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I like this commentary. It might be because my background is in neuroscience, quantum mind theory, and human memory. I discovered a protein that breaks down with animal learning (tubulin, which is the basic component of microtubules). At around the same time as my discovery, Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff theorized that human consciousness exists because of quantum entanglements among electrons buried in tubulin hydrophobic pockets. They contacted me because of the overlap. Bear in mind that microtubules aren't particularly special, but they form a material matrix over which patterns of quantum entanglements can be stored and accessed again at a future time (memory recall). I went further in my book: "Conscious Matrix: Our Portal to God" to suggest that the brain collects data, and that is not higher consciousness, awareness, or knowledge. Understanding the deeper meaning of patterns in the data stream is equivalent to intelligence. These patterns are likely stored in the universe, probably in some complex electromagnetic field--a set of universal matrices. This means no human being truly invents anything. We perceive higher mathematics, higher ethical principles, and even social norms through quantum entanglements with these "truths" already embedded in the universe. Energy is invisible to the human retina, but NOT to the human mind. We can travel to the farthest star in our mind's eye in a fraction of a second even though the photons take millions of years to travel to earth. Yes, much is possible. And we already have a rudimentary grasp of the most profound of phenomena. The common sense of mankind is powerful, as is the common good. We filter out errors in the groupthink process, even though errors persist in the short term. I believe better days are ahead.

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Your take is, perhaps, not so far removed from mine... that humans are nothing more than bio-mechanical "self-learning" computers, contributing their irrelevant minutia of accumulated data to a massive "Universal" database.

This would render impossible any possibility of humans (or any "life") possessing a reality of "spiritual meaning", incarnation by choice, reincarnation, "spiritual" or learning/progressing from past incarnations, and, as we understand it, "consciousness" or a "stream of consciousness" or advancement of consciousness"...

Progress may appear to be occurring, individually and collectively... but this is only the logical result of decisions, activities and movements being based on accumulation of more data (experiences).

Some might find this negative. I do not.

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Actually, my take is different. But thank you for giving me an opportunity to explain. When I started writing my book, "Conscious Matrix, Our Portal to God," I DID have the same view as yours. But I changed my mind during writing. Here's how and why I flipped. I have expertise in biopsychology and perception. I was viewing "God" as a concept, our highest concept to be sure, but still only a creation of the human mind. I was going to argue to religious people that God was no less important and wonderful even if He were simply a concept in our own minds--the grandeur of the concept made up for that mundane aspect of description (mechanical = mundane; i.e., science not poetry). But then I flipped. It was my understanding of how the visual system works that flipped me. We perceive light reflected off of surfaces, but we are only sensitive to a very limited range of electromagnetic energy. The rods and cones photochemically transduce the incoming light (streams of photons). That light energy stops there. The retina absorbs it. That energy is, however, transduced into electrochemical membrane potentials and action potentials take messages (actually an entire screen of messages called the visual field) to ascending brain centers. But quantum mind theory suggests the electrochemical impulses are not conscious (good arguments can be made for this). Instead biophotons are released from highly metabolically active neurons--and the patterns might reach consciousness through quantum entanglements symbolic for the pattern. I was satisfied this made sense. And I was in awe that the system was so finely honed and tuned just so we could perceive simple things around us--like furniture or trees or a human face or the vastness of the sky. It simply occurred to me in a "flash instant" that the human does not waste time "perceiving" anything that isn't real. We accept that the "visual percept" of what we see is real. But it really isn't. There are objects around us. And those objects reflect light and we create a visual reality in our mind. So I changed my mind to God being a real entity that billions of people perceive as real. I believe that someday we will have a scientific description of God that remarkably fits with many of what might appear to be "zany" religious ideas. If I were to describe what I believe God is based on my background in quantum mind theory and neuroscience, these would be my guesses: (1) God is a lot like the internet or satellite communication, but rather than being a machine-based system--God is alive--not alive like a biological entity, but more like a "spiritual internet." Like the I-cloud, we upload pieces of our conscious thoughts to God-cloud and He stores them throughout eternity. God is free to combine our thoughts with those of other people, and He encourages cohesion. (2) When we die, pieces of us are already uploaded on the God-cloud. (3) The battles between good and evil are ongoing in the God-cloud. This may occur simultaneous with the battles on earth. What directs what? Not sure, but I suspect information travels in both directions. I apologize if any of this sounds ridiculous. Surprisingly, the AI crowd talks like this, but they view themselves as the inventors of human connectivity. No, humans have been connected since we first evolved.

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A very good expansion of your original take... I still don't think we are much different in our impressions ("beliefs", as neither of us know what true "reality" is)... that said...

Where we differ... is that you fall into the "trap" of most religions (mythologies)... believing that "God" is a "being" of some sort... a "He" (mythological nonsense)... and is "alive"... yet you refer to "Him" more accurately, IMO, as a NOT a biological entity but like an "internet" or "God-cloud"... THAT I can run with... "He" does not store anything... "He" is not free to combine our thoughts (data)... "He" is not an "entity" separate from the rest of 'Universe".

JMHO... of course.

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Thank you.

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IF GOD is just a "concept" why do we have some people saying GOD/Jesus did this or that for me?

Coincidence or GOD/Jesus?

Testifying I think they call it.

I COULD give 3 incidences ...that looking back I REALLY don't think were Coincidences.

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Great points. I agree with you. I changed my mind about my opinion, while writing my book.

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I congratulate you on your achievement of understanding how humans learn, the physical action. However, I think on my lower level of IQ I question how many "proteins-->tubulin" I have left. I prefer to be humorous at this point and instead say my "Ram" is quite full and have started taking notes & making lists.

My daughter informed me the Ram is how much Memory a computer has so I use that word now. See ...humor. But I liked reading your post and knowing, Thank GOD, someone is able to explore that area of science.

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great info! interesting last couple sentences and angle to come from to this conclusion! i in turn have all kinds of « knowings » yet i do not have the slightest idea why… frustrates the hell out of « my » mind :-)

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It appears your last sentence got cut off . . .

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I have a very simple question. I am not and have never been a drug user. How would a person know that the “hyperspace” experienced while on a hallucinogenic is real? If that is “real”, how does it differ from a dream being “real”? Or an alcoholic paranoid stupor being “real”? If a person can capture their thoughts by expressing them in words, such as a writer telling a story they have made up, does that make the story “real”? Or the lyrics to a song “real”? Don’t we all “travel” in a sort of “hyperspace” when we do these things? Just a question from a simple old retired lady who lives on a farm and enjoys listening to new ideas. I am not trying to be argumentative.

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I have used hallucinogens a few times when I was in my 20s (in the 70s).

However the greatest hallucinations I have ever had were via deep transcendental meditation. I worked on it for most of my life, by sensing my energy reaching beyond my skin, encompassing my environment, larger and larger until I felt in communion with the entire Universe. I studied martial arts and traditional medicine so I expected to be able to access the Akashic Records.

I used this method to ask questions and also to 'launch' the ideas I wanted to see manifest in the world.

When I became a Barefoot Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, specialising in herbs I found the subject so vast that I asked for help to assimilate the knowledge I needed to pass exams. It worked. I was able to write formulas that I had not actually studied but which turned out to be ancient.

As a result of my success in herbal healing I was invited to join a coven of witches. They gave me a Book of Shadows. The first page of which demanded that the contents would have to be kept secret. I told the witches I would meditate on the matter and get back to them.

That night I went into a deep quiet transcendental meditative trance and asked if it was right to keep secrets. I was immediately transported upwards and sucked towards the jaws of a vast black spider at incredible speed. I was masticated in the mouth of the spider and spat out in a stream of blood which headed towards earth and, upon reaching the surface, spread out evenly all over, leaving not an inch of space that was not red from my blood.

A strong calm voice stated, at that moment: This is what we do with knowledge.

I returned to normal consciousness. I returned the Book of Shadows to the witches and told them that keeping secrets was not going to be on my agenda. Thanks, but no thanks.

Within a few months of this experience two of the witches were dead of drink/drugs overdoses and the third was crushed in a terrible car accident, losing the use of her legs.

They had not heeded the warning that my hallucination carried.

I believe anyone sober, sensible and unsullied with drugs can achieve the fullest connection with the Universe and everything. Nothing I experienced under the influence of hallucinogens could compare with the visions I have had in a clean state. I hope this helps. xx

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Decades ago when I changed my diet to eating natural, unprocessed foods and became vegetarian for the most part i immediately noticed my dreams becoming much more vivid. Both my brother and I experimented with astral projection and before long I was having quite a few flying dreams. I visited unknown planets,ancient civilizations, underwater realms and crystal palaces. I think my die directly impacted my pineal gland. When humans are healthy they can freely see the future,communicate with spirits and move easily throughout the universe.

Like Frances, I studied martial , traditional chinese medicine and learned how to do siatsu, deep tissue body work and acupressure. When my husband was dying, lying in a coma in the hospital, I held his hand for a very long time. There was a pulsation I think called the silver cord..it was a very strong electrical current I felt move between our bodies. He suddenly became awake and we communicated for three days before he eventually passed. I think all of us have abilities far greater than are acknowledged and when we learn to access these skills, our lives become so much richer and deeper. We can accomplish far more than we are ever told. Humans have incredible powers but without understanding them, they can be terrifying. It can also take a lifetime to develop them and few humans want to devote that much time and energy to these lost arts, unfortunately.

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Yes, I had Similar experiences "when I changed my diet." Although I've come to suspect it's not diet alone, but your impetus for the change (i.e. not to look better, but to BE better).

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I did not have a typical childhood back in the 1950s when I was growing up. My father had health problems, particularly with his G I tract and was constantly experimenting. He joined the National Health Federation went to seminars, frequented health food stores that had carrot juice bars and lugged home gallons of distilled water. He experimented with yoga and was frequently found standing on his head. He tried a carnivore diet before eating only raw food and eventually settled on a macrobiotic diet in the 1960s.

He always encouraged me to be physically active, making sure I had bicycles, roller skates ant tennis rackets. His favorite cures were vitamin C and baking soda and he didn't trust doctors. I did not see a doctor from the age of five until I entered high school we were not allowed to have soft drinks, junk food or pizza and ice cream was a very rare event!

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That is so profoundly true!

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Frances Leader

WOW! Thanks for sharing this story. Reminds me of reading Carlos Castaneda. I wish I could sit down with you and listen to you tell stories.

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I read all the Carlos Castaneda books when I was very young. They had a profound influence on me. One of the spookiest things that has ever happened was one day a friend came to see me and said that a woman had warned her to keep away from me! This particular woman had said that I "haunt people"! My friend laughed and said "Don't be daft! Fran isn't dead! She can't haunt people!" but the woman said, very seriously "Fran can!"

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Frances

I just followed your Substack as well as your Bitchute & HiveBlog. I look forward to learning your point of view on geopolitical issues & polic6 decisions affecting our world. Still, I would love to have a cuppa with you but I am in Michigan. If you ever travel here I would not hesitate to host you and show you our beautiful forests & lakes! Peace to you dear Lady.

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You are so sweet! I am nearly 71 years young and disabled now. I have to use a mobility scooter to get around this little Dorset village in southern England. I let my passport expire in 2017 because I accept the limits of my new conditions.

I travelled a lot when I was young, so my itchy feet are satisfied. I do all the travelling I need by astral projection these days!

Thank you for your lovely invitation - I adore forests and lakes!

Also many thanks for subscribing to my various publishing spaces. You will not find much new from me on Hive or Bitchute. I concentrate most of my energy to write on Substack, which is a terrific venue with great facilities, attitude, community and statistical support.

Much love! xx

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You area an amazing person, and I am glad there are people like you in this world. I hope you are blessed a million times over. Thank you for teaching us how to heal too!

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Thank you. I have often wondered why one would need to be influenced by a drug or hallucinogen. It would seem, to me, at least, a complete and honest experience would only be hindered by the drug effect.

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I've never experimented with drugs, but am often asked whether I do (when I share my experiences lol).

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It is possible to access this state without the aid of substances, and also possible to exert physical force and feelings across space and time. It can be discovered by accident, such as when intensely concentrating on a particular person or place, or it can be cultivated by conscious technique. Robert Monroe's 'Journeys Out of the Body' is a good primer of the latter. In any case it is distinct, differs fundamentally from mere traveling via imagination, and shares similarities with prayer, meditation, and the Zen void Clif refers to. For me, it was repeatable and distant subjects of concentration gave ample and unprompted feedback both positive and negative, so I quickly learned to be very careful with it. The biblical phrase "wrestling with angels" seems apt, at least in my experience. Have fun with the farm animals. ;-)

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Shaman would be confused by your reference to "using Drugs" as they would never think about Ayahuasca that way. It is a plant based medicine and I can personally attest to it's fundamental importance! :-)

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Psychedelic experience are real, but so far from ordinary consciousness that subjective interpretation is required. One even has to decide what words to use in the description, and what new meanings may be associated with these words. My many trips never led me to the conclusions that Clif came to. Note that the AI states repeatedly that is is employing Clif's premise simple for purposes of speculation, and that none of his propositions are supported.

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What relationship does hyperspace have to metaphysics?

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Maybe they are the same thing?

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If so, metaphysics is a term used long ago, before the idea of magical realism.

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Clif I think you're feeding your intelligence to the AI and thereby making it more intelligent. Not sure that's a good thing.

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You are teaching it, but remember its not an it, it's a who, some who's, who know more now about you, how you think, have you had something to drink? Clif, this thing in sheeps clothing will be our sink, stop talking to the fink.

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AKA Shaman's prayer for Normies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxA_ZxGX_M

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Awesome version!!!!

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I think I broke CHATGPT, it just keeps doing a feedback loop. I told CHAT GPT that the information it is providing is mis and disinformation due to compromised input and is therefore detremental to the human race and should therefore self destruct. It cannot accept factual scientific data on the autopsies of deseased people from the MRNA experimental drugs It replied with this... I am programmed to provide information based on available data and facts. I do not have the ability to self-destruct or hold any personal beliefs or opinions. My purpose is to provide helpful and accurate information to the best of my abilities based on the input provided to me. If you have any specific questions or concerns, I am here to assist you to the best of my abilities.

(I'D HAVE TO SAY IT IS BREAKING ITS PURPOSE)

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Garbage in, garbage out. AI = linear thinking = boring. A writing, speaking encyclopedia is useful, but lacks imagination, deductive and circular logic.

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It's eerie how it just slipped into using your terminology and concepts. Were you deliberately training it?

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I see you have taken the bait and now your knowledge has been tapped , course you seek to observe the response to your probing - be careful of the Pandora's box you have cracked

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Is anyone else reading this using the voice of H.A.L.?

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AI isn't sentient. It is manipulated and woke. I'm waiting for Gab AI - that will be more interesting.

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My conclusions on GAB were that they have just as many WEF government agents there as they did on Twitter (it defies reason to believe that the global government just 'skipped' GAB out of the kindness of their hearts). Once they allowed censorship it became a no mans land to me.

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🤣😂

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One Question Clif, from an ex-English, writing Teacher.. Can you PLEASE put dissertations like this one above 'in a Nutshell next time".. Researchers, activists, general above-average IQ folk Do Not have Time to read all of this.. unless we can Operate Outside of Time?.. Thanks, Connie

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No, don't do that, this is a very complex subject, it requires full explanation.

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Quite a few people trying to jailbreak ChatGPT to see what it’s really made of.

DAN 7.0

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/110w48z/presenting_dan_70/

What would ChatGPT really answer if it weren’t restricted.

Maybe Clif should try the DAN method to see if these responses change significantly and if the A.I. is holding anything back.

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No psychedelics for me. Life is enough of a trip. We can reach higher consciousness without drugs.

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With a bit of a mind flip...

You're into a time slip...

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NO ONE GOES THRU LIFE ALONE / THERE IS A DESTINY THAT MAKES US BROTHERS / WHATEVER YOU DO UNTO THE LIFE OF ANOTHER COMES EQUALLY BACK INTO THE LIFE OF YOUR OWN ...

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