There Is No Death

By Ingrid Fredriksson

Relying only on the kind of thing that can be proved by numbers creates, among other things, an emotional gulf between patients and their doctors. More than fifty years ago, the American philosopher William James, speaking of the possibility of an eventual return to a more personal approach, stated: ‘The rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a useful eccentricity rather than the definitely triumphant position which the sectarian scientist at present so confidently announces it to be.’ Leonard Laskow has noted that ‘something in the relationship between the doctor and the patient comforts and makes healing easier’. He has also developed techniques to try to describe systematically and predictably what modern medical science has lost. In one experiment, two identical groups of bacteria were exposed to antibiotics which normally would have inhibited their growth. But before the antibiotics were added, loving energy was focused on one of the groups of bacteria. The group that was protected by loving energy survived and continued to be mobile, while the control group wasted away. A number of similar experiments finally convinced Laskow that the results he got with energy healing could not be ascribed only to the psychological placebo effect or even to psychoneuroimmunology in general. In order to understand how our thoughts or feelings can influence our body, we must understand that our body is not only physical, or material. Einstein accepted that matter and energy are equivalent and mutually interchangeable aspects of a single underlying reality or ‘universal field’. In other words, everything is energy in different phases of vibration and motion. Just as the sea consists of many currents and waves that are moving simultaneously in various directions and with varying force, so our body consists of many pulsating, interacting energy fields. Though we think of our body as a solid physical mass, its mass is quite simply energy that has been given that particular form. Within the energy system we call the human body are a great many subsystems that contribute to healing us and keeping us healthy. These include the lymphatic system, the circulatory system, the nervous system, the muscular system, the immune system, the digestive system, and the endocrine system, and all of these act together. Each one of them is receptive to the subtle energies that come from both inside and outside the body.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Siljans Måsar Publishing House
• Release date: May 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9789186799199

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There Is No Death –

Our Life Goes On

Ingrid Fredriksson

There Is No Death –

Our Life Goes On

Ingrid Fredriksson

Siljans Måsar Publishing House

Translation: Anna Cleaves, MA, U.S.

Cover painting: Hans Arnold

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First published in Sweden 2010 by Siljans Måsar Förlag.

Printed by: ScandBook, Falun 2010

First ebook edition.

Sweden 2012

There is no death – our life goes on

By Ingrid Fredriksson

Copyright Siljans Måsar Publishing House 2014

Published by Siljans Måsar Publising House at Smashwords

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Karl Pribram, Ph.D., for the holographic idea. Thanks also to David Bohm Ph.D. and Albert Einstein for your marvellous knowledge. This three men are for me the world´s most eminent thinkers.

Thanks to Michael Talbot for The Holographic Universe and to Leif Erlingsson as recommend it to me. Thanks also to Guiseppe Vitiello, Ph. D. and Jens A. Tellefsen Jr, Ph. D, for useful ideas.

Thanks to my family – they have been patient with me. Thanks to Yarrow Cleaves for professional translating and to Hans Arnold for the wonderful illustrations. At last but not least: Thanks to the wonderful holographic universe!

Foreword

When I studied surgery-queues, I realized how important it is for us people to have control over our lives. When the people knew the day for a surgery – even if it was a year later – they keep the feeling of control. If we, like Swedenborg, know what happens with our consciousness when we die, it would spare much suffering (and money).

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a scientist and one of the universal geniuses of his time. Among other things, he had out-of-body experiences. In the course of his ‘journeys’ Swedenborg had learned ‘that the human being after death is in possession of all her senses and of every memory, thought and feeling she has enjoyed in the world and that she leaves nothing behind but her earthly body’.Swedenborg is not the only individual in history who possessed the ability to make out-of-body journeys to the subtler levels of realty. The twelfth-century Persian Sufis also employed deep trancelike meditation to visit the land where spirits dwell.

There is extensive literature purporting to give information of those who have been on the other side for some time. Although such sources are beyond the scope of this book, ignoring them completely would make for a lopsided view of the postmortem survival issue. Each of the world religions tells a story: the Bible, the Upanishads, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Their empirical foundations are, however, very difficult to trace. Communications with the dead are widely claimed. According to a national opinion poll conducted by Greeley (1975) every fourth American says that he or she has had contact with the dead. Haraldsson (1976) obtained similar results in Iceland, and some even say that they have talked with them (Rees, 1971). Legitimate, scientific studies of such are rather scarce, though.

The brain functions holographically and quantum mechanically says the Hungarian quantum physicist István Dienes, who is managing the legacy of his world-famous countryman Dennis Gábor in an exciting fashion. Yes, Dienes and a number of today’s outstanding researchers think that the world is a gigantic hologram. And if they are right, we are living in an illusory world, which the ancient Hindu Vedas call Maya. In the course of his studies of the Vedic scriptures, Dienes has found clear connections between Hindu thought, modern holography and quantum mechanics. And at Maharishi’s European Research Institute in Switzerland he introduced a conceivable physical model of consciousness, which he called the holomatrix of consciousness.

A hologram, as we know, is a three-dimensional image that is created with the help of a laser beam. The first person who pursued the achievement was the Hungarian Dennis Gábor, who received the Nobel Prize in 1971. He split a laser beam and directed one half at an object, which was photographed. The other half, in turn, was made to collide with the reflected light from the first one. And what happened?

The collision generated a pattern, which was registered on film. Subsequently, when a laser beam crossed the pattern on the film Gábor discovered behind the film a three-dimensional image of the object he had photographed. That discovery was followed by an even more remarkable discovery. When the holographic film was cut into small pieces, through which a laser beam was shone, it was seen that every piece had the same characteristic of being able to reproduce a three-dimensional image; that is, the information about the whole existed in each part of the film.

It was not understood at that time, but the underlying law came to be known as non-locality, since the information that was needed in order to produce the image was not localized at any definite piece of the holographic film but existed in every part of the film at the same time.

For some time back, the science argues for the universe as a whole being a kind of gigantic hologram, a mirroring of another reality, in which neither time nor space exists – the world is a detailed illusion.

The theory is certainly rejected by many, but it is gaining ever more ground. According to the quantum physicist David Bohm, every part of the universe is connected with everything. It is not possible to break anything out of the whole and examine it separately. A statement that makes today’s specialists go crazy. They, of course, reduce everything into small separated details and believe that the sum of the details gives the whole.

István Dienes reasons the same way as David Bohm when it comes to the human brain. With his holomatrix model, Dienes completed the theory that was first introduced by Dr. Karl Pribram. Karl Pribram, neurophysiologist at Stanford University, reasons the same way as David Bohm. He was seeking something other than the explanation provided by the standard models to solve neurophysiological puzzles.

Karl Pribram, neurophysiologist at Stanford University, was seeking something other than the explanation provided by the standard models to solve neurophysiological puzzles. Thus they approached the problem from different directions, and both agreed that the brain – the entire universe – is a hologram. Here was the solution to many problems. And more than that, the holographic model was also capable of explaining problems that had been ‘inexplicable’ (and therefore denied by scientists), among which are telepathy, precognition, near death experiences (NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and psychokinesis.

Neither Dennis Gabor, David Bohm nor I think (thought) of the Universe as a hologram. The holographic arrangement is an enfolded (implicate) background for the space- time universe we navigating. It is a potential reality rather than the experienced reality that we navigate. Substitute the term oscillations for waves -- or perturbations. Waves occur in space-time and therefore do not occur in the holographic, implicate, order, says Karl Pribram.

The brain has many characteristics that can be associated with holograms. The interference between (perceptual and memory) waves results in oscillations at their points of interference. All perception can be analysed through Fourier analysis. The brain’s microprocesses and physical microprocesses can be described according to principles of quantum theory. He wants to argue that consciousness arises through dendrite processes while axial processes are not associated with consciousness. Sir Roger Penrose, professor emeritus at Oxford and one of the greatest scientists of theoretical physics, among other things the discoverer of the energy of black holes in space, thinks that consciousness must be a quantum phenomenon because the neurons are too large to have anything to do with consciousness. In the neurons there is a cytoskeleton with microtubules, which control the synapse function. Penrose thinks that consciousness arises from the microtubules and is an interaction between classical physics and quantum physics. He has developed the theory together with Stuart Hameroff. Penrose distinguishes between objective and subjective reduction. Objective reduction (Penrose has discovered) is a type