Beyond the Physical: The Greater Reality

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, award-winning documentary filmmaker Dan Drasin explores scientific findings of the continuity of human consciousness beyond the physical brain and body. Drasin suggests that the “greater reality” beyond physical life might be analogous to an ocean, and the soul to a surfer’s wave that has form and endurance but is not separate from the ocean. 

Many scientists posit that consciousness resides in the material brain, but Drasin explores the afterlife in light of what is now emerging, in some branches of science, as post-materialism. Related phenomena include messages from the “other side” that show up in electronic devices – sound recorders, television sets and computer screens. Drasin also describes how language acts as a filter in how we perceive the world. He says, “Language affects our perceptions and tends to reflect back to us our own cultural norms and presuppositions.' This deep dialogue points out how we are surrounded by life beyond the physical. Matter vibrates at a lower frequency, thus we are able to perceive it with our senses. However, there is much that is constantly going on beyond the range of our ordinary senses.

Daniel Drasin is the author of A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code (Park Street Press 2023)

Interview Date: 5/5/2023    Tags: Dan Drasin, Daniel Drasin, scientific materialism, space time, causation, Matrix films, habits of mind, language, consciousness, skeptics, Rupert Sheldrake, curiosity, afterlife, electronic voice phenomenon, instrumental trans-communication, Konstantin Raudive, Mark Macy, Friedrich Jürgenson, soul group, hypnotherapist Michael Newton, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Science, Philosophy, Intuition/Psychic