The Human Body, Mind, and Consciousness

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak...y_b_51387.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the body (part 3)

the first two parts of this post brought some highly skeptical responses, generally from those who claimed to have the authority of science on their side when they disbelieved that the "mind field" actually existed. skeptics are people who demand that you believe them when they don't believe in anything. science is an approved method of explaining nature, but that doesn't mean that science owns nature. if the mind field exists, we are all inside it, and there is validity in personal experiences beyond what happens in a laboratory.

the concept of a field sounds technical, but it has everyday implications. many pet owners will attest, for example, to the ability of a dog or cat to know what the owner is thinking. a few minutes before going on a walk, their dog gets excited and restless; on the day when a cat is going to be taken to the vet, it disappears and is nowhere to be found. these casual observations led the ingenious british researcher rupert sheeldrake, a trained biologist now turned speculative thinker, to conduct a few small studies.

one study was very simple: sheldrake phoned up 65 vets in the london area and asked them if it was common for cat owners to cancel appointments because their cats had disappeared that day. sixty-four vets responded that it was very common, and the sixty-fifth had given up making appointments for cats because too many couldn't be located when they were supposed to come in.

[Robert Riedel]

i don't know why she keeps up with these "small time" attempts to tweek the "field, but ya gotta love the british, for their bull-doggedness.

her book, simply called "the field" should be required reading at, oh, at least the high school level- arguablely her best work to date. having read that, and then hearing her on coast to coast this past january, i was eager to aquire "the intention experiment," the book, a day or two before it's public release. it's not as good as "the field," but it's purpose is to act as a sort of instruction manual for these on-going experiments, such as the one mentioned above.

in it, she describes how one may participate in these experiences on certain dates and times, and indeed, i was also a participant in this experiment, although from toledo, not england. so this was a global effort, not just a few brits having a go at something which is the way it seems to be made out here.

if this sounds like fun, and it totally supports david wilcock's latest "science of peace" work, join in on the next attempt, july 7th of this year; just go to her website: http://theintentionexperiment.com , for more good times...

bob

let's rock this world!!!

[billybobbutterball]

dear friends,

it'll be interesting to see all the results once they're published...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.co...af_that_glowed

be well, be love.

david

the little leaf that glowed

here are the results of the first-ever group intention long- distance double-blinded biophoton experiment — at least what we’re allowed to tell you.

the results are so sensational that we are going to publish them in a scientific journal, which do not allow us publish all the data (such as pictures) anywhere else first.
the intention experiment pilot study used delegates from our london conference sending intention to a leaf at the university of arizona.

mark boccuzzi, one of the scientific team at laboratory for advances in consciousness and health at the university of arizona in tucson, headed by the noted psychologist and consciousness researcher dr. gary e. schwartz, carried out the lab work. he selected two carefully selected and prepared leaves from the same flourishing geranium plant with similar biophoton emissions.

mark chose two geranium leaves, matching them for similar biophoton release, then prepared them with 16 holes / injuries in a 4 x 4 grid — a process that can take two or more hours. both leaves were placed under web cams. then mark stood by.....

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billybob adds his two-bits:

an interesting sidelight to this experiment is the participation of author lynn mctaggart ( "the field - the quest for the secret force of the universe" )

this work is a great introduction to the concept of zero point energy and reading it turned out to be a real mind-blaster for me.

we are so used to the common-sense impression that the universe is 99.999999% emptiness that the concept that it is like 100% stuffed full beyond normal ideas of solidness arrives as a startling revelation, one that forces a dramatic re-orientation in one's thinking of god/cosmos.

in short, "god" is and doesn't leave any gaps whatsoever!

billybobbled

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

i found this one where they are currently monitoring the global consciousness of the planet, good reading with hard science. be in peace donald


by dan eden for viewzone http://www.mondovista.com/future/index.html

i am a skeptic. i don't believe in fortune tellers or psychics. i certainly doubted that i could forsee the future. but, as i did the research for this article, i discovered that i was wrong. everyone can see into the future and we do it all the time.

ooop! that wasn't supposed to happen.

our journey starts with an experiment conducted in 1976. dr. kornhuber asked a number of volunteers to be wired with eeg electrodes to measure their brain activity. he then asked the volunteers to flex the index finger of their right hand, suddenly and at various times of their own choosing. he wanted to measure how fast it took for the mental decision to move the finger to actually make the finger move. his results were not what he expected.

kornhuber expected to find a sharp peak in electrical activity when the decision was consciously made, at which point he would begin timing the trials. however, what he found is remarkable, namely that there is a gradual build-up of recorded electric potential for a full second, or perhaps even up to a second and a half, before the finger is actually flexed. this seems to indicate that the conscious decision process takes over a second in order to act! even more surprising was that the volunteers were not aware of this delay and believed they were acting spontaneously and instantly.

"one way to think of these startling correlations is to accept the possibility that the instruments have captured the reaction of a global consciousness beginning to form. the network was built to do just that: to see whether we could gather evidence of a communal, shared mind in which we are participants even if we don't know it.
groups of people, including the group that is the whole world, have a place in consciousness space, and under special circumstances they ¡© or we ¡© become a new presence. based on evidence that both individuals and groups manifest something we can tentatively call a consciousness field, we hypothesized that there could be a global consciousness capable of the same thing. pursuing the speculation, it would seem that the new, integrated mind is just beginning to be active, paying attention only to events that inspire strong coherence of attention and feeling. perhaps the best image is an infant slowly developing awareness, but already capable of strong emotions in response to the comfort of cuddling or to the discomfort of pain."

what's happening right now in the world?

what color is this dot? on the page click on the dot and it will send you to page and you can see current color donald

the colored dot above shows the current status indicator for the global consciousness project. it's linked to the global consciousness computer. it changes to different colors depending on the results of more than 68 "black boxes" or "eggs" (as they are now called) located all over the globe and sampled many times each second. the color coding represents the level of coherence or correlation among the eggs, which is reflected in the probability of the chisquare. the expected level is about 50%, and big shifts in either direction are notable. the gcp's formal testing looks for increased interegg correlation, which is represented here by the warm colors, orange and red. that means something's disturbing the global consciousness... possibly indicating that something bad is about to happen!

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._communication

be well, be love.

david

a shocking idea: nerves might run on sound, not electricity
brandon keim 06.11.07 | 2:00 am

most people know that nerves work by passing electrical currents from cell to cell. but you might be surprised to learn that no one knows exactly how anesthetics stop nerves from carrying pain signals.

that's why two scientists believe that we really don’t know how nerves work after all.

according to their controversial theory, electricity is just a side effect of how nerves really operate: by conducting high-density waves of pressure that resemble sound reverberating through a pipe.

"nerves are supposed to work like a series of electrical transistors," said andrew jackson, a physicist at the niels bohr institute in copenhagen, denmark. "this picture is at best flawed."

if correct, jackson and thomas heimburg, a niels bohr biophysicist and co-author of a recent paper describing their theory, would turn a long-held (and nobel prize-winning) theory on its head.

alan hodgkin and andrew huxley won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1963 for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves -- a now widely accepted theory known as the hodgkin-huxley model.

but jackson and heimburg say that the inability to explain how anesthesia works, combined with other counterintuitive aspects of the theory, mean that nerves don't rely on electricity to carry messages.

[LightEye]

i've been trying to acces this article for some time so it's nice to see that it's finally available...

be well, be love.

david

[wicherink]

studies by professor benjamin libet at university of california san francisco in the late 1970's on awake neurosurgery patients suggested that the brain refers information "backwards in time". simple activities like the sensation of walking (seeing and feeling your feet hit the pavement) may also involve backwards time referral. vision of your feet hitting pavement should occur well before the sensory feel of your feet touching the pavement because of conduction times and synaptic delays through the long nerves and spinal cord from your feet, yet we perceive seeing and feeling as simultaneous. so, either a) the "fast" visual information is delayed, b) the sight and feel are experienced separately, but remembered as simultaneous, or c) the slow information is referred "backwards in time" (from the near future) to match the fast information. from an evolutionary standpoint, a) "living in the past" would seem disadvantageous, as nonconscious "living in the disjointed present" animals would have a significant advantage. b) implies "orwellian revisionism" (as dennett puts it) and suggests that we aren't really conscious in any rational way in the present, that our experience is "edited". but c) seems preposterous. how can information run backwards in time? penrose first suggested that quantum effects in the brain could explain backwards referral, and that such effects may occur commonly, even routinely. it turns out that in quantum mechanics, quantum information can indeed run backwards, or be time indeterminate. the aharonov formulation suggests that each quantum state reduction has a dual vector, both forward and backwards in time.

to investigate these possibilities, dean radin and dick bierman have performed a number of experiments of emotional response in human subjects. the subjects view a computer screen on which appear (at randomly varying intervals) a series of images, some of which are emotionally neutral, and some of which are highly emotional (violent, sexual....). in radin and bierman's early studies, skin conductance of a finger was used to measure physiological response they found that subjects responded strongly to emotional images compared to neutral images, and that the emotional response occurred between a fraction of a second to several seconds before the image appeared! recently professor bierman (university of amsterdam) repeated these experiments with subjects in an fmri brain imager and found emotional responses in brain activity up to 4 seconds before the stimuli. moreover he looked at raw data from other laboratories and found similar emotional responses before stimuli appeared. professor bierman presented these findings to the recent tucson conference.

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/...timeflies.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/soul-search

be well, be love.

david

soul search
will natural science pin down our supernatural essence?
by jane bosveld

in 1998 a strange story emerged from a village in the remote kham region of eastern tibet. it is said that a rainbow appeared one day above the cabin of khenpo a-chos, a devout lama who had continued to practice and teach buddhism despite the severe restrictions of the chinese government. he was in his eighties, but not sick. nevertheless, he lay down on his bed, began reciting the tibetan mantra “om mani padme hum,” and died.

shortly after the nuns, monks, and others who studied with him began the tibetan buddhist prayers that accompany death, they noticed that khenpo a-chos’s skin began to turn soft and pinkish. his students hurried to another lama to ask about this, and he told them to cover the body and continue their prayers. they placed a thin yellow monk’s cloak over him, and as the days passed, they saw that his body was shrinking. by the end of the week, the students reported, nothing remained—just a few hairs left on the pillow. khenpo a-chos had apparently become what is known in tibetan buddhism as a rainbow body.

this story spread through buddhist circles, making its way to the united states, where brother david steindl-rast, a benedictine monk, heard it. he realized that the miraculous event had implications for christianity: “if we can establish as an anthropological fact that what is described in the resurrection of jesus has not only happened to others but is happening today,” he has said, “it would put our view of human potential in a completely different light.”

[charran]

so could this mean that because i do lots and lots of walking both before and after i sungaze that i am able to access both past events and future events more readily??? sounds like we all should be walking more. the masters did it. i would say that you do become more psychic when you walk...or at least more in tune with what is going on around you.

charran

[Larry Seyer]

this was interesting...

i wonder if morphogenetic fields have anything to do with the similarities?

i would bet money that physical matter is under thought control...

hmmm... wonder where this idea came from?

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/picko...-universe.html

enjoy!

larry