>the root of consciousness is wholly beyond what we term physical nature, that is, the space–time universe that our senses apprehend, and that consciousness is related to life as meaning is to expression. Consciousness intrudes into our space–time universe by means of organic developments, but springs from another dimension altogether, coming, as it were, from inside out. Consciousness, as such, is deathless since it belongs to a plane of reality that is beyond life and death as well as beyond time and space—death being merely the withdrawal of consciousness from the space–time universe of phenomena that we can observe from outside; what dies and is reborn, however, is the expression of consciousness, that is, organic life.What are some good books and authors that talk about this immortality of human consciousness?So far i've got:>Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker>Gopi Krishna>Sri Aurobindo>Amaury De Riencourt>Satprem>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin>Ramesh Balsekar
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Give the the materialist qrd.
>>42346199>At this point, the ultimate material reality that physics can apprehend is the “field”, and in the aspect of the quantum field, it is both a continuum and a discontinuum, the discontinuities being temporary condensations of space–time where the field is unusually intense, giving rise to corpuscular matter. Einstein put it bluntly in stating that in the new physics, there is no longer room for both the field and matter because the field is the only reality.>A noted physicist points out that while it was believed, in the nineteenth century, that all interactions involved material things, this is no longer considered to be true. It is now accepted that there are completely non-material fields, described by some of the most important equations of quantum mechanics—fields that can be abstract.>In Eastern mysticism, the process was reversed—man is potentially divine and all he has to do is to strip away the veils of ignorance (avidyā) created by the phenomenal material world and the mental activity that goes with it; he must dispel the unreal world of māyā in order to reach identification with his true, timeless Self. >Physical science now, too, tells us quite plainly that it does not describe and explain an objectively real material world separate from us but merely a physical world subjected to our questions; physical science has now become a description of the interplay between man and the material world, nothing more; there is not, and cannot be, a truly objective picture of the universe per se.
