NASA Studies Cosmic Consciousness

Linda Braga, Castro Valley, CA

Recently, I was surfing the cable channels on TV and stopped short when I saw a most incredible program, a space-age scientific study worth sharing. The National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) has been doing some unusual studies lately. Their goal in one study was to discover what happens at the moment in which pilots black out due to the G-forces they experience when their bodies are hurled into space at supersonic speeds. Many pilots report that just before unconsciousness, they have what they describe as an “out of body” experience so vivid that they claim it’s just like real life.

To explore this phenomenon, NASA has asked experienced pilots to submit to being studied under controlled circumstances in the lab that houses the “human centrifuge.” Pilots are strapped into a capsule with cameras, electrodes, etc. to monitor various body functions. This capsule whirls around at super fast speeds to simulate flight conditions. The whole experience is monitored and filmed.

As a result of these studies, NASA scientists have come to some astonishing conclusions and a few hypotheses. Their data has brought up some unexpected possibilities. Since all pilots reported out of body experiences before loss of consciousness, the question now being asked is: Where IS the location of consciousness? (They state that no one has proved that the brain is the location of consciousness!) Could consciousness exist outside the body? If so, how? A hundred more questions arise.

I felt quite excited about this NASA study and it’s connection to T’ai Chi Chih. We know that the chi circulates within the body. We also know that this Vital Force pervades everything in the Universe. This pranic sea is mentioned by Justin and many other T’ai Chi Masters and philosophers. Is NASA now going to “prove” that we are all part of a larger cosmic consciousness? Will they substantiate the fact that we are “conscious wavelets” manifesting in a Sea of Consciousness? What if the ancient sages were right, that the Universe is saturated with intelligent Life Force, and we have daily opportunities to “tap into it.” What if we could heal ourselves by becoming so quiet within that we could hear-sense-intuit what harmonic vibration to accommodate to, and be made whole?

If NASA does substantiate the existence of cosmic consciousness, then this concept could eventually become accepted reality worldwide. The implications for practice of T’ai Chi Chih would be most impressive. Something to think about …. I mean contemplate while doing cosmic consciousness pose!