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THE COMING REVOLUTION OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESSCONSCIOUSNESS

A DIFFERENT STORY A DIFFERENT STORY OF THE UNIVERSEOF THE UNIVERSE

Walking Between Worlds Walking Between Worlds UFOUFOss & CONSCIOUSNESS & CONSCIOUSNESS

NON-ORDINARY NON-ORDINARY HUMAN EXPERIENCEHUMAN EXPERIENCE

HOW TO AWAKEN FROM THE HOW TO AWAKEN FROM THE MATRIX USING SELF-ENQUIRYMATRIX USING SELF-ENQUIRY

RE-CONNECTING RE-CONNECTING WITH SOURCEWITH SOURCE

Channelling the Channelling the Collective Unified FieldCollective Unified Field

REALITY? REALITY? IT’S ALL IN THE MINDIT’S ALL IN THE MINDIn Conversation with In Conversation with Bernardo KastrupBernardo Kastrup

‘SET IT ALL ON FIRE’‘SET IT ALL ON FIRE’David Bohm’s David Bohm’s Implicate OrderImplicate Order

MIND OF LIGHTMIND OF LIGHTOptical Networks in the BrainOptical Networks in the Brain

MYSTERY OF MYSTERY OF TRANSCENDENCETRANSCENDENCE

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3 Not a Chance! A Different Story of the Universe By Chris Thomson

9 Reality? It’s All in the Mind In Conversation with Bernardo Kastrup ByGregMoffitt

15 Reality? What a Concept By Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

17 Mind of Light Optical Networks in the Brain (and Beyond) By Dr. Shelli Joye

23 Mystical Experience & the Evolution of Consciousness A Twenty-First Century Gnosis By Gary Lachman

29 Entangled Minds By Dr. Joe Dispenza

31 The Meaning of Being & Our Unique Part of the One Cosmic Consciousness By Dr. Andrew Lohrey

35 ‘Set It All On Fire’ David Bohm’s Implicate Order By Alison Banville

39 Quantum Rainbows By Paul Levy

41 Re-connecting with Source Channelling the Collective Unified Field By Kingsley Dennis

47 Walking Between Worlds UFOs & Consciousness By David Moore

51 Non-Ordinary Human Experience & the Future of Psychology By Keith Hill

56 The Mystery of Transcendence By Dr. Amit Goswami

58 Is There a Connection Between Quantum Physics & Positive Thinking? By Mitch Horowitz

63 The Thought of You How You Change Your Brain by Thinking By Dr. Joe Dispenza

66 How to Awaken from the Matrix Using Self-Enquiry By Caitlin Johnstone

69 Nick Meets an Angel By Dr. Nick Herbert

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— B Y D R . N I C K H E R B E R T —

In the summer of 1960, I was living in a loft in Berkeley near Rose and Shattuck and work-ing as a lab tech at the Berkeley

Radiation Lab, minding the liquid hydrogen refrigerator for the 72-inch bubble chamber which tracked nuclear events spawned by protons from the Berkeley Bevatron – the highest-energy particle accelerator of its day, comparable to today’s LHC. A few years earlier physicists at the Bevatron had discovered the antiproton and were exploring other new high-energy hadron reactions. I had just completed my first year of course work at Stanford, was teaching a graduate physics lab and preparing for the qualifying exams for the PhD. I was a practicing Cath-olic then and was reading Dante’s Inferno, the Book of Job, Chester-ton’s Orthodoxy and planning to find a spiritual advisor at Berkeley’s Newman Club. I was working swing shift at the Rad Lab which seriously disrupted my sleep schedule. I had fallen in love with a woman named Audrey in San Francisco and was en-joying exploring the City’s bounties with her and her two roommates. At that time (Summer 1960) the only mind-altering drugs I had ever experienced were legal and ethanol-based. The bedroom in my loft had a small window with a view of San Francisco Bay. I was sitting on my bed in T-shirt and sweatpants with my back to the window getting ready for sleep one night when I suddenly heard a voice in the empty room. “Hello, Nick.” I turned to the window but no one could have climbed up the sheer wall and spo-

ken thru the panes. The voice was inside my head. “Hello, Nick.” The voice was male, a middle-aged man, spoken in a matter-of-fact way. The man, who I will call “Tony,” did not identify him-self and got straight to the point. “You are reaching a crucial stage in your life, Nick, and must make a

choice between two careers. Two kinds of life await you and I am asking you now to choose between them. One life will be regular, un-derstandable and conventional; the other will be unusual, unpredictable and unconventional. Both of these lives are good lives. Now choose between them.” “How can I choose?” I told the voice in my head. “Tell me more about these lives.” “You know all you need to know,” the voice replied. “Now choose.” “Tell me more, “ I pleaded. “Make your choice,” said the voice in my head. And so it went for five or ten frustrating minutes. I wanted more info. He wanted me to choose. “Alright,” the voice said and vanished. I got the sense that “Tony” had other obligations that night and didn’t have the time to waste with me. I was shaking all over during

Nick Meets an Angel

Nick Herbert caught off guard at his lab bench.

“You are reaching a crucial stage in your life,

Nick, and must make a choice between two

careers. Two kinds of life await you and I am asking you now to

choose between them.”

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this encounter and my clothes were soaked with sweat. “What the hell was that?” I thought. I did what any scientist would do. I went to the library. I found that people hearing voices was not uncommon. More than 10% of folks have heard voices and now I was one of them. This experience gave me a sympathetic ear for people whom I met later in life who report-ed hearing voices too. Being a sophisticated scientist, my first assumption was that “Tony” was a part of my subconscious and that I was simply “speaking to myself.” However, the experience didn’t feel that way. Tony felt like a real person, different from me, with a distinct personality. From his tone of voice and manner of speaking, “Tony” came across as a regular guy, a butcher or a bus driver, who was now working as some sort of discar-nate bureaucrat. I call him an “angel” because he was a discarnate entity, but far below the level of God and the saints. If I was making “Tony” up, I was doing a great acting job. It really worked. The guy felt real. A second argument against my making this up was the utter or-dinariness of the transaction. If I possessed an unconscious need to star in some fabulous drama, why not invent some Egyptian king, wizard or holy man to talk to? Why

did I make up ordinary Tony and not Hermes Trismegistus? I marked this experience as “unsolved” and went on with my life. But three years later I met “Tony” again. In three years a lot had hap-pened. I had been accepted for the PhD program, I had (uneventfully) ceased being a Catholic, I had come within inches of losing my life in a climbing accident on Mt Shasta and, thanks to some dear friends in the Stanford psychology department, I had experienced LSD – a big dose. I was then living in Los Trancos

Physicist, author, father, explorer. NICK HERBERT (also known as his alter ego DOCTOR JABIR 'ABD AL-KHALIQ) is the author of three popular physics books Quantum Reality, Faster Than Light and Elemental Mind. He played a prominent part in the early Boulder Creek BistroScene poetry movement which resulted in two chapbooks Physics on All Fours and Harlot Nature. Nick was the Fringe Science editor for Berkeley-based Mondo 2000 and is featured in David Jay Brown's Mavericks of the Mind and David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics. He is a co-founder of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, a band of counter-culture physicists who, beginning in the 1970s, defied the “shut up and calculate” ethos and asked daring questions about quantum mechanics. In a post celebrating his “Quantum Tantra” blog’s 10th anniversary, Herbert says his goal is “to father a brand new physics (Quantum Tantra) which will connect us all with Nature in a more direct and intimate way.” According to his Wikipedia entry, “Herbert supports a holistic interpretation of quantum physics. He has argued for 'quantum animism' in which mind permeates the world at every level." Werner Krieglstein wrote regarding his quantum animism: “Herbert's quantum animism differs from traditional animism in that it avoids assum-ing a dualistic model of mind and matter. Traditional dualism assumes that some kind of spirit inhabits a body and makes it move, a ghost in the machine. Herbert's quantum animism presents the idea that every natural system has an inner life, a conscious center, from which it directs and observes its action.”

I believe that quantum mechanics is just a warm-up for studying the question of con-sciousness, in the sense of showing us how inhumanly beautiful a style the universe has employed to generate mere matter.

– Nick HerbertNick Herbert aka Doctor Jabir

Woods, a semi-rural area in the hills behind Stanford, and had just dropped acid for the third time. I was awaiting my sitter (in those days we always had sitters to provide “ground control”) but my friend was delayed waiting for a pie to bake. So for the first part of the trip I was on my own and exploring the sensual distortions, the merging with the walls and scenery and the philosophical paradoxes that a few mikes of this mind medicine can be counted on to produce. What I didn’t count on was that in the middle of my trip, Tony showed up. “Hi, Nick,” he said. “Same choice. No new informa-tion.” “OK,” I said. “I’ll take that strange life.” (Given the context, it was obvious what path I had already chosen.) “Thanks,” said Tony, not-ing my decision on some invisible clipboard (sometime later religion scholar Jeffrey Kripal dubbed this experience the “clipboard angel.”) My angel vanished and though I have since had a few more episodes of voices in my head, none of them ever behaved like Tony.

The above story appears on Nick Herbert's blog http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com.

Doctor Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq aka Nick Herbert