Who is Peter Kjærulff?
This kind of research demands a particular method: you must be able to listen, discern and listen yet again. If the human consciousness is the object of exploration, the natural and obvious condition is that the researcher uses his own consciousness as an instrument of research (he makes choices, applies the span of his insight when conclusions must be drawn, etc.). Peter Kjærulff has made the choice to go all the way: to use his own experiences as the starting point of his research - fully knowledgeable that this will probably raise critical voices (however, such voices are raised anyway). As no university exists that explores the consciousness by listening to the consciousness (at least not in Denmark), PK has himself been obliged to respect the scientific rules of his area of research. This has required courage, as this method will probably lead to a future exclusion from official scientific acknowledgement of the results of the author´s research. But, as PK says - in the hope that someday someone will agree: a scientific sense of responsibility can well be observed - also outside the bounds of the universities. Courage was likewise needed to write down the experiences that triggered the research - the journey through the human consciousness. In fact, these experiences are well beyond what can be accepted by official brain research - the experience of being able to remember previous lifetimes, etc. Nevertheless, PK does not think that the consciousness needs the approval of its experiences on behalf of official brain research, before such experiences can be taken seriously - before we may attempt - with our scientific responsibility intact - to listen to the experiences - on the conditions of the experiences themselves. As a researcher one cannot allow oneself to make shortcuts or circumvent what seems to be unpleasant, and it will possibly be difficult for anyone besides PK himself to imagine what degree of consequence it takes to go ahead, when what you are about to write down holds experiences which - however you choose to observe it - cannot be classified as anything but the experience of having lived as actually well-known persons - Mozart, Shakespeare, Wagner, etc. etc.
PK says:
When you explore the human
consciousness, you cannot allow yourself the "luxury" of conceiling such
details just because the current way of thinking relegates this kind of
experience to immediate ridicule. Throughout historical time a lot of
researchers have probably been ridiculed by people of their own time - but
if besides this they have been responsible of their way of presenting their
results, the laughter would be silenced sooner or later. Or, to put it
differently (and here the saying is formulated that PK has distilled from
his method of research): if a human being thinks a thought - it is only the
respect offered the consciousness that thinks the thought that is capable of
discerning from where the thought comes, and where it wants to go. Or,
stated in another manner: once we begin to ridicule, we are unable to listen
carefully. Also demagogic or insane thoughts can be revealed and understood
in this way only - and if by this method one might be as lucky as to "come
upon a goldmine" of fantastic, promising and deeply logical contexts -
as PK claims to be his case - then it has been worthwhile in terms of
courage and toil - no matter the attitude this "amateur research" may be met
with on behalf of established scientific research (an amateur is a person,
who feels love for his chosen object of attention).
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