Tag: #wjbrendle
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I Had a Theory About Consciousness. Then I Discovered Seth.
What If the Brain Is Only Part of the Story? I recently came across an article on Medium by Catherine Churchill titled Reincarnation and the Afterlife. It’s a subject I’ve spent a good deal of time thinking about, so naturally, I gave it a read. Most of it covered ground I’d encountered in one form…
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Why Does Dracula Still Seduce Us?
The Vampire Who Raised Me on Late Night TV Most people remember the first monster that scared them. I remember the first one that didn’t. I was around eight or nine. I was allowed to stay up late on Friday night and watch The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show. Bela Lugosi as Dracula was in…
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The Strange Freedom of Spooky Season
For One Month, Nobody Thinks You’re Weird I’d like to say something weird happened the other morning when I visited my bank. But I can’t. You see, it’s October now, and spooky season has officially arrived like a spiced pumpkin latte. The truth is, I don’t really change much in October. Everyone else does. I…
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A Squirrel, 3,000 Nuts, and a Question I Can’t Answer
What If We Aren’t the Only Ones Connected? I was sitting on my porch watching a squirrel burying hickory nuts in my yard. I have watched squirrels do this countless times and never really thought much about it. This time, for whatever reason, I started paying attention to where the squirrel was taking them. One…
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The Black Pyramid Beneath Alaska: Part 2
Eyewitnesses, Aliens, and the Story I Didn’t Tell When I wrote about the Black Pyramid beneath Alaska, I knew there was considerably more to the story than I was telling. There were accounts of people who claimed to have been inside it, allegations of secret government facilities, and even suggestions that the structure was connected…
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What If Your Brain Is Connected to Something Bigger?
Part 4: What Are We Connected To? This series began with a simple question raised by Robert Epstein’s Neural Transduction Theory: what if the human brain is connected to something outside itself? Following that possibility led me through collective consciousness, the Akashic Records, the soul as a connection, ghosts, other incarnations, and even whether time…
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What If Your Brain Is Connected to Something Bigger?
Part 3: What If the Soul Is the Connection? So far, I’ve been working from one possibility: what if the brain isn’t creating everything we experience as consciousness but is connected to something larger? In my model, the brain is the biological receiver, the soul is the unique connection, and information may exist within a…
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What If Your Brain Is Connected to Something Bigger?
Part 2: What If Consciousness Has a Mainframe? This started with psychologist Robert Epstein’s Neural Transduction Theory, the idea that the brain may connect to a source of information or intelligence outside itself. It immediately reminded me of something I’ve questioned for years: whether collective consciousness, the Akashic Records, and other ideas we treat separately…
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What If Your Brain Is Connected to Something Bigger?
Part 1: Science Is Getting Closer to the Collective Consciousness This is the first of a four-part series exploring what Robert Epstein’s Neural Transduction Theory might mean if we follow the idea beyond neuroscience. Over the next four parts, I’ll move from collective consciousness to the soul, our perception of time, and eventually the question…
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Is This Bigfoot or Just a Person in a Pond?
How an Ambiguous Photograph Turns Into Evidence Take a good look at the photograph before you read anything about it. Don’t look for someone else’s explanation. Just look at the figure standing in the water and decide what you think you’re seeing. Is that a person or Bigfoot? Are you sure? I’ll tell you what…