THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BRAIN

This book is an excellent literature review of work spanning a century from about 20 multidisciplinary and independently funded scientists, all of whom believe that Consciousness (big 'C', meaning the life force) is primary. They all address the question: what is the mechanism by which we are subjectively consciously (small 'c') aware?, concluding that it is electromagnetic fields (EMFs) by which your smart phone and the Internet works.

However, Shelli's book contradicts materialism, because subjective conscious awareness is proposed to be a non-material non local influence, which can't actually exist in reality as matter is supposed to be the only reality.

This conclusion has huge implications for the governance of science and medicine, as the unconscious belief in materialism keeps in power the vested interests (Big Pharma etc) which control all their public funding internationally, by means of which research results get published in peer reviewed journals. Hitherto, they have placed a century-old prohibition on any funding to review the evidence base for psychical effects (psi) and complementary and alternative therapy (CAM) and justify that ban in until someone discovers the mechanism by which consciousness is created in the brain. This is the so-called 'hard' problem for science (Chalmers 1996)

Now, prima facie, Shelli seems to have shown that the problem isn't hard at all, as the mechanism is just EMFs. She backs up her claim in 296 pages of pithy text, providing robust evidence, including 515 cited references.

Why didn't these scientists tell us before? Shelli shows that they all tried to, and were surprised when their results were ignored. This was because their EMF solution didn't suit the agenda of the vested interests, so they belittled their results, and prevented them from being published. Shelli painstakingly delves deep into the source material and puts it all together into this one coherent book, which rightly comes with glowing reviews from a dozen other post-materialist scientists.

Shelli's book is therefore the ammunition needed by the Academy for the Advancement of Post Materialist Science (www.aapsglobal,com) and the Manifesto for a post materialist science, (www.opensciences.org) who have long campaigned for public funding of scientific studies into psi and CAM. We should therefore support them, and lobby our political representatives to call for urgent public funding for a giant review of consciousness studies, including the findings of this book.

The vested interests use their immense wealth to pay people to promote the mainstream materialist view that belittles conscious awareness as a side effect of neural activity, mystifying it by calling it an epiphenomenon of the brain. In his foreword to this book, Dean Radin, chief scientist of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, (IONS) promotes Shelli's book as an important challenge to this absurd view.

The formalised wording of the question that Shelli addresses is: what is the mechanism by which we humans are consciously aware of our thoughts and feelings, and experience qualia? The common denominator answer of the 20 scientists whose work she reviews is: 'modulating multidimensional electromagnetic fields (EMFs - action at a distance) in space time in the neocortex'. They are listed below, with the name and date of their main relevant theory:

• Neurophysiologist Susan Pockett's electromagnetic field theory (2000), who wrote: 'The basic fundamental principle being proposed here is that consciousness is identical with certain spaciotemporal patterns in the electromagnetic field'.

• Professor of anatomy Harold Saxton Burr's (1889-1973) electric fields of life, (1932) who wrote: 'The field characteristic of a living system is a basic property of life. It can be argued that the Universe is an electrical field, and that everything that exists in it is a subsidiary or component part of the total field.'

• Geneticist Johnjoe McFadden's electromagnetic field theory, (2002)

• Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's (1942-) morphic resonance and the morphogenetic field, (1981, 2012)

• Philosopher Ervin Laszlo's (1932-) theory of the Akasha and the A dimension, (2007 etc)

• Professor of material science William Tiller's (c1934-) k*space, (1997)

• Sir Roger Penrose, (1931-) Hameroff (1947-) anaestheologist, who sees the body and the brain as billions of computers, and that awareness originates at the quantum level within microtubules, (waveguides of 15 nano m diameter) arising in 'orchestrated objective reduction' as elements of 'protoconsciousness'. (1987, 89)

• Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead's (1861-1947) 'electromagnetic occasions', (1929)

• Hiroomi Umezawa, (1924-1995) Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue's quantum brain dynamics, (QBD 1995) which is a 'radically new vision of the fundamental source of thought and memory of the ionized totality of the flowing human bloodstream as a single conscious 'entity', in which life itself can be seen to be the equivalent of the 'unity of water' in the human body, or as a 'single molecule' resonant within the human blood system.'

• Neuroscientist Karl Pribram's (1919-2015) holonomic, and holoflux theories. (2013) 'the form of the ultra-deep structure of thinking is a holographic-like distributed process.'

• Quantum physicist David Bohm's (1917-92) hidden variables (1951) and holoflux in the implicate order, RNA/DNA (1978)

• Engineer Shelli Joye's (1947-) sub-quantum holoflux theory of consciousness. (2016)

• Brian Josephson's (1940-) 'junctions of superconducting electrons'. (1973)

Answering why you haven't heard about their theories before, she tactfully writes: 'It is unfortunate that none of these theories of consciousness have been investigated further, or even acknowledged by current established communities of neurophysiologists, quantum theorists and philosophers - but there are exceptions, and it is hoped that the collection of ideas in this book will be a springboard for thought of others'. (p. 10)

This could be called this the understatement of the century, as these vested interests have manipulated governments and milked the taxpayer of £trillions, all in the name of science, which is really scientism. Their latest examples are the test, track and trace systems, and the Covid-19 vaccines. I therefore welcome this book as a breath of fresh air, which I hope will be a springboard for us post-materialists to shift the paradigm to holism, liberating science from materialism and medicine from the corresponding medical model.

How does conscious awareness work according to Shelli?

Like your computer system and smart phone. Your body is the hardware, your mind is the software, you are the operator, and your energy and life force come from the sun and universe. Your cells contain your DNA, coiled into perfect antennae to broadcast your unique identity and messages all over your body. Your genes contain your blueprint as holograms, and the EMFs (which were mapped by Burr in 93 published papers) guide new particles into the right places to regenerate your tissues when your cells die.

The neural pathways in your brain and body are your wiring which enable the continual processing (mostly unconscious) of thoughts, feelings, sensations and images, which come up on the various screens of your mind, corresponding with your five senses, and your sixth sense of intuition, of pattern recognition, like bar codes.

Smart phones talk to each other and the Internet at the speed of light by downloading particles from waves, and uploading waves from particles. This same wave / particle interchange happens continually in your bodymind, and is explained by Shelli by the two corresponding domains of the EMFs. These are a) the space time domain material position (in the left hemisphere), which Pribram calls entropy (p. 113) These are linked by Gabor's Fourier transformations to: b) the frequency spectral domain flux momentum, (in the right hemisphere) which Pribram calls holoflux, derived from the flow of information from the interference patterns of the protons, as holograms in the cells.

How does primary Consciousness life force create life and species?

There are only a few tantalising glimpses of the mechanism of morphogenesis, such as Bell's Theorem (1964) that all particles in the universe are able to exchange information instantaneously with all the others, which implies that this could be the mechanism by which the life force comes to us from the Akashic field through Bohm's implicate order. I would like to ask about the intriguing sub quantum work under item i) above. Could it explain why an intervention as tiny as writing 'love' or 'hate' on a label on a cup of water, freezing and photographing the crystals gives such different patterns, as publicised 20 years ago by Maseru Emoto. This implies that my father may have been right to conclude in Mind, Life and Body (1951) www.reginaldkapp.org) that 'the most probable form taken by a primary diathesis is coordinated timing….the diathete life controls the moment of time when a specific atom in a large organic molecule acquires the minimum activating energy…or inhibition …of a vital process.'