Hiller’s Eternal Discarnate Consciousness
Maverick physicist Jack Hiller posits an “eternal discarnate consciousness” or, as he says, in common parlance, the “soul”—which, “when freed from its hard attachment to the body, functions in a Universal Field of Consciousness (UFC), which may also be characterized as the mind of God.” The soul brings to the body the moral values that exist in the UFC, and these values may often conflict with, in Hiller's Freudian terms, “the Id and the Ego's pleasure-seeking functions.”
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Jack H. Hiller
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Dr. Jack H. Hiller is an American scholar specializing in consciousness and quantum physics. His work explores consciousness beyond the physical brain. He has also served as a Fulbright Scholar in Kenya.
Key Takeaways
Core Claim
Consciousness is an eternal “soul” functioning in a Universal Field of Consciousness (UFC).
How It Works
The soul exists before, during, and after life, bringing UFC moral values into bodily life.
Distinguishing Idea
OBEs reveal a nonphysical reality with timeless perception, multidimensional travel, and universal telepathy.
Possible Mechanism
UFC phenomena may relate to quantum entanglement enabling instantaneous, nonlocal connections.
Hiller’s Eternal Discarnate Consciousness
Maverick physicist Jack Hiller posits an “eternal discarnate consciousness” or, as he says, in common parlance, the “soul”—which, “when freed from its hard attachment to the body, functions in a Universal Field of Consciousness (UFC), which may also be characterized as the mind of God.” The soul brings to the body the moral values that exist in the UFC, and these values may often conflict with, in Hiller's Freudian terms, “the Id and the Ego's pleasure-seeking functions.” (Hiller, 2021). The theory hypothesizes that the individual consciousness (spirit and soul) functions in this UFC, both in life and in eternity, before and after an Earth life (Hiller, 2019).
Hiller bases his theory on what he says are many thousands of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) associated with near-death experiences, including many documented cases in which researchers were able to verify accurate reporting about the activities observed during the OBE that could not be accounted for by normal sense-perception (Rivas et al., 2023).
He stresses OBEs' peculiar, nonphysical characteristics: time no longer has meaning, does not flow, and the past and present, even some future events, are available to see and experience; visits may be made to Earth locations distant from the body, or out to the cosmos; perception is radically enhanced, e.g., visual perception is 360°, with an ability to focus down to atomic particles or up to the cosmos; everything appears to be made of light; thinking and movement by thinking are instantaneous; all entities, inanimate as well as diverse animate, exude consciousness; individual consciousness, souls, connect telepathically; the world experienced is multidimensional, more than space-time; by existing in the universal field of consciousness, all knowledge is felt as available, and one feels part of God and God's love for all (Hiller, 2020).
Hiller speculates that if quantum entanglement can be conceptualized as some kind of signaling at infinite speed across any distances, there could be a deep relationship between quantum mechanics and reported instances of discarnate consciousness.
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