Education is Freedom
Paulo Friere
Stalking The Wild Pendulum: On The Mechanics of Consciousness
by Itzhak Bentov
“Matter, being made of quanta of energy, is the vibrating, changing component of pure consciousness.”
Consciousness has always been a major problem in scientific circles. The “hard” problem of consciousness as it has become known stems from the fact that it’s presence is clearly felt and experienced by each and every one of us, yet there remains no scientific or objective evidence for it’s existence at all. The paradigm of consciousness miraculously springing out of an organised collection of presumably unconscious matter continues to be a thorn in the side of those with a purely materialistic worldview.
Yet paradoxically it is through the process of scientific investigation that phenomenal insights into the nature of consciousness are revealed. Itzhak Bentov makes the connection between established scientific principles of wave behaviour, the foundational nature of our reality, and our mental experience of this reality, ultimately bridging the gap between our seemingly separate objective and subjective worlds. It is revealed that to understanding the workings of consciousness allows us to influence reality itself.
The path to this understanding is paved with the following major stepping stones:
1) All objective reality exists as vibrational energy.
2) All distinct organisations or structures of this vibrational energy have a natural resonant frequency.
3) Systems will preferentially absorb, amplify and re-emit vibrational energy that matches it’s natural frequency through mutual resonance.
4) Your state of consciousness emits vibrational energy at a tunable frequency.
5) All vibrational energy (i.e. all reality) is pure consciousness in motion.
For those searching for a key to the universe, to have the meaning behind scientific concepts deftly woven together in such a cerebral, cohesive whole is nothing short of life-changing.