The Natural Cycle of Life
Numerous experiments suggest that we view life as the activity of carbon and other molecules. We live for a while, and, eventually, decay in the ground.
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This belief in our existence has led us to accept the concept of death. Our physical bodies are no longer able to keep our brains alive, and eventually, we perish.
Crafting the Scientific Puzzle
However, Dr. Robert Lanza argues that if we incorporate life and consciousness into the equations, many scientific puzzles can be explained.
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Biocentrism states that space and time are not the solid entities we perceive them to be. Instead, they are constructs of our consciousness.
What Is Biocentrism?
Understand biocentrism through the famous two-slit experiment. When you observe a particle, it behaves like a particle and passes through one slit. When you do not observe it, the particle acts like a wave, passing through both slits simultaneously.
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This wave-like behavior represents how our consciousness shapes reality and vice versa.
The Uncertainty of Death
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle—which states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle with perfect accuracy—suggests that the more we know about a particle’s position, the more uncertain its momentum is.
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So what does the uncertainty principle have to do with biocentrism and the illusion of death? As our understanding of particles becomes entangled over vast distances, space and time become tools of our mind rather than aspects of objective reality.
Transcending to a Different Plane
In a timeless, spaceless world, death is simply an idea. This isn’t saying that humans are immortal. Instead, the idea is that when our consciousness fades from reality, it has transcended into a different plane of existence.
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The Hearty Soul suggests that after we “see the light,” our consciousness transitions into an existence outside of time altogether.
A New Way of Thinking
Before you dismiss this idea, consider recent experiments that show consciousness exists and can communicate through light particles, acting as if no space or time were separating them.
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These findings suggest our understanding of time, space, and life is deeply flawed, and a new way of thinking about our existence is emerging.
Using Quantum Mechanics to Understand Death
One tool that is helping us understand the current state of reality is quantum mechanics. Yes, we are discussing the idea of “many worlds,” or the multiverse.
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Some studies suggest that all possible outcomes occur simultaneously rather than linearly in this multiverse. This means that death does not exist in a real sense, but that being alive and dead has already taken place even though we have not experienced it.
How We Experience Life
This theory isn’t too far of a stretch. Supported by the principles of biocentrism, where consciousness plays a central role in shaping reality, our grasp on reality could be experienced linearly. At the same time, everything in our lives happens all at once.
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Think of the life cycle of a common house fly: it is born, develops, and reproduces over a span of 15 to 30 days. While this life cycle seems brief to us, it is the fly’s entire life. It doesn’t happen in the blink of a fly’s eye.
The Fear of Death
Human behaviors and beliefs have largely influenced our modern understanding of death. We might attribute the belief in “the light” we see at the end of life or the comforting stories about the end of our lives to terror management.
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The terror-management theory suggests that our existential dread drives us to cling to beliefs that connect us to something greater than our physical bodies.
Finding Comfort in Death
Grappling with the implications of quantum mechanics and the potential for an observer-dependent reality can be slightly confusing and unsettling, but there is a bit of comfort in this.
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Consciousness influences our universe and can provide a sense of purpose as we seek to understand what happens after physical death.
We Need More Research
Biocentrism theory remains controversial, yet scientists and philosophers have long used elements of both fields to understand the fundamental principles of life. The lack of a solid mathematical foundation veers the theory into speculative territory, which is a fair critique.
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However, ideas take time to be refined and developed into a mathematical foundation. Until then, this concept has quickly become a hot topic, but what happens after death still remains unknown (for now).
