The greatest mystery in the universe is… man himself. Scientists, who proudly announce new discoveries and who claim that there is nothing left to understand on Earth, continue to discover new organisms, wild tribes living in the jungles of this world, and new (to them) laws of nature. However, the greatest mystery remains to themselves. Francis Crick – biochemist, geneticist, and molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine in 1962, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA – once said that “consciousness is the greatest unsolved problem in biology.” Scientific research on consciousness is periodically either praised as a “new, final frontier” (beyond the universe and the Star Trek universe) or marginalized and labeled pseudoscience. Every so often, scientists awaken the desire to explore and understand the human mind, where consciousness actually comes from, and what it is. The topic periodically returns because it’s fascinating. As we’ll see, consciousness has little to do with the mind. The soul is responsible for all of that. And here we reach the boundary between what scientists find insatiable and what, to those developing spiritually, is, more or less, natural. It’s no longer possible to ignore consciousness without addressing the topic of spirituality and God. And it’s becoming increasingly easy for science to prove this. Here’s why.
Where does consciousness in humans come from? Over the past 30 years, neuroscientists searching for so-called neural correlates of consciousness (minimal sets of neural states or activity in the brain that are sufficient for a specific conscious experience to occur) have discovered entire constellations of brain networks that reveal what happens when we lose consciousness. Today, they have vast collections of information and data at their disposal, increasingly delving into metaphysics, and are accused by their colleagues of practicing pseudoscience.
What is consciousness? Science and spirituality
Consciousness is, in fact, everything you know and can refer to. A memory from the past, the smell of morning bread, a reminder on your phone about a meeting, the voice of a friend, the lyrics of a song that catches your ear when you hear it on the radio. The simplest possible definition of consciousness is that it is everything that falls within your perception. Simply put. This is precisely why, for some, even we at HYPNOVERSE are not worthy of being called energy workers. Not to mention skeptics and scientific “concrete.” Because how is that possible? Online hypnosis? Supporting healing and relaxation without someone being physically present in the same room? Even if someone is developing spiritually and is conscious, they are skeptical. They have the right to be, of course, but it all comes down to one thing: consciousness. If what we are dealing with here falls outside the narrow boundaries of a person’s perception, it lies beyond their awareness. It’s as simple as that.
This is precisely why, through this connection, methods of helping people like hypnosis are possible. This includes our two methods of energetic hypnosis. Consciousness does not die; it is immortal. And since this is so, our energetics and subconscious mind store memories of previous incarnations, experiences, traumas, and unresolved conflicts. This is precisely why we can also work with the human body, supporting the healing processes of the physical organism. The cells of the human body also have memory (we refer you here to previous “Scientific Evidence” posts on our blog)! At HYPNOVERSE, we simply read these recordings and also know how to work with them to help. And this requires practice. Time, knowledge, and experience. And this is also what some people (especially those commenting on our YouTube interviews) still don’t understand. Increasing human consciousness, the process of spiritual development, is precisely that—a process. This is why you can’t heal yourself in a second after watching any of our videos or reading material like this one. It requires working on increasing your consciousness potential—something you can tap into. What you are able to do with your consciousness, how to use it.
Neuroscience (following its immortal scientific principle of complicating simple things and building elaborate, fanciful models from them) has broken consciousness down into three parts: wakefulness, inner awareness, and connection with the world. Milan-based neurophysiologist Marcello Massimini says this about the brain:
It’s something with clear boundaries, with a defined weight, a bit like tofu. Not very elegant, yet within this object you can hold in your hand, the entire universe fits.
And this is precisely the error of science. Neuroscientists, and science in general, try, as always, to measure and weigh the entire world. To connect and locate consciousness processes within a single organ, the brain, which is incorrect (I teach this in a course where I discuss this more, and also in practice). When we think, we create mental images. We also create art, although here primarily through sensation. And here, science copes with this as best it can, trying to bridge this rational and irrational divide. He claims that the soul or mind is not made of the same material as our physical body (I also teach about the truth, and I have hard scientific evidence for this from recent discoveries!).
Thomas Willis, in his work “Cerebri anatome,” demonstrated as early as 1664 that the cerebral cortex and gray matter in the brain are responsible for thinking. Descartes concluded that the pineal gland is the link between the body and consciousness, and two 19th-century scientists, Paul Broca and Carl Wernicki, demonstrated that damage to specific areas of the brain destroys certain aspects of consciousness. From that point on, science became rationalized, unbearably materialistic, and… thoroughly incorrect. So much so that, unfortunately, to this day, some scientists and adherents of a solely materialistic conception of the universe call themselves “Descartes’ bastards,” that is, heirs to this approach. This is, unfortunately, not elegant, but it is accurate.
That the concept of consciousness clearly eludes academic science is evidenced by studies on the neural correlates of vision from the 1990s. It turns out that visual awareness… is so tenuously linked to sight. How is this possible? Sensory processing areas (i.e., what reaches our brain through sight) contain a vast amount of information that our consciousness… has no access to. And that’s why it doesn’t, and this is where spirituality comes in, because we would simply go crazy. Can you imagine simultaneously seeing sunlight, infrared, ultraviolet, and the full spectrum of light frequencies? Humans aren’t yet prepared for this, and even animals don’t see or perceive everything. Although there are very sensitive exceptions, like cats, who behave specifically when they sense the presence of alien, invisible energy in the home. Why don’t we see and feel all of this? It’s possible, but again, it requires awareness training. Readiness, our preparation.
Scientists have as many as 29 theories (yes, that’s not a typo!) of what consciousness is and how it works. The most popular of these is the “global neural workspace theory” (GNWT). According to this theory, consciousness is a stage. When a signal, someone or something enters our consciousness (a word, a thought, a sound—a conversation, the refrigerator buzzing, a familiar song, etc.), it appears on this stage and is illuminated by a spotlight. Like in a theater, so that we can see it. And the rest of the stage, the subconscious? It’s immersed in darkness, waiting to be triggered. If we triggered everything at once, we would be so overstimulated that we wouldn’t be able to cope. Now do you understand why you don’t remember all your incarnations? According to this theory, what’s illuminated on the stage is then sent throughout the brain, which then controls our actions, attention, and biological processes (a car in the crosswalk is a threat—run away; a song on the radio is pleasant—listen). This theory is incredibly interesting, but there’s a slight problem. According to science, consciousness resides in the brain, and the brain creates consciousness. This is untrue, as we’ll see later.
In contrast to the above, there’s the very interesting (though still incorrect) integrated information theory (IIT). According to this theory, and it’s a mathematical-philosophical project (sic!), consciousness doesn’t begin with the brain (bravo!). Here, the starting point is consciousness itself and observing it, and then adapting or creating a model (less bravo…) that would help explain it. ITT assumes that at any given moment, we are capable of experiencing many things simultaneously (parallel universes greet us), and our mind organizes them, causing what we call experience to manifest as an integrated stream of consciousness. The ITT theory assumes, mind you!, that consciousness can also exist outside of living systems. This includes, for example, in inanimate matter, which happens to be true. We’ve had sessions with clients where people in past incarnations were, for example, a grain of sand washed by the sea, or a plant, and their subconscious minds harbored programs that said, “Nothing depends on me.” At a scientific conference in New York in 2023, the results of a major research project were announced, pairing the GNWT and IIT. The project focused on measurement techniques, aiming to almost literally “measure and weigh” consciousness. The field was in uproar, and researchers remain at a loss to this day. Here’s what happened.
The scientists wanted to investigate what actually happens in the brain when a given image is perceived and when it isn’t. Proponents of both theories left the conference deeply dissatisfied. ITT posits that consciousness stems from electrical activity in the posterior part of the brain. This area is believed to lie at the intersection of numerous neural networks involved in processing sensory stimuli. GNWT, on the other hand, posits that a stimulus, such as an image, only reaches the “level of consciousness” when it “ignites” in the global workspace located in the anterior regions of the brain, such as the prefrontal cortex, responsible for planning and decision-making. So, consciousness only turns on when you turn the ignition key, like in a car.
What did the research show? Yes, activity related to conscious perception occurs in the posterior brain, but the networks in this area were not organized as predicted by the IIT theory. In the prefrontal cortex, signals were recorded when an image was presented, but they did not reappear when it was removed. Contrary to what GNWT predicts. From the scientific perspective to ours, this is what we’re talking about in HYPNOVERSE. Once dumped into the subconscious, which acts like a kitchen sink, it stays there. We need to be very careful with our thoughts, emotions, and feelings, because over time, those that generate our traumas will need to be removed (beliefs) and healed (traumas). And this has little to do with the brain itself, because the memory bank belongs to the soul, not the brain.
Researchers began arguing, calling them charlatans, and once again, consciousness research was nearly put on hold once again. Just at the moment when the topic of consciousness and the autonomy of artificial intelligence was emerging. This is extremely dangerous, as we warn, because humanity is not yet ready for this, and the current use of artificial intelligence is playing God with a very modest foundation of consciousness and morality on a global scale.
The long journey humanity has come along in the last 200 years, and at an accelerated pace, is demonstrated by the words of Kristin Andrews, a philosopher who studies animal minds at New York University:
When I started my doctoral studies in the 1990s, the statement that chimpanzees were not conscious was the default position of many scientists.
It’s funny, because in the same decade, research began on laboratory monkeys, demonstrating that they could be studied in ways that (haha) were impossible with humans. What’s more, it’s not just that. After signing the so-called Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (post-2012), it was discovered that all mammals and some birds are likely sentient beings. Probably? Touching… Does any of these scientists have a pet they accidentally stepped on, or have they seen how an animal behaves when it cuddles with a human or asks for food? How do shelter animals recover, going from sad and depressed to joyful in the warmth of human homes? This doesn’t require science, just basic human sensitivity and looking another being in the eye…
Was it interesting? Relax, we’re just getting warmed up…
A few additional facts as a basis
Before we go any further, a few additional facts. 0.5 seconds. That’s how long it takes the brain to process stimuli and generate responses. A car threatens your child at the crosswalk? In exactly half a second, you know to jump back, and to protect yourself, you do so automatically. To raise a piece of candy or a pill to your mouth, countless brain systems are engaged. They’re responsible for the entire sequence: hand falling down, catching and lifting, raising to the mouth, putting it in the mouth, sucking or swallowing, processing, dissolving, and excreting. Who wonders daily how breathing works (I teach this too, because awareness is essential!) or what it’s like when picking up a piece of candy? Nobody; we do it automatically.
Moving on: have you ever “felt” someone’s gaze on you, even though you were standing or had your back to them? Or predicted something that was about to happen? Well, it’s happened to everyone. These are the abilities that are still, unfortunately, called “paranormal,” but which are perfectly natural. Everyone has them and can be effectively developed (yes, I teach that too). Some scientists (wrongly, it has nothing to do with the brain) believe the brain possesses precognitive abilities, meaning it allows us to see the future. They believe this is related to the flow of signals between synapses, allowing the brain to “keep pace” with events in reality. They believe it’s an interpretation of events, hence the impression that we’re seeing something that will happen in a moment. We, of course, know that this is just a scientific attempt to explain something that thousands of people experience firsthand every day. If this were true, how could we explain the fact that, despite the mind’s incredible complexity, as much as 75% of its composition (!) is actually ordinary… water? The reality is even different, and matter itself isn’t made of what we think and is constructed entirely differently. But I share this knowledge with those who want to pursue spirituality further.
With all this complexity (and water), the brain is made up of about 100 billion (!) neurons, of which “only” 20 billion are located in the cerebral cortex. And you know, all of this arose on its own, because God, as the agent behind such brilliant things as the complexity of the universe, the human brain, the mind, and the fact that it all holds together and doesn’t fall apart, isn’t necessary. The metaphor of a tornado passing over a garbage dump and accidentally spitting out a perfectly painted, new, and working car. Of course, that’s exactly what it looks like in reality… Materialism can explain everything, and there’s no need for God, much less “haunted” spiritualists.
Okay… But how do we explain what we’ve just arrived at?
Consciousness CANNOT BE EXPLAINED WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY
In 1991, Daniel Clement Dennett III, an American philosopher and professor at Tufts University (and a downright fanatical atheist), published the book “Consciousness Explained” (haha). He compared the brain to a computer that simply follows instructions. Where it gets these instructions from, he didn’t explain, of course, because why would he? He concluded that there is no such thing as consciousness, because it’s merely a cultural concept, produced solely by the brain. In other words: the brain creates an illusion. And here—wait, wait!—he was unconsciously right. To balance his correct finding, he revealed another gem, according to which, if reality is an illusion, then we are not responsible for our own actions. This hardly needs commentary…
Robert Penrose, the widely recognized winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, strongly criticized this approach. Instructions for a computer are different from instructions for the brain, and a computer can’t replicate human behavior (not yet, but it will be possible, unfortunately). Penrose rightly believes that the brain is designed to register and process consciousness, but doesn’t produce it. Why is this? Remember the remark about overstimulation? The human eye sees light in the range of 400 to 750 THz, which corresponds to wavelengths from 380 to 750 nm. This is a tiny segment of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, encompassing essentially everything from radio waves to gamma rays. And now, dear reader of this blog, watch my video interviews, where I clearly and eloquently “bashed” the topic of electromagnetism, and in my blog posts, I presented evidence related to this topic (available in our “Scientific Evidence” series). If we play around and assume that the range of the visible light spectrum is 1.5 meters, then what we don’t see has a range of… 100,000 kilometers. It’s as if an ant “knew everything” and spoke with unbearable self-assurance about the chemical composition of Mars. A metaphor for a tornado and a garbage dump.
Okay, but what does spirituality have to do with this? Science documents cases of patients who, due to illness or accidents, had even large sections of their brain removed, and yet they… went on living, fully functional, as if nothing had happened. People retained their memories and motor skills, and even developed their intellectual and other talents. In 2002, the widely known journal “The Lancet” published a paper by three American neurosurgeons: Borgestein, Grootendorst, and Leon-Sariento. They described the case of a 3-year-old (!) girl whose entire left hemisphere was removed due to chronic encephalitis and epileptic seizures. The predictions? Linguistic retardation, paralysis of one half of her body, and loss of vision in one eye. Reality? The woman graduated with a degree in mathematics, has a talent for foreign languages, and is fully functional intellectually and physically. What’s more, in 2014, a case was described of a 24-year-old woman who was diagnosed not only with a missing cerebellum in her skull but also with the complete absence of both cerebral hemispheres. Another case, published in the journal “Science,” dates back to 1981. The article “Is the Brain Really Essential?” discusses the situation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus, 95% of brain tissue missing, and a brain remnant weighing 15 times less (!) than a healthy person. Yet, this individual had an IQ of 126. All of this demonstrates that consciousness is independent of the brain.
Consciousness is quantum physics
And now hold on tight. The answer to the question of what consciousness truly is lies not in biology, but in physics. Specifically, in quantum physics. That’s why I teach people to connect the two, because in the purely spiritual and purely material realms, they are one and the same. Scientists are finally waking up and beginning to confirm this.
As early as the 19th century, the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (a physician, philosopher, physiologist, and physicist) discovered that the temperature in the calves of frogs increases when they flex. This humble discovery is one of the keys to quantum physics. It states that energy never disappears, it only changes form. From scientific to ours: when we die, the soul leaves the body, because consciousness is not the brain. There’s no room for a detailed explanation here, so in short: Helmholtz also discovered that the brain actually registers, but above all processes, interprets, and even censors reality. In our terms: it creates its own reality. According to the level of consciousness. This is why some can manifest what they want in a second, while others, even if they know how, fail to achieve this effect. Everyone is responsible for their own reality, and everyone creates it in their own way, every second of their life. Helmholtz “discovered,” or rather confirmed, a truth known to the ancients: energy cannot arise from nothing, nor can it cease to exist. It is eternal and only constantly changes its form or flows between bodies (a grain of sand and a human, when consciousness is advanced enough to incarnate).
In his book “Structural Qualia: A solution to the hard problem of conciousness,” Kristian Lourtiss of the University of Helsinki concludes that unconscious processes of associating ideas occur at a hidden level of memory, in the brain (ahem… there we go again…). In other words: expectations (manifestations!) shape our reality. In reality, expectations have a greater impact on the effects of manifestations, but that’s what my graduates are learning. Psychology has even developed the concept of the “inner observer,” which is deeply embedded in our consciousness. It is our inner witness—observing our behavior. And this, pay attention, pay attention—is also consistent with authentic spiritual knowledge. And ancient knowledge at that. This isn’t about the “inner critic” that constantly tells us, “You’re not good enough,” “You did it wrong again,” etc. It’s about something entirely different.
Since 1935, thanks to Einstein, and since 1964, after experiments by John Stewart Bell that confirmed his hypotheses, and also since 1982, with experiments by Alain Aspect, we have known about so-called “nonlocal nature.” That is, consciousness is not assigned to a specific location, like a name to a person. Consciousness can travel (so-called remote viewers, research funded by the CIA; I discuss this in an interview for the Polska Mówi channel, available on our blog).
In 1973, Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner John Eccles discovered that our sense of “self,” or separateness and individuality, is linked to the left parietal and frontal lobes of the brain. In other words, the brain behaves as if consciousness were actually located there, but this is an illusion. Typically, due to damage, this type of illusion and identity takes over other brain functions. This is one reason why we feel like we literally “live in our own heads.” This is why so many people in our sessions have trouble feeling their own emotions. They are blocked, unable to process them. They are deluded. In fact, particles of immaterial consciousness interact with material dendrons, or structures in the cerebral cortex. A quantum effect is created: non-local consciousness influences the local brain by controlling probability at synapses. This allows consciousness to literally control matter. In other words, the mirror principle in spirituality: if you believe you can do something, reality reflects it back to you in your life. If you believe you’re stupid, you’ll encounter people who reflect that belief in exactly the same way. They’re not proving anything; it’s not an objective reality. It’s your reality.
Let’s repeat: consciousness is non-local. This is perfectly demonstrated by the AWARE project, which studies cases of consciousness retained after clinical death – cardiac and brain arrest. In 2023, studies were published in the US, Western Europe, and worldwide. Twenty-five medical facilities worldwide reported the cases of 526 patients who claimed to have retained consciousness after the death of their physical bodies and were successfully revived. 126 individuals were selected for further study. They described in detail the appearance of operating rooms and the actions of doctors on their bodies.
Not enough? In 2019, the journal “Nature” reported the results of research by scientists from Yale University, led by Croatian neurobiologist Nenad Sestan. The scope of the research? Restoration of blood circulation and brain cell function even hours (!) after death. 48 hours after death, cells were harvested, and they continued to divide completely normally (!) and even retained axons, the fibers connecting nerve cells. Energy does not die because it is not born; it is immortal!
Alex Gomez Marin, a Spanish physicist and neurobiologist, head of a laboratory at the Institute of Neurobiology in Alicante, experienced clinical death in 2021. His brain and heart stopped for several minutes during uncontrolled stomach bleeding. This experience transformed him from a typically painful scientific materialist into a fervent advocate of non-local consciousness. His life was completely transformed. He is even convinced that animals are conscious too.
Summary
The examples and studies could be multiplied endlessly. This is only a representative sample; my graduates have access to even more recent research and even stronger scientific evidence confirming that matter is an illusion and that there is “something else.” Renowned research centers, renowned journals, and the evidence is overwhelming. What do most scientists, and even, shockingly, academically trained hypnotherapists (we even have one in Poland; out of pity, I’ll omit their name and social media profile) still do?
“Subtle energies have no right to exist because science says so. Remote healing is nonsense, energy work is a fraud.” Covering your eyes like a small child, pretending that if you don’t look at something, it will disappear, is naive. Especially in the world of science. Science, reliable, true, and honest science, is rooted primarily in curiosity. Acknowledging that you don’t know something and stubbornly pushing forward to find answers. But at the heart of all this lies a childlike curiosity about the world, not an equally childish closing of eyes. Whenever someone says something doesn’t exist because “science hasn’t proven it,” they demonstrate their intellectual laziness and lack of willingness to update their knowledge. And there is much to update.
It demonstrates something even more important. Fear and ignorance, which then transform into arrogance and supposed “omniscience.” I have no problem saying clearly and emphatically “I don’t know” in certain situations. But what I do know, and there is “a little” of it, I transform into explaining the mechanisms of action in therapy sessions and into educating other therapists. Every time you shy away from the facts, you ignore thousands of years of human knowledge. What this article is about is actually old, very old knowledge, only dressed in the 21st-century garb of medicine, biology, neurobiology, quantum physics, brain neuroplasticity, and Jungian psychology. That’s what we at HYPNOVERSE have been using from the very beginning.
And that’s why, for those who stubbornly deny the facts, I have sincere and human compassion and respect, stemming from the understanding that breaking free from an entrenched scientific position can take some people longer than it does us, conscious, spiritually developing people. We have millennia-old awareness, which we recall and continually develop. There’s nothing to be afraid of – join us. The first step is to boldly say, “I don’t know, but I’m curious.” It’s really not much…
Sources:
Scientific American, March 2026 (Polish edition)
Rzeczpospolita Nauka (Polish science magazine) No. 1, 2026