Given the state of the Northeast Coast after the destruction Hurricane Sandy left in her wake, today’s radio show will likely be postponed since the producers are in New York City. I’ll keep you abreast of the situation. Meanwhile, I hope all of you will continue to send your prayers and light to that devastated area.

As far as the Yahoo contest is concerned, voting has closed, and we anxiously await the final results. Of course the chances are slim. For example, some of the nominees have huge congregations backing them up. Nevertheless, I’m just so grateful for the outpouring of love and effort from all of you, and I’m tickled pink for even having been nominated at all!

And now, our own, Betty Daniel, shared this Huffpo article. I thought it was so fascinating that I couldn’t help but jump Erik’s queue of wisdom and post it. Sorry Erik. Tomorrow I plan to post some interesting information about Mother Earth.

Scientist Shows What Happens To ‘Soul’ After Death

In a video that recently aired on “Through the Wormhole” narrated by Morgan Freeman on the TV channel Science, Dr. Hameroff claims, “I believe that consciousness, or its immediate precursor proto-consciousness, has been in the universe all along, perhaps from the Big Bang.”

Understanding where consciousness comes from could solve mysteries such as what happens to the “soul” during near-death experiences, or when a person dies.

Dr. Hameroff goes on to share hypothetical scenarios derived from the Orch-OR (orchestrated objective reduction) theory of consciousness that he and Roger Penrose, mathematician and physicist, proposed in 1996. According to the theory, consciousness is derived from microtubules within brain cells (neurons) which are sites of quantum processing.

But what exactly is consciousness, where does it come from and can it be scientifically proven? Dr. Stuart Hameroff, MD, is Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Center of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona and much of his research over the past few decades has been in the field of quantum mechanics, dedicated to studying consciousness.

According to Dr. Hameroff, in a near-death experience, when the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, and the microtubules lose their quantum state, the quantum information in the microtubules isn’t destroyed. It’s distributed to the universe at large, and if the patient is revived, the quantum information can go back to the microtubules. In this event, the patient says they had something like a near-death experience, i.e. they saw white light or a tunnel or floated out of their body. In the event that the patient is not revived, “it’s possible that the quantum information can can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul,” he said.

The Orch-OR theory of consciousness remains controversial in the scientific community. Many scientists and physicists have challenged it, including MIT physicist Max Tegmark, who wrote a paper in 2000 that was widely cited.

Still, Dr. Hameroff believes that “nobody has landed a serious blow to the theory. It’s very viable.”

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