the Other: evidence we are not alone.

The Other

"the Other, evidence for not being alone"

By john erik ege

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It's March 3rd, 2018; I have decided to add this chapter to a book I have written, "An End to Loneliness." I am feel compelled to do so due to experiencing synchronicity. I am reading multiple books. And in one of them, I was reminded me of the planarian worm. What's particularly interesting about this worm is that if you cut one in half, each half regenerates the whole so that now you have two complete organisms. That's pretty cool in itself, but what's more interesting, scientist have trained these little guys to like light by putting irresistible foods in light so that they associate the good stuff with the light. Once trained, they cut the little buggers in half and grow two new ones. As you would expect, the part with the brain goes to the light and gets more food. You would likely expect the one without a brain would need to be retrained. Guess what, it also knows to go to the light. It defies the scientific model that the brain is the most important organ in a system.

This shouldn't be too surprising. Most people, in this day in age, have heard of memories being transplanted along with donor hearts. Maybe you have heard about this from a television show or a movie, but it's a real thing, and well documented. The Heart's Code, Dr. Paul Pearsall is one of the books I was reading, when the other book that I will mention shortly reminded me of the planarian phenomena. Even though people know about memories being transplanted with heart transplants, after all, it's well documented in medical literature, the scientific mainstream and the general medical practitioner ignore this at best, refute it at worse. If Pearsall is correct, memories aren't just transplanted with donor hearts. All organ transplants come with memories from the donor. A blood transfusion could result in the recipient having new memories, sudden, inexplicable cravings for a particular food, even change in behaviors.

This is important in and of itself to note and explore, because it suggest we are not our brains, that we are something far more interesting, but that conversation tends to get shut down or relegated to myth, or I dare say fiction, or relegated to spiritual discussions, and again, I would dare say 'fiction' is how the mainstream would box that. I lead with that so I can get you here: in chapter 7 of 'The Heart's Code' there is a casual reference to the "other." The Observer. The Passenger. There are a quite a few names for this 'entity', because apparently all cultures have encountered this 'being.' Hypnotist encounter it when they descend a person through a certain level of relaxation. Meditators have gone deep enough to experience this 'being.' Novelists and poets have written about this. The other author I was reading just recently that introduces this concept in his first book follows it with a second book devoted solely to exploring the concept of this other being, "The Daemon" by Anthony Peake.

Why do I want to discuss, or add that here? Well, partly, because, I think I have evidence that I have encountered this being. I intend to share that here shortly. But also because if this being exists, it is just one more argument for 'plurality,' that needs to be explored. Medical science has demonstrated without a shadow of a doubt, we are at minimum two people. The Left and Right hemispheres of the brain function as two, independent personalities. If you severe the hemispheres by cutting away the corpus callosum it is possible to communicate with either halves. Each half operates as if were whole. Two people, joined together to make one. If Pearsall is correct in the premise of his book, then we can add the heart to this equation, and here is an argument for a third person! How many people have said think with your brain not your heart. At some point, you have to accept the literary evidence isn't just a metaphor, this is our reality. If we accept Peake is right, then there is also this other being, our selves but with vastly more memory and access to greater sensory input than what we perceive through our personality filters. If you accept Jung's assertion that there is a collective unconscious, then we are exchanging information on a superior level, and that, too, will manifest as archetype and or societal personality. More people! If you accept Pearsal premise in his book, "the Heart's Code," the heart is a bio-electric transmitter receiver that is in constant dialogue with every other heart, then again, more people because we're connected with everyone else. We rise or fall together is no longer just a metaphor. We co-evolve. Once you know this, experience it firsthand, how can we ever say 'I'm alone?' Even if you are alone, who are you actually saying that to when you express that sentiment?