For 25 years I’ve been banging on about why your brain isn’t a library, but a television set, picking up information from the Zero Point Field, where all your memories are housed. And now the latest scientific evidence is beginning to agree.
In my book The Field, I wrote about the extraordinary work of the late neuroscientist, Dr. Karl Pribram. In 1948, Pribram, then the protégé of Dr. Karl Lashley, a noted neuropsychologist, carried out a gruesome experiment with rats to discover which portion of their brains housed memory.
This experiment entailed teaching the rat to climb on a jumping stand and jump through miniature doors to reach a reward of food. To underscore the object of the exercise, those that didn’t respond correctly fell into pond water.
Then Lashley set out systematically burning portions of the rats’ brains (with his wife’s curling iron!) to find out which portion held the key to specific memories. But even when he’d burned the majority of the rats’ grey matter, their motor skills might be vastly impaired, and they might stagger disjointedly along, but the rats always remembered the routine.
Lashley and Pribram both concluded that there is no precise address in the brain for memories, and possibly other functions. If there was no one single spot where particular memories were stored – and Lashley had burned, variously, every part of a rat’s brains – then our memories and possibly other higher cognitive processes must somehow reside elsewhere.
Pribram went on to show that consciousness was a quantum process: thoughts were wave interference patterns and the brain a highly discriminating frequency analyzer. Perceiving the world was a matter of tuning into the Zero Point Field.
Then Walter Schempp, a German mathematics professor revolutionized MRI scanning by discovering that information about things in the world, including their three-dimensional shape, is carried in the quantum fluctuations of the Zero Point Field. His machines operated by recording this information from The Field and reassembling it into a three-dimensional image.
The inescapable conclusion: the Zero Point Field was a vast memory store.
After Pribram’s discoveries, scientists from Japan and elsewhere, including the late systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, argued that the brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism of the ultimate storage medium — The Field — and what we think of as memory is the emission of signals in The Field.
The latest evidence
And now a quarter century later, scientists are beginning to agree with these early pioneers.
Dr. Joachim Keppler, a German physicist, specializing in particle physics and quantum field theory, and now director of the DIWISS (Research Institute for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) has published numerous papers showing that the brain indeed is a receiving mechanism from the Field, not a hard drive that stores specific memories and that tiny microcolumns in the brain resonate directly with the Zero Point Field.
For instance, during moments of light dreaming when the brain is processing information after some sort of stimuli (like an argument), the brain ‘writes’ information into the Zero Point Field. And then, when you remember something, your brain tunes into The Field, turning the dial to retrieve information.
The brain isn’t flipping through the filing cabinet inside your head, it’s tuning into a giant broadband channel. And its memory of the situation is exactly how you interpreted it at the time it was generated – with all the pain or shame you experienced, then and there.
Support for this idea comes from the long-time work of Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona, and Oxford University physicist and Nobel laureate Dr. Roger Penrose. The two scientists have demonstrated for decades that the tiny microtubules, or hollow tubes, which act as a scaffold for every cell, help to create consciousness by oscillating with vibrations from The Field.
All this suggests that our brain is not a computer housing all our thoughts, including memories, but a television that tunes into certain channels.
And if all this is the case, we can change our original transmission to create a revised memory that includes one that enables us to take back our power.
