Ross Coulthart

The idea being that somehow we have abilities, innate abilities that we don't realize.

There's a whole school of thought that consciousness is non-local and that when we die...

Whatever it is that happens to us when we die, what we call our souls does survive and it becomes part of a unitary mass consciousness.

They are.

In fact, they go right back in the Vedic tradition.

Totally.

They also permeate Buddhist ideas.

The interesting thing is there's a consistent theme.

The consistent theme is that we are souls that have elected to have time on this planet to give that wider consciousness the experience of knowing what it's like to suffer and to love.

Maybe that's our purpose.

Maybe the purpose of our existence is to essentially educate a broader consciousness.

It's really interesting because I never expected to go down that rabbit hole when I was doing this investigation.

But to me, it's been one of the most rewarding aspects of this research.

I've come into contact with some of the world's most brilliant scientists, people like Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Stuart Hameroff, who've coined this idea of non-local consciousness.

I attended a conference in Spain on consciousness in May this year.

And one of the dominant areas of conversation was this idea that consciousness is non-local, that we're not meat computers.

Because so much of medical science is based the idea around the notion that, you know, we humans are just biological lumps of meat.

And that notions of a soul, notions of an id are complete nonsense.

And that when we die, whatever we were dies with us, with our biological bodies.

I'm actually having talked to so many people now, increasingly spiritual as a result of what I'm talking to people about.