I just read a headline: “We May Have Found the Part of the Brain Where Conscious Experience Lives.”

This has been a focus of science for years, and as fun as the investigation is, it is misguided.

Don’t get me wrong. I love science. I trust scientists, mostly. I enjoy reading about where their discoveries are leading. I am curious about what direction mankind is heading. I am definitely not anti-science. Science has its place in the 3D world.

Now, back to the bit about this particular focus being misguided.

Contrary to almost everyone’s opinion, consciousness does not live in the brain. This amazing aliveness isn’t somehow created as an after-effect. There is no way, even in the world of matter, which is also misguided, that matter can create consciousness.

If we’d all just stop and explore, we’d discover quite quickly, that consciousness is not in the brain, is not even in the body. The body and that includes the brain, are in consciousness. It is easy to see for yourself.

That’s a leap too far for science right now. I am hoping to read a headline one day … if I life that long … that says, “Oops! Boy Were We Wrong!”

I don’t really expect it, but it would sure be sweet to see that before I pass into legend.

The problem, and it seems a very big one, is that in order to see what is, we have to be willing and able to set aside what we believe we know.

The overwhelming majority of scientists think that they are impartial, that their beliefs can be set aside. That might be true of some of the smaller beliefs, like the expectation of a particular outcome, or the fact of their impartiality, but that is far from the mark when it comes to the bigger beliefs, the basic ones that we don’t even consider to be beliefs.

These ginormous beliefs are the unquestioned structure of our worlds, and they are in play in every scientific exploration.

They are also in play in everyday life for you and me, for spiritual seekers, religious folks, agnostics, and atheists — for all of us.

If we can’t set aside the belief that the world is made of matter — a big one — and others like time and space, we have little hope of exploring consciousness. We will continue to keep barking up the same old tree and the squirrels will keep throwing nuts at us.

Currently, that is the case for most of humanity.

Most don’t want to consider the possibility that the impossible is possible. We aren’t willing to admit that just maybe we’ve had it all wrong, that we’ve put our complete and unquestioned trust in untrustworthy facts. After all, it sure looks like a world of matter. It sure seems like we are conscious, that consciousness resides within us.  Why question that?

Why, indeed.

We’ve believed seemingly valid fallacies and acted from them, creating lives of conformity driven stress with our adherence to what is not true, what has never been true, will never be true.

Please don’t believe me. Don’t even believe yourself, your eyes and ears. The known will not reveal the unknown and it is the unknown that we ache for. Or simply go about your way. Cry bullshit. I mean, what IS this lady thinking. She must have lost her mind.

Well, yes I have. The mind that had the audacity to claim ownership of consciousness, that crazily thought that matter gave birth to consciousness, that matter is what it seems, is gone, and it took its love affair with the separate self with it. 

I’ll own crazy. It’s not a bad way to live.