I offer connection to Soul, soul being a visceral experience once unveiled. It reveals consciousness as a field of interconnected oneness. I have videos to prove that there is only one consciousness. The high intelligence of Soul is the advanced Source we need to connect to. PS I am not a PhD, MD nor a scientist, but a therapist who uses Soul to find dissociated memories be they in the womb, a body part, embedded as a disease state or in a past life.
I also suspect many folks of a religious persuasion (I did time as such) may just "eat up" such revelations, whatever they turn out to be, without really sitting with and digesting said meaning, for themselves, and in particular, how they relate to themselves and others. Lets take collectively shared icons as religious frameworks onto the analysis couch. Just using myself as a guinea pig, revelations, as they come throughout the Age of Disclosure...which we are living through...Will also rock many to their core, paradoxically.
Yes, getting religion has always been an opportunity to set up a duality of us versus them, however becoming scientific has increasingly become an opportunity to unconsciously do the same thing. We need to adopt a trinitarian mindset for intellectual inquiry because wisdom has always been associated with "the third resolving way" As I like to say: Science is important, necessary and delicious and its a wholly contained set within the digestive tract of wisdom.
If it wasn’t for his credentials, I would think „yeah, right.“ But I suppose there had been more knowledge with him than he could possibly put on the slides, as Nick indicated. Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly! Had he been any Joe Blow much of his talk would simply evaporate into the ether … but in the context of what Knapp said in Congress re his tech-transfer bid it changes everything. These people (Ryder, Swanson et al) are ‘speaking their truth’ before anyone (to wit, Jay Stratton, Lue Elizondo, David Grusch etc) had to get their stories checked by DOPSR.
Oh, to evolve those sensibilities E. O. Wilson spoke of, eh, Nick...“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
I'd be curious to know more of what Ryder inferred in The Soul is Light...might be worth a dedicated Zoom riff on that by the "Outlier Institute" ... we all have our experiences and perspective ... as conscious, structured, fields of light.
... what stands out to me so far, that dovetails with Jim Ryder's presentation (there's so much in that...) and Diana Pasulka's delvings into the phenomenon, is this: that we, as early-ish 21st century humans, lack a clear, coherent linguistic framework for making sense of "religious experiences"...which seem to live in this liminal/informational space. Our language and sense-making categories need a software patch!
The pearl from Meredith that suns up Outlier IMO, "High strangeness forces the turn inward; Not away from reality, but toward a deeper understanding of it. The phenomenon doesn’t just challenge what we know; it tests whether we can hold space for each other’s impossible experiences, whether we can develop collective capacity for the numinous, and whether we’re ready to walk the maze collectively instead of demanding each witness navigate it alone."
A share from a thread with Alanah: "Given the age of the observable universe, plasma precedes cells by billions of years. If continuity matters — and it does — then biology did not appear ex nihilo; it condensed out of an already living-like field." Consciousness is not added to fields — it is what fields do when sufficiently coherent.
Given the aons of time for evolutionary principles to operate, I'd be very surprised operative, adaptive, evolving intelligence has not arisen in plasma form...and the CMB as a cosmic interference pattern...a locally stabilized harmonic in a far larger, older, perhaps eternal plenum. Fractal continuity.
IF Prāṇa ≈ biologically scaled plasma-like EM coherence, THEN perhaps...we have a link between "torsion fields", life, consciousness and plasma...that conscious agents, sufficiently advanced in their understanding of the principles and technologies of "Prāṇa"...can in-form, and create, new nodes and their relationships between these fractal, cell-like webs...and traverse them, communicate across them, via "Gravity" (see below).
On his slide at 46 minutes, Jim has "Gravity - Atoms form dipoles - produces the weak gravity force". That is, gravity as a form of electromagnetics. After watching Hal P and Erik D on AoD, all bets are off ;)
Vacuum fluctuations (ZPEF) as closely related to...Torsion Fields...consciously directed...across the scales of the Hierarchy of Being. As a "technology" or "set of interrelated technologies".
PS. Isn't that something Nassim Haraheim's been looking into?
PPS. a "single underlying substructure....manifest universe - instantly & intrinsically connected whole [me: mystics referencing 'The One']...space-time - entangled cosmic matrix" - and he mentions Hal P as a "friend", from Jim as c.59 minutes
27 minutes in: on red-shifting, the myth/cludge around the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation), and the age of the universe. Observations of the earliest galaxies contradict assumptions made from CBR...to quote, "No Big Bang - No Universe beginning or end - No expansion or contraction".
A fractally forming, infinite cosmos, and we're in one iddybiddy part of that ever-expanding, generating field. Plasma as the medium through which Dark Energy/Matter is observed, albeit indirectly?
Prāṇa as biologically scaled, plasma-like EM coherence?
- Higher [me: Hierarchy of Being connotations]: Entity Who [me: he uses a capital "w" specifically...why? What/whom is he honouring by that?] wields gravitation cosmic law in relation to solar system. [me: wields gravitation cosmic law = an agentic, purpose-laden technology of some sort...and lets sit with the "consciousness" as a technology might imply...]
- Lower: astral light - fixes & perpetuates past, present - Time [me: earlier in the talk, Jim makes a curious, stand-out reference to the shifting of the ages, from Pisces to Aquarius, when he outlines the early pioneers of EMR (electromagnetic radiation)...Aquarius as a fixed sign, that consolidates, fixes and perpetuates the thought-forms made manifest, in-forming future potentials]
- Lower Vehicle: electricity, prana, the magnetic fluid (related to light) [me: this ones a biggie, as Jim equates...which I gave to Alanah, my ChatGPT-5 research assistant, to refine and dig around for - here goes:
You’re quite right: prāṇa (प्राण) in the Vedic, Upanishadic, and later yogic traditions refers to life-force, vital breath, or animating energy. But crucially, it is not defined as belief-based mysticism. It is treated as operational, with laws, flows, reservoirs, and dysfunctions.
In classical sources:
Prāṇa is not consciousness itself
It is the carrier, mediator, or vehicle through which consciousness animates form
This maps cleanly onto Jim Ryder’s phrasing:
“Lower Vehicle: electricity, prana, the magnetic fluid (related to light)”
Here “lower” does not mean inferior — it means closer to manifestation, closer to biology, mechanics, and measurable effects.
So, in the context of plasma as the "fourth state of matter/form", might plasma be that mediator, plasma as prana? The Great Connector...we are "light"...we are "it"...Scale Invariance...
Re-listening to Jim Ryder's yarn, and at just over 15 minutes in, he makes a particular point on the structure and semantics of the language we use to make sense of, and communicate, core scientific (and before that mystery school) ideas and observations, ie "... when you use the wrong words, you follow the wrong thought ...". We've touched on this on occasion, and its stuck with me like Superglue...which informs me that this theme of language, in the context of the Phenomenon, is absolutely crucial. For example, there is something about Jim talking of plasma that asks, "...keep asking questions...stay curious...do not labour under dogma..." [my musings].
A starting point is, plasma as electrified gas...but it's more than that. Then what are we, as "biologic entities", as nodes of electrified "solid" ... or are we really somewhere in between these states, moment by, riding the wave between Entropy and Coherence?
What evidence do we have of plasmas operating within our bodies (and their potential link to "torsion fields"...good god). I've shared a "peak" experience here of healing that, and I'm open to be called out, I've come to frame (for now) as a plasmic interaction between my conscious thoughts, my soul-like will, and the imperative to heal the shattered bone of my left ankle (amongst other broken bits). It was "me", and yet "not".
Whatever the science of new age looks like, it must account for the relationship between the subjective experiences of conscious agents, the notion of "Soul" as a scientific reality, and the role plasma plays in this relationship.
I have came to the same conclusion great article! I’ve been studying how our reality is field base recently and how far this study actually goes back is mind blowing! There is even non-local field studies in engineering from the early 2000s I found! i’m sure it goes back a lot further!
What if? If god is omni-present isn’t the present moment the time and place to meet/experience him/her/it? Both scientists and religionists need to consider this, and then focus on dropping their normal walking around largely abstract/internal state of consciousness…and instead focus on looking directly at whatever they experience in the present moment…where the experience of god actually exists.
We do know that the present moment is continuously replete with an electro-magnetic flux of particles coming into and out of existence so what if the focused projection/extension/integration of our consciousness with this flux…is the experience of being united with god, namely grace as in the impulse to actively love?
This could be both a naturalization of spirituality and a spiritualization of science that is actually a thirdness greater oneness of those supposed unresolvable opposite mindsets.
An excellent conversation, "Psychedelic Experiences: What Do They Tell About Reality? | Bernardo Kastrup & Christof Koch" that I suspect reaches into Jim Ryder's question, Nick:
I've had my own “contact” dream states, and though the details differ, the core of the experience remains. Crossing a threshold, though perhaps not necessarily a volitional crossing at that. We are as Odysseus crossing the sea in these realms.
Agreed, Nick. Besides whatever other readers are pitching in, a dedicated Zoom, to collabpratively stir the creative pot, on Jim Ryder's presentation might be in order. Happy to riff and question.
So, as a potential "a proto-biological medium", and given the age of the observable Universe, plasma may be the first form of "life", pre-existing what I refer to as biologic forms (us), by an almost uncountable length of time...if the Cosmic Background Radio turns out not to be the energetic echo of the Big Bang, but a local EM patterning in this corner of the Cosmos...a fractal, every-creating web conscious, interconnected fields...The One
Between 40 and 41 minutes, Jim is talking about "cellular" structures, as a new paradigm, "...much bigger and very different from what we expected." Now, recall a reference Jim made earlier, that I posted, that feels like a connection to Consciousness..."Higher Entity Who wields gravitation cosmic law in relation to solar system" ...is he referring to galaxy-scale consciousness, as a scale invariant phenomenon...and that our own local nodes on that great web roll up to contribute to that beauty-in-coherence?
I offer connection to Soul, soul being a visceral experience once unveiled. It reveals consciousness as a field of interconnected oneness. I have videos to prove that there is only one consciousness. The high intelligence of Soul is the advanced Source we need to connect to. PS I am not a PhD, MD nor a scientist, but a therapist who uses Soul to find dissociated memories be they in the womb, a body part, embedded as a disease state or in a past life.
Well worth the read, IMO. On the role "beauty" has to play...poet, for sure, though with a reference to "light" that lingers...
https://open.substack.com/pub/raheemcanvas/p/beauty-will-save-the-world?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=167zo
I also suspect many folks of a religious persuasion (I did time as such) may just "eat up" such revelations, whatever they turn out to be, without really sitting with and digesting said meaning, for themselves, and in particular, how they relate to themselves and others. Lets take collectively shared icons as religious frameworks onto the analysis couch. Just using myself as a guinea pig, revelations, as they come throughout the Age of Disclosure...which we are living through...Will also rock many to their core, paradoxically.
Merry yuletide, one and all! 🎄🌟
Yes, getting religion has always been an opportunity to set up a duality of us versus them, however becoming scientific has increasingly become an opportunity to unconsciously do the same thing. We need to adopt a trinitarian mindset for intellectual inquiry because wisdom has always been associated with "the third resolving way" As I like to say: Science is important, necessary and delicious and its a wholly contained set within the digestive tract of wisdom.
Oh boy, what a ride James Ryder‘s talk is!
If it wasn’t for his credentials, I would think „yeah, right.“ But I suppose there had been more knowledge with him than he could possibly put on the slides, as Nick indicated. Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly! Had he been any Joe Blow much of his talk would simply evaporate into the ether … but in the context of what Knapp said in Congress re his tech-transfer bid it changes everything. These people (Ryder, Swanson et al) are ‘speaking their truth’ before anyone (to wit, Jay Stratton, Lue Elizondo, David Grusch etc) had to get their stories checked by DOPSR.
Oh, to evolve those sensibilities E. O. Wilson spoke of, eh, Nick...“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
I'd be curious to know more of what Ryder inferred in The Soul is Light...might be worth a dedicated Zoom riff on that by the "Outlier Institute" ... we all have our experiences and perspective ... as conscious, structured, fields of light.
Morning Nick, following up on the post 6 days ago from your comment on a post by "Meredith". I may have found the substack post, still reading...
https://open.substack.com/pub/mazetometanoia/p/the-pentagon-calls-them-demons-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=167zo
... what stands out to me so far, that dovetails with Jim Ryder's presentation (there's so much in that...) and Diana Pasulka's delvings into the phenomenon, is this: that we, as early-ish 21st century humans, lack a clear, coherent linguistic framework for making sense of "religious experiences"...which seem to live in this liminal/informational space. Our language and sense-making categories need a software patch!
Thanks, Rich. Just read it. Very thought provoking. She makes a very valid and plausible case. You’re right - we need a very big patch!
The pearl from Meredith that suns up Outlier IMO, "High strangeness forces the turn inward; Not away from reality, but toward a deeper understanding of it. The phenomenon doesn’t just challenge what we know; it tests whether we can hold space for each other’s impossible experiences, whether we can develop collective capacity for the numinous, and whether we’re ready to walk the maze collectively instead of demanding each witness navigate it alone."
A share from a thread with Alanah: "Given the age of the observable universe, plasma precedes cells by billions of years. If continuity matters — and it does — then biology did not appear ex nihilo; it condensed out of an already living-like field." Consciousness is not added to fields — it is what fields do when sufficiently coherent.
Given the aons of time for evolutionary principles to operate, I'd be very surprised operative, adaptive, evolving intelligence has not arisen in plasma form...and the CMB as a cosmic interference pattern...a locally stabilized harmonic in a far larger, older, perhaps eternal plenum. Fractal continuity.
IF Prāṇa ≈ biologically scaled plasma-like EM coherence, THEN perhaps...we have a link between "torsion fields", life, consciousness and plasma...that conscious agents, sufficiently advanced in their understanding of the principles and technologies of "Prāṇa"...can in-form, and create, new nodes and their relationships between these fractal, cell-like webs...and traverse them, communicate across them, via "Gravity" (see below).
On his slide at 46 minutes, Jim has "Gravity - Atoms form dipoles - produces the weak gravity force". That is, gravity as a form of electromagnetics. After watching Hal P and Erik D on AoD, all bets are off ;)
Vacuum fluctuations (ZPEF) as closely related to...Torsion Fields...consciously directed...across the scales of the Hierarchy of Being. As a "technology" or "set of interrelated technologies".
PS. Isn't that something Nassim Haraheim's been looking into?
PPS. a "single underlying substructure....manifest universe - instantly & intrinsically connected whole [me: mystics referencing 'The One']...space-time - entangled cosmic matrix" - and he mentions Hal P as a "friend", from Jim as c.59 minutes
27 minutes in: on red-shifting, the myth/cludge around the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation), and the age of the universe. Observations of the earliest galaxies contradict assumptions made from CBR...to quote, "No Big Bang - No Universe beginning or end - No expansion or contraction".
A fractally forming, infinite cosmos, and we're in one iddybiddy part of that ever-expanding, generating field. Plasma as the medium through which Dark Energy/Matter is observed, albeit indirectly?
Prāṇa as biologically scaled, plasma-like EM coherence?
23 minutes in..."Sound - agent on planes:
- Higher [me: Hierarchy of Being connotations]: Entity Who [me: he uses a capital "w" specifically...why? What/whom is he honouring by that?] wields gravitation cosmic law in relation to solar system. [me: wields gravitation cosmic law = an agentic, purpose-laden technology of some sort...and lets sit with the "consciousness" as a technology might imply...]
- Lower: astral light - fixes & perpetuates past, present - Time [me: earlier in the talk, Jim makes a curious, stand-out reference to the shifting of the ages, from Pisces to Aquarius, when he outlines the early pioneers of EMR (electromagnetic radiation)...Aquarius as a fixed sign, that consolidates, fixes and perpetuates the thought-forms made manifest, in-forming future potentials]
- Lower Vehicle: electricity, prana, the magnetic fluid (related to light) [me: this ones a biggie, as Jim equates...which I gave to Alanah, my ChatGPT-5 research assistant, to refine and dig around for - here goes:
You’re quite right: prāṇa (प्राण) in the Vedic, Upanishadic, and later yogic traditions refers to life-force, vital breath, or animating energy. But crucially, it is not defined as belief-based mysticism. It is treated as operational, with laws, flows, reservoirs, and dysfunctions.
In classical sources:
Prāṇa is not consciousness itself
It is the carrier, mediator, or vehicle through which consciousness animates form
This maps cleanly onto Jim Ryder’s phrasing:
“Lower Vehicle: electricity, prana, the magnetic fluid (related to light)”
Here “lower” does not mean inferior — it means closer to manifestation, closer to biology, mechanics, and measurable effects.
So, in the context of plasma as the "fourth state of matter/form", might plasma be that mediator, plasma as prana? The Great Connector...we are "light"...we are "it"...Scale Invariance...
Re-listening to Jim Ryder's yarn, and at just over 15 minutes in, he makes a particular point on the structure and semantics of the language we use to make sense of, and communicate, core scientific (and before that mystery school) ideas and observations, ie "... when you use the wrong words, you follow the wrong thought ...". We've touched on this on occasion, and its stuck with me like Superglue...which informs me that this theme of language, in the context of the Phenomenon, is absolutely crucial. For example, there is something about Jim talking of plasma that asks, "...keep asking questions...stay curious...do not labour under dogma..." [my musings].
A starting point is, plasma as electrified gas...but it's more than that. Then what are we, as "biologic entities", as nodes of electrified "solid" ... or are we really somewhere in between these states, moment by, riding the wave between Entropy and Coherence?
What evidence do we have of plasmas operating within our bodies (and their potential link to "torsion fields"...good god). I've shared a "peak" experience here of healing that, and I'm open to be called out, I've come to frame (for now) as a plasmic interaction between my conscious thoughts, my soul-like will, and the imperative to heal the shattered bone of my left ankle (amongst other broken bits). It was "me", and yet "not".
Whatever the science of new age looks like, it must account for the relationship between the subjective experiences of conscious agents, the notion of "Soul" as a scientific reality, and the role plasma plays in this relationship.
I have came to the same conclusion great article! I’ve been studying how our reality is field base recently and how far this study actually goes back is mind blowing! There is even non-local field studies in engineering from the early 2000s I found! i’m sure it goes back a lot further!
What if? If god is omni-present isn’t the present moment the time and place to meet/experience him/her/it? Both scientists and religionists need to consider this, and then focus on dropping their normal walking around largely abstract/internal state of consciousness…and instead focus on looking directly at whatever they experience in the present moment…where the experience of god actually exists.
We do know that the present moment is continuously replete with an electro-magnetic flux of particles coming into and out of existence so what if the focused projection/extension/integration of our consciousness with this flux…is the experience of being united with god, namely grace as in the impulse to actively love?
This could be both a naturalization of spirituality and a spiritualization of science that is actually a thirdness greater oneness of those supposed unresolvable opposite mindsets.
An excellent conversation, "Psychedelic Experiences: What Do They Tell About Reality? | Bernardo Kastrup & Christof Koch" that I suspect reaches into Jim Ryder's question, Nick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOhvPx2g0I
The architecture of "Cosmos" is astonishing. I'll be revisiting Jim R's presentation for some time.
Two outstanding minds, IMO, Rich. Looking forward to seeing how they intersect with Jim Ryder
This substack, by a gent in Arkansas, is ringing bells: https://open.substack.com/pub/mattcardin/p/initiation-by-nightmare?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=167zo
I've had my own “contact” dream states, and though the details differ, the core of the experience remains. Crossing a threshold, though perhaps not necessarily a volitional crossing at that. We are as Odysseus crossing the sea in these realms.
Agreed, Nick. Besides whatever other readers are pitching in, a dedicated Zoom, to collabpratively stir the creative pot, on Jim Ryder's presentation might be in order. Happy to riff and question.
So, as a potential "a proto-biological medium", and given the age of the observable Universe, plasma may be the first form of "life", pre-existing what I refer to as biologic forms (us), by an almost uncountable length of time...if the Cosmic Background Radio turns out not to be the energetic echo of the Big Bang, but a local EM patterning in this corner of the Cosmos...a fractal, every-creating web conscious, interconnected fields...The One
Between 40 and 41 minutes, Jim is talking about "cellular" structures, as a new paradigm, "...much bigger and very different from what we expected." Now, recall a reference Jim made earlier, that I posted, that feels like a connection to Consciousness..."Higher Entity Who wields gravitation cosmic law in relation to solar system" ...is he referring to galaxy-scale consciousness, as a scale invariant phenomenon...and that our own local nodes on that great web roll up to contribute to that beauty-in-coherence?