Part One: Energetic Information Fields and The Paranormal

For Dr Wu


"As Wolfgang Pauli put it, now that psychology has discovered the objective within consciousness (Jung's collective unconscious) so too physics must discover the subjective in matter. He also suggested that physics must come to terms with "the irrational in matter". The problems that face us have been around since the dawn of philosophy but we happen to be in a particularly privileged position today. Science is producing ever more delicate information about processes within the brain
We are still victim to over two hundred years of mechanistic thinking and we work within a language that reflects and supports such a world view. As soon as we speak about mind and consciousness we find ourselves talking about objects, concepts, things, localization in space, separation and movement in time. Yet both quantum theory and Eastern psychology point to timelessness, active process and the ultimate illusion of the personal observer. It is very difficult for us, even now, to fully embrace the quantum paradigm, even the mathematics of quantum theory is still (paradoxically) expressed using space-time coordinates when the same theory predicts the break down of space-time structure. And time itself, as Prigogine points out, has never been treated correctly in physics." [F.D. Peat]
-Anna Pietropoli, The Forbidden Letters to Phillip Gardiner


Can we objectify the paranormal if we, ourselves, resist objectification by any referential definition? Does that leads us to consider that we ourselves lack the same objective properties in that perhaps we are the locus of a energetic information field rather than simply a being a autonomous object, an individual? Then again consider the dictum that all information is physical. In all my experiences with the paranormal,I have the unverifiable yet strong indication that consciousness, the experiencer of the paranormal, is anything but a localized and isolated phenomenon with an existential existence. What links the experience of the paranormal to us, the subject?

"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
-Alan Watts

I write these pieces as a ritualized form of exorcism that repositions what exists within me into the light of day on this page, as if I were a pathologist in self examination who lacks the capability to discern the evidence within myself, to identify the agency of paranormal events, which, in the end, always recedes into a limitless horizon, the closer and further I travel toward a presumed singularity.
In whatever sensate form we experience these events, perhaps at best we can label them as visualizations of varying orders in our cognizances of them whether we chose to label their origin as arising from without or within ourselves.
We experience absolutely nothing directly as we inhabit a biological chemistry akin to an agency of alchemy which simulates our environment by the processing of information encoded as stimulus transferred to the experiential reality of "Bruce" or "Joe", or for that matter, you yourself reading this chronicle. Last year, two gentlemen by the name of Bruckner and Kofler demonstrated that no many how many particles happen to be in a measurable area and no matter how large an object happens to be, quantum principles still apply. The reason we cannot directly experience this strangeness is the disappointing fact that our our biology is a woefully poor measuring device.
Behind the origin of our environmental adaptation as a persona, there is most certainly a ghost dwelling non locally in the aggregate sum of the prefrontal lobe or the reptilian brain stem, the corpus of a mass, which when examined under the hard shell of a skull, light up as if they were heat lightning viewed from within a cloud in an inexpressible language we computate, as an after effect, in a book we author, entitled subjective reality.At a level at which conscious mental states and material brain states are distinguished, each conscious experience, perhaps has as its physical counterpart a quantum state reduction actualizing “the pattern of activity that is sometimes called the neural correlate of that conscious experience”. Is the physical mind, the brain, simply a reactive agent in transcribing consciousness rather than originating it? This is an area of research in the application of quantum theory to the mind\body dialog that is both profound and fascinating for anyone with an interest in the paranormal.


However, if this process of visualization is reversed in simulation much as it is in the non consensus experience of your dreaming state and steered toward seeking an exterior feedback from your immediate environment of informational input, what, if anything occurs? The imaginable realm of consciousness is capable of creating simulations of events that do not require a foothold in objectified reality. You can create, in other words, events or objects, or experiences that are potentialities much like the yes\no state of quantum science that have no conditional qualifiers in relation to material circumstance...yes, they exist and yet they do not.. depending on which dualistic side of this equation you happen to be observing them from.
Science looks at the mind largely as a closed system exclusively harnessed to a autonomous phenomenon called the body and yet in a paranormal event we seemingly view the same conceptualizing capability and state of this inner visualization played out in a input through our senses from a seemingly exterior reality, whose rules of formulation have been over ridden to make the insensate reality a sensate state.

"If the photon has attributes of consciousness, [then] this could explain how it 'knows' when there are two slits in the double slit experiment, and the apparent non-local connections in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-experiment. These units form what is described as mind, around which the brain structure is formulated. The units permeate the brain. They constitute a quantum energy wave function as waves of electricity and magnetism, originating in the pineal gland, and in conjunction with the activities of the pituitary, thalamus and thyroid, meeting in the cerebral cortex, undergo conversion - one converts the other to its nature. An essential part of this process is that the electrical impulses or currents reaching the cerebral cortex are converted through thalamic moisture or secretions."[
-A.I. Rosenberg

What organic enfoldment allows such a slippage past the broken barricade of our persona immersed in a biochemical simulation of external events which are counter opposed to internal potentialities? Is there an intermediate reality that evidences itself that indicates a spectrum of experiential reality rather than a dichotomy of inner and outer rules?


Does the organ called mind possess a capability or a function, or state that corresponds in a material manner to the potential or intermediary state of the paranormal? Surprisingly, it does. In the work of Dr Evan Walker in his book entitled "The Physics of Consciousness" goes into great detail discussing and examining the synaptic cleft which produces a biochemical energy state which corresponds to a potential state in quantum theory which then, in turn makes one aware of the inference that, in effect we are non local observers who observe our time-space "self" as an entangled and nested hierarchy that produces the familiar experiential platform that corresponds to being here\not here. Dr John Lilly long ago, proposed the the biological organ of mind is a informational transceiver with additional capabilities that were, if you follow the metaphor, not properly programmed in the operating system to function properly. He termed this self programming in order to reformulate the state of the observer in relation to the observed, Meta-programming, which then folds into the work of the "father" of cybernetics, Gregory Bateson.Consciousness is a quantum locus offering possibilities to the match with sensory input and thus with reality. Mental states are not randomly chosen in mental acts but conserve real symmetry and evolve under optimal control (i.e., minimization of the neural action). Cybernetic consciousness here is fully consistent with the first physical principles of quantum field theory. The state of the observer enfolded into the state of the observed.

"If the macrocosmos is in the microcosmos, and all matter nothing but projection, how then could matter not be psychomatter?" - E. Wellington


In the empirical realm of science we see Quantum information science (QIS) which is a new field of science and technology which draws upon the disciplines of physical science, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Its aim is to understand how fundamental physical laws can be harnessed to dramatically improve the acquisition, transmission, and processing of information, which essentially is a metaphor for the mind. Other features of quantum theory, which were found attractive in discussing issues of consciousness, were the concepts of complementarity and entanglement. Pioneers of quantum physics such as Planck, Bohr, Schrödinger, Pauli (and others) emphasized the various possible roles of quantum theory in reconsidering the old conflict between physical determinism and conscious free will. It should be noted that most presentations of this approach do not consistently distinguish between mental states and material states.Dual-aspect approaches consider mental and material domains of reality as aspects, or manifestations, of one underlying reality in which mind and matter are unseparated.
Sound like a description of the paranormal to you? In such a framework, the distinction between mind and matter results from the application of a basic tool for achieving epistemic access to, i.e., gather knowledge about, both the separated domains and the underlying reality. Consequently, the status of the underlying, psychophysically neutral domain is considered as factual or "real" relative to the mind-matter distinction.

In light of these considerations, is the paranormal, a form of leakage from a unrecognized informational field? I think so. In Part Two, we will examine the synaptic cleft in relation to a quantum potential state and then focus on the informational field that perhaps exhibits an implicate ordering in relation to crossing, or more accurately transcending the caricaturisation of reality as a closed system arising from our sensate organisms of biology.