"Consciousness, Spirit and the Mind"
by Dr. Mark
Pitstick
Remembering our true
spiritual natures is a prerequisite for
enjoying this earth-walk and fulfilling our
soul's missions.
Many esteemed
scientists lend further proof that we each
are beings of energy and indestructible
souls.
Dr. Friedbert Karger,
German physicist at Munich's Max Planck
Institute, has extensively studied afterlife
phenomena
and states: "The
consciousness--or soul--of a man lives
beyond the body. The body is a tool that
consciousness uses.
When the body dies, the
soul remains. . . Death is not an end but a
transition from one state to another." He
says that many
famous physicists have
expressed an interest in the spiritual
world.
Max Planck, founder of
quantum physics, said "Spirit is the
original basis of all matter, reality, true
existence." Albert
Einstein stated,
"Everyone who is seriously involved in the
pursuit of science becomes convinced that a
Spirit is manifest in the Laws of the
Universe."
Thomas Edison believed
in life beyond death and apparently visited
beatific realms just before death. After
momentarily awakening from a coma, he
stated: "It is very beautiful over
there."
Wilder Penfield, M.D.,
is widely considered to be the father of
neurosurgery and is responsible for much of
our current
understanding of brain
function. Like some of his medical
colleagues, Penfield thought for many years
that there was no consciousness independent
of the brain.
He believed that all human behavior could be
explained on the basis of brain function.
After fifty years of
research, he changed his mind.
As Penfield said in his
last book, The Mystery of the Mind, "I came
to take seriously, even to believe, that the
consciousness of man,
the mind, is NOT something to be reduced to
brain mechanism. . . What a thrill it is,
then, to
discover that the
scientist, too, can legitimately believe in
the existence of the spirit! . . . Where did
the mind--call it
the spirit if you
like--come from? Who can say? It
exists."
In Changes of Mind, New
York State University researcher Jenny Wade,
Ph.D., states, "Discoveries in the physical
sciences
--notably quantum
physics, field and chaos theory, and
holography--are introducing a new concept of
reality more congruent with the Eastern and
ancient mystical worldviews.
The new paradigm
differs from Newtonianism on the
fundamentals, such as time and space, matter
and mind, and
science and
spirituality." Of this new paradigm, Nobel
Laureate George Wald, Ph.D., states the
assumption that mind ". . . has existed
always as the matrix, the source and
condition of physical reality--that the
stuff of which physical reality is
composed is
mind-stuff."
True science seeks to
explain and understand without rejecting the
unknown out-of-hand.
In "Messages from the Masters", noted
psychiatrist Brian Weiss, M.D., states:
"Being analytical is completely compatible
with being open-minded. . . . science and
spirituality, long considered antithetical,
are coming together.
Physicists and
psychiatrists are becoming the mystics of
the modern time. We are confirming what
prior mystics knew
intuitively. We are
all divine beings."
(excerpts from "Soul
Proof" by Dr. Mark Pitstick)
