Dr. Robert Lanza, a leading world scientist, is co-author of Biocentrism, a book that looks at death and other phenomena in a new light. Grounded in quantum physics, this new look gives us multiple, simultaneous universes and suggests that everything that could possibly happen does happen in some universe.
Dr. Robert Lanza Redefines Death
To Dr. Lanza, individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, but something important is left after they do. He calls it the alive feeling, the “Who Am I?” This, he says, is a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain and it doesn’t go away at death.
Is this immortality? Yes and no. A proven axiom of science is that energy never dies. It can neither be created nor destroyed. Okay, but does this energy transcend more than one world or universe? Where does it go when the body dies? Is this what religion calls our soul?
Changing the Past
These questions certainly don't all have simple answers. This phenomena is related to an experiment recently published in the journal Science. It is a brain-stretcher for the lay person. The experiment revealed that scientists could, after-the-fact, change something that had already happened. Particles decided how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. What the observer decided at that point determined what the particle did in the past.
Interpreted, it means that regardless of a choice you make, it is you who will experience the resulting outcomes. “Linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time,” Dr. Lanza writes.
Defining Biocentrism
Biocentrism redefines our concepts of space and time. They aren’t as definite as we think. Everything we see and experience comes from activity in our mind. Space and time are merely tools mankind invented for putting everything together.
In a timeless, spaceless world, death doesn’t exist. Lanza tells how the great Einstein admitted this when speaking of an old friend: “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
What About Immortality?
Back to immortality. It may not be a forever existence in an eternity that goes on forever in time. Instead, eternity may be a place existing outside of time. Perhaps we should give it a new name.
Lanza talks about the death of his sister Christine, whom he walked down the aisle at her wedding. Christine, after a hard life, found the man she loved very much. Christine had lost 100 pounds and fiancé Ed bought her a pair of diamond earrings.
After the wedding, enroute to their dream house, the car hit a patch of black ice and Christine was thrown into a snow bank. “Ed,” she said. “I can’t feel my leg.” She never knew her liver was sliced in half.
Robert Lanza viewed Christine’s body at the hospital, then went to talk to family members. Ed was sobbing. “For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time,” Dr. Lanza says, telling how he thought about the 20 watts of energy and experiments showing a single particle can pass through two holes at once. His conclusion? Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time. Dr. Lanza, speaking of those diamond earrings, says: “It’s going to be hard to wait, but I know Christine is going to look fabulous in them the next time I see her.”
The Bigger Picture
This article is about only one aspect of biocentrism, a radical new theory about the nature of the universe(s). For a much more detailed explanation of how the theory relates to death and other phenomena, see: Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, by Bob Berman and Robert Lanza (Ben Bella Books: 2009).
An article on Biocentrism is also available.
Source: Lanza, Robert, “Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’.” The Huffington Post Dec. 8, 2009.
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