7 Mind-Blowing Discoveries That Would Touch All Aspects of
Humanity and Change the World Forever
What
does it mean to be human?
It’s a difficult question to answer. There are so many things which set us
apart from one another, yet more still which bind us together, and I think
we could all benefit from focusing more on what we share than what we do
not. Our differences are important, as they allow each of us to bring
something unique to the whole, but it becomes problematic when we use those
differences as the basis for judgment, hate, and violence.
We
are like a race with amnesia; we seem to know next to nothing about
ourselves — our origins, our purpose, or even how we got here in the first
place. We still have so many questions that need answering, and while we
have created many theories (all with gaping holes), new discoveries are
constantly emerging that challenge what we thought we previously knew. And so
every now and then, we come to paradigm shifting realizations that alter our
perception of what it means to be human, what we are capable of, and what the
true nature of reality is.
So
it seems we do have one thing in common: Curiosity. We are constantly searching
for ‘what is,’ and as the centuries pass, we seem to inch a little closer to
understanding it — to understanding ourselves, our world, and what awaits us
beyond it.
1. What If We Are Not Alone?
The
Kepler Space Telescope has shown us that our galaxy alone could hold as many as
30 billion planets similar to Earth. That means there are at least 30 billion
planets just in this
galaxy which could host lifeforms like the ones we know. Yet
we don’t even know with certainty that a planet must be ‘Earth-like’ to
host extraterrestrial life. Who knows what other biological organisms are out
there and what type of planetary environment they need to survive?
One
thing is certain, however: Our discovery of extraterrestrial life is right
around the corner. It wasn’t long ago when NASA’s chief scientist, Ellen
Stofan, predicted that we would have “strong indications of life” on other
planets by 2025. And just a couple of years ago, two top astronomers from the
SETI Institute (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) appeared in front of
the Congressional House Science and Technology Committee for a hearing
regarding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They told the committee
that extraterrestrial life most certainly exists, without question; one of
those scientists is Seth Shostak, a well-known senior scientist at the SETI
Institute. They said that the chance of discovering life on other planets is
inevitable and will most likely occur within the next 20 years.
Their
main argument relates to the sheer size of the universe, emphasizing that
there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely
harboring an Earth-like planet. Seth explains:
“In the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that
the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and
perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy,” he said. “The possibility that life has
arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence, is plausible and warrants
scientific inquiry. . . . If you extrapolate on the planets they
discovered, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. That’s a lot of places
for life. We know that the majority of stars have planets . . . [but what]
fraction of stars has planets that are more like the earth? It might be one in
five.” (source)
(Keep
in mind that a planet does not necessarily have to be Earth-like to harbour
life.)
But
what about the other possibility….
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies
recovered . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here
for a long time.”
The other
possibility — we’ve already been visited…
“There
is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited
for many years by people from outer space, from other
civilizations [and] it behooves us, in case some of these people in
the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they
come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous
scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid
newspapers.” (source)
– Lord Admiral
Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy,
Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Just
as scientists are certain that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will
occur within the next couple of decades, others are certain that we have
already been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms, and this is
‘mainstream’ knowledge. John Podesta, for example, the former Chief of
Staff to Bill Clinton, Councillor to Barrack Obama, and the current head of
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has gone on record stating that it’s
time to “pull the curtain back on this subject” and that “we have statements
from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a
fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.” You can
read more about that here. Even Hillary Clinton stated earlier this year that we
have have already been visited. You can read more about that here.
“There
is another way, whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a
way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the
fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source)
– Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of
Physics, University of Nebraska.
Where is this
evidence that Dr. O’Leary speaks of?
“An extraterrestrial influence is
investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are
monitoring it very cautiously.”
We’ve
written extensively on this subject, and it is backed
by many credible sources. You can read some of these heavily sourced
articles to learn more:
“Intelligent
beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth.
They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc.
. . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or
wistful thinking.”
– Theodore C. Loder
III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
2. What If Most Of Reality Is Hidden Or An Illusion?
This quote from R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at John Hopkins University, sums up best what many scientists feel:
A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.
– (“The Mental Universe” ; Nature
436:29,2005)
Our universe may be nothing but a mental construction, one that doesn’t even exist until we look at it or ‘measure’ it. The quantum double slit experiment is a great experiment that demonstrates this, showing us how factors associated with consciousness play an imperative role in the creation of our reality. (source)
Australian associate professor Dr. Andrew Truscott recently published a paper in the journal Nature Physics which concluded that “at the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it.” (source)
There are several other things to consider here, like dark matter, for example — a substance we can’t see or know that makes up the majority of what we call reality. What about other dimensions that we can’t see? What about other universes? Perhaps one day we will be able to experience these other worlds.
3. What If We Discover That We Can See The Future?
It’s
no secret that computers are already producing accurate simulations of future
realities.
Even quantum physics has shown us that an atom can exist in a state of multiple
probabilities until it is observed or measured. Perhaps there are multiple
probable timelines for what will happen? Perhaps we will develop machines that
will be able to accurately predict the future?
Few
people are aware that a number of scholarly articles examining
precognition and presentiment that have been published in reputable
peer-reviewed journals. For example, a recently published study (meta
analysis) in the journal Frontiers
in Human Neuroscience titled “Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical
implications of predictive anticipatory activity” examined a number of
experiments regarding this phenomenon which had been conducted by several
different laboratories.
It’s important to note that these physiological responses to future events happen on an unconscious level, meaning that the subject (human) is not aware they are taking place. So it is a form of precognition, but not full blown conscious premonitions.
A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments conducted from 1935-1987 and published in The Journal of Parapsychology makes a strong case for the validity of human precognition.
For a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies of psychic phenomena, mostly published in the 21st century, you can click HERE. There is a section specifically for precognition and presentiment.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that in 1999 a statistics professor at UC Irvine published a paper showing that parapsychological experiments have produced much stronger results than the those showing a daily dose of aspirin helps prevent a heart attack. She also showed that these results are much stronger than the research behind various drugs like antiplatelets, for example. This begs the question, why are psi experiments only marginally acknowledged or even known of by the mainstream scientific community if the evidence for ESP (for example) is stronger than that of the effectiveness for the administration of popular drugs?
Cassandra
Vieten, PhD and President/CEO at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, provides some insight
into why this might be the case:
There seems to be a deep concern that the whole field
will be tarnished by studying a phenomenon that is tainted by its association
with superstition, spiritualism and magic. Protecting against this possibility
sometimes seems more important than encouraging scientific exploration or
protecting academic freedom. But this may be changing.
4. What If We Came From Space?
This is a theory which remains on the fringe of mainstream science. A number of scientists believe that human life actually originated in outer space, and one of them is leading British scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe. Wickramasinghe is the director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K.
This astrobiologist believes that the ‘seeds of life’ were brought here from some outside sources, like a comet, and supports this theory with evidence he discovered a couple of years ago with a team of researchers at the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University and from the Medical Research Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
They found “a microstructure and morphology characteristic of a wide class of terrestrial diatoms.” The group concluded that “the presence of structures of this kind in any extraterrestrial setting could be constructed as unequivocal proof of biology.” Cardiff University was asked to proof-check and analyze the findings, which it did, concluding that the samples were “unequivocally meteorites” and that the analysis of the material structure showed that algae-like fossils were native to it.
This
is the first-ever evidence of extraterrestrial life found in a celestial body.
The researchers used sophisticated methods like X-ray diffraction, triple
oxygen isotope analysis, and scanning electron microscopy.
You can read the study here.
He
explores this topic in an earlier paper that
he co-authored in 2012 titled “Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative
research paradigm shift” as well. Below is the abstract:
Theories and hypotheses in science are continually
subject to verification, critical re-evaluation, revision and indeed evolution,
in response to new observations and discoveries. Theories of the origin of life
have been more constrained than other scientific theories and hypotheses in
this regard, through the force of social and cultural pressures. There has been
a tendency to adhere too rigidly to a class of theory that demands a purely
terrestrial origin of life. For nearly five decades evidence in favour of a
non-terrestrial origin of life and panspermia has accumulated which has not
been properly assessed. A point has now been reached that demands the serious
attention of biologists to a possibly transformative paradigm shift of the
question of the origin of life, with profound implications across many
disciplines. (source)
This
would be quite the shocker. If we were to determine that we came from space or
that we are not alone in the universe, the resulting implications for all
fields, from science and technology to religion and philosophy, would be
immeasurable.
5. What If We Learn To Talk To Animals
The way we treat animals on this planet is heartbreaking, to say the least. Apart from destroying their world for the sake of economic growth, we also raise billions of animals every single year for the purpose of slaughter. We are now starting to see the dramatic consequences of our actions, but more empathy towards animals is still desperately needed. This isn’t just our planet; we share it with others, and all beings deserve an equal chance to live life and thrive.
There are many efforts underway to change things, and consumers are making a difference by voting with their dollars. SeaWorld has seen profits decline dramatically, as multiple areas in North America have now banned whale captivity. And not long ago, a New York court entertained the idea of granting chimpanzees the legal right to personhood. All thought the lawsuit was a failure, but the judge admitted that “efforts to extend legal rights to chimpanzees . . . are understandable; some day they may even succeed.
If this were to happen, I think we would quickly need to reevaluate our stance on the status of other animals. Why should only chimpanzees be granted rights? If animals were ever granted rights and personhood, we would not be able to keep them captive, or use them for testing.
In the August 2015 edition of New Scientist, Joshua Howgego offers his view on the issue:
If chimps were given rights, we might expect other
intelligent species, such as killer whales and elephants, to follow. But why
stop there? Our ideas about the inner lives of other animals – their capacity
for suffering, autonomy and self-awareness – are based largely on
analogy with ourselves; how would we like it in their place?
But what if those animals could tell us? What if a dog or
dairy cow could let us know how it felt about its lot in life? The idea may not
be as far-fetched as it seems. There are many examples of communication between
apes and their human keepers. Researchers are busy decoding dolphin. And
cognitive scientists are beginning to study emotional states in animals, It may
only be a matter of time before more meaningful communication between species
is possible.
6. What If We Found Out That ‘Life’ Goes On After ‘Death’
Below
is a video of Dr. Bruce Greyson speaking at a conference held by the United
Nations. Considered to be one of the fathers of near death studies, he is
currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the
University of Virginia.
In
the video he describes documented cases of individuals who were clinically dead
(showing no brain activity), but observing everything that was happening to
them on the medical table below at the same time. He describes how there have
been many
instances of this – where individuals are able to describe things that should
have been impossible to describe. Another significant statement by Dr Greyson
posits that doing this type of research has been discouraged due to our
tendency to view science as completely materialistic. Seeing is believing, so
to speak, in the scientific community. It’s unfortunate that just because we
cannot explain something through materialistic means, it must be instantly
discredited.
Our results show that medical factors cannot account for
the occurrence of NDE. All patients had a cardiac arrest, and were clinically
dead with unconsciousness resulting from insufficient blood supply to the
brain. In those circumstances, the EEG (a measure of brain electrical activity)
becomes flat, and if CPR is not started within 5-10 minutes, irreparable damage
is done to the brain and the patient will die. (source)(source)
Another study comes out of the University of Southampton, where scientists found evidence that awareness can continue for at least several minutes after death. In the scientific world this was thought to be impossible. Published in the journal Resuscitation, it is the world’s largest near death experiences study: (source)
In 2008, a large-scale study involving 2060 patients from 15 hospitals in the United Kingdom, United States and Austria was launched. The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study, sponsored by the University of Southampton in the UK, examined the broad range of mental experiences in relation to death. Researchers also tested the validity of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time in a large study to determine whether claims of awareness compatible with out-of-body experiences correspond with real or hallucinatory events. (source)(source)
Another great example comes from University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker, who in 2008 published a review of cases suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore. (source)
In the article, he describes a typical reincarnation case, where subjects start reporting a past life experience. One common denominator of these cases is that they all involve children, with the average age being 35 months when subjects begin to report their experiences. The experiences reported are often detailed and extensive, and Tucker points out that many of these children show strong emotional involvement when speaking about their claims, with some crying and begging to be taken to what they say is their previous family. Others show intense anger. But as children age, these memories generally disappear. He explains:
The subjects usually stop making their past-life
statements by the age of six to seven, and most seem to lose the purported
memories. That is the age when children start school and begin having more
experiences in the current life, as well as when they tend to lose their early
childhood memories. (source)
7. What If We All Have ‘Super Human Potential?’
It’s fascinating to consider just how many ancient teachings tell us that humans have the capacity to gain extraordinary powers through various techniques. In Buddhism, for example, the existence of advanced powers is readily acknowledged; in fact, Buddha expected his disciples to be able to attain these abilities, but also to not become distracted by them.
Is there any scientific evidence that human beings have extraordinary potential beyond what’s commonly known? There definitely is.
During a visit to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Harvard Professor of Medicine Herbert Benson and his team of researchers studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo (a yoga technique), raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It is still unknown how the monks are able to generate such heat. (source)
And it doesn’t stop there — the researchers also studied advanced meditators in Sikkim, India, where they were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. (source)
What
about Wim Hoff? He has demonstrated to scientists that factors associated with
consciousness can influence our autonomic nervous system. You can read more
about that
here.
A
study published in the American
Journal of Chinese Medicine, as seen in the the US National
Library of Medicine, demonstrated that a woman with special abilities was and
is able to accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of
developing a more robust seed stock. This is one example of many; you can find
the study and read more about it here.
A
paper published in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in September 1981, in
the journal Ziran Zazhi
(Nature Journal) tilted “Some Experiments on the Transfer of
Objects Performed by Unusual Abilities of the Human Body” (Shuhuang et al.,
1981), reported that ‘gifted children’ were able to cause the teleportation of
small physical objects from one place to another.
There
are also some extraordinary claims from a publication titled “Exceptional
Functions of the Human Body.” This study reports of highly accurate
parapsychological effects, including clairvoyance, psychokinetic effects, and
more. (source)
“It became known to myself, along with several colleagues both inside and outside of government, that anomalous teleportation has been scientifically investigated and separately documented by the Department of Defense.” (source)
I just wanted to illustrate that the idea of ‘superpowers’ is not as farfetched as some may think it is. Who knows, some day we might all be able to do these things.
From Collective
Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/07/06/7-mind-blowing-discoveries-that-would-touch-all-aspects-of-humanity-change-the-world-forever/
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