Tangled Hierarchy explained

Tangled Hierarchy is a concept which can help explain the deeper levels of connection between the subject and the object. In the current book i'm reading, The Quantum Doctor by Amit Goswami, Amit offer a fairly straight forward explanation regarding how conscious quantum collapse explains how the subject-object barrier is formed.

Our brain itself is what carriers out Quantum collapse, that is actualizing an event from the realm of possibility. Thus our brain allows us to actualize the computer screen in front of those reading this. Those whom are familiar with this concept or are clever should now wonder, well what allows the actualization or quantum collapse of our brain? Thus the tangled hierarchy is formed. The explanation for this, elucidated by Amit in his book, is that consciousness itself is responsible for both the quantum collapse of our brains and the object our brains observe.

This is best explained by the picture below. Which hand is drawing the other? Is the right drawing the left or is the left drawing the right? Neither! Its a conscious being drawing them both! Its a simple  example, yet it illustrates the role of consciousness in tangled hierarchy.

Does newly published research contravene morphic resonance theory?

I was reading an article on science daily today titled, "From blue whales to earthworms, a common mechanism gives shape to living beings." Link

This research, to be published on Oct 13th, 2011 in the prestigious journal, Science, May be interpreted as opposition to sheldrakians view point that body parts and organs are where they are because our bodies conform to, "morphic fields" to which we align ourselves with. These morphic fields are supposedly  to have been passed down since from the beginnings of life and are, according to Rupert Sheldrakes viewpoint, not tangibly detected via current physical methods. The article I read today seems to indicate otherwise, this is directly from the article:

"The process is astonishingly simple. In the embryo's first moments, the Hox genes are dormant, packaged like a spool of wound yarn on the DNA. When the time is right, the strand begins to unwind. When the embryo begins to form the upper levels, the genes encoding the formation of cervical vertebrae come off the spool and become activated. Then it is the thoracic vertebrae's turn, and so on down to the tailbone. The DNA strand acts a bit like an old-fashioned computer punchcard, delivering specific instructions as it progressively goes through the machine.

"A new gene comes out of the spool every ninety minutes, which corresponds to the time needed for a new layer of the embryo to be built," explains Duboule. "It takes two days for the strand to completely unwind; this is the same time that's needed for all the layers of the embryo to be completed."

This system is the first "mechanical" clock ever discovered in genetics. And it explains why the system is so remarkably precise."

Now, don't get me wrong, although morphic resonance theory is met with much criticism I do tend to lean towards supporting it as Sheldrake gives one hell of a rock solid argument pro-morphic resonance in various literature he has published. However, after reading this article I cannot help but feel demystified by life because this research makes the process of life forming seem very mechanistic rather than mystical. Research of this nature makes me feel like eventually scientists will have discovered that we are essentially bio-robots, completely programmed with everything into our DNA. Then again, there is overwhelming bodies of research which point towards us being able to reprogram our bodies via our conscious actions/beliefs. Is the intermediary which allows us to reprogram our DNA, consciousness? Morphic resonance? You be the judge.

Book review: Physics of the soul, by Amit Goswami

Just finished this book recently. I originally purchased this book because I was interested in how quantum nonlocality is/could be correlated with what we call the "soul" or "spirit". Boy did I get that.... and then some!

At some points through out the book I felt as though I was in a little over my head. Amit's main aim in this book is to use the concept of quantum non-locality and relate it to the tibetan book of the dead (the most in-depth and well described account of the afterlife to date) for how to describe the soul. Using these tools Amit puts fourth strong arguments for us having not only a physical body but a vital, mental, supramental and bliss body, each with their own characteristics (Amit is simply elucidating info which has been presented in numerous other documents). At one point Amit gives blow by blow details for what he believes we will experience when we die!

I have read previous books regarding NDE's, OBE's, past life regressions, reincarnational evidence and things of the sort so I was already a firm believer in the presence of a non-material part of us which existed (not to mention the deep seeded intuition which exists in all of us that there is more than meets the eye). What was nice about this book is rather than just use human accounts, Amit used scientifically sounds concepts (quantum non-locality) to describe the non-material part of us. I am not sure if I believe in the possibility of the 4 other non-material parts of us (mainly archetypal based) but i come away from this book with a renewed feeling that life is all about developing not only the material body but every other non-material body that exists, whether it be 1 or 4. Namaste