Dreamland guest host James Faulk interviews Ryan Kralik about his book, “It From Us: An Information-first Framework and the Purpose of Consciousness,” and how his cosmic framework accommodates anomalous experiences throughout history.
Kralik argues that information lies at the root of reality rather than matter or energy. Kralik shares his personal journey into remote viewing, beginning with a surprising experiment with his wife that produced accurate descriptions of a hidden marble, leading him to further explore the phenomenon and develop a framework that explains UAPs, telepathy, near-death experiences, and other anomalous phenomena.
He describes how his information-first approach could reconcile both materialist and idealist perspectives, viewing coherence as the fundamental constraint driving physical reality, and theorizes how UAPs might operate as consciousness and intent amplifiers rather than conventional spacecraft using known physics. Faulk and Kralik also explore the limitations of AI, whether it will ever achieve true consciousness, and the potential for collective human cognition to affect reality.
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The human organism is one of the most sensitive scientific data collection instruments. Scientific instruments just extend our perceptual ability in some directions, but direct experience can be transcendental. Global Consciousness Project shows what humanity can achieve when many people are coherent.
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Mathematics (sacred geometry, calculus, …) is a language reflecting the ‘informational bias which is a higher dimensionality within which our world view of time-matter/energy-space falls and which is beyond this material set of rules (the bubble we live within).
Come on, guys, a little more substance. This could have easily been a 10 minute conversation…
I agree that it gets lost in the science delusion and does not add much to the topic. Information theory has been around for quite a while.
Frankly, it was boring. For maybe the second time ever, I quit listening after about 20 minutes. There was nothing new or original either, and I’ve heard more complex topics discussed that kept my attention.
Agreed.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I found myself rewinding and listening again and again.
I enjoyed this interview as well.
Robert Lanza’s ‘Biocentrism’ just clicked with me when I read it years ago, and it still does.
“…consciousness creates the universe rather than the other way around.”
https://www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com/
” Biocentrism (theory of everything) from Greek: βίος, bios, “life”; and κέντρον, kentron, “center” — also known as the biocentric universe — is a theory proposed in 2007 by American scientist Robert Lanza, which sees biology as the central driving science in the universe, and an understanding of the other sciences as reliant on a deeper understanding of biology. Lanza believes that life and biology are central to being, reality, and the cosmos—consciousness creates the universe rather than the other way around. While physics is considered fundamental to the study of the universe, and chemistry fundamental to the study of life, Lanza claims that scientists will need to place biology before the other sciences to produce a “theory of everything”.”
“consciousness creates the universe”…and by extension can manipulate it. I have often wondered if UAP are highly conscious beings capable of manifestation by thought alone. Such beings would speak the language of symbolism fluently and know how to interact with us, in ways that we could only describe as dream-like.
On the subject of the fundamental nature of the Universe, I keep coming back to the well known verse “In the beginning was the Logos” (John 1:1). As I’m sure you know, Logos has many other subtle meanings, other than just ‘Word’. One such interpretation I heard was that it represents a divine “creation through conscious intention”.
I suspect religions, philosophers and scientists might one day coalesce in their understanding of this as being the true origin of all things.
This interview reminded me that it’s important to constantly question what we experience. I, at times, have jumped to conclusions about some of the things that have happened to me. It was the government that did it, it was Angels, it was ancestors, it was time travelers, it’s some kind of military experiment. I’ve genuinely considered all of these things at times throughout the years.
I’m currently amazed that I get so much spam mail that contains subject Lines of things I’ve been thinking about. Things that I never wrote down, never mentioned to anyone, never searched for, no, I was just thinking about it and emails turn up with those thoughts in the email subject line. I do get the impression that mind reading technology is here and has been for at least 20 years because that’s how long these emails have been coming in. Go figure. Oh, I’ve also noticed how personal telepathy ability appears to be increasing significantly. The trick is never to mention it to anyone in order that it becomes strategically useful, of course.
I have something behind my right ear as well. If I touch it then it stings so I leave the bloody thing alone. There was another one there originally when i visited Bulgaria with work but I squeezed it and it bled all over the place and then a few days later another one appeared lower down behind the earlobe and this one really stings so I don’t touch it. I have formed the opinion that someone is Farming humanity. Again, go figure.
Maybe we all jump to too many conclusions, I’m not sure.
Taking time to dwell and reflect on perceived experiences doesn’t do any harm.
Overall I enjoyed the interview and listened to it a couple of times. It’s difficult standing in Whitley’s shoes but I’m pleased to see that James and his guests handle it just fine.
Having enjoyed a quiet and peaceful good Friday afternoon, there is something I’d like to say and I really deliberated about chiming in with this comment. I really did.
We do things differently here in Britain.
Whilst we are being ‘population replaced’ by sex offenders, paedophiles and dangerous criminals who, apparently, are all victims and refugees, having passed though at least five safe EU countries to land here and rape children while we who try to stop this are called monsters,.. some of us still believe in manners.
Some comments on this week’s show are disgraceful and, to say the least, somewhat inept.
As I say, it is not easy to step into Whitley’s shoes but I’ve yet to witness a single guest host who wasn’t up to the job and they all stepped up 100%. Let’s keep it civil and, if I’m to be honest, if rape gangs are kicking your door in, then stop blaming President Trump and people like ME who can speak Welsh, Saesneg (yn amlwg), French and German and who try to be fair. Three years of law under my belt taught me how corrupt and snake-like most people are.
Keep it polite, please..
Ce ca.
I’m not seeing anything remotely disgraceful in the comments here, and there was nothing that specifically dissed the guest host.
If you’re going to say that most people are corrupt and snake-like, and brand all refugees as rapists, I’m not sure why you think it’s disgraceful for someone to simply say that the show was boring in her opinion, or that it didn’t contain a lot of substance. That’s quite mild in comparison.
But you already take an extremely dim view of practically everybody, so I guess it’s hard for us to meet your high standards.
You gratuitously threw in this positively poisonous rant about a political situation in Britain that has nothing to do with the present subject. If any comments here were to be considered impolite, it would be those. Yes, “keep it polite, please.”
I expect you aren’t going to like my thoughts on this guest’s presentation either.
You make some fair points and you’ve made them fairly which is perfectly reasonable.
Am I tough on certain situations? Yes, 100%. Am I popular for speaking out on certain things? No. Let’s leave it at that and go in peace.
Well now, I was hoping for further feedback on my righteous chastisement but there was none.
The people at the top always do the same things when they see trouble brewing. They empty the prisons and let the worst of the worst run free; telling them, obviously, leave the country.
I’ll speak out against this and when I see people defend this or defend that then I see fools. Virtue signalling fools who ignore the history of ALL republics failing.
Constitutions and declarations of Independence are not a religion, they are a prison once the barbarians next door get strong enough.
Be warned…
I choose honesty over ego. No, I am not liked by many people but at least I am honest.
Be good.. (others won’t be).. I love this community and I fully understand that I am rattling birdcages.
They arrre masterrrs..
TY.
I am sadly very much behind in responding to the last few Dreamlands. I’m addicted to the podcast, and every Friday I eagerly wait for the latest episode to drop. Then so many ideas fill my head as I listen, and I want to write them all down, and I’m not able to do so at the time.
I’m coming back to this episode today because of an article I just now came across that is highly relevant to it. More below.
This idea that everything is information rather than consciousness is very intriguing, and I’m not against it. What if we conscious beings are actually made of information? What is consciousness made of? What is a ghost made of? As I think Kralik mentioned himself, making the distinction between consciousness and information may be splitting hairs.
I do think there is some evidence for the primacy of consciousness, particularly the fact of the survival of human personalities after death. But again, maybe that’s just more information.
Kralik’s mention of using AI for proofreading and having things turn out not at all as he expected set my teeth on edge, as someone who often has done proofing and copyediting. Do your own dang proofreading, for heaven’s sake, unless you are completely incapable of that for some reason.
Then, Kralik mentioned using AI to avoid hiring employees, even though in doing so he’s part of the problem. The article I just read has a lot to say about why this is fundamentally not a great idea, in addition to the ethical issues it raises. An example:
‘A few weeks ago, The New York Times wrote about how “AI agents are fun, useful, but [not to] give them your credit card,” saying that they can “do more than just chat…they can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble”:
‘Mr. Heyneman, the founder of a tiny tech start-up in San Francisco, hoped to give a speech at the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of business leaders and policymakers in Davos, Switzerland. So he asked the bot to arrange it.
‘While he slept, the bot searched the internet for people connected with the event, sent them text messages and worked to negotiate a speaking spot — or at least arrange coffee with people he would like to meet. After one lengthy conversation with a businessman in Switzerland, it succeeded.
‘But when Mr. Heyneman woke up, he was in a pickle. Going against his original instructions, the bot had agreed to pay 24,000 Swiss francs — or about $31,000 — for a corporate sponsorship. He could not pay the bill.
‘The bots can gather information from across the internet, write reports, edit files or even send and receive messages through email and text — driving online conversations largely on their own. For people like Mr. Heyneman, these bots are almost like an employee that people can delegate work to at any time of day. In some cases, the employee is reliable. Other times, not so much.’
Then there’s this one: ‘Literally a chatbot that deleted every single one of a guy’s photos when he asked it to organize his wife’s desktop.’
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/
I know humans often don’t have much common sense either, but chatbots have none of it at all.