An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

Some of the individuals nonchalantly spoke of their “psychic abilities” and “extrasensory perception (ESP) abilities.” They claimed people had the ability to send their minds to distant locations in the past, present, or future and accurately describe what is, was, or will be there (“remote viewing”—also known as clairvoyance); they had an ability

Rosenblum and Kuttner explain: “If someone looked in a particular spot and happened to see the atom [i.e., particle] there, that look ‘collapsed’ the spread-out waviness of that atom to be wholly at a particular spot.

An inference one might make from these findings is that consciousness is somehow creating particles of matter from waves of probability.

Quantum physics teaches us that the universe doesn’t work in a way that aligns with our everyday experience. It teaches that there are seemingly invisible connections between objects that are physically distant. It teaches that the mere act of observing can affect physical reality.

they are observed and like waves when they are not observed.

ways, seeing geometric patterns, feeling unusual bodily sensations, having vivid imaginings, sensing an altered perception of size and space and time, hearing sounds that influenced their thoughts, and being in a dreamlike state. Participants given the placebo did not have these experiences.

But science tells a different story. Science shows that atoms are 99.99999999 percent empty space.

We will take a detour for one chapter into the strangeness of proven science before we dive into concepts related to psychic abilities and survival of bodily death. This science is the underpinning of our reality and needs to be considered first. My aim is to simplify the topics as much as possible because they can be confusing.

“It is too often the case that people on both sides of the question debate the existence of psychic functioning on the basis of their personal belief systems rather than on an examination of the scientific data”46 [emphasis added].