On the Non-Linear Origins of Consciousness

Scientists tend take the view that, since consciousness is dependent on the brain, when the brain dies consciousness ceases. Christians take the view that consciousness survives the death of the brain, but both groups tend to take the view that the origins of consciousness are linear, meaning that consciousness arises with the physical body and the travels on a straight time line for either a finitely or an infinitely long period (scientists say finite, Christians say infinite). With reference to the research coming out of the University iof Virginia since 1960, we present reasons to believe that consciousness actually has a non-linear origin. On this view, both science and orthodox Christianity are wrong: consciousness, on this view pre-exists the physical body in a realm that is infinite, not in the sense of being interminably long, but in the sense of transcending time (eternal). Judging by the empirical evidence, individual loci of consciousness are able to periodically enter and exit the linear temporal realm of our everyday experience like a person entering and exiting a room.