In 1964, the Irish physicist John Bell made what has been called “the most profound discovery of science.” Certainly in my view, this scientific discovery will have deep future implications on the way we view our world. Bell’s discovery and prediction lead to the Aspect experiment two decades later, which confirmed the existence of quantum entanglement—the proof that ”an object over there does care about what you do to another object over here.”

      These experiments proved that “the two photons are so intimately bound up that it is justified to consider them – even though they are spatially separate – as parts of one physical entity.” Photons, it turns out, are able to communicate instantaneously over vast distances, and this means that the particles are connected outside of space and time. This leads us to the astonishing conclusion that the particles are connected beyond the world as we know it—a concept that is difficult for science to conceive. As Brian Greene inquires, “What does it really mean to say two spatially separate things are one?”

   Well, physicists claim that particles may be “so intimately bound up that it is justified to consider them as part of one physical entity.” Quantum entanglement means that all particles and thus all things are interconnected beyond time and space as we know it. This points to extra dimensions, what the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva is trying to prove, and such a proof of extra dimensions would also be a reasonable place for life after death to take place.

Also the Zero Point field and the afterlife does account for a quantum theory of the afterlife. Professor Stuart Hameroff, M.D., at the Center of Consciousness Studies in Arizona has what I believe to be one of the most cutting edge scientific theories and quantum theories of the afterlife.

After working with Roger Penrose on a theory of the origin of consciousness, he has taken the Platonic values even further. He explains that if the Platonic values; mathematical truth, aesthetics, ethics and experience do exist, then, a place to look would be at the most fundamental level of reality.

   This way of thinking is not far from the aetherlike entity, or divine spirit and other scientist have pursued it before. In the 18th century, Leibniz described the universe as infinite fundamental units (monads) as a psychological being. Later Whitehead described monads as mind-like entities as “occasions of experiences” with a quality of “feeling.” And recently, Wheeler and Charlmers told us that the fundamental reality includes “experiential aspects” leading to consciousness.

   Having had a powerful out-of-dimension experience, I find these scientific theories very interesting. To me, it seems very likely that the experience of this fundamental reality is the experience of truth, since the fundamental level of reality must be the true nature of reality. Hameroff suggests this possibility by saying that, “The Planck scale [fundamental level] is all there is...if qualia are fundamental and exists at the Planck scale, then why not Platonic values like truth and beauty, (good and evil).”

   He then asks the very important question: Whether truth as good and evil could not be ingrained in the most basic level of reality. Could morality, which seems relative and abstract to us, “simply exist in the empty space of the universe?” I find this question extremely interesting and even more important in the times we live in. Social Darwinism has told us that morality is relative, and we have a new religion called science that totally leaves out this aspect of life.

   I grew up thinking like this that truth was relative, but then when I left my body I experienced something beyond this belief, something so overwhelmingly true that I was left in total awe. In our materialistic worldview everything we do not see is empty. Our endless universe, besides the stars, looks black and empty, but science reveals that nothing is empty—not even space is empty. 

   In quantum physics this emptiness or zero point field is called the quantum vacuum, but it is not empty. N.C. Panda tells us that,

According to the quantum theory, “emptiness” means “the absence of all particles”; but it does not mean “space which contains nothing” or “space which is nothing”. Even a perfect vacuum is filled with forces and fields. Neither is a vacuum associated with inactivity.

   The invisible higher dimensional space is made of wave-fields that are interconnected. And this dimension is not only made of energy—it also contains information. Hameroff lets us know that, “The amount of information at the Planck scale is absolutely mind-boggling,” and again referencing the research of near death experience this would make sense, because the ultimate reality is beyond comprehension. Thereby, both the amount of information and the intensity of the energy would relate this to the out-of-dimension experience.

   Physicist David Bohm uses the name “the implicate order of being” and for me, this truly describes the near-death experience where people leave this dimension and enter another realm that they explain is the ultimate nature of reality. The out-of-body experience in the near death experience leaves this dimension and enters the implicate order of being to reveal that this order of being is love.