Engage mind before opening mouth.
I'm a scientist. I ask the question "how is it possible that", and I apply it to everything I don't believe.
"What would have to happen, for this to work?"
Take a simple statement like "I and the father are one". Okay - quantum physics. Everything is entangled. But Jesus didn't know from quantum physics, it took 2000 more years for that to be invented. Jesus "appears" to have been speaking on a spiritual plane - very likely "about" consciousness.
So... "how could it be that" all the consciousness in the universe is somehow related?
Physics tells us it's not such a farfetched concept. But then, to actually model it you have to delve several levels deeper, because you have to vet your brilliant ideas against the body of accumulated scientific knowledge.
The way this works is, consciousness is an evolutionary "attractor" - but as with the Covid mask, if you don't put it on right it won't work.
EVERY religion in the world has a concept of "spiritual states. The Hindus call them "chakras", the occultist Gurdjieff called them "vibration states", John Lilly MD called them "equilibria" (and that was long before we knew anything about criticality). Maybe one could call it "God-consciousness" in this instance. Which coincidentally, is a nickname for the highest Hindu chakra.
See so, in the other thread I detailed a physical mechanism that addresses both constraints. In my model, the statement "I and the Father are one" is scientifically and spiritually plausible. And, it sure beats arguing about it from a standpoint of ignorance.
"How is it possible that"... for this to happen, someone has to be able to "will" themselves into a different brain equilibrium. Which isn't so farfetched either - after all, it's the whole point of meditation, yes? And, science has already shown that the firing rate and phase of single neurons can be controlled by will - so what would basically have to happen is, a cascade of criticality from the single neuron to the whole brain
And that, right now, is the Holy Grail of neuroscience. Everyone "gets it", there are thousands upon thousands of research teams world wide looking at this issue, even as we speak.
So, before you go poo-pooing the idea of a universal consciousness, take another look. Human beings are "islands of complexity" in a very simple sea. We can turn the connection to the water on and off, just by thinking about it. When it's off, we operate on our own. When it's on, we become a part of something bigger. When it's all the way on, the bigger thing flows "through" us, we become its instrument and our brains have to work a little differently to maintain the state.
Read this:
Kuramoto Transition – Galileo Unbound
Now ask me what this has to do with God consciousness. Black holes, event horizons...
Well gee, lookie here:
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Does that look at all familiar to you?
Read section 2.7:
Markers of criticality in phase synchronization
