it, which will make it easier for me to explain it to you guys, but hopefully you guys got a couple of cool points out of this. Maybe you'll have to rewatch it. Maybe you'll have to go slower to understand it. Or maybe I was just confusing at some points, but I'd love to hear your guys's thoughts. Thank you so much for watching. And remember everybody either learn from or you're learning from. Thanks. Bye