Gede’s Empirical Evidence for Consciousness Beyond Life Volume 6 - Issue 3

Paul C Mocombe*

• West Virginia State University, The Mocombeian Foundation, USA

Received:January 27, 2022;   Published: February 15, 2022

Corresponding author: Paul C Mocombe, West Virginia State University, The Mocombeian Foundation, USA

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2022.06.000240

 

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Abstract

This article argues that the Haitian Vodou spirits of fertility and death, Gede, offer empirical evidence to suggest that consciousness is nonlocal and exists beyond life. Mocombe in this work uses his consciousness field theory (CFT) to ground Gede’s testimonies about their origins and abilities to prognosticate the future to substantiate their claims.

Keywords: Structurationism; Praxis; Panpsychism; Social Class Language Game; Phenomenological Structuralism; ORCH-OR Theory; Univon Multiverse Hypothesis; Free-will; Determinism; Haitian Epistemology; Consciousness Field Theory; Conscious Electromagnetic Information Theory (CEMI); Psychion; Psychon

Introduction

Consciousness here refers to subjective awareness of phenomenal experiences, qualia, (ideology, language, self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary behavior, thoughts, etc.) of internal and external worlds [1-3]. The academic (scientific) literature “describes three possibilities regarding the origin and place of consciousness in the universe:

a. as an emergent property of complex brain neuronal computation,

b. as spiritual quality of the universe, distinct from purely physical actions, and

c. as composed of discrete ‘proto-conscious’ events acting in accordance with physical laws not yet fully understood” [1].

The former, (a), emphasize the laws of classical physics to posit consciousness as the by-product of the neural correlates of the physical substrates of the material brain (Chalmers, 1996). The latter two (b and c) are post-materialist approaches to understanding consciousness, which emphasize the emergence of consciousness as an external phenomenon that exists outside of the physical substrates of the brain either in the form of panpsychism or cosmo psychism/panspiritism. Both post-materialist perspectives use the concepts and theories of quantum mechanics to either complete the materialism of the (a) camp, i.e., the (c) camp, or to ground fourteen paranormal and parapsychological (near-death experiences, telepathy, telekinesis, out-of-body experiences, physic mediumship, etc.) empirical data as proof for the external nature of consciousness, i.e., the (b) camp [2-4]. All three positions are problematic in that they are unable to resolve the hard and binding problems of consciousness. In the materialist camp (a), they are unable to account for how the neural correlates of the physical substrates of the material brain bind to give us the phenomenal subjective experience of consciousness. Just the same, in the post-materialist camps (b and c), they are unable to account for either how consciousness in everything, panpsychism, emerges/ combines, or decombines from a god or the cosmos, panspiritism and cosmopsychism, respectively, in the material brain to give rise to consciousness [4]. Mocombe’s [2,3,5] consciousness field theory (CFT), which is part of his larger theory of phenomenological structuralism, resolves the hard and binding problematics of all three camps by positing the origins and nature of consciousness to be an emergent fifth force of nature that is cycled and recycled throughout the multiverse as a resonating channel or station of and on a frequency wavelength via its embodied elementary particle, psychion, which has spin, mass, charge, and phenomenal properties, i.e., qualia. In this article, I use the testimonies proffered by Gede, the Haitian Vodou spirits of fertility and death, enframed within Mocombe’s consciousness field theory, as empirical evidence to substantiate the claim that consciousness exists beyond life and does not originate from the physical substrates of the brain, which receives and facilitates consciousness in human beings.

Background of the Problem

Normally referred to as “animism,” “fetishism,” “paganism,” “heathenism,” and “black magic” in the Western academic literature, Vodou (spelled Vodun, Voodoo, Vodu, Vaudou, or Vodoun) is the oldest monotheistic religion, and form of life, in the world. Commonly interpreted as “Spirits” or “introspection into the unknown,” Vodou is the structuring structure of the Fon people of Dahomey and other tribes of the continent who would arrive on the island of Ayiti as named by the Taino natives [6]. Vodou is a form of life that seeks to provide the human being balance between the lived-world and the unseen world out of which everything emerged. In Vodou, the rhythm and balance of the world, its Schumann wave, is directed by the rhythm of the drums, whose rhythmic beats (rit) either connects human practical consciousness to its universal rhythm/wavelength as organized around the agricultural mode of production, or in combination with other sounds give them access to the psychonic wavelengths (lwas) of other beings and concepts throughout the multiverse, which are called to appear in Vodou ceremonies and rituals in order to advise the leaders of the community on how to rebalance or direct human existence.

Four hundred lwas or spirits plus God constitute Haitian Vodou physics and metaphysics. God, bondye bon or Gran met la, created the lwas as concepts and beings to serve as intermediaries between itself and human beings in order to assist them in living out their lives in the material worlds (bondye created multiple worlds). The lwas manifest in the physical world through spirit possession (monte) of an individual to assist human beings in all facets, i.e., love, health, wealth, war, revenge, etc., of their material existence. There is no moral right or wrong in Vodou, the aim is to achieve balance and harmony between God, who created the world out of itself, the universe, the earth, and human conduct utilizing the lwas to assist in doing so.

In Haitian Vodou physics and metaphysics, Gede are the closest lwas to humans. They are ancestors who lived real lives, and now exist in the spiritual afterlife where they claim it is dark, cold, and watery. In Haitian cosmology, they have become a family of lwas that embody the powers of death and fertility. Haitians call upon them for healing, wealth, vengeance, and fertility. They are highly sexualized spirits with a crass sense of humor either sexual in nature or directed at the political order, both national and international. When embodied by a host, chawal, Gede claims to come from a cold body of water, anba dlo, where it is dark. Some, such as Papa Gede, are psychopomps, who possess the divine abilities of telepathy, prognostication, and foreknowledge of the worlds of the living and the dead (In Haiti, Papa Gede, the first corpse of material reality who awaits at the crossroads to take spirits to the afterlife, is called upon when children are sick or dying, a chawal embodied (monte) by him will not take the life of a child before their time). As a result of their dark and cold origins out of water, those embodied by Gede will drink a concoction made of kleren (rum) and peppers to warm themselves up, request cigarettes to smoke, don dark shades with one missing lens to protect their sights from the brightness of the material world, utilize a walking stick to symbolize their phallus, and adore themselves with white powder. They are also known for their high pitch nasal speech (given their water origins), cursing, betiz, and provocative dancing where they whine, gouye, their hips to the drum rhythm and dance known as banda. Gede is celebrated, Fét Gede, the first and second days of November, and their colors are black, white, and purple. In this article, I use Gede’s testimonies regarding where they come from in the afterlife and their abilities to prognosticate the future as empirical evidence not to highlight the postmodern and post-structural reading that they represent the fluidity of Haitian identity and sexuality as McAlister (2004) highlights (Figures 1-5).

The latter position is an inaccurate reading and imposition of Western (postmodern and post-structural) philosophical thinking on possession rituals of Gede, which are spirits that are able to mount, monte, both male and female chawal, and manifest themselves in the latter as the gender of their past lives. Instead, I want to use the phenomenon and origins of Gede to substantiate the claims that

a) consciousness exists outside of the physical substrates of the brain, one source for the origins of consciousness (which we all return to after all of our lived - experiences),

b) the personality persists after life,

c) and there is no free-will in the universe/multiverse highlighted by their abilities to prognosticate the future.

I construct a physic and mathematics for consciousness (Figure 6) out of Gede’s claims within the physic and metaphysic of Mocombe’s consciousness field theory.

Theory and Method

In Mocombe’s [2,3,5,6] theory of phenomenological structuralism consciousness is an emergent (fifth) force of the universe, composed of an elementary particle, psychion, with mass, charge, spin (a boson with spin S=1), and phenomenal properties, qualia, that is received by the brain, from, or in, multiple and superimposed local consciousness fields, Schumann waves, and integrated by its (the Brain’s) electromagnetic field as psychon to constitute mind, practical consciousness, and the self, as resonating channels or stations of, or on, frequency wavelengths, in material worlds of the multiverse (see Figure 5 for the elementary value of quantum energy for brain and Schumann waves) [7]. The phenomenal properties, qualia, of the psychions of a consciousness field, following matter disaggregation, disconnection as psychon from the Schumann waves, throughout the multiverse, either collapse, as a resonating channel or station of a frequency wavelength, upon other superimposed and entangled versions (wavelengths) of themselves throughout the multiverse, or are integrated, along with the other four forces (gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces), in the absolute vacuum of a superverse to create (via quantum fluctuation, tunneling, and inflation) future beings with consciousness (the phenomenal properties of lived-experience in the form of qualia, informational content of subatomic particles, i.e., psych ions).

As such, the psych ions of the consciousness field as psychons they are local and connected to (entangled) multiple superimposed worlds with, and through, Schumann waves; once assimilated in the absolute vacuum, they are psych ions, the elementary particle of consciousness, an interconnected, endless, and nonlocal fifth force of nature, with qualia or phenomenal properties, which, initially, emerges following matter aggregation and disaggregation, disconnection from Schumann waves, in the multiverse. It (the psych ions of the consciousness field) is an endless assimilation of all past, present, and future information (practical activities and memories) of beings of the multiverse cycled and recycled via the absolute vacuum (empty space in which elementary particles, quarks, and constituents of matter and forces of nature have become one), which fluctuates as a probability wave function, to give rise to entangled and superimposed worlds, each with their own Schumann waves and consciousness fields, which produce future beings with consciousness, an individualized resonating channel or station, psych ion, on the frequency wavelength of the Schumann wave and the absolute vacuum [2,3].

The absolute vacuum is a fifth dimensional superverse or cosmic soup where all the elementary particles are one, and fluctuate, as a probability wavefunction, tunnel, and inflate to produce four dimensional spacetimes (multiverses) where consciousness emerges as individuated psychonic fields or resonating channels/ stations produced by the firing of neurons in the brain where the elementary particle, psych ion, of consciousness are embodied and tied to the frequency wavelength of Schumann waves of entangled and superimposed worlds, which are tied to the oscillating frequency wavelength of the absolute vacuum, which transmits the signal of phenomenal subjective consciousness to the psych ions.

Each individual consciousness has their own resonating psych ionic channel or station on the frequency wavelength of the earth’s Schumann wave, which is tied to the frequency wavelength of the absolute vacuum, which transmits phenomenal consciousness to the psych ionic channel (Figure 6). for the equation of individual consciousness: phi Φ is the symbol for consciousness; 10-15 eV₍₄₎, adopted from Kozlowska and Kozlowski, the formula represents the elementary value of quantum energy for brain and Schumann waves; f (0), representing the resonating psych ionic channel or station of individual phenomenal consciousness received from the absolute vacuum). In this article, I posit that the absolute vacuum is the anba dlo described by Gede, which houses and incorporates, as phenomenal property, qualia, all of the past, present, and future, lived experiences of all individual consciousnesses as a fifth force of nature and resonating frequency wavelength, which is transmitted to, and received by, in human beings, the material brain and central nervous system.

Discussion

Hence for Mocombe, the consciousness field, and its elementary particle, psych ion, emerged separately from the first four forces (gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces) of nature, the subatomic particles of which fluctuated, inflated, and tunneled as a wave function from the absolute vacuum, the probability wave function where all the elementary particles were one at the beginning of the multiverse, to create an original universe or entangled and superimposed multiverse. This original universe/ multiverse, evolved and replicated itself, via “black holes (BHBBT),” and inflation, to create present and future replicas of itself, multiverses, which evolved to produce, entangled and similarly situated, organic and inorganic life whose initial experiences of the Schumann waves of superimposed worlds produced the qualia of the psychons that would constitute subatomic particles, psychions, of emerging consciousness fields connected to both the absolute vacuum and the Schumann waves as individuated resonating frequency channels/stations with phenomenal properties emerging from experience (Figures 1-5) [8]. In this Mocombeian view, consciousness is not fundamental; instead, it is an emergent (material) property of the multiverse, which is constituted and expressed, in the human sphere through subatomic particle aggregation, mode of production, language, ideology, ideological apparatuses, communicative discourse, and praxis [5].

In the human sphere, beings’ experience (sensation), via central nervous systems, brains, and brainstems, of aggregated matter created by the initial four forces of nature, via quantum fluctuation, tunneling, and inflation from the fifth dimension of the absolute vacuum, gives rise to qualia, emerging sensations of experience, that is encoded as information and memories in the subatomic elementary particle of consciousness, psych ion, psy chon once embodied, which creates consciousness fields given their connection, as psychonic waves, to entangled and superimposed Schumann waves of the multiverse created by the absolute vacuum. Following matter disaggregation across the multiverse, the elementary particle of consciousness, psych ion, which has mass, charge, spin, and phenomenal properties, i.e., qualia, integrates into the absolute vacuum to give rise to future worlds with conscious beings. In this sense, Mocombe eliminates any spiritual elements, as one finds in Vodou and the (b) camp, regarding consciousness constitution for a strict materialist perspective, i.e., the (a) and (c) camps, which does not solely attributes consciousness to the mechanical brain, i.e., the neural correlates of consciousness; instead, the brain is a receiver and facilitator of consciousness, the subatomic particle, psychion, of which, once disconnected from the Schumann waves of entangled and superimposed multiple worlds, is recycled, replicated, entangled, and superimposed as psy chon throughout the multiverse via neurons of the brain and its electromagnetic field (Figure 4)[9-12].

Consciousness, following matter disaggregation, in other words, became a permanent aspect of the multiverse, via the absolute vacuum, cosmo psychism, and has emerged as a fifth force of nature that produces a field, a consciousness field, whose elementary particle, psych ion, has mass, charge, spin, and phenomenal properties, i.e., qualia, that is subsequently received by aggregated matter with brains and central nervous systems via the resonance of the elementary particle of consciousness embodied, psy chon. The consciousness field is a classical field produced by accelerating psych ionic charges that contain and transmit all the phenomenal properties, qualia, (as an individuating consciousness) of the absolute vacuum to the Schumann waves of material realities, and the psychonic waves of brains, brainstems, and central nervous systems connected to the latter, Schumann waves, which are connected to the former, absolute vacuum or zero-point field, as a resonating frequency wavelength channel or station with different amplitudes. The consciousness field is the combination of a psychonic field or wave (produced by the psych ionic elementary particle), an electric field, and a magnetic field.

The psychonic field or wave, like the magnetic field, is produced by moving charges or currents, and the electric field stationary charges. The consciousness field can be regarded as a smooth, continuous field, that propagates in a wavelike manner, and interacts with charges and currents. The reciprocal information transfer between the absolute vacuum, the Schumann waves of entangled and superimposed material realities with consciousness fields, and the psych ion/psy chon of subjects of experience takes place via the distinct resonances of everything and everyone, which is an individuated rhythmic channel/station on the frequency wavelength of Schumann waves and the absolute vacuum that is entangled and superimposed (Figure 6). Each person, animal, plant, and thing have their own individuated (resonating) channel/ station on the frequency wavelength of the absolute vacuum, which gives rise to the entangled and superimposed Schumann waves of the consciousness field where their existences are unfolding. Consciousness, from this perspective, is an emergent fifth force of nature with an elementary particle, psych ion, which produces a consciousness field, from the absolute vacuum, tied to the electromagnetic waves, Schumann waves, of superimposed and entangled physical worlds via the brain’s psychonic waves produced from the firing of neurons. The firing of neurons in the structures (ARAS system) of the brain, and the central nervous system, produces the psychonic electromagnetic wave, composed of the psych ion with qualia, sense experiences of aggregate matter, which ties the individual to the Schumann waves, the electromagnetic fields of (superimposed and entangled) physical worlds of the multiverse, which emerge from, and tied to, the absolute vacuum or zero-point field of nonlocal space where the elementary particles of the forces of nature are one in the form of a probability wavefunction.

The absolute vacuum transmits individual consciousness as a resonating frequency wavelength, channel or station with phenomenal properties, qualia, on the Schumann resonance of the earth and the psychonic wave of the individual, which share the same frequency with different amplitude. The brain is a receiver of consciousness with the elementary particle, psych ion, of consciousness serving as the resonating channel or station of individuated consciousness, and the Schumann and psychonic waves serving as the bandwidth; the absolute vacuum produces a carrier wave, i.e., the psychonic waves of individual consciousness, that is modulated in frequency by the signal that is to be transmitted in the form of the psychonic wave of the psych ion. Following matter disaggregation across and throughout the multiverse, the psych ion, subatomic particle of consciousness, and its qualia, phenomenal property, is subsequently integrated into the absolute vacuum, the wavefunction of the multiverse, which in its inception was only four forces, where all the fundamental forces of nature emerged, of the multiverse to give rise to future worlds with conscious simple and complex beings whose qualia, phenomenal properties, is never destroyed (emergent panpsychism), but is the frequency of an individual consciousness recycled throughout the multiverse.

For Mocombe what accounts for the unity of experience is the psych ion, subatomic particle, of the emergent psychonic/pan psychic subatomic field of the multiverse that has phenomenal properties, qualia, which gets embodied as a resonating neuronal particle of the aggregated brain, which experiences a material resource framework as an “I,” a channel/station of, or on, a frequency wavelength, whose phenomenal properties, subjective experiences of material reality, following matter disaggregation either returns back to the field or collapses in other worlds, with their own consciousness fields, where the same matter exists as distinct resonating frequency channels of wavelengths (individual psych ionic waves connected to Schumann waves of multiverses connected to the absolute vacuum as frequency wavelengths, which can be measured in Hertz). Death, in other words, is either integration into the probability wavefunction of the absolute vacuum, which produces the Schumann waves of superimposed and entangled material worlds each with their own superimposed and entangled consciousness fields, where individuated consciousness emerges, or the collapse of the resonating channel of the psych ion/psy chon unto another version of its vibrating and oscillating frequency wavelength and phase across the multiverse.

Conclusion

In this article, I want to posit that Gede, once embodied, monte, by a chawal replaces the station of the chawal, and when describing their origins, anba dlo, from the afterlife are highlighting the nature of the absolute vacuum, the zero-point field where all the elementary particles for all of existence are one; it is a nonlocal space, the state of which is in the form of a cosmic soup that is cold, watery, and contains the phenomenal properties of past, present, and future consciousness as a probability wavefunction. What can be further deduced from the testimonies, telepathy, and prescient abilities of Gede is that our lives and experiences are predetermined, consciousness is nonlocal and transmitted (as a frequency wavelength) from the absolute vacuum to material realities, and personalities are tied to consciousness and persist after life.

L was in Vodou are four-hundred one (401) ancestral spirits, concepts, and God, which the latter (God) utilized out of itself to create and constitute the material world, and its numerous counterparts (multiverse), that human beings occupy. They, the lwas, can be called upon in our current dispensation of spacetime to help human beings live out their material reality. The understanding (read within my theoretical physics outlined above) in Vodou is that each person and lwa, the concepts and spirits that direct human life and relations, have their own channel or station on the frequency wavelength that is the universe, which must either be in alignment with the Schumann wave of the earth if they are a live-person seeking balance and harmony in their lives, or can be combined with other sounds by drummers and the other musicians during Vodou ceremonies to call upon them (lwas), psychonic spirits, throughout the multiverse to provide direction in life. Hence, in terms of the latter, the beat and rhythm, rit, of the music must incorporate both the frequency of the Schumann wave of the dispensation of spacetime it is taking place in as well as the channel and wavelength of the lwas, since they exist in other dimensions and spacetimes, in order for them to manifest by replacing (monte) the psychonic wave, or channel of the host or chawal they are manifesting in. Like the lwas, Gede highlights the fact that all resonating channels, consciousness, return to the absolute vacuum, God, upon the end of their lived- experiences either awaiting to be recycled, birth, throughout the multiverse, or called upon to guide the human community. Future research must

a) continue to search for evidence of multiverses and other forms of existence tied to our present world, which will be similarly constituted as our own universe, and

b) proofs for the existence of the field of consciousness or consciousness field and its elementary particle, psych ion, in order to falsify or verify Mocombe’s overall theory of phenomenological structuralism and Gede’s testimony.

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