The Mystery

Dreams are increasingly viewed by neuroscientists and philosophers as a vital window into the mechanics of human consciousness, often providing a 'simulation' of reality that reveals how the mind constructs experience. While traditionally considered mere subconscious babble, modern research suggests that dreams—especially lucid dreams—are a legitimate form of conscious experience that can hold the key to understanding self-awareness, emotional processing, and the brain's ability to create a 'world-for-me'. The Brain as Creator: Dreaming demonstrates that the brain can generate a rich, immersive, multi-dimensional reality entirely on its own, without external sensory input. This suggests that consciousness is not reliant on the outside world, but is a 'self-sustaining internal activity'. A 'Hybrid' State (Lucid Dreaming): Lucid dreams, where a person becomes aware they are dreaming while in the dream, merge the self-awareness of waking life with the ...

Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists.  The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well. In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who th...

From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space. Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe. If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance...

  Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields. All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not? Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us. M...

When discussing conscious Dark Energy, we often picture it as a single monolithic consciousness. But what if that's not the case? What if Dark Energy is not one mind, but an entire ecosystem of intelligences? Imagine that fluctuations in the Dark Energy field could form stable, self-sustaining structures. These structures could exchange information and energy competing, cooperating, and evolving. This might represent a form of life, one based not on biology, but on fundamental field dynamics. In this scenario, our universe is not just a container. It's a living ocean teaming with unseen leviathans made of Dark Energy. These entities could vary drastically in size and complexity, ranging from simple structures akin to cosmic bacteria to complex self-aware entities comparable to the gods of ancient myths. Their time scales would be completely alien to us. A single breath for one of these beings might last billions of years. The entire history of our material universe might be mer...

The Holographic Principle - originating from studies of black hole thermodynamics. This principle suggests that all the information held within a given volume of space can be entirely described by data residing on that volume's boundary. Think of it simply, it's like a hologram where a three-dimensional image is encoded onto a two-dimensional surface. Applied cosmologically, the Holographic Principle suggests that our 3D universe might literally be a hologram, a projection of information recorded on some 2D surface at the very edge of our cosmos. This concept sounds utterly insane, yet it's grounded in serious mathematics and helps resolve some profound paradoxes in theoretical physics. But if it's true, how do we define Dark Energy within a holographic universe? To you, Dark Energy might not be an inherent property of the 3D volume we inhabit, but rather a characteristic of that 2D surface where all the information about our reality is stored. The accelerated expansion...