Listening to Your Secret Self: The ‘Daemon’ Spirit Who Guides Our Lives

Bohm’s solution was simple and logical. We have been wrongly interpreting the nature of matter and the universe itself. The message never travelled across space and time at all because both these constructs are an illusion brought about by the brain. In fact the two particles were really one particle all the time and as such they both ‘knew’ what w

The implications of this Bohm–Pribram holographic theory of reality are simply staggering; the universe is a vast hologram that is processed by an observer’s brain which is, in itself, a hologram that contains the whole universe! Is this what the non-scientific, but profoundly perceptive, philosopher Broad was trying to explain when he made the fol

The laws of physics tell us that the very building blocks of what we see as solid matter are, in fact, insubstantial points of energy. These are aggregated together by the act of observation into an indistinct holographic image – analogous to a three-dimensional holographic picture before it is illuminated by laser light. In this case, the illumina

For the ancient Greeks the Eidolon was exactly as I use it in my first book – the lower, everyday ‘self’. By implication this means that there is a Higher Self that is a reflection of the gods. This being was called the ‘Daemon’ and I have continued to use this term to describe the part of us that knows that we have lived this life before.

Under normal circumstances the Daemon exists in isolation within the non-dominant hemisphere (usually the right). As the major speech centres of the brain are located in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere the Daemon simply cannot access the mechanisms that will allow it any form of verbal communication with the outside world.

Nature’s solution to this is that each eye has two visual fields – right and left. The right visual field of the left eye feeds one hemisphere and the left field feeds the other. This is then reversed for the right eye. In this way both hemispheres receive stereo vision. Sperry realized that by showing patients an object in the left or right visual

We all have a right and left hippocampus, a right and left amygdala and a right and left thalamus. The exception is the pineal gland that sits in splendid and mysterious isolation.

Mesmer believed that the universe is full of ‘magnetism’. His magnetic force was similar to that of electrical magnetism, the effects and potentials of which were being discovered at the time. He considered his magnetism to be an invisible fluid that influenced all living things. To differentiate his version from ferromagnetism he termed his force

‘Every soul has existed from the beginning; it has therefore passed through some worlds already, and will pass through others before it reaches the final consummation. It comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life.’ ORIGEN (EARLY-CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR)