The science of conscientiology:
a succinct introduction

Conscientiology is the science that studies the consciousness (also known popularly as intelligent principle, soul, spirit, ego, amongst others), taking into account all of its attributes, phenomena, serial lives, and manifestations both inside and outside of the physical body.

Conscientiology differs from conventional sciences in that its scientific foundation is based on a new, more advanced philosophical paradigm. Whereas conventional sciences are based on the Cartesian-Newtonian model, which considers reality to be unidimensional (physical only), conscientiology is based on the consciential paradigm, which considers reality to be multidimensional.

Conventional sciences approach the consciousness as being a by-product of the physical brain and are limited to materialistic methodologies to conduct its research. From a multidimensional standpoint, this materialistic approach adopted by mainstream science is inadequate for the study of consciousness, since it does not address one of its fundamental principles - that the true nature of the consciousness extends far beyond the boundaries of the physical realm.

Modern technology is still not sophisticated enough to detect, analyze, and study the more subtle dimensions where consciousness can manifest itself. As such, one of the main premises of conscientiology is that of participative research. In other words, it requires that the researcher be both the scientist and the object of study, using their daily experiences, both inside and outside the body, as their laboratorial experiments.

It becomes clear that in order to conduct its scientific investigation in non-physical dimensions, conscientiology relies on the capacity that each and every human being has of leaving their physical body with lucidity. The out-of-body experience is then the conscientiologist´s main research tool, allowing them to access the extraphysical dimension and derive conclusions about their multidimensional nature.

Based on the research of many conscious projectors from the four corners of the world, it was possible to arrive at a few fundamental principles for the greater understanding of the consciousness and the full array of its manifestations, which constitute the foundation of conscientiology. The first principle is that the consciousness is multidimensional, that is, it is able to manifest itself in several dimensions. To do so, the consciousness makes use of different vehicles (the multi-vehicular principle), each one of them appropriately designed to manifest in its specific dimension, which is to say that the consciousness uses the physical body to manifest in the physical dimension, the psychosoma to manifest in the extraphysical dimension and the mentalsoma to manifest in the mental dimension.

Another conscientiology principle is that the consciousness is multi-existential. Based on the fact that the consciousness is not the physical body, it has existed before physical birth and will continue to exist after physical death. In fact, it alternates in a serial fashion between periods in the physical and the extraphysical dimensions, accumulating thus experiences, which allow it to evolve as a consciousness.

Conscientiology is also concerned with the process of consciousness evolution, as it appears to be the most common characteristic amongst all living things. All consciousnesses tend to become more complex, sophisticated, in a word, evolved. As such, conscientiology proposes a fundamental scale of evolution, which encompasses the most basic expressions of conscious life up until the most evolved type of consciousness still undergoing serial existences – the serenissimus. It not only identifies and studies the different levels along this scale, but also it provides strategies and techniques in order for the motivated consciousness to more efficiently reach its next plateau in evolution.

Conscientiology also focuses on the concept of cosmoethics or, more specifically, the set of universal laws, which governs the manifestation of the consciousness in all its dimensions. Cosmoethics is not based on principles of social morals, conventions, laws, and labels. This is of prime importance in order to provide the consciousness researcher basic guidelines in their manifestations.

One of the purposes of conscientiology is to offer logical and practical answers to the basic questions of life - who are we? where do we come from? what are we doing here? where are we going? - in order to clarify about our reality as consciousnesses in evolution and to enable us to advance our evolutionary process with more lucidity and efficiency.

The science of conscientiology was proposed in 1986 by Waldo Vieira, MD, a renowned Brazilian consciousness researcher. Vieira officially presented conscientiology to the general public and scientific community as a new science in his treatise Projectiology: a Panorama of the Experiences of the Consciousness outside the Human Body. Later, Vieira published the foundations for the science of conscientiology in his second treatise 700 Experiments of Conscientiology (1994).

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