My dad was a professor of Wildlife Biology and Ecology at Colorado State University, and I grew up in a household dominated by academic and scientific thinking.
Yet from early childhood, my natural attraction was to the mystical. In my teens, I was more interested in metaphysics than in physics.
For sixty years my central interest has been consciousness, even before I knew the word. For most of those years my explorations have been intellectual or philosophical, reflected in my writings. But in recent months, I am drawn away from conceptual only and toward practical application in daily life.
In recent weeks, my explorations have stretched my comfort zone to consider such questions as 'Is matter conscious?' and 'If so, is it possible for humans to communicate with the consciousness of matter?' and 'If so, can such communications be tested to make them more objectively understood and applied?'
The implications of conscious matter which can be communicated with have to be right up there with the most significant discoveries/ breakthroughs of science. If it is disproved, I accept it. My first priority is to know the truth.
And why not explore and test these questions within the framework of accepted science? Does science not search for intelligent life on other planets? Is it so out of bounds to search for consciousness as honestly, within the inner planes of the microcosm?
Physics seeks to understand the physical nature of things, which is why it avoids the non-physical. If what we call the present moment is discovered to be a frequency or complex of frequencies, would that not make it physical and a subject of physics?
Physics seeks to understand by faithfully recording observations and measurements. If Data of Star Trek had sought to understand humans only be observing and measuring them, he would have remained a robot, a mechanical android. But he sought to understand humans by experiencing what it is like to be human, and from this felt experience he gained qualities of humanness.
When mental barriers to seeking to understand what it is to be a stone, to see from a stone's awareness, are lowered, when the observer becomes a humble participant, there is at least a possibility of gaining experiential understanding which can also be subjected to scientific methods for proving higher degrees of objectivity — not to gain qualities of stone-ness — but of what underlies the world and universe in which we live.