Posted on 25 August 2015, 13:37

If psychic phenomena, synchronicity and communication from the dead are real, then this physical world known by our senses, must be produced by a timeless realm of mind and consciousness. When in physics we talk of strange ideas like “collapsing the wave function,” “quantum entanglement,” “the EPR effect,” “denying local causation” and “zero point energy field”, when we do this, we are assuming that the timeless realm which is the Inner world is also real. They all imply the transcending of space and time, everything being potentially connected to everything else.

Many leading quantum physicists feel driven by the evidence to accept this timeless inner world. Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, David Bohm, F. David Peat, Brian Josephson, and an appreciable number of other Nobel Prize winners accept the Inner world as fact. David Bohm called it the Implicate universe, Plato had called it the world of Ideal forms, Carl Jung the Collective Unconscious, Rupert Sheldrake speaks of Memory fields, and the Hindus of the Akashic records. John’s Gospel speaks of the creative “Word” that brings all things into being.

Jane Roberts’ “Seth” introduces the idea of Consciousness Units which interact with each other and have an effect in the Outer physical world. All these are differing terminology for the same process where there is a trans-dimensional nexus between coherent thought and creation of events.

Obviously, in Into the Wider Dream, we have many types of examples of thought in the Inner dimension creating events in the Outer and physical world.

One type would be when a spirit person intervenes to make a point of some kind. One personal example would be when George Wolstenholme, former manager of Firth’s Stainless Steel in Sheffield in the UK, who had died in 1940, caused three saucepan lids to fall, and numbers of pictures likewise. When I was telling that story to someone, a further picture fell on my head. There were other synchronicities associated with that story which clearly belong, but perhaps not caused by the industrialist.

While I was writing all this, I received an e-mail from a new friend called Bruce Scott-Hill, who is publishing a book on reincarnation, speaking of synchronicities which had changed his life. He also speaks of a spirit intervention. “I have three such instances in my life, each of which was very dramatic and by their nature shocked me into a strong personal belief of the paranormal – particularly one instance that involved perceiving a lifelike apparition, following the death of a person on a neighbouring property (called Ken). Our doorbell rang inexplicably with no one at the door, and false sounding of a smoke alarm a number of times. After about three days these events disappeared as suddenly as they had commenced. They had commenced the day following the appearance of the apparition of the deceased passing by our lounge window in full daylight and easily able to be recognised both from facial features appearance and clothes. My wife and I, called by the neighbour next door to help, had unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate the person who had died next door, (a man called Ken)...who later was found to have had died from a heart attack. We interpreted the events which followed as a deliberate act to demonstrate to my wife and I of the reality of the paranormal and the afterlife by Ken, but we also felt that he was demonstrating to us that he had survived death, and to thank us for trying to render him assistance.”

Such an example of “a transdimensional nexus between coherent thought and creation of events!” The Inner world does this in the Outer world. Ken in the Inner world makes things happen in the Outer. Very many similar experiences have been recorded over the ages. When people talk of being helped by guardian angels, it is very believable. Groups of people in the spirit world often collaborate to guide and help one or more people in the physical, messages of love and caring for the living come from the deceased.

We have many credible examples of spirit healers coming to the aid of the sick.

Bruce Scott-Hill points out the inspirational synchronicity that comes from the Inner world. He writes, “There are occasional cases reported where a scientist has achieved a major breakthrough leading to a major discovery and benefit to mankind. In such instances the scientist will often claim that he is not responsible for the breakthrough, and instead felt the knowledge suddenly came to him and was “inspirational” in type. (There are many such examples in my book, such as Crick, the scientist who discovered DNA etc.).”

Here are two other examples of inspirational synchronicity.

Brazilian psychic painters are famous. Jose Medrado.

View this video “Music from the Beyond -The Mediumship of Rosemary Brown” (55 minutes). I will let these videos speak for themselves.

Many synchronicities are harder to classify. It would be helpful here to think about “Seth’s” teaching about Consciousness Units.

I quote now from pages 185-6 of Into the Wider Dream: (omitting acknowledgements supplied in the text.)

“Seth: What seems to be a perception and object of concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialisation of your emotions, energy, and mental development”

Friedman: “The reality of classical physics consisted of matter and the fields including gravitational and electromagnetic. Other fields were added in the 20th century, but the basic assumptions did not change.”

“Quantum theory has essentially erased the difference between matter and fields, making reality a unity which exhibits the properties of both. This single, unitary stuff gave rise to the fantastically successful algorithm now used by physicists in all calculations involving quantum theory. But nobody knows what the unitary stuff really is. Seth of course, defines it as Consciousness Units (CUs,) which have essentially the same attributes as the quantum stuff (waves and particle attributes).

Most quantum physicists, of course, stopped short of calling this unitary substance consciousness.”

“Seth explains that CUs can move faster than light and slow downto the speed of light to form matter. Before matter appears there is a ‘disturbance in the spot of space time where a materialisation is to take place. The slowing down of prior faster than light activity helps freeze the activity into a form.’[As in my friend’s story of seeing the deceased Ken through his window.] The initial faster than light activity and the deceleration cannot be ascertained from within the three dimensional universe…In this connection Bohm says:

‘So matter, as it were, is condensed or frozen light. Light is not merely electromagnetic waves but in a sense other kinds of waves that go at that speed. Therefore all matter is a condensation of light into patterns moving back and forth as average speeds which are less than the speed of light. Even Einstein had some hint of that idea. You could say that when we come to light we are coming to the fundamental activity in which existence has its ground, or at least coming close to it.’”

Consciousness Units will refer to spirits, personalities, memories, instincts, histories, instinctive behaviours, and could be understood as conscious thoughts in the universal ocean of mind. A species of migrating bird will be tuned into the CU of its species in order to safely traverse their often enormously long flight paths. The CU of the flight path combines with the CU that gives rise to the living birds. Memories of the living and departed humans, seem to have a consciousness of their own, they too are CUs, and are accessible to psychics, who will experience the pain, joy or whatever, that belongs to that CU. What Jung calls an archetype, would similarly be a CU.

Whatever has been the conscious experience of any entity at whatever time is probably a CU. We can perhaps compare a CU with an item on the internet. Instantly found and related to other items by writing a search word into Google. The difference is that the internet refers to unconscious print, whereas CUs have a consciousness of their own.

Seth therefore gives us a way of understanding some of the complicated synchronicities found in Into the Wider Dream. Namely, that the conscious energies of a CU by “that reminds me” link to the energies of another, and another. Somehow when the vibration speed of a group of CUs is slowed below the speed of light, then it can manifest as a synchronicity.

Materialisations in a séance will involve slowing down the vibration rate. But on the other hand, we would be maintaining that everything in the material world is also a slowing down of the vibration rate of what exists in ocean of mind, that is reality. Synchronicities, to repeat involve a similar slowing of vibration rate. They break the rules of cause and effect as we know them in the physical. But as suggested, the physical is the product of a higher vibratory dimension where the rules simply follow the pattern of thought in the human mind.. which may indeed have a lot in common with the universal mind that produced all that is.
Thus we have ‘impossible’ synchronicities.

Remember that we are dealing with consciousness units. We have conscious units of mind at work. There is nothing machinelike in the connections. There is nothing machinelike in the relationship of musicians Beethoven and

Liszt to music medium Rosemary Brown. And the consciousness involved, is mostly feeling and emotion.

Materialists confine themselves to the sensory-physical world, where for something to exist there must be three ingredients: it must take time, occupy three dimensions of space, (length, breadth, and height,) and involve either free energy like a flow of water, or an electric current, or energy locked up in some physical object like a brick where we speak of energy having mass. i.e. The four dimensions of Time and space, together with energy/mass.

No energy/mass, then it doesn’t exist. No time or space, then it doesn’t exist.

But that is not the whole truth. The whole truth is that we need to think in FIVE dimensions: Length, Breadth, Height, Time..and… the TIMELESS. Without the Timeless, the other four dimensions could not exist. The Timeless, the Eternal, can be seen as a world of thought memory, and creativity.

Zero point energy field: ”Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics ‘dark energy’, the mysterious force that pushes the Universe to expand at an ever-faster rate against the inward pull of gravity” See this article.

Michael Cocks edits the journal, The Ground of Faith.
Afterlife Teaching From Stephen the Martyr by Michael Cocks is published by White Crow Books and available from Amazon and other bookstores.
His latest book, Into the Wider Dream: Synchronicity in the Witness Box is published by White Crow Books.

Posted on 04 August 2015, 9:03

Recently I wondered how it was possible for me to read about the physicist David Bohm for the first time, say to myself how important it would be for me to study him carefully, go to the mailbox and then find a parcel from the USA with a book with the acknowledgement page reading “thanks to David Bohm and… [my name] Michael Cocks.” First the thought, then five minutes later, the synchronicity in print, in that book from America.

“How was it possible?” That seems to be a scientific question. And if you go to pages 117 ff. in my book, Into the Wider Dream, you will find some really interesting stuff quoted from Norman Friedman’s Bridging Science and Spirit, Common Elements in David Bohm’s Physics, The Perennial Philosophy and Seth. They are very important pages. I am going to quote bits here, without the acknowledgements supplied in the book. (Do you remember Seth?

He’s a trance personality of the late Jane Roberts. Stephen the Martyr is the trance personality of the late medium Tom Ashman whose words are recorded in my book, Afterlife Teaching from Stephen the Martyr. Seth and Stephen both paint similar pictures of reality. As for Seth, I have not studied him sufficiently so will depend on Friedman’s description of his teaching.)

To try and answer the question, “However could….?” we need to think about the Conscious mind and the Subconscious. Friedman calls them “Outer Ego” and “Inner Ego”. “In Seth’s language, outer ego refers to our normal waking consciousness, which operates in the three-dimensional world. The inner ego (another term for the inner self) organises the inner reality of the collective unconscious, thereby creating the substance that we call the three-dimensional world…”

To the scientific layman that is an extraordinary claim. Not so extraordinary for the quantum physicist, however. Be that as it may, both Seth and Stephen see the inner ego as a higher level of consciousness, much more active and knowledgeable than the outer ego. [We see the outer ego in Lawrence LeShan’s Sensory-Physical world, the world of see and touch.]

The outer ego deals day by day with the physical reality created by the inner ego.

The inner ego (or unconscious mind) is both purposeful and highlydiscriminating…

The outer self is the offspring of the inner self.

The inner ego has access to a huge library of knowledge (the collective unconscious) and through its creation of the physical world provides stimuli to keep the outer ego constantly alert and aware…

[This is very apparent in the bewildering array of strange material in Into the Wider Dream. Greek gods, UFOs, and stainless steel saucepan lids jostle for attention.]

Seth uses the analogy of the outer ego acting out the play that the inner ego has written.

Over and over again in the stories related in Into the Wider Dream I have the impression that I am acting out what I sometimes call a scenario, sometimes a play, sometimes I feel the need to divide the play into acts, and then into scenes. But always I am filled with wonder… how on earth did this play in which I am involved get into motion? So often I have the sense that there is some Other that is directing things. I remember when I was a young curate I had a craze on making puppets that I could manipulate for teaching purposes. My craze persisted quite a while, even though puppets and productions were worse than amateurish. Perhaps this was my way of saying to myself what a puppet I felt like in the hands of… yes… what? Fate, God, … what?

Seth does point out that the outer ego should not be perceived as a mere puppet. After all I am a living human being with a family, and with daily quite ordinary challenges, and sometimes overcome by negative emotions. To me it has felt as if I were living the ordinary life, but somehow permeating my ordinary life there began to permeate this play, this scene, scenario, act. That is how I have so often felt.

I personally am not an authority on Seth. In the case of Stephen, we find he gives quite a complex picture of the inner self.. but before I discuss that, we should consider what we become and experience when we die. With regard to the self that has survived death: Is this the Inner Self? Not really: Stephen would say that we have shed the physical body, but that we still have the physical mind in the world of spirit. We can still speak of an Arthur and a Betty communicating to us from the afterlife. Messages from the departed through mediums, and other channels, show an unchanged personality, usually with similar knowledge and beliefs. Not suddenly all-knowing, not suddenly extremely wise. In our afterlife selves however we do find the spiritual senses that we associate with ESP and the paranormal. We may be clairvoyant or clairaudient, we may be able to produce poltergeist phenomena in the physical world. But whatever new powers we may discover in the afterlife, we are still an Arthur and a Betty.

So the phenomenon of synchronicity is extremely important, because it gives us the means to perceive not only the Outer Self that persists into the afterlife, but the Inner Self that projects that Outer Self that has passed from the physical to the spiritual.

Friedman suggests that in a sense, the outer ego is spoonfed - given only that information, including feelings and emotions, and that it can handle. This information is usually in the form of data picked up by the physical senses.

Reports from the afterlife suggest that exactly the same thing occurs there also. Spiritual or physical “matter, in short, is the shape that basic experience takes when the inner ego projects into the three-dimensional world.”

Such a subjective three-dimensionality is reported to be found in the afterlife.

In this cynical Materialist age, it has seemed such an obstacle for Spiritualism, and Consciousness studies in general, to establish the legitimacy of belief in and afterlife, and in the reality of the spiritual senses that we lump together under the heading of psi and the paranormal. Is there an afterlife? Are the spiritual senses real? How can we discuss such matters in polite society? A century of endeavour is bearing some fruit, but in academic circles we have not yet reached the tipping point.

But there is further to go in our thinking, further in our presentation of the truth to the world, and that is that there is an inner self that is more our real self, and that this inner self is more our true self.

There is also a Deeper Self than the inner self. And this is closer to a collective self of humanity. And there will no doubt be deeper and wider selves eventually embracing all that is. But let us not speculate here. Let us simply accept that beyond the outer self manifesting itself in this world and the next, there is an inner self, and that we need to consider its mysteries.

Thinking of the philosophy and science of David Bohm, then we can equate the Inner self, and its deeper layers, with his Implicate world, while the Outer self we can equate with what Bohm calls the Explicate, “unfolded” world.

Much of Carl Jung’s psychology has to do with the Collective Unconscious, and the archetypes, manifesting in dreams, in synchronicity. His Collective Unconscious is to be assigned to the Inner Self and the deeper Collective self, and parallels Bohm’s Implicate order.

The Inner Self is the continuous self persisting from incarnation to incarnation. It has manifested itself in a great many physical selves in different times and places over untold ages of time. Stephen says that we are not to imagine a soul entering a body, leaving the body at death, and then entering another body. Each incarnating physical mind cannot be held guilty of the deeds of its predecessor; each incarnation is a separate experience. Yet the experience each of these outer selves (whether incarnate or not) belongs to the Inner Self, obviously spiritually much richer and more complex than the individual Outer Self, or outer ego.

All this I am afraid, has not answered our question, “How is it possible?” This is only the preamble, to a discuss that I shall pursue in my next blog.

Michael Cocks edits the journal, The Ground of Faith.
Afterlife Teaching From Stephen the Martyr by Michael Cocks is published by White Crow Books and available from Amazon and other bookstores.
His latest book, Into the Wider Dream: Synchronicity in the Witness Box is published by White Crow Books.