Your Body Is the iPhone… Consciousness Is the Signal

What science, story, and spirit reveal about the network that runs your life

** Note: this is an original piece edited with the help of chatGPT… Enjoy & thanks for being here— Jade

It’s two in the morning in an empty airport. The fluorescent lights hum. Your flight is delayed again. You reach for your phone… one percent battery, no bars, no Wi-Fi. The world feels far away. Then, just as you exhale, a single bar appears and the screen floods with messages, news, connection.

In that moment, it hits you. The signal never stopped. You just weren’t tuned in.

That’s consciousness. The difference between enlightenment and overwhelm is signal strength.

Your body is the hardware, your brain the processor, but awareness… the field we call consciousness… is the signal running through everything. Most of us just forget how to connect.

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The Big Idea

We’ve been taught that consciousness is generated by the brain, a kind of biological software glitching into self-awareness. But what if it’s the other way around? What if consciousness is the network, and your body is the iPhone translating invisible waves into experience?

We live inside an unseen ocean of information. Wi-Fi, cellular data, quantum noise… it’s everywhere. You can’t see it, but your phone can read it and translate it into meaning. The same is true for you.

Your eyes, ears, skin, and nervous system are antennas translating energetic frequencies into perception. When the hardware malfunctions, the signal doesn’t stop, the device just loses translation.

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The Breakdown

Imagine every heartbeat, every electrical pulse in your neurons, as the circuitry of a cosmic phone. Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene describes consciousness not as something created by the brain but as “conscious access,” a filtering process. The brain selects a few packets of infinite data and lets them through. You never lose the signal, you just receive a sliver of it.

Understanding how the device works matters. Every upgrade, every new layer of science, reminds us that biology isn’t separate from spirit; it’s the translator of it.

Quantum biology gives the metaphor teeth. Even plants tune into the quantum field. Their photosynthesis depends on wave-like coherence. Enzymes do it too, tunneling electrons like tiny radio signals through matter. The heart and brain emit measurable electromagnetic fields that synchronize with others. You’re not a static body generating energy… you’re an energetic being interpreting it.

Recent work is beginning to trace this coherence beyond photosynthesis and enzymes. Studies in neuroscience and quantum biology now explore how microtubules inside neurons might sustain quantum states related to awareness itself (Wiest et al., 2024; Ghaderi et al., 2025), and even how entanglement could contribute to higher states of consciousness (Neven, 2024)

But hardware isn’t everything. What matters just as much is the software, the stories running the machine.

Every belief, every emotional loop, is an app. Some run clean, others are malware draining your life force in the background. Psychologist James Pennebaker discovered that rewriting painful stories changes immune function and reduces illness. Meaning isn’t psychological decoration, it’s biological code.

At Next Level Human we use practices like DEEP, Depth Enhanced Emotional Processing, and BEEP, Breath Enhanced Emotional Processing, to clear those corrupted apps. When you engage these practices, you rewrite the story, rewire the emotion, and retrain the nervous system.

And then there’s M.U.D., short for Misguided Unconscious Decisions. MUD is the junk data clogging the feed… old beliefs, resentments, fears. Clearing the MUD is like deleting the app that keeps feeding you bad news. Every time you release one of those outdated programs, you increase bandwidth.

The mind works like an algorithm. What you focus on trains the feed. Keep clicking on resentment and the universe shows you more of it. Feed attention to gratitude and compassion, and your inner algorithm adjusts. Psychologist Ethan Kross found that simply changing how we speak to ourselves rewires the emotional brain. Mindfulness isn’t mysticism; it’s algorithm training.

And beneath all that, there’s the signal itself.

Cardiologist Pim van Lommel documented patients who were clinically dead, no pulse, no EEG, yet described precise details of what happened around them. Sam Parnia’s later research repeated the finding, consciousness can remain when the brain is offline. If the device is powered down, what’s still perceiving?

At Princeton, the Global Consciousness Project recorded random number generators for decades. During events that united billions in emotion… September 11th, global meditations, disasters… the randomness bent toward coherence, as if the human field momentarily synchronized.

In another corner of science, Feng et al. (2023) placed written words like “love” and “compassion” beneath sealed dishes of human kidney cells damaged by oxidative stress. Those cells healed faster, produced more energy, and showed less damage. Meaning itself seemed to influence matter, as if consciousness encoded in language could reach through glass and rewrite biology.

The evidence may be controversial, but the pattern keeps appearing: consciousness isn’t trapped in the skull. The skull is inside consciousness.

And if consciousness is the signal, then the universe is the Cloud, the Source Field from which all data flows. Mystics call it God, Tao, or Brahman. Physicists call it the zero-point field. New-age seekers just call it “the universe.” Here at Next Level Human, we call it the Source Field. Either way, it’s the same infinite network humming behind existence. Each living system logs in differently… trees through electromagnetic signaling, whales through vibration, humans through awareness shaped by sight, dogs through awareness shaped by scent.

Speculative? Yes. But when independent fields… quantum physics, neuroscience, narrative psychology… keep finding echoes of the same truth, curiosity becomes the only scientific position left.

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The Practical Takeaway

If your body is the device, your mind the software, and consciousness the signal, then human evolution is about increasing bandwidth.

And the way we increase it isn’t mystical, it’s biological.

Inside your cells, water doesn’t behave like ordinary liquid. It organizes into structured layers along membranes, creating a negatively charged matrix that stores and transmits energy. Gerald Pollack calls this “the fourth phase of water.” It acts like the internal wiring of the body phone, translating invisible energy into biochemical messages.

That energy moves through fascia, the connective web linking every organ and muscle. Research compiled by Schleip and colleagues in The Tensional Network of the Human Body (2012) shows fascia conducts mechanical vibration, transmits light through collagen’s wave-guiding properties, and mediates subtle electromagnetic signaling. Think of it as the body’s fiber-optic network, distributing coherence faster than nerves can fire.

Your heart and brain are the major processors. Their electromagnetic fields synchronize during emotional coherence, creating measurable patterns of resonance (McCraty et al., 2022). When those systems align, the signal is strong; when they’re dissonant, static dominates.

Surrounding all of this is the biofield, a measurable electromagnetic and photonic field surrounding the body. Some see it as the sum of the body’s electrical activity; others describe it as an energetic scaffolding… an emergent pattern of the Source Field that both arises from and guides biological organization. Either way, it’s the interface between physiology and the universal signal, the Wi-Fi of the human system.

Light, rest, water, grounding, movement, and mindfulness are how you maintain signal integrity. Morning sunlight resets your circadian rhythm, syncing internal clocks with the planetary field. Rest recharges the battery; fatigue narrows bandwidth. Grounding connects the body’s charge to the Earth’s subtle electric field, discharging excess static. Hydration and fascia hydration improve conductivity, keeping the system supple and coherent.

And mindfulness, the quiet tuning of attention, is how you refine the frequency. It harmonizes heart, brain, and field, clearing static so meaning can move freely.

At Next Level Human, this is what we train. Through DEEP sessions that rewrite emotional code and BEEP breathwork that stabilizes physiology, we delete MUD, restore clarity, and let the signal flow.

While this deserves its own exploration, emerging science is beginning to show how water, fascia, electromagnetic fields, and biological coherence may serve as the physical interface between the Source Field, our biofield, and biochemistry. The hardware and the field are one continuous circuit, and consciousness is the current that animates it.

When you combine light, water, rest, movement, and mindful intention, you’re not performing a wellness routine… you’re upgrading the operating system of consciousness itself.

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Closing Thought

Back in that airport, when your phone finally connects, you don’t think the signal just began. You know it was always there… you just couldn’t reach it.

The same is true for you. When your body dies, the data doesn’t disappear, it uploads. Every lifetime, every heartbreak, every moment of awe is another software update to your soul.

The music has never stopped playing. Tune clean, live clear, and the network remembers your name.

The only question is whether you’re living as static… or streaming the Source.

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