The Collective Consciousness Part 3

Posted on September 9, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

In Part 2 of this series it was proposed that (1) thought is a creation of consciousness, and that it has an independent existence; (2) consciousness (self-awareness) is independent of physical bodies and so can access an etheric realm which I call the Human Thought Space; and (3) a thought is a vibration that also contains information. By “etheric realm” I mean that which is not measurable by scientific instruments.

I made these statements as an alternative to the accepted “wisdom” that consciousness and self-awareness originate in the brain, that the mind originates in the brain, and that thoughts originate in the brain.

I’m pretty sure this “expert” wisdom is a bunch of nonsense because no one has ever found any of these things in the brain, or anywhere else in the body for that matter.

These degraded ideas about what a human being is are important because they determine humanity’s conception of itself, and thus the design of human societies.

Scientific Orthodoxy vs. the Human Thought Space

Nevertheless, the three statements above do sound a bit fanciful, don’t they?

Well, many accepted scientific truths are just educated guesses that have become accepted as fact.

For example, an atom has never been directly observed; neither has a proton, a neutron, an electron, a quark, or a neutrino. Funny squiggles on photographic plates represent fundamental particles in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Dark energy and dark matter comprise 95% of the matter and energy in the universe, but no one has observed them or can define them accurately. They are, essentially, mathematical constructs used to explain galaxy rotation curves.

The Higgs field, which is supposed to permeate all of space, is theorized to be a fundamental field in the universe that mysteriously gives mass to elementary particles via equally mysterious Yukawa coupling constants. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN claimed in 2012 to have discovered the Higgs boson, which supposedly proves the existence of the Higgs field. But the Higgs field’s relationship to the physical universe is not at all clear.

Physicists, according to the Nobel winning Richard Feynman, don’t even know what energy is.

Much of physics itself – the science that defines what the universe is – remarkably resembles (dare we say it) an etheric realm.

Physicist David Bohm described this etheric realm as a universal potential, which he called the Implicate Order. According to Bohm, space, time, and particles are not separate entities at all, but projections or “unfoldings” of this deeper realm. The Implicate Order contains the potential for all of physical reality, as well as consciousness.

If Bohm is correct then the Human Thought Space isn’t such a kooky idea. And our ideas about consciousness and thought may be just as real as anything else at the quantum level.

Consciousness, the Etheric Realm, and the Material Realm

The HTS, we say, is filled with the thoughts of everyone on earth. These thoughts have a tiny bit of energy and so can impinge on the minds of human beings, because human consciousness exists both in the physical realm and in the etheric realm. In this concept, all minds are connected and we all influence each other.

The self-awareness that is you includes your awareness of your body and the physical universe, but isn’t limited to the body and the material world.

In other words, human consciousness performs a sort of “dual use” function: it can perceive the physical through the body’s senses, and also access the etheric realm.  

Consciousness, the HTS, and Independent Discoveries

Scientific discoveries often appear from more than one source at the same time.

The calculus, for example, was discovered independently at about the same time by Leibniz in Germany and Newton in England, back in the late 1600s. Many other examples are listed here.

Why is this? Dean Keith Simonton explains it this way:

Rather  than being the products of the individual mind, multiples [simultaneous discoveries] are said to prove that creative ideas are the effects of the zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. At a specific instant in the history of a domain, the time becomes ripe for a given idea. The idea is ‘in the air’ for anyone to pick, making its inception inevitable.

Ideas are “in the air” indeed! Zeitgeist is a word that suggests an etheric or spiritual origin.

Google AI says this:

The phenomenon of scientific breakthroughs being made independently and almost simultaneously by multiple scientists is known as “multiple discovery” or “simultaneous invention.” Sociologist Robert K. Merton considered this a common pattern in science, rather than a rare exception. It demonstrates that discoveries often arise from the collective knowledge and readiness of the scientific community, not just from individual genius.

The AI here uses “collective knowledge” to refer to the science in published papers, online videos and presentations, personal correspondence, or information received at conferences and networking events. But collective knowledge could also refer to the accessing of other thoughts or ideas in the HTS. This phenomenon can result in aha! moments, or hunches, or something that suddenly “occurs” to you, or “hits you.” These are ideas that “come out of nowhere,” or “out of the blue.”

I am thinking specifically of the famous event in 1843 in which Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, while crossing a bridge in Ireland, was suddenly struck by the idea of how to solve quaternions. Quaternions are mathematical structures used modernly in the display and interaction between objects in three-dimensional space. Hamilton scratched his solutions into the bridge. Those scribblings have been preserved, as far as I know, to this day.

Mere mortals can also access the HTS, and I’m sure almost all of those reading this paper have experienced something like what happened to Hamilton. We have certainly all had hunches or inspiration or negative thoughts without knowing where they came from.

With 8 billion humans interacting with the HTS every day, there’s no shortage of content!

What is the HTS and How Does it Work?

The Human Thought Space is postulated to be an envelope of consciousness, a space or realm where the thought energy of the species gathers. The HTS is part of the spiritual system on planet earth and is accessible to all human beings, even those who think it’s nonsense.

A physical analogy to the HTS would be the zero-point energy field or the aether, excitations of which are said by some physicists to comprise the visible matter and energy of the universe. Zero Point Energy appeared mathematically with the development of quantum mechanics early in the 20th century. Physicists such as Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, and Freidwart Winterberg (among others), have written extensively on the subject.

Accessing the information in the HTS would work similar to tuning into a radio or TV broadcast. The one consciously selected is the one that gets played. (In dreams, the mind is unfocused and so randomly samples what’s out there.)

In everyday life, the thoughts and life situations you resonate to access similar thoughts in the HTS. Therefore, whatever you are focused on or give your attention to begins to appear in your life, including people with a similar resonance to your own thoughts.

Whatever you resonate to, you get more of.  

This is the opposite of physical charges and Coulomb forces, where opposites (such as protons and electrons) attract.

HTS —> like attracts like. Compatible vibrations resonate to each other

Physical universe —> opposite charges attract

Because thoughts are vibrational, only matching vibrations are compatible. An angry person, for example, is not compatible with a cheerful person. Cheerful people avoid anger cases like the plague, and prefer to hang out with other cheerful persons. Similarly, the Dark hates the Light because the two vibrations are too far apart, and so are incompatible. This leads to a society where pockets of darkness and despair exist alongside areas of prosperity.

Reification

Hard-nosed skeptics, scientists, and medical people call ideas like the HTS, and non-physical consciousness, logical fallacies. They say we are committing the deadly sin of Reification. To reify means to assign reality to an abstract idea or concept, such as saying, “the soul inhabits the body.” The soul (or the HTS), they say, is an abstract concept and has no existence in reality.

The only problem with this argument is that – if you have enough self-awareness – you understand that the non-physical part of you does inhabit the body. There is no way to prove this scientifically or logically because it is entirely subjective. But there is very good news even for skeptics, scientists, and other materialists: Every single person on this earth will discover this “reified” truth in the moment after their body takes its last breath.

How do I know this? Lived wisdom. Intuition. Experiences during meditation. Again, these statements are entirely subjective and not provable scientifically. They can only be understood individually and personally.

Why should we care what skeptics and materialists think? Because, unfortunately, a primitive conception of humanity dominates public discourse and the practice of science, politics, economics, and medicine. These “expert” opinions – which are presented as facts that cannot be contradicted – are the foundation stones of our societies and our governing classes. So they have to be acknowledged because they are so widely held. But I think it’s important to propose something that raises the human being above the level of walking meat.

Consciousness as a Creator

If a conscious personality can create a thought, and a thought is a little packet of energy/vibration that contains information, where does that lead?

It leads to a spiritual system that is based on personal responsibility. This spiritual system scales up to the etheric realm and down to the material world. One might say it is scale invariant.

The conscious creation of individuals involves the HTS, and every person on earth. All minds are linked in the Collective Consciousness.

Doesn’t matter if you are unaware of its operation. The HTS operates to give back to you what you choose to focus on. Your mental orientation brings to you similar thoughts, and people who agree with them, into your life. In this way the spiritual system enforces personal responsibility for one’s life.

Aint nobody else thinking your thoughts.

Playing the victim doesn’t work because a victim always focuses on what they don’t want. And so they get more of what they don’t want. This self-reflexive process just reinforces their victim status (“You see? I told you my boss wouldn’t give me that promotion!”) This is the HTS’s way of saying: “Choose differently or you will keep getting the same old shit.”

The operation of the HTS always rewards those who focus intensely on anything, which is why self-centered psychopaths can have success, particularly when they organize into global institutions where they can hide their intentions. However, their success is also their downfall, for the rest of us eventually get to see what they are doing behind the scenes.

The primary difficulty as I see it is that the Collective Consciousness doesn’t understand how powerful it is, nor do we understand the power of our thought and intention.

Fortunately, today we are in a very unusual situation. For the first time in human history we have a true global civilization, with instant comms across the planet, and so many people that gaming the system is very, very difficult.

Metaphysics vs. Physical Reality

The ideas presented here are meta-physical, meaning they are not verifiable by measurement (yet). Nevertheless they are vital because no policy, politician, or system can save us at this point. The breakdown of our society in almost every area is too vast. The only solutions left involve the metaphysical, because the origins of our problems are metaphysical.

Humanity simply has a wrong-headed belief about what consciousness is, and what a human being is. If we can acknowledge the nonphysical origin of consciousness – which leads to the recognition of a human being’s higher potential – we can make it out of the morass our own primitive belief systems have created. Until we do that all of our “solutions” will be based on the same consciousness that created our problems in the first place.

Physical reality reflects the state of the human collective consciousness, because action follows thought.

Practical solutions, in other words, must have at least one foot in the metaphysical sea of human consciousness.

Presently the world is self-dividing into two camps: the materialist camp and the self-aware camp, with the vast middle occupied by “normies” who are beginning to see through the lies and the Narratives. This is a very positive development. Along with the “waking up” process will come a more meta-physical and positive orientation.

Note: if you are reading this you are definitely not a normie!

Original image from https://www.scribbr.com/statistics/normal-distribution/  Modified by the author

At present the materialist camp are in positions of power in government and in the private sector. However, the materialists always use the same playbook: fear, lies, propaganda, and violence when necessary.

People are sick and tired of this playbook, and are beginning to recognize when it is employed.

My guess is that this can only lead to more and more people in the middle choosing the self-aware camp (the large arrow), as that which was hidden is exposed. Of course, some also choose the dark path (represented by the small arrow). Mass media always hypes the dark because darkness and chaos sells (and it is still unusual, even in our crazy society). The insane mass shooters, the carjackers, the knife-wielding lunatics, always get the headlines while the vast majority of us go about our business.

Consciousness Evolution

Consciousness evolution is aided by the HTS in a self-reflexive process. The self-aware in their millions provide the thoughts that nudge those who are looking for answers and beginning to see through the nonsense. This moves the Overton Window ever so slightly toward the Light every day. Momentum builds every day.

Original image from https://www.scribbr.com/statistics/normal-distribution/  Modified by the author

This process is quiet and it is occurring invisibly, at the speed of thought. It cannot be stopped because the activity in the HTS cannot be silenced and is not even recognized by our current materialist overlords. In other words, the playbook of the meatheads can do nothing about the shifting of the Overton Window of human consciousness within the human thought space / collective consciousness.

And when that window shifts enough we will see a much different, and better, world.

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The Collective Consciousness, Part 2

Posted on August 19, 2025 by kjmaclean

The Human Thought Space

In an earlier post we discussed Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious, and postulated the existence of its opposite: The Collective Consciousness.

The Collective Consciousness, like Jung’s archetypes, is a product of the human mind, and both influence human behavior. The difference is that the Collective Consciousness consists of the conscious thought impulses of billions of human beings in real time.

It is a dynamic, ever-changing representation of the cognitive orientation of the human race on planet earth. And it is a snapshot, at any time t, of the condition or status of human consciousness because it is a collection of every thought in existence.

“You’re barmy,” the authorities and the experts say. “Everyone knows that thought impulses come from the brain, and so does consciousness. Thoughts are electrochemical reactions inside your skull and have no independent existence. We need practical solutions to problems, not new-age nonsense!”

This is the view of all scientific and medical authorities on the planet. But this materialist world view has led to the sad state of our societies, so there must be something wrong with it.

For “practical solutions” to work, they must be designed from a reorientation of our understanding of consciousness, and the relationship of thought to action.

Consciousness —> Thought —> Action

Spirit —> Mind —> Body  

Action follows thought. Thought precedes action. Try performing a task and give no thought to what you are doing. Undertaking even a trivial task mindlessly is likely to produce a big mess.

At the very least, thought is a directing force for human activity.

What Is a Thought?

I am defining a thought as a direct emanation or phenomenon of consciousness. Consciousness is defined as the personal self-awareness that is independent of the physical body, and survives after the body takes its last breath.

These definitions define consciousness, and thought, as entirely independent of the brain. They also endow consciousness with the ability to create, even if it is on a subtle level. This idea has important implications which I will go into in further articles.

Relating Thought to Physics

Even if thoughts have an independent existence, one individual’s thoughts may indeed have no influence on anyone but themselves. But the thoughts of 8 billion people may be enormously powerful. In the Collective Consciousness framework, a human thought has energy and exists within a postulated planetary envelope of subtle energy, which I call the Human Thought Space (HTS). The HTS can be thought of as the esoteric equivalent of an electromagnetic field, generated by the collective consciousness of billions of human beings.  

The Human Thought Space is an esoteric representation of humanity’s conception of itself and the world.

A magnetic field surrounds a permanent magnet or a coil when electricity is run through it (called an electromagnet). A magnetic field can be altered when in the presence of another magnetic field, when the flux or field lines of the fields interact with each other.

Moreover, thoughts can be positive (“I love animals”), neutral (“2 + 2 = 4”), or negative (“People are stupid”). In a sense, thoughts have a tiny bit of positive or negative charge, just like the atom with its protons, neutrons, and electrons.[1]

In physics, a quantum is the smallest discrete unit of energy, or a physical quantity that cannot be divided further. A thought can be considered as a quantum, or perhaps more accurately as the esoteric equivalent of a photon. A photon is a unit (quantum) of light and has energy, yet it has zero mass. A thought quantum is not only a unit of light energy, but a unit of information. In this way, the Human Thought Space is composed of quanta of subtle energy and information.

Thoughts are little packets of subtle energy and information created by conscious human beings

Nikola Tesla said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” Tesla believed that the universe, including all matter and consciousness, operates on these principles. Those are also the principles of the HTS. Just like physical objects, each thought quanta or packet has a unique vibration.

The MerKaBa and Halos

In a previous article we also talked about the MerKaBa, the ancient Egyptian concept of a field of subtle energy that surrounds the human body and all living things.

Human Energy Field

Artist’s conception of the MerKaBa, or the human energy field, that surrounds a living body. The MerKaBa is composed of chi, or life force energy, sometimes referred to as subtle energy.

Subtle energy is sometimes called a halo in artistic renderings of holy persons and angelic beings. Living things may also include planets, stars, and galaxies.[2]

You can either believe the universe is alive or dead. I prefer to think that everything in the universe is alive at some level.

Artist’s impression of the Milky Way embedded in a spherical halo that astronomers and physicists call “dark matter” (shown in blue).[3] Just like thought, or a MerKaBa, “dark matter” has existence but cannot be directly measured. (Image credit: ESO/L Calçada.). From Cern Courier, “The Milky Way’s dark matter halo reappears,” at https://cerncourier.com/a/the-milky-ways-dark-matter-halo-reappears/ See end note 3.

“Yeah yeah yeah,” you say, “so what? Thought is ephemeral, it has no affect on anything.”

But what if it does?

The saying “As above, so below” is a pithy summary of the Platonic principle that physical objects have a higher form in an esoteric, but unseen, level of reality. Plato described this concept in his Allegory of the Cave over 2,000 years ago.[4]

 What if the continuous interaction of thought from billions of human beings is perceived as a sort of background vibe in daily life, and sometimes even consciously (“hold it, something just occurred to me.”)

In this way, the thoughts of all human beings can affect the individual human being’s thoughts about anything.[5] Intuition may just be the reading of the thoughts of others in the HTS. (There is a lot more to this, which will be the subject of further articles.)

In the Human Thought Space all individuals are linked. The HTS also interacts with the planet as well, for the planet is a living entity. If earth was just an inanimate rock it could not sustain billions of life forms and the living ecosystems that support them.

HTS As an Alternative to the Materialist Paradigm

An overview of human societies today (particularly in the United States) shows a trend toward financial and social collapse. Many of our big cities are a mess of drugs and crime. There is a new “active shooter” practically every week. Public education is a massive failure, creating millions of “graduates” who can barely read and write. Entire sectors of the once-tolerant American culture are now mired in hatred and contention, fueled by propaganda from mass media and on social media.

I have heard countless explanations for the craziness from many social commentators. Most of them blame some other group or individual, or “the left” or “right-wing extremists.” These explanations are just part of the many and varied PsyOps being run on the American people. The latest is the “new and improved” Global Governance system. [6]

Events today make little sense because our social and scientific systems are based in materialism, which only recognizes profit, power, and self-interest.

A materialist regards human beings as units of production, or useless eaters, or blobs of protoplasm to be counted and organized for some agenda. This orientation squashes the higher spiritual aspirations and potential of human beings.

The Collective Consciousness a non-materialist framework (and orientation) for viewing life from a larger perspective. This is necessary because approaching intractable human problems on a planetary scale calls for a restructuring of our fundamental beliefs: What does it mean to be human? What are the beliefs that humanity has about itself? What are humans capable of if their higher potential is recognized and supported?

A redefinition of “human nature” is necessary now because the materialist paradigm is crushing human potential and crashing our societies in all areas. Materialism has been tried for 6,000 years and has failed. Let’s give it a decent burial and embrace a higher understanding.

How Might the HTS Work?

What would happen in our Human Thought Space if billions of people decided that they are sick and tired of endless war, poverty, and injustice?

Billions of people would be cohering (aligning) their thoughts around concepts like “I want something better,” and “We want to live in prosperous and peaceful times,” and “We don’t want any more war!”

Of course these thoughts would co-exist with others on the hate side of the spectrum. But if the balance of energy in the HTS goes from more Dark than Light to more Light than Dark, a powerful positive resonance will be created that can escape the gravitational field of dark energy and flow freely in human consciousness. This resonance toward the Light would ignite a change in consciousness energy and gradually alter the collective Overton Window toward more positive outcomes.

This may occur slowly at first, but gather momentum as a snowball when it rolls downhill.

Quanta and Thought

How does the HTS affect individuals, human systems, and human organizations on the planet?

Well, since HTS quanta have energy, it is possible for them to impinge on human minds.  These packets or quanta might be negative or positive, but if the preponderance of collective human thought is now leaning toward the Light, a resonance toward the positive gradually builds up.

The Shift and the Law of Unintended Consequences

By the Shift I mean the evolution of human consciousness out of the Darkness and into the Light. On a planet of free will that has been mired in the Dark for millennia, I don’t think it’s possible for a positive orientation to quickly dislodge a negative orientation. The dark energy is still strong. Therefore, the Law of Unintended Consequences comes into play.  

When the light starts to penetrate the darkness created by 6,000 years of human karma, social chaos results. That which has been largely hidden – pedophilia, human trafficking, drug running, arms trafficking, and corruption in all its forms – becomes exposed. Rocks under which the perps and their networks have been hidden are turned over, and their activities are forced out into the open. People begin to lose their minds as this stuff gets splashed all over mass media.

The defenses of the Dark rely on chaos, lies, and the fear that begets violence. Fear and violence are and have been the primary weapons of the Dark for millennia. It’s a playbook that never changes because the Dark is incapable of the transparency and honesty that breeds creativity. The Dark must rely on propaganda, subterfuge, and lies. Above all it cannot abide the light and the exposure it brings to their activities.

The Shift in human consciousness is therefore a very messy business and we are in it now.

The Consciousness Shift

What happens to individuals, systems, and groups that are based in greed, conflict, and selfishness when positive light/thought quanta begin to impinge on their consciousness?

Well, what happens when you try to help a mad dog? What happens to you when you are in a really bad mood and somebody comes up to you smiling and telling you how great life is? More than likely that person gets a big FU.

Dark energy is incompatible with the Light. The Dark fears and hates the Light. The story of the scorpion and the frog illustrates this idea very well.

The good news is that only areas where the energy is predominately Dark will experience the negative. That area also includes an individual’s personal space.

And so the earth is a hodgepodge of violent, degraded areas and calmer and prosperous areas. The Dark, of course, sees these areas and wants to burn them down and destroy them.

That’s planet earth circa 2025. The good news is that this social insanity is occurring precisely because the Light is penetrating through the lies and fear-based subterfuge of the Dark.

Who’s to Blame for all this Madness?

The conscious evolution process is very powerful and the results are very visible, but its origin is esoteric. And so there is no one person or group to blame for what we experience collectively. What human societies are experiencing won’t be cured by more guns or more anti-gun laws, different politicians in charge, more socialism or more capitalism, or different “systems” or “policies.”

It is not possible to solve problems by using solutions that come from the same consciousness that created the problem. Humanity is ready now for solutions that go far beyond the status quo. We need new ideas, not the same ones that have created 6,000 years of war and conflict.

The Collective Consciousness and the Human Thought Space are epi-phenomenon. Which means that human consciousness is evolving in a way that cannot be explained by science, medicine, or religion.

This process is ongoing and involves every individual on the planet, because we all contribute to the HTS in every moment. It is a silent process that yet manifests itself in the physical universe, in every moment.

The end result?

That’s up to us, to every individual who thinks, resolves, and decides.

End Notes

[1] The difference is that Coulomb forces (the forces between atomic particles), although tiny, have been measured.  Some day, a proper experiment might be devised to test whether a thought exists and can be measured.  

[2] The ancients understood that the stars and planets are alive. Aristotle wrote:

“We tend to think of the Stars as mere bodies or items arranged in order, quite without soul or Life. We ought rather to regard them as possessed of Life and activity, for the consequences of this will not seem unreasonable.” 

— Aristotle, De Caelo II xii 292a, in Scott Ogburn, “NCBDS-Platonic-Solids-Paper-Ogburn DOC,”  at academia.edu. https://www.academia.edu/5176009/NCBDS_Platonic_Solids_Paper_Ogburn_DOC?email_work_card=view-paper

[3] Dark Matter is a made-up concept  used to explain galaxy rotation curves that don’t fit current cosmological/astronomical theory. It is a perfect example of something esoteric that has existence but cannot be measured or seen. Call it what you wanna, “dark energy” or “subtle energy”! Dark matter is one step toward acknowledging that galaxies (like human beings) might be living entities with subtle energy halos.

[4] In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the [cave] wall are not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life. This last sentence describes what is happening today in the Information War for the souls and minds of humanity.

[5] Analogous to Mach’s Principle in physics, which states that an object’s resistance to motion is influenced by all of the other masses in the universe. (Physicists have some pretty big ideas!)

[6] For an in-depth explanation of the Global Governance system PsyOp, check out the escapekey substack at escapekey.substack.com

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The GENIUS Act

Posted on August 5, 2025 by kjmaclean

The U.S. government is embracing cryptocurrency

Introduction to GENIUS Payment Stablecoins

On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act legislation into law. GENIUS is a major piece of legislation; the first major U.S. federal legislation regulating stablecoins. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency tied to assets like the U.S. dollar.

GENIUS establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, including authorized federal and State payment stablecoin regulators and payment stablecoin issuers.

Payment stablecoins are digital assets used for payments or settlements, and are required by GENIUS to have a stable value by maintaining “at least” a 1-to-1 ratio with the value of the dollar. (The Act says little about non-payment stablecoins – stablecoins issued and bought to hold for investment purposes by private investors – other than in Section 14, where the Treasury “shall carry out a study of non-payment stablecoins.”)

Regulatory Framework of GENIUS

The regulatory framework of GENIUS revolves around payment stablecoin regulators at the federal and State levels. These regulators oversee federal payment stablecoin issuers. Separate regulators oversee payment stablecoin issuers in all 50 States. Regulators also oversee all foreign payment stablecoin issuers. Yes, foreign payment stablescoins are allowed, as long as their issuers are approved by federal regulators.

The Stablecoin Certification Review Committee certifies all payment stablecoin applications. The Chair of the Federal Reserve Board is a member of the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee. So the Fed has a big say about who becomes an issuer of GENIUS payment stablecoins.

Approved issuers of payment stablecoins are required by Section 4 (a) (1) A of the GENIUS Act to back their stablecoins 100% with high-quality liquid assets. These assets must be U.S. dollars (cash or cash equivalents held in insured depository institutions), U.S. Treasury securities (e.g., Treasury bills, notes, or bonds), or other low-risk, highly liquid assets approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), such as U.S. government-backed securities.

So, the intent of GENIUS is to create cryptocurrency in the form of payment stablecoins tied to U.S. government securities. Currently, the Treasury auctions off U.S. Treasury securities to fund the government. But this funding mechanism can’t keep up with massive government overspending. So a major new source of funding for the U.S. government is needed.

GENIUS serves as a major new funding source for the U.S. government. That is why foreign payment stablecoins are allowed: it’s a way for other countries to fund our debt.

No one knows whether payment stablecoins will find favor with investors but if they do in a big way, it’s going to create a very large regulatory regime, and a large bureaucracy to go with it. All 50 states can have their own stablecoin issuers and there are separate stablecoin regulators for the states. This in addition to primary federal payment stablecoin regulators and issuers, which also oversee foreign payment stablecoins.

Important Points Regarding the GENIUS Act and Their Implications

· Section 4 (e) (1) and (2) of the GENIUS Act makes clear that

(1) “Payment stablecoins shall not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, guaranteed by the United States Government, subject to deposit insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or subject to share insurance by the National Credit Union Administration.” And (2) “It shall be unlawful to represent that payment stablecoins are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, guaranteed by the United States Government, or subject to Federal deposit insurance or Federal share insurance.”

The U.S. dollar, and bank accounts, are. All accounts at a Federal Reserve depository institution  are insured and guaranteed by the FDIC up to $250,000.

The GENIUS Act describes digital assets as follows: “The term ‘digital asset’ means any digital representation of value that is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger.”

The dollar is a fiat currency – currency not backed by tangible assets like gold or silver – BUT it is backed by the “full faith and credit of the United States,” so in effect it does have value, whereas the payment stablecoin is essentially a token that serves as a representation of value. In other words, your payment stablecoins are tied directly to the dollar but are not insured as is the dollar. Caveat empor.

·  In Section 5, under the heading FAILURE TO RENDER A DECISION it says,

“If a primary Federal payment stablecoin regulator fails to render a decision on a complete application within the time period specified in paragraph (1) [120 days] the application shall be deemed approved.”

This is an invitation for fraud. If our wickedly efficient government doesn’t respond within 120 days to an application to issue payment stablecoins, any dodgy applicant is automatically approved!We just gotta hope the GENIUS bureaucracy is efficient and honest at the federal level and in all 50 states (joke).

· To be fair, in order for a payment stablecoin issuer to receive certification the Federal stablecoin regulator must ensure that the applicant fulfills all the criteria to issue payment stablecoins. Moreover, GENIUS requires that issuers implement money laundering procedures to “prevent the permitted payment stablecoin issuer from facilitating money laundering, in particular, facilitating money laundering for cartels and organizations designated as foreign terrorist organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the financing of terrorist activities, consistent with the requirements of this Act.”

The above sounds great on paper, but I remember the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, in which investors lost billions; the $70 billion Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme; the subprime mortgage scandal; the failure of Lehman Bros. which helped to kicked off the 2008 recession, and the Goldman Sachs financial fraud (to name a few).

Government regulators don’t always do their jobs.

· A State approved payment stablecoin issuer supervised by a State regulator is allowed to issue payment stablecoins to the value limit of $10,000,000,000 (10 billion dollars). Above that level, the issuer must either cease issuing payment stablecoins or “transition to the Federal regulatory framework of the primary Federal payment stablecoin regulator…” associated with the institution (Federal Reserve, FDIC, Comptroller of the Currency, National Credit Union Association, etc.).

· There is a $100,000 fine per day for domestic stablecoin issuers each time they violate the terms outlined in GENIUS. For foreign stablecoin issuers, the fine is $1,000,000 per day, until the Secretary of the Treasury deems that the stablecoin issuer is compliant.

This provision may be enough to discourage fraudsters from illegal activities, as long as it is actually enforced.

· Section 17 makes clear that “payment stablecoins are not securities or commodities and permitted payment stablecoin issuers are not investment companies.”

CBDCs and Other Issues

(a) Critics of GENIUS describe the Act as the thin edge of the wedge toward establishing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). CBDC’s are digital currencies issued and overseen by a central bank: in the US, the Federal Reserve. If all money is in the form of a CBDC, there is no individually owned money. If you have digital CBDC money in a bank or invested, it’s not really yours, it’s the Federal Reserve’s. Your life savings can go to zero simply by a government declaration.

This is important because  

(b)  A CBDC issued and backed by the Federal Reserve is designed for use by the general public (individuals and businesses) for everyday transactions. GENIUS payment stablecoins are also designed for use by the general public for everyday transactions. CDBCs are digital assets and payment stablecoins are also defined as digital assets in Section 2 (22).

Section 2, (27) of the GENIUS Act states specifically that the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee contains a Chair of the Federal Reserve Board as a member.  Section 7 of the Act makes it clear that the Federal Reserve Board (or the Comptroller of the Currency) may, under “exigent circumstances,” initiate enforcement actions against any State qualified stablecoin issuer. In other words, the U.S. central bank is the eminence gres (the power behind the throne) of GENIUS payment stablecoins.

(c)  One of the fondest wishes of those who promote CBDCs is to abolish cash. What good is a CBDC if individuals can still use Federal Reserve Notes to pay outside the system? The purpose of a central bank digital currency is to quash individual financial independence and establish complete central control of the money supply.

Fortunately, GENIUS specifies that the reserves payment stablecoin issuers must use to back their stablecoins include “United States coins and currency (including Federal Reserve notes) or money standing to the credit of an account with a Federal Reserve Bank.” This provision would seem to ensure the continuance of cash.

Private sector CBDC?

Because of (a), (b), and (c) above, and because the public is aware of the dangers of CBDCs, Congress passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act and it became law on July 17, 2025. It prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC without congressional approval. I’m no lawyer, but the language in the Anti-CBDC Act is specific about not allowing CDBCs.  

Nevertheless, GENIUS promotes dollar-backed digital stablecoins as a private-sector alternative to a government CBDC, requiring issuers to hold dollar or Treasury reserves. This is a sneaky way to strengthen dollar-based digital finance without formally creating a U.S. CBDC. But perhaps I am just paranoid.

Issuers, Sellers, and Buyers 

All Issuers of payment stablecoins must be approved by authorized federal or State payment stablecoin regulators. Issuers are private companies who actually create the stablecoin. Issuers, of course, control the databases and ledgers for their coins.  

Major sellers of stablecoins are likely to be the big investment banks, such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank, etc.  These are the “too big to fail” banks that get bailed out every time they make bad decisions, as in the case of  the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023.[1]

Buyers can be institutions, other banks, and you and me.

What happens if Chase and Citibank get asked by the feds to cancel the coins you purchased from them? We know that the previous administration’s FBI demanded that social media outlets like Twitter (now X) and You Tube ban thousands of posts and even shut down entire accounts. And they did.

You might be a domestic violent extremist, such as a mom who attends local school board meetings and objects to local educational priorities. Or you might be a fascist who objects to having tampons placed in men’s bathrooms, or who objects to men who pretend to be women competing against girls in sporting activities. Or – gasp! – you might even be a believer in QAnon!!! (whatever that is).

Lest you think I am exaggerating (I am!), here is the text in Section 2, (16) Lawful Order:

“(16) LAWFUL ORDER.—The term “lawful order” means any final and valid writ, process, order, rule, decree, command, or other requirement issued or promulgated under Federal law, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or by an authorized Federal agency pursuant to its statutory authority, that—

(A) requires a person to seize, freeze, burn, or prevent the transfer of payment stablecoins issued by the person;

(B) specifies the payment stablecoins or accounts subject to blocking with reasonable particularity; and

(C) is subject to judicial or administrative review or appeal as provided by law.”

(In the Act, “person” is defined in Section 2 (24) as follows: “The term  ‘person’ means an individual, partnership, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, cooperative organization, or other business entity, incorporated or unincorporated.”

“I’m sorry sir, we have been ordered to seize your payment stablecoins,”  or, “I’m sorry ma’am, there is a hold payment freeze on your payment stablecoins.” This is precisely what the Federal Reserve can do in a fully implemented CBDC digital asset system.

There are two ways to interpret anything of course: positive or negative, but the integrity of government programs is always in question.

Consequences

(1)

What happens when big banks issue (or sell) stablecoins and then mismanage them? This resembles the age-old practice of governments who shave coins that are supposed to be a certain weight of metal, as a way to raise money. Stablecoins that do not mirror the value of the dollar one-to-one may lose their value.

Government regulators have always caved-in to the private banks, particularly the ones who participate in the auctioning of U.S. Treasuries. These “way too big to fail” banks help the federal government fund itself (when it isn’t printing trillions of inflationary dollars, that is).

Here’s a nice little “out” for stablecoin issuers in the legislation:

“(22) PAYMENT STABLECOIN.—The term “payment stablecoin”—

(A) means a digital asset— …

(ii) the issuer of which— …

(II) represents that such issuer will maintain, or create the reasonable expectation that it will maintain, a stable value relative to the value of a fixed amount of monetary value.”

Why is the clause in bold inserted? What does “reasonable expectation” mean? “Hey we tried, but your stablecoin has just lost 20% of its value against the dollar. Sorry about that!”

Welp, I guess the writers and signers of this Act expect a little hanky-panky with stablecoins.

To be fair, a provision exists in  the Act to prevent fraud and misrepresentation: Section 4 (a) 10 C says,

“CONSULTATION.—The primary Federal payment stablecoin regulators may consult with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to determine best practices for determining audit oversight and to detect fraud, material misstatements, and other financial misrepresentations that could mislead permitted payment stablecoin holders.”

This is pretty vague language however.

As an aside, check out the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s list of bank failures since October 2000. It’s a very long list that spans 58 pages and hundreds of banks.

Entrusting banks to issue “stablecoins” seems like a shaky proposition to me. But desperate times require desperate measures I guess, with a mismanaged federal government that is $37 Trillion in debt.

(2)

Most important, the GENIUS Act creates many, many more potential buyers of U.S. securities, ensuring that the federal government remains fully funded.

You might be wondering, whatever happened to DEFUNDING the government? Why are we making this massive grifting operation even bigger? That’s the question people who voted for Trump – many of whom were harassed and debanked for speaking out – are asking.

BRICS and the Chinese Communist Party

(1). The more positive side of GENIUS involves actions against the de-dollarization effort of the BRICS countries, and the economic and political competition with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP, since the issuance of Unrestricted Warfare, their manual of war against the US,  has been working for almost 30 years to wreck the dollar, interfere in U.S. elections and U.S. markets, and restrict access to rare earth metals vital to industry and technology applications.

The CCP holds about $816 billion in U.S. debt. If the CCP decides to dump their holdings it could adversely affect the U.S. economy and markets.

Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt as of this writing (August 2025) is approaching $37 trillion. Last year the interest on the national debt was over $1.1 TRILLION, over $200 billion more than the budget for the entire Defense Department! Decades of mismanagement, myopia, and deficit spending by the incompetents in Congress have finally hit home. The interest on the national debt will increase every year unless there is a massive cut in spending, OR a massive increase in government funding.

My guess is that Trump understands this and is hoping GENIUS will fund the government’s massive interest payments on its borrowed money.

(2). Whatever threatens the dollar also threatens the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, which is still the primary currency for global transactions. The status of the dollar has allowed the US to print a massive amount of debt, which allows us to maintain our middle class lifestyle (or whatever is left of it). A middle class is the lifeblood of any successful industrial society.

Therefore, if the dollar’s special status is compromised, we can kiss our middle class lifestyle goodbye. President Trump was very aware that Congress cannot stop its massive deficit spending when he supported GENIUS to provide more funding for the federal government.

(3) Foreign payment stablecoins are allowed because they must all back their coins with dollars or U.S. government securities. It’s a way of getting other countries to help fund the massive ,debt the US has incurred, some of which has come from our huge trade deficits with the rest of the world over the last several decades. Renegotiating one-on-one tariff deals serves not only to bypass the globalist/CCP-controlled World Trade Organization, but to also rebalance the large imbalance in tariffs other countries impose on U.S. products.

So there you have it.

Final Thoughts

The financial math shows that the federal government is now past the point of no return. The only two choices left to prevent financial collapse are to radically truncate this government, or to massively fund it. DOGE discovered that reducing government spending and grifting off the government is impossible.

How impactful will GENIUS be? It all depends on how many payment stablecoins are issued and bought.

One thing is certain: GENIUS is the opposite of hard money backed by gold and silver. It’s a celebration and promotion of crypto and fiat currency: the U.S. dollar. In that sense it is a brilliant strategy by Trump to get the whole world backing our currency and economy, and financially supporting the U.S. government. Whether the latter will turn out to be a good thing or not is uncertain in my mind.

Some people will buy payment stablecoins to help support the government, and some will buy because stablecoins are cryptocurrency, and crypto is cool. Financial institutions and traders will likely find a way to create a market and trade these things.

If GENIUS takes off, it’s going to be a Wild Wild West scenario out there, so do your due diligence. Of course, GENIUS might never take off at all, and turn out to be a fart in the wind.

[1] The mismanaged SVB had over $200 billion in assets, all of which were guaranteed by the FDIC, even though 89% of the accounts were over the $250,000 insured limit.

Guaranteed by the FDIC means that taxpayer funds (or money printing magic) were used to bail out these wealthy silicon valley depositor.

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What Can We Do?

Posted on July 25, 2025 by kjmaclean

Sorting through the lies

We live in an era where almost everything posted on MSM is either an outright lie, gaslighting, or a dangle to direct the public’s attention away from a more important issue.

For example, the DOJ has released the files on Martin Luther King, which has salacious info about the civil rights activist, and info that the King family knows full well that James Earl Ray didn’t kill MLK. Files on the JFK assassination have also been released (but there are still many files that are being hidden).

The latest dangle involves the release of 8-year-old information about the RussiaGate hoax. This info is so dated, I remember reading about it in 2017 and 2018. It’s old news but is being promoted to Trump’s base as “breakthrough news.” Trump posts an AI video on Truth Social – a meme basically – that shows Obama being arrested by the FBI and handcuffed on his knees before Trump in the Oval Office. It’s more gaslighting.

What isn’t being released? The Epstein files, which hopefully contain information on child molesters, child murderers, and pedophiles. First it was, “we’re preparing to release the files.” Then it was, “The release is coming soon.” Then it was, “The files aren’t going to be released.” There is no list of pedos, folks. Move on, nothing to see here.

Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House) just adjourned Congress one week early. Our hard-working representatives are taking a 5-week vacation, hoping that people forget about Epstein and his pedos. Well, I’m not going to forget.

In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, two fire chiefs were recently murdered. Two years ago, four students at the U. of Idaho were murdered. The student deaths are blamed on a “lone gunman” (Bryan Kohberger) who just got four consecutive life sentences. Only problem is that although one of the students was stabbed 50 times and another 20 times, no trace of Kohberger’s DNA was found at the scene, or on his clothing or his person! Welp, that doesn’t bother the authorities.

The fire chiefs were supposedly murdered by an iterant young “lone gunman” (Wess Roley) who drove around the area in a white van. Nobody mentions the white van and the Sheriff out there won’t say what happened to it. (Wasn’t there also a white van at the Butler, PA Trump assassination attempt? No one knows what happened to it, either!)

Isn’t it remarkable how many “lone gunmen” there have been? From the murder of JFK and RFK and Malcolm X and MLK in the 60s, to the Oklahoma City bombing (Timothy McVeigh), to the UnaBomber, to Crooks shooting Trump in 2024 – and dozens more in between – the scenario is always a loner lunatic. It’s an amazing coincidence. Apparently, America  breeds these crazies like flies, and the murders are all completely isolated incidents. Why, the very idea that state-sponsored terrorism is being used against the American people is just a far-right conspiracy theory! But it keeps happening.

 Independent investigators on the ground in Coeur d’Alene speculate that Wess Roley was killed by a Special Forces nutjob who himself urdered his three daughters, threw a young guy off a bridge, and also murdered a schoolteacher. (Amazing!!! Another lone gunman to kill the first lone gunman! Kinda reminds me of lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and his lone gunman assassin, Jack Ruby.) The Sheriff out there, who was trained by Mossad in Israel, has withheld evidence and is covering for someone or some organization. The FBI does nothing. (For the source of these claims about events in Idaho – which have not been confirmed but for which a lot of evidence exists – see George Webb’s substack. A good summary of the evidence as of July 24th is at https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/sometimes-victims-fight-back-the)

Seriously folks, you can’t make this stuff up. Reality is often far more bizarre than fiction.

In LA, you’ll recall, Pacific Palisades was burned to the ground earlier this year. A huge  reservoir nearby was empty of water so firefighters had nothing to put the fire out with.  It was known for months that the reservoir needed to be filled. None of the politicians/officials responsible have been indicted or arrested. Now, I’ve read, the area is going to be used for low-income housing. “Low-income housing” is terminology for the homeless and illegal immigrants.

I’ve noticed that the internet is being rigidly censored. Search engines hardly ever return alternative sources of information on my searches anymore. Yesterday I tried to search for the late great Christopher Story, an investigative journalist who wrote a blog (World Reports) I used to read. He died in 2007. I remember reading in one of his reports that he discovered a document in the British Museum that was retrieved when the allies entered Berlin during WW 2. In it some Nazi official had written, “We will build the Fourth Reich on the ruins of the United States.” When I searched for “Christopher Story worldreports.org” all I got was CNN, NBC News, Washington Post, and U.S. News and World Reports. The standard, “approved” news.

When I searched for the quote, I got back my own comment on a substack! Just as in the book 1984, Mr. Story has been memory holed out of existence by Big Brother. And so are other inconvenient truths the globalist techno-fascists don’t want you to read.

Our internet more resembles the one in China than one in a free society.

I have also noticed that Google will not return the website URLs for controversial writers like Dana Wigington or Elizabeth Nickson. Another form of online censorship.

So how do you find the truth underneath all of the lies?

Well, one solution is to simply ignore current events. That way you aren’t subject to propaganda and lies. That’s a good way to go, particularly if you are living a life you love. Who needs the distraction?

If you are like me, however, you are far too curious to do that. You want to know who is behind the stupidity and criminality.

After 60 years of following current events, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get to the truth is to use your intuition and find the sites and the blogs and the stacks (and the books) that are still publishing serious investigative journalism. I had to look hard for these.

I have found personally that a lot of good, alternative information comes from writers on substack.com.  In all my internet searches I have never seen a search engine return anything from a substack (another remarkable coincidence!). My DuckDuckGo search engine is now Google, the home of orthodoxy and the status quo.

Below is a list of some sources I subscribe to, but it’s not a complete list. I don’t vouch for the veracity of any of them, because no one is right all the time. They are just sources of information. Personal discernment is vital in uncovering the truth.

  • georgewebb.substack.com (current events. George is a citizen journalist with a team of volunteer investigative citizen journalists from the US, Canada, and Europe. The Idaho articles are essentially intelligence reports)
  • Dr. Meryl Nass (medical doctor)
  • Dr. Toby Rogers (UTobian substack)
  • Jeffrey Prather (intelligence reports. jeffreyprather.com, go to Watch Past Episodes)
  • A Midwestern Doctor (Practicing physician. Medical information)
  • Ashton Forbes (MH 370 disappearance and physics)
  • Bob Greenyer (frontier physics, LENR (low energy nuclear reactions))
  • Matt Taibbi (taibbi@substack.com)
  • James Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck blog at kunstler.com)
  • Whitney Webb
  • Badlands News Media (Trump apologists, but great geopolitical analysis by GhostOfBasedPatrickHenry)
  • Solari.com (The brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts)
  • Mike Benz (former State Department employee. On X)
  • Sam Faddis (ex- CIA analyst. Take everything he says with a grain of salt, because once CIA, always CIA. Sometimes he has some good takes)
  • Sasha Latypova at sashalatypova@substack.com (Big Pharma exec for 25 years. Info on vaccines and the federal health bureaucracy. Pulls no punches!)
  • Elizabeth Nickson (Welcome to Absurdistan blog at https://elizabethnickson.substack.com) Maybe the best writer of them all.
  • Dana Wigington (the truth about weather weaponry and climate change)
  • Alex Berenson (disaffected former science reporter from the New York Times)
  • Eugyppius (American intellectual living in Germany. Writes hilarious reports on the nutty politics in Germany) https://www.eugyppius.com/
  • Unbekoming Book Reviews (alternative opinions on science, medicine, and treatment. unbekoming.substack.com)
  • Dr. Robert Malone (some good stuff but he comes from the bowels of the military bioweapons programs. Helped develop mRNA technology)
  • Dr. Steven Greer (info on UFOs and the hidden special access programs)

I used to think that Americans were pretty dumb and would believe anything. But I don’t think that anymore. The activities of the Dark Side are waking people up.

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The Collective Consciousness

Posted on July 14, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

I have never understood why our medical and scientific establishment is so narrowly focused on materialist explanations for consciousness and the human psyche. Perhaps it has something to do with the “prove it!” mentality of the scientific method. This is understandable, but I believe such a narrow definition of consciousness has led us down a path that has squashed human potential both individually and collectively.

The unconscious and the subconscious are emphasized in psychology and psychotherapy. Medicine is strictly materialist, and even a suggestion otherwise (such as Bruce Lipton’s theory of epigenetics) draws harsh criticism from “authorities.”

Carl Gustav Jung and the Collective Unconscious

Fifty years ago I was intrigued when I discovered the renowned Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and his book, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Jung suggested that all human beings are connected via an inherited psychic space. Jung said that this psychic space contains archetypes that influence our individual experiences and shape our understanding of the world. This sounded good to me.

Archetypes are universal symbols and primordial images that influence human behavior and thought across cultures and throughout history.

Here is a brief AI summary of some of these archetypes:

The Hero: Represents courage, overcoming obstacles, and achieving goals.

The Shadow: Represents the hidden, often negative, aspects of the personality.

The Anima/Animus: Represents the feminine side in men and the masculine side in women.

The Wise Old Man/Woman: Represents wisdom, guidance, and spiritual insight.

The Trickster: Represents chaos, deception, and challenging the status quo.

Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious is fascinating because it describes symbols and concepts common to everyone throughout history. According to Jung the personal unconscious is individual, but the collective unconscious provides a deeper, shared unconscious that every human being shares.

Jung expanded on Freud’s conception of the individual subconscious mind and applied it collectively to humanity as a whole.

But why is the unconscious mind the connecting link of the psyche?

Emphasis on the subconscious and the unconscious suggests that our understanding of consciousness and the mind is limited.

Unfortunately, neither neuroscientists nor psychologists have satisfactorily defined these terms. What is generally accepted is that consciousness comes from neurons firing in the brain. The mind, somehow and mysteriously, also exists in the brain. But no one has ever been able to discover in what part of the brain mind and consciousness exist.

Collective Consciousness

French sociologist Emile Durkheim defined collective consciousness as the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes that provide a unifying force within society. However, Durkheim, and others, see collective consciousness merely as people’s shared understanding of existing social norms. 

Durkheim wrote:

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or common consciousness

In my opinion this definition is a step forward from Freud and Jung, because it proposes that a collective consciousness exists and has “a life of its own.” This implies that it is a living, dynamical system that is constantly changing.

A Different Tack

Authorities have taught that the subconscious and the unconscious are parts of the mind we cannot reach, even though it has tremendous power to, at unpredictable times, overwhelm our conscious mind and strongly influence our actions (“crimes of passion.”) Huh? The subconscious mind can reach the conscious mind but the conscious mind can know nothing about the subconscious? There is something wrong with this idea.

In law, a person is said to be not guilty of murder because he or she was temporarily insane at the time: the subconscious/unconscious mind rears up from some undefined area and makes us do things. A society of individuals that defines its own mind as something that cannot be inspected and controlled is going to have problems!

The collective unconscious/subconscious mind paradigm, to its credit, is an attempt to explain man’s irrationality toward itself. But perhaps our materialist conception of the human mind creates a bias toward anti-social and dehumanizing thinking and actions.

Rather than define a collective unconscious, it makes more sense to me to define a collective consciousness, but in a more enhanced way than Durkheim did.  Perhaps there is really no subconscious or unconscious at all; perhaps what passes for the subconscious is part of a collective consciousness.

Physics and the zero-point energy / Aether

Let’s step away from psychology and psychotherapy for a moment and discuss the physical counterpart to the unconscious/subconscious mind.

During the development of quantum mechanics in the first half of the 20th century, it was discovered that even at temperatures of absolute zero – where there should be absolutely no movement and everything should be dead – there is still energy. This energy, often called zero-point energy (ZPE), is said to come from quantum vacuum fluctuations at the very smallest scale, and is a sort of counterpart to the subconscious of the human psyche. When physicists tried to calculate this energy they discovered that it was practically infinite.

Underlying the physical universe we experience at the macro level is a substrate of energy within the fabric of space that is completely in equilibrium. The good news is that we are slowly learning to access this quantum substrate, because it can be scaled up to our level of reality.

“Quantum vacuum fluctuation” is really a misnomer because it implies that space is entirely empty. The discovery of zero-point energy shows that space is not empty but contains an invisible substrate of energy, or an aether. In his paper “Ground state of hydrogen as a zero-point fluctuation state,” physicist Hal Puthoff shows that atomic structure itself is dependent on zero-point energy. Otherwise, why don’t the electrons, which have negative charge, collapse into the nucleus that contains positively charged protons? There must be a source of energy that keeps the electrons moving around the nucleus.

Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman is said to have stated that there was enough energy within a coffee cup to boil the world’s oceans.

So the aether turns out to actually exist.

The Consciousness Field

I prefer to think of the aether not as “quantum fluctuations” but as a consciousness field.

The aether (zero-point energy) fills space and is present everywhere in the universe. This means that every particle, everywhere in the cosmos, is linked, and implies that consciousness is also connected everywhere in the universe.

The consciousness field concept unites Eastern philosophy and spirituality with Western science.

The Collective Consciousness – A Different Take

What might the enhanced collective consciousness space look like?

Jung defined archetypes that have an energy or existence of their own. In the collective consciousness paradigm, the consciousness field is composed of thought impulses. These thoughts are themselves alive because they constantly proceed from the minds of living beings. Here, “mind” and “consciousness” are attributes of awareness that do not depend on physical bodies.

All 8 billion of us contribute to humanity’s consciousness field, which we can imagine surrounds the earth as a field of subtle energy, analogous to the atmosphere.

Several years ago I made a short YouTube movie that attempts to describe this concept. You can see it here.

Implications of the Consciousness Field Concept

Traditional materialist explanations for consciousness and mind require that they come forth from material objects like the brain. It is odd to me that an esoteric or spiritual definition of consciousness is so rigidly and even angrily rejected by the “authorities.” 

The consciousness field is a dynamic, ever-changing space composed of thought forms from living beings. It substitutes consciousness for unconsciousness.

Materialist definitions of awareness and the human psyche have led to the insane world we live in today. So our conception of human consciousness must be wrong-headed.

Ultimately, consciousness is non-physical in the sense that it is independent of physical bodies, as we have discussed in previous posts. To understand this idea more fully, meditate on or investigate this question: “What happens after I take my last breath?”

I made another short movie that attempts to explain how consciousness might have an existence independent of physical matter and energy. You can see it here.

In the human consciousness field the collective consciousness is constantly changing and morphing, depending on the thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and conclusions of human beings in real time. The planetary thought space links all human beings together. Each individual affects everyone else as thought impulses impinge upon our consciousness. We are all connected in a conscious manner.

Concluding Thoughts

I thought Jung made a good stab at explaining human behavior, but his theory is still materialistic. The collective unconscious is said not to be developed individually but is passed down genetically, just like physical traits.

In physics and cosmology, materialist reasoning require us to say that the universe came into existence as a result of physical interactions. Some cosmologists are fond of the Big Bang theory, where all of the universe’s matter and energy came forth from an undefined singularity. But then, where did the singularity come from? This leads us into endless philosophical rabbit holes where causation always comes from events that are logically prior.

Moreover, science knows that it cannot explain why 95% of the matter and energy in the universe is missing. Made-up terms like “dark matter” and “dark energy” are coined and then accepted as fact to substitute for a lack of understanding.

Dark energy and matter can be explained by an aether, but that concept horrifies physicists because it has been accepted for so long that space is empty. It would contradict long-held and cherished theories about the universe.

 In medicine we have to come up with something better than the “Human beings are meat bodies” paradigm. In psychology and psychotherapy, the subconscious mind and the collective unconscious, similar to dark energy and matter, are just placeholders for a lack of comprehension.

We need satisfactory answer to questions such as “What is consciousness?” and “What is the mind?” These answers can only come, in my opinion, from a paradigm that unites a non-material consciousness with the physical world.

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Retrocausality, Time, and the Mandela Effect

Posted on June 13, 2025 by kjmaclean

Retrocausality

Physicists are an ingenious lot.

They have designed experiments with two entangled photons which show that the measurement of one of the photons later in time can change the status of another photon that has already been recorded. This curious result suggests that future events can influence past events. It turns the notion of causality – that a cause always precedes an effect – on its head.

Physicists have called this phenomenon retrocausality. It suggests that the arrow of time might not always go forward from the present into the future, but that a future event can influence a past event.

For old-timers like me, this idea is explosive. Retrocausality suggests that decisions made now about past events can change how those past events played out.

Let’s take the Cuban Missile Crisis for example, an event that traumatized millions of people in the Western world (I lived through that period). Could a decision by a large enough group of people actually change how events unfolded in 1962? It’s a wild suggestion, and leads me to think about the Mandela Effect.

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is where large groups of people remember events one way, when it is “actually” another way. For example, many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in 1980, when he was actually released in 1990. (For more examples, ask Grok 3 to explain the Mandela Effect.)

Wild theories explaining the Mandela Effect have been proposed, from individuals or groups shifting between parallel realities where historical facts differ; to time travelers (future humans) changing the past, which leaves residual memories of the “original” timeline; to the Simulation Hypothesis, which states that physical reality is really a universal computer simulation, a la The Matrix, where the “code” of our universe changes, misaligning actual memories with the new state of affairs.

Let’s add Retrocausality to these theories. Unlike the others, it is an interpretation of reality that has been established by experiment.

The point is that our simplistic view of the universe may ignore a much more complicated actuality, which may include wild physics concepts like retrocausality and nonlocality.

Retrocausality and Nonlocality Explained

Let’s look at a physics experiment devised by physicist John G. Cramer that explains his interpretation of retrocausality and nonlocality.

An experiment is designed such that a signal is sent by an emitter to a target known as an “absorber.” After the absorber receives the signal it sends a signal backwards in time to the emitter, letting it know that it has received the signal. This completes the communication, which Cramer calls a “transaction.” The two events – the sending of the signal and the retrocausal return of the signal – can occur such that the emitter receives the return signal before the emitter sends it, or, the two events can occur simultaneously. Theoretically, the emitter (the signal source) and the absorber (the target) could be light years away, if you had a spaceship capable of placing the absorber that far distant.

The ability to simultaneously send and receive information across vast distances faster than the speed of light is called nonlocality. Einstein and his physicist buddies objected strongly to this concept (Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,”) but it has since been accepted.

Retrocausality implies that in order for simultaneous communication to occur across long distances, for every forward-moving signal in time there is a corresponding signal that moves backward in time.[1] This is remarkable, and suggests to me that the light we see from a star one million light years away may not be from a million years ago, but in real time. This is crazy because light cannot, by definition, travel faster than it propagates. However, nonlocality says that information can go faster than the speed of light.[2]

A Practical Example of Retrocausality

In the diagram above, the emitter is at NASA on earth, and the absorber is the Mars Rover.

If such a retrocausal communication system could be implemented, NASA could move the Mars Rover in real time, instead of waiting around for several minutes for a signal to get from earth to Mars, and another time lag for the signal from the Rover to get back to earth. If you have ever worked on a slow computer you know how frustrating waiting for a response can be.

This introduces a metaphysical question.

A Metaphysical Explanation: The “Now” Moment

The Now moment is a state of consciousness that is beyond time. It’s a state of consciousness because it transcends the physical universe. If you have ever reached the Now moment of consciousness (even for a few seconds) it feels perfect, you feel wise beyond belief, you feel like you can do anything, there’s no pressure, time disappears. You are in the zone and it feels great.

Let’s take this idea to its ultimate evolution. What happens time-wise after a person takes their last breath and moves out of the body and into the between-lives area? Here, there is no time at all and so no linear progression, or arrow, of time from past to present to future. “Past,” “present,” and “future” are rolled into a seamless whole.

In that case, would it be possible to know the future with certainty?

I will leave that answer to the reader, but we do know that every decision we make always affects the future. If the past, present, and future exist simultaneously in the “now,” then a decision in the Now moment would also affect the past. This has interesting implications for health and healing, and for clearing away past traumatic incidents of the past that affect a person in the present.

It also has implications for the consciousness of humanity as a whole. By reaching the Now moment in meditation an individual may be able to lift or clear past trauma that is causing mental or emotional pain in the present. Could doing this with large groups help to clear trauma from humanity’s historical time track as well?

 Referring back to our physics principle of retrocausality, the clearing of past trauma from the Now moment (the present) is equivalent to the backwards-in-time signal sent by the absorber back to the emitter.

History Repeats Itself

Students of history note that history has repeated itself over and over down the centuries. Well, humanity’s level of consciousness hasn’t changed much throughout history, and so events have always remained within the same box of beliefs and expectations. Einstein spoke to this when he said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same consciousness that created the problem.”  The key to history (and anything else) is consciousness.

Keeping the idea that ‘history always repeats itself’ in the collective consciousness places it into our future timeline and makes “the same old crap” a tragic, self-fulfilling prophecy.

Political commentators and news organizations use this conception in their Narratives. They talk about the return of fascism, or a possible Civil War in our country, if events don’t go in the “correct” direction. This is a form of propaganda called manufacturing consent. If you can get enough people to believe something, the probability increases that it can happen. That’s the function of the MSM.

The ‘history always repeats itself’ narrative is a self-fulfilling prophecy, not some inevitable law of human evolution. What is feared is created, and placed on the future time track.

I prefer to think in more metaphysical terms: that human consciousness is now on a new, fresh time track without historical trauma or impediments.

Physics Merging with Metaphysics

Over the past several decades there has been a subtle merging of metaphysics with physics. Retrocausality and non-locality – implausible metaphysical ideas – are taken seriously enough for hard-nosed physicists to devise theories and design experiments around them. Physicist David Bohm explained how the universe works with an Implicate Order, an underlying but invisible strata that contains all of the programming for universal laws. This is a metaphysical concept.

Ideas that were once considered to be in the realm of science fiction have become reality.

Here is a quote from Ben Rich, who was the head engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works, a private defense contractor associated with advanced, exotic technology in our hidden special access programs:

“We have things in the Nevada desert that you and the best minds in the world  won’t even be able to conceive that we have for 30 or 40 years, and won’t be made public for another 50.”

— Ben Rich to Kelly Johnson, before Ben Rich died in 1989. 

Ben Rich said this 36 years ago. How far have we advanced since then?

Perhaps the merging of physics and metaphysics has already led to exotic technology that stretches the imagination.

Conclusion

Retrocausality and nonlocality are metaphysical concepts firmly grounded in science. Physics and metaphysics are beginning to merge. That ongoing process will eventually lead to massive breakthroughs and new inventions, and it also counters the blatant politicization of science in medicine, climate science, and the social sciences.

We don’t have to remain stuck in the old ideas of the past. History doesn’t have to repeat itself. Perhaps it’s time to move outside the restricting box of current reality and embrace ideas that promote a better world.

[1] For those interested¸ see John G. Crane’s presentation called the Quantum Handshake, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6tfgF_UUM

[2] The zero-point energy field exists everywhere in space, from one end of the universe to the other. Some physicists suggest that every point in space and time is connected.

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Guest Post by Dr. Toby Rogers: Vaccines are the Cause of Autism

Posted on June 4, 2025 by kjmaclean

Dr. Toby tells it like it is


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The paradox of autism causation studies

We already know beyond a reasonable doubt what’s causing autism but mainstream science will never “know” in the conventional way because of the political economy of the autism epidemic

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TOBY ROGERS

JUN 03, 2025

(Editor’s note: this is yet another look at autism causation studies. We’re in such a strange moment. The stakes could not be higher and yet, as I explain below, the available studies are flawed and unlikely to get better. I don’t believe that the presence of a few reformers inside the administration changes this calculus much at all. I think we are much better taking matters into our own hands.)

The paradox of autism causation studies is that we already know beyond a reasonable doubt what’s causing autism but mainstream science will never “know” in the conventional way because of economic and political factors surrounding the autism epidemic.

Let’s start with the first half of that sentence:

I. We already know

Eyewitness testimony is foundational to our criminal justice system and relied upon by judges and juries every day to administer justice. In Neil v. Biggers (1972) the U.S. Supreme Court outlined five factors for evaluating reliability of eyewitness testimony: opportunity to view, degree of attention, accuracy of description, level of certainty, and time between crime and identification. That testimony can then be corroborated by documentary evidence and additional witnesses.

Parental testimony about autistic regression is at the highest end of the range in every case. Parents are with the child 24/7, the degree of attention could not possibly be higher, the parents know more details about the child’s life than anyone, they are certain about what they saw, and they generally know right away when something is wrong. In a sane society, the following testimony would be sufficient:

Your honor, my baby was perfectly healthy and meeting all of his developmental milestones. We went to a child “well baby” visit, my child got 4 shots. Over the next several days my child was with me 24 hours a day. He had a high fever, seizures, vomited, and screamed at a high pitch. We went to the emergency room, they ran a bunch of tests, but they couldn’t help us. Since then the child no longer speaks, makes eye contact, or has any social skills. The child now has a diagnosis of autism.

The judge and jury can verify any of these facts by examining before and after video; reviewing medical records; and interviewing other family members, care givers, etc. These are relatively straightforward cases. A child was developing normally, they experienced an acute toxic exposure at a child “well baby” visit, and the child regressed. This happens in up to 88% of autism cases. When this testimony is then repeated tens of thousands of times by moms across the country, it’s clear that we are in the midst of a major crisis.

However, we live in a society where our economy is based on enslaving children through chronic illness to enrich the ruling class. The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act combined with the wrongly decided Omnibus Autism Proceedings and the wrongly decided Supreme Court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC turned off the Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury for the vaccine injured. Wide swaths of society have been brainwashed by carrots (the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry and the soon to be trillion dollar autism industry), sticks (exile, banishment, and blacklisting for anyone who questions the narrative), and the most expensive and sustained propaganda campaign in history, to think that this is normal and okay.

Unfortunately, trying to achieve justice in connection with vaccine injury in the U.S. means going up against the medical mafia that runs all aspects of society — the courts, the political system, the regulatory system, the media, the medical system, the scientific system, Wall Street, academia, etc. And they tilt the playing field and the evidentiary standards to protect their interests.

However, as free, sovereign, and sane people we need not accept the edicts of an insane society. We can simply acknowledge that “I saw with my own eyes what happened” is sufficient to establish causation with regards to vaccine injury.

As I explained in my last article, we also have a FOIA document and a whistleblower at CDC, two vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies from Gallagher & Goodman (2008 & 2010), a vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study from Hooker & Miller (2021), and three vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies from Anthony Mawson (2017A, 2017B, & 2025) all showing that vaccines cause autism.

The mainstream medical community will likely never accept any studies that don’t originate from within their own ranks. They engage in circular reasoning by refusing to study the question and then they claim that no valid studies exist. But again, as sane people we need not accept their excuses and instead can simply acknowledge that we have already proved beyond any reasonable doubt that vaccines cause autism.

Now let’s look at the second half of that introductory sentence:

II. Mainstream science will likely never “know” in the conventional way what causes autism

Any honest philosopher of science will tell you that establishing causation is a thorny epistemological problem. Many fine books are written on the problem of causation and the deeper you go, the less you know. We live in a universe with an infinite number of variables. One cannot control for them all so there is always the possibility of confounding. Quantum mechanics establishes (for now) that uncertainty is built into the fabric of the universe. In physics the “laws” thought to govern large objects do not align with the “laws” thought to govern subatomic particles so there is clearly something that we’re missing in our understanding of the properties of matter. And then even if one could figure out all that, we might still be missing additional dimensions of reality that we cannot see or measure.

Given that unsolvable epistemological problem, but also with the need to proceed with our lives nonetheless, scientists have developed proxy measures that get us somewhat closer to establishing our best guess at causation (even though we will never be 100% certain).

The Bradford Hill Criteria are probably the most famous steps for establishing causation. From Grok:

The Bradford Hill criteria are a set of nine principles used to assess whether an observed association between an exposure and an outcome is likely to be causal. Proposed by Sir Austin Bradford Hill in 1965, they are widely used in epidemiology to evaluate evidence for causation, particularly when randomized controlled trials are impractical or unethical. Below is a concise overview of each criterion:

  1. Strength of association: A strong association (e.g., a high relative risk or odds ratio) between exposure and outcome is more likely to indicate causation.
  2. Consistency: The association is observed repeatedly across different populations, settings, and studies.
  3. Specificity: The exposure is linked to a specific outcome or disease, with minimal association to other outcomes.
  4. Temporality: The exposure must precede the outcome.
  5. Biological gradient (dose-response relationship): The risk of the outcome increases with higher levels or duration of exposure.
  6. Plausibility: The association is biologically or mechanistically plausible, based on existing knowledge.
  7. Coherence: The association aligns with broader knowledge about the disease, such as laboratory findings or historical trends.
  8. Experiment: Experimental or quasi-experimental evidence, such as randomized trials or natural experiments, supports the association.
  9. Analogy: Similar exposures causing similar outcomes provide supporting evidence.

The original 1965 article on which this is based is somewhat more chatty.

The Bradford Hill Criteria is just one of many causal criteria systems including:

1. U.S. Surgeon General’s Criteria (1964 and later)

  • U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (1964). Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

3. Rothman’s Sufficient-Component Cause Model (1976)

  • Rothman, K. J. (1976). “Causes.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 104(6), 587–592.

3. Henle-Koch Postulates (adapted for epidemiology)

  • Evans, A. S. (1976). “Causation and Disease: The Henle-Koch Postulates Revisited.” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 49(2), 175–195.

4. Susser’s Causal Criteria (1986, 1991)

  • Susser, M. (1991). “What is a Cause and How Do We Know One? A Grammar for Pragmatic Epidemiology.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 133(7), 635–648.

5. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Framework

  • IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. General methodology described in the Preamble (2019).

6. Modern Causal Inference Methods

  • Directed Acyclic Graphs:
    • Pearl, J. (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press.
  • Propensity Score Matching:
    • Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). “The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Inference.” Biometrika, 70(1), 41–55.

7. Weight of Evidence Approach

  • EPA Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment:
    • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2005). Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment.
  • WHO Framework:
    • WHO (2021) Human Health Risk Assessment Toolkit: Chemical Hazards, second edition.

I would add Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) as another causal criteria system. There are over one hundred EBM hierarchies and dozens of EBM services that one can subscribe to that will summarize the latest studies via an EBM framework.

The point being — if one wanted to establish scientific causation in the conventional way in connection with autism, one would need a very large data set that included upwards of 1,000 variables for each person: race, sex, gestational weight, birth weight, age of the mom, age of the dad, all underlying conditions, region, all pre-pregnancy exposures, all exposures in utero, all exposures in infancy, each vaccine would be its own variable, the timing and order of the vaccines would be another variable, you’d need dummy variables for things that you missed, and a placeholder variable for a natural error rate in the calculations. And then you’d run a series of regressions to control for each different factor to see the relative contribution of each.

And it’s pretty clear from the data that we already have that what you would see is a series of escalating risk tiers:

  • Lowest risk: No vaccines, no birth drugs, normal gestation period, and no infant formula (exclusively breastfed), and the lowest level of exposures to pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, and EMF (so perhaps Amish, Mennonite, or off-grid) — we should expect to see an autism rate of less than 1 in 10,000 children (consistent with the first autism prevalence study, Treffert, 1970).
  • Low risk: No vaccines but one is exposed to urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, and other pharmaceuticals — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 715 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • Moderate risk: An alternative vaccine schedule, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, and other pharmaceuticals — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 440 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • High risk: CDC vaccine schedule, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, SSRIs, & Tylenol — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 31 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • Highest risk: CDC vaccine schedule, birth drugs, c-section, premature birth, infant formula, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, SSRIs, & Tylenol — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 21 or even as high as 1 in 10 (which is what we are already starting to see in Black and Hispanic boys in aggressive vaccine mandates states including California and New Jersey).

I’ll eat my hat if this isn’t right but from everything we can see right now, this appears to be what’s happening.

  1. Genes only confer a slight risk of autism.
  2. Pollution, plastics, and pesticides set a somewhat higher base rate.
  3. Any vaccines at all increase autism risk.
  4. The more vaccines the higher the autism risk.
  5. And then all of the ubiquitous toxic chemicals + birth drugs + c-sections + premature birth + infant formula (no breastfeeding) + the CDC vaccine schedule, and the autism rate goes through the roof.

Now here’s where the story gets really weird. We basically had the comprehensive 1,000 variable study that I just described, but then-NIH Director Francis Collins killed it in 2014. From my thesis:

The failure of the National Children’s Study

As the autism rate increased dramatically in the United States in the 1990s, many leading public health figures called for comprehensive research into possible environmental causes. In 1998, the President’s [Clinton] Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children recommended a National Children’s Study (NCS) and authorizing legislation was included in the Children’s Health Act of 2000 (Landrigan et al., 2006).

The act called for a prospective cohort study that would track 100,000 children from shortly after conception through age 21 (Landrigan et al., 2006). The act called for “a complete assessment of the physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial environmental influences on children’s well-being; data collection to evaluate “environmental influences and outcomes on diverse populations of children, which may include the consideration of prenatal exposures;” and consideration of “health disparities among children, which may include the consideration of prenatal exposures” (H.R. 4365, 2000). In other words, Congress funded exactly the sort of comprehensive epidemiological study that would enable scientists to identify the possible environmental causes of autism.

But the study never got off the ground. The NCS spent from 2001 to 2007 consulting with a range of experts and advisory committees on questions of study design. In 2007, Congress appropriated funding for a pilot called the Vanguard Study (Kaiser, 2014). In 2009, the NIH began enrolling 5,000 mother-infant pairs in 40 academic centers across the United States (Kaiser, 2014).

The original director, Peter Scheidt was ousted in 2009 for “misleading Congress about the true cost of the study” (Tozzi & Wayne, 2014). In 2012, the NIH dropped the 40 academic centers and turned the study subjects over to private contractors (Kaiser, 2014). In 2014, after spending fourteen years and more than $1.3 billion on the study that was still in the pilot phase, Francis Collins, director of the NIH, killed the study altogether (Collins, 2014).

Following the cancellation of the project, Collins and others made statements about continuing the research in some form using less expensive methods (Collins, 2014), but such promises have not come to fruition. During the fourteen years that the NCS spent unsuccessfully trying to launch the study, the autism rate increased nearly five fold from 1 in 250 to 1 in 59 (CDC, 2018).

It would be easy to blame bureaucratic incompetence for the failure of this project. But Francis Collins, who led the NIH from 2009 to 2016 (and was reappointed as head of NIH in 2017 by President Trump), previously led the Human Genome Project — so he had experience shepherding complex multibillion dollar projects to completion.

Francis Collins and the autism industry took all of the money for the study, produced nothing, and then shut down the study altogether. If it had been successful (at identifying causes of autism) spending several billion dollars on the NCS would have been a bargain, given that autism already cost the U.S. $268 billion per year by 2015.

Presumably the reason Francis Collins shut down the study is that he knew what they would find and that threatened the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry and the growing autism industry.

Now, more than a decade later, the chances that HHS Secretary Kennedy will be able to push through a new conventional study and do it in the six months that he’s publicly promised are essentially zero. The pharmaceutical industry is stronger and richer than ever before, the autism industry is bigger and more powerful than ever before, and there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who are complicit in the largest crime in human history who don’t want to go to jail.

We are living in a crime scene. Practically speaking, one could conduct a study to satisfy the Bradford Hill Criteria or any other system of causation to prove that vaccines cause autism and other intellectual disabilities (in fact, this has already been done, see Bjelogrlic, 2025). Politically speaking, the mainstream scientific community will never arrive at this answer themselves because of their own complicity and culpability.

III. The conundrum

All of the data we have on autism are flawed. The mainstream vaccine studies don’t have a control group. The gene studies are based entirely on spurious correlation. The mainstream environmental studies fail to control for vaccines lest the researchers get blacklisted. And the alternative studies are small and underpowered. Nearly every study published since the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act has a financial conflict of interest. Quite literally we have conflicted, poorly-designed studies from the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry vs. testimony from moms and dads and alternative studies funded by a parents of vaccine injured children.

That’s the data we have to solve an epidemic so large and expensive that it will cause the collapse of the developed world in our lifetime. And the data will not get any better in our lifetime either because the pharmaceutical industry and the autism industry are so large, rich, and powerful that they can prevent any new research from being conducted (and if it is somehow conducted they can find ways to kill the study as they did with the National Children’s Study or manipulate the analysis or block the release of the findings).

But the reason I bring all of this up is that this realization sets us free. There’s a particular moment in soccer, often late in the game on a counterattack, when a striker has to make a split-second decision to press the attack or wait for additional midfielders to join the play. A teammate who has a better view of the playing field will sometimes yell out, “What you see!” It conveys a lot of information with just three words. It means that no additional help is coming and the best opportunity you have is to make the play with what you see in front of you. I think that’s what we have to do with autism as well.

We know what’s causing autism. We should not wait for a double blind RCT because a double blind RCT is never coming given the political economy of autism. Instead we should trust each other in community against the predatory forces of global monopoly capitalism that are trying to enslave and kill us. We must return to the wisdom of parents and trusting each other if we are to survive this toxic pharmacological assault on humanity.

So we avoid vaccines. Yep, all of them (unless you’re in the third world and want to take BCG to reduce the risk of tuberculosis). Of course we avoid other toxicants too. We warn others, one at a time. We slowly back away from the genocidal culture that did this to us and we build our own parallel society and our own self-sufficient communities. Mainstream society is dying and will collapse completely on its current trajectory. So we step off that path and chart our own better course. That’s the work of the next 50 years.

Blessings to the warriors. 🙌

Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏

Huzzah for everyone building the parallel society our hearts know is possible. ✊

In the comments, please let me know what’s on your mind.

As always, I welcome any corrections.

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Here is the link to the complete article on Dr. Toby’s substack: https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-autism-causation-studies?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

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Consciousness and AI

Posted on May 24, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

Artificial intelligence is being used in almost every area of our economy, from scientific research to the development of new vaccines, and everywhere in business. But there is a question whether AI has the potential to become sentient (and possibly dangerous), or whether it is just sophisticated programming. Roger Penrose, the Nobel Prize winning mathematical physicist, gives his opinion of AI in this short 8-minute interview:

A Word on Godel’s Theorem

I looked up Godel’s Theorem and it is a morass of mathematical and philosophical confusion. Even Penrose was confused when he tried to explain it. Basically it says that in any list of axioms (assertions or statements to be proven or disproven) there will always be at least one that is true but not provable. It’s a lot more complicated than that, but for non-mathematicians it’s good enough for government work.

I liked Penrose’s comments because he related Godel’s Theorem to consciousness. He realized that if there are things that are true which cannot be proven, then materialism – the idea that only that which can be materially observed is true – must be questioned. A definition of consciousness that says it is beyond space and time (the God concept), for example, might then be true even if it cannot be proven.

Consciousness

I think Penrose is correct about the relationship between AI and consciousness because consciousness can be confused with computing power. A tremendous amount of brute-force computation appears to be sentience, but it is really just very fast symbol manipulation by a machine.

The problem is that the word consciousness has no broadly accepted definition.

Here, consciousness is defined as self-awareness; in particular, the ability to be aware that you are aware. This ability for self-reflection leads to intuition and the ability to transcend the “rules” by thinking out of the box.

My argument is that consciousness is and always will be a level above AI, because AI is strictly and only materialist in its conception and implementation.

In the last post we talked about subtle energy and the biofield. This concept probably originated in ancient Egypt with the MerKaBa.

 Modernly, Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field concept posits an invisible field of subtle energy outside the body that can be programmed, and where biological entities can learn from. Bruce Lipton supports this idea with his concept of epigenetics, wherein a person’s thoughts affect the mind and cell/gene expression.

It is also supported by cold, hard physics. The Aharanov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon wherein the behavior of charged particles is affected by the electromagnetic potentials, even when electromagnetic fields are not present. (This shows that the electric and magnetic vector potentials, which were thought only to be mathematical entities with no relation to reality, exist outside of and affect particles, just as “real” electric and magnetic fields do).

Around 1860 James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of electromagnetism, proposed the aether as a medium of subtle energy that fills the universe and is required to propagate electromagnetic energy. Physicist Salvatore Pais calls the aether the superpotential.

Max Planck, credited as the originator of quantum mechanics, said in 1918:

“I regard consciousness as fundamental, matter is derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. There is no matter as such; it exists only by virtue of a force bringing the particle to vibration and holding it together in a minute solar system; we must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. The mind is the matrix of all matter.”

The common denominator above is that in physics and metaphysics, an undefined potential can affect physical systems. This is the basis for the assertion that consciousness itself is a potential, independent of physical systems. (Compare to the being “Sphere” who invisibly enters and exits Flatland in a previous post.) In Godelian terms, this statement is both true and false.

Artificial Intelligence

In my experience, AI can be very good at summarizing information (I use it to summarize physics papers, and to explain confusing new plans offered by my credit card company). But is it really intelligent or does it just cleverly assign relationships to words and concepts based on its programming?

Mathematics, as Penrose says, contains truths which are outside of mathematical formalism and computation. In the history of science, intuition has been used to see between the lines of code or math and outline new approaches and new lines of research. AI, despite all the hype surrounding it, can’t do this. Which is to say that AI is not conscious. And if it isn’t conscious it isn’t intelligent.

AI, as Penrose says, “doesn’t know what it’s doing.”

The evolution of AI, it is said, will eventually result in an electronic and/or computational miracle that inexplicably achieves sentience. Yet no matter how computationally clever AI systems get, they poorly mimic consciousness. After all of the AI research is complete the biological vehicle, I believe, will turn out to be the ultimate evolution of consciousness incarnated into the physical.

I say this because AI and its partner Transhumanism are promoted and researched by strict materialists who have a backwards definition of consciousness. The motivation to create intelligent AI systems and to research its allied field, Transhumanism, comes essentially from a fear of body death. Transhumanists are so very frightened of death because of their belief that consciousness is physically based. Which means, upon death of  the body, their very existence is snuffed out. This leads to the two-button problem outlined in a previous post.

AI and Transhumanism go hand-in-hand, and are, in my opinion, on the same level of consciousness. After watching the performance of Larry Ellison and Sam Altman at Trump’s Stargate event, I wasn’t too impressed with the level of self-awareness there. If those two are the directors of AI’s future, we’re all in trouble!

With AI, humans try to imitate consciousness. Perhaps one day we will build an AI body (or system) that a non-corporeal intelligence will want to inhabit (incarnate in) for a while, but that isn’t what is meant by artificial intelligence. AI is intended to be self-aware electronic/computational intelligence.

The dire predictions that AI will somehow become sentient and achieve intelligence far beyond humans – and inevitably take over the world – is in my opinion an attempt to create a Narrative of the inevitability of a dystopian future. “Get used to it humanoids, there is nothing you can do about it.” This is a good way for a tiny minority of sociopaths, psychopaths, and psychotics to get us to accept and create a dark future. (And yes, there are evil people out there.)

My response to an AI super-intelligence is something I saw on the Big Bang Theory comedy show where Sheldon says his highest dream is to become a pet of the All-knowing All-powerful AI God. That was good for a big laugh.

Conclusion

Although the current level of human stupidity is at an all-time high, I am an optimist about our future. Humanity is undergoing a profound and long-term shift in consciousness, resulting in the forces of darkness having to expose themselves in order to survive, and creating chaos in its wake. That process is going to continue in the near future, but I see a happy ending where a non-materialist, non-reductionist definition of consciousness prevails.

In this world of Duality there is a positive and a negative side to everything. I think it is far more likely that AI systems will turn out to be very helpful. AI’s computational power will stretch our understanding of the world around us. It will help us to invent new devices and systems that increase human understanding of the universe to create a more positive human future.

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Magnetism and Sexual Attraction

Posted on May 19, 2025 by kjmaclean

An esoteric look at consciousness and the metaphysics of living things

Introduction

Magnetism is one of the fundamental forces of the universe. According to Dr. Wei-ping Yu at NASA, every one of the forces of nature is controlled by magnetism. Dr. Yu explains how even the behavior of subatomic particles are controlled by magnetic effects. If that is so, magnetism must be inherent in the behavior of everything in the physical universe.

Sexual attraction feels to me just like magnetic attraction.  We recognize this instinctively when we say, “She is attractive,” or “He has a magnetic personality.” And the opposite is true as well. We have all met people who literally repel us; we cannot stand to be near them. It is almost as if the human being is enclosed in some kind of magnetic field, and when these magnetic fields interact, they attract or repel.

Introduction to Magnetism

Magnetic fields have the property of curl. In a bar magnet, for example, the lines of force curl around and away from the body of the magnet, coming back to form a north-south dipole of magnetic energy (image below). Magnetic fields have amazing properties.

It is well known that a coil of wire moving in a magnetic field produces electrical energy. This is a method whereby a power plant generates alternating current to the mains of your home. But the reverse is also true. A magnetic field will also be created when electricity flows through a coil of wire (this is called Ampere’s Law). Amazingly, if a second coil of wire is placed nearby to the first coil of wire, the first coil’s changing magnetic field will induce a magnetic field in the second coil, even if the second coil is not being powered, and the two coils are not connected! In other words, one magnetic field can remotely influence another magnetic field. This bit of magic is called induction.

Although the human body is a conductor of electricity, and immersed in the earth’s magnetic field, the human body does not have a magnetic field around it. (And that is fortunate, for a strong magnetic field surrounding the body could cause physiological and neurological problems.) Rather, the human body has what is called a biofield or a human energy field, which is theorized to have magnetic properties.

There is a subtle difference between the energy of life and the energy of inanimate matter. The energy of life is associated with consciousness and living things.

Life Energy

Life energy responds to the same physics as inanimate objects or devices because life and matter/energy coexist together in the same universe. But life energy has to be finer and more subtle. Crude magnetic fields may be fine for metal coils, power plant generators, and refrigerator magnets. But living, biological life forms need energy that will maintain sensitive biological processes without disturbing biological functions.

Conventional magnetic field for bar magnet

Author’s conception of biomagnetic field (MerKaBa) for human body. Modeled on the torus

The Biofield

The physics of inanimate matter has been well studied, but the physics of living things is in its infancy.

Research from the HeartMath Institute shows that the heart produces a subtle magnetic field that can be detected a number of feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers. SQUIDS are superconducting quantum interference devices, extremely sensitive magnetometers capable of measuring subtle biomagnetic fields.

Researchers at the University of Calgary have discovered that

“Humans may be luminous beings—literally—according to researchers at the University of Calgary who authored a new study. Examining mice and plants, the researchers in a cross-disciplinary study found tiny amounts of light are being emitted from living specimens as part of their metabolism. The study suggests all life forms, including human beings, have a similar “glow” that seems to diminish upon death.”

Research like this suggests that the human body is surrounded by a very subtle field of energy, detectable only with super-sensitive equipment.

The concept of fields of subtle energy connected to living things has ancient origins in the term MerKaBa, a Hebrew word meaning “chariot” that is descended from ancient Egyptian spiritual tradition. Mer, Ka, and Ba phonetically mean light, body, and spirit. The Merkaba is said to be composed of subtle energy and to extend up to 25 feet around the body.

Subtle energy is the term used for life energy. While we can easily detect magnetic and electric fields associated with inanimate matter, it is not so easy to observe subtle energy in living, biological entities. Therefore, the concept of a human biofield or a human energy field is ridiculed by mainstream science.

The earth is alive and it too has a biofield as well as its own magnetic field. The earth’s magnetic field is generated from a molten metal (iron and nickel) outer core that rotates with the planet. The earth is a combination of inanimate matter (the crust, the mantle, and the core) and living ecosystems that support biological life.  

The human biofield is immersed in the earth’s biofield and magnetic field, and the two interact magnetically. Individual human biofields also interact.

When two human beings come within approximately 50 feet, they can each get a “feel” for the other as their two biofields begin to interact. This biofield interaction is invisible, and so attraction and repulsive effects between two people seem to have mysterious causes. When people get together in groups, the biofield interaction can strengthen. Amazing (and crazy) things can happen, particularly in large crowds.

Heterosexual attraction 

Some people say that heterosexuality is ordained by God, but I prefer a more practical approach. Consider what happens when two bar magnets collide. If the north pole of magnet 1 is placed close to the north pole of magnet 2, the magnetic fields repel. If the opposite pole of magnet 1 gets close to the north pole of magnet 2, the two magnets snap together.

Apparently, the function of male-female mirrors magnetic attraction. But what about same sex attraction?

Same sex attraction

The identification of a person with a different sex than the body can be explained from an esoteric point of view. Consider a soul who has incarnated on the earth 10 times. In all of these physical lifetimes he was male. His entire consciousness and his entire karma and life experiences are oriented toward being a man. Now, in the present lifetime, he finds himself in a female body.

Even though his body is female this time he considers himself, quite naturally, a man, and is attracted to other men. And the same for a soul who was female for some arbitrary number of lifetimes and is now in a male body.

Same sex attraction is understandable from a karmic or spiritual perspective. Gays and lesbians accept that they are men or women who have attraction to the same sex, and as a group are as well-adjusted as heterosexuals (which may not be saying much in these crazy times).

From a spiritual perspective, same sex attraction is an entirely natural phenomenon. But  can it be explained magnetically?

Can two female bodies (or male bodies) with their biofields have a magnetic sexual attraction? They can, for it seems to occur quite frequently. This tells me that it is possible for consciousness to reorient the body’s biomagnetic field in a helpful manner. If this is true it might also explain spontaneous healings, and so-called “miracle” cures.

In order to find out for sure, science will have to advance to the point where we can see a person’s biofield and how it interacts with other human biofields. One cannot mindlessly apply the physics of inanimate matter to living things.

With no way to observe a biofield, we continue to be stuck in a primitive materialist framework that only recognizes the scientific status quo. Some  people claim the ability to see biofields, but there is no broad consensus that biofields exist.

Meanwhile, the confusion over gender has led to much social conflict.

What about transgenderism? Those who insist they are in the wrong body may feel this very strongly and may be unable to adjust. Transgenderism would be much less painful if the sex of the body could easily be changed, but those who are determined to change their sex must undergo radical surgeries that mutilate the body.  

If a person doesn’t want to undergo painful and radical surgeries the next best alternative is to assert that just by declaring so, they are male or female. This makes some sense from an esoteric POV, but it also leads to absurd assertions – by NPCs and attention seekers – that men can have babies and men can breastfeed.

To some straight people, trans people asserting a different gender identity seems batshit crazy, but not if you can accept that consciousness exists independent of the physical body. Unfortunately, the Akashic/soul records of people and their lifetimes aren’t available to us, so such assertions just sounds nutty. I imagine this can lead to immense frustration for trans people.

What is clear, though, is that male-female relationships can bear children and continue society. Gay and lesbian relationships, and trans relationships, are biologically sterile and must depend on the traditional “magnetic” attractive relationship between men and women for new members.

If it turns out that the sex of a human body is immutable, trans people will continue have a more difficult time than the rest of us.

Question for the reader: If a person undergoes radical sex change surgeries that mutilate their bodies, does this do anything to their personal biofields?

This is one of the motivations behind printed bodies, for a printed body can be made any sex (or no sex). This idea, however, I have strong opinions about (I even wrote a SF book about it). Polluting the human body with electronics or creating a non- or altered-biological body is called Transhumanism. If practiced broadly in society, Transhumanism will eventually lead to species extinction. I will firmly state this as a (fact-free) law of species evolution.

Gender and Consciousness

An esoteric approach to therapy of any kind may in particular help to resolve gender identity issues. It could open up all sorts of avenues for healing, but it could also lead to delusional fantasies on the part of the client (“I was Queen Elizabeth I in my past life!” Maybe they were, but who’s to tell?).

Such an esoteric approach would require the therapist to recognize that reincarnation exists, and that a human being is a conscious personality with an existence independent of the body. It would take a very expert and wise therapist or counselor to develop such a procedure.

An organization that has made a very good start in this area is the Applied Metapsychology Institute.

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Physics, Geometry, and Consciousness

Posted on May 5, 2025 by kjmaclean

A brief attempt to define consciousness and relate it to geometry and physics

The Geometry of Life

For millennia, humans have wondered about what consciousness is. The debate essentially comes down to two opposing camps: The belief that consciousness arises from  physical processes, versus the idea that consciousness exists independent of the physical body. Neither has been proven because, like physicist Richard Feynman’s comment on energy, “no one knows what [consciousness] is.”

Let’s say that consciousness is self-awareness. Most people could agree on that. But consciousness is more than that, IMHO. It is the ability to have the awareness that you are aware.  Understanding that you are self-aware allows for self-reflection and the ability to discern on a nuanced level. The level of discernment reflects the level of intelligence.

“Even an insect can discern objects and food and danger from predators,” you say. “That’s not intelligence.” Well, the ability to be aware that one is aware is a peculiar and distinct ability of consciousness. In order to have this ability consciousness must be aware that it is independent of the physical world, just as we are capable of saying “my body” as opposed to “me.” Who or what is the “my” in “my body?” Consciousness. That which is aware that it is aware.

This distinction can also be reached by answering the question, “What happens to me after my body takes its last breath?”

The answer to this question separates the materialists, skeptics, and rationalists from those with a more nuanced metaphysical awareness. Fortunately, everyone will eventually discover the answer, because no physical lifetime lasts forever.

Reincarnation

Reincarnation is also a mystery because it involves consciousness.

A simple and understandable geometric analogy to reincarnation can be found in Edwin Abbott’s book Flatland. Abbott describes a world inhabited by two-dimensional beings who exist on a flat plane (like a sheet of paper). They have no conception of “up” and “down” because they can only see things on the surface of the paper. The main character in Flatland is a pentagon, a plane figure with 5 points.

How would a two-dimensional Flatlander perceive a three-dimensional being like a sphere? I imagine this as analogous to the animating principle entering the body at birth.

All kidding aside, let’s imagine the “birth” and “death” of the soul personality as something similar. Just like Sphere to the Flatlanders, a soul is invisible to us before incarnation. We don’t know where the soul comes from, but it must be from a higher dimensional area outside of the perception of human beings in the three-dimensional universe. Some refer to this as the “between lives area.”

The baby exits the womb, the soul enters, and the body takes its first breath. Everyone can see that there is something animating the body that keeps it alive. When the body takes its last breath the death of the body occurs, and the soul returns to the between-lives area and is again invisible to human eyes.

For 99% of humanity, the between-lives-area is hidden from us. There are, I’m sure, highly advanced teachers who are consciously aware of it. Many of us, in our meditations, can get to a place of serenity and higher awareness for short periods of time. But then it wears off. In our daily lives the higher planes of awareness are hidden from us.

Sphere’s passage through Flatland is a geometric representation of a lifetime in two dimensions. What could represent the soul’s life path in our three-dimensional universe?

The Life Path

A human being’s life path could be geometrically diagrammed as a circle. Birth and Death are at the same point on the circle.

Let’s say that the circle and everything inside it represents the physical universe. Outside the circle is the higher plane of existence that is outside of time and space.

As the soul/conscious personality travels around the circle it interacts with the physical universe. It gets further and further away from the between-lives areas from which it came, becoming fully immersed in the physical lifetime. As the person reaches middle age and then beyond toward old age, he or she begins to approach the birth/departure point again. At that stage of life a person begins to contemplate what will happen after they die.

“Will my self-awareness be terminated, or do I continue?”

This is a sort of forced self-reflection for those who never did any of it during the physical experience. Everyone – even materialists – will be forced to confront this question in the end. I imagine the dilemma of a materialist when confronted with his or her mortality to be something like this:

The Physics of Life

How long is the life path of the newly born soul? We explain longevity primarily as a crapshoot of genetics. If you have “good” genes you will live a long time, even if you don’t eat right or exercise. If you have “bad” genes you won’t.

There’s no way to determine at birth the length of any lifetime. We can say that the “average” human being might live 75 or 80 years, or that a cat might live to be 15 years. However, there is a concept in physics that can be applied to describe the energy of the soul before it incarnates, the span of its physical life while it inhabits the body, and the energy of the soul in relation to the physical universe after it leaves the body. We can use this concept because during the time an incarnated being (human consciousness) is part of the physical universe, it is subject to its physical laws.

Potential and kinetic energy

In the physical universe the total energy of any system is its potential energy plus its kinetic energy. Potential energy is essentially stored but not released energy as a result of the position of an object. Kinetic energy, on the other hand, is the energy of motion: the falling rock, the turbine that turns to generate voltage in the mains of your apartment, etc.

It is easy to calculate how much time it takes for a ten-pound rock dropped from the fifth story of an apartment building to hit the ground. (It takes about 2 seconds from 60 feet in the air.)

When the rock is held steady just before it is released, 100% of its energy is potential energy, because it has the potential to cause some damage if it is dropped. Its kinetic energy is zero because it isn’t moving yet. As the rock falls its potential energy decreases and its kinetic energy increases because the rock is being accelerated downward due to the force of gravity. When it hits the ground it releases all of its kinetic energy, makes a loud sound, and cracks the concrete. At this stage its potential energy is zero and its kinetic energy is 100%.

After the dust settles the rock’s potential and kinetic energy are zero.

Before birth the soul’s potential energy is 100% and its kinetic energy is zero. The incarnating soul has great potential for the coming physical lifetime, but it hasn’t gotten started yet. As the soul lives its life in the physical body, the person’s potential energy gets gradually converted to kinetic energy – lived experience – as the body ages. At the end, the result is that (hopefully) the soul, or conscious personality, gains wisdom from its life experience.

The physics of potential and kinetic energy, applied to consciousness, helps me to better understand concepts like reincarnation, birth, and death.

Final Thoughts

What happens after the body takes its last breath? Does a person’s consciousness continue, or is it snuffed out like a candle flame?  

This is a question materialism cannot answer. Only when we expand our awareness beyond the physical – when we utilize the peculiar and inherent ability of consciousness to be aware that it is aware – can we hope to explain fundamental concepts like birth, death, and reincarnation.

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