I didn't want to say anything, but I have to admit I agree with Specialis Sapientia. You're saying that your theory is completely non-spiritual. If you are saying this, then the truth is you don't understand CONTEMPORARY spirituality which is far advanced than age old religions. I agree that your theory is NON-RELIGIOUS. But non-spiritual? No, it retains the essence of spirituality, which fundamentally revolves around consciousness itself.

Consciousness even in spirituality remains independent from memories and so called personality identities. Except when such consciousness willfully holds onto it.

Contemporary spirituality has NO problem what so ever with science. In fact, contemporary spirituality actually believes that all of their beliefs should eventually be supported by science, not pit against it as we see with Christianity versus atheists. Contemporary spirituality already agrees that what scientists called 'energy' religions call 'spirit'. In other words, they aren't two different things in spirituality. Energy IS spirit and spirit IS energy.

The human consciousness IS energy and this is scientific fact. It's already being described as a field of energy entangled within the brain.

Now the biggest difference between materialistic science and spirituality is which came first.......the consciousness or the brain? Obviously science says brain comes first. The other big difference is what happens to this field of energy after the brain dies. Because this field of consciousness would cease to exist after the brain dies in materialistic science, it stops right there from aligning itself to what religions call a soul

But contemporary spirituality remains optimistic, and feels science has only begun the mysterious journey of mind and matter.

Is it possible to merge spirituality and science and talk about the human consciousness as something that can continue outside of the human brain? The answer is yes. While there isn't yet any absolute evidence of it, there are many ideas that have been put out there using a more scientific perspective. The one that interests me the most is the Field. Consciousness becomes entangled/composes this Field. And this Field in turn pervades the entire structure of the Universe. Placing mind before matter.

Even atheists are now imagining the possibility of downloading consciousness onto a computer - the future era of androids! (scary actually). But why is it that atheists can imagine this? Because consciousness is not physical.

Think of the Field as being like an internet in that you can view a website on your computer (physical). But this website(energy) still exists even if your computer blows up. Or you can think of the Field and consciousness as songs on radio waves. These songs continue to exist even if there are no more radio stations to pick them up!

Our brain/consciousness also has different frequencies just like our radio stations. To take this analogy even further..........people with transplanted organs testify that sometimes they develop new personality traits after recieving the transplanted organs. These pesonality traits match up with the individual whose organs were donated. Since it's unrealistic to imagine that organs carry out such personalities, it seems more likely that our body is designed to download us.

Seriously freaky territory if our bodies really do 'download' us! Take for example those suffering from multiple personality disorder. Actual physical changes in the body have been noted when one personality switches to the other - the color of the eyes can actually change!

http://www.deeptrancenow.com/exc2_mu...ersonality.htm

While I am not saying that there is absolute evidence that we are 'downloaded', neither is this idea impossible!! It certainly answers a lot of questions if you take the time to consider it.

As for patterns. You're right! Time is fractal. Fractal time is something that mystified ancient people. Why did the Mayans believe something would happen on 2012? It's not because they saw the future. It's because they believed the past patterns would repeat itself in the future. And that the repetition of this pattern (end of world or a new one, you decide) was inevitable because time is fractal.

It might be hard to imagine how time is fractal and how patterns within time repeat themselves. It's not that hard to imagine when you understand that time and space is all apart of the same thing. It's much easier to see how space is fractal because we can see the self repeating patterns with our own eyes.

I'm not saying join this or that religion - but what I am trying to say is - there is NO REASON for atheists to be so afraid of spirituality. You don't have to choose science or spirituality - you can have both.

Well, to each his own! I find this field of study fascinating