Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Energy is a form of Consciousness

IS OUR CONSCIOUSNESS ALSO A FORM OF ENERGY? AND WHAT HAPPENS TO CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER THE DEATH? ACCORDING TO THE MEDICAL SCIENCES - AFTER DEATH BRAIN IS THE LAST POINT WHERE ALL FUNCTIONS FINALLY CEASE. KINDLY ELABORATE THIS MORE CLEARLY FOR US.
If we analyze things at physical level according to the medical science, we can try to understand scientifically the Life Energy by dividing it in to 3 parts. One is in the brain where the Life Energy is functioning as Electric Waves. It travels in two forms - One is through the nervous system and then through the neuro transmitters, the chemicals - to reach the muscles. This is how it reaches the circumference of the body. In the 2nd form, it travels through the Hypothalamus glands and Pituitary glands to operate. All endocrine glands too get converted into chemicals. In the nervous system also, there are many neuro transmitters and chemicals. Electric waves get transformed in to chemical energy either through the nervous system or through the endocrine system. So as far as science is concerned, it does agree with these 3 levels - physical level, chemical level and Energy level. At the time of the death first of all the physical energy retreats back and when the subtle death happens, the chemical changes take place. All electric functions cease to operate and that is the final death. Up to this point, the science has been able to trace things. If we look at things 150 years back, death at physical level was considered as final death. The heart beat stops, the breathing process stops and it was taken as death. Today the definition of death has changed. Now we consider death as death when the brain stops functioning and all electric activities cease in the brain. If the brain is still active and the electric waves are present in the brain, only the heart beat has stopped or the breathing process has stopped or any other part of the body has stopped functioning; it is very much possible to re-operate any of these body organs. If within six minutes, the heart which has ceased to function, even if it is through artificial means, the life in that person will come back. This is how the definition of death has changed. In future, may be, it will change again. May be one day it will be possible, when we will start getting the feel of more subtle waves than the Electric waves, and one day, when we will have more sophisticated equipments which will be able to trace and measure subtle energy - more subtle than the electric waves; then on that day we would know that even when the brain stops functioning, the life does still exist at another subtle level. May be, in future, we would be able to find some means to bring back life by connecting the subtle body with the mind even when the electric activities in the brain cease to function. This, I am talking about a possibility in future.
What you are asking is - whether the consciousness is also a form of energy.
Well! I would say, exactly the opposite of this. I would say energy is a form of the consciousness. Today what we know as energy, it would be better to say that it is condensed form of consciousness. Similarly, as the science says, the condensed form of energy is matter. If we put the subtle most would be the consciousness when it gets condensed, it takes the form of energy. Then this energy gets transformed in to electric waves and chemical energy. And this chemical energy gets more condensed; it gets converted in to the physical energy. Today, the medical science talks of only 3 steps - Electric waves, Chemical energy and Physical energy.
May be in future, we would be able to do some research in these dimensions that are more subtle. It is quite possible more sophisticated scientific equipments would be able to trace subtler dimensions of consciousness. Then, we would reach another more subtle level; we would know the consciousness. Frankly speaking, physics has come very close to consciousness. Religion has always said that the whole world is made of consciousness - the God - The life. And now science has also gradually started realizing this fact. But their terminology is a bit different.
Law of Uncertainty
Now, for e.g. - physics has discovered the law of uncertainty - the principle of uncertainty. This is really very strange as all laws are based on certainty. With the law of uncertainty, science is contradicting its own principles. Earlier,science was always very much sure of its laws but as the science discovered smaller particles of atom, it was also realized that they sometimes behave like particles and sometimes like waves. In some experiments they were traced as particles and in some others as waves. The matter disappeared and the entrance was made in to the world of energy, only waves. Today, the science has discovered the principle of uncertainty as the way those waves behave at an extremely subtle level is very uncertain.
Does it not mean that they also have their own moods, their own state of being? The way they would behave is not definite at all. And this is precisely what consciousness means. It just means that things are not dead. Every thing contains life; they have their own state of being, their own moods, and their own thoughts. How they wish to behave is decided by them only. This important law has been got discovered at a very subtle level. Every thing seems to be definite and certain at material level but actually at subtle level the law of uncertainty plays great role. Now, the science has gradually started agreeing to another terminology and it says that the subtle most particles of matter, which also sometimes behave like waves have their own consciousness. They take their own decisions.
Let us try to understand this with the help of a joke. Mullah Nassaruddin went to an un known village. There he bought some sweets from a sweet shop. He paid for it but as the shopkeeper did not have change to return the balance amount, he told Nassaruddin to collect the remaining money the next day, while passing from there. Mullah agreed to that as he had to stay for few more days in that village. Mullah was new to that place so he thought that he should look around the place and remember some particular mark near the sweet shop, so that he comes to the right place the next day. Mullah saw a buffalo sitting in front of that sweet shop. He said to himself that this buffalo would be the right mark to remember. The next day Mullah reached that place and started looking for that buffalo. And a buffalo was sitting in front of a barber's shop. Mullah went in side that shop, caught hold of the barber's neck and said, - "Now this is really too much. Just for a few coins, you have changed your profession. You've become barber. Barber or what ever - you'll have to return the balance amount.
This small story might make us laugh because Mullah himself made decision dependent on something which was itself uncertain. Where will the buffalo sit the next day, cannot be fixed in advance. She has her own mood. Today she is sitting in front of a sweet shop, tomorrow may sit in front of a barber's shop and the after, it might not sit any where at all. This is her own mood. Till the point the science is involved in the research of physical matter, there is great amount of certainty in it. But the moment it starts the analysis at subtle level, it face uncertainty. Therefore, it means that the subtle form of even the matter has its own dynamism, its own consciousness. So the subatomic particles, those extremely subtle waves, how are they going to behave - is not certain at all. In other words, it can be said that the science, also, from a different angles discovered what the religion has always known as the truth.
So, as for me, I would like to say that the condensed energy appears as matter. And at the time of the death what happens is the process in the physical level first and gradually moves towards the subtle levels. In the process of birth, it is from subtle to physical - first of all the consciousness, then it enters in the womb, a small cell starts developing, gradually the brain develops in mother's womb, then the other parts of the body and then the body starts growing. So, the process of birth means from subtle to physical and the process of death means from physical to subtle - the life energy starts moving in the reverse direction.

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