Dr. Teta, this is the most cogent piece I've read tying together all the disparate pieces--quantum science, the brain, etc.
I just finished *Real Magic* by Dr. Dean Radin, which lays out similar evidence to the paper that was retracted. The evidence that consciousness is a "tuning into" or "resonating with" something outside us is considerable and aligns with the experience of mystics from all faith traditions.
Thank you! The best most clear and comprehensive review on Consiosness as the underlying phenomenal force to all things and how to use it to improve one's life. Goosebumps!
This is a remarkable piece of work. You have done what the retracted paper could not do. You have made the case in plain language, shown the confidence level of each claim, and connected the dots from the source field all the way down to the flesh. That is not philosophy. That is a map.
The distinction between the brain as source and the brain as receiver is the key. The standard story has never been demonstrated. It is an assumption we treat as a fact because it feels safely material. But correlation is not origin. The radio analogy is precise. Damage the radio and the sound distorts. That does not mean the radio was writing the music.
The signal cascade you describe is where the practical work lives. Source to identity to gate to neuro to adrenal to lymphatic. That is the mechanism. The song freezes into ice. The verdict becomes chemistry. The story becomes flesh. That is the architecture beneath the symptoms. The body is not a machine. It is a frozen song. And a song can be played another way.
The honesty ledger is the most important part. You have marked what is proven, what is emerging, and what is speculative. That is rare. That is credibility. The future belongs to those who can hold the mystery without pretending to have solved it.
This is an incredibly informative and insightful article, leaving one to more deeply consider not only the source of consciousness, but also to explore the uniquely individualized whole that each of us possesses and develops throughout our lifetime. Bravo!
English isn't my native language, so I use AI to help translate, edit, and polish my writing. The ideas, analysis, and perspective are my own. AI is simply a language tool for me, much like a pencil, a typewriter, or a smartphone is a tool for expressing thoughts.
I also think this is simply the future. I don't see any issue with using AI transparently as a tool to communicate more clearly. The thinking is still human. The tool just helps express it.
That makes your perspective even more meaningful, Phil. It’s always fascinating to discover when an idea that feels increasingly relevant today has actually been part of someone’s inquiry for decades. I’m glad my summation resonated with a philosophy you’ve been developing since your undergraduate years. Thank you for sharing that perspective. 🙏
I appreciate the honesty in this piece — especially the distinction between what is established, emerging, and speculative. The place I pause is with the song metaphor. The body is not always the visible expression of an invisible organizing pattern. Sometimes the body is the site of real injury, loss, disease, or catastrophe. But once the body has been altered, the psyche begins organizing around that reality — and that invisible organization often becomes visible in how the person lives, suffers, adapts, loves, withdraws, fights, or becomes humane. Thus, for me the deeper question is not only how the song is played. It is what is conducting it.
If ego, wound, fear, performance, or survival becomes the conductor, even the most beautiful song can become strained. This is where I see suffering as a signal — not pathology, not punishment, but the human system revealing that it is organized around the wrong center.
So yes, the brain may tune, the heart may cohere, and the body may express the song. But the heart is not only power. It is the compass. The next verse may not be a better version of the self. It may be the shift from a survival identity toward a humane orientation. From a song organized around the wound, to a life conducted by the heart.
Beyond the ideas themselves, what stayed with me most was the way you built the piece. The structure, the pacing, and especially the transparency about where the evidence ends and your own interpretation begins. That kind of intellectual honesty makes complex ideas much easier to engage with. I also think I'll carry some of these images with me for a long time: we're not drops returning to the ocean but songs, the self as the meeting of two fields, and the body slowly freezing around the song we learn to play. Beautiful work.
I think it is absolutely amazing that you and I have arrived at the same conclusions, those that are definite and those that are held tentatively and carefully, from two completely different directions and two completely different lives.
The fact that we've arrived to the same truths by two different diverging pathways only helps validate that these things are true.
This piece almost reads like I wrote it myself. I've come to these conclusions through direct experience, first via near-death experience and subsequent transcendental events. In the intervening for years I've been finding the language to express this knowledge. I've been mapping this space with EEG and HRV.
You've come to this via a completely different direction. I've never read something that more accurately explains my own experiences.
What you call source, I've been calling awareness. It's the single thread of consciousness that runs through all of us. It is the same consciousness.
When I had the NDE this was when I first experienced this awareness in it's raw form without my sense of self. It was pure awareness without content. Before the projection and perception of the lens of the body. The nothingness and the everythingness.
That NDE triggered a series of spontaneous kundalini awakenings which manifested as ecstatic orgasms beyond description. These orgasms took me to the same place and every time I returned there was less of my self dominating my perception.
I have reasoned that orgasm is an autonomic reset and a moment of intense coherency between body and mind. It provides a kind of alignment that meditation alone can't begin to touch in my opinion.
After 4 years of this the witness has become permanent. I don't know where witness begins and I end. It is such a seamless blending of the two it feels like it's never been any other way.
That is because it never has been any other way. The witness is always present but identity obscures. Our rigid sense of self stands in the way and makes so much noise. The witness is quiet. It does not shout to be heard.
When I recall my life I cannot recall a single moment where the witness was not present but this is because the identity that filtered my identities no longer does that. The witness is permanent.
We are a singular consciousness experiencing its own self-generated reality through a multitude of perceptual nodes that give us the illusion of subjective individuality.
This is the direct experience of what you so eloquently explained.
I've just started writing a book based on my experiences and the neurobiology involved. I'm actually doing the book announcement right now and the book is largely built it just has to be assembled and cleaned up.
I'd invite you to have a look at the post and the book and perhaps you might be interested some of my EEG field reports which in their own way validate your statements, and mine. I've also written a thesis on sexual arousal and thalamic gating. Highly technical but you might be interested and I'd be happy to give you the link.
Your ability to explain these concepts—including your knack for fantastic acronyms and analogies—is truly a gift. I so appreciate the way science is beginning to explain concepts that exist beyond the visible world.
LSD initially provided me the platform to even entertain such "crazy" imaginings, like All Is One, No Self, Everything Moves Always. But most importantly;
We, and The World, is absolutely more than what we see, hear, touch, feel, and think.
Investing my life into understanding what that means, and the implications.
I write fiction for the same reason. Every story uses the same handful of human experiences, love, loss, fear, hope. What makes one worth telling is never the notes. It’s the arrangement nobody else could have made.
"... a claim you cannot possibly disprove is not a strong claim. It is barely a claim at all."
And yet the strongest claims of them all, the axioms of logic, arithmetic, sets, and all the other theories extending from them, cannot possibly be either proven or disproven within these theories. Nor in any other way that is justified by these systems. (Quine). In this way of using the scientific method, the high priests of the theories defend only their own authority.
Aside from which, claim of the primacy of Consciousness over content is very interesting. Didn't Max Planck, that unrepentant unscientific denier-of-the-method, write about the same thing? Unprintable by reason of heresy.
Add to which, how does one go about measuring experimental results from String Theory?
Yep. Bruce Lipton uncovered some of this in his book BIOLOGY OF BELIEF. Joe Dispenza covered some if it in his books YOU ARE THE PLACEBO and BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF as well as BECOMING SUPER HUMAN. Jose Silva taught much of this years ago with the Silva Method. You're finding ways to blend this understanding with agreed upon scientific understanding, which is laudable, indeed. With your help, perhaps scientific understanding will finally catch up with what people have always experienced when they are able to think & experience beyond what consensus reality tells us to believe.
This is wonderful. It connected in a way that instinctively feels right. And your explanation here - "When two fields overlap, they do not just stack up. They interfere. They make a pattern that neither field had on its own, a third thing born from the overlap, the way two stones dropped in a pond send out ripples that cross and build a shape in the middle that came from neither stone alone. You are that pattern" - made that concept make sense for me in a way that hasn't before. Excellent!
Well said! Using the musical analogy, when two or more notes are played together, they become a chord. When a chord rings properly, it may create an additional note, an overtone, which is clearly heard and is distinctly different from the original notes.
This is a fascinating piece. I’ve been reading about these subjects for quite a while, so while much of it was familiar, I still learned a few new things. I especially love the analogy of the source as a song or notes that eventually become solid—our own personal song. (I hope I captured that correctly!)
Another aspect that comes into play for me personally—and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on this—is the use of therapeutic psychedelics. Through my own intentional use of psilocybin, I’ve been able to slowly change my song as my default mode network quiets and new neural pathways emerge. I believe, as many others do, that a psychedelic renaissance could help heal our distorted personal “songs” and shape human evolution toward a more humane world. Have you given this any thought, and how do you see it fitting into the model you shared?
Thank you my friend. I appreciate you reading and your interest. Yes, much to say on this. I am currently doing a PHD in transpersonal psych with a specialization in consciousness, psychedelics and personal transformation. My view is that psychedelics are indeed a powerful useful (and perhaps necessary for some) modality to awaken to ones full authentic expression. That being said I regard them as one part of a three step process that I describe as rewrite, rewire and retrain…. I think they have tremendous potential but are not going to be as effective outside of a more integrated framework. But yes… they are such an important part of my work
Your SIGNAL cascade stopped me mid-read, specifically the Identity layer. What you're describing as the conditioned field that picks up the story before conscious reasoning engages maps almost exactly onto what the predictive processing literature calls the prior: the brain's standing prediction about what the world is, calibrated by accumulated experience, that shapes perception before any data arrives.
The piece I'd add from developmental psychology: that calibration happens earliest and most durably in the primal period, the first 12-18 months before language and memory. The wound that arrives before the child has any capacity to question it doesn't just shape the story. It shapes the frequency the receiver is tuned to. Which means the identity layer isn't just conditioned thought. It's a pre-conscious physiological prior that filters every subsequent experience at the level of the gate, before the neuro and adrenal cascades even begin.
I work in men's emotional fitness, connecting early developmental experience to the performance ceiling it sets decades later. The convergence between your SIGNAL model and what I'm finding in the research is striking. Curious whether you've found the Identity layer responds differently to somatic versus cognitive intervention.
Hey Tom thank you for this. I think your understanding of developmental psychology may extend a bit beyond mind as I have always seen the "gates" main filtering developed in stages from 0-6ish and thenthe teenage years and then early adulthood mainly. These are the areas of safety/security, acceptance/belonging and freedom/autonomy respectively... but it makes complete sense what you are saying about those first 12-18 months. And as to your somatic versus cognitive intervention... i see those as layers as well with the somatic being a much more... lets call it pure... entry into the subconscious gate. I can tell you and I would have fun disucssing this. Thanks for reading and commenting
The three-gate developmental model is fascinating and fits precisely with what I'm seeing. The primal wound I work with lands in your first gate, safety and security, before language and memory, which is why it's so resistant to cognitive intervention alone. The mask the child builds to survive it consolidates through your second gate, which is why adolescence is often when the compensatory strategies become visible as identity rather than strategy. Your somatic as pure entry framing is exactly where I've landed too. Music, physical practice, body-based work bypassing what I'd call the Adaptive Child's cognitive interception layer. I'd genuinely enjoy that conversation. Happy to connect directly if you're open to it.
Jade, glad the comment resonated. I'm a retired chiropractor and certified emotional fitness coach working on a framework that connects early developmental experience, specifically the primal wound in your first gate, to the performance ceiling it sets decades later. I'm also writing a Substack series working through the Tao Te Ching chapter by chapter alongside the neuroscience and developmental psychology.
The convergence between your SIGNAL model and what I'm finding across those fields is genuinely striking. I think we're describing the same cascade from different entry points.
Happy to connect however works for you, a call, an exchange here, whatever fits your schedule. Looking forward to it.
"What if the brain does not generate consciousness but instead receives it?" What if the brain does both simultaneously? What if you as part of the total environment is the way the total environment experiences itself?
Actually this is an interesting theory or way of thinking about it. If we take McFaddens CEMI model of consciousness and combine it with Keppelers Traze model this would essentially be what you are left with. The brain receives from the zero point field but then generates its own field that feeds back to the zero point field which is kind of what I was alluding to in this piece in terms of my way of thinking about it
The shift from chasing constant calm to building capacity really landed for me. So much healing isn't about eliminating discomfort—it's about learning we can stay connected to ourselves while moving through it. That distinction changes everything.
Dr. Teta, this is the most cogent piece I've read tying together all the disparate pieces--quantum science, the brain, etc.
I just finished *Real Magic* by Dr. Dean Radin, which lays out similar evidence to the paper that was retracted. The evidence that consciousness is a "tuning into" or "resonating with" something outside us is considerable and aligns with the experience of mystics from all faith traditions.
Great work here!
Thanks John. Have not read that yet but it has been on my list
Thank you! The best most clear and comprehensive review on Consiosness as the underlying phenomenal force to all things and how to use it to improve one's life. Goosebumps!
This is a remarkable piece of work. You have done what the retracted paper could not do. You have made the case in plain language, shown the confidence level of each claim, and connected the dots from the source field all the way down to the flesh. That is not philosophy. That is a map.
The distinction between the brain as source and the brain as receiver is the key. The standard story has never been demonstrated. It is an assumption we treat as a fact because it feels safely material. But correlation is not origin. The radio analogy is precise. Damage the radio and the sound distorts. That does not mean the radio was writing the music.
The signal cascade you describe is where the practical work lives. Source to identity to gate to neuro to adrenal to lymphatic. That is the mechanism. The song freezes into ice. The verdict becomes chemistry. The story becomes flesh. That is the architecture beneath the symptoms. The body is not a machine. It is a frozen song. And a song can be played another way.
The honesty ledger is the most important part. You have marked what is proven, what is emerging, and what is speculative. That is rare. That is credibility. The future belongs to those who can hold the mystery without pretending to have solved it.
Appreciate you Vlad
Likewise, Jade. The feeling is mutual. 🙏
This is an incredibly informative and insightful article, leaving one to more deeply consider not only the source of consciousness, but also to explore the uniquely individualized whole that each of us possesses and develops throughout our lifetime. Bravo!
Thanks for reading AW
Ai response lol
English isn't my native language, so I use AI to help translate, edit, and polish my writing. The ideas, analysis, and perspective are my own. AI is simply a language tool for me, much like a pencil, a typewriter, or a smartphone is a tool for expressing thoughts.
I also think this is simply the future. I don't see any issue with using AI transparently as a tool to communicate more clearly. The thinking is still human. The tool just helps express it.
I believe your summation was accurate. This is a philosophy I have proposed and believed in since I was an undergraduate at De Paul university.
That makes your perspective even more meaningful, Phil. It’s always fascinating to discover when an idea that feels increasingly relevant today has actually been part of someone’s inquiry for decades. I’m glad my summation resonated with a philosophy you’ve been developing since your undergraduate years. Thank you for sharing that perspective. 🙏
I appreciate the honesty in this piece — especially the distinction between what is established, emerging, and speculative. The place I pause is with the song metaphor. The body is not always the visible expression of an invisible organizing pattern. Sometimes the body is the site of real injury, loss, disease, or catastrophe. But once the body has been altered, the psyche begins organizing around that reality — and that invisible organization often becomes visible in how the person lives, suffers, adapts, loves, withdraws, fights, or becomes humane. Thus, for me the deeper question is not only how the song is played. It is what is conducting it.
If ego, wound, fear, performance, or survival becomes the conductor, even the most beautiful song can become strained. This is where I see suffering as a signal — not pathology, not punishment, but the human system revealing that it is organized around the wrong center.
So yes, the brain may tune, the heart may cohere, and the body may express the song. But the heart is not only power. It is the compass. The next verse may not be a better version of the self. It may be the shift from a survival identity toward a humane orientation. From a song organized around the wound, to a life conducted by the heart.
Beautifully said. I agree
Beyond the ideas themselves, what stayed with me most was the way you built the piece. The structure, the pacing, and especially the transparency about where the evidence ends and your own interpretation begins. That kind of intellectual honesty makes complex ideas much easier to engage with. I also think I'll carry some of these images with me for a long time: we're not drops returning to the ocean but songs, the self as the meeting of two fields, and the body slowly freezing around the song we learn to play. Beautiful work.
🙏🏽
I think it is absolutely amazing that you and I have arrived at the same conclusions, those that are definite and those that are held tentatively and carefully, from two completely different directions and two completely different lives.
The fact that we've arrived to the same truths by two different diverging pathways only helps validate that these things are true.
This piece almost reads like I wrote it myself. I've come to these conclusions through direct experience, first via near-death experience and subsequent transcendental events. In the intervening for years I've been finding the language to express this knowledge. I've been mapping this space with EEG and HRV.
You've come to this via a completely different direction. I've never read something that more accurately explains my own experiences.
Truly wonderul.
Would love to hear more about your direct experiences. Thank you for your interest
What you call source, I've been calling awareness. It's the single thread of consciousness that runs through all of us. It is the same consciousness.
When I had the NDE this was when I first experienced this awareness in it's raw form without my sense of self. It was pure awareness without content. Before the projection and perception of the lens of the body. The nothingness and the everythingness.
That NDE triggered a series of spontaneous kundalini awakenings which manifested as ecstatic orgasms beyond description. These orgasms took me to the same place and every time I returned there was less of my self dominating my perception.
I have reasoned that orgasm is an autonomic reset and a moment of intense coherency between body and mind. It provides a kind of alignment that meditation alone can't begin to touch in my opinion.
After 4 years of this the witness has become permanent. I don't know where witness begins and I end. It is such a seamless blending of the two it feels like it's never been any other way.
That is because it never has been any other way. The witness is always present but identity obscures. Our rigid sense of self stands in the way and makes so much noise. The witness is quiet. It does not shout to be heard.
When I recall my life I cannot recall a single moment where the witness was not present but this is because the identity that filtered my identities no longer does that. The witness is permanent.
We are a singular consciousness experiencing its own self-generated reality through a multitude of perceptual nodes that give us the illusion of subjective individuality.
This is the direct experience of what you so eloquently explained.
That is a really incredible experience. I am fascinated by that!!
I've just started writing a book based on my experiences and the neurobiology involved. I'm actually doing the book announcement right now and the book is largely built it just has to be assembled and cleaned up.
I'd invite you to have a look at the post and the book and perhaps you might be interested some of my EEG field reports which in their own way validate your statements, and mine. I've also written a thesis on sexual arousal and thalamic gating. Highly technical but you might be interested and I'd be happy to give you the link.
Could I get the link too please 🙏 💜
Here is the link to the preprint:
https://zenodo.org/records/19820394
You ever done interviews on your NDE?
No. I have never been interviewed at all. I've just been writing about it here on substack and sometimes on reddit.
Would love to chat with you about all this on the podcast if you are up for it
I would love to do that. A new experience for me.
Ok
Your ability to explain these concepts—including your knack for fantastic acronyms and analogies—is truly a gift. I so appreciate the way science is beginning to explain concepts that exist beyond the visible world.
Very kind Deborah. Glad it made sense
Thank you. Will print out to read at leisure. Struggle reading from screens.
Maybe because I have been taking psychedelics since 1969, the hypothesis that the universe is consciousness makes complete sense to me.
An aspect of panentheism it seems to me. The good Dr. Iain McGilchrist discusses this idea in The Matter with Things.
LSD initially provided me the platform to even entertain such "crazy" imaginings, like All Is One, No Self, Everything Moves Always. But most importantly;
We, and The World, is absolutely more than what we see, hear, touch, feel, and think.
Investing my life into understanding what that means, and the implications.
55yrs on from my first trip, still on the bus 😵💫
Yup! 1969 I boarded the bus😊
I write fiction for the same reason. Every story uses the same handful of human experiences, love, loss, fear, hope. What makes one worth telling is never the notes. It’s the arrangement nobody else could have made.
So perfectly said. Thank you for your work
"... a claim you cannot possibly disprove is not a strong claim. It is barely a claim at all."
And yet the strongest claims of them all, the axioms of logic, arithmetic, sets, and all the other theories extending from them, cannot possibly be either proven or disproven within these theories. Nor in any other way that is justified by these systems. (Quine). In this way of using the scientific method, the high priests of the theories defend only their own authority.
Aside from which, claim of the primacy of Consciousness over content is very interesting. Didn't Max Planck, that unrepentant unscientific denier-of-the-method, write about the same thing? Unprintable by reason of heresy.
Add to which, how does one go about measuring experimental results from String Theory?
Yep. Bruce Lipton uncovered some of this in his book BIOLOGY OF BELIEF. Joe Dispenza covered some if it in his books YOU ARE THE PLACEBO and BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF as well as BECOMING SUPER HUMAN. Jose Silva taught much of this years ago with the Silva Method. You're finding ways to blend this understanding with agreed upon scientific understanding, which is laudable, indeed. With your help, perhaps scientific understanding will finally catch up with what people have always experienced when they are able to think & experience beyond what consensus reality tells us to believe.
This is wonderful. It connected in a way that instinctively feels right. And your explanation here - "When two fields overlap, they do not just stack up. They interfere. They make a pattern that neither field had on its own, a third thing born from the overlap, the way two stones dropped in a pond send out ripples that cross and build a shape in the middle that came from neither stone alone. You are that pattern" - made that concept make sense for me in a way that hasn't before. Excellent!
Thank you Alexandra.
Well said! Using the musical analogy, when two or more notes are played together, they become a chord. When a chord rings properly, it may create an additional note, an overtone, which is clearly heard and is distinctly different from the original notes.
Dr. Teta,
This is a fascinating piece. I’ve been reading about these subjects for quite a while, so while much of it was familiar, I still learned a few new things. I especially love the analogy of the source as a song or notes that eventually become solid—our own personal song. (I hope I captured that correctly!)
Another aspect that comes into play for me personally—and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on this—is the use of therapeutic psychedelics. Through my own intentional use of psilocybin, I’ve been able to slowly change my song as my default mode network quiets and new neural pathways emerge. I believe, as many others do, that a psychedelic renaissance could help heal our distorted personal “songs” and shape human evolution toward a more humane world. Have you given this any thought, and how do you see it fitting into the model you shared?
Thank you my friend. I appreciate you reading and your interest. Yes, much to say on this. I am currently doing a PHD in transpersonal psych with a specialization in consciousness, psychedelics and personal transformation. My view is that psychedelics are indeed a powerful useful (and perhaps necessary for some) modality to awaken to ones full authentic expression. That being said I regard them as one part of a three step process that I describe as rewrite, rewire and retrain…. I think they have tremendous potential but are not going to be as effective outside of a more integrated framework. But yes… they are such an important part of my work
Your SIGNAL cascade stopped me mid-read, specifically the Identity layer. What you're describing as the conditioned field that picks up the story before conscious reasoning engages maps almost exactly onto what the predictive processing literature calls the prior: the brain's standing prediction about what the world is, calibrated by accumulated experience, that shapes perception before any data arrives.
The piece I'd add from developmental psychology: that calibration happens earliest and most durably in the primal period, the first 12-18 months before language and memory. The wound that arrives before the child has any capacity to question it doesn't just shape the story. It shapes the frequency the receiver is tuned to. Which means the identity layer isn't just conditioned thought. It's a pre-conscious physiological prior that filters every subsequent experience at the level of the gate, before the neuro and adrenal cascades even begin.
I work in men's emotional fitness, connecting early developmental experience to the performance ceiling it sets decades later. The convergence between your SIGNAL model and what I'm finding in the research is striking. Curious whether you've found the Identity layer responds differently to somatic versus cognitive intervention.
Hey Tom thank you for this. I think your understanding of developmental psychology may extend a bit beyond mind as I have always seen the "gates" main filtering developed in stages from 0-6ish and thenthe teenage years and then early adulthood mainly. These are the areas of safety/security, acceptance/belonging and freedom/autonomy respectively... but it makes complete sense what you are saying about those first 12-18 months. And as to your somatic versus cognitive intervention... i see those as layers as well with the somatic being a much more... lets call it pure... entry into the subconscious gate. I can tell you and I would have fun disucssing this. Thanks for reading and commenting
The three-gate developmental model is fascinating and fits precisely with what I'm seeing. The primal wound I work with lands in your first gate, safety and security, before language and memory, which is why it's so resistant to cognitive intervention alone. The mask the child builds to survive it consolidates through your second gate, which is why adolescence is often when the compensatory strategies become visible as identity rather than strategy. Your somatic as pure entry framing is exactly where I've landed too. Music, physical practice, body-based work bypassing what I'd call the Adaptive Child's cognitive interception layer. I'd genuinely enjoy that conversation. Happy to connect directly if you're open to it.
Would love that. Let’s discuss
Jade, glad the comment resonated. I'm a retired chiropractor and certified emotional fitness coach working on a framework that connects early developmental experience, specifically the primal wound in your first gate, to the performance ceiling it sets decades later. I'm also writing a Substack series working through the Tao Te Ching chapter by chapter alongside the neuroscience and developmental psychology.
The convergence between your SIGNAL model and what I'm finding across those fields is genuinely striking. I think we're describing the same cascade from different entry points.
Happy to connect however works for you, a call, an exchange here, whatever fits your schedule. Looking forward to it.
Tom MacKay
Perhaps hiding. Or just can't understand how all the work of science only points to something mystics have recognized for tens of 1000s of years
"What if the brain does not generate consciousness but instead receives it?" What if the brain does both simultaneously? What if you as part of the total environment is the way the total environment experiences itself?
Actually this is an interesting theory or way of thinking about it. If we take McFaddens CEMI model of consciousness and combine it with Keppelers Traze model this would essentially be what you are left with. The brain receives from the zero point field but then generates its own field that feeds back to the zero point field which is kind of what I was alluding to in this piece in terms of my way of thinking about it
The shift from chasing constant calm to building capacity really landed for me. So much healing isn't about eliminating discomfort—it's about learning we can stay connected to ourselves while moving through it. That distinction changes everything.