In the world of connectivity, where everything is attached, no knowledge is unique. All knowledge is available to all. So in this situation, it is impossible to know separation. This remains true even if an infinite number of copies are made, because the memory is holographic so that each copy retains all the information of the original. In order to know and experience separation then, the element of forgetfulness must be introduced. Without this element, it would be impossible to limit the expression of the whole to only a part of itself.

The illusion of separation is, therefore, impossible without forgetfulness. Even with this, some degree of maneuvering is needed as some awareness to the underlying connectivity will inevitably come through.

Looking at the human model, we see that neurologically human beings are programmed to feel and perceive themselves as separate entities. But in studies of the nervous system, there is evidence to the contrary.  Evidence shows that in the case of a public speaker, just before that person speaks the part of the brain associated with speaking in the listener’s brain fires a nervous signal!

In Western Medicine, this merely is interpreted as evidence of learning and association on the part of the listener to the speaker.  But there is another interpretation:  the existence of a connection between the speaker and listener.

This explanation is that the area in the brain fires in anticipation through the field that allows for instantaneous communication between speaker and receiver. Thus, the information that the speaker is about to speak is received before it actually takes place. Furthermore the actual information, to be given, itself is available through the field, without the actual creation of language. This interpretation is consistent with quantum biology experiments, which reveal that memory is stored in the field.

Taking this finding further, we can look at situations where behavior is considered “psychotic,” such as hearing voices. Essentially the explanation is this. It occurs when the information received is not damped by neuro-chemical modulation in the brain to degrade the signal. In the absence of the neuro-chemical degradation of the signal, which allows the individual to perceive separation, and combined with the forgetfulness of connectivity, the individual pursues behavior that to others may seem “psychotic.” Anti-psychotics drugs then serve only to degrade the signal. Another possible choice for treatment is the co-existence of these signals with everyday reality, as approached in the movie “A Beautiful Mind.”

We then see that “forgetting” becomes very important in situations where we cannot deal with information arising from connectivity. In fact according to an article in Nature (2002; 418:970-75) the enzyme, “protein phosphatase 1,” has the job of deleting information previously gathered but is not being used. What is important to remember is that the information itself is not lost to the field, it just is no longer downloadable!