EXPLORING the Conscious

Awareness FIELD
Altering Access Consciousness to
Achieve Non-local Awareness

The brain integrates

the two signals,
producing a
sensation of
binaural resonance.

Binaural
resonance
originates in the
brainstem, in the
superior olivary
nuclei.

The binaural impuls is conveyed from

each superior olivary nuclei to the
reticular formation, which initiates
changes in brainwave activity.

EXPLORING THE FIELD

Altering Consciousness to Achieve
Non-local Awareness

Consciousness:
an awareness of the surrounding world,
of the self, and of ones thoughts
and feelings

Conscious awareness, our firstperson experience of reality, is a

balance . . .

level of
arousal

cognitive
content

Altering consciousness involves:

changing the level of arousal,
changing cognitive content,
or both.

Level of Arousal

Basic Rest Activity Cycle (BRAC)

Sleep Cycles
Other Ultradian Rhythms
Sensory Responses
Internal Feedback Loops

ERTAS

Conscious awareness is a
balance . . .

level of
arousal

cognitive
content

Cognitive Content
The cortical attributes of
consciousness are the result of:
Social-Psychological Conditioning
Mental Ability

Social-Psychological
Conditioning

Group Interaction
Guided Visual Imagery
Affirmation
Introspection
Reframing
etc.

Mental Ability
Cognitive skills can be enhanced
through educational processes:

Directed Reading
Lectures
Multimedia Presentations
Planned Group Discussions
Practice
etc.

Ten Years Ago

The Penrose - Hameroff model of

"orchestrated objective reduction"

Each tubulin molecule may switch

between two (or more) conformations
and, it is proposed, each tubulin can
also exist in quantum superposition of
both conformational states.

The Penrose - Hameroff model of

orchestrated objective reduction

Consciousness:
an awareness of the surrounding world,
of the self, and of ones thoughts
and feelings

Consciousness:
A process of events* occurring
in a wide, basic field leading to:
an awareness of the world,
of the self, and of ones thoughts
and feelings
*These events may be comparable
to quantum state reductions
(Shimony, 1993).

The Penrose - Hameroff model of

orchestrated objective reduction
(Orch OR) proposes that:
Quantum superposition/computation
occur in microtubule automata within
brain neurons.
Tubulin subunits within microtubules
act as qubits, switching between states
on a nanosecond (10-9 sec) scale
governed by quantum London forces.

 Tubulin qubits interact computationally

by nonlocal quantum entanglement
according to the Schrodinger equation.
Pre-conscious processing continues
until the threshold for objective
reduction (OR) is reached by E = h/T*.

*E is the gravitational self-energy of the superposed mass separated

from itself, h is Planck's constant divided by 2pi, and T is the
coherence time until collapse occurs.

 At that instant collapse, or OR

occurs which is an actual event in
fundamental space-time geometry.
This event selects a particular
configuration of Planck-scale
experiential geometry, enacting a
moment of awareness, occasion
of experience, or conscious event.
A sequence of OR events provides a
forward flow of subjective time and
"stream" of consciousness.

 During the pre-conscious quantum

superposition/computation phase,
tubulin oscillations are tuned and
orchestrated by microtubuleassociated proteins (MAPs),
providing a feedback loop between
the biological system and the
quantum state (hence Orch OR).

tuned and orchestrated

The normal environmental milieu
surrounding critical brain proteins (i.e.,
receptors, channels, tubulin, etc.) provide
for ordinarily occurring London forces,
protein conformational dynamics, and the
superposition necessary for everyday
conscious awareness.

 Certain environments (e.g., anesthetic

gas molecules) associated with critical
brain proteins prevent normally occurring
London forces, protein conformational
dynamics, and superposition necessary
for consciousness.
Other environments promote and sustain
superposition, expanding consciousness
(e.g., psychedelic hallucinogens).

Consciousness:
A process of events* occurring
in a wide, basic field leading to:
an awareness of the world,
of the self, and of ones thoughts
and feelings

*Quantum state objective reductions

Consciousness:
basic field

Aristotles plenum
Maxwells ether
Quantum theorys zero point energy
Lynne McTaggarts The Field

Microtubule Tubulins
tuned and orchestrated
for non-local consciousness
Quantum excitations/ordering of
surrounding water to promote and
sustain superposition
(Jibu/Yasue/Hagan)

Microtubules vibrate (100-650 Hz)

with nanometer displacement.

Geometric Arrays
Consciousness requires a critical
degree of quantum coherence in
parallel arrayed neuronal
microtubules (1018 tubulin electrons).
This critical degree allows a
prediction as to what evolutionary
level of neural complexity will result
in consciousness.

 geometry is the morphogenic

structure behind reality itself,
underlying even mathematics.
it is actually shape that generates
all the laws of physics.
Bob Frissell

Binaural Impuls
Wave Interference Patterns

Geometric ordering of
microtubules promotes
and sustains tubulin
quantum superposition.