Before we start exploring the realm of the unknown, let's start by understanding what we do know about our universe. It sounds and reads like science fiction, but it has been proven experimentally, many times, by many people.

There are three aspects to reality as we perceive it in our day to day existence. Matter, Energy, and Awareness. These three aspects have been proven as experimental facts in science's search for the nature of reality. Unfortunately for science, while it has discovered many definitive boundaries of our reality, it has become clear though experimentation, that there are additional dimensions beyond the four of our space-time continuum.

Science, by definition, cannot determine the nature or reality of these dimensions, as we are limited to our 4th dimensional tools to make our observations with, it has become clear that there are relational forces that affect our dimension on a quantum level that exist outside our perceived universe. Current theories have estimated that there are either 10 to 26 total dimensions that make up our universe.

Matter and energy's relationship to each other became clear with Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. The famous equation E=MC2 for example. However, we have also discovered, on a quantum level, that the act of observation, and being aware of that observation, will affect the outcome of an experiment. This illustrates that the observer is as much of our system as the elements of the experiment. The act of observation causes probabilities of outcomes to be resolved. The experiments indicate that there is time travel involved as well, as the particle being observed, will modify it's behavior in an experiment, even if the observation is done after the experiment is concluded.

All these effects happen at the quantum level, that is, we are observing one quantum particle, like a photon or electron. When many of these particles combine to form complex systems, all their probabilities are canceled out, and the universe behaves much in the classical sense that Newton observed, and serves us well in our day-to-day existence. We develop a sense of self, becoming aware of the world around us, limited by the five senses that our physical bodies provide us.

So, what is awareness? Is it thoughts, memories, personalities? Our science of the mind is still new, so many questions remain unanswered by science. However, we know the following, by experimentation and clinical observations.

Personality, that which makes us be the way we are and act the way we do, is firmly rooted in the frontal lobes. Injury, either accidental or deliberate, irrevocably changes the way we behave. Our personalities are changed.

Diseases and injuries can inhibit memories, and cause forgetfulness.

When we think, certain areas of the brain are active, so it's clear that original thought has some basis in our biological construction.

So, it can be argued that all that we are, our awareness, thoughts, experience, memory, are nothing more than an evolutionary accident. However, based on the behavior of quantum particles, we know that that everything is related, everything acts on everything else, but that they just appear as separate things because our perception is limited by our space-time continuum.

While we can isolate and observe individual quantum particles and determine their natures and how they interact, isolating one's awareness to the quantum level becomes problematic. As even the basic level of awareness isn't known, and tends to be a very subjective experience, it resists analysis by the scientific method.

There does appear to be a parallel however. Meditation. Meditation is used by many eastern cultures as a means to achieve enlightenment. To experience Brahman. To see one's inner self. Meditation teaches the student to still all ones thoughts, and achieve a state that has no individuality, no emotion. No sense of self. A state that prevented even Buddha from being able to describe it's nature.

How can we tell this is the right way? Perhaps we can't. Not yet, anyway. But think of this. A photon travels at the speed of light. Due to Einstein and his theories of relativity, we know that anything that travels at the speed of light does not experience the passage of time.

Imagine then, if you will, that you are that photon. Photons can exist, from our human perspective, from nanoseconds (the time it takes to travel from a light to the wall) or billions of years. We still pick up energy signatures from the very big bang itself, 12 to 15 billion years ago. So, if you were that photon, you would not experience any of that time.

Your existence, from the point of view, exists as a solitary point. You are aware of the entirety of your existence all at once. You are the photon that emerges from the solar furnace, while at the same point, you are that same photon being absorbed by the retina of an observer 15 billion years later.

We identify ourselves from point to point. I am me as I conceive these thoughts, and I am another me writing these thoughts down. I am not the same person, because that conception that I had changed my outlook on how the universe is. I have changed. Throughout my life I will go countless changes as I grow physically and mentally.

Now if I take all those versions of me, and experience them all at once, a loss of identity, of self, much like the experience of Brahman. You either become lost in the mishmash, or you see the distilled self. You only experience, or perceive that which does not change over all your experience. The Essence of self. That, I hypothesis, is the quantum particle of awareness.

At this point, the limb of conjecture begins to grow.

Awareness as a quantum effect. Because awareness effects the behavior of other quantum particles, by a means that we cannot evaluate within our 4th dimensional space-time continuum, awareness must have an existence outside the space-time continuum. What this means can be staggering. We, being aware, have an existence outside our known universe, and separate from our existence within our known universe. We only manifest within these dimensional walls when there is an environment that we can interface with… Our minds.

However, due to the nature of our space-time dimensions, we experience time, and become involved and interact with this existence. I feel it would be safe to say that most of us only become aware of our full existence in the universe when we cease to exist within this one.

Now, because awareness (usually unconscious awareness) extends beyond our space and time, should anyone learn to become aware of their superconscious (awareness beyond that of known existence) there seems to be the possibility that they could then experience, or transcend our known existence. This leads to the possibility of communication of others through this superconciousness.

What would be the consequences of this view?

Telepathic communication. Knowing about another person's situation that is occurring far away, without any communication within our known existence. If quantum particles can do it, and they do, (this has been a proven scientific fact), then so can awareness be extended to interact with other awarenesses within our known existence. The failure, or rather difficultly to prove this is because of the subjectivity of one's own awareness. It's not something that we can objectify.

Departed Spirits: Since awareness exists beyond our known existence, then death simply releases an awareness from this existence. People with a sensitivity of their awareness may be able to sense them.

Spiritual Implications:

As matter, energy, and awareness are all interconnected, and that our existence is a manifestation of these energies, it would not be inappropriate to view this as a god. We are all one with it, it is all of us, it makes us what we are.

Does it have a personification? Does it have a purpose? Unknown, and probably ultimately unknowable except for those that achieve a full communion with their inner awareness. It could be that these concepts are not even applicable.

It is possible that there has been communication with spirits that do not have an existence within our known universe, and have provided a sort of moral or spiritual guidance. It is very likely, considering that so many faiths have so much in common in their core values (Love each other, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Don't stress over material things, you can't take them with you anyway), that they may have had some common supernatural origin.