Of course, flying into a black hole is a journey beyond the limits of physical survival and one we would never take. Your ship and body would be torn apart by tidal forces, a process called spaghettification. But what about consciousness? Can we spaghettificate our consciousness?

From a Vajrayana Buddhist perspective, consciousness transcends physical form. It is seen as a continuum, not bound by the body or material space or time. Because it is not made or composed of anything it cannot be reduced or taken apart. Entering a black hole might be akin to entering a bardo, or transitional state, where the mind could experience vast, non-ordinary perceptions as it confronts the ultimate dissolution of matter. Other bardo’s in the karma Kagyu tradition include awaking and dreaming,  living and death, as well as the bardo of luminosity. Here the bardo of luminosity is the most interesting. The luminosity of our true nature. Our consciousness is is compared to light, note it is not light but like it, not nothing but no thing. Is this what is pushed out on the other side of the black hole, out the theorized white hole? 

Modern physics, rooted in ideas dating back to John Michell in 1783, suggests black holes obliterate physical information at the singularity. Quantum theories like the holographic principle, however, propose that all information—possibly including consciousness—might persist on the black hole’s event horizon. Several well known lamas have compared their consciousness to a holographic experience. Maybe black holes are the universe’s recycling depot where everything is stored and somehow reconstructed in the singularity. Many theories even include so called Einstein Rosen bridges or wormholes. They exit at what might be a white hole somewhere else like the other side of the galaxy, the universe, or even in another realm. 

In this view, your consciousness might experience a paradoxical duality: disintegration in the singularity yet preservation as a “hologram” on the edge of existence. Black holes, then, challenge the boundary between annihilation and continuity—much like the nature of consciousness itself. This would be sort of a “both and “ an ultimate transition to quantum enlightenment or even a journey to the singularity that might even be consciousness or enlightenment itself. 

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