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Discussion on:
Cosmic Consciousness,
.Universal Consciousness,
.Universal Mind,
.Universal Memory,
.Universal Intelligence,
.Holographic Memory,
.Collective Unconsciousness,
.Collective Consciousness

Evidence is provided that supports the concept of a universal consciousness as developed in the book entitled "Integrated Theory of Intelligence" which is also an approach to a "Theory of Everything".

As humankind has become increasingly more enlightened, there are those who have become aware of what has been perceived to represent a Universal Consciousness. This entity has been given a wide variety of names by the various individuals who have come to recognize this phenomenon as reflected in the list of key words above.

Religiously oriented people refer to this entity as God. Others who choose to avoid the use of this emotionally charged term have invented other words to describe this essence. Most people have some sense of a “higher power”. This belief can be based upon either intuition or logic.

More and more people are having what might be called a spiritual experience, or enlightenment. This has been a common phenomenon in “Eastern” mysticism but has been rather historically uncommon in “Western” religious traditions.

The increased incidence of this type of experience in Western culture led Abraham Maslow to spend most of his professional career in its study. He gave legitimacy to this concept through his exhaustive analysis spanning many years. Although he named this phenomenon “peak experience”, there can be no question that what he was describing is essentially the same thing that Eastern mystics have labeled mystical experience or satori.

Although the experience is ineffable (cannot be meaningfully described through language) there are a few descriptive concepts that can be presented. To achieve p.e. one is either in or enters into a meditative state. He/she feels a total connection to the rest of the universe where the perceived external boundary of ones body and mind (consciousness) are lost. There is the perception of being totally “one with the universe”, or universal mind. There is also the perception of being totally omniscient where one has access to all knowledge having a complete understanding of everything. During this time one is also experiencing the feeling of total love, acceptance and peace. This experience is described in more detail in “Integrated Theory of Intelligence”.

The concepts of Universal Mind or Universal Memory, Collective Unconsciousness and other variations of this same theme are also discussed and related to physical phenomena such as the holographic distribution of information throughout all of space (universe).

The book addresses the interrelationship of mind (intelligence-consciousness) to matter-energy and space-time.

There was one solitary substance comprising the basic fabric of the universe at the moment it began its expansionary process from a singularity approximately 13 billion years ago. This substance quickly began manifesting the properties of matter-energy, space-time, and intelligence-consciousness. Every aspect of our existence can be defined by this elementary substance. Modem day physicists would confine the basic ingredients to matter-energy in space-time, ignoring the presence of intelligence-consciousness, which I respectfully suggest is the most active portion of the universal basic fabric. The entire universe is heterogeneously infused with matter-energy and intelligence-consciousness in space-time.

The author is currently working on a project that he entitles "The Ultimate Theory of Everything". As a manifestation of intelligence-consciousness, the Ultimate Theory of Everything predicts that there is a universal mind, which permeates the entire cosmos that is manifested as intelligence-consciousness interacting with matter-energy in space-time. It has directed the evolutionary process from the beginning. It in essence is the Creative Force referred to in the previous chapter. This universal mind was present at the moment of the Big Bang and has been continuously directing the evolutionary process ever since. The conscious human mind that we each experience on a daily basis is not an epiphenomenon as some would have us believe but rather an extension of a universal wide consciousness which has been continuously present from the moment of the Big Bang. Natural selection has also been shaping this evolutionary process but more in the role of an editor.

Our universe is a balance between order and chaos. Initially chaos greatly overshadowed order. 13 billion years of evolution have brought a proportionately greater abundance of order with decreasing chaos over time. At the moment of the Big Bang the energy density of the universe was at its maximum, which also meant that chaos was at its maximum and order was at a minimum. For order to be imposed upon chaos there had to be a tremendous drop in energy density, which required the expansion of the universe into a greater volume of space. It took billions of years for the universe to expand into a large enough volume that the energy density could decrease to a more manageable level allowing more highly complex systems to evolve. The universal mind could orchestrate the evolutionary process with greater facility as chaotic energy became more manageable with a decreasing energy density. An analogy placed on a human level might be an individual’s relative ease in controlling the deflection of a fast-moving, small rubber ball compared to the likelihood of injury from a lead ball of similar size moving at the same velocity. The energy density of the rubber ball is much less than the lead ball.

At the moment that the universe began its expansion the solitary substance comprising the basic fabric was in a homogeneous undifferentiated state. It immediately thereafter began to manifest the properties of matter-energy and intelligence- consciousness in space-time. At the moment the expansion began intelligence- consciousness was in an undifferentiated unitary state. As matter-energy began to divide into seemingly elementary particles, intelligence-consciousness also started the process of fractionation. The universal mind thus began the evolution from a totally unitary state to one comprised of a great multitude of seemingly separate conscious forms. Some 13 billion years after this division of intelligence-consciousness began, we witness ourselves as humans with our individual self awareness. The evolutionary process apparently required this extended period of time to develop complex systems capable of supporting the human condition with individual consciousness.

It is also increasingly obvious, as we become more sophisticated in studying other life forms, that intelligence-consciousness is not limited to humans. We don't have to search the cosmos to find other species that manifest intelligence-consciousness. We are gradually finding ways to elicit the presence of intelligence-consciousness in high mammals. There are also those researchers who are beginning to recognize purposeful behavior in even lower life forms such as single cell organisms and even plants. Intelligence-consciousness didn't just suddenly appear in humans but required a gradual evolutionary process through a great multitude of lower life forms. Intelligence-consciousness began in a unitary state and has undergone continued division into seemingly separate forms of continuously increasing complexity.

As individuals with our own self-awareness we still remain a part of the differentiated whole. There continues to be a universal mind, which permeates the entire cosmos and continues to increase its spatial volume as the universe expands. All life forms with intelligence-consciousness are an integral part of the whole, based upon the premise that all things are interrelated. Each individual consciousness contributes to universal memory, which is one of the characteristic features of a universal mind. As the universe expands its spatial volume it allows room for continued storage of new memory both throughout the entire cosmos as well as within each individual. Memory as we now experience it would not have been possible within the early universe. This is because there was a relatively small volume of space compared to the amount of matter-energy present. It is suggested that each time the spatial volume of the universe doubled during its expansion, its capacity to store memory also at least doubled. The process of memory storage began at the Big Bang and has been increasing exponentially ever since.

As will be addressed later the storage of memory within space-time would appear to occur holographically. A complete history of all events is ultimately stored. Each memory imprint would appear to be a function of the intensity of the event which is being recorded. All events that involve intelligence-consciousness which have occurred since the Big Bang are recorded in the universal memory as part of the universal mind. The continued expansion of space-time is a prerequisite for continued increasing memory storage.

It will also be suggested later with elaboration that each of us can access this universal memory under certain conditions such as peak experience.

To have an appreciation as to how information is recorded in memory it requires some knowledge of the holographic process. This principle will be briefly addressed below along with other concepts based upon holographic memory storage that can explain such phenomena as past life memory experience, mental illness, religious experience, etc.

Memory, which reflects the storage of information, is not stored in the hard wiring of the brain, as many mind-brain researchers would have us believe. Certain areas of the brain have been determined to be more important in the processing of memory than others, however it is very naive to conclude that memory storage occurs anywhere specifically within the brain substance. Those researchers who continue to pursue this concept are doomed to a lifetime of failure. The Ultimate Theory of Everything predicts that memory is imprinted in space-time holographically which allows access to it independent of location within space or time.

This can be thought of as the warping of space similar to what Einstein described relative to the way that gravity governs the direction of celestial bodies, however the image should be visualized as more of a micro-warping. The fluctuations in texture of this warped space would likely be many times smaller than the diameter of the smallest atomic particles. If one were able to visualize the appearance of micro-warped space containing memory it would probably look very much like the interference pattern recorded on a holographic plate except that it would be at least four dimensional and constantly changing form. Atomic particles are held in position appearing to comprise solid objects by this micro warped space. The micro warped space in actuality is comprised of energy-matter finely and heterogeneously dissolving into the very fabric of space without any demarcating boundaries. There are no particles as such in existence that can be divided into smaller particles. Quarks and electrons are not solid structures but only highly concentrated focused energy. At the present time there is no way to evaluate space at the level of this micro warping. Thus this is a concept which will be difficult to explore experimentally through science. The relatively recent invention of superstring theory is approaching this level where memory storage occurs. Nevertheless there are many reasons to believe that the holographic storage of memory is an accurate perception. It allows explanation for virtually all mental events.

There is one property of holography that makes the concept so appealing relative to applying it to memory and mental events. If the holographic plate, which stores the information used to reconstruct a three dimensional image, is broken into many small pieces then the total image can still be reproduced from any of the fragments. The resolution of the image will be less distinct (fuzzy) but it will otherwise be the same as if the entire holographic plate was used in the reconstruction. Memory storage in space- time would appear to behave in similar fashion. No matter what fractional volume of space that one is accessing the information is stored there. The larger volume of space that one is capable of sampling the more clear is the image. Thus, the larger the brain and the more intricate the wiring, the more complete is any thought.

The holographic technique has been described in many articles and books so won't be dealt with in detail. For those who have a desire to gain a greater depth of understanding, I would strongly recommend "The Holographic. Universe" by Michael Talbot. Much of the discussion that follows is covered in greater depth in that text. It should be comprehensible to most readers.

A hologram can be produced when a single laser light beam is divided into two separate beams. The first beam is reflected off the object being photographed and the second beam is then allowed to collide with the reflected light beam of the first resulting in an interference pattern that is recorded on film. The encoded image has a very chaotic non-descript appearance that can resemble the surface of the moon with multiple crater sites. The image has no resemblance to the object that it will be used to recreate. Again it is important to emphasize that if the photographic plate is broken into many fragments each can still be used by itself to recreate the entire three-dimensional object no matter how small the fragment being used.

The brain functions as if it was accessing a holographic plate with encoded images. This has been well established in both lower animals and humans. Karl Lashley surgically removed various portions of rat brains and submitted them to experimental testing both before and after. He determined that no matter what portions of their brains he removed he could not erase their memories. Their motor skills were often impaired but even with large portions of their brains removed, they could still find their way through a maze.

Paul Pietsch performed similar experiments on salamanders. In a series of 700 operations he performed multiple different types of surgical extractions of brain tissue including flipping, subtraction, and even mincing, but always when he replaced what was left of their brains their behavior returned to normal. Humans following removal of sections of their temporal lobes, which supposedly is very important to memory function, may also retain normal function.

Other examples could be presented illustrating the holographic operation of brain function. There are an increasing number of mind-brain researchers who accept this concept but at present remain in the minority. Virtually all mental events can be explained by the holographic model. It would seem that the actual storage of information occurs more within the space-time arena than the matter-energy (hard-wiring) portion.

Carl Jung became convinced that a collective unconsciousness exists that all humans contribute to and can access. He concluded that dreams, hallucinations, myths, and religious visions derived from this collective unconsciousness. If such an unconsciousness exists, and I believe that it does, its memory would be holographically recorded in space-time.

Mystics and other individuals who have reported experiencing omniscient cosmic oneness with the universe, where there is a total loss of ones individual boundary along with the sense of unity with all life as well as the perception that one is in complete total unity with the entire universe, are likely tapping into a larger volume of the space-time hologram.