Hagelin Video Transcript

Transcript for [Is Consciousness the Unified Field?, John Hagelin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPhgDfT4Zpc) by [Merlin AI](https://merlin.foyer.work/) 0:02 - [Music] 0:12 - good afternoon good afternoon very nice 0:15 - to be with you it's been an amazing 0:17 - conference so far we're just getting 0:18 - warmed up um I'm going to be asking the 0:22 - $64 question is 0:25 - consciousness the Ultimate Reality is it 0:28 - the unified field glimpsed today by 0:31 - super string theory and to really 0:34 - address that question we need to remind 0:36 - ourselves a little bit more about what 0:37 - do we mean by Consciousness what do we 0:40 - mean by the unified field and I'm going 0:42 - to take those questions in the opposite 0:46 - order the unified field is the 0:49 - culmination you could say of centuries 0:52 - of scientific investigation into the 0:54 - nature of reality and this one very 0:56 - simple chart summarizes everything we 0:58 - know about the universe 1:01 - and although the details may look 1:02 - complex the overall structure is pretty 1:05 - simple it shows the universe 1:09 - fundamentally 1:11 - unified and 1:13 - superficially 1:15 - Diversified so physics has been about 1:17 - exploring deeper and deeper levels of 1:21 - reality and that inward exploration of 1:23 - the structure of physical reality began 1:25 - with hundreds of years of antonian 1:27 - physics it

actually began long before 1:30 - but that's the domain we call classical 1:32 - physics physics that explores the 1:35 - macroscopic sensory world of day-to-day 1:40 - perceptions that understanding of the 1:42 - universe wasn't good enough it does not 1:44 - work for example to understand the atom 1:47 - at all so a whole new language a whole 1:51 - new logic a whole new mathematics had to 1:54 - be developed to properly characterize 1:57 - and understand the behavior of atoms and 2:01 - molecules and that is quantum mechanics 2:03 - which we've heard a bit about in the 2:05 - conference already the quantum 2:07 - mechanical world of atoms and molecule 2:09 - not just smaller but completely 2:12 - different radically different than 2:14 - classical 2:16 - objects Midway through the 20th century 2:20 - there was a complete reformulation of 2:23 - quantum mechanics to what is called 2:25 - Quantum field Theory Quantum field 2:27 - theory is yet a newer language of nature 2:31 - subtler more profound necessary to 2:35 - understand the world of Elementary 2:36 - particles more fundamental than atoms 2:39 - they behave differently partly because 2:41 - this is a relativistic world a world of 2:44 - fast moving particles close to the speed 2:46 - of light and early quantum mechanics was 2:49 - not compatible with Einstein's 2:51 - relativity this is a beautiful Theory 2:54 -

seemingly infinitely accurate as far as 2:56 - experiments can tell very profound it 2:59 - sheds light on some of the puzzles of 3:01 - earlier quantum mechanics particularly 3:03 - the relationship between particle and 3:05 - field particle and wave but we're not 3:09 - going to spend much time on it today 3:11 - because the smart money certainly the 3:14 - attention of the theoretical Community 3:16 - has moved on to unified Quantum field 3:20 - theories initially based on supergravity 3:22 - Theory and then the more successful 3:25 - super string theory and M 3:28 - Theory these theor are 3:32 - extraordinary they fulfill Einstein's 3:34 - lifelong quest to discover the unified 3:37 - source of the Diversified 3:40 - Universe The Fountain Head of Nature's 3:44 - intelligence the origin of all the 3:46 - streams of the laws of nature that 3:48 - govern the universe at every 3:50 - level and the mathematics of these 3:54 - theories are not just beautiful because 3:57 - you could say that was probably true 3:59 - even of quantum field Theory but are 4:03 - staggering 4:05 - mindblowing 4:07 - unbelievable and physicists like me 4:10 - aren't particularly fond of mathematics 4:12 - that's why we're physicists and not 4:14 - mathematicians but this absolutely blows 4:16 - your mind and we're not going to talk 4:19 - about that either but we are going to 4:20

- get a little bit of a feeling for the 4:22 - unified field by looking at its basic 4:25 - structure unified field is an ocean of 4:29 - pure 4:31 - existence an ocean of pure abstract 4:36 - intelligence at the basis of the 4:38 - universe Universal intelligence but this 4:42 - ocean of intelligence isn't dead it's 4:45 - not lifeless it's not inert due to the 4:48 - quantum principle or uncertainty 4:49 - principle it is teeming with unmanifest 4:52 - energy it is shimmering reverberating 4:55 - within itself and in fact so incredibly 4:58 - Dynamic so infinitely 5:00 - energetic that it's erupting and boiling 5:03 - within itself and in the process of this 5:06 - dynamical self- interaction this boiling 5:08 - of the absolute it erupts in a foam of 5:13 - effervescent bubbles like ginger ale 5:15 - feses bubbles by the way it's called 5:18 - vacuum Energy Zero Point Energy or dark 5:20 - energy 5:22 - today it may not surprise you to learn 5:25 - that these bubbles aren't ginger ale 5:28 - actually 5:30 - there are actually 5:32 - infinitesimal elastic Loops called super 5:36 - strings and that's amazing that the 5:39 - Universe boils down to a sea of rubber 5:42 - bands um but a rubber band is actually 5:44 - an interesting Thing Lives an 5:46 - interesting internal life relatively 5:49 - speaking relative to

a particle that is 5:52 - because the earlier concept of a 5:54 - particle particles can't do anything 5:57 - except move you can throw a particle and 6:00 - it'll go from A to B but that's all they 6:02 - do in comparison the life of a rubber 6:04 - band is more interesting because you can 6:07 - throw a rubber band and it will also 6:09 - move but they vibrate within 6:13 - themselves and if you're a a particular 6:16 - type of mathematical physicist you can 6:19 - count the different ways a rubber band 6:21 - can vibrate to the left and to the right 6:23 - and longitudinally and laterally and 6:26 - transverse and these super strings 6:28 - actually live 6:30 - in 10 SpaceTime 6:35 - Dimensions including one of 6:37 - time and nine spatial Dimensions gives 6:40 - you a lot of wiggle room in which to 6:42 - wiggle so there are lots of different 6:44 - ways these super bands these rubber 6:46 - bands can vibrate but when you do the 6:48 - math and you calculate those different 6:51 - frequencies each vibrational state has a 6:54 - different energy a different frequency 6:56 - represents a different 6:58 - tone and when you count those different 7:00 - tones or frequencies of vibration of 7:03 - this Universal 7:05 - intelligence those frequencies which 7:07 - mean those energies which

means those 7:10 - masses because energy and mass are 7:12 - interchangeable Concepts in relativity 7:14 - Theory those different masses correspond 7:18 - to the known particles of 7:21 - nature so in the early days we had the 7:24 - idea that there was a graviton a field 7:26 - of gravity there's a photon particle of 7:29 - light 7:30 - there are particles that have to do with 7:32 - the nuclear force and the radioactive 7:34 - force and then there are the particles 7:35 - like the electron and the quirks and the 7:38 - neutrinos and 7:40 - such it was rather a hodg Podge in 7:42 - arbitrary World Quantum field Theory but 7:46 - super String Theory explains all those 7:49 - particles as the inevitable predicted 7:54 - consequence of the unified field in its 7:57 - natural states of vibration 8:00 - that the so-called material Universe 8:02 - isn't material at all it's just the 8:04 - vibrational 8:05 - tones the natural reverberant 8:08 - frequencies the music of the 8:11 - absolute so it's one Theory one 8:14 - universal field that supports different 8:16 - waves of vibration like an ocean 8:19 - supporting smaller waves and higher 8:22 - frequency waves and slower lazy waves 8:26 - representing different energies 8:27 - different Mass particles 8:29 - so in a sense it's extraordinary that 8:32 - one relatively simple concept of a 8:36

- Quantum rubber band or more precisely a 8:39 - universal ocean of intelligence of being 8:42 - that percolates rubber bands that one 8:45 - concept explains the details of our 8:48 - universe so the picture is really more 8:50 - like 8:52 - this you have this 8:54 - Universal entity this abstract 8:58 - unmanifest silent ocean in waves of 9:01 - vibration rising in waves of vibration 9:04 - that appear as the universe and all of 9:07 - the ingredients that we see in the 9:09 - universe as just striking the different 9:12 - tones of the unified field okay one more 9:16 - point before we end the physics lesson 9:18 - and come back to 9:20 - Consciousness in addition to these super 9:23 - strings that percolate from this ocean 9:25 - of pure intelligence pure existence pure 9:29 - being the unified field also has the 9:32 - incredible capacity incredible 9:34 - capability of percolating entire 9:37 - universes and these universes begin as 9:40 - baby universes infinitesimal 9:44 - bubbles but lots of them like ginger 9:47 - ale about 10 to the 144th bubbles per 9:53 - cubic centimeter per second that's a lot 9:56 - of baby universes and most of them are 9:58 - duds 10:01 - most of them pop they disappear in a 10:03 - bive energy but under the right 10:04 - circumstances some like our own Universe 10:07 -

start to grow 10:10 - exponentially it's called inflation and 10:14 - spawn galaxies like our own Milky Way 10:17 - galaxy and billions of 10:19 - others and each Galaxy like our Milky 10:22 - Way galaxy with hundreds of billions of 10:25 - suns many most with planets perhaps many 10:28 - of those plan planets teeming with life 10:31 - as is our own so I just wanted to 10:33 - mention that to give a taste at least of 10:37 - the 10:38 - immense intelligence of the universe and 10:42 - this Universal ocean of being ocean of 10:45 - intelligence at the basis of it 10:48 - all that governs not only Earth with its 10:52 - seven million mutually interacting 10:55 - species in this intricate web of mutual 10:57 - interdependence and mutual n 11:00 - but billions of planets in our own Milky 11:04 - Way galaxy and billions of universes 11:07 - that probably as of recent measurements 11:10 - are probably an infinite number infinite 11:14 - number of galaxies 11:18 - huge that's a little bit about Nature's 11:21 - organizing 11:23 - intelligence what about our 11:27 - intelligence what about consciousness 11:31 - us well the concept of meditation sheds 11:35 - light sort of new light I think on what 11:38 - Consciousness 11:39 - is and meditation classically understood 11:43 - understood in the yogic sense that gave 11:46 - birth for example to

the Buddha and the 11:48 - techniques taught by shankra and so 11:50 - forth was about leading the Mind 11:55 - effortlessly 11:56 - within taking the outwardly directed 11:59 - active mind typically directed outward 12:02 - through the senses and turning that 12:05 - attention powerfully 12:08 - within to experience deeper and deeper 12:11 - levels of Mind quieter and quieter 12:14 - levels of the thinking process slipping 12:18 - Beyond thought altogether to experience 12:22 - pure being pure Consciousness purely 12:28 - consciousness 12:29 - Consciousness Beyond thought Beyond 12:31 - sensation beyond the intellect Beyond 12:34 - emotion pure abstract unbounded 12:39 - awareness then according to the yoga 12:42 - sutras according to the first verse in 12:44 - the second verse of the yoga sutras 12:48 - yog yoga experience of unity the nonu 12:53 - Consciousness is the complete settling 12:56 - of the activity of the Mind 13:00 - then the 13:01 - sear is established in the 13:04 - self it it's interesting that patang 13:08 - describes Consciousness as the self 13:11 - because we might think of our S as 13:12 - something quite different something six 13:14 - feet tall something four or five feet 13:16 - wide something this or that something to 13:20 - do with 13:21 - beliefs gender race 13:26 - religion but according to yoga and teles 13:29 - the self is the sear 13:33 - within the field

of Consciousness the 13:36 - non-changing The Immortal the unbounded 13:39 - the 13:40 - knower we all have a knower or we 13:43 - wouldn't be knowing 13:45 - seeing but we are different from the 13:47 - seeing different from the knowing we are 13:50 - Consciousness our own subjectivity and 13:53 - this experience of pure Consciousness is 13:56 - a fourth state of cons ious the 13:59 - meditative State 14:02 - STI in the literature of 14:05 - yoga there's the expression the peaceful 14:09 - the 14:10 - Blissful the undivided nondu is thought 14:14 - to be the fourth that is the 14:17 - self that is to be 14:22 - known it it's not just a state of 14:25 - subjective experience it has in the 14:28 - brain 14:29 - its corresponding measurable 14:33 - corrance at every level of the settling 14:36 - of the Mind the electrical activity of 14:39 - the brain the firing of the neurons in 14:41 - the brain looks completely different 14:44 - outwardly directed activity active mind 14:47 - concentration 14:49 - focusing quieter levels of 14:53 - self-reflection as in for example what 14:56 - it's called open monitoring the 14:57 - scientific literature but 14:59 - self-reflective 15:00 - self-observing vasana style meditation 15:03 - or mindfulness is generally in this 15:06 - category completely different style of 15:10 - functioning of the 15:11 - brain going Beyond thought 15:15 -

completely now having nothing to do with 15:18 - thought no mind no intellect but pure 15:21 - unbounded Universal abstract 15:25 - awareness pure existence has its own 15:30 - completely unique style of brain 15:32 - functioning the meditative state is 15:34 - characterized by not just the frequency 15:37 - which is Alpha 1 but the uniform or 15:40 - synchronous firing across the total 15:43 - brain and that's from a brain standpoint 15:46 - amazing it's 15:48 - absolutely 15:50 - amazing because normally the brain is 15:52 - not that coherent in case you can't tell 15:54 - that in waking consciousness even 15:56 - sitting restfully with the eyes closed 15:59 - if you look at the electrodes on the 16:01 - scalp as you measure the electrical 16:03 - activity of the brain and waking 16:05 - consciousness there's not a great deal 16:07 - of coherence or communication or 16:11 - correlation between different parts of 16:13 - the brain some neighboring parts of the 16:15 - brain are talking to each other but 16:17 - mostly the brain is functioning in a 16:19 - rather asynchronous and chaotic 16:22 - way this is the same subject learn to 16:25 - meditate 3 months later in the 16:27 - meditative State and you you see 16:29 - something you don't see in hypnosis 16:31 - waking dreaming sleeping or drug induced 16:33 - States you see the whole brain 16:36 -

functioning in a completely synchronous 16:39 - coherent 16:42 - way that is one of the 16:44 - signatures of a new State of 16:46 - Consciousness fourth state of 16:48 - consciousness samade the meditative 16:50 - State now in addition to Simply being 16:52 - interesting for practical purposes 16:55 - orderly brain functioning is a good 16:57 - thing it correlates with intelligence 17:01 - and creativity and learning ability and 17:04 - moral reasoning ego 17:06 - development psychological stability and 17:09 - emotional 17:10 - maturity everything good about the brain 17:13 - depends on its orderly 17:16 - functioning and when people experience 17:19 - samati regularly you see marked 17:22 - improvements in every measure of human 17:24 - intelligence highly significant 17:27 - improvements which suggests that 17:30 - transcending is good for you it's also 17:32 - very good for the health but I won't go 17:34 - into that something real is happening 17:37 - something very different is happening 17:39 - something rather radical is going on in 17:42 - the meditative state state of 17:45 - samade but back to the first 17:48 - question what is the relationship 17:51 - between that inner experience of 17:53 - unbounded awareness when the mind the 17:55 - intellect is temporarily left behind 17:59 - because transcending can be a rather 18:01 - fleeting experience as the rosac 18:03 - crucians like to say one Split Second in 18:06 -

eternity it's a holy experience oh 18:09 - my God what was that it's radical but 18:12 - and it's Universal and it's unbounded 18:15 - and it's 18:16 - infinite but what is the relationship 18:18 - between that field of intelligence 18:20 - within at the basis of thought and the 18:23 - intelligence at the basis of the 18:25 - universe our Atma our self The Observer 18:29 - The Seer within and Brahman the unified 18:33 - source of the entire 18:36 - universe a physicist might at first say 18:39 - forget it how could there be a 18:40 - relationship because this is purely 18:43 - subjective and that is purely objective 18:46 - material stuff but at this conference we 18:49 - probably know by now that quantum 18:52 - mechanics Quantum field Theory and the 18:54 - unified field are nonmaterial realities 18:58 - absolute Ely 19:00 - non-material it's not a material source 19:03 - of the material Universe it's a 19:05 - non-material source and pure potential 19:08 - pure intelligence and intelligence is a 19:11 - perfectly Fair word 19:14 - because the deeper you go into 19:17 - nature and the more you explore the laws 19:21 - of nature for example at the level of 19:24 - electromagnetism at the level of the 19:26 - Nobel prizewinning Electro we unified 19:29 - theory Grand unified theories and super 19:33 - unified theories the more concentrated 19:36 -

the intelligence 19:37 - becomes and the very simple mathematical 19:40 - formula that describes the structure and 19:42 - functioning of unity contains within 19:45 - that compact form all the intelligence 19:48 - all the laws of nature governing life at 19:51 - every level Maxwell's equations and 19:54 - Quantum chromodynamics and the electro 19:57 - Theory and theory of general relativity 20:00 - all of that is found in most 20:02 - concentrated form here so the unified 20:05 - field is the most concentrated field of 20:07 - intelligence in nature and dynamic 20:11 - intelligence and dynamic intelligence is 20:15 - consciousness and you can take that sort 20:17 - of qualitative relationship or 20:20 - discussion quite far in philosophy 20:22 - philosophers of scientists of science 20:24 - would love this 20:26 - dialogue for quantitative 20:29 - physicist or quantitative scientist 20:31 - anything that could be related to 20:34 - semantics is not well trusted so I'm 20:38 - going to touch upon arguments that you 20:39 - can syn your quantitative teeth into to 20:43 - establish the identity of our own inner 20:45 - intelligence and the intelligence at the 20:47 - basis of the universe and I'll do this 20:50 - very quickly but if we tape it if you're 20:51 - interested you could go back and try to 20:53 - make sense out of 20:55 - it 20:57 - quantitative Cor Corr respondence 21:00 -

between pure Consciousness and the 21:02 - unified field let's look at them 21:04 - quantitatively and what does that mean 21:07 - well we have a unified field but we also 21:10 - have its structure of 21:12 - vibrations its calculable 21:15 - frequencies and these fundamental 21:17 - frequencies the natural 21:20 - reverberant tones of the unified field 21:24 - just dial it down just a tiny bit those 21:28 - frequen ques of the unified field are 21:30 - the elementary particles and forces of 21:32 - nature that's all they are they're just 21:33 - the fundamental reverberant frequencies 21:36 - of unity and we know what they are this 21:38 - the Spin 2 graviton responsible for 21:40 - Gravity the spin one forces like 21:43 - electromagnetism the nuclear force spin 21:46 - 1/ half particles like electrons and 21:48 - quirks the spin zero higs which has 21:50 - finally been seen all of these 21:55 - different vibrational tones of the UN I 21:58 - field are well mapped well known and 22:03 - calculable but what about 22:06 - Consciousness what emerges from the 22:08 - abstract field of 22:10 - Consciousness is thought physiology 22:16 - matter when the awareness settles in all 22:18 - of that dissolves into pure 22:22 - being but getting familiar with the 22:25 - process of emergence and submergence and 22:27 - emergence and con convergence and 22:29 - emergence and submergence

you get you 22:32 - familiar with the fundamental tones the 22:35 - vibrations or waves of Consciousness 22:38 - rising from Pure silence into activity 22:42 - and you can enumerate those waves the 22:45 - fundamental frequencies of 22:48 - Consciousness and initially there are 22:50 - three as the pure knowledge pure knower 22:53 - pure Consciousness is seen as the knower 22:57 - but also that which is known the object 23:01 - and the dynamic relationship between the 23:03 - two that is satand that is the Holy 23:07 - Trinity that's the three in-one 23:08 - structure of 23:11 - unity but the moment you have three you 23:14 - automatically have the relationships 23:16 - among those 23:18 - three and the number of relationships 23:20 - well what skipping the mathematics and 23:23 - the group Theory there emerge really a 23:25 - total of eight entities from the three 23:30 - including something that you can call in 23:32 - the viic literature vat and kafa which 23:34 - means pertaining to Ego pertaining to 23:37 - intellect pertaining to mind and then 23:40 - the five fundamental elements aasha 23:43 - Etc well that's kind of a coincidence 23:46 - that you get this threein one emergence 23:48 - of this from the ocean of unity both 23:51 - from the self and from the super string 23:54 - theory and if you look at it it really 23:56 -

is a very striking structural and 23:59 - functional 24:02 - correspondence because both in the world 24:04 - of physics in today's super symmetric 24:07 - world you have the five spin types the 24:09 - five fundamental categories of matter 24:11 - and energy responsible for the universe 24:13 - that are related to each other in these 24:15 - three doublets or these 24:18 - pairs which unites for example the Spin 24:22 - 2 with its nearest spin neighbor spin 24:24 - three haves graviton into one more 24:26 - holistic entity called the gra it 24:28 - superfield and so 24:30 - forth but these five fundamental 24:33 - elements are also fundamental in science 24:36 - of Consciousness and what we see feel 24:39 - emerging from the ocean of Consciousness 24:42 - on a subjective level this is what yoga 24:45 - is about the yoga sutures of panal are 24:49 - about 24:51 - experiencing the ocean of pure existence 24:54 - and then stimulating that ocean into 24:56 - waves of vibration and experiencing the 24:59 - fundamental building blocks of mind and 25:02 - creation this is the yoga sutras of 25:04 - pangula pangul and these five elements 25:07 - aasha Etc are bound together in exactly 25:12 - these pairings and only these pairings 25:15 - which are called not not super Fields 25:18 - but 25:19 - proces and these are the you know 25:21 - fundamental

most fundamental three 25:23 - ingredients of the 25:25 - universe now and this not just 25:26 - numerically what are they what is of 25:29 - Kasha what is 25:31 - gravity gravity is curved space gravity 25:34 - is purely a manifestation of the 25:36 - curvature of space so space is not just 25:40 - nothing it's a relativistic fluid it 25:42 - curves and it flows according to 25:44 - Einstein but what is 25:48 - aasha space not as nothing but space is 25:52 - subtle substance space is relativistic 25:55 - fluid and similarly with all of these 25:59 - it's interesting because when people 26:00 - maybe hear about the five elements which 26:02 - you'll find in the vidic literature and 26:03 - in the Chinese literature the typical 26:05 - response of a modern scientist is say 26:07 - how 26:08 - quaint how how delightfully 26:13 - primitive but after all these years of 26:15 - scientific exploration we are back to 26:17 - the fundamental five and they are the 26:19 - same 26:20 - five so anyway we have this 26:22 - correspondence between 26:24 - the vibrational expressions of conscious 26:28 - ious into matter from the standpoint of 26:32 - conscious experience and the expression 26:34 - of the unified field into matter from 26:37 - the standpoint of modern 26:39 - physics and that in itself is a striking 26:42 - the likelihood that that's

a pure 26:44 - statistical fluke is about one in a 26:46 - thousand that's the sort of evidence 26:48 - physicists can actually 26:51 - appreciate what I won't go into but 26:54 - certainly am tempted to it's not 26:55 - necessarily the Right audience is that 26:57 - in addition to to the expressions of the 27:00 - unified field in 27:03 - creation we can also look at the unified 27:05 - field before the Big Bang because the 27:08 - super String Theory the ocean of the 27:11 - unified field wasn't created in the Big 27:14 - Bang it created The Big Bang it was 27:17 - there before the Big Bang and so long 27:20 - before the universe the unified field 27:23 - was contentedly sitting within itself 27:26 - not dead not lifeless not inert but pure 27:30 - life a field of Pure Life reverberating 27:34 - within itself humming within 27:37 - itself so we can say well let's ignore 27:40 - the surface emergence of the vibrations 27:43 - responsible for the particles of nature 27:46 - let's look at the internal life of the 27:48 - unified field the so-called internal 27:50 - string 27:52 - modes and without going in today to a 27:55 - huge ariga roll which I love to do 27:58 - the structure of the super string is a 28:03 - series of 28:06 - harmonics of natural internal 28:09 - reverberant

28:11 - frequencies and when you look using M 28:13 - Theory at the sequential process of 28:16 - emergence of the unified field preparing 28:19 - to assume the role of the big 28:22 - bang There are a series of 28:25 - somersaults and the initial eight 28:27 - vibration super string has eight 28:29 - fundamental vibrational degrees of 28:31 - freedom I maybe I'll explain that much 28:33 - super String Theory lives in 10 28:35 - Dimensions one dimension of time nine 28:38 - dimensions of space so you have 28:41 - strings thinking very concretely because 28:43 - it helps moving and vibrating in nine 28:47 - dimensions of 28:50 - space if you want to ex create a 28:53 - vibration in a string you strum it and 28:57 - how many ways can you strum a guitar 29:00 - string well moving the string back and 29:03 - forth this way doesn't produce any sound 29:06 - it doesn't count it's not a vibrational 29:08 - mode but you can string strum the string 29:11 - down and it'll vibrate like this you can 29:13 - pluck the string forward and it'll 29:15 - vibrate back and forth like this there 29:17 - are two perpendicular or independent 29:20 - vibrational degrees of freedom of a 29:21 - guitar string in three 29:23 - space you put the guitar string in nine 29:26 - space 29:28 - there are eight perpendicular 29:30

- independent degrees of freedom different 29:32 - ways of strumming the string giving 29:34 - eight fundamental 29:37 - frequencies and that is the basic 29:40 - vibrational music Symphony of the super 29:44 - string but life at the super string is 29:46 - Rich when you add quantum mechanics to 29:48 - this and incredible Dynamics unfolds 29:50 - that as described in M Theory and the 29:52 - super string twists itself like 29:55 - a like a pretzel yogur YC pretzel 30:00 - process into what is called the 30:02 - heterotic string which lives in 26 30:05 - dimensions of unmanifest space within 30:08 - which the string has 30:10 - 24 vibrational degrees of 30:13 - freedom and then something really 30:15 - amazing happens you get rid of all of 30:18 - these embarrassing extra 30:21 - Dimensions which don't exist in the 30:23 - relative Universe 30:26 - by hyper 30:28 - spooling them or super coiling them like 30:32 - this two-dimensional sheet of paper 30:35 - Presto voila It's 30:38 - one-dimensional Magic but all I've 30:41 - really done is I've spooled the extra 30:43 - Dimension up so that you can't really 30:44 - see it from the back row it looks like a 30:46 - one-dimensional sheet of paper like that 30:50 - the extra dimensions of space 30:52 - practically disappear but they're always 30:55 - there on a very fine scale 30:58 - and

super strings wrap themselves around 31:01 - these extra dimensions and can vibrate 31:03 - back and forth along these tubes giving 31:06 - us extra vibrational tones extra 31:09 - vibrational degrees of freedom and what 31:11 - happens 31:13 - is this 8 + 24 structure of vibrations 31:17 - of the string in higher Dimensions 31:19 - collapses to 31:22 - 64 fermionic and 192 total bosonic 31:27 - degrees of free freedom in the 3+ 31:29 - 1dimensional space in the process of 31:32 - creating the universe anyway there's a 31:34 - definite sequence here and if we had the 31:37 - time to go into it we could look 31:41 - into the 31:44 - internal vibrational dynamics of 31:47 - Consciousness not emerging to become 31:49 - mind and body but reverberating within 31:54 - itself and this is called vadic 31:56 - cognition just like the yoga sutras are 31:59 - to learn how to excite and create the 32:02 - specific vibrational modes of 32:03 - Consciousness responsible for the 32:05 - universe there's something called karma 32:07 - mamans which is all about learning to 32:11 - Fathom in the unmanifest field of 32:14 - Consciousness the internal vibrational 32:16 - dynamics of the self knowing the self 32:20 - and when you do that you find the same 32:23 - incredible structure and I should skip 32:26 - it because I'm going to run out of time 32:27 -

before we through but the fundamental 32:29 - eight which 32:31 - is okay you get the sequential 32:35 - unfoldment of unity ultimately it's one 32:38 - but one sees itself because it is 32:40 - consciousness as knower and the known 32:43 - and the process of 32:45 - knowing and the moment again you have 32:47 - three you really have a total of eight 32:50 - because the relationships among those 32:52 - three according to mathematics of 32:55 - quantum mechanics called the eight-fold 32:56 - way both in physics and in yoga really 32:59 - those three immediately create the 33:01 - existence conceptual it's all conceptual 33:03 - of 33:06 - eight among those eight are the five 33:09 - fundamental elements aasha Etc when 33:13 - those five are seen from the perspective 33:16 - of e of ego intellect and mind those 33:19 - five become the seed of the five senses 33:22 - five organs of action and five gross 33:25 - elements liquid solid gas Etc 33:28 - that gives you 24 and those are the 24 33:31 - these are the eight of vesa these are 33:33 - the 24 of 33:35 - sya and on and on but this is whole 33:38 - process of unfoldment within 33:40 - consciousness of number giving rise to a 33:43 - more elaborated view of the same thing 33:45 - and more elaborated view of the same 33:47 - thing

in the universe emerges that's 33:48 - called vidic cognition that is the 33:51 - structure of the Rick vade that you 33:52 - could look up because those who see it 33:55 - and chant it and speak it of course it's 33:57 - been recorded by now and has this 34:01 - structure and that's really amazing and 34:03 - it's just the tip of the iceberg but the 34:04 - amazing thing also is that the human 34:07 - nervous system is as if 34:09 - hardwired as if designed engineered to 34:12 - reverberate in that structure of 34:15 - totality in that structure of wholeness 34:18 - so you look at the central nervous 34:19 - system and it's 34:21 - 192 ascending and descending reticular 34:23 - formations or nerve endings these are 34:25 - the gateways to consciousness 34:28 - 92 and it allows one of the many things 34:31 - that allows our nervous system purring 34:33 - within itself humming or reverberating 34:36 - within itself in a state of yoga in in 34:38 - state of samati with no external 34:41 - disturbance what gets created is this 34:43 - holess this wholeness the holistic 34:45 - structure of unity nervous system 34:48 - resonates in the structure of the 34:50 - unified field well that 34:52 - was one type of 34:56 - argument that allows you to start to see 34:59 - that when we talk about the

unity 35:01 - between self and brah Atman and Brahman 35:04 - it's not you know just philosophy it's 35:07 - there's really solid theoretical reasons 35:09 - for it and 35:11 - experimental you're probably familiar by 35:14 - now of all kinds of fascinating long 35:17 - range or so-called field effects of 35:20 - Consciousness the random number 35:22 - generator experiments showing Global 35:25 - coherence another example which is very 35:28 - statistically significant is the effects 35:30 - of group meditation when 35:32 - samade is experienced by many people 35:37 - especially in a 35:39 - group and the effects of group 35:42 - meditation on dissolving crime and 35:44 - social stress and social violence has 35:47 - been quite a big deal now in the 35:48 - industry 35:50 - for oh dear for almost 40 years and um 35:56 - what these experiments show this is an 35:58 - experiment I helped conduct but I was 36:00 - one of 27 authors and getting 27 36:02 - independent scientists degree on the 36:04 - wording of any document is a hell but 36:07 - nevertheless um we gathered statistics 36:10 - on what was the called the murder 36:12 - capital of the world back in 1983 36:15 - Washington DC where there were large 36:18 - groups of meditating experts from all 36:20 - over the world who came to lend their 36:22 - nervous systems to this experiment

and 36:24 - collectively meditate um yogic medit 36:27 - itation transcending meditation to 36:29 - experience together the ocean of pure 36:33 - awareness and as had been seen 52 times 36:36 - before mostly published as well there 36:39 - was at the time the numbers became 36:41 - significant a highly statistically 36:43 - significant drop in the not just the 36:47 - crime levels as defined by the FBI part 36:49 - one violent crime but pretty much 36:51 - everything in the city transformed in 36:53 - the most amazing 36:55 - way and I'll mention there's a addtion 36:58 - of This research which has become 36:59 - extremely strong by now and convincing 37:02 - know really even to any skeptic who's 37:04 - willing to actually read the paper 37:06 - because there are plenty of skep 37:07 - Skeptics like galileos that won't look 37:10 - through the 37:11 - telescope but in any case the 37:13 - correlation between the size of a 37:15 - meditating group in an area of conflict 37:18 - like the Middle East during the peak of 37:20 - the Lebanon war just looking at the raw 37:22 - Data before any analysis has been 37:24 - applied there's a correlation in 37:27 - progress to towards 37:28 - peace it rises and 37:31 - Falls 37:33 - fairly observably even in the Raw data 37:36 - based on the size of the meditating 37:37

- group and once you apply proper 37:40 - statistical analysis and social science 37:42 - research is challenging and I've really 37:44 - gained a bit of a respect for it having 37:46 - gotten involved with it this is a highly 37:48 - statistically significant effect it 37:50 - amounts to a an 80% drop in war deaths 37:54 - and war injuries in war torn areas and I 37:57 - should mention when that was first 37:58 - published in the Yale Journal of 38:00 - conflict resolution it created a 38:02 - firestorm it took two years two years to 38:04 - publish for one thing but once the 38:08 - analysis had been reviewed anonymously 38:10 - which is a painful process believe me um 38:13 - and many many suggestions were 38:15 - implemented the results were unchanged 38:17 - nevertheless the editor wrote a note 38:19 - saying this article the implications of 38:21 - it are so enormous and frankly the 38:23 - hypothesis so 38:25 - strange that a few thousand you know 38:27 - meditating experts embedded in the 38:29 - center of conflict could calm reduce the 38:32 - societal stress and ease the violence is 38:35 - so unexpected they pleaded for other 38:38 - groups to go out and to repeat the 38:39 - experiment which seven other groups did 38:42 - over the next two and a quarter 38:44 - years and 38:46 - every what's

the word every intervention 38:49 - every group produced a highly highly 38:52 - statistically significant effect which 38:53 - if you put them together and there's a 38:56 - publication that analyz all of these in 38:58 - an integrated way the likelihood that 39:00 - this is a statistical fluke that war and 39:03 - war deaths just stopped by accident 39:05 - during the days and weeks when the 39:07 - meditators were meditating is Tiny it's 39:10 - tiny but the point for today's 39:12 - discussion is these are field effects of 39:16 - Consciousness long range societal 39:19 - effects of individuals embedded in 39:22 - society and that is a paradigm 39:25 - shattering fact you cannot think of 39:29 - Consciousness as purely the result of 39:31 - the neurological firings the electrical 39:34 - impulses of the brain because my firings 39:37 - don't affect yours at this distance 39:40 - there has to be a deeper connection 39:42 - involved and you won't find that 39:44 - connection at the classical level this 39:47 - means that Quantum that Consciousness is 39:49 - at least quantum mechanical and if you 39:51 - really try to make this work and explain 39:54 - these experimental results it's not easy 39:56 - but the more connectedness of us of us 40:00 - all at our core reality which is one 40:05 - ultimately there's only one 40:06 - Consciousness in this room

yeah and it 40:09 - is you and it is you but at that level 40:12 - we are all one and these experiments 40:15 - demonstrated one of the things we're 40:16 - trying to do is build bigger and bigger 40:19 - groups in different places throughout 40:22 - the 40:23 - world and the hope to create more 40:26 - coherence and and more Harmony in a 40:28 - world that in my opinion still 40:30 - desperately needs 40:32 - it and finally by way of arguments since 40:34 - the Superman movie is coming out next 40:37 - week I wanted to touch on the the idea 40:41 - of supern normal 40:45 - abilities and we have to we have to ask 40:47 - ourselves the 40:49 - question whether ever in 40:52 - history whether today or at the time of 40:54 - Christ or at the time of shankara or at 40:56 - the time of St Francis or St Teresa who 40:59 - are often seen rising in the air in a 41:02 - state of religious 41:05 - Euphoria if any such supernormal 41:08 - so-called ability has ever 41:10 - happened that is extraordinary proof of 41:14 - this thesis now you raise such a 41:19 - hypothesis in different audience you 41:21 - give very different feelings and an 41:23 - audience of physical scientists you know 41:25 - no one would raise their hand probably 41:26 -

if you asked whether Christ ever walked 41:28 - on water or whether anybody has ever Liv 41:31 - in an audience like this you might get 41:32 - the majority who believe that is 41:34 - possible in fact many of you who have 41:35 - experienced these things 41:38 - yourselves but if you accept as a 41:41 - premise that such supernormal abilities 41:43 - like levitation is 41:45 - possible you are immediately driven to 41:47 - the conclusion that such abilities can 41:51 - only occur on the basis of conscious 41:55 - functioning at the level of the UniFi 41:57 - field at the level of the plank 42:00 - scale for example if you look at the 42:02 - structure of space time and SpaceTime 42:06 - curvature is what's responsible for 42:08 - Gravity it's what holds us down it's the 42:10 - downward curvature of gravity at our 42:12 - feet due to the Earth which is holding 42:15 - us down if you look at the emergence of 42:18 - SpaceTime from this ocean the so-called 42:21 - SpaceTime foam which is the roiling and 42:24 - boiling of the unified field at the 42:26 - foundational level of creation SpaceTime 42:29 - starts out looking multiply connected 42:31 - and very complex but it Smooths itself 42:33 - out as you average over space and time 42:37 - the details get washed out and the 42:39 - overall average

is flat that flat may be 42:43 - downward sloping in the vicinity of the 42:47 - earth and that's that emerges due to the 42:50 - assumption that all of this activity 42:52 - this boiling and roiling of the unified 42:54 - field is random is arbitrary 42:58 - chaotic but if you could introduce some 43:01 - purposefulness to it some orderliness if 43:04 - it were possible to sustain a desire to 43:08 - hold an Impulse at that deepest deepest 43:11 - level of thought the deepest level of 43:13 - Consciousness you can easily upset the 43:16 - aaging process and then what will emerge 43:19 - is macroscopic space may be curved up in 43:22 - which case we would fall up and not down 43:26 - and it's like that with all these 43:27 - abilities if you if you take the 43:30 - possibility of entertaining a thought 43:33 - not on the chaotic noisy active thinking 43:36 - level but at the deepest deepest impulse 43:39 - of Mind as a desire just emerges from 43:42 - the ocean of Consciousness there you 43:44 - will see that a mustard seed of faith 43:47 - can move 43:48 - mountains that's where the power of 43:51 - thought is and there's dramatic proof of 43:54 - this that led to the Nobel Prize a 43:56 - couple of years ago and that is that yes 43:59 - you can control

44:00 - gravity at that 44:03 - level so you may be aware of some of you 44:05 - of dark energy which is propelling the 44:08 - universe into a state of expansion today 44:10 - accelerating expansion what is fueling 44:13 - that gravitational repulsion of space or 44:16 - what's called 44:17 - anti-gravity is this activity purely 44:21 - this and if you can dial up the energy 44:25 - of the vibrational structure of 44:27 - Consciousness at its source you can 44:30 - increase the so-called cosmological 44:32 - constant or the anti-gravity impulse and 44:35 - overwhelm the attractive effect of 44:38 - matter so this is something we know 44:40 - works it's working right now in our 44:42 - universe so putting that together and 44:45 - cutting it 44:47 - short based on incredible quantitative 44:50 - correspondence based on experimentally 44:53 - known long range field effects of 44:55 - Consciousness based on certain certain 44:57 - classic cities when demonstrated based 45:00 - on what we know and what we think we 45:02 - know Atman is Brahman is the most 45:06 - parsimonious explanation pure 45:08 - consciousness of the uni field and 45:10 - that's a big deal it's a very big deal 45:14 - to say that yourself your subjectivity 45:17 - your inner being is the intelligence 45:20 - that created the universe and indeed 45:22 - many 45:24 - universes if if that

were somewhow 45:27 - practically relevant it would be 45:29 - amazing generally it's not so 45:31 - practically relevant because in waking 45:34 - consciousness we are utterly unaware of 45:37 - the self it's there or we wouldn't be 45:40 - awake but we don't see that we see the 45:43 - objects the thoughts the 45:46 - feelings the meditative state which is 45:49 - again radically different from anything 45:51 - in waking Dreaming or sleeping is the 45:53 - opposite we sacrifice everything 45:57 - we transcend all mental activity all 46:00 - feeling all belief and just plunge into 46:04 - Universal 46:06 - Consciousness it's a fleeting thing you 46:08 - wouldn't want to live there you might be 46:10 - tempted to live there it's immensely 46:11 - Blissful but you'd starve 46:14 - eventually because that State of 46:16 - Consciousness is Transcendental alone 46:19 - that's this fourth state of 46:21 - consciousness I mentioned 46:23 - before but that's not the end of course 46:25 - that's not why one would would undergo a 46:27 - path of meditation path of regular 46:29 - transcending the idea is by alternating 46:32 - the brain activity from active Focus to 46:34 - non-focused inactive 46:37 - unbounded specific to 46:39 - non-specific the brain gets sufficiently 46:41 - flexible that that inner silence and 46:43 - unbounded awareness and maximum 46:45 - orderliness of brain functioning becomes 46:47 - permanent

during Dynamic activity during 46:50 - sleep during dreaming during 46:52 - anesthesia once the light of life has 46:55 - really turned on you can never 46:57 - extinguish it and that's called 46:59 - Liberation or Enlightenment because 47:02 - although one experiences the upheavals 47:04 - of day-to-day Activity one is anchored 47:06 - in something that is beyond and so huge 47:09 - bigger than the universe that the ups 47:12 - and downs of Life simply do not 47:14 - overshadow at all the Continuum of bliss 47:19 - the whole rise and fall of civilization 47:21 - in that state of consciousness is just 47:23 - an eye 47:25 - blink I wanted to end with a slide that 47:28 - life doesn't stop at Liberation nor does 47:31 - it stop at 40 years old it keeps on 47:35 - going fortunately and what happens over 47:38 - time I don't think there's a technique 47:40 - for this but over time living this state 47:44 - of unbounded inner 47:48 - awareness with the state of outer 47:51 - dynamism and alternating back and forth 47:53 - between the two one becomes more exposed 47:56 - exposed not just to the surface thought 47:59 - but deepest deepest levels of reality 48:01 - deepest levels of creation and even the 48:04 - celestial most Divine level of creation 48:07 - through the 48:09 - senses and then pure being and so it

48:12 - happens is the appreciation of the outer 48:15 - Universe continues to refine and evolve 48:18 - and it becomes so incredibly near in 48:21 - intimate and dear that even eventually a 48:24 - spark of realization occurs the big 48:27 - realization the big Enlightenment in 48:29 - which case the self realizes it is all 48:32 - myself coming into it seeing creation 48:35 - emerge from it submerge into it emerge 48:37 - from it submerge you see the Dynamics of 48:39 - how the self the super string expresses 48:43 - itself as particles and forces and 48:44 - thoughts in the universe so often that 48:46 - you realize I am that and that is me so 48:51 - my last slide beautiful beautiful 48:53 - expressions of that in the 48:55 - literature But ultimately you can 48:57 - capture encapsulate it in the single 48:59 - expression aham brah asmi I am that but 49:03 - I already knew that that was true even 49:06 - in mere 49:07 - Liberation now I see that thou art that 49:10 - in fact all this is that and that alone 49:13 - is thank 49:16 - [Music] 49:23 - you thank you so much 49:27 - thank you