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Pure Science less bias and pure Religion less
superstition are one and the same. Through honest
intellectual inquiry, the Opus Lux Project explores the work of light as
it relates to the following hypotheses: Your comments are
welcome: OpusLux@live.com 1.) There is a Supreme
Intelligence orchestrating the evolutionary process in the universe. This Intelligence is a Life Force that
animates all living things throughout the universe. This Field of Intelligence may be
non-conceptual, indefinable and beyond human comprehension at this point in
our evolution; however, there is no reason to believe that it is not
compatible with all known laws of science and nature and is therefore
abundantly reflected therein.
This Universal Collective Consciousness has been called
“God” or the “Tao” by some, and serves as First Cause
of the cosmos, both material and non-material. 2.) Knowledge is
light-borne and integrates with human consciousness through forces within the
electromagnetic spectrum.
Therefore Consciousness may be a field of electromagnetic energy which
retains knowledge. This energy
field is bound by the laws of science pertaining to the electromagnetic
spectrum as defined in the Theory of Relativity, and therefore; (1) it does
not depend upon a physical body of mass for survival, and (2) it is perpetual
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-------------------------------------------------- "All material in nature, the mountains and the streams
and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled
mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light". American architect Louis I.
Kahn (1901 - 1974) on the essential realization that all forms of life
originate from light like a philosophical postulate. THE OPUS
LUX THEORY The Opus Lux Philosophy in a nutshell. Is light the essence of consciousness?
Can consciousness exist outside the physical
body? Can Quantum Physics offer a
Theory of Perpetual Existence of Consciousness? Is consciousness a by-product of the
electromagnetic field? By Dan R.
Hankins SCIENTIFIC
PROGRESS ON THE USE OF THE ELECTOMAGNETIC FIELD OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS FOR
PRACTICAL PURPOSES: The world's first brain prosthesis - an
artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in In recent years, progress is being made towards sensory substitution devices for the blind. In the long run, there could be the possibility of brain implants. A brain implant or cortical implant provides visual input from a camera directly to the brain via electrodes in contact with the visual cortex at the backside of the head. More… A sensor implanted in a paralyzed man's
brain has enabled him to control objects by using his thoughts alone. More… Scientists have made significant strides
to create a permanent artificial device that can restore deliberate mobility
to patients with paralyzing injuries.
The concept is that, through thought alone, a person could direct a
robotic arm – a neural prosthesis – to reach and manipulate a
desired object. More…
Patent sought for brain imaging system
for direct prosthesis control. More… Matthew Nagle sits in front of his computer. Skipping over video games, he selects a desktop icon to lower the volume on his TV, then opens a paint program and sketches a wobbly circle on the monitor. Killing time? Nope, making history. Paralyzed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair, Nagle controls the computer using only his mind. More… A
Brief Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum “Words ought to be a little wild,
for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.” WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL WORK OF LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE? By Dan R. Hankins “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is
opinion.” -
Democritus of Abdera (460 - 370 BC) The Role of Light in Human
Consciousness and Physical Well-Being By Dan Hankins Mysterious Light: A
Scientist’s Odyssey By Peter Russell A
LOOK AT THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE)
The Near Death Experience (NDE) is widely reported among every culture
and religion and by many people of every age from children to the
elderly. It crosses all
socio-economic and political lines.
It has been reported throughout the ages of recorded history. It has a profound impact upon those
who experience them. Are they
real? What are they? What do they teach us about the
source, character, and carrier of human consciousness? This is the next
frontier of science. Scientists
Weigh the Scientific and Spiritual Facets of the NDE THE CONTINUITY OF
CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND PHYSICAL DEATH. Research by Dr. Pim Van Lommel Dutch Cardiologist Pim
Van Lommel finished a groundbreaking study of the
continuity of consciousness beyond the physical death of the body. Published in the British Medical
Journal, Lancet, the article
represents a milestone in medical research. Some people who have survived a life-threatening
crisis report an extraordinary experience. Near-death experiences (NDE) occur
with increasing frequency because of improved survival rates resulting from
modern techniques of resuscitation. The content of NDE and the effects on
patients seem similar worldwide, across all cultures and times. More… “Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in
the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.” Dr. Wernher von
Braun Former Director of Chief architect of the Saturn V launch
vehicle, the booster that propelled the Scientific Evidence for
Survival of Consciousness Beyond Death?
“Death is not a life
threatening condition.” - Dan Hankins Does the NDE Experience validate the Opus Lux Theory? By Dan Hankins The International Association for Near-Death
Studies “The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true
art and science.” “All things are subject to
interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a
function of power and not truth.” David Chalmer’s
Online Papers on Consciousness “What lies behind us and what
lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.” Is everything just a form of light? DANIEL M. KIRCHMANN’S LUXON THEORY As far as we
can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the
darkness of being.” Australian National
University – Centre for Consciousness “I believe
there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can
compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are
impossible.” Scientific Evidence for the
Survival of Consciousness After Death “It is
proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or
majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not
change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.” The Journal of Near -Death
Studies physical body, the laboratory data
from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there
is no separation in consciousness.” “Physicists defer only to the
mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God, although you
may be hard-pressed to find a mathematician that modest.” - Leon M. Lederman James Higgo’s
delightful “Lazy Layman's Guide
to Quantum Physics”
“The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
“He who
joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been
given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
suffice.” Brian Josephson -- Director of the Mind-Matter Unification Project “We have
actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one
another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to
think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their
solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie
Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful.” - Sir William Crookes, 1879 “The
visible world is the invisible organization of energy.” “The truth
dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.” Death is Not a Life Threatening
Condition My Mystical Encounter with Light Dan Hankins One
night before I went to bed I began to experience some chest pain. It would come
and go. I had been diagnosed with
heart disease, had a heart stent in one artery, and
had experienced similar pain on many occasions so I didn’t pay too much
attention to it. The next
morning, I was still in some discomfort. While lying in the floor, I suddenly
felt a pain in the center of my chest that continued to get worse and I felt
like a ton of weight was resting on my chest. The pain became unbearable. The
pain quickly intensified to the point where I felt I couldn’t stand
another second and still remain conscious. I grabbed my chest and cried,
“God I can’t take this pain!” At the instant I was
convinced I was going to die of a heart attack I heard a loud sound like the
clapping of hands and then a “whoosh” sound and I was out of my
body. The pain was instantly gone and I felt completely at peace. I found
myself above and to the left of my physical body looking down at it. All of
this happened very quickly. There appeared a long thin swirling dark purple
vortex – much like a tornado - with the small end attached to my
forehead and the long end winding out as far as I could see. I
do not recall ever being in that tunnel or vortex but I next found myself in
completely peaceful, gentle silence in the presence of a growing brilliant
white/blue light. Every attempt I have ever made to describe this scene has
failed because I cannot find the right words. After each explanation, I find
myself inwardly saying, “No, that’s not exactly how it
was.” But there are no words to do a better job that I can find. The light was totally and completely
filled with love and acceptance. I had the urge to give up my own thoughts
and ego and merge into the Light. I wanted to be one with that Light more
than I wanted anything else in the world. I wanted to stay forever in that
place of warm love, acceptance and kindness. Several years prior to this
experience, I had undergone a very painful divorce. I had tried everything
within my power to save my marriage and I had failed. Many nights found me
sobbing and praying that God would somehow show me how to make my marriage
work. My chief sorrow was the fact that I had two daughters, 14 and 5 years
old and I would be breaking up their home and destroying their security. I
love them more than anything on earth and I wanted to keep their world safe
and intact. On the day my wife told me that either I must leave or she would
leave with the kids, I felt it would be best for my kids if I left so they
could stay in their home and their lives not be
completely uprooted. My oldest daughter was old enough to grasp the situation
although she took upon herself a lot of guilt and blame for something she had
absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with. She was a wonderful daughter in
every possible way. My
youngest daughter, however, clearly did not understand what was going on in
her life. She was only five years old and I loved her with all my heart. She
was my precious baby. I was her Daddy . . . her protector . . . her provider.
She came into the bedroom as I was packing my suitcase to leave. She was a
proud little angel and she did not cry in front of others. She choked back
the tears as she tugged gently at my shirt sleeve and spoke just above a
whisper with a tiny quivering voice, "But Daddy, I
don’t want us to not be a family anymore . . ."
There
are no words to tell you how much sorrow filled my heart in that moment. I
swept both my daughter into a single embrace and shook with sobs as I told
them how sorry I was. And I would carry that grief and sorrow in my soul for
many painful years. Now back to
my experience. As I stood before this loving light of complete love, the
light spoke to me though there were no audible words. It was clear and
distinct but it was entirely through what I guess you would call telepathy.
The voice said, “Give me your grief.” The words were loving and
tender but very clear. At this
point, so that you can understand my story, I need to say that when I was a
little boy my father sometimes verbally and physically abused me. When he
lost his temper, he lost control and did things I am sure he regretted. The
verbal abuse left me feeling completely worthless and unlovable and the
physical abuse was painful. I wanted more than anything in the world for my
Dad to love me and be proud of me, but I never seemed to figure out how. The
worst part of the abuse however, was the feeling of complete and total
helplessness and out-of control powerlessness. This
loving Light said, “Give me your grief.” I instantly I saw myself
again as a five year old boy standing before a tall shelf. Way up on the top
shelf I saw a container marked, “Grief.” I began to reach for it
and stretch as much as I could. It was no use. I just couldn’t reach
it. I hung my head in complete defeat and tearfully told the Light, “I can’t
reach it… I can’t reach it…” Tears were running down
my cheek and I felt that same sense of helplessness I had felt as an abused,
helpless, unlovable little boy so many years earlier. The
Light gently spoke again. It merely said, “I can.” Then two long
rays of light flowed out of the Light and swept down and took my grief and
stroked my head and cheek and embraced me completely and totally. Over and
over these two rays of wonderful loving light hugged me and caressed me and
stroked me and filled me with all the love and acceptance I so desperately
craved from my earthly father as a little boy. It was the most intensely
powerful emotional experience I have ever had. I am filled with tearful
wonder and joy every time I think about it. At
no time during this experience did I ever stop breathing. Later tests would
reveal that I did not have a heart attack. I have no plausible explanation
for what happened that morning. I
suppose it would be called a Near Death Like Experience. Eventually I would have 3 heart stents and a pacemaker put in my heart. The awesome
experience had taken only a few minutes of time. This
experience completely changed my life. A few days later, I was back home driving down the Interstate highway pondering
this amazing event when I asked myself, “I wonder what it all means and
what I am supposed to do now?” I no sooner got the words out of my
mouth than I heard the same telepathic voice I had heard from the Light a few
days earlier. It simply said, “Grow!” There was a slight pause
and again the single word, “Grow!” spoken louder than before
followed by a third and final commanding “GROW!!!” spoken so
emphatically that I physically jerked in my seat. I
have changed so much since that day. I was involved in a fundamentalist
conservative religion that was adamant about who was and was not acceptable
to God. Now I have a more universal view of religion and can find no
organized religion where I am completely comfortable. I try to accept others
as they are rather than how I think they ought to be. A new compassion for others developed
within my growing spirit. I hated
science and yet after this experience I became completely fascinated with
quantum physics. I intuitively
knew things that I had not known before.
I sincerely believe that my IQ increased in many ways. I
find myself feeling out of place and wanting to “go home.” I have no fear of death whatsoever. I
developed a very simple life style and gave most of my clothes away
and now dress and live a simple lifestyle. I am not concerned with material
things. I try to help others when I can. I still don’t understand what
happened to me that day in 1999 but it was clearly a pivotal and defining
point in my life. I know few things with certainty anymore, but of this I am
absolutely sure: death is not a life threatening condition! I am also sure
that what we call a “soul” is made of light and is drawn to light
at the moment of our death. We are beings of light. This experience gave me
an insatiable desire to learn all that I could about the quantum physics of
light and the role light plays in our universe, both spiritual and physical.
The science of physical light fascinates me but the correlation of the
similarities between physical light and God are remarkable. When
we think of physical light, the first thing we think of is the sun. The sun
weighs one thousand trillion trillion tons and the
sun is the undisputed sustainer of life on this planet. If current scientific
speculation is accurate, the life expectancy of the sun is roughly another 5
or 6 billion years, after which it will become a greatly expanded red star
engulfing nearby planets like Mercury and Venus and ending all life forms on
Earth in a nanosecond of scorched misery. It takes the sun’s light rays
eight minutes to reach us here on earth, so if the sun burned out this very
instant you wouldn’t know it for eight more minutes when you would
immediately freeze solid. We need the sun. We need the light. Physical light
sustains our life. Our physical bodies are held together by light. The atoms
in your body and bound by what quantum physics call the strong
force which is made up of gluons,
and gluons are a luxons
(light) vibrating in the atoms of your body at light speed and holding the
parts of the atom together. I
am convinced that the sages of the world’s religions were correct when
they posited that God is light. Many of the world’s religions assert
this, none more notably than the Christian religion. I John 1:5 says, “God
is pure light; without the slightest presence of darkness.”
And James 1:17 says, “Every good and perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who is pure Light
with no shifting shadows.” We humans are children of that
light, “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God (Light)…”
(Acts 17:29) Light is the animating energy of all life, “For
in God (Light) we live, and move, and have
our being…” Every living creature with animated life
– from the beetle to the butterfly to the bear - has the Light of God
in it. No other energy force in the cosmos is capable of animating life. Light
provides a myriad of benefits to life on this planet. We are located exactly
the right distance from the sun to be conducive to abundant life on our
little planet. A shift in our orbit around the sun in the slightest would produce
catastrophic results in our lives. In the vast expanse of the universe, it is
naïve to assume that there are no other planets ideally situated near a
similar star capable of sustaining some form of life. Perhaps there are many. © 2005 All rights
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