Dr. Eric Haseltine

It's kind of like in that movie, Pirates of the Caribbean.

Someone says to Captain Barbossa when they're looking for Captain Jack and they say, Captain, we're lost.

And he goes, aye, you have to get lost to find something that can't be found.

And that's deep.

That is really deep.

And that's why, like I say, in the intelligence world, when we're doing our job right, we understand our own limitations.

And one very productive place to look is where we know we're blind and then to purposely try to look there.

Well, now you're getting into a really interesting field called noetics.

Well, now you're getting into a really interesting field called noetics.

And it's a fringe field of neuroscience and biology where, for example...

They believe that consciousness is a property of the universe, not of us.

And that each of our brains is like a radio receiver that's tuned in to conscious cosmic consciousness.

And that this is kind of the idea of where the soul comes from.

That consciousness isn't tied to our bodies any more than radio waves are tied to a radio.

Yeah.

So I'm not saying I'm a fan of noetics.

But what I'm saying is that it's so interesting that these ideas show up throughout human history.

Like if you look at the Vedic scriptures and the Hindu and the whole notion of transcendentalism, like the deity, whatever it is, exists everywhere in all things simultaneously.

And that led to transcendentalism.

And you could look at Jung, who believed in the collective unconscious.