The Noetic Archives with Diane Hennacy
"Our brains are our navigational tools for consciousness, but we don't all have the same apps."
At the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Ionia, the Greek city of Miletus proved a crucible for a revolution of knowledge that would change the course of the next 2500 years.
Curiosity had somehow disentangled itself from religion, and the newly reformulated methods of inquiry about the natural world had reached enough escape velocity to welcome a new dawn of observation and reason, aimed at understanding novel corners of reality.
“From this moment onward, knowledge begins to grow at a vertiginous pace, nourished by past knowledge but at the same time by the possibility of criticism, and therefore improving knowledge and understanding… within a matter of a few years, Anaximander understands that Earth floats in the sky and the sky continues beneath Earth; that rainwater comes from the evaporation of water on Earth; that the variety of substances in the world must be susceptible to being understood in terms of a single, unitary and simple constituent, which he calls Apeiron, the indistinct.”
- Carlo Rovelli
From here, this new era of intellect would come to dominate our style of inquisitiveness, bifurcating itself into Greek philosophy, mathematical authentication and experimental verification, physicalism and scientific materialism. We had redirected our dependence away from religion and towards science, with an omnipotent rationality that featured math as its bible.
Two millennia later and we still clutch to this modality of thought, because it has given us more than we could ever imagine.
Though cracks begin to form as the inexplicable observations exponentiate; cracks that gravely weaken our metaphysical grips of reality.
New insights into molecular biology, atomic physics, and the human psyche — into entropy and energy — have reiterated a frustrating adage: the more we learn, the less we know. Amidst rising living standards and wickedly-astounding technology, it has been a very good problem.
But the humbling discoveries in astronomy and physics, in genetics and quantum electrodynamics - they’ve all pulled the rugs out from where we stood.
Or where we think we stood.
Today we seem to be at the precipice of an unthinkable shift as we come to terms with the reality that our good old methods of scrutiny may not be able to carry the ball all the way down the field.
Industrial and technological revolutions, allowing us to zoom in further and observe out farther, have opened up many diverse cans of worms that function as a pressure test for scientific materialism altogether, one that repeatedly gives us the same end result: we need to think harder, to think differently.
Our consciousness seems to work atop a multi-tiered spectrum in the ways by which it interacts with reality, and its style of navigation is largely dependent upon how its fed.
If we exclusively consume scientifically-materialistic perspectives, we end up with conclusions that only satisfy the materialistic layers of our inquiry; if we too often feed from the streams of spiritual discourse, we won’t exactly be grounded into the true foundations of reality.
But we’re getting answers nonetheless; dots that plot themselves on a map, unconnected.
What’s happening is that we’re not only increasing our knowledge about the universe as we corkscrew through it in a blaze of chaotic matter - we’re also increasing our capacity for knowledge.
It’s akin to the idea that a capacity for love is increased with children - as opposed to solely the quantity of love, per an echo of Dave Chapelle.
The modes and methods are thus more important than the findings because they’re constantly a step ahead - a culmination of all we know; the findings simply feed the methods.
Forget that the JWST is shattering the paradigmatic drywalls of our universe - consider why we know this to be so and what it means for our stubborn reliance on mathematical derivation; forget that quantum computers can do today in minutes what would otherwise take supercomputers of a very recent yesterday a septillion years to do - consider the purpose, point and potential of our effort to begin with.
The journey will tell us more about ourselves than the destination.
Our world is nonsensical beyond belief, from the inevitability of suffering to the tides of thermodynamics that have the last laugh over our unnatural ability to order things. We’re incessantly prodded to adapt to our environment, so as to continue our modest but meaningful whisper of survival amidst the incalculable eras that bookend our existence.
Regardless of how we look at reality, there’s just more happening that we can’t fully appreciate.
That we consciously evolve from rudimentary atom assemblies into rocks and plants and mammals and technologies; that we find strange validations of para-psychological phenomenon or channel realms beyond anything tangible as we know it.
I’ve interviewed scientists that have captured conscious signals on photon detectors thousands of miles away, neurosurgeons that seem to be at the precipice of the first human head transplant, astrophysicists who have connected enough dots in certain constellations that signify there to be a lot undiscovered beyond our intellectual reach.
The common denominator is that, as we learn, it’s important to look at how we’re learning, and that we’re able to play with reality in ways that are far and beyond anything we can fulsomely explain.
Below is another interview that bends the mind past the nominal limits of reason - a kind of reason that only works atop one language in a very multilingual universe; a testament to the fact that our methodology may need to be re-examined altogether.
Q: You had predicted non-vocal autistic children with savant skills to be a potent form of evidence for telepathy. How does this work exactly? Is there some kind of neurological compensation occurring amongst different faculties of cognition or can it be that the skillset works to override the default modalities that we consider to be 'normal'?
D.H.P.: Savant skills are so similar to ESP that I thought that they might be the same thing. Savants may be accessing the informational field that some call the Akashic records and others call collective consciousness....the natural "cloud" where all information resides.
My suspicion is that we are all born with a connection to collective consciousness, but it goes underground as we become more and more immersed in the embodied perspective, i.e. the Matrix.
Similarly, when we are born we have a shared consciousness with our parents/caregivers that enables us to acquire language quickly. The acquisition of language, and people's positive response to that, causes telepathy to go underground because of societal pressures.
When the expression of language is disrupted during its acquisition, as is the case with the autistics in our podcast, they retain their telepathic form of communication. Because the brain is still developing when this happens, the hard wiring of their brains is different from those who can express language.
What kind of testing protocol would you pursue to validate telepathy and what would the ideal methodology be, assuming it were free of time/resource constraints?
The ideal protocol would demonstrate telepathic communication at a distance between two non-speaking children.
This protocol would work around the questions that arise because of the fact that many of most profoundly psychic children require their communication facilitator to be in the same room.
How common throughout history is the savant phenomenon?
The savant syndrome has been around for at least 220 years and is most common in autistics and the congenitally blind. The number of savants was quoted previously as around 10% of autistics. When I first began my career autistics were 1 in 10,000 children, so savants were 1 in 100,000. Autistics are now 1 in 30 children, so savant syndrome has also increased dramatically. I can't say the exact number, because so many go unrecognized.
In your opinion, where is our consciousness, and/or what have you learned about the non-physical nature of our navigation through reality?
In my opinion, consciousness does not reside in the brain. Our brains are our navigational tools for consciousness, but we don't all have the same apps.
How would you describe the informational field, and how can we better understand our interactions with this "natural cloud" and where does the story go if/when it is ever validated that savants are, in fact, able to access the informational fields with more ease?
I believe consciousness is primary and fundamental. The informational field is the totality of every thought, action, and creation...
Some would call it the collective consciousness, or Akashic records, that is recording everything that we do and is the basis for karma. Therefore, we need to be careful about what we put into the field by our thoughts and actions.
The field is holographic and our individual consciousness is a fractal within it. When we are in flow states and our waking consciousness is tapping into this field, we can perceive information directly rather than derive it.
If humanity can fully adopt this perspective, we could become better at discerning truths. We'd discover what the real reality is, rather than what we are told or read, because we would directly experience it.
