Quantum Field Guide

Basic Mobilization of Energies

2012-01-22T09:56:00.006-05:00

21st Century Energy Medicine

2011-12-08T11:55:00.001-05:00

Metaphysics for Life

2011-12-07T22:08:00.003-05:00

The Parkinson's Recovery Project

2011-11-18T19:07:00.001-05:00

"A new explanation for the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease has arisen through our research. These explanations are based on Asian medicine’s ancient channel theory and on basic, well-known rules of human physiology."

"Using the diagnostic techniques of channel theory, it is easily observed that people with both idiopathic Parkinson’s and psychogenic (emotionally-induced) parkinsonism manifest a rare, highly specific channel-flow pattern. (A “channel” might be described in part as one of the many electrical currents in the subcutaneous fascia. These currents run directly below the skin. They can be detected easily by a trained hand.)"

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The Power of Doodling

2011-10-29T21:28:00.002-04:00

The World According to Dean Radin

2011-05-17T20:17:00.003-04:00

After studying these phenomena as a scientist for about 30 years, I've concluded that some psychic abilities are genuine, and as such, there are important aspects of the prevailing scientific worldview that are seriously incomplete. I've also learned that many people who claim to have unfailingly reliable psychic abilities are often delusional or mentally ill, and that there will always be reprehensible con artists who claim to be psychic and charge huge sums for their "services."

These two classes of so-called psychics are the targets of celebrated prizes offered by magicians for demonstrations of psychic abilities. Those prizes are safe because the claimed abilities of these people either do not exist at all, or they're much weaker than sincere claimants may wish to believe. There is of course a huge anecdotal literature about psychic abilities, but the evidence that convinced me is the accumulated laboratory performance by people who do not claim to possess special abilities, collected under controlled conditions and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

There is ample room for scholarly debate about these topics, and I know a number of informed scientists whom I respect who have reached different conclusions. But I've also learned that those who assert with great confidence that there isn't any scientifically valid evidence for psychic abilities just don't know what they're talking about. In addition, the rants one finds in various online "skeptical" forums appear to be motivated by fundamentalist beliefs of the scientistic or religious kind, and not by a rational assessment of the relevant literature.

- from the bio at DeanRadin.com

Consciential Evolution: Personal Effort and Prioritization

2011-04-14T10:37:00.000-04:00

We are constructing our future with each second. What we are living through now is a result of our patterns of thought, sentiments, and attitudes of our past — our thosenes. This obviously includes the past of this life and of our previous lives. Life is the way we make it – a product of what we ourselves generate and create. An indisputable reality: it does not matter where we go, we are always with ourselves. We can never succeed in running from ourselves. As a result of this, our lives are made in accordance with our intimate state. We can be in a beautiful and pleasant place, but if we are not internally satisfied, no external comfort can compensate. Living a happy life with nothing but wisdom and fraternity is a sign of higher evolution. Evolution is very democratic. The same rules apply to everybody.

Click here to read the whole article by Nancy Trivelatto at www.iacworld.org

A Reasonable Argument for God's Existence

2011-04-10T23:25:00.001-04:00

"Suppose you took scrabble sets, or any word game sets, blocks with letters containing every language on Earth and you heap them together, and then you took a scoop and you scooped into that heap, and you flung it out on the lawn there and the letters fell into a line which contained the words, 'to be or not to be that is the question,' that is roughly the odds of an RNA molecule appearing on the Earth."

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The Power of Suggestion

2011-04-01T11:45:00.005-04:00

Research published last year by psychologists at Harvard and Yale universities raises the possibility that even our weight is susceptible to the power of suggestion. The study looked at the health of hotel chambermaids over a four-week period. Half of subjects were told at the start that their work counted as good exercise that satisfied the recommendations of the US surgeon-general. A month later, they had lost weight and gained other health benefits such as lower blood pressure. Their uninformed colleagues showed no change.

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The Liberating Spiritual Eye

2011-03-28T17:08:00.000-04:00

A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light; to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over the light rays of earth, water, fire, or air. Long concentration on the liberating spiritual eye has enabled the yogi to destroy all delusions concerning matter and its gravitational weight; thenceforth he sees the universe as an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.

- from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The Time Machine

2011-03-24T05:32:00.001-04:00

“As physicists, our experiments deal with subatomic particles,” said Mallett. “How soon humans will be able to time travel depends largely on the success of these experiments, which will take the better part of a decade. And depending on breakthroughs, technology, and funding, I believe that human time travel could happen this century.”

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Coherence: Bridging Personal, Social, and Global Health

2011-03-09T21:21:00.001-05:00

Most people know what it feels like to be in harmonious state, the place where our hearts, minds and bodies are united in a feeling of wholeness. This state is often referred to as "the zone," "flow," "oneness," etc. When we are in such states we typically feel connected not only to our deepest selves but to others, even to the earth itself. We call this state of internal and external connectedness "coherence."

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Retrocognitions

2011-03-06T16:28:00.002-05:00

This book is a technical-scientific analysis based on Alegretti’s work in the sciences of Projectiology and Conscientiology over a period of eight years. It studies retrocognitions that occur during out-of-the-body experiences and their relation to other types of perceptions. It also discusses recollections of the periods between one human life and the next – retrocognitions in which the person can access important information regarding the goals we are programmed to accomplish in this life.

Click here to read this review of Wagner Alegretti's book, Retrocognitions

Out of Body Experiences

2011-03-06T16:15:00.000-05:00

Among parapsychic (i.e. paranormal) phenomena one of the most intriguing is the so-called Out-of-Body Experience (OBE). OBEs are universal and research studies indicate that they are not an experience that only the ‘initiated’ or especially gifted people can have, we’re all capable of it and as you read on you may even realise you’ve already had one!

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The Science of Meditation

2011-02-22T08:34:00.001-05:00

To explore exactly what part of the brain meditation acts on, researchers at Harvard Medical School used MRI technology on participants to monitor brain activity while they meditated. They found that it activates the sections of the brain in charge of the autonomic nervous system, which governs the functions in our bodies that we can't control, such as digestion and blood pressure. These are also the functions that are often compromised by stress. It makes sense, then, that modulating these functions would help to ward off stress-related conditions such as heart disease, digestive problems and infertility.

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GCI February 2011 Full Moon Synchronized Care Focus‏

2011-02-17T11:25:00.002-05:00

As a member of The Global Coherence Initiative, I receive emails like this from time to time:

Welcome to GCI’s February 18th full moon synchronized Care Focus. In order for GCI members around the world to participate at a convenient time, we have chosen noon, 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Pacific Standard Time ( -8 hours GMT ) when GCI members in the Global Care Room can do the Care Focus together.

For this synchronized full moon Care Focus, we will continue sending heart-focused care to the people of Egypt and the Mid-East during this time of great change.

The people of Egypt have joined together to create changes that potentially will cascade to other countries in the Mid-East. It’s important to continue sending heart energy to Egypt and the Mid-East, so that this process remains peaceful with the best outcome for the whole. The heart is what empowers co-creation for the benefit of all. Let’s radiate gratitude for the peace thus far.

We’ll do this Care Focus together for fifteen minutes. It’s really okay to stop sooner or continue longer if you choose. There will be music playing or you can mute the music if you prefer.

Care Focus – Let’s create a heart-field environment of unconditional love around Egypt and other Mid-East countries in the world for the highest best outcome for all involved. Let’s keep up a momentum of outgoing care and use your own heart discernment on how long and when you participate. Also, remember to send your heart-focused care to other stressful situations taking place throughout the world.

(After 15 minutes)

Doing the GCI Care Focus with others helps to amplify our coherent heart energy and collective intent.

Thank you for your participation.

The GCI Staff

Scientific Evidence of ESP

2011-01-11T08:07:00.001-05:00

One of psychology’s most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events...

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Neuro Electric Therapy for Addiction

2010-11-28T07:34:00.000-05:00

Medicine using electrostimulation is arguably a more benign intervention than pharmacology, and recent progress in the treatment of Parkinson’s and other conditions using such stimulation is establishing a record of both safety and efficacy in tens of thousands of patients in this decade alone. In its different forms, electrostimulation includes acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, deep brain stimulation and various applications of cranial electrostimulation. This paper describes the background, treatment process, outcomes and ongoing research arising from perhaps the best known application of cranial electrostimulation for addiction, that of the late Dr Meg Patterson’s NeuroElectric Therapy (NET™), a treatment distinguished by its clinical record in treating a wide variety of drugs of dependency, and clinically potent enough to do so rapidly and without supportive or replacement pharmacology.

- excerpted from A Common Anti-Addiction Mechanism: NeuroElectric Therapy (NET™) in Drug Treatment

Human Energy Fields

2010-11-26T11:17:00.004-05:00

Frontier scientists around the globe have discovered evidence of the existence of a quantum energy field. The field may not only explain homoeopathy, but may be the main force we have to tap in order to heal.

Fritz-Albert Popp thought he had discovered a cure for cancer. It was 1970, and Popp, a theoretical biophysicist at the University of Marburg in Germany, had been teaching radiology - the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on biological systems. He’d been examining benzo[a]pyrene, a polycyclic hydrocarbon known to be one of the most lethal carcinogens to humans, and had illuminated it with ultraviolet (UV) light.

Popp played around with light a lot. He’d long been fascinated by the effect of EM radiation on living systems, and had been trying to determine the effects of ‘exciting’ this deadly compound with UV light.

What he discovered was that benzo[a]pyrene absorbed the light, then re-emitted it at a completely different frequency, like a CIA agent intercepting a communication from the enemy and jumbling it up. Here was a chemical which doubled as a biological frequency scrambler. Popp then performed the same test on benzo[e]pyrene, another polycyclic hydrocarbon and virtually identical to benzo[a]pyrene, save for a tiny alteration in its molecular makeup. This tiny difference in one of the compound rings was critical as it rendered benzo[e]pyrene harmless to humans, and UV light passed through unaltered.

Popp puzzled over this difference, and continued to experiment with UV light and other compounds. He performed his test on 37 different chemicals, some cancer-causing, some not. After a while, he was able to predict which substances could cause cancer. In every instance, the compounds that were carcinogenic took the UV light, absorbed it and changed the frequency.

There was another odd property of these compounds: each of the carcinogens reacted only to light at a specific frequency - 380 nm (nanometres). Popp kept wondering why a cancer-causing substance would be a light scrambler. He began reading the scientific literature specifically about human biological reactions, and came across information about a phenomenon called ‘photorepair’.

It is well known from biological laboratory experiments that if you blast a cell with UV light so that 99 per cent of the cell, including its DNA, is destroyed, you can almost entirely repair the damage in a single day just by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength at a much weaker intensity. To this day, scientists don’t understand this phenomenon, but no one has disputed it.

Popp also knew that patients with xeroderma pigmentosum eventually die of skin cancer because their photo-repair system can’t repair solar damage. Popp was also struck by the fact that photorepair works most efficiently at 380 nm - the same frequency that the cancer-causing compounds react to and scramble.

This was where Popp made his logical leap. Nature was too perfect for this to be simple coincidence. If the carcinogens only react to this frequency, it must somehow be linked to photorepair. If so, this would mean that there must be a light in the body responsible for photorepair. A compound must cause cancer because it permanently blocks this light and scrambles it, so photorepair can’t work anymore.

Popp was profoundly taken aback by the thought of it all. He wrote the paper up, and a prestigious medical journal agreed to publish it.

Not long after, Popp was approached by a student named Bernhard Ruth, who asked Popp to supervise his work for his doctoral dissertation. Popp told Ruth he was prepared to do so if the student could show that light was emanating from the human body.

This meeting was fortuitous for Popp because Ruth happened to be an excellent experimental physicist. Ruth thought the idea was ridiculous, and immediately set to work building equipment to prove Popp’s hypothesis wrong.

Within two years, Ruth had constructed a machine resembling a big X-ray detector (EMI 9558QA selected typed), which used a photomultiplier to count light, photon by photon. Even today, it is still one of the best pieces of equipment in the field. The machine had to be highly sensitive because it had to measure what Popp assumed would be extremely weak emissions.

In 1976, they were ready for their first test with cucumber seedlings. The photomultiplier showed that photons, or light waves, of a surprisingly high intensity were being emitted from the seedlings. In case the light had to do with an effect of photosynthesis, they decided that their next test - with potatoes - would be to grow the seedling plants in the dark. This time, when the seedlings were placed in the photomultiplier, they registered an even higher intensity of light. What’s more, the photons in the living systems they’d examined were more coherent than anything they’d ever seen.

Popp began thinking about light in nature. Light was present in plants and was used during photosynthesis. When we eat plant foods, he thought, it must be that we take up the photons and store them.

When we consume broccoli, for example, and digest it, it is metabolised into carbon dioxide (CO2) and water, plus the light stored from the sun and photosynthesis. We extract the CO2 and eliminate the water, but the light, an EM wave, must be stored. When taken in by the body, the energy of these photons dissipates and becomes distributed over the entire spectrum of EM frequencies, from the lowest to the highest.

This energy is the driving force for all the molecules in our body. Photons switch on the body’s processes like a conductor bringing each individual instrument into the collective sound. At different frequencies, they perform different functions. Popp found that molecules in the cells responded to certain frequencies, and that a range of vibrations from the photons caused a variety of frequencies in other molecules of the body. Light waves also answered the question of how the body manages to carry out complicated feats with different body parts instantaneously, or do two or more things at once.

These ‘biophoton emissions’, as Popp called them, provided an ideal communication system for the transfer of information to many cells across the organism. But the single most important question remained: where was the light coming from?

A particularly gifted student talked him into another experiment. It is known that when ethidium bromide is applied to samples of DNA, it insinuates itself in between the base pairs of the double helix, causing DNA to unwind. The student suggested that, after applying the chemical, they measure the light coming from the sample. Popp found that the greater the concentration of ethidium, the more the DNA unravelled, but also the stronger the intensity of light. Conversely, the less he used, the less light was emitted.

He also found that DNA could send out a wide range of frequencies, some of which seemed to be linked to certain functions. If DNA stored this light, it would naturally emit more light on being unzipped.

These and other studies proved to Popp that one of the most essential sources of light and biophoton emissions was DNA. DNA was like the master tuning fork of the body. It would strike a particular frequency and certain molecules would follow. It was also possible, he realised, that he had stumbled upon the missing link in current DNA theory that could account for perhaps the greatest miracle of all in human biology - how a single cell can turn into a fully formed human being.

With biophoton emissions, Popp believed he had an answer to the question of morphogenesis as well as Gestaltbildung - cell coordination and communication - which could only occur in a holistic system with one central orchestrator. Popp showed in his experiments that these weak light emissions were sufficient to orchestrate the body. The emissions had to be low intensity because these communications took place on a quantum level, and higher intensities would have an effect only in the world of the large.

The number of photons emitted seemed to be linked to the organism’s position on the evolutionary scale - the more complex the organism, the fewer photons were emitted. Rudimentary animals and plants tended to emit 100 photons/cm2/sec at a wavelength of 200-800 nm, corresponding to a very-high-frequency EM wave well within the visible range, whereas humans emit only 10 photons/cm2/sec at the same frequency.

In one series of studies, Popp had one of his assistants - a 27-year-old healthy young woman - sit in the room every day for nine months while he took photon readings of a small area of her hand and forehead. Popp then analysed the data and discovered, to his surprise, that the light emissions followed certain set patterns - biological rhythms at 7, 14, 32, 80 and 270 days - when the emissions were identical even after one year. When there was an increase in photons coming off the right hand, there was a similar increase from the left hand. In terms of light, the right hand knew what the left hand was doing.

Similarities were also noted by day or night, by week and by month, as though the body were following the world’s biorhythms as well as its own.

So far, Popp had studied only healthy individuals and found an exquisite coherence at the quantum level. But what kind of light is present in those who are ill? He tried out his machine on a series of cancer patients. In every instance, these patients had lost those natural periodic rhythms as well as their coherence. The lines of internal communication were scrambled. They had lost their connection with the world. In effect, their light was going out.

Just the opposite is seen with multiple sclerosis: MS is a state of too much order. Patients with this disease are taking in too much light, thereby inhibiting their cells’ ability to do their job. Too much cooperative harmony prevented flexibility and individuality - like too many soldiers marching in step as they cross a bridge, causing it to collapse. Perfect coherence is an optimal state between chaos and order. With too much cooperation, it is as though individual members of the orchestra are no longer able to improvise. In effect, MS patients are drowning in light.

Popp also examined the effects of stress. In a stressed state, the rate of biophoton emissions goes up - a defence mechanism designed to restore the patient’s equilibrium.

All these phenomena led Popp to think of biophoton emissions as a sort of correction by a living system of Zero Point Field fluctuations (see box, p 1). Every system likes to achieve a minimum of free energy. In a perfect world, all waves would cancel each other out by destructive interference. However, this is impossible with the Zero Point Field, where these tiny fluctuations of energy constantly disturb the system. Emitting photons is a compensatory gesture to stop this disturbance and attempt a sort of energy equilibrium. As Popp thought of it, the Zero Point Field forces a human being to be a candle. The healthiest body would have the lowest light and be closest to a zero state, the most desirable state - the closest a living thing could get to nothingness.

Popp now recognised that what he’d been experimenting with was even more than a cure for cancer or Gestaltbildung. Here was a model which provided a better explanation than the current neo-Darwinist theory for how all living things evolve on the planet. Rather than a system of fortunate but ultimately random error, if DNA uses frequencies of every variety as an information tool, this suggests instead a feedback system of perfect communication through waves that encode and transfer information.

Popp came to realise that light in the body might even hold the key to health and illness. In one experiment, he compared the light from free-range hens’ eggs with that from battery hens. The photons in the former were far more coherent than those in the latter.

He went on to use biophoton emissions as a tool for measuring the quality of food. The healthiest food had the lowest and most coherent intensity of light. Any disturbance in the system increased the production of photons. Health was a state of perfect subatomic communication, and ill health was a state of communication breakdown. We are ill when our waves are out of synch.

It took some 25 years for Popp to gather converts from among the scientific community. Slowly, a few select scientists around the globe began to consider that the body’s communication system might be a complex network of resonance and frequency. Eventually, they would form the International Institute of Biophysics, composed of 15 groups of scientists from international centres around the world.

Popp and his new colleagues went on to study the light emissions from several organisms of the same species, first in an experiment with a type of water flea of the genus Daphnia. What they found was nothing short of astonishing. Tests with a photomultiplier showed that the water fleas were sucking up the light emitted from each other. Popp tried the same experiment on small fish and got the same result. According to his photomultiplier, sunflowers were like biological vacuum cleaners, moving in the direction of the most solar photons to hoover them up. Even bacteria swallowed photons from the media they were put in.

Thus, it dawned on Popp that these emissions had a purpose outside of the body. Wave resonance wasn’t only being used to communicate inside the body, but between living things as well. Two healthy beings engaged in ‘photon sucking’, as he called it, by exchanging photons. Popp realised that this exchange might unlock the secret of some of the animal kingdom’s most persistent conundrums: how schools of fish or flocks of birds create perfect and instantaneous coordination. Many experiments on the homing ability of animals demonstrate that it has nothing to do with following habitual trails, scents or even the EM fields of the earth, but rather some form of silent communication that acts like an invisible rubber band, even when the animals are separated by miles of distance.

For humans, there was another possibility. If we could take in the photons of other living things, we might also be able to use the information from them to correct our own light if it went awry.

Popp had begun experimenting with such an idea. If cancer-causing chemicals could alter the body’s biophoton emissions, then it might be that other substances could reintroduce better communication. Popp wondered whether certain plant extracts could change the character of the biophoton emissions from cancer cells to make them communicate again with the rest of the body. He began experimenting with a number of non-toxic substances purported to be successful in treating cancer. In all but one instance, these substances only increased the photons from tumour cells, making them even more deadly to the body.

The single success story was mistletoe, which appeared to help the body to ‘resocialise’ the photon emissions of tumour cells back to normal. In one of numerous cases, Popp came across a woman in her thirties who had breast and vaginal cancer. Popp found a mistletoe remedy that created coherence in her cancer tissue samples. With the agreement of her doctor, the woman stopped any treatment other than the mistletoe extract and, after a year, all her laboratory tests were virtually back to normal.

A woman who had been given up as a terminal cancer case had her proper light restored just by taking a herb.

To Popp, homoeopathy was another example of photon sucking. He had begun to think of it as a ‘resonance absorber’. Homoeopathy rests upon the notion that like is treated with like. A plant extract that at full strength can cause hives in the body is used in an extremely diluted form to get rid of it. If a rogue frequency in the body can produce certain symptoms, it follows that a high dilution of a substance which can produce the same symptoms would also carry that frequency. Like a resonating tuning fork, a suitable homoeopathic solution might attract and then absorb the abnormal oscillations, allowing the body to return to normal health.

Popp thought that EM molecular signalling might even explain acupuncture. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the human body has a system of meridians, running deep in the tissues, through which flows an invisible energy the Chinese call ch’i, or the life force. The ch’i supposedly enters the body through these acupuncture points and flows to deeper organ structures (which do not correspond to those in Western biology), providing energy (or the life force). Illness occurs when this energy is blocked at any point along the pathways. According to Popp, the meridian system transmits specific energy waves to specific zones of the body.

Research has shown that many of the acupuncture points have a dramatically reduced electrical resistance compared with the surrounding skin (10 kilo-ohms and 3 mega-ohms, respectively). Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Robert Becker, who has done a great deal of research on EM fields in the body, designed a special electrode recording device that rolls along the body like a pizza cutter. His many studies have shown electrical charges on every one of the people tested corresponding to the Chinese meridian points.

Excerpted from The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart

The Goal of Evenmindedness

2010-10-25T17:50:00.000-04:00

"Several years after Father had retired on a pension, an English accountant arrived to examine the books of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company. The amazed investigator discovered that Father had never applied for overdue bonuses.

"He did the work of three men!" the accountant told the company. "He has rupees 125,000 (about $41,250.) owing to him as back compensation." The officials presented Father with a check for this amount. He thought so little about it that he overlooked any mention to the family. Much later he was questioned by my youngest brother Bishnu, who noticed the large deposit on a bank statement.

"Why be elated by material profit?" Father replied. "The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee."

- From Autobiography of a Yogi

Health Benefits of Qigong and Tai Chi

2010-10-21T11:39:00.001-04:00

Qigong is, definitively, more ancient in origin than Tai Chi, and it is the overarching, more original discipline incorporating widely diverse practices designed to cultivate functional integrity and the enhancement of the life essence that the Chinese call Qi. Both Qigong and Tai Chi sessions incorporate a wide range of physical movements, including slow, meditative, flowing, dance-like motions. In addition, they both can include sitting or standing meditation postures as well as either gentle or vigorous body shaking. Most importantly, both incorporate the purposeful regulation of both breath and mind coordinated with the regulation of the body. Qigong and Tai Chi are both based on theoretical principles that are inherent to TCM. In the ancient teachings of health-oriented Qigong and Tai Chi, the instructions for attaining the state of enhanced Qi capacity and function point to the purposeful coordination of body, breath, and mind (paraphrased here): "Mind the body and the breath, and then clear the mind to distill the Heavenly elixir within." This combination of self-awareness with self-correction of the posture and movement of the body, the flow of breath, and mindfulness, are thought to comprise a state that activates the natural selfregulatory (self-healing) capacity, stimulating the balanced release of endogenous neurohormones and a wide array of natural health recovery mechanisms that are evoked by the intentful integration of body and mind.

- from A Comprehensive Review of the Health Benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong

Soul Guidance

2010-10-16T19:45:00.005-04:00

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm. Nearly everyone has had the experience of an inexplicably correct "hunch," or has transferred his thoughts effectively to another person.

The human mind, free from the static of restlessness, can perform through its antenna of intuition all the functions of complicated radio mechanisms-sending and receiving thoughts, and tuning out undesirable ones. As the power of a radio depends on the amount of electrical current it can utilize, so the human radio is energized according to the power of will possessed by each individual.

All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos. By deep concentration, a master is able to detect the thoughts of any mind, living or dead. Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the divine vision in the universe.

Radio and television have brought the instantaneous sound and sight of remote persons to the firesides of millions: the first faint scientific intimations that man is an all-pervading spirit. Not a body confined to a point in space, but the vast soul, which the ego in most barbaric modes conspires in vain to cramp.

- from Chapter 15 of Autobiography of a Yogi

Experience Giving PK Parties

2010-10-12T19:24:00.007-04:00

The belief systems we hold create a lens through which we filter the world. This lens often limits the possibilities of our experiences and renders us powerless to achieve different outcomes. In the realm of healing, acceptance of a disease or symptom can lead us to expect suffering and nothing else. However, we can alter our beliefs about ourselves and about our ability to enhance wellness. My interest in psychokinesis (PK) stems from the perspective that the power of the mind is important to the healing process. What we think can create balance or imbalance in our physical functioning. But what if we don't believe that we have that power? It often takes personal experience to move us beyond theory and into acceptance. The purposes of this paper are to document the experiences of those who tapped into that experience and to discover what new thoughts arose as a result.

At the Tai Sophia Institute Fall Symposium in September 2002, I was fortunate to hear Jack Houck, a researcher of PK, talk about the connection between PK and healing. He has developed an event called the "PK Party" where people learn and perform exercises in PK (Houck, 1988). These events seemed to be the perfect way to assist people in shifting their beliefs regarding their power to heal. PK parties are a way to open people‚s minds to their inherent abilities and to suggest applications for those abilities that can improve quality of life.PK, according to Dale and White, is "the influence of mind on external objects or processes, without the mediation of known physical energies or forces" (1986). Such phenomena have been documented for centuries and their manifestation takes many forms.

PK theories are used to explain paranormal events including miracles performed by mystics, spontaneous healing, the appearance of stigmata, apparitions or other materializations, levitations, and even the placebo effect (Talbot, 1991). Scientists have investigated countless PK events, recording both anecdotal and experimental evidence (Heath, 2003). Believers and skeptics alike continue to debate the validity of PK research. However, Braude (1991) suggests that the intention of the experimenter may induce PK in the most meticulously designed laboratory research, thereby unwittingly contaminating results. Regardless of the debate, PK phenomena continue to fascinate and confound people all over the world.

- from Experience Giving PK Parties by Lynn Barnes

The St. Francis Effect

2010-10-10T13:21:00.008-04:00

A most dramatic example of the St. Francis effect came from a woman in a group of state employees to whom I was giving a talk in Concord, New Hampshire. The woman related a story of two beautiful Egyptian geese she kept on her farm.

These magnificent birds, a male and a female, were, however, very ornery and aloof, at all times maintaining a healthy distance from her, never coming within a few feet of her even at feeding time. In the spring, the woman liked to practice meditation sitting by the pond on her farm. And one May day, she was doing so with her eyes closed and her meditation underway when she happened to open her eyes and saw that the two geese were right in front of her, their heads inches from her face. She was startled but closed her eyes again, returning to her meditation, and in another minute or so opened her eyes to find these beautiful animals still close at hand, this time prancing and extending their wings and legs in what seemed to her to be a kind of dance. Again the woman was amazed but she closed her eyes and continued her meditation, and minutes later felt the geese sit, one on either side of her, stretch out their necks and lay their heads across her lap. To her astonishment, she told us, the geese rested there for some time.

- from Chapter 8 of Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief by Dr Herbert Benson, MD

Sharing Dreams

2010-10-06T14:51:00.008-04:00

Deep in the rainforests of the Amazon, the Achuar and the Huaorani Indians are assembled for their daily ritual. Every morning, each member of the tribe awakens before dawn, and once gathered together in that twilight hour, as the world explodes into light, they share their dreams.
This is not simply an interesting pastime, an opportunity for storytelling: to Achuar and the Huaorani, the dream is owned not by the dreamer alone, but collectively by the group, and the individual dreamer is simply the vessel the dream decided to borrow to have a conversation with the whole tribe. The tribes view the dream as a map for their waking hours. It is a forecaster of what is to come for all of them. In dreams they connect with their ancestors and the rest of the universe. The dream is what is real. It is their waking life that is the falsehood.

from The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart

Dwelling in the Light

2010-10-01T15:30:00.003-04:00

The masters who are able to materialize and dematerialize their bodies or any other object, and to move with the velocity of light, and to utilize the creative light-rays in bringing into instant visibility any physical manifestation, have fulfilled the necessary Einsteinian condition: their mass is infinite.

The consciousness of a perfected yogi is effortlessly identified, not with a narrow body, but with the universal structure. Gravitation, whether the "force" of Newton or the Einsteinian "manifestation of inertia," is powerless to COMPEL a master to exhibit the property of "weight" which is the distinguishing gravitational condition of all material objects. He who knows himself as the omnipresent Spirit is subject no longer to the rigidities of a body in time and space. Their imprisoning "rings-pass-not" have yielded to the solvent: "I am He."

"Fiat lux! And there was light." God's first command to His ordered creation (GENESIS 1:3) brought into being the only atomic reality: light. On the beams of this immaterial medium occur all divine manifestations. Devotees of every age testify to the appearance of God as flame and light. "The King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto."

A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light; to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over the light rays of earth, water, fire, or air. Long concentration on the liberating spiritual eye has enabled the yogi to destroy all delusions concerning matter and its gravitational weight; thenceforth he sees the universe as an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.

From Chapter 30 : The Law of Miracles
Autobiography of a Yogi

The Power of Mistletoe

2010-09-29T11:51:00.000-04:00

In one of numerous cases, [Fritz-Albert] Popp came across a woman in her thirties with breast and vaginal cancer. Popp tried mistletoe and other plant extracts on samples of her cancerous tissue and found that one particular mistletoe remedy created coherence in the tissue similar to that of the body. With the agreement of her doctor, the woman began forgoing any treatment other than the mistletoe extract. After a year, all her laboratory tests were virtually back to normal. A woman who was given up as a terminal cancer case had her proper light restored, just by taking a herb.

- from Chapter 3: Beings of Light
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
by Lynne McTaggart

Noetic Science

2010-09-22T11:41:00.001-04:00

For more than 37 years, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) has employed the rigor of science, balanced by personal and collective wisdom to support a shift of consciousness that transforms present global conditions into a world grounded in freedom, wisdom, and compassion.
Our mission is to advance the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation. It is our conviction that systematic inquiries into consciousness will catalyze positive concrete transformations in the world. In this process, it is our vision that we may help foster the recognition of our basic interconnectedness and interdependence and promote the flourishing of life in all its magnificent forms. Noetic sciences are explorations into the nature and potentials of consciousness using multiple ways of knowing ourselves and the world, including empirical science, intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses.

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Measurable Precognition

2010-09-17T12:12:00.002-04:00

In their remote-viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute, [Hal] Puthoff and [Russell] Targ found that, in addition to being able to psychically describe remote locations that experimenters were visiting in the present, test subjects could also describe locations experimenters would be visiting in the future, before the locations had even been decided upon.
In one instance, for example, an unusually talented subject named Hella Hammid, a photographer by vocation, was asked to describe a spot Puthoff would be visiting one half-hour hence. She concentrated and said she could see him entering "a black iron triangle." The triangle was "bigger than a man," and although she did not know precisely what it was, she could hear a rhythmic squeaking sound occurring "about once a second."

Ten minutes before she did this, Puthoff had set out on a half-hour drive in Menlo Park and Palo Alto areas. At the end of the half-hour, and well after Hammid had recorded her perception of the black triangle, Puthoff took out ten sealed envelopes containing ten different target locations. Using a random number generator, he chose one at random. Inside was the address of a small park about six miles from the laboratory. He drove to the park, and when he got there he found a children's swing - the black iron triangle - and walked into its midst. When he sat down on the swing it squeaked rhythmically as it swung back and forth.

Puthoff and Targ's precognitive remote-viewing findings have been duplicated by numerous laboratories around the world, including Jahn and Dunne's research facility at Princeton. Indeed, in 334 formal trials Jahn and Dunne found that volunteers were able to come up with accurate precognitive information 62 percent of the time.

- from Chapter 7 of Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe

The inner science of self-control

2010-09-11T17:27:00.002-04:00

Yoga has been superficially misunderstood by certain Western writers, but its critics have never been its practitioners. Among many thoughtful tributes to yoga may be mentioned one by Dr. C. G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist.

"When a religious method recommends itself as 'scientific,' it can be certain of its public in the West. Yoga fulfills this expectation," Dr. Jung writes. "Quite apart from the charm of the new, and the fascination of the half-understood, there is good cause for Yoga to have many adherents. It offers the possibility of controllable experience, and thus satisfies the scientific need of 'facts,' and besides this, by reason of its breadth and depth, its venerable age, its doctrine and method, which include every phase of life, it promises undreamed-of possibilities.

"Every religious or philosophical practice means a psychological discipline, that is, a method of mental hygiene. The manifold, purely bodily procedures of Yoga also mean a physiological hygiene which is superior to ordinary gymnastics and breathing exercises, inasmuch as it is not merely mechanistic and scientific, but also philosophical; in its training of the parts of the body, it unites them with the whole of the spirit, as is quite clear, for instance, in the pranayama exercises where prana is both the breath and the universal dynamics of the cosmos.

"When the thing which the individual is doing is also a cosmic event, the effect experienced in the body (the innervation), unites with the emotion of the spirit (the universal idea), and out of this there develops a lively unity which no technique, however scientific, can produce. Yoga practice is unthinkable, and would also be ineffectual, without the concepts on which Yoga is based. It combines the bodily and the spiritual with each other in an extraordinarily complete way.

"In the East, where these ideas and practices have developed, and where for several thousand years an unbroken tradition has created the necessary spiritual foundations, Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness."

The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. Finer forces of the human mind can and must liberate energies greater than those within stones and metals, lest the material atomic giant, newly unleashed, turn on the world in mindless destruction.

As quoted in Chapter 24 of Autobiography of a Yogi

Qigong and Tai Chi Research

2010-09-11T13:30:00.007-04:00

The research on Mind-Body practice, the relaxation response, practical spiritual awareness, natural inner healing resources and energy based health and empowerment methods has been subjective for thousands of years – based in oral traditions and highly revered spiritual masters.

Now, in the Western world, through an alternative paradigm of scientific research, the incredible practices of Mind-Body refinement and energy (Qi, Prana) cultivation methods of Qigong, Tai Chi and Yoga are being explored in a more objective context. This is not so much an improvement over the ancient methods, however, it does leverage the application of Mind-Body Energetics Practice into our conventional health care, education and social service environments.

Qigong and Tai Chi, Yoga and numerous other energy based Mind-Body practices are now being revealed as major part of the solution to some of our most dangerous diseases – heart disease, diabetes and obesity, cancer, stroke, asthma and chronic lung disorders. The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) is participating on the cutting edge of this research.

The IIQTC is involved in research collaboration with the University of Arizona, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Arkansas, and University of California Santa Barbara. Please review the IIQTC Director, Roger Jahnke OMD's NIH biography.

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Improbable Phenomena

2010-09-10T18:31:00.003-04:00

"Very strange, very wonderful, seemingly very improbable phenomena may yet appear which, when once established, will not astonish us more than we are now astonished at all that science has taught us during the last century," Charles Robert Richet, Nobel Prizeman in physiology, has declared.

"It is assumed that the phenomena which we now accept without surprise, do not excite our astonishment because they are understood. But this is not the case. If they do not surprise us it is not because they are understood, it is because they are familiar; for if that which is not understood ought to surprise us, we should be surprised at everything - the fall of a stone thrown into the air, the acorn which becomes an oak, mercury which expands when it is heated, iron attracted by a magnet, phosphorus which burns when it is rubbed. . . . The science of today is a light matter; the revolutions and evolutions which it will experience in a hundred thousand years will far exceed the most daring anticipations. The truths - those surprising, amazing, unforeseen truths - which our descendants will discover, are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak, and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them; for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of acquired knowledge, and we are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further."

- quoted in Chapter 15 of Autobiography of a Yogi

Meditation in Schools

2010-09-08T15:52:00.004-04:00

'Mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed 155 boys from two independent UK schools, Tonbridge and Hampton, before and after a four-week crash course in mindfulness. After the trial period, the 14 and 15 year-old boys were found to have increased well-being, defined as the combination of feeling good (including positive emotions such as happiness, contentment, interest and affection) and functioning well.

Professor Felicia Huppert of the Well-being Institute at the University of Cambridge said: "More and more we are realising the importance of supporting the overall mental health of children. Our study demonstrates that this type of training improves well-being in adolescents and that the more they practice, the greater the benefits. Importantly, many of the students genuinely enjoyed the exercises and said they intended to continue them – a good sign that many children would be receptive to this type of intervention.

"Another significant aspect of this study is that adolescents who suffered from higher levels of anxiety were the ones who benefitted most from the training."

For the experiment, students in six classes were trained in mindful awareness - mindfulness. Mindfulness is a 'way of paying attention. It means consciously bringing awareness to our experience, in the present moment, without making judgements about it'*. Students in the five control classes attended their normal religious studies lessons.

The training consisted of four 40 minute classes, one per week, which presented the principles and practice of mindfulness. The classes covered the concepts of awareness and acceptance, and taught the schoolboys such things as how to practice bodily awareness by noticing where they were in contact with their chairs or the floor, paying attention to their breathing, and noticing all the sensations involved in walking.

The students were also asked to practice outside the classroom and were encouraged to listen to a CD or mp3 file for eight minutes a day. These exercises are intended to improve concentration and reduce stress.

All participants completed a short series of online questionnaires before and after the mindfulness project. The questionnaires measured the effect of the training on changes in mindful awareness, resilience (the ability to modify responses to changing situations) and psychological well-being.

The researchers found that although it was a short programme, the students who participated in the mindfulness training had increased levels of well-being which were proportional to the amount of time the students spent practicing their new skills.

Professor Huppert continued: "We believe that the effects of mindfulness training can enhance well-being in a number of ways. If you practice being in the present, you can increase positive feelings by savouring pleasurable on-going experiences. Additionally, calming the mind and observing experiences with curiosity and acceptance not only reduces stress but helps with attention control and emotion regulation – skills which are valuable both inside and outside the classroom."

The success of this initial study has recently led to the creation of an exciting 8 week mindfulness curriculum for schools in both the state and private sectors. This new curriculum, which includes games and video clips, should have even greater benefits.

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Forgiveness and Alpha Waves

2010-09-05T01:59:00.009-04:00

"George Gallup, in one of his Gallup Polls surveyed Americans on the topic of Forgiveness. He found that Forgiveness is something virtually all Americans aspire to --94% surveyed in a nationwide Gallup poll said it was important to forgive. But it is not something we frequently are able to do.
85% said they could not do forgiveness on their own and needed some outside help,- God's help or something outside themselves. Even prayer did not correlate with Effective Forgiveness, which is astonishing given the many Christians in the survey. Of all the things Gallup asked about in the poll, only one thing correlated with effective forgiveness, and that was 'meditative prayer.'

"Now when I see the word 'meditative' I see increased Alpha Brain Waves. When meditation is done correctly, it produces more Alpha Waves in the brain. So 'meditative prayer' would have more Alpha Waves than any other kind of prayer. Meditative walking would have more Alpha Waves. Meditative eating would have more Alpha Waves, and so on. And only meditative prayer was found, by the Gallup Poll, to be correlated with Effective Forgiveness.

"So in a sense, George Gallup has discovered intriguing evidence that Alpha Waves are related to effective forgiveness. This helps explain the lack of effective forgiveness in today’s world, because people are so lacking in alpha brain waves.

"The tests, challenges and travails of daily life diminish your alpha waves below the natural levels you would enjoy without what Shakespeare called 'The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.'(Hamlet 3/1). Most people are 'alpha wave challenged' in that they have far less alpha brain wave activity than would be ideal for them. And they have much less alpha brain wave activity than they are capable of having. Therefore people would also be 'forgiveness challenged' because alpha waves are needed for effective forgiveness.

"When I am teaching people to increase their Alpha brain waves I tell them they have to open their hearts, and they must learn to forgive. The lack of enough alpha waves in most people’s brains could explain another one of the important findings in the Gallup Poll: only 48% of the people said they usually tried to forgive others. It makes sense that without enough Alpha waves they would be wasting their time because forgiveness wouldn’t work anyway. It takes increased Alpha Waves for Effective Forgiveness and most people are way below their natural potential for Alpha Waves."

Forgiveness was not always a central theme of the Biocybernaut Alpha brain wave trainings. The development of this powerful Forgiveness theme did not come from a Faith Based approach to designing the Alpha Trainings, although it might well have had its roots in the Christian background of Biocybernaut's Founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Hardt, who was raised in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod [i.e. fundamentalist]. And Dr. Hardt’s paternal grandfather, Henry Hardt was a Lutheran minister who married his parents and baptized him.

Nevertheless the extremely powerful Forgiveness theme of the Biocybernaut trainings came from an empirical and scientific approach to healing the hearts, minds and spirits of the people who have come for this advanced form of neurofeedback training at Biocybernaut.

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Beings of Light

2010-09-01T15:03:00.003-04:00

Very few places in the world can claim to be pitch black. The only appropriate candidates would be an enclosure where only a handful of photons remain. [Fritz-Albert] Popp possessed such a place, a room so dark that only the barest few photons of light per minute could be detected in it. This was the only fit laboratory in which to measure the light of human beings.

He began studying the patterns of biophoton emissions of some of his students. In one series of studies, he had one of his experimenters – a 27-year-old healthy woman – sit in the room everyday for nine months, while he took photon readings of a very small area of her hand and forehead. Popp then analysed the data and discovered, to his surprise, that the light emissions followed certain set patterns – biological rhythms at 7, 14, 32, 80 and 270 days, when the emissions were identical, even after one year. Emissions for both the left and the right hand were also correlated. If there was an increase in the photons coming off the right hand, so there would be a similar increase of the left hand. On a subatomic level, the waves of each hand were in phase. In terms of light, the right hand knew what the left hand was doing.

Emissions also seemed to follow other natural biological rhythms; similarities were noted by day or night, by week, by month, as though the body were following the world’s biorhythms as well as its own.

So far, Popp had studied only healthy individuals and found exquisite coherence at the quantum level. But what kind of light was present in a person who was ill? He tried out his machine on a series of cancer patients. In every instance, the cancer patients had lost these natural periodic rhythms and also their coherence. Their lines of internal communication were scrambled. They had lost their connection with the world. In effect, their light was going out.

- from Chapter 3: Beings of Light
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
by Lynne McTaggart

Dangerous New Territory

2010-08-27T08:49:00.003-04:00

At a certain point I began to recognize, first with wonder and then alarm, that I had trespassed into dangerous new territory, a fledgling science in the very act of its creation. The scientific foundation that we had all believed in, on which all our confident assertions about ourselves and our place in the world presently rested, was disintegrating right in front of me. The book I’d talked myself into writing was going to require no less than redefining our present concept of reality.

- from the Introduction of Lynne McTaggart's ground-breaking book, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

The Power of the Mind

2010-08-25T11:40:00.008-04:00

In a 1962 experiment Drs. Harriet Linton and Robert Langs told test subjects they were going to participate in a study on the effects of LSD, but then gave them a placebo instead. Nonetheless, half an hour after taking the placebo, the subjects began to experience the classic symptoms of the actual drug, loss of control, supposed insight into the meaning of existence, and so on. These “placebo trips” lasted several hours.

A few years later, in 1966, the now-infamous Harvard psychologist Richard Alpert journeyed to the East to look for holy men who could offer him insight into the LSD experience. He found several who were willing to sample the drug and, interestingly, received a variety of reactions. One pundit told him it was good, but not as good as meditation. Another, a Tibetan lama, complained that it only gave him a headache.

But the reaction that fascinated Alpert most came from a wizened little holy man in the foothills of the Himalayas. Because the man was over sixty, Alpert`s first inclination was to give him a gentle dose of 50 to 75 micrograms. But the man was much more interested in one of the 305 microgram pills Alpert had brought with him, a relatively sizeable dose. Reluctantly, Alpert gave him one of the pills, but still the man was not satisfied. With a twinkle in his eye he requested another and then another and placed all 915 micrograms on his tongue, a massive dose by any standard, and swallowed them (in comparison, the average dose [Stan] Grof used in his studies was about 200 micrograms).

Aghast, Alpert watched intently, expecting the man to start waving his arms and whooping like a banshee, but instead he behaved as if nothing had happened. He remained that way for the rest of the day, his demeanor as serene and unperturbed as it always was, save for the twinkling glances he occasionally tossed Alpert. The LSD apparently had little or no effect on him. Alpert was so moved by the experience he gave up LSD, changed his name to Ram Dass, and converted to mysticism.

from Chapter 4 of The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Vibrational Alchemy

2010-08-03T19:29:00.005-04:00

In Benveniste's most recent study, he took a test tube of this plasma with calcium chelated out, then added water containing calcium which had been exposed to the 'sound' of heparin transmitted via the signature digitized electromagnetic frequency. As with all his other experiments, the signature frequency of heparin works as though the molecules of heparin itself were there: in its presence, the blood is more reluctant than ususal to coagulate.

from Chapter 4: The Language of the Cell
The Field by Lynne McTaggart

The book is a very enjoyable but technical investigation into the science that no one's talking about because it completely challenges almost everything we THINK we know about the physical universe. It was written by a pretty credible journalist who is as surprised as anyone to be writing about this stuff. Even the scientist she was writing about here was very suprised. It was an accidental discovery which is, in my opinion, the most credible kind. He tested it over and over, and it worked out every time.

That's why I love this story.

These are surprised orthodox scientists...how cool is that?

Cutting-Edge Science

2010-07-29T21:56:00.015-04:00

Last week's posting created a small but humourous thread on Facebook. I found myself in a conversation with strangers who felt what I was writing about was either religious nonsense or primitive science, as well as some sympathetic friends who were far more open to the ideas I was framing.

Faced with the assertion that the heart 'has NO cognitive functioning of any kind. It doesn't "feel," it doesn't control our emotions, and nor does it have anything at all to do with intuition. Such thinking has its roots 3,000 years ago with the early Greeks - who were WRONG.' , I wrote:

Science is a method of investigation. It is a constantly evolving body of knowledge. Most scientific findings are simply refutations of previous scientific findings. When I was a kid the atom was the smallest known particle. That's not the case anymore.

The scientific discovery that the heart is NOT just muscle tissue has opened up a whole new understanding of it. Similar findings have also caused scientists to re-think the stomach...ever hear of a gut reaction? There is now a scientific explanation for it.

Science is not a monolithic body of knowledge. Scientists disagree all the time on 'the truth' which is what makes the phrase "scientifically proven" so laughable.

When I wrote that these things have been observed and verified, someone wrote: 'By WHOM? WHEN? WHERE? By what means? Show me ONE peer reviewed source that says so.'

So I posted links to images of the ganglia of the heart and a synopsis of a monograph from the emerging field of neurocardiology:

Groundbreaking research in the field of neurocardiology has established that the heart is a sensory organ and a sophisticated information encoding and processing center, with an extensive intrinsic nervous system sufficiently sophisticated to qualify as a "heart brain."

I followed up with:

This is cutting-edge stuff so I am not surprised when people dispute these findings. In twenty years' time it will probably be widely accepted...or rendered obsolete by other cutting-edge science. The resistance to possible evidence that things just might not be what they seem is completely understandable.

What I am asking you to consider is paradigm-shattering. It calls into question the very foundations of our belief and knowledge. It suggests we are infintely more complex beings than the present paradigm supports. We are greater than the sum of our parts.

It also asks us to embrace that there is still so much mystery in the universe.

The Surprising Role of the Heart

2010-07-27T11:27:00.002-04:00

Of greatest significance here is our major finding: namely, the electrophysiological evidence that the heart is directly involved in the processing of information about a future emotional stimulus seconds before the body actually experiences the stimulus.

To our knowledge, this is the first study to measure heart rate decelerations/accelerations in connection with intuitive perception, and this finding thus constitutes a significant addition to previous research on intuition. What is truly surprising about this result is the fact that the heart appears to play a direct role in the perception of future events; at the very least it implies that the brain does not act alone in this regard. If verified by future studies, this is an important finding that may open the door to an enlarged scientific understanding of the heart’s role in human perception, consciousness, and behavior.

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Why Learn Remote Viewing?

2010-07-05T14:21:00.006-04:00

Many times since starting to teach controlled remote viewing commercially, I've been asked variations of the question "Why do people want to learn remote viewing?"or "What good is remote viewing?"

I've thought about it for a long time, and have come to the following conclusion. Maybe people want to learn remote viewing for reasons similar to why others learn to skydive.

This may seem a little surprising at first, but let's start off by asking, "what good is skydiving?" There are of course a number of answers: It is useful in military and commando operations; it is handy for getting people to remote places to fight forest fires; it can be used to insert rescue personnel into certain emergency situations. However, the vast majority of people learn to skydive, and continue doing it, not for any so-called practical reason. They do it because it presents a challenge--the thrill of overcoming nature (gravity) and the natural human fears that come with it. Or it puts them in a class of people who do something beyond the ordinary--something that takes skill and self-mastery. Or they simply glory in the experience of hanging all alone, however briefly, thousands of feet above the earth.

This seems also to be the case with remote viewing - though not literally, of course. Like skydiving, RV has its practical applications. Within its inherent limitations remote viewing has been used in intelligence collection, crime-solving, finding missing persons, market predictions, and--more controversially--space exploration. Yet most people who learn it do so not because of practical applications so much as the challenge it represents--learning to do something that few other people as yet know how to do; or acquiring a skill deemed impossible under the currently ruling scientific paradigm; or because it provides convincing and satisfying proof that we are, indeed, much more than our physical bodies.

While skydivers learn that it is possible to transcend the physical fears and bodily limitations that we normally think we are subject to, remote viewers learn something analogous: that it is possible to transcend not only those limitations, but the boundaries of space and time as well.

11/15/97 © 1997 by Paul H. Smith,
Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc.
All rights reserved.

The Legend of Milarepa

2010-06-08T19:03:00.002-04:00

To demonstrate his mastery over the limits of the physical world, Milarepa had placed his open hand against the cave’s wall at about shoulder level . . . and then continued to push his hand farther into the rock in front of him, as if the wall did not exist! When he did so, the stone beneath his palms became soft and malleable, leaving the deep impression of his hand for all to see. When the student who witnessed this marvel tried to do the same thing, it’s recorded that all he accomplished was the frustration of an injured hand.

This excerpt is taken from the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, by Gregg Braden.

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The Buddha Machine

2010-06-08T15:37:00.018-04:00

The Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that plays music.

In a way, it’s like the cheapest pre-loaded IPod you’ll ever be able to buy...

FM3 constructed nine drones, varying from two seconds to 42 seconds, which repeat endlessly in the listener’s ear until the “track” is switched to the next drone.

The machine has its own built-in speaker, in case one would like to fill a room with the drones, but there is also a headphone jack for more personal meditative experiences. There’s a switch on the side that allows for traversal of the tracks, and a DC jack (though an adapter is not included) for those who would like the Buddha Machine experience [to] be truly endless.

- excerpt from review at PopMatters.com

Wu Wei

2010-05-30T16:26:00.001-04:00

If, in fact, we are naturally good in a ‘so-of-itself,’ no-effort fashion, why are we not good already? If the Laozian soteriological path is so effortless and spontaneous, why do we have to be told to pursue it? … Laozi urges us to behaviorally ‘do wu-wei’ and to cognitively ‘grasp oneness,’ while at the same time he systematically condemns doing and grasping… The fact that we are not already … open to the Way means that we need to somehow render ourselves receptive, and Zhuangzi is thus forced to supplement his effortlessness and unself-consciousness metaphors with references to hard work and training…

from Effortless Action by Edward Slingerman

The Heart of Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức

2010-05-26T11:11:00.002-04:00

The body was re-cremated during the funeral, but the heart of Thích Quảng Đức remained intact and did not burn. It was considered to be holy and placed in a glass chalice at Xa Loi Pagoda. The intact heart relic is regarded as a symbol of compassion and Thích Quảng Đức has subsequently been revered by Vietnamese Buddhists as a bodhisattva (Bồ Tát) and accordingly is often referred to in Vietnamese as Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức.

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Getting Grounded

2010-05-18T16:36:00.010-04:00

When we concentrate and fix our mind on the lower half of the body in order to keep the upper half cool and the lower warm, we shall be able to face reality calmly and readily however harsh it may be.

Hakuin
Yasen Kanna: Health Culture in Zen

Wise people always concentrate on the lower half of their body and try to fill it with mind and energy. When much attention is focused on their lower abdomen and limbs, they will not be afflicted with mental diseases or attacked by physical ones. They will be full of life and neither taste bitter medicine nor experience any pain from medical treatment.

A stupid one always lets one's attention be drawn to surface or trivial matters and thus becomes unbalanced and unstable. If one's attention or mind is fixed on one's head at will, one gets tired or does not feel up to the mark and one's internal organ or organs will be out of order.

Therefore, a sage once said, 'A wise person breathes through the heels and an ordinary person through the throat.' Another sage said, 'While your attention is fixed on the lower half of your body, your breaths are long and deep. When your mind fixed on the upper half of your body, your breaths are short and shallow.'

When we are worrying about something important or urgent, our face is flushed and our limbs feel cold. That fact indicates poor blood circulation. If the trouble is serious or persistent, it will eventually affect the internal organs.

Paramagnetism in Agriculture

2010-05-11T12:06:00.007-04:00

Research into photon/light emissions can also be confirmed at home by poking a pin hole through a camera lens cover, then strapping some paramagnetic material across the hole. The lens cover is put on a camera, set to slow release, and left in total darkness for 3 weeks. When developed, the film displays a bright circle of 'light' radiating out from the pinhole.

Oxygen is the most paramagnetic element on earth. It is thought that volcanic magma droplets are 'charged' with oxygen when they hit the atmosphere and the varying paramagnetic intensities of the ensuing rocks are determined by the differential cooling rates of the magma. More often than not, highly paramagnetic soils are found on the upper slopes of volcanically derived hills and mountains. Soils around Blackbutt Qld and Alstonville NSW have particularly high paramagnetic readings.

Paramagnetic materials also appear to act as an anntenna by collecting, and presumably storing ELF (extremely low frequency radio waves) from atmospheric lightning, and possibly other energy sources.

While the above phenomenon have been researched and generally acknowledged by mainstream science, the main controversy over paramagnetism seems to stem from its claims that it enhances plant growth. Apart from the observation that the world's most fertile soils are highly paramagnetic, trials have demonstrated enhanced plant growth due to paramagnetism. In these trials paramagnetic material was isolated from the planting medium to ensure there was no mineral effect from the paramagnetic material occurring. It seems logical that plant roots may well respond to photon/light energy emitted around their roots over long periods of time. As many advocates state though - trial it for yourself. Even germination trials can show up significant differences.

Esoterically, paramagnetic materials are said to have a stimulating effect on plants due to a yin and yang effect. From a more conventional point of view it can be likened to the creation of poles - one positive, one negative creating a charge or energy wave between, as perhaps is the case with paramagnetic soils and diamagnetic plant roots. In nature, it is interesting to note the regular occurrence of so-called 'opposing forces' where life exists.

The above paragraphs are taken from an article on Carolyn Ditchfield's fantastic website, From the Soil Up. I like it because it recognizes the potential of harnessing subtle forces of nature to enhance life.

At the same time I found a website about carbon farming.

Mind Lamp

2010-05-04T15:35:00.002-04:00

Research conducted by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, at Princeton University, produced compelling evidence of an unexplained connection between consciousness and the physical world. In rigorous studies directed by Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering, REGs and other probabilistic devices were seen to behave very differently when they encountered consciousness.

The Mind Lamp is a color-changing ambient device that can respond to human intention and group consciousness. The lamp combines a Psyleron true random event generator with algorithms and visual feedback designed to elicit a response from human consciousness. Whether used as a decorative centerpiece, a meditation tool, or a group game, the lamp is an engaging yet relaxing way to explore mind-matter interaction.

PsychoKinesis Parties

2010-04-28T14:48:00.004-04:00

At the first PK Party, we were sitting in a circle and I had passed out my grandparents' antique silverware --- it has all been dedicated to science now. There was a lot of giggling and laughter because I do not think people believed that this was really going to happen. I don't think that I thought it was going to happen either. However, I was testing this conceptual model and had to follow through with the experiment. All of a sudden a fourteen-year-old boy had the fork he was holding begin to have the head slowly fall over...
He started screaming and yelling; he jumped up out of his chair.That got everyone's attention so that everyone in the room saw the fork bending over. As I looked around the room, everyone's eyes were huge as they stared at this boy's fork. I like to call this an instant, belief system change. All of a sudden, other people found that the silverware they were holding became soft in their hands. They later described it as if the metal became a little warm and felt like putty in their hands. It seems to lose its structure for a few seconds. The metal stays soft for between five and thirty seconds. Here they were, finding what is normally nice hard silverware becoming soft and structureless in their hands. Most of the people in the room then began to wildly bend up the silverware. They were screaming and yelling, and this was a real peak emotional event occurring in my living room. In the middle of all this pandemonium I reached back to my dining room table and grabbed the big steel rod, handed it to the fourteen-year-old boy and said, "Bend this!!" He looked at me and said "I can't do that." Then I said "Don't ever say can't --- that is like putting a block in your mind." He agreed to try and started rubbing his hand up and down the steel rod. After about five minutes I again heard him yelling. He was jumping up and down in the middle of the living room. With no more force than simply moving his hands while holding the rod over his head, he bent that rod into a 270 degree turn. The next day I rushed over to the Sears store and bought all the rest of the rods that size in their bin and took them into the laboratory. We had the head metallurgist try to physically bend one of the similar rods. He was a big man, about 200 lbs. He was not able to bend the rod until he finally bent it over his knee, using all his might --- red faced and all. Seeing the difference between the young man doing it with no apparent effort at the PK Party, and the big metallurgist using a tremendous effort to bend it physically, really impressed me.

- from Jack Houck's PK Parties

The Cortices Technique

2010-04-21T13:33:00.004-04:00

Several years ago, I took my first BodyTalk class with Dr Marita Kufe (now Marita Roussey) in Hanover, Germany. When I returned to my home in Hamburg, I right away decided I must try to use some of my BodyTalk techniques that I had just learned on my patients. (I am an occupational therapist and was working at the time in a coma ward at a hospital in Hamburg – Bramfield.) I didn’t know quite where to begin, so I decided to do only the Cortices technique on 10 of my patients. I then went home at the end of my shift. The next day when I arrived back, there was a terrific commotion because six patients had awakened from their comas! These were diabetes patients and accident victims, some of whom had been in comas for many months. They still had diabetes and they still needed a great deal of recovery from their injuries – but they came out of their comas and were immediately transferred off my wing for further treatment.

Anne Baguhn, CBP - Hamburg, Germany

How Playing Games Can Save The World

2010-04-01T11:43:00.001-04:00

Quantum Agriculture

2010-03-30T14:26:00.004-04:00

In the late 1970s T. Galen Hieronymus of Lakemont, Georgia discovered that dynamic, organizational patterns can be broadcast over large acreages with stationary, self-driven equipment. He called his invention a Cosmic Pipe. This technology was further developed and renamed Field Broadcaster by Hugh Lovel.

Hugh Lovel is the author of a definitive text on Biodynamic agriculture entitled "A Biodynamic Farm" published by Acres Press. Field broadcasting sets up a standing wave field that organizes energy patterns to make high-yield, quality agriculture more do-able for anyone. As a stationary self-driven Instrument, a field broadcaster uses circuitry and induction coils to induce resonant, Biodynamic and other fractal patterns directly into the soil and atmosphere.

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The God Helmet

2010-03-16T15:52:00.002-04:00

"Thus far, about 20 or so people have reported feeling the presence of Christ or even seeing him in the chamber. Most of these people used Christ and God interchangeably. Most of these individuals were older and religious. One male, age about 35 years old saw a clear apparition of Christ staring him in the face. He was quite "shaken" by the experience." - Dr M. A. Persinger

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How to Bust Loose

2010-03-15T15:17:00.014-04:00

What I love most about Robert Scheinfeld is how his teachings echo the wisdom of my favourite book, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

Robert's prescription for success is not about the creation of material wealth. It's about cultivating joy and living in the moment.

Here is a bare-bones list of what he is 'selling':

- No planning, goals, targets, objectives or ‘intent’
- Zero desire to push, change, fix, or improve anything
- Zero thinking, analyzing, and figuring out
- Money is a complete non-issue
- Simply flowing and playing in ‘creative ecstasy’
- Absolute freedom – including the freedom to just authentically ‘BE’ in every moment
- No past, no future – Truly just NOW!
- Experiencing True joy and taking it into all your experiences making them Truly joyful too!
- Remembering and directly experiencing more and more of who you really are
- Reclaiming power
- Staring illusions in the face and telling the Truth about them
- Increasing your appreciation for yourself as creator
- Increasing your appreciation for your creations

Click here to learn more, or borrow one of his books from the library: Busting Loose from the Money Game or Busting Loose from the Business Game.

Curiosity and Courage with James Cameron

2010-03-12T22:36:00.000-05:00

Click here to view this on the TED website.

Earth’s Energetic Systems and Human Consciousness

2010-03-01T17:18:00.002-05:00

The Global Coherence Initiative’s three major hypotheses that synthesize the relationship between human beings and the solar and earth’s energetic fields:

Hypothesis No. 1: All living things are interconnected and we communicate with each other via biological, and electromagnetic fields.

Hypothesis No. 2: Not only are humans affected by planetary energetic fields, but conversely the earth’s energetic systems are also influenced by collective human emotions and consciousness. Much of the planetary field environment is made up of the collective consciousness of the inhabitants.

Hypothesis No. 3: Large numbers of people intentionally creating heart-coherent states of care, love, compassion and appreciation can generate a coherent standing wave that will help offset the current planetary wave of stress, discord and incoherence.

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Life Is Just A Ride

2010-02-26T10:10:00.018-05:00

From Revelations by Bill Hicks. View it on You Tube here.

I've been thinking about Bill Hicks all week but the feeling was particularly strong this morning. The research I did for this entry told me he died sixteen years ago today.

A new documentary on Bill Hicks' life was released in 2009.