--- In MindBrain@yahoogroups.com, "glen_swift" <glenswift@...> wrote:
>
> The phenomena of channelling raises a number of interesting
> questions for this discussion group, basically along two different
> lines:
>
> 1) If channelling is real, and not just people pretending, then what
> is actually happening?
>
> 2) Do the discourses of channels offer any possible insights into
> the nature of consciousness?
>
> I don't think anyone who's had direct experience of someone
> channelling doubts that the phenomena is real, though many who
> haven't consider it to be a total fraud.
This is a great post! The suggestion I make to Glen is that there may
be a third alternative beyond materialism and idealism. The mechanisms
that generate consciousness in the living brain may also generate some
kind of non-material physical wave (i.e., based on energy/information)
that (sometimes?) continues to exist after death. In this case, it is
not consciousness that creates physical reality, but physical reality
that finds a way of existence of waveforms after biological death. Of
course, quantum theory is involved in this possible phenomenon.
I am open to this possibility, although there is no scientific proof
for or against it.
Alfredo Pereira Jr.
Your suggestion seems quite reasonable. In my ABC theory, I posit that the