Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Coast To Coast AM - March 30, 2015 Black Eyed Children & UFO Repeaters

Published on Mar 31, 2015
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Coast To Coast AM - March 30, 2015 Black Eyed Children & UFO Repeaters

In the first half, author, paranormal investigator, cryptozoologist, and ufologist, David Weatherly, discussed his fascinating work on the Black Eyed Kids (BEK) phenomenon, as well as his investigations into the mysterious Djinn, and the Slenderman meme. Appearing at people's doorsteps and asking to be let in, the Black-Eyed Children typically have very pale skin, monotone voices, and solid black eyes-- with no white showing. The kids usually keep their heads down and don't make direct eye contact, and the residents report that they've never seen them in the neighborhood before. Interestingly, "there are a growing number of accounts now of black-eyed adults showing up and approaching people, without the children," Weatherly shared.

His personal theory is that the Black-Eyed Kids are actually some type of interdimensional being. "I don't think they're children at all-- I think they're something that is able to assume the form of a child," he said. The girls involved in the 'Slenderman' attacks will be tried in court as adults, though their stabbing victim has recovered, Weatherly reported. Slenderman, he noted, started off as a frightening but fictional Internet meme, but may have become a kind of tulpa-- a thought-form created apparition that can take on physical qualities. The Djinn, who'll be the subject of his next book, are other-dimensional entities associated with the Middle East and Islam. They don't like to be looked at, and have very sinister agendas, he revealed.

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In the latter half, ufologist and paranormal pioneer Timothy Green Beckley talked about 'UFO Repeaters,' people who have the unique ability to "make friends" with UFO occupants and bring them in for close repeated UFO photos. Most of these encounters, Beckley believes, represent contact with paranormal or supernatural aspects rather than actual extraterrestrials. Early contactee Howard Menger was a 'repeater' who described and photographed ships landing on his parents land in rural New Jersey, ensuing telepathic communications with "regal-looking" beings, and trips to the far side of the moon. More.

Contactee, artist, and channeler Marc Brinkerhoff (view related images) joined the conversation for a segment. His benevolent encounters began as a young child in 1958, and have continued throughout his life. In a field in upstate New York, a human-like 8 ft. tall being interacted with him, transforming his energy into a more etheric-form, whereupon they entered a spacecraft and he was given a cleansing energy that appeared as a lavender mist. Brinkerhoff said he is able to make contact with the beings at will, and once at a party they materailized as glowing white spheres.


Related:

Dreamland: The Black-Eyed Children 

Undebunking UFOs Blog

Dannion Brinkley on NDEs

Dannion Brinkley has had 3 NDE's (near death experiences) since 1975.

Dannion's NDE is perhaps the worlds most well known, officially dead for over 28 minutes, he has written three best selling books about his experiences. It was Dannion's first NDE that brought the terms NDEs and Near Death Experiences into mainstream consciousness.

http://www.lisamharrison.com
http://www.dannion.com



www.heartscenter.org—Dannion Brinkley: Lighthearted about Three Near Death Experiences. Hearts Center Talk Radio Show from August 20, 2014, hosted by David Christopher Lewis. Dannion Brinkley is hilarious, super wise, and has a gigantic heart! He died 3 times, twice by lightening and again through a medical condition. Now he’s back to tell about being at the bedside of over 3000 individuals before they passed on, to promote hospice and the organization he started called The Twilight Brigade, and to share what he perceives and receives from higher octaves of Spirit as he is tuned in to divine truths. Be informed about the prophecies he’s received. Be entertained and inspired by his cosmic understanding of the importance of what is going on right now on the earth. Learn what we can be a part of to promote the divine master’s vantage point, their works and their service for humanity.

Dannion shares highlights from his new book "Ten Things to Know Before You Go".




Related:

Scientific Evidence Supporting Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz

 

Amazon.com Review

 

Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz combines journalistic reporting, scholarly biblical reading, and the probing self-examination of memoir in service of recounting his journey from skepticism to belief regarding life after death. Spitz, who teaches the philosophy of law at the University of Judaism, carefully describes traditional Jewish views of the afterlife and fearlessly explores the many challenges to those views arising in parapsychology--including near-death experiences, reincarnation, and spirit mediums. In the end, Spitz makes a cogent argument that belief in the afterlife is not, as has often been argued, incompatible with Jewish tradition. Wisely, he grounds his concluding arguments in the present-oriented ethic that guides Jewish devotion: "Our challenge is to use the time we have now to live gratefully and responsibly, knowing that how we choose to live shapes our soul," he argues. "The ability to accept death as part of life provides comfort and the awareness that each day is precious. Our challenge is to make the best of every day in this life." --Michael Joseph Gross --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

 

From Publishers Weekly

 

Spitz, a Conservative rabbi, sets out to convince readers that it's kosher to be Jewish and believe in reincarnation and the afterlife. He details his personal journey from skepticism to belief in the reality of the soul, distilling along the way the work of pioneering mediums like Brian Weiss and James van Draagh. Spitz discusses one seminar he attended in which he found himself revealing images of a previous life as a Native American, and another in which his wife's deceased grandparents "communicated" with her. Spitz employs an array of Jewish sourcesAparticularly mystical textsAthat affirm a faith in the survival of the soul, although the concept remains controversial in traditional Judaism. He claims that this faith can provide comfort to those struggling with death. "Letting go is easier when one believes death is not final," he says. He offers the personal example of coping with his mother's death, followed by dramatic instances of how he has used guided imagery to ease congregants into accepting death. While we are alive, our "homework assignment" is to nurture our souls through good deeds and to express gratitude to God, "rooting us more deeply in living this life each day as a precious gift." Spitz's compelling arguments may cement the beliefs of Jewish readers already receptive to the existence of the supernatural and open a doorway for doubters to reconceptualize life and death. (Oct.)

http://www.amazon.com/Does-Soul-Survive-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1580231659

A great interview with Rabbi Spitz is available at gaiamtv.com.

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In Jewish culture, more emphasis is placed on living through our good deeds and passing our loving thoughts to those who come after us than on an afterlife per se. Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, author of Does the Soul Survive, is breaking new ground by exploring the Jewish journey to belief in afterlife, past lives and living with purpose. Rabbi Spitz looks seriously at learning more about this part of us that survives, our soul, based on more than faith, but on experiences that open the doorway to a whole new world of inquiry. - See more at: http://www.gaiamtv.com/video/does-soul-survive-rabbi-elie-kaplan-spitz#sthash.lf5ZNPwi.dpuf

Does The Soul Survive? (Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz) (2000)

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In Jewish culture, more emphasis is placed on living through our good deeds and passing our loving thoughts to those who come after us than on an afterlife per se. Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, author of Does the Soul Survive, is breaking new ground by exploring the Jewish journey to belief in afterlife, past lives and living with purpose. Rabbi Spitz looks seriously at learning more about this part of us that survives, our soul, based on more than faith, but on experiences that open the doorway to a whole new world of inquiry.
Corinne Edwards

Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz
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- See more at: http://www.gaiamtv.com/video/does-soul-survive-rabbi-elie-kaplan-spitz#sthash.lf5ZNPwi.dpuf

Spiritual Science & Past Life Regression by Dr. Newton Kondaveti


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Reincarnation in the Bible

Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz

Your DNA is a Hypercommunication Tool!

Dr Pim Van Lommel's scientific studies on near-death experiences and consciousness


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Monday, March 30, 2015

Skepticism vs. Psi


Presentation Speech Outline:
Skepticism vs. Psi



I.  The 2 general kinds of skeptics

A. Open-minded skeptics
- Typical traits: honest doubt, inquiry and investigation of both sides, considers evidence on all sides and seeing their good/bad points, asking exploratory questions, acceptance of evidence, good common sense, nonjudgmental

B. Closed-minded skeptics (also known as pseudoskeptics, debunkers, hard core materialists, scoffers, atheists)
- Typical traits: Automatic dismissal of all paranormal claims, predisposed to discredit all testimonials of a paranormal nature, denial of any and all evidence, scoffing, giving off an air of superior rationality, judgmental about things they know nothing about, quick to draw conclusions without evidence, using philosophical semantics to win arguments and invalidate paranormal or spiritual experiences

·               The skepticism of closed-minded skeptics is a philosophy, not a science

IIExamples of organized skeptical groups which seek to debunk/discredit spiritual or paranormal claims:

A. CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)
- Publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.  Website: www.csicop.org
- Former staff member Dennis Rawlins resigned after finding hard evidence of CSICOP intentionally suppressing its own findings which supported astrology (known as the "file drawer effect"), thus proving the organization's true agenda was simply to discredit/debunk in any way possible rather than to find the truth, in order to appease its subscribers.  You can read Rawlins' report at http://cura.free.fr/xv/14starbb.html

B. JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation)
- Founded by magician and professional debunker James Randi, who is infamous for his million dollar psychic challenge.  Website:  www.randi.org
- Critics claim that his challenge is a publicity stunt that no one can win, citing claims that applicants for the challenge go unanswered.

III.  Common underhanded tactics of organized skeptics

             A.  Raising the bar or moving the goal posts endlessly and undefined
             B.  Dismissing ALL anecdotal evidence on purely philosophical grounds
             C.  Double standards in accepting only anecdotal evidence that supports their claims
D.  Ignoring facts and evidence that don’t fit into their beliefs, rather than updating their beliefs to conform to the facts (but this is human nature, which we all do)
E.  Forcing or adhering to any explanation rather than a paranormal one, even if it's been ruled out.


·               Some articles that describe these type of tactics/tricks in detail: 
- Zen and the Art of Debunkery (satire on skeptics), http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/pathskep.html
- 10 Stupid Tricks of Skeptics, http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/stupid-skeptic-tricks.txt
- Extraordinary Claim? Move the goal posts!, http://www.anomalist.com/commentaries/claim.html

IV.  Common arguments of organized skeptics

             A.  Anecdotal evidence is invalid
             B.  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
             C.  Occam's Razor
             D.  Invisible Pink Unicorn analogy or Santa Claus gambit

V.  Scientific evidence for psi

             A.  Ganzfeld
- Done repeatedly during the 70's and 80's, subjects choosing one our of four targets got between 33 and 45 percent hit rate rather than the chance rate of 25 percent.
             B.  Auto-Ganzfeld
                         - Same as above, but used computers for the testing, during the 80's and 90's.
- Repeated by EdinburgExamined by experts who found no sensory leakage in controls.

·               For more reading on Ganzfeld, see Dean Radin's book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.
·               Links to scientific reports on Ganzfeld      
                         http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/ganzfeld.html
             http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/does_psi_exist.html
                         http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/response_to_hyman.html

             C.  PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research)
- Done over 20 years.  Psychokinesis experiments revealed consistent statistical anomaly throughout thousands of trials. Skeptic Ray Hyman investigated and could find no lack of controls.  See PEAR website at: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
             D.  Recent experiments by Dr. Gary Schwartz involving mediums and sitters
- The mediums got a hit rate far above chance, between 70 - 90 percent.  Results summarized in Jan 2001 edition of the Journal for the Society of Psychical Research.  His recent book The Afterlife Experiments is convincing evidence of survival of consciousness and of telepathy.
E.  Overwhelming anecdotal evidence for telepathy and ghosts
- At least half the population of the world has experienced either telepathy or ghosts that defied any conventional explanation, and everyone knows someone who has too. Therefore, it is extremely likely that these are real phenomenon.  For example:

In their biennial report on the state of science understanding released in April 2002, the National Science Foundation found that 60 percent of adults in the United States agreed or strongly agreed that some people possess psychic powers or extrasensory perception (ESP). In June 2002, the Consumer Analysis Group conducted the most extensive survey ever done in the United Kingdom and revealed that 67 percent of adults believed in psychic powers. Report author Jan Walsh, commenting on the statistics that found that two out of three surveyed believed in an afterlife, said that as far as the British public was concerned, "the supernatural world isn't so paranormal after all."

VI.  Conclusions

A.    For most paranormal phenomenon, the jury is still out, since the evidence is scanty and ambiguous.  However, the evidence for both telepathy and ghosts is very strong when you combine the strong scientific evidence and overwhelmingly common anecdotal evidence.  Therefore, they are very likely to be real or at least there is something to it other than fraud, delusion, mistake or misperception.

Related:

"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin

Interview with Winston Wu, Founder of SCEPCOP and Debunker of Pseudo-Skeptics 

Why James Randi, Michael Shermer and other Pseudoskeptics are NOT real skeptics!

The Case for Astrology by John B. West
TIME AND MIND
                Way back in one of my first columns for FATE (August, 1991), I wrote of the apparent connection of geomagnetic fields (the fields generated by the Earth itself) and psi abilities.  Researchers had found correlations between highs and lows in the field and the incidence and apparent “strength” of psi experiences.  It has been postulated that observing the fluctuations of the geomagnetic field might allow researchers in the laboratory to decide when to try experiments for best results in PK or ESP.
                Of course, the geomagnetic fields generated by our planet do shift irregularly, and can be affected on a planet-wide scale by solar flares, cosmic radiation, and similar extra-terrestrial (natural) events, and on a local level by movements of the earth and weather.  This makes predicting best times for best results a bit tricky.
                Now a researcher in California has found another environmental correlation, but this one having to do with a specific time of day, though not one measured by our usual clocks.
                TIME AND THE STARS
               
                Dr. James Spottiswoode, a physicist with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, set out to look for any correlations between laboratory results and either local time or sidereal time.  In his paper in the JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION (v. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-122, Summer, 1997) entitled “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time,” Spottiswood found a time period in which ESP is three to four times likely to work than at other times of day.
                First, a few definitions for those not up on their jargon.
                Anomalous cognition is a fairly new phrase that has been applied to ESP.  It essentially means an inexplicable knowing, a transfer of information whose explanation is outside our current knowledge of perception and cognition.
More...

www.mindreader.com/articles/Fate1297.doc

Dr. Dean Radin - Science and the Taboo of PSI



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TIME AND MIND

                Way back in one of my first columns for FATE (August, 1991), I wrote of the apparent connection of geomagnetic fields (the fields generated by the Earth itself) and psi abilities.  Researchers had found correlations between highs and lows in the field and the incidence and apparent “strength” of psi experiences.  It has been postulated that observing the fluctuations of the geomagnetic field might allow researchers in the laboratory to decide when to try experiments for best results in PK or ESP.
                Of course, the geomagnetic fields generated by our planet do shift irregularly, and can be affected on a planet-wide scale by solar flares, cosmic radiation, and similar extra-terrestrial (natural) events, and on a local level by movements of the earth and weather.  This makes predicting best times for best results a bit tricky.
                Now a researcher in California has found another environmental correlation, but this one having to do with a specific time of day, though not one measured by our usual clocks.

                TIME AND THE STARS
               
                Dr. James Spottiswoode, a physicist with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, set out to look for any correlations between laboratory results and either local time or sidereal time.  In his paper in the JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION (v. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-122, Summer, 1997) entitled “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time,” Spottiswood found a time period in which ESP is three to four times likely to work than at other times of day.
                First, a few definitions for those not up on their jargon.
                Anomalous cognition is a fairly new phrase that has been applied to ESP.  It essentially means an inexplicable knowing, a transfer of information whose explanation is outside our current knowledge of perception and cognition.
More...

www.mindreader.com/articles/Fate1297.doc

Kenneth Ring - Near Death Experiences


Dr. Kenneth Ring photo. Dr. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper completed a two-year study into the NDEs of the blind. They published their findings in a book entitled "Mindsight" in which they documented the solid evidence of 31 cases in which blind people report visually accurate information obtained during an NDE. Perhaps the best example in his study is that of a forty-five year old blind woman by the name of Vicki Umipeg. Vicki was born blind, her optic nerve having been completely destroyed at birth because of an excess of oxygen she received in the incubator. Yet, she appears to have been able to see during her NDE. Her story is a particularly clear instance of how NDEs of the congenitally blind can unfold in precisely the same way as do those of sighted persons... Read more
Sources:
Article:  "People Born Blind Can See During a NDE" Dr. Kenneth Ring's NDE Research of the Blind - www.near-death.com
Book:  Ring, K., & Cooper, S. (1999) Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto: William James Centre for the Study of Consciousness.


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List of Multiple Discoveries - The Source Field Investigations


Historians and sociologists have remarked on the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other.[1] "Sometimes the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries
The concept of multiple discovery is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors.[1] The concept of multiple discovery opposes a traditional view—the "heroic theory" of invention and discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

This is evidence for what David Wilcock dubs the "source field."

David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations -- Full Video! 

Dreamland: Ghost Pets

Editor's Note: One of the strongest paranormal experiences I ever had was feeling a kitty (that wasn't there) jump on the bed and walk over and snuggle up next to me. At first I  thought one of my cats had jumped on the bed, I was certain of it. Then I looked down, saw no cat was there, but yet felt the last few footsteps and the snuggling up. My wife had independently and unbeknownst to me experienced the same thing. These events happened shortly after losing her most beloved kitty of her life named Buzzy and stopped after getting a new kitty that looked and acted very much like him named Stripe.

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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’


robertlanza.com

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.

One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). A new scientific theory – called biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling – the ‘Who am I?’- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?

Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen. Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, it’s still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection.

According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.

Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, “Now Besso” (an old friend) “has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.

This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family members. Christine’s husband – Ed – started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time.
Christine had had a hard life. She had finally found a man that she loved very much. My younger sister couldn’t make it to her wedding because she had a card game that had been scheduled for several weeks. My mother also couldn’t make the wedding due to an important engagement she had at the Elks Club. The wedding was one of the most important days in Christine’s life. Since no one else from our side of the family showed, Christine asked me to walk her down the aisle to give her away.

Soon after the wedding, Christine and Ed were driving to the dream house they had just bought when their car hit a patch of black ice. She was thrown from the car and landed in a banking of snow.
“Ed,” she said “I can’t feel my leg.”

She never knew that her liver had been ripped in half and blood was rushing into her peritoneum.
After the death of his son, Emerson wrote “Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.”
Whether it’s flipping the switch for the Science experiment, or turning the driving wheel ever so slightly this way or that way on black-ice, it’s the 20-watts of energy that will experience the result. In some cases the car will swerve off the road, but in other cases the car will continue on its way to my sister’s dream house.

Christine had recently lost 100 pounds, and Ed had bought her a surprise pair of diamond earrings. It’s going to be hard to wait, but I know Christine is going to look fabulous in them the next time I see her.

Biocentrism” (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza’s theory of everything.
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Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
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Reincarnation - Ian Stevenson - Children's past life memories

A young boy supposedly has memories of a past life in which he was his own grandfather. Plus, Dr. Jim Tucker discusses his and his former colleague Dr. Ian Stevenson's research on children in eastern countries who have spontaneous past life memories. In their research they found much evidence suggestive of reincarnation, like detailed and accurate memories and physical characteristics carried over from the previous life to the current one (birth marks, deformities, injuries).


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Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Nature Of Mind And The Holographic Brain


by Brandon West
 
What is the true nature of mind, and what is the real function of our brains?
 
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence that strongly indicates that you are not your brain, or your body for that matter, and that the nature of mind, of memory, and of our brains may actually be vastly different than we have been lead to believe.

Since time immemorial, man has been fascinated by the mind, leading great thinkers from Hippocrates to Descartes to ponder the nature of mind with wonder. Fast forward to modern times and observe how the mind is still revered and is dominating our culture. We have a lot of firm beliefs about the nature of mind, and I believe the ego – our limited perception of ourselves – and thus human ignorance, is intricately tied in with these beliefs.

But the truth of the matter is that we only understand a fraction of the minds potential, i.e. it’s capability of rote memorization and other analytically orientated functions, and we use even less.

We know hardly anything about the brain let alone the nature of mind. Is it possible that we are missing crucial aspects of its function and entire areas of development and potential that simply slide under the radar because they are not accepted by modern thought?

In this article we will explore the idea that the brain itself, with its tissue and neurons that we have until now deemed the source of our thoughts and identity, is actually just a tool, a receiver of human intelligence and consciousness, but not its source; and that the human mind is not sourced in the brain any more than the internet can be found in your laptop or your modem.
“My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” - Nikola Tesla

Projected Memory on the Screen of Consciousness

 

To begin I would like to delve into the work of a Canadian neurosurgeon named Wilder Penfield. Through his work with epileptic patients spanning from the 1930′s into the 1970′s he found that “stimulation of the human cerebral cortex with a gentle electrical current sometimes awakens specific memories, at other times dreams.” His work gave him insight into the function of the brain, memory, mind, and the interactions between them.

(This information on Wilder Penfield’s experiments is from his lectures The Mechanism of Memory, and Some Mechanisms of Consciousness Discovered During Electrical Stimulation of the Brain unless otherwise specified.)

During brain surgery once the brain was exposed, he found that by using an electrode that produced a “gentle” electrical current, he could stimulate areas of the brain and get specific, repeatable, intriguing and often times simply fascinating results. The patients were kept conscious throughout the procedure so that the doctors could carry out a conversation throughout the operation and receive immediate feedback on the nature of the experience these electrical currents would produce.

In one case an area he stimulated caused a man to not only hear a piano being played, but also to see the man sitting in front of him playing the piano. In another case a boy reported seeing men sitting on a chair and singing, and in yet another case the patient heard a complete orchestra. In each of these situations the individuals involved didn’t see fleeting shapes of people, or the wisp of a song, but they saw the image as vivid and clear as if they were actually there in the room.

One woman even heard a song, which turned out to not even have been one of her favorite songs, being played when an area of her brain was being stimulated. When stimulated at intervals without her knowledge (because the brain has no tactile sensation), the same song began playing again from the exact same spot.

The sound was so clear and flawless that she mistook a device in the operating room as a musical device that they were stopping and starting at intervals.

In all cases the patients recalled the events not like you would commonly recall a memory, which is usually as a fleeting mental image, but rather in such explicit detail that it was literally like they were reliving the event in question. Some patients literally saw people in front of them, and heard them just as clearly as if they were actually there.

As Dr. Penfield phrased it, it was like the mind was able to “project a memory or a dream upon the screen of consciousness.” Moreover he found that when he stimulated the brains of individuals and they remembered something, an image, or sound, or a feeling, those memories were always accompanied by the thought processes that accompanied them at the time. Therefore our brains record sensory data as a whole unit.

Holographic Memory and the Nature of Mind

 

In my article the unified field and the illusion of time, we explored some evidence supporting the understanding that all information is encoded directly into the field – the energy density of space/time – all around us (which unfortunately is beyond the scope of this article). But if we apply that understanding to the perception going on in this circumstance when Wilder Penfield stimulated the brains of his patients, what occurred was that his patients seemed to have perfect recall of past events and in visual cases, 3D or holographic memory.

This is not normal perception.

What if the stimulation of the brain itself caused his patients to project their memory onto the field? Or what if that information was already present in a holographic sense meaning that those images, and those songs and memories were encoded within the field, possibly recording directly into the field by the brain itself, and the stimulation by chance allowed them to perceive the memory directly in the field?

This not only suggests the possibility of holographic memory in human beings, but a very different understanding of memory itself (which we shall explore later).

The other thing that is interesting is that the events which were brought back were entirely mundane, meaning they were generally ordinary events of no significance. This suggests that our brains actually record every detail of our lives, even the mundane and ordinary, and that they are accessible to us if we could figure out how to access it, or in other words, how to tap into the full potential of our minds.

Wilder Penfield himself remarked that if the brain was indeed recording all of experience, then it is only natural that when dipping into this massive archive of information and memory that we happen upon ordinary events considering the vast quantity of information recorded in our lifetime (from How To Know God by Deepak Chopra).

In Deepak Chopra’s book How To Know God, he also cites how Wilder Penfield noted that the brain even retains memory while dormant, such as the fact that when patients are under deep anesthesia during surgery, about one percent of the population has a recollection of what the doctors were saying, and even some details of the procedure. It is interesting that…
“Under deep anesthesia, there are practically no higher brain waves at all, making it impossible for the cerebral cortex to accomplish anything so complex as remembering what a surgeon is saying.”(How to Know God, p. 217)
This is one of the reasons why Wilder Penfield concluded after nearly 40 years of research that the mind was an entity separate from the brain, and which did not rely on the brain to function.

Who Is The One Doing The Moving?

 

Deepak Chopra in his lecture series with Wayne Dyer entitled Living Beyond Miracles tells of another of Wilder Penfield’s experiments where he is stimulating the motor cortex of a patient’s brain which causes the patient to raise their arm in front of them. If we were to ask the man if it is him moving his arm, he would reply that ‘No, I AM not.’

But when Penfield asked him to move his arm to the side the patient could move his arm, and he responded with something akin to ‘I AM moving my arm’, or ‘now I AM moving my arm’. Who is this I AM presence who is doing the moving? And why is it not activated when the body is moving on its own?

If our brain is the source of who we are, then any stimulation thereof which resulted in motion should give us the perception that it is us who is moving, but as Deepak Chopra states, because that is not the case this is indicative that our brain is not who we are, that the brain and body is only superficially related to who we are, and that the brain most certainly is not the source of who we are.

Brain Tissue Is Apparently Optional

 

Removing a hemisphere. Evidence for the holographic brain concept, and that our brain is only a recorder of experience and not the source of the mind can be found in a study done by Johns Hopkins University (J.H.U.) where they worked with brain-damaged children. They found that they could improve their level of intelligence and physical coordination by removing the damaged hemisphere of their brain. In essence, they literally cut out the damaged chunk of the children’s brain.

Within our current understanding of the brain this operation should significantly damage, if not irreparably hinder the child’s ability for memory and cognitive functions. From conventional understanding all of the functions which that hemisphere of the brain took care of would no longer be implemented leaving the child mentally deficient, or fragmented in some form.

If memories are stored in the brain, then after this operation those children should have lost those memories pertaining to the removed portion of their brain … if memories are stored in the brain. Yet the results were astonishing, and once again defied conventional thought.

Dr. Eileen P. G. Vining of J.H.U. studied 54 of the children who underwent the operation and she was simply astounded by the “retention of memory, and by the retention of the child’s personality and sense of humour.” A new version of the study was published in 2003 by John Hopkins University that dealt with 111 kids who had the operation between 1975 and 2003. Out of these 111 children 86% of them were seizure free or no longer needed medication (David Wilcock, The Source Field Investigations).

The mystery of hydrocephalus. For more evidence we move towards the work of Dr. John Lorber who is one of the world’s top experts on the condition known as hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is due to a problem with the flow cerebral spinal fluid which surrounds and cushions the brain, and when there is a blockage in this flow the pressure within the individual’s cranium is increased. Hydrocephalus means literally “water on the brain,” and brain swelling in this case leads to an oftentimes dramatic compression of brain tissue.

Dr. Lorber studied a total of 253 people with this condition. In the most severe cases, the pressure in the brain would increase to such a high level that the brain tissue would be compacted leaving the patient with only a fraction of their original amount of brain tissue. In Dr. Lorber’s study 9 people reached this severity with around only 5% of their total brain tissue left. That means only 5% of their neurons, brain cells, synapses, and so one were available in the patient’s brain.

Amazingly 4 out of 9 of those people with less than 5% of their brain tissue had an IQ over 100, and 2/9 had an IQ greater than 126. In other words 66.6% of them were fine. Given the drastic loss of brain tissue the obvious question is how is this possible? How can someone with almost literally no brain be intelligent at all, let alone above average?

Dr. Lorber was directed to a student at his university by his peers, literally based on the intriguingly large size of his head, they thought he may be of potential interest. This student had an IQ of 126 and had a “first-class honours degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal.”

A brain scan was done on this individual with surprising results. It was found that out of the normal 4.5 cm of brain tissue, his condition had been compressed to only a few millimeters. In other words his head filled with cerebral spinal fluid, and only a few millimeters of brain tissue, yet he was still high functioning with above average intelligence (David Wilcock, The Source Field Investigations).

I have no technical understanding of how this is even possible except to simply suggest that possibly the conductivity and crystalline nature of water may be a contributing factor. Yet what this should clearly illustrate that we know very little of the true nature of mind, or the brain. Both of these once again demonstrate that the mind is independent of the brain.

 

The Nature of Mind-Brain Connection

 

This evidence raises some important questions:

What is the real function of our brains? Is it the brain tissue itself that creates our intelligence, or is it the electrical and conductive nature of the brain that allows us to connect to intelligence? More or less like a sophisticated antennae, just like Nikola Tesla observed of himself early in the 20th century.

All of this information so far creates a lot of friction with the current propagated understanding of the brain, if it doesn’t debunk it altogether. The information that Penfield discovered is suggesting that our brains are independent of our minds, and that all our memories are recorded in their entirety, and with the same detail that we experienced them. From where we do not yet know.

I also suggest that this is evidence that we have the potential for holographic memory. This hypothetically is a possible function of our minds where our memory is projected powerfully onto reality (onto the screen of the universal consciousness) so that we can experience and relive our memories in 3D. After all, this is what Wilder Penfield’s patients experienced.

As Johns Hopkins University, and John Lorber’s research found, it may not be that our brains are really that important. If children can have half their brains removed and retain their memories and personality, and if people can function with less than 5% of their brain tissue with above average intelligence, then what is the true purpose of the brain but as a vehicle for intelligence, not as the source of intelligence?

Like a highly sophisticated bio-technology that we use to experience this level of reality, create reality, and express ourselves. Like in the movie Avatar, maybe we are not actually our bodies but are just operating them.

Is our brain really where memories are stored? There is actually no evidence to support that even our memories are stored in the brain, and never has there been a memory discovered in the brain. This is because our brains are constantly changing and are not fixed structures.

The evidence is finally lining up with ancient spiritual truths from every culture which expressed explicitly that we are divine, and that our true nature is conscious awareness, and that we are merely a fragment of that divine consciousness expressed in physical form.

Conclusion

 

We may be vastly underestimating the power of our minds, and our true abilities to use them. If our minds can remember entire songs to perfection or orchestral performances that we only heard in passing then what is stopping us from accessing this on a conscious level?

It seems that every single detail of our lives is recorded with our brain, so the question I have is how do we access that information, and from where do we access it?

This evidence provides a truly exciting shift in the way we can view our minds, and more importantly our potential. If an electrode in our brain is able to stimulate such vivid recollection, is it not possibly that we can develop our imagination and our mental abilities to this point naturally so we can use that ability at will?

Is it not possible that there is much more going on during a simple thought process or recollection of an event than we give ourselves credit for? That is exactly what Wilder Penfield found which caused him at the end of his career to see the nature of mind as a field of energy or information which Deepak Chopra (I believe) termed the ‘mind-field’.

What if your essence is not in your brain, or in your body, but in a formless field of energy?

About the Author

Brandon West is the creator of Project Global Awakening. A website dedicated to the research of a variety of scientific and spiritual disciplines, and applying that knowledge to help you live an inspired life and change the world. Follow Project Global Awakening on Facebook, and Twitter.

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