Week 7 - Consciousness out of Chaos

This one has me truly stumped. I don't think that Physicists or any Western Scientist or Doctor has any capability, through measurement to tell anyone else about consciousness. How can some one who has spent so little time aware of their own mental state know anything about the mental state of those around them. Buddhist monks have know for thousands of years that we are all connected on a higher level of consciousness. These are humans that devote their lives to the calm and peace of that consciousness, sometimes to the detriment of their country and home. Jesus also tried to bring the message that we are all one within a collective conscious, if we can only pause to quiet the mind and feel it.

I have always felt my own understanding of a higher consciousness or higher power. I don't think that this is something that can ever be documented or measured. In fact, the more scientists hook up electrodes to read peoples brain waves the further they get from understanding this collective consciousness. It is something that can only be understood from within ones own self, ones own mind. The little voice inside their head trying to get the answers is exactly the voice that needs to be quieted. It has become so in control of who these people are that it believes it knows who other people are too.