Nick Cook writes: I began this essay with an introduction to the fictional heaven in which Squadron Leader Peter Carter finds himself in ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’. In the film, the court’s verdict will determine whether he can return to Earth and to June, the girl he loves, or remain forever in the Other World. In this, our trial setting, it is the reality of the Other World that is itself being judged.
I explained, too, that in my quasi-role as counsel for the defence of the proposition that our consciousness survives bodily death – a role that emulates the part played by Dr Reeves in the film - I would allow the witnesses to speak for themselves.
This, I believe, they have done powerfully and persuasively - and to have proven the proposition behind the question beyond a reasonable doubt. And, further, that it is the unmitigated weight of the evidence that has allowed them to do this.
And so, although now, as it were, ‘the defence rests’, I crave the indulgence of the court for a few moments longer, because what follows – unlike what I consider to be the concreteness of the data presented thus far – are my inferences from the data.
In the 1983 Gateway Report prepared by the US Army – an attempt by its author to map a reality that went far beyond the precepts of materialist, reductionist science - we were introduced to the ideas of vibration, frequency and resonance, matter as something that is far more elusive than our senses tell us, and the substrate of reality as a hologram that we, having resonant properties ourselves, are able to tune into. Per Dr Edgar Mitchell, our brains, acting as quantum computers, download information from this substrate – a realm beyond space and time that acts as a repository for all the information that ever was, is, or will be, including our memories.
Per Prof Hoffman, the only data we need are those that are germane to our survival. In a co-creative dance with the intelligence that is a facet of the universe, we are presented with just that - what we need, and no more - on our ‘reality user-interface’. This interface is what we might refer to as ‘mind’ – a screen on which, broadly, we project our perceptions, which aggregate as consensus ‘icons’ – objective reality, as we know it.
By ‘we’, what we actually mean is ‘consciousness’. But consciousness isn’t us, exactly, and nor is mind, because something – some deep, fundamental aspect of consciousness – plays the part of ‘the witness’ to everything that’s on the screen.
It is this part of us, I believe, that acts as a kind of IP address for ‘our’ consciousness; the part that we usually refer to as a ‘soul’, and this is the part that ‘continues’; the timeless, placeless, non-local part of us that ‘just is’, with no beginning and no end.
Back on Earth, where everything also is vibration and frequency, our resonant frequency accretes in material form, as does everything in our reality – the universe that we see and sense; a universe precisely fine-tuned to the reality we experience within it. The data from the contact modalities speak to this idea of frequency and the ‘Creator/Source’ encountered by all the experiencers - or what Gateway called ‘the Absolute’ – vibrating at highest possible frequency.
Everything, therefore, would appear to reside on a spectrum – and somewhere on it we ‘materialise’ (literally) in the form that we do. Because all matter has its own resonant frequency, this is how the world of things takes form and appears as, and to, us.
But the ‘rogue icons’ that we occasionally encounter on our reality user-interface – the paranormal phenomena that some would say we are increasingly encountering – attest to the fact that there are entities ‘out there’ that do not exist at or on the same frequency as us. Some of these entities will have a lower frequency; some higher.
If Ede Frecska, whom we met in the last section is right, when the ‘conditional reality’ permits it, these entities may form as archetypal ‘projections and reflections’ on the screen of our reality user-interface in endless forms of ‘non-human intelligence’ – from ‘tricksters’, to creatures of mythology, to angels, demons and extra-terrestrials.
This conditional reality, identified in my Phase 2 research as something that could and should be probed and tested, will form the basis of a next-stage ‘Phase 4’. The plan is to co-design experimental protocols with credentialed academics to identify what combinations of conditions – elucidated earlier as ‘location’, ‘environment’ and ‘culture’ – need to be present for this conditional reality-set to take form in our 3D/4D world; all of it in the cross-disciplinary, ‘intellectually safe’ environment to which the project originally aspired, where sensible opinion will be respected no matter what.
The wild card in this ‘conditional laboratory’, as I foresee it, is ‘us’ and the energy, if that’s the right word, that we bring to bear on the other three conditions. Whilst it is entirely possible that Frecska is right and that we ourselves are responsible for the entities that appear to shadow us in particular locations, our intuition tells us that the beings encountered by experiencers across all eight contact modalities possess ‘conscious agency’ in their own right - which is why, in a limited way, we are able to interact with them. This, I am certain, science can prove. When mainstream science takes the same view - that the rogue icons we know as ‘the paranormal’ are a part of a consciousness we can test - then truly we will have entered a new scientific age.
Nick Cook is an author of 20 fiction and non-fiction book titles in the US and the UK. A former technology journalist, he is well-known for his ground-breaking, best-selling non-fiction book, The Hunt for Zero Point. He has also written, produced, and presented two feature-length documentaries for the History and Discovery channels. In 2021, Cook was amongst 29 prize winners in the BICS institute’s essay competition on consciousness. His essay is available at https://bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php.
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