The Human Body, Mind, and Consciousness

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/mitchelltj1.php

be well, be love.

david

going home
by thomas j. mitchell

the next step in human evolution will be spiritual, not physical says musician and composer thomas j. mitchell

man is no different from any other species inasmuch as he must evolve, or begin the resulting process of extinction. in this case, the evolution must be a spiritual one if man is to survive his self destructive nature of "evolution by war." before we can look at how this will done, we have to examine man's present makeup and condition so that we can observe what is required if he is to survive his downward spiral to self destruction. truth can be an elusive commodity but in this case the truth of the matter is that man has reached his physical evolutionary goal and and must look to his spiritual progress if he is to evolve any further. to do this he has to take a radical view of what he actually is and what he is not. for too long he has been educated into believing that he is a body first and foremost... a creature of the physical reality which could not be further from the truth. secondly, successive religions have educated him into believing that he is a victim of original sin leaving him with a deep-seated sense of guilt and unworthiness. one has only to take a stroll around any gallery and observe the large medieval religious paintings to get this sense of unworthiness screaming at you from the canvas! this situation which has lasted for hundreds of years has been at the root of many destructive religious wars starting with the crusades to the middle east. man has to somehow find a way out of this destructive religious loop if he is to regain his true spiritual heritage.

science, and physics in particular, are at last coming around to show the way as outlined for instance in a new book on quantum physics, by lynn mctaggart called the field, in which she discusses a number of advances in recent years referring to the zero point field which point up the spiritual rather than the physical nature of the universe. it is a must book for anyone interested in this subject. the way i have come to see it, is that we are part of a "super spectrum" of energies all obeying the same basic laws -- from the basest physical objects all the way to the spiritual aesthetic wavelengths. however, the important fact is, that beyond this point we enter the creative universe of the spirit. for each and every spiritual being on this planet, this is his or her home universe except that on this "prison planet" they have dropped below awareness of this fact. the fact of the matter is that the human being is first and foremost a spiritual being who has a body rather than being a body, and it is from that foundation that the next step in the evolution of the species must take place. certain religious dogma has trapped the being in a mythical belief system which has caused him/her to abdicate from their true spiritual condition. it sits like a schism or a buffer between the being and his true source and bars the way back to his true concept of himself as the source/creator in his own inner spiritual space. once this concept is achieved, the being will realise that he is the creator of his own mind, data and pictures and he will cease to be driven obsessively by his mind and its belief systems. when this realisation dawns, the being's viewpoint is reversed through 180 degrees and he is no longer a "creature of the physical reality" and comes to the realisation that he creates his own world. the freedom from being mind and belief-driven produces an evolved being and a new man, which in turn becomes the first step in the next evolution of the species.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/04/science_and_spirituality_heise.html#more

be well, be love.

david

science and spirituality - heisenberg's mystical experience?

did werner heisenberg, who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and who proposed the uncertainty principle, have a little known mystical experience that shaped his views of reality? the question is being brought forward by three mexican researchers.

werner heisenberg - image credit: resonance - journal of science education

nikola tesla was one of the giants of science of the last century, but he also had a fine grasp of spiritual matters, a fact documented in a recent article on this site, by velimir abramovich. that article, first published by alexander frolov in his new energy technologies magazine, was forwarded to me by a mexican researcher, jose luis lopez-bonilla.

viktor schauberger is another one of the scientists in a wider sense of the word - he was called the water wizard and proposed a change in technology from explosion to implosion - who obtained their knowledge by linking in to a 'data bank' of a non-physical kind. see technology turned inside-out and schauberger q and a - making the data available.

it has long been my contention that if physics wants to overcome the present state of impasse, it must embrace and investigate the phenomenon of "ultimate cause", the spiritual realities on which the manifest physical universe depends for its existence. actually this site is turning out to be a place where that interface between science and spirituality comes into focus, at least in some of the articles - you will see them listed at the end of this one.

the piece that follows here has also been sent in by jose luis lopez-bonilla, who together with his co-authors is asking an interesting question about heisenberg's life. perhaps one of you readers can help them along with some pertinent information...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070425-reality.htm

be well, be love.

david

is reality a misunderstanding?

april 29, 2007
special to world science

sev*er*al phys*i*cists say they’ve con*firmed strange pre*dic*tions of mod*ern phys*ics that clash with our most bas*ic no*tions of real*i*ty and even sug*gest—some sci*en*tists and phi*loso*phers say—that real*i*ty is*n’t there when we’re not look*ing.

the pre*dic*tions have lurked with*in quan*tum me*chan*ics, the sci*ence of the small*est things, since the field emerged in the 1920s; but not all phys*i*cists ac*cept*ed them. they were undis*put*edly con*sist*ent with ex*pe*ri*ments, but ex*pe*ri*ments might not re*veal eve*ry*thing.

new tests—de*signed more specif*i*cally than be*fore to probe the real*i*ty ques*tion—have yielded un*set*tling re*sults, say re*search*ers who pub*lished the find*ings in the april 19 is*sue of the re*search jour*nal na*ture. one of their col*leagues called the find*ings in*tri*guing but in*con*clu*sive.

[Larry Seyer]

very interesting... so our cells die because of the resumption of the intake of oxygen and not the lack of it.

cool!



biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by "reperfusion," the resumption of oxygen supply.



http://www.cnbc.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/background/scientificproof/scientificproof1.html

be well, be love.

david

the scientific proof of survival after death
by michael roll

here is an extraordinary paradox. only those who can be relied upon to dismiss the findings and conclusions of our pioneers of radio and television are allowed on radio and television!

our scientists who support the british pioneers of radio and television - sir william crookes, sir oliver lodge and john logie baird - have been blocked from speaking on the radio or appearing on television. only a handful of local radio presenters have defied this official and unofficial censorship, notably james whale.

there are two expert opinions as to what so-called paranormal phenomena are, but in this "free" country the british people are only allowed access to the explanation that is politically correct, the first version that is listed below, because it is no danger to the powerful religious and scientific establishments:

1. paranormal phenomena do not exist

the mind and the brain are the same. this is the official teaching across all scientific disciplines. the parapsychologist dr. susan blackmore has been given complete freedom of every radio and television programme that is meant to be examining the subject. this is because she is the establishment mouthpiece and can be relied upon to never mention what is revealed in this pamphlet. dr. blackmore protects the scientific establishment's adopted stance, which only gives a materialistic model of the universe. professor j. wheeler, a top physicist, stated in 1994 that acceptance of survival or paranormal phenomena would destroy the basis of science as taught in our universities.

2. paranormal phenomena do exist

the mind and the brain are separate. this pamphlet carries on where crookes, lodge and logie baird left off. this is what we are never allowed to hear on radio and television or read about in scientific magazines and large circulation papers.

"the suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, it has no place in the endeavour of science."

carl sagan. "cosmos" 1980

a great moment in television history was featured in carl sagan's outstanding thirteen-part series on astronomy called "cosmos". he was pictured in new york library surrounded by millions of books. he pointed to a tiny section and said:

"it is only possible in one person's lifetime to read this many books."
he then turned to the camera and made the following profound statement:

"the trick is to read the right books."

the books discussed in this pamphlet are the ones that the religious and pseudo-scientific establishments are praying with all their might that the people never find out about.

you may have to copy and paste the video links into your browser to view the video.

part i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvthbezbn6i

part ii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exljzon77qg&mode=related&search=

part iii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfxhzxa0mg&mode=related&search=

part iv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomxzyas3aq&mode=related&search=

[soup]

this reminds me of the concept of the matrix in that it seems likely that thoughts and ideas can act to interlink neuron matrices within the mind which then have some correspondance to the thoughts and ideas that fostered the interconnection - but that neuron matrix solution that forms as a result of such acts as thinking may fall short of some potential by forming structural limitations of illusory extents.

alternately, it seems possible that some paranormal influence can likewise act to interlink neuron matrices within the mind which then have correspondance to such paranormal influences. in this case, the neuron matrix solution that forms as a result of such acts as "not thinking" may fall closer to some potential by forming structural advantages having more realistic extents.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-body_b_50389.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the body (part 1)

by now everyone is familiar with advances in brain imaging and the fascinating insights being produced in many areas of brain research. much less known are advances in locating the mind outside the brain. long considered paranormal and therefore easy to dismiss, the reality of many phenomena is being verified. for a long time there has been a popular belief in esp, clairvoyance, and related abilities. i thought it would be interesting to devote a series of posts to some intriguing studies, but more importantly, there is a major discovery waiting around the corner. science is about to realize that intelligence is a field effect and that this "mind field" surrounds us on all sides, like the earth's magnetic field. it is thanks to the mind field that our brains are able to think and also to connect with other minds, not by physical means but invisibly, the way one magnet is connected to every other on earth.

the latest findings, which got wide publicity in the media, have to do with our ability to sense what is going to happen in the future.

is this really proof that man can see into the future?

london's daily mail reports on a dutch professor of psychology, dr. dick bierman, who is using real-time brain scans to see if people sense things before they happen. "sense" is different from "envision." bierman is working with "presentiment," the physical or emotional feeling that something unusual is about to happen. anecdotally, presentiments have been associated with many if not most great disasters. some people didn't go to work at the world trade center on 9/11 because they felt suddenly sick or uneasy. similar symptoms have kept passengers from flying on planes that later crashed. the french crew of the concorde had dark premonitions before one of the supersonic jets crashed in 2000. children felt uneasy going to school the day a coal-mine disaster engulfed a school in wales in 1966, killing 144 people. one mother reported that her young daughter had a dream the night before of a black mass burying the school, which is exactly what occurred.

bierman wants to quantify such presentiments, following up on a revealing experiment done by dr dean radin, a former researcher on the military project stargate, which looked into the phenomenon of 'remote viewing' and psychic premonition. radin hooked ordinary subjects to a lie detector in order to measure changes in galvanic skin response. he then flashed at random a series of photos, some of which were violent or erotic. one would expect galvanic skin response to spike when such pictures appeared, but radin discovered a strange phenomenon. subjects tended to respond a few seconds in advance of the actual image flashing on the screen. in other words, they sensed an event before it occurred.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

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

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/index.php/the_experiments/the_little_leaf_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.

[David Wilcock]

this is great. not much new research into consciousness science that i've seen, which makes this all the more valuable as it is a rethinking of the whole experimental process and has a nice visual representation.

- david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's part ii.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-brai_b_50609.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the brain (part 2)

if it is true that intelligence arises in a "mind field" that surrounds us on all sides, we must all be participating in it. almost a century ago carl jung proposed that our participation takes place in a "collective unconscious," from which the human race derives its myths and archetypes. the fact that cultures widely separated in time and place produce the same kind of stories about questing heroes, transformation, and hidden worlds suggests that jung is right. but what about active participation? do we consciously use the mind field? one reads of australian aborigines who view the world in "dream time" and map according to invisible "songlines" that cross the boundary between intuition and the five senses. there's an east indian island culture in which the members discuss their dreams collectively every morning, with the belief that in this way they shape the events that will unfold for them in the future.

everyday life in our society feels far from away form those examples. how do we use the mind field? such a link was provided by helmut schmidt, a researcher working for boeing's aerospace laboratory in seattle. beginning in the mid-sixties, schmidt set out to construct a series of "quantum machines" that could emit random signals, with the aim of seeing if ordinary people could alter those signals using nothing more than their minds. the first machine detected radioactive decay form strontium-90; each electron that was given off lit up either a red, blue, yellow, or green light. schmidt asked ordinary people to predict, with the press of a button, which light would be illuminated next.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-body_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.com/index.php/the_experiments/the_little_leaf_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/discoveries/news/2007/06/nerve_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/views/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/pickover/pc/brain-universe.html

enjoy!

larry

[Ceara]

i've seen this before on another website. :) neat stuff.

but have two other comparisons to make. one i just located.

http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm

http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/images/041015solar-tornado.jpg

the picture looks eerily similar to videos of cell division.

and next, my friend's website [note from moderator: please email ceara if interested]. on his artwork gallery page, scroll to the very botton where you see a thumbnail of wood grain. click it to view the whole image. i can't link directly to that image because of the way he coded his website.

[please email ceara for her friend's site if interested]

that image is a comparison of wood grain around a knot that looks a lot like portrayed images of earth's magnetic field.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

i just found this and appears to connect with your information. donald

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=89466
posted on friday, 2 march, 2007 | 7:06 | comments: 1
jay alfred: in 1999 computer simulations of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters by klaus dolag revealed that galaxy clusters are embedded in a large-scale spider-web-like structure of filaments. extensive galaxy surveys also show that structures resembling sheets and filaments characterize the distribution of galaxies. consistent with the simulations, this distribution resembles a complicated spider's web several hundred mega parsecs in diameter. according to nobel laureate, hans alfvén, space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large distances. hot plasma streams along such filamentary currents. now, astronomers have actually detected a 'universal web'. vast filaments of hot gas tracing the web have been 'seen'. astronomers using nasa's x-ray satellite observatory, chandra, 'viewed' the filaments stretching for millions of light years through space, with one passing through our own galaxy. they calculate that the filaments contain five times more mass than all the stars in the universe!

invisible filaments in space
astronomers say that the filamentary structures are so hot that it would generally be invisible to optical, infrared, and radio telescopes. these invisible filaments are detected only because higher density ordinary matter tends to accumulate and condense in these filaments - generating radiation which can be measured by scientists to confirm the existence of these filaments in intergalactic space. being invisible, they are by definition components of 'dark matter and energy'. dark matter and energy are invisible matter and energy that make up more than 99% of our universe - according to scientists. studies show that both ordinary and invisible dark matter work in concert to build filaments in space, with dense junctions where galaxies cluster. the resulting structure looks something like a spider web, dappled with water droplets. the filaments betray the presence of invisible dark matter because gas at millions of degrees centigrade found within these filaments has a natural tendency to spread. to find it confined into filaments means that a very strong gravitational field must be pulling it into place and only dark matter can do this - according to the scientists.

filaments in subtle bodies
in 1904 metaphysicist annie besant reported (when describing the formation of a subtle body in the womb) that 'during human antenatal life a single thread weaves a network, a shimmering web of inconceivable fineness and delicate beauty, with minute meshes. within the meshes of this web the coarser particles of the bodies are built together. during physical life, prana [which is a plasma of charged super particles according to plasma metaphysics] courses along the branches and meshes.' this web interpenetrating the human fetus certainly has features which resemble the cosmic spider web - with currents of charged prana (or qi particles) coursing through its 'threads' and denser material accumulating on it.

it is a well accepted fact in metaphysics that there are filaments within our subtle bodies, which have been referred to as 'meridians', 'nadis' and 'channels' - in the chinese, indian and tibetan literature, respectively. in taoist and qigong literature, they are also referred to as 'circuits' and 'orbits'. for example, qigong practitioners may speak of the 'microcosmic orbit' - which is the main meridian through which particles are accelerated in the relevant practices to bring energy to the rest of the subtle body. according to plasma metaphysics, these meridians are magnetic lines of force, largely frozen into the subtle magnetic plasma (or magma) bodies. the currents flowing through them are 'birkeland currents', as described in plasma cosmology. the large scale structure of the universe, with a web of filaments punctuated with rotating galaxies, undoubtedly bears a strong resemblance to the web of acupuncture meridians or nadis punctuated with rotating chakras (or vortexes) and acupoints that is found in the 'etheric' component of the physical body.

"i envisioned hundreds of little dc [direct current] generators like dark stars sending their electricity along the meridians, an interior galaxy that the chinese had somehow found and explored by trial and error over two thousand years ago. it was obvious that the acupuncture charts had an objective basis in reality. our readings indicated that these meridians were conducting current." - robert becker, the body electric

invisible filaments in the subtle body
the meridian system, chartered by chinese acupuncture, can be considered the arterial system of (what metaphysicists would term) the (lower energy) 'physical-etheric' body. these meridian pathways are ordinarily invisible to the biological eyes - just like the invisible cosmic filaments. and just like cosmic filaments, these invisible meridians can be detected when they generate radiation. french researcher pierre de vernejoul injected a radioactive substance into the acupoints of patients and measured the radiation using a special camera. he found that the substance migrated along classical chinese acupuncture meridian pathways. other injections made by vernejoul into random points of the body and into veins and lymphatic channels were unable to demonstrate similar results, suggesting that the meridian system is a unique and separate network of pathways in the body. further experiments showed that terminating a meridian that related to the liver resulted in a rapid degeneration of liver tissue. without energy supply from the physical-etheric body via the meridians; tissues, organs and cells of the physical-biomolecular body do not appear to function properly.

- click here to view filament diagram -

the universal and human physical-etheric bodies
the invisible cosmic web of filaments together with the dark matter that shapes them is in fact embedded in the lowest energy physical-etheric body of our universe. when we look out from earth what we are seeing is the physical universe, shaped by this body. astronomers say that the invisible filaments in space are detected only because higher density matter tends to accumulate and condense in these filaments. similarly, the invisible meridians in the subtle body can only be detected because of radiation from other substances that are channeled through them.

plasma naturally forms filaments in response to electric and magnetic fields within the subtle body (which according to plasma metaphysics is composed of dark matter). charged particles are guided within these filaments by the magnetic fields and accelerated by the electric fields - generating currents - as observed by robert becker.

just as the physical-etheric body of the universe generates a web of filamentary currents (or filaments) that plays an important part in the large scale structure of the universe, the physical-etheric component of the human body generates a web of filamentary currents (or meridians) that is instrumental in developing the physical-biomolecular body of a human being. of course, the chinese already knew this - they have been exploring these filaments for more than three thousand years!

© copyright 2007 jay alfred

main reference: alfred, jay, ''our invisible bodies: scientific evidence for subtle bodies'', trafford publishing, 2006, isbn 1-412-06326-4.

http://www.amazon.com/our-invisible-bodies...e/dp/1412063264

article copyright© jay alfred

[Larry Seyer]

scientist are looking into ways of transmitting digital information using the bones that make up our skeleton.

doing so would allow us to simply use a hand shake to exchange data between individuals...

george orwell, here we come!

http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426087.600-bones-could-allow-data-swap-via-handshake.html

enjoy!

larry seyer

[Whistling Song Dog]

this is on time for sure good brother, the simple clear fact is that bones are how we do osculate and flow with in the planets structure; now we find that we are also wave forms and wave form generators at the same time, i have seen with others seeing it also, bones in a living humans legs do a complete set of sine waves and not just once but at a rapid rate and continued for over 30 minutes.

how and what happened here, well it was pranic breathing that set it all in motion as well as clear intent and sincerity in taking the action that it would alter the persons life, in fact they also were seen clearly glowing during this time frame.

no great yogi, no shaman of the highest order, nope a person in a prison cell that was of a reasonable low iq and also they had no real morales to speak of at all.

hum it gets deeper here when you also add in the fact that this was the persons 1st time doing such a thing, the results were mind blowing to say the lest, a miracle many would claim had occurred. and this was in 1983, 1983.

nope, a normal everyday happening took place, it has been occurring since man occurred, the breath took over and breathed the person, that simple and it was nothing more than that. so now you can say simple, humph easy for you to say, and hey well you just might be lying for some reason or another, humph.

well i can only laugh out loud and say have at it, keep your faith in what you beleave; keep it that is for as long as it lasts.

i notice david is ready to bring it on into the light now, as well as on the same day he waves in on the airwaves we have mayan elder carlos barrios being interviewed at earthchangesmedia.com with mitch battros on the ecm radio hour and carlos will be reveling to us what the mayan council of elders has to give us to further our journey, it says it has to do with the equinox coming 2 days later.

i have been feeling it brewing as have many others i communicate with, and davids timing is the universal timing, look at it a mayan elder and david on the air waves at the same time, can that be a qawinkdink? i think not, i am so grinning right now; when we shift into play on the next incoming wave i know we become more graceful and can start to do things like say dance on the head of a pin.

i have as david has asked sent out the notice concerning his upcoming radio interview and the teaching he brings for all mankind's up liftment to my own email list and will do so with my business's email list as well.

i can only say this, i highly suggest that if you want to bless some one with a gift of change during what surly to most seems like the nightmare from hell itself, focus them to davids time on the air or get the mp3 and let people listen to it.

i know that what comes out on the air waves at that point in space will carry the weight and allow the heavy lifting thoughts we all seem to get be gone; and it will be simpler to flow into the lightness of being, how do i know,
i am another you, all knowledge is here now and it is timing and who and how it is reveled through. hum mayan elders and david what do they have in common, why it is another you popping up, now it is 2 at a time.

next maybe what 44 more popping up right in our faces, then what 888 and so you see the point. how many will it take to catch the attention of the mass, who knows; however many it takes of another you popping up until it has gotten clear to everyone, thats how many times it can and will happen.

try it yourself, be another you and so will i; lets see where to meet.

all my relations

whistling song dog

[Art]

i took some time this morning to review posts and came upon this one again. when i first checked it a few days ago, the dot was grey. this morning, it is orange. :eek: according to my understanding of the meaning, this is rather significant, correct? :confused: i am curious to hear what others think out about this...

as a side note, i had an incredible experience thursday night. :d i lack the skill to translate these experiences and feelings to words, but this experience was related to "further awakening"/"connecting to higher self"/"ascension". one of the main "themes" of this "experience" was remembering "past" events, which is something i rarely do. did anyone else have an extraordinary experience thursday? i am curious to see this play out... :rolleyes:

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-brai_b_52404.html

be well, be love.

david

deepak chopra
the mind outside the brain (part 4)
posted june 15, 2007 | 05:52 pm (est)

to gain credibility, the mind outside the brain must also be mirrored inside the brain. if your brain didn't register what the mind is doing, there would be no way to detect the mind. like a tv program being broadcast in the air, a receiver picks up the signal and makes it visible. the brain is a receiver for the mind field. the field itself is invisible, but as mirrored in our brains, it comes to life as images, sensations, and an infinite array of experiences.

as it happens, the word "mirror" has become extremely significant in brain science, ever since a research team in parma, italy discovered and named the mirror neuron in the 1980s. a mirror neuron does exactly what i've described: it observes activity in the outside world and imitates it without any material connection to another brain. for example, when a mother monkey is eating a banana, certain areas of her brain become active. yet they also become active in her baby's brain while it watches her eat. by isolating one mirror neuron at a time, it can be seen that this trait becomes quite specific. a neuron that fires while watching someone eat an apple will be different from the one that fires while watching someone holding an apple in his hand and then putting it down.
mirror neuron - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
from the moment they were discovered mirror neurons caused tremendous excitement, because they seem to offer the key to many mysteries of the brain. empathy is one. how is it that we sense what another person is feeling or what they intend to do. mirror neurons become a plausible explanation. assuming that humans and not just monkeys possess mirror neurons (so far, it seems plausible that we do), you know when someone else is happy, said, disappointed, or frustrated because the same neurons that fire when you feel that way also fire when you are an observer.

would this also account for why some people can read others extremely well? is their heightened empathy a sign that they have more activity in the mirror neuron center? so far the indication is yes. women, who are generally considered more empathic than men, exhibit greater activity in the mirror neuron center. at the other extreme, autistic children are thought by some researchers to exhibit less than normal activity.

[Robert Riedel]

i'd most definetly buy a book with that title, if some one, or grouping of someones' could get organized, and put it all together. but the information is spread-out through out our history, and dispersed around the planet in such a way that many have a small piece of the puzzle, and few have the whole pie, and those who have it may be keeping the info to themselves or theirselves, and what if we already have all of eternity, as well as a means of acessing it, between our ears, and down to our toes: and all we really need is a little information on how the ghost and the machine can work as one, complete entity, onward through eternity?

one of the most tireless researchers on this topic is mr. william henry, of nashville, and isn't it fortunate that he has the time, and has agreed to be a part of our gathering this august, on mackinac island? i know, first hand, that this is one of his favorite topics- perhaps we can grant him enough time to share some of the good parts with us, eh?

join us!, aug. 10th through the 12th. a swell time will be had by all.

bob

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

found this article really good information, the first part of the article is about the researcher, scroll down for the good part. donald

http://viewzone.com/slade.cosmic.html

cosmic consciousness
a "conversation"
t.d.a. lingo and neil slade


[lingo]: cosmic consciousness is the radio carrier wave upon which advanced problem-solving teaching/leaning information is communicated from an advanced civilization to a growing civilization.
cosmic consciousness is distributed uniformly throughout universe with space/time/energy/matter. once one perceives the self within this unified reality field, infinitude of being begins.

cosmic consciousness transmits data from brain #1 to brain #2 in zero time, regardless of distance; regardless of position of planets within the galaxy; regardless of position of galaxies within the universe.

[slade]: descriptions of "cosmic consciousness" arise from various spiritual, religious, and mystical sources, and now more recently from the perception and experience of brain lab participants after a program of internal brain self-control. the experience is a peak emotional and intellectual understanding", a nearly indescribable feeling of contentment and unity with all existence, all other beings, and the entire universe. it is demonstrated by accurate paranormal perception: telepathy, pre-cognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and telekinesis.

traditionally, this experience follows intense religious practice or long periods of reflection or meditation, and may only come unpredictably after years or decades of work. in contrast, brain lab participants routinely reported this experience after from two weeks to three years of personal self-therapy and brain study. the conclusion has been that one can follow a procedure that predictably causes the experience to happen, and that it is based on self-stimulation and control of certain definable brain organs and processes.

reports of the experience suggests that each human being is situated inside an infinitely big/small field of intelligence, within a field of cosmic intelligence. lingo states that the nature of this field is: 1) unified 2) like a radio wave 3) that information and data can he sent from one being/consciousness terminal (brain/person/animal/plant?) to another without perceptual time lag. although radio waves seem instantaneous, they in fact travel at a certain speed within time. apparently, the intended comparison with radio waves is not that of speed, but that cosmic consciousness, like radio waves, are transmitted via a form of non-visible energy, like electromagnetic radiation. unlike radio waves, it is implied that cosmic consciousness travels instantly by some other mode, yet unidentified, faster than light.

it may be that the cosmic consciousness field in some way reflects the origin of the universe from a singular point, and that a vestige of the singular unity remains in every atom, now separated across the expanded universe. cosmic consciousness may be the connection and awareness of all things, originally being a singularity: in every atom, a universal holographic memory of the rest of the universe. this being said, consciousness may be seen to exist with, yet separate from, and beyond the limitations of physical reality, time, and space.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/06/the_mind_outsid_4.html

be well, be love.

david

the mind outside the brain (part 5)

with the discovery of mirror neurons, another piece of the puzzle was added, the puzzle being how we learn and understand others. learning occurs in the animal world largely by imitation, it is thought. recently whale researchers were startled

when a group of humpback whales learned a new song form other whales that had intruded into their territory. these were pacific humpback whales that breed off the east coast of australia near the great barrier reef. they are separate form the humpback whales who live in the indian ocean and breed off the west coast of australia. unexpectedly, a few males from the indian ocean group wandered into the pacific group. they brought with them a completely different song, and suddenly, within a matter of months, the pacific males had adapted that song.

why and how they did this is unknown. humpbacks change their songs slowly over vast expanses of ocean. here the event happened suddenly, perhaps because the pacific males didn't want to lose their breeding advantage with the females. yet why didn't the small group of indian ocean males adapt instead, seeing how outnumbered they were? researchers don't know, but they were excited to observe the first example of such rapid learning. mirror neurons aren't an adequate explanation, because if all the whale brain was doing was mechanical imitation, there would still be some kind of decision process to account for. the two groups somehow cooperated in deciding that one song would be suitable for everyone.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/06/the_mind_outsid_5.html

be well, be love.

david

the mind outside the body (part 6)
deepak chopra - june 22, 2007

explorations into the mind field will become more fascinating as time unfolds. but at least one finding has its share of entertainment value. a few years ago the adventurous british researcher rupert sheldrake received an e-mail from a woman in new york city who said that her african gray parrot not only read her thoughts but responded to them with speech.

the woman or her husband would be sitting in another room, out of sight from the bird, whose name is n’kisi, and if they were feeling hungry, n’kisi would suddenly say, “you want some yummy.” if they were thinking about going out, n’kisi might say, “you gotta go out, see ya later.”

greatly intrigued, sheldrake contacted the owner, an artist named aimee morgana. african gray parrots are among the most linguistically talented of all birds, and n’kisi had a huge vocabulary of over 700 words. more remarkable still, he used them like human speech, not “parroting” a word mindlessly but applying it where appropriate; if he saw something that was red, he said “red.” a decade ago this talent would have been unbelievable, until a researcher named irene pepperberg, after twenty years of work with her own african gray, proved beyond a doubt that it could use language meaningfully. pepperberg made a breakthrough, not just in our understanding of animal intelligence, but in the possibility that mind exists outside the brain.

when sheldrake contacted her, aimee had some astonishing anecdotes to relate. when she was watching a jackie chan movie on television, one shot showed chan perilously perched on a girder. at that point n’kisi said, “don’t fall down,” even though his cage was behind the television with no line of sight to the picture. when an automobile commercial came on, n’kisi said, “that’s my car.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brucelipton.com/article/the-wisdom-of-your-cells

be well, be love.

david

the wisdom of your cells

the wisdom of your cells is a new biology that will profoundly change civilization and the world we live in. this new biology takes us from the belief that we are victims of our genes, that we are biochemical machines, that life is out of our control, into another reality, a reality where our thoughts, beliefs and mind control our genes, our behavior and the life we experience. this biology is based on current, modern science with some new perceptions added.

the new science takes us from victim to creator; we are very powerful in creating and unfolding the lives that we lead. this is actually knowledge of self and if we understand the old axiom, "knowledge is power," then what we are really beginning to understand is the knowledge of self-power. this is what i think we will get from understanding the new biology.

flying into inner space
my first introduction to biology was in second grade. the teacher brought in a microscope to show us cells and i remember how exciting it was. at the university i graduated from conventional microscopes into electron microscopy and had a further opportunity to look into the lives of cells. the lessons i learned profoundly changed my life and gave me insights about the world we live in that i would like to share with you.
using electron microscopy, not only did i see the cells from the outside but i was able to go through the cell's anatomy and understand the nature of its organization, its structures and its functions. as much as people talk about flying into outer space, i was flying into inner space and seeing new vistas, starting to have greater appreciation of the nature of life, the nature of cells and our involvement with our own cells.

at this time i also started training in cell culturing. in about 1968 i started cloning stem cells, doing my first cloning experiments under the guidance of dr. irv konigsberg, a brilliant scientist who created the first stem cell cultures. the stem cells i was working with were called myoblasts. myo means muscle; blast means progenitor. when i put my cells in the culture dishes with the conditions that support muscle growth, the muscle cells evolved and i would end up with giant contractile muscles. however, if i changed the environmental situation, the fate of the cells would be altered. i would start off with my same muscle precursors but in an altered environment they would actually start to form bone cells. if i further altered the conditions, those cells became adipose or fat cells. the results of these experiments were very exciting because while every one of the cells was genetically identical, the fate of the cells was controlled by the environment in which i placed them.

while i was doing these experiments i also started teaching students at the university of wisconsin school of medicine the conventional understanding that genes controlled the fate of cells. yet in my experiments it was clearly revealed that the fate of cells was more or less controlled by the environment. my colleagues, of course, were upset with my work. everyone was then on the bandwagon for the human genome project and in support of the "genes-control-life" story. when my work revealed how the environment would alter the cells, they talked about it as an exception to the rule.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~einbrain/shapes/index.html

be well, be love.

david

t h e s h a p e s o f t h o u g h t

an exploration of the visualization of emotion as eeg and other bioelectrical signals over time as retrievable data in three-dimesnional forms.

in 2004 the project asked participnats to recall traumatic events from their past. they were asked to emote anger, and other primary emorions. each participant was wired to eeg, and ekg sensors and monitored. the resulting ingormation was visualized as still images using iris explorer and visualized in realtime, interactive space using specialy develop data acuisition modules in eonreality.

participants agreed to undergo hypnosis to generate cleaner and more powerul recollections. what follows is a sampling of some of the images that were generated by this experiment.

[soup]

i was recently reading that the human genome project is funding a new supercomputer that operates at petaflop speeds. its comforting to know that any biological warfare threat will be solved with such high speeds.

http://www.topix.net/tech/2007/06/ibms-blue-gene-passes-petaflop-milestone

[soup]

some of these forms seems to resemble neuron cells with dendrites, as if the thoughts resemble the cells that manifest them.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://ezinearticles.com/?earths-brain,-akashic-records-and-paranormal-imprints&id=571853

be well, be love.

david

earth's brain, akashic records and paranormal imprints
by jay alfred

neural circuits and memory

the neuron is a cell surrounded by electrically charged particles called ions. some of these ions have a net positive charge and some are negative. if there are more negative ions inside the neuron, the neuron has a negative electrical charge; conversely, if there are more positive ions inside, then the neuron has a positive electrical charge. when the neuron is resting it has a negative electrical charge. however, when the neuron gets information, an electrical signal is propagated through a network of neurons by a wave of positively charged neurons. neurons in networks with numerous synapses and feedback loops constantly receive inputs from other neurons, integrate them and generate electrical activity patterns in response. these complex interactions allow neural circuits to process and encode information, support cognitive functions and control behavior. the neural circuits in our brain are similar to electrical circuits.

canadian psychologist, donald hebb, explains memory as a reactivation of the same pattern of neurons that were activated at the time of the original experience. thinking of the sahara desert activates one network of neurons, while thinking of rats fires up an entirely different network. over the years, some of the neurons die or are incorporated into circuits that represent different experiences. repeated activity between any two neurons or a network of neurons, however, strengthen their connections and the memories they represent. when one neuron is activated it tends to activate the others, which collectively re-create the original pattern that was generated during an experience. individual neurons are involved in many different circuits and thus participate in many memories simultaneously. it is this connectivity that gives our brains the enormous capacity to encode a vast amount of information.

holographic encoding in the brain and universe

following karl lashley's work, karl pribram, a neurophysiologist at stanford, proposed that the brain stores information in the same way as interference patterns are encoded on holographic film. every element in the original image is distributed over the entire film. trillions of brain cells all contribute to a single memory by recording and combining all the signal patterns at once, including the sensory inputs into the brain. it is the combined firing pattern and interference of trillions of cells that defines a memory. this unique way of storage allows the brain to recall in linear sequences and at the same time access multiple memories.

but it is not only the brain which encodes holographically. david bohm, separately, recognized that the universe itself appears to be a hologram – being projected from the boundary of the universe. this idea has been taken forward more recently by physicists gerard t' hooft, lee smolin and others under the banner of "the holographic principle". this is not the only property that the human brain shares with the universe.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brucelipton.com/article/the-wisdom-of-your-cellspart-2-how-your-beliefs-control-your-biology

be well, be love.

david

the wisdom of your cells part 2: how your beliefs control your biology

conventional physics sees the human body as a machine made of atoms and molecules but the quantum physicists reveal that underneath that apparent physical structure there is nothing other than energy. that means we are energy beings interacting with everything in the entire energy field. what we are beginning to recognize is that there is an invisible world that we have not dealt with in regard to understanding the nature of our health. in other words, rather than focusing on matter, in a quantum world we focus on energy. in the world we live in we are entangled in an unfathomable number of energy vibrations and we are connected to all of them! in trying to understand a person's health, if you only focus on the physical, you miss the energy. if you only focus on the person, you miss the influence of the field. we are coming into a more holistic way of studying the fact that everything is one whole.

in quantum physics we also encounter a world of uncertainty. we have to let go of our newtonian belief that we can determine everything, control everything and dominate nature, and come back to the natural theology approach that said to learn the patterns as best we can and live in harmony. by doing so we would be far better off today than in the world we have created, where our deterministic pursuit has changed the environment, changed ourselves and actually threatens our own demise. there is a comeuppance here and it comes down to understanding the nature of the field, meaning everything from the core of our being to the edge of the universe. we are part of this entire field.

our thoughts are part of the energy field as is the energy from other living organisms and from non-living things. everything is giving off energy. as we are doing neurological processing of the world that we live in, including our thoughts and beliefs, we are actually creating a magnetic vibration, like a tuning fork that emanates from our head out into the field. scientists have found that if they take our magnetic field and direct it back into the head they can influence brain activity.

why this becomes relevant in our lives and in quantum mechanics is that we go back to the quote by einstein: “the field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” if we apply this understanding of einstein’s to the field that we generate with our thoughts, we can see that there is a connection wherein our thoughts can give shape to the particles that are the world we live in. all of a sudden we see that we are not disconnected little pieces moving around on the planet. we are little broadcast devices, giving the field shape and the shape that we generate manifests as the life experiences that we have.

[Chris Hamilton]

a variety of information linking consciousness, thoughts, and emotions.

[daresh]

hey everybody,

does anybody have some good articles about experiments which show that dna can be influenced by consciousness...

tnx in advance,
Unknown

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

found this new research on the part of the brain that gives the ability to predict the future, good read, donald

http://www.hemuz.org/evolution/imaging-pinpoints-brain-regions-that-see-the-future-2.html

human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. but until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel -- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event...
now, researchers from washington university in st. louis have used advanced brain imaging techniques to show that remembering the past and envisioning the future may go hand-in-hand, with each process sparking strikingly similar patterns of activity within precisely the same broad network of brain regions.

"in our daily lives, we probably spend more time envisioning what we're going to do tomorrow or later on in the day than we do remembering, but not much is known about how we go about forming these mental images of the future," says karl szpunar, lead author of the study and a psychology doctoral student in arts & sciences at washington university.

"our findings provide compelling support for the idea that memory and future thought are highly interrelated and help explain why future thought may be impossible without memories."

[soup]

-- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event...

this reminds me of the spielberg movie "minority report". sometimes i wonder if movies could act as seed thoughts that ultimately manifest into some reality.

this may be considered some form of "psychic power" called "precognition".
(it amazes me: all the names and labels they classify as being psychic, and i wonder if the line between psychic and enlightened seems fairly hazy.)

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/psychic.html

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

people are not the result of a cosmic accident, but of laws of the universe that grant our lives meaning and purpose, says physicist paul davies.

i found this article that poses some ideas that connect with what others are posting, more connecting of the dots and putting it together. donald

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/07/03/paul_davies/

this a part of a 3 page article go to the website above for complete article

july 3, 2007 | forget science fiction. if you want to hear some really crazy ideas about the universe, just listen to our leading theoretical physicists. wish you could travel back in time? you can, according to some interpretations of quantum mechanics. could there be an infinite number of parallel worlds? nobel prize-winning physicist steven weinberg considers this a real possibility. even the big bang, which for decades has been the standard explanation for how the universe started, is getting a second look. now, many cosmologists speculate that we live in a "multiverse," with big bangs exploding all over the cosmos, each creating its own bubble universe with its own laws of physics. and lucky for us, our bubble turned out to be life-friendly.

but if you really want to start an argument, ask a room full of physicists this question: are the laws of physics fine-tuned to support life? many scientists hate this idea -- what's often called "the anthropic principle." they suspect it's a trick to argue for a designer god. but more and more physicists point to various laws of nature that have to be calibrated just right for stars and planets to form and for life to appear. for instance, if gravity were just slightly stronger, the universe would have collapsed long before life evolved. but if gravity were a tiny bit weaker, no galaxies or stars could have formed. if the strong nuclear force had been slightly different, red giant stars would never produce the fusion needed to form heavier atoms like carbon, and the universe would be a vast, lifeless desert. are these just happy coincidences? the late cosmologist fred hoyle called the universe "a put-up job." princeton physicist freeman dyson has suggested that the universe, in some sense, "knew we were coming."

british-born cosmologist paul davies calls this cosmic fine-tuning the "goldilocks enigma." like the porridge for the three bears, he says the universe is "just right" for life. davies is an eminent physicist who's received numerous awards, including the templeton prize and the faraday prize from the royal society in london. his 1992 book "the mind of god" has become a classic of popular science writing. but his new book, "the cosmic jackpot," will challenge even the most open-minded readers. without ever invoking god, davies argues for a grand cosmic plan. the universe, he believes, is filled with meaning and purpose.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's the link to the article.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/07/03/paul_davies/index.html

be well, be love.

david

[Lorigga]

just so happens to rest right above and in the center of the eyes...

heres a link to the scientific american article:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanid=sa003&articleid=8e254ab8-e7f2-99df-39bd91f268ccf67e&ref=rss

"a new study provides the first neuroscientific evidence that people have self-control or the ability to reverse gears mid-action, and pinpoints the part of the brain responsible for helping us get a grip. researchers report in the journal of neuroscience that a sort of emergency brake activates in our brains when we plan to ignore traffic signals or abort other planned activities.

the finding may help scientists better understand the underlying mechanisms of attention deficit disorder (add), addiction and other personality disorders that stem from an inability to control impulses."

another article on this subject from webmd:
http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20070821/second-thoughts-are-real?src=rss_public

"aug. 21, 2007 – the a little voice in your head that warns you not to do something you were just about to do is real, brain researchers say.

well, maybe not the voice. but researchers now say last-minute second thoughts come from a specific part of the brain."

best,
lorenzo

[soup]

...researchers now say last-minute second thoughts come from a specific part of the brain...

there's a saying that "its a woman's perogative to change her mind." this reminds me of the gender difference of the corpus callosum, how women typically have better connected cerebral hemispheres and that possibly the reflex to have second thoughts is stronger in women than in men, generally speaking. (for example it may be typical for a man to make a decision and stick to it, a tendancy to vacillate on decisions seems culturally more feminine in nature.)

there seems an archetype related to this which one may associate to the nature of trickery, i.e. making agreements then having second thoughts and breaking them or disregarding them.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

if you listened to the gregg braden links i posted he also mentions the square root of 1%...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iin8r9rgtum

be well, be love.

david

[Highwhistler]

children to get happiness lessons in school (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/04/nhappiness104.xml)
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england: happiness lessons are to be taught to all secondary
school children, the government is expected to announce today.
pupils are set to learn about emotional well-being in order to
improve their behavior and boost academic performance. the
move follows extensive research carried out in primary schools
that found pupils concentrate better if are taught to express
their feelings. a pilot study by the institute of education in 25
local authorities found that children were both calmer and better
behaved as a result of the pioneering classes. they were taught
how to express their feelings, manage their anger and empathize
with other people. the research found pupils who took part in
these classes were calmer, more respectful and more willing
to be honest.

[phireflye]

"high-intensity focused ultrasound is now being investigated for a number of different treatments. it promises "bloodless surgery" with no scalpels or sutures in sight. doctors would pass a sensor over the patient and use invisible rays to heal the wound. researchers are exploring the use of high-intensity focused ultrasound - with beams tens of thousands of times more powerful than used in imaging - for applications ranging from numbing pain to destroying cancerous tissue.

in this case, lenses focus the high-intensity ultrasound beams at a particular spot inside the body on the patient's lungs. focusing the ultrasound beams, in a process similar to focusing sunlight with a magnifying glass, creates a tiny but extremely hot spot about the size and shape of a grain of rice. the rays heat the blood cells until they form a seal. meanwhile the tissue between the device and the spot being treated does not get hot, as it would with a laser beam."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830160753.htm


( ps - hi, all! i just joined this forum after being a fan of david's work for a number of years now. it's great to be able to come here to one place and see all of the various evidence mounting of the massive shift we are undergoing.)

[LightEye]

dear friends,

great video with peter russell.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7799171063626430789&q=peter+russell&total=455&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

be well, be love.

david

presentation given at "physics of consciousness" conference, virginia, 2004, in which peter russell explores the mystery of consciousness ... all » from both scientific and mystical perspectives, showing how light is intrinsic to both, and giving a coherent argument as to why consciousness is fundamental essence of the cosmos. (includes beautiful graphics and images.)

[One 66]

lighteye,

i just finished watching the video. i loved it! another great find and post by you! i thank you once again...

one 66 :cool:

[Ewhaz]

well, i hope they make this paradime shift soon! the sooner people can quit looking to science to obscure the realm of the non physical world, the sooner we will all be able to make progress as part of a unity.

after meditating one day (i had gotten relatively deep and felt very connected to the world) i was looking at a bottle. i could 'feel' the consciousness in the bottle (or so i thought) and it occurred to me that i could move it, if only i understood how to effect it's consciousness. so i do believe every thing is conscious, or part of consciousness but keeping open enough to see it is more difficult.

thank you for the video, i can always count on coming here to raise my hopes and vibrations!

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://consciouschoice.com/2007/10/spiritualbrain0710.html

also this article;

searching for god in the brain

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=434d7c62-e7f2-99df-37cc9814533b90d7&chanid=sa013&modsrc=most_popular

be well, be love.

david

the neuroscience of consciousness
by dr. mario beauregard

science’s biggest mystery is the nature of consciousness. it is not that we possess bad or imperfect theories of human awareness; we simply have no such theories at all. about all we know about consciousness is that it has something to do with the head, rather than the foot.
— physicist nick herbert

when my doctoral student vincent paquette and i first began studying the spiritual experiences of carmelite nuns at the université de montréal, we knew that our motives were quite likely to be misunderstood.

first, we had to convince the nuns that we were not trying to prove that their religious experiences did not actually occur, that they were delusions, or that a brain glitch explained them. then we had to quiet both the hopes of professional atheists and the fears of clergy about the possibility that we were trying to reduce these experiences to some kind of “god switch” in the brain.

many neuroscientists want to do just that. these scientists are materialists who believe that the physical world is the only reality. absolutely everything else — including thought, feeling, mind, and will — can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions.

but i belong to a minority — nonmaterialist neuroscientists. i do not doubt in principle that a contemplative might contact a reality outside herself during a mystical experience. in fact, i went into neuroscience in part because i knew experientially that such things can indeed happen. i simply sought to study what the neural correlates — the activity of the neurons — during such an experience might be.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news112899580.html

be well, be love.

david

researchers show evidence of 'memory' in cells and molecules

research to be reported october 29 in the journal proceedings of the national academy of sciences provides evidence that some molecular interactions on cell surfaces may have a “memory” that affects their future interactions. the report could lead to a re-examination of results from certain single-molecule research.

researchers who use sequentially repeated tests to obtain statistical samples of molecular properties usually assume that each test is identical to – and independent of – any other tests in the sequence. in their article, however, researchers at the georgia institute of technology provide examples of test sequences that may not be composed of independent and identically-distributed (i.i.d.) random variables.

“if you are probing a cell to get a bit of information, how do you know that the cell is not going to respond by changing the information it reveals the next time you probe it?” asked cheng zhu, a regents’ professor in the coulter department of biomedical engineering at georgia tech and emory university. “if you are probing a molecule, can you assume that the molecule will return to its original configuration before you test it the next time? we didn’t think about this until we had been doing these kinds of experiments for more than ten years.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

be well, be love.

david

big brain theory: have cosmologists lost theirs?
by dennis overbye
published: january 15, 2008

it could be the weirdest and most embarrassing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science.

if true, it would mean that you yourself reading this article are more likely to be some momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space than a person with a real past born through billions of years of evolution in an orderly star-spangled cosmos. your memories and the world you think you see around you are illusions.

this bizarre picture is the outcome of a recent series of calculations that take some of the bedrock theories and discoveries of modern cosmology to the limit. nobody in the field believes that this is the way things really work, however. and so there in the last couple of years there has been a growing stream of debate and dueling papers, replete with references to such esoteric subjects as reincarnation, multiple universes and even the death of spacetime, as cosmologists try to square the predictions of their cherished theories with their convictions that we and the universe are real. the basic problem is that across the eons of time, the standard theories suggest, the universe can recur over and over again in an endless cycle of big bangs, but it’s hard for nature to make a whole universe. it’s much easier to make fragments of one, like planets, yourself maybe in a spacesuit or even — in the most absurd and troubling example — a naked brain floating in space. nature tends to do what is easiest, from the standpoint of energy and probability. and so these fragments — in particular the brains — would appear far more frequently than real full-fledged universes, or than us. or they might be us.

[Krista White]

thanx lighteye for submitting this article. i read this earlier this morning and was about to post it myself. way cool stuff! science is proving "god", but many people don't seem to be making the connection [i]yet, since the proof doesn't really fit the traditional image. lots of love, krista

[Bill]

well, aint that interesting? science starting to grapple with the notion that we are just a random fluctuation in the entropy of matter... pretty deep, and may be hard for most folks to follow. i enjoyed the last paragraph where they seemed to think that most people are not ready to address reincarnation. gonna be an interesting ride for the next few years, or more appropriately, the movement of higher to lower entropy in this fluctation of megaversal matter...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6983074709191796496&hl=en-gb

love and light.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

interesting results from lynne's work.

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the_results.htm

be well, be love.

david

the thoughts heard ‘round the world
results of the first three experiments

the intention experiment has run six intention experiments so far – with extraordinary results about the power of intention. we’ve demonstrated that intention from a group scattered around the globe can affect living light — in everything from algae and leaves to human beings.

we’ve also shown that intention can help plants to grow faster. in our latest experiment, we sent intention to barley seeds and showed that our intention caused them to germinate faster and grow taller than three sets of controls.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.thylazine.org/coralhull/rspkjournals/multiple.html

be well, be love.

david

psychokinesis and the multiple personality
the extension of selves into physicality

the ego in isolation is fearful and is therefore involved in an aggressive assertion of individual rights over and above the rights of others. in this scenario the mirror of the soul is shattered and delivered back to us in pieces. only when we connect with others do we journey together rather than alone and at odds with the journey itself.

in this film clip by the verve the lead singer proclaims, "i'm million different people from one day to the next." therefore what constitutes personhood is not the physical body but consciousness itself. this may manifest or exist as a single ego state, a multidimensional ego that consists of many states, or a system of conscious selves who co-exist, sharing the body as well as each other's thoughts and memories while maintaining their own sense of autonomy such as occurs in a multiple personality.

there is no rule that says we have to be one self per physical body. in fact we can be a million different (selves) from one day to the next, depending upon our awareness, expansion and willingness to embace all consciousness at all times. we are both the platform for the developing consciousness and the selves who occupy the platform. the body itself may be a conscious being as it too becomes a physical extension of consciousness. every physical manifestation is an expression of consciousness.

the multiple psyche may have many selves, many egos arriving, departing, shining, fading, interacting, developing and learning in many different states of awareness. there is a tremendous interchange of energy to the way that such a system operates, perhaps comparable to a busy railway platform. this energy may need to be continually released in the form of rspk (recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis).

while i have not stepped outside the body and looked back at it, i have existed within the body (as a ghost) while someone else was living and speaking. some of the paranormal phenomenon that "i" experience appears to be one consciousness communicating with one another. this is a multiple consciousness that expresses itself inside and outside the body until there is no such thing as inside or outside.

this does not have to do with repressed mind states but of many seperate and individual mind states existing within one physical form, or multiple streams of consciousness or multiple ego states that may or may not be aware of each other, at least until full co-consciousness is achieved. each self gives the other self 'the breath of life' as we think and breathe each other into an existence beyond a thought.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hh7b3nxxc

be well, be love.

david

how your thoughts can cause or cure cancer

in this fascinating video, cellular biologist dr. bruce lipton explains how your thoughts, and the thoughts of those around you, can directly influence the state of your health. amazingly, the power of your own thoughts can affect the expression of your genes -- and even potentially cure cancer and other diseases.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/article/the_power_of_the_mind.html

be well, be love.

david

the power of the mind
© by bruce h. lipton, ph.d.

living in the world under your skin is a bustling metropolis of 50 trillion cells, each of which is biologically and functionally equivalent to a miniature human. current popular opinion holds that the fate and behaviour of our internal cellular citizens are preprogrammed in their genes. since watson and crick’s discovery of the genetic code, the public has been programmed with perception that dna acquired from our parents at the moment of conception determines our traits and characters. this conventional view of genetics further has us believe that our inherited gene programs are apparently fixed, the equivalent of a computer’s “read-only” program.

the notion that our fate is indelibly inscribed in our genes was directly derived from the now dated scientific concept known as genetic determinism. it is still a conventional belief that genes “control” the many wonderful attributes passed down through a family’s lineage, as well as dysfunctional familial traits such as cancer, alzheimer’s, diabetes and depression, among scores of others. as “victims” of heredity, genetic forces outside of our control, we naturally perceive of ourselves as being powerless in regard to the unfolding of our lives. unfortunately, the assumption of being powerless is the road to personal irresponsibility. “since i can’t do anything about it anyway… why should i care?”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more nice thoughts from peter russell...

http://www.peterrussell.com/scg/deepmindss.php

be well, be love.

david

exploring deep mind
chapter from book measuring the immeasurable

summary: science has explored the world of space, time and matter and found neither evidence nor need for god. this it would seem to have done away with religion. but the one realm western science has not explored is the inner world of conscious experience. those who have are the mystics, monks and yogis who have observed mind first-hand. they have discovered ways to liberate the mind from traits such as greed, anger and self-centeredness. some of these people sought to share their discoveries with others, and their teachings have seeded some of the world's great religions. however, religion as it is practiced today is a far cry from the intentions of its originators. in this respect there is a big difference between spirituality and religion.

in recent times, some aspect of spiritual experience have been studied by western science—mainly the physiological and psychological effects of meditation and similar practices. the research to date confirms that these practices can produce significant shifts in consciousness, leading to greater compassion and selflessness—qualities which are most needed in the world today. while we may reject the doctrines of many religions, we should not dismiss spiritual experiences in the same breath; they may hold essential clues for navigating our way through these troubled times.


science and spirituality have never made easy bedfellows. their views on the nature of the cosmos have often clashed, and the more our scientific understanding of the world has grown, the deeper that clash has become.

yet it has not always been this way. for centuries, the principal arbiter of truth was the church; there was no separate science as we know it. the split began some 350 years ago with rene descartes. he divided the cosmos into two realms: the realm of things that could be physically measured, the world of time, space and matter, and the realm of thought, the world of consciousness and spirit. descartes wanted to avoid incurring the wrath of the vatican—he had seen galileo brought before the inquisition for supporting copernicus and giordano bruno burnt at the stake similar heresies—so he declared that his "natural philosophy" would focus its attention on the world of matter; the world of the spirit he would leave to the church.

and so it has been for 350 years. western science has largely ignored the world of conscious experience—and with apparently good reasons. mind cannot be weighed, measured, or otherwise pinned down in the way that matter can. second, scientists have sought to arrive at universal, objective truths, independent of an observer's viewpoint or state of mind. to this end they have deliberately avoided subjective considerations. and third, there was no need to explore mind; the workings of the universe could be explained without having to consider the troublesome subject of consciousness.

so successful has this materialist science been, it appears to have triumphed over religion. astronomers have looked out into deep space, to the edges of the known universe; cosmologists have looked back into "deep time," to the beginning of creation; while physicists have looked down into the "deep structure" of matter, to the fundamental constituents of the cosmos. from quarks to quasars, they find no evidence of god. nor do they find any need for god. the universe seems to work perfectly well without any divine assistance.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80129/

be well, be love.

david

the autoimmune epidemic: bodies gone haywire in a world out of balance
by donna jackson nakazawa, touchstone/simon & schuster. posted march 19, 2008.

scientists worldwide puzzle over an alarming and unexplained rise in the rates of autoimmune disease. yet the media remain mute on this crisis.

excerpted from the autoimmune epidemic: bodies gone haywire in a world out of balance--and the cutting-edge science that promises hope (touchstone/simon & schuster).

reprinted with permission. an interview with the author follows.


most of us, at some juncture in our lives, have played out in our minds how devastating it would be to have our doctor hand down a cancer diagnosis or to warn us that we are at risk for a heart attack or stroke. magazine articles, television dramas, and news headlines all bring such images home.

but consider an equally devastating health crisis scenario, one that you rarely hear spoken about openly, one that receives almost no media attention.

imagine the slow, creeping escalation of seemingly amorphous symptoms: a tingling in the arms and fingers, the sudden appearance of a speckled rash across the face, the strange muscle weakness in the legs when climbing stairs, the fiery joints that emerge out of nowhere -- any and all of which can signal the onset of a wide range of life-altering and often debilitating autoimmune diseases.

imagine, if you can: the tingling foot and ankle that turns out to be the beginning of the slow paralysis of multiple sclerosis. four hundred thousand patients. excruciating joint pain and inflammation, skin rashes, and never-ending flu-like symptoms that lead to the diagnosis of lupus. one and a half million more. relentless bouts of vertigo -- the hallmark of ménière's. seven out of every one thousand americans. severe abdominal pain, bleeding rectal fissures, uncontrollable diarrhea, and chronic intestinal inflammation that define crohn's disease and inflammatory bowel disease. more than 1 million americans.more than 2 million patients. dry mouth so persistent eight glasses of water a day won't soothe the parched throat and tongue and the mysterious swallowing difficulties that are the first signs of sjögren's. four million americans. and, with almost every autoimmune disease, intolerable, life-altering bouts of exhaustion. if fatigue were a sound made manifest by the 23.5 million people with autoimmune disease in america, the roar across this country would be more deafening than that of the return of the seventeen-year locusts.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?human-energy-field,-subtle-bodies---the-plasma-connection&id=1053201

be well, be love.

david

human energy field, subtle bodies - the plasma connection
by jay alfred

there have been many depictions of the human energy field and subtle bodies in the metaphysical and religious literature. the interesting observation in these depictions is the many signature features that can be associated with plasma. this suggests that the human energy field and the subtle body can be modeled as a bioplasma body. a brief excursion of the images in the literature and their similarity with structures often seen in plasma will be carried out below.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

a must see video...

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

deepak comments on jill's experience...

non-local mind
http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2008/03/nonlocal_mind.html

be well, be love.

david

neuroanatomist jill bolte taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: one morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. as it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. this is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news126712217.html

be well, be love.

david

nyu dental professor discovers biological clock

this clock, or biological rhythm, controls many metabolic functions and is based on the circadian rhythm, which is a roughly 24-hour cycle that is important in determining sleeping and feeding patterns, cell regeneration, and other biological processes in mammals.

the newly discovered rhythm, like the circadian rhythm, originates in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system. but unlike the circadian rhythm, this clock varies from one organism to another, operating on shorter time intervals for small mammals, and longer ones for larger animals. for example, rats have a one-day interval, chimpanzees six, and humans eight.

nyu dental professor dr. timothy bromage discovered the rhythm while observing incremental growth lines in tooth enamel, which appear much like the annual rings on a tree. he also observed a related pattern of incremental growth in skeletal bone tissue – the first time such an incremental rhythm has ever been observed in bone.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

it's called cellular memory...

everything is about re-membering...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558271&in_page_id=1770

be well, be love.

david

can we really transplant a human soul?
by dr danny penman - last updated at 19:06pm on 9th april 2008

transplant: what else is triggered when doctors undertake a donor operation?

the progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures.

so it has proved with heart transplants, which have become almost routine in hospitals around the world.

yet every once in a while a story emerges which should cause us all to sit up and take note that there is nothing "routine" or "commonplace" about such complex operations.

the suggestion, highlighted again this week, that donor patients could not only be acquiring the organs but also the memories - or even the soul - of the donor is surely one such story.

this bizarre possibility was raised by the inexplicable case of sonny graham - a seemingly happily married 69-year-old man living in the u.s. state of georgia. he shot himself without warning, having shown no previous signs of unhappiness, let alone depression.

his friends described it as an act of passion, not of reason.

the case might have remained just an isolated tragedy were it not for the fact that sonny had received a transplanted heart from a man who had also shot himself - in identical circumstances.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.med.unc.edu/wellness/main/links/cellular%20memory.htm

be well, be love.

david

cellular memory in organ transplants
leslie a. takeuchi, ba, pta

in my experience as a physical therapist assistant, i have come to acknowledge the relevance of thoughts, emotions and spiritual beliefs to healing. i recognize the art of physical therapy to be based upon empirical science and a dualism which views the mind and body as separate, thus drawing a sharp distinction between sensory experiences and physical reality, between subject and object, between mind and matter and between soul and body. however, i also recognize that even though my science provides a rational foundation, it does not allow for the importance of the subjectivity and wholeness i see in my patients whose bodies and minds are inseparable.

in my work with the chronic pain population, i have taken a closer look at this relationship of mind and matter, body and emotions, for keys to how people heal. in this search, i looked into theories of emotions or memories being somehow stored in the tissues of the body and later manifesting in the physical form of pain or disease. what was most striking were the numerous reports of organ transplant recipients who later experienced changes in personality traits, tastes for food, music, activities and even sexual preference. is it possible that our memories reside deep inside our bodily cells in addition to in our minds?

[weboy78]

we will fly

‘bee-boy’ born in russian town

http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/104961-bee_boy-0

the doctors of the cardiological center in the kemerovo region were shocked when they made ultrasonic examination and saw the heart of a newborn baby vanya maryin. he was born with a 5-chamber heart. only bees have such heart constitution. funny enough the ‘bee-boy’, as doctors called him, comes from the beekeeper’s family.
the family remembers a wonderful inherited bee yard that vanya’s grandfather held, and his wife that ran the ‘bee-business’ after his death. her bees produced the best honey in the district.

vanya was born not with 2 atriums like all the people on the earth, but with an additional - third one. he could die anytime from a sudden push, fright or even happiness. but the body, adjusting to an unusual 5-chamber ‘bee-heart’, suggested the boy a saving, optimal ‘pose for life’.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4072021

be well, be love.

david

"the world acts as "one" global village..."

"this planetary consciousness is happening all the time. we are "it."

[Rhonda]

nice video, interesting to see so many faces and people saying the samething and believing it. suits and ties

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this is important...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=details&grid=a1&xml=/earth/2008/05/08/scibrain108.xml

be well, be love.

david

scanner shows our heart rules our heads
by roger highfield, science editor
last updated: 12:01am bst 08/05/2008

evidence of how the heart rules the head when it comes to tackling tricky ethical dilemmas was published on thursday.

scans of people weighing up an efficient choice against an equitable one when donating money to an orphanage reveal how a battle between different regions of the brain, with one - the insula - driving most people to act fairly, rather than help more people but be unfair to a few.

down the millennia, great minds have struggled with the issue of whether it is rational to be ethical. plato, david hume, immanuel kant, and john stuart mill, to mention a few, have tried to work out what is better, to do what is right, and be fair, or to do what is good, and to make sure that the most people benefit?

now a study of the roots of morality in science by dr ming hsu of university of illinois, urbana-champaign, and drs cedric anen and steve quartz of the california institute of technology, pasadena, shows how our sense of fairness rests on sentiment, not logic, backing the view of 18th century scottish thinker david hume, who argued that passions drive moral judgement.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more great info from dr. bruce lipton. a must listen. dr. lipton also mentions his thoughts concerning human consciousness and 2012. you need to click down to his name to access the audio.

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/podcast.htm

be well, be love.

david

[Earthforce]

from: the five levels of healing

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i_tzp3taj-c

our brain is wired for short term memory according to modern neuroscience. our brain is simply a tuner that connects in to the memory storage of the biophoton field.

the dna in each cell vibrates (expansion & contraction) at a frequency of several billion hertz. unfortunately, cell phones vibrate at this same frequency - a good reason not to use them.

long term memory is stored in the biophoton field. this is according to dr. dietrich klinghardt and others.

a biophoton or light particle is released with each vibration and contains all your genetic information. a single photon can carry 4 megabytes of information outside the body to other photons.

these biophotons communicate with each other through coherence, modulation of frequency and amplitude and by squeezing the light.

we are surrounded by a highly structured light (biophoton) field that carries our long term memory.

the light field regulates our metabolic enzymes. information between the biophotons is bidirectional. information is given and received by each cell partly through a light conductive molecule called a tubulin.

if our physical body were stripped away, the tubulin is so dense that we could still be recognized by our tubulin. this might explain why christ was seen after his physical death yet some did not recognize him.

mercury can destroy tubulin. mercury disconnects the intelligent organizing force that organizes your biochemistry. other heavy metals probably are also destructive to tubulin.

the biophoton field can be influenced by light. so science is turning more to light therapies as a way of healing.

we do not exist by biochemistry alone. a very large part of our life force is not seem in the physical body but nevertheless is there and can be measured with the tools of physics.

conclusion: as many here in this forum may already know, we really are light beings in physical bodies.

addendum: divine cosmos and project camelot resources are the elixir that reinforces and feeds my love for all things.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=635819564

namaste.

[LightEye]

good stuff from dr. mercola. i visit his site daily.

be well.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/2029/becoming-immortal

be well, be love.

david

becoming immortal
3 june 2008
by bryan appleyard

within a few decades, we might reasonably expect to have extended life to 150 years or more – the first human to live to 1,000 may have already been born. but, does death give meaning to our lives? where do we go from here?

developments in a number of scientific disciplines suggest that we may soon be able to increase life expectancies from the 70- to 80-year range already seen in the richest countries to well over 100 and, perhaps, to over 1,000. we shall, in one sense, have made ourselves immortal.

we shall not be immortal in the sense that we cannot die; plainly we could still be killed in a car accident or by a cosmic event such as an asteroid striking the earth. but we could not be killed by disease or age, our bodies would be immune to infection, dysfunction or the ravages of time. we would be medically immortal.

some say this will happen quickly within, perhaps, 30 years with the first clear signs that we are on the right track appearing within the next decade. others think we are at least a century or two away from attaining medical immortality. some consider it completely unattainable. but the majority of scientists and thinkers in this area now consider life extension and even medical immortality possible and likely.

not long ago, most would have said it was out of the question, that death at or well before the absolute maximum age of something like 122 was inevitable.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.iclips.net/pmt.php

be well, be love.

david

post modern times has just uploaded its second video segment with the institute of noetic sciences' dean radin discussing scientific taboos and psychic phenomenon.

[Earthforce]

thought communication, mind cognition, psychic effects are real and scientists who would have previously avoided study in this reality are now coming to the realization that thought and intent affects in a very real way the outcome of whether things are going to work according to scientific theory or fail due to that undetermined and unexplainable 1% part of murphy’s law.

another affirmation to the reality all things are interconnected both visible and invisible and now is the time to stop discounting the theory and reality of oneness of thought and deed.

thanks to david by suggesting this video to review and dr. radin for explaining his experience and work relating to mind and matter.

intention does seem to be scientifically provable in affecting outcome of events. hopefully, the cia, dod and other branches of our government realize the right way to affect change is through positive thought and not negative.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php

be well, be love.

david

the reality tests

a team of physicists in vienna has devised experiments that may answer one of the enduring riddles of science: do we create the world just by looking at it?
by joshua roebke • posted june 4, 2008 11:10 am

to enter the somewhat formidable neo-renaissance building at boltzmanngasse 3 in vienna, you must pass through a small door sawed from the original cathedrallike entrance. when i first visited this past march, it was chilly and overcast in the late afternoon. atop several tall stories of scaffolding there were two men who would hardly have been visible from the street were it not for their sunrise-orange jumpsuits. as i was about to pass through the nested entrance, i heard a sudden rush of wind and felt a mist of winter drizzle. i glanced up. the veiled workers were power-washing away the building's façade, down to the century-old brick underneath.

in 1908 karl kupelwieser, ludwig wittgenstein's uncle, donated the money to construct this building and turn austria- hungary into the principal destination for the study of radium. above the doorway the edifice still bears the name of this founding purpose. but since 2005 this has been home of the institut für quantenoptik und quanteninformation (iqoqi, pronounced "ee-ko-kee"), a center devoted to the foundations of quantum mechanics. the iqoqi, which includes a sister facility to the southwest in the valley town of innsbruck, was initially realized in 2003 at the behest of the austrian academy of sciences. however, the institute's conception several years earlier was predominantly due to one man: anton zeilinger. this past january, zeilinger became the first ever recipient of the isaac newton medal for his pioneering contributions to physics as the head of one of the most successful quantum optics groups in the world. over the past two decades, he and his colleagues have done as much as anyone else to test quantum mechanics. and since its inception more than 80 years ago, quantum mechanics has possibly weathered more scrutiny than any theory ever devised. quantum mechanics appears correct, and now zeilinger and his group have started experimenting with what the theory means.

some physicists still find quantum mechanics unpalatable, if not unbelievable, because of what it implies about the world beyond our senses. the theory's mathematics is simple enough to be taught to undergraduates, but the physical implications of that mathematics give rise to deep philosophical questions that remain unresolved. quantum mechanics fundamentally concerns the way in which we observers connect to the universe we observe. the theory implies that when we measure particles and atoms, at least one of two long-held physical principles is untenable: distant events do not affect one other, and properties we wish to observe exist before our measurements. one of these, locality or realism, must be fundamentally incorrect.
for more than 70 years, innumerable physicists have tried to disentangle the meaning of quantum mechanics through debate. now zeilinger and his collaborators have performed a series of experiments that, while neatly agreeing with the theory's predictions, are reinvigorating these historical dialogues. in vienna experiments are testing whether quantum mechanics permits a fundamental physical reality. a new way of understanding an already powerful theory is beginning to take shape, one that could change the way we understand the world around us. do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?

most of us would agree that there exists a world outside our minds. at the classical level of our perceptions, this belief is almost certainly correct. if your couch is blue, you will observe it as such whether drunk, in high spirits, or depressed; the color is surely independent of the majority of your mental states. if you discovered your couch were suddenly red, you could be sure there was a cause. the classical world is real, and not only in your head. solipsism hasn't really been a viable philosophical doctrine for decades, if not centuries.

[sergejsh]

cosmos magazine, september 25, 2006
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/686/scientists-discover-shadow-person

quote:

"the paper, published in the british journal nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric problems who was being evaluated for treatment of epilepsy. when a region of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction was electrically stimulated, the woman described encounters with a ‘shadow person' who mimicked her bodily movements.

"electrical stimulation repeatedly produced a feeling of the presence of another person in her extra-personal space," said olaf blanke, co-author of the study conducted by a team of researchers from university hospital in geneva, switzerland.

when the patient was lying down, stimulation of this brain region caused her to feel that someone was behind her. she described the person as young, of indeterminate sex, "a shadow who did not speak or move, and whose position beneath her back was identical to her own", according to the researchers. "

"... during a language task, in which the seated patient held a card in her right hand, she described the person sitting next to her and trying to interfere with the task. "he wants to take the card … he doesn't want me to read," she said. "

"... the temporoparietal junction is known to be involved in creating the concept of ‘self', and the distinction between ‘self' and ‘other'. according to the researchers, stimulation of this region interfered with the patient's ability to integrate information about her own body, leading to her experience of a ‘shadow person'."

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for related material, search in wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com) "temporoparietal junction" and "doppelgänger".

.

[grkyorgo]

greetings all!

really good video featuring david lynch @ university of berkely event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8tfclgu5ow


short bio
the inside story on transcending the brain, with david lynch, award-winning film director of blue velvet, twin peaks, mullholland drive, inland empire (filming); john hagelin, ph.d., quantum physicist featured in "what the bleep do we know?" and fred travis, ph.d., director, center for brain, consciousness and cognition maharishi university of management. [events] [artshumanities] credits: producers:uc berkeley educational technology services, speaker:david lynch, speaker:john hagelin, ph.d., speaker:fred travis, ph.d.

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[Muse]

“the day may yet arrive when one may take a drop of blood and diagnose the condition of any physical body.” ...that day has arrived. - edgar cayce

i found this fascinating ... holographic images in blood.
dr. harvey bigelsen

dr. bigelsen explains the building blocks of a healthy immune system.

harvey bigelsen m.d. is the first medical doctor in history to practice isopathy or biological medicine in north america. he is a trained md for 39 years with more than 25 years of experience in alternative medicine. as the first president of the arizona homeopathic medical board, he drafted the guidelines and standards for the practice of 'holistic' medicine in arizona that set the precedent in the united states. he helped to author the law that made arizona homeopathy what it is today.

his work in the field of holistic and biological medicine healing led to decoding the mysteries of human blood. an amazing breakthrough in dr. bigelsen’s work came when he began to decipher holographic images in the blood. these electromagnetic “pictures” foretell the condition of our health and even events that have yet to occur. after 20 years, he has compiled his astounding findings in a book titled blood mysteries: myth, magic or reality.

contact harvey directly to have your blood analysis, at www.drbigelsen.com

great interview here:
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/hbigelsen.htm

[Alixandra]

greetings all!

really good video featuring david lynch @ university of berkely event
~~~~

flipping brilliant!!!

this vid has only had 150+ views which is ridiculous. i belong to a peace forum with over 7000 members i'll post it and send it to the owner.

also, i've been trying to hold the energy of peace in dc for eight long years now and thank god someone else thought of this!!!

because it is no piece of cake, honestly, i call it doing my hard time duty and as soon as my son graduates high school, and perhaps before, i am so out of here and out to la!

love and light,

alixandra

[Alixandra]

dear friends,

more great info from dr. bruce lipton. a must listen. dr. lipton also mentions his thoughts concerning human consciousness and 2012. you need to click down to his name to access the audio.

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/podcast.htm

be well, be love.

david

it's a brilliant vid but although i am no fan of the pharmaceutical industry it is not fair to cast aspersions on that industry for this failing of the medical field to move forward in its consciousness.

the difficulty is (and my brother won the national mathematics award at age 17, our genetics aren't altogether dumb) that one requires ph.d.s in both neurochemistry and electrical engineering to move this particular field forward.

neurochem requires biochemistry, and of the 8000 undergrads who applied at our university 20 made it and there was one a in the class. neurochem requires a computer like memory.

the electrical engineering (ee) requires an entirely different left-brain analysis with a trust in divine flow through which all truly top mathematicians have. (ee is basically very close to a degree in mathematics.)

so, bottom-lining it, you're requiring someone with genius whole brain functioning to be interested in pursuing this with at least 10 years of university study.

in any given year there may be 10 children born with this level of genius and maybe half of them get the basic education required to study this at a university like mit.

and, many of them may be interested in pursuing some other arena.

so, although i think the pharmaceutical industry is practically barbaric in its greed, perhaps beyond barbaric, this issue cannot be laid at their feet but on the feet, collectively, of all of us, for not demanding better education throughout the entire system.

the educational system, particularly in the us, sucks.

so, let's get busy writing, phoning and calling our senators, congressmen, and other elected representatives and demanding the money that goes into our defense budget goes into education.

i called two representatives on another issue this week.

how much action have you taken this week? this month? this year.

love is a verb.

love and light,

alixandra

[RedPlanetRevolver]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/11/can-humans-live.html

here is the link to the story its pretty interesting but what really compels me is the geneticist name is aubrey de grey. grey just like the popular alien life forms we all know about. im just wondering if this may involve changing human dna into plant based dna to extend life because i do recall reading hearing william cooper state that when they found the first greys there anatomy was more like a plant then humans and they had to bring in a botanist. im just wondering what your feelings are on the subject of eternal life even knowing all david has taught us and what you think this could develop into.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.greyheron1.plus.com/

be well, be love.

david

new insights into the links between esp and geomagnetic activity

adrian ryan
journal of scientific exploration, fall 2008

abstract

a database of 343 free-response esp trials conducted at centers in the u.k. was constructed in order to test the hypothesis that the relatively fast varying components of geomagnetic activity, geomagnetic pulsations, might be driving the reported associations between esp, geomagnetic activity and local sidereal time. local geomagnetic field-strength measurements taken at 1-second intervals during 99 trials, and at 5-second intervals during 244 trials, were converted by fast fourier transform into power within five frequency bands. two patterns were observed: esp was found to succeed only during periods of enhanced pulsation activity within the 0.2-0.5 hz band, but esp effect was absent during the most disturbed periods of activity in the 0.025-0.1 hz band.

the pattern of esp effect by local sidereal time was similar to that found by spottiswoode (1997b), and this shape was found to be attributable to the pattern of esp results by pulsation activity in the 0.2-0.5 hz band.

the observed patterns were demonstrated to have excellent explanatory power in terms of accounting for findings previously reported in the literature.

extended abstract

a database of free-response esp trials was constructed in order to test the hypothesis that the relatively fast varying components of geomagnetic activity, geomagnetic pulsations, might be driving the associations between esp, geomagnetic activity and local sidereal time (lst) reported in the literature. the database comprised trials for which local, high time-resolution measurements of the geomagnetic field were available, and to reduce noise in the analysis a further criterion was applied: considering each condition within each study, only conditions with an esp effect size greater than an arbitrary threshold of 0.15 were included. a total of 343 trials qualified: 244 ganzfeld sessions (204 from the university of edinburgh, 40 from the university of northampton) and 99 remote viewing sessions from the museum of psychic experience in york, u.k.

geomagnetic field measurements were collected from the samnet array of magnetometers in northern europe. measurements were selected from the nearest operating magnetometer at the time of each esp trial; the mean distance between magnetometer and esp trial location was 126 km (minimum 2 km, maximum 261 km). the sampling interval was 5 seconds until mid-november 1995 and 1 second thereafter. the amplitude resolution of the measurements is 0.1 nt. the field measurements were converted by fast fourier transform into power within five frequency bands. pulsations with frequency > 0.1 hz were found to be highly geographically localized, therefore data for these frequency bands were discarded for all but the 99 remote viewing trials conducted at in york, for which the magnetometer was also located in york.

two patterns were observed: esp was found to succeed only during periods of enhanced pulsation activity within the 0.2-0.5 hz band, but esp effect was absent during the most disturbed periods of activity in the 0.025-0.1 hz band.

analysis of the continuous record of geomagnetic field measurements between november 1996 and march 2005 revealed that activity in the 0.025-0.1 hz range is strongly correlated with the global index of geomagnetic activity ap, but no such relationship exists between activity in the 0.2-0.5 hz band and ap, which may account for the overall slight negative correlation between esp and ap reported in the literature.

as each frequency band of geomagnetic pulsation exhibits distinct seasonal and/or interacting seasonal/daily variation, they make excellent candidates for explaining the associations between esp and lst that have been reported in the literature. to explore this possibility, the esp effect size for trials in the database was plotted by lst; the resultant pattern was similar to that found by spottiswoode (1997a, 1997b). modeling revealed that this shape was partially attributable to the pattern of esp results by pulsation activity in the 0.2-0.5 hz band.

opportunities for confirmation, and potential theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

references

spottiswoode, s. j. p. (1997a). apparent association between effect size in free response anomalous cognition experiments and local sidereal time. journal of scientific exploration, 11, 109-122.
spottiswoode, s. j. p. (1997b). geomagnetic fluctuations and free-response anomalous cognition: a new understanding. journal of parapsychology, 61, 3-12.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this is just way to cool...

make sure you check out the links...

http://www.realitysandwich.com/cosmic_body

be well, be love.

david

the cosmic body
morgan maher

michelle borkin is leading a team of doctors, astronomers, and computer scientists at the initiative in innovative computing at harvard working on a new discipline called astronomical medicine.

fusing medical imaging technology with astronomy would allow astronomers to better visualize their data. "phenomena nearly impossible to see with any conventional methods," becomes bright and dynamic, offering new insights into the nature of universe.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

there you go - cellular memory... ;-)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026845.000-memories-may-be-stored-on-your-dna.html

be well, be love.

david

memories may be stored on your dna
02 december 2008 by devin powell, washington dc

remember your first kiss? experiments in mice suggest that patterns of chemical "caps" on our dna may be responsible for preserving such memories.

to remember a particular event, a specific sequence of neurons must fire at just the right time. for this to happen, neurons must be connected in a certain way by chemical junctions called synapses. but how they last over decades, given that proteins in the brain, including those that form synapses, are destroyed and replaced constantly, is a mystery.

now courtney miller and david sweatt of the university of alabama in birmingham say that long-term memories may be preserved by a process called dna methylation - the addition of chemical caps called methyl groups onto our dna.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.explorejournal.com/article/s1550-8307(07)00060-2/fulltext

you may have to copy and paste the above link into your browser.

more articles here;

http://www.explorejournal.com/issues/contents?issue_key=s1550-8307%2807%29x0016-8

be well, be love.

david

consciousness, information, and living systems
b.j. dunne, r.g. jahn

abstract

the possibility of a proactive role for consciousness in the establishment of physical reality has been addressed via an extensive 26-year program investigating physical anomalies in human/machine interactions and non-sensory acquisition of information about remote geographical locations. empirical databases comprising many hundreds of millions of random events confirm that information can be introduced into, or extracted from, otherwise random physical processes solely through the agencies of human intention and subjective resonance. much of the evidence mitigates the likelihood that the anomalies are manifestations of neo-cortical cognitive activity. rather, they may be expressions of a deeper information organizing capacity of biological origin that emerges from the uncertainty inherent in the complexity of all living systems.

[Allan]

i met rupert sheeldrake when he visited new zealand in 1991. he was on a local radio station at rotorura and i went aroud and met him when he finished the interview. its going to be interesting if science can or will varify any thing.

when i was younger a friend and i became very close and we played some mind games and some how with some suggestion and belief i moved his mouth into a twisted position he could never have done himself. we both had a good laugh about it and some trouble believing it later. the thought occurrs that when someone makes another laugh they may actually be doing just that. one person is actually hijacking another persons brain using own mind power. similarly most emmotional responses could be the same.

[ggw_bach]

further confirmation of the mind-brain connection. it goes one way, and it goes the other.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124156.htm

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from article:

this study, along with other recent neuroradiological studies of buddhist meditators and francescan nuns, suggests that all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence. transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved.

“the brain functions in a certain way during spiritual experiences,” said brick johnstone, professor of health psychology in the mu school of health professions. “we studied people with brain injury and found that people with injuries to the right parietal lobe of the brain reported higher levels of spiritual experiences, such as transcendence.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

part i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfi9t11xetm

part ii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg7pguocy4q

we are all light made solid,

david

it's purpose is to incite thought, discussion and debate. i am not making a firm stand on the nature of consciousness, but rather tossing around ideas of the it's fundamentals. so please, i'd love to hear your thoughts!

[ggw_bach]

disorder = disharmony = disease

more clues about this most modern of diseases

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from the nytimes article:

a striking feature of many cancer cells is that the dna in their chromosomes is all jumbled up. chunks of dna containing one or more genes have been ripped out of their chromosome and reinserted in a different place. other lengths of dna have been transferred to a different chromosome altogether.

these rearrangements may degrade the cell's regulatory systems, especially when a rearrangement cuts a gene in half, or separates it from the regions of dna that control its activity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/science/25visual.html?_r=2&ref=science

[duplicate image of cancer cell removed]

[Millsley]

this seems like old news but good to hear it's traveling faster!

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does dna have telepathic qualities?

dna has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to.

somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar dna. the recognition of similar sequences in dna’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. there is no known reason why the dna is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.

double helixes of dna can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.

this recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for dna repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. the new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.

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if pumping up the consciousness muscle helps dna communicate in some sort of unified field not privy to matter it obviously has some effect on pre-causal and monadic circumstances.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/12/does-dna-have-t.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/13-is-quantum-mechanics-controlling-your-thoughts

be well, be love.

david

is quantum mechanics controlling your thoughts?
science's weirdest realm may be responsible for photosynthesis, our sense of smell, and even consciousness itself.
by mark anderson
published online january 13, 2009


graham fleming sits down at an l-shaped lab bench, occupying a footprint about the size of two parking spaces. alongside him, a couple of off-the-shelf lasers spit out pulses of light just millionths of a billionth of a second long. after snaking through a jagged path of mirrors and lenses, these minus*cule flashes disappear into a smoky black box containing proteins from green sulfur bacteria, which ordinarily obtain their energy and nourishment from the sun. inside the black box, optics manufactured to billionths-of-a-meter precision detect something extraordinary: within the bacterial proteins, dancing electrons make seemingly impossible leaps and appear to inhabit multiple places at once.

peering deep into these proteins, fleming and his colleagues at the university of california at berkeley and at washington university in st. louis have discovered the driving engine of a key step in photosynthesis, the process by which plants and some microorganisms convert water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into oxygen and carbohydrates. more efficient by far in its ability to convert energy than any operation devised by man, this cascade helps drive almost all life on earth. remarkably, photosynthesis appears to derive its ferocious efficiency not from the familiar physical laws that govern the visible world but from the seemingly exotic rules of quantum mechanics, the physics of the subatomic world. somehow, in every green plant or photosynthetic bacterium, the two disparate realms of physics not only meet but mesh harmoniously. welcome to the strange new world of quantum biology.

[Light]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/health/01/15/social.conformity.brain/index.html

why so many minds think alike

"the two leading theories of conformity are that people look to the group because they're unsure of what to do, and that people go along with the norm because they are afraid of being different, said dr. gregory berns, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at emory university school of medicine in atlanta, georgia."

"but unlike berns' finding that fear and anxiety relate to this effect, asch saw conformity studies reflections of people's reliance on one another for knowledge of the world, experts say."

well, i believe it is a sign of fear, another evolutionary survival technique.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://refreshingnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/single-brain-cell-can-hold-memory.html

be well, be love.

david

single brain cell can hold a memory

a neuron receives and processes information through a network of branches called dendrites. once it processes the signal, the brain cell relays it along an axon to a terminal linking to another cell's dendrites. when millions of brain cells communicate with each other at once, cognition occurs.

memory has long been described as a function of brain cells getting together and forming connections. a new study finds single cells can remember things.



individual nerve cells (called neurons) in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories by themselves for up to a minute, perhaps longer.

the fleeting memories, which the researchers found in mice brains, are held in the most highly evolved part of the brain in a manner akin to the nonpermanent working memory of a computer.

"it's more like ram [random access memory] on a computer than memory stored on a disk," said don cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at the university of texas southwestern medical center. "the memory on the disk is more permanent and you can go back and access the same information repeatedly. ram memory is rewritable temporary storage that allows multitasking."

mice brains are thought to function much like human brains, so the finding could help scientists better understand how our brains store rapidly changing information. cooper likened the temporary one-cell memory storage to the sort of thing a card shark does when counting cards in a game of black jack. as casinos know, this is the memory that is most sensitive to the disruptive effects of alcohol and noisy distractions, cooper points out. hence, perhaps, the free drinks casinos offer up.

the discovery, detailed in the february issue of the journal nature neuroscience, could also lead to improved understanding of addictions, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-second-korotkov-water-experiment-january-18-2008

here's the link to the first experiment in case you haven't read it;

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-first-korotkov-water-experiment-%e2%80%93-november-30-2007

be well, be love.

david

the second korotkov water experiment, january 18, 2008

this experiment was set up roughly similar to the first water experiment run by russian physicist konstantin korotkov on november 30 — but with two differences. this time, we used a very specific intention with our experimental sample of water. we also had a control sample; we set up an identical beaker of water with distilled water from the same source, which would not be sent intention.

inside each beaker dr. konstantin korotkov placed an electrode, attached to his galvanic discharge visualization (gdv) machines.

the gdv machines, which make use of state-of-the-art optics, digitized television matrices and a powerful computer, work first by stirring up the photonic signals from a substance like water so that they will shine millions of times more intensely than normal. the gdv machine then records this faint pulse via photography, measurements of light intensity and computerized pattern recognition.

as with our november experiment, dr. korotkov took measurements before we sent intention, during the time we sent intention and afterward.

however, this time, we extended the time when our initial recording was made, so that we took readings several times in the 90-minute period before intention was sent. we also took readings continuously during the 10 minutes of our intention and then for a half hour after our intention.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/global-consciousness-project-trans-humanity-awakening-reality

be well, be love.

david

global consciousness project -trans-humanity awakening to reality
by ring wood | january 23, 2009 at 08:43 pm

global consciousness project

trans-humanity awakening to reality

you may not be aware of the fact, but decades of studies have actually demonstrated that mind can affect matter – specifically, random event generators have been shown to be affected by human consciousness. the global consciousness project has linked a series of these generators together around the world, creating a plentiful supply of data which has revealed fluctuations in the nature of randomness itself. these alterations occur in waves that manifest across the entire earth – at the very least – and indicate interconnectedness between all beings, in a unified field of mind and consciousness – the ‘noosphere’.

the global consciousness project (gcp) was created in 1998 by a small team of researchers working in boundary areas of physics and psychology, and has grown today to include some seventy-five individuals around the world. the purpose of this institute of noetic sciences (ions)-based project is to study the possible efficacy of human consciousness on a global scale. in june 2002, an interdisciplinary team convened for the first time at the ions campus in order to move the project forward in the areas of research design, data analysis, and interpretation of results.

under the direction of dr roger nelsonat princeton university, the team maintains a network of electronic instruments connected through the internet. these random event generators produce data that may be affected by human consciousness under special conditions. the hypothesis of the gcp is that the continuous streams of data from these instruments will show anomalous deviations associated with events of mass human interest. effects are predicted to occur when there is large-scale ‘mental coherence’, or a resonance of feelings generated by deep reactions to major news events. during the first four years of the gcp, the number of websites hosting these instruments (which are bemusingly dubbed ‘eggs’, a nickname for electro-gaia-grams) has grown to more than fifty, with locations from alaska to fiji, on all continents, and in nearly every time zone.

[Berry Chastain]

hey there david,

i just found the above article independantly and was going to do as you have already done. thank you for beating me to the punch..

this is a fascinating and profound technical discourse on global consciousness. i hope that sufficient numbers of people will at least attempt to read the whole article. it is so encouraging that at least a part of the scientific community is becoming "aware" that creative intellegence and creative energy are not just a bit of hot air.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

as i've always said - it's all about those vibrations...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/30/fingerprints-are-tuned-to-amplify-vibrations-and-send-info-to-the-brain/


be well, be love.

david

fingerprints are tuned to amplify vibrations and send info to the brain

fingerprints are for more than a good grip; they also allow fingers to feel fine textures, according to a new study. as fingers move across a surface, the intricate geography of the finger tips, known as epidermal ridges, help select and amplify just the right vibrations to convey information from the skin to the brain. neuroscientist ellen lumkin compares the ridges on fingers to the cochlea in the ear. “like the cochlea is a frequency analyzer for sounds, the fingertips are frequency analyzers for fingers,” says lumpkin [science news] fingerprints help filter out the tactile equivalent of white noise.

when a finger sweeps over a finely textured surface, such as a cotton sleeve or a wooden coffee table, the interaction sends a large range of vibrations into the skin. specialized sensors called pacinian fibers, the tips of nerve fibers, detect only a select few of the vibrations — those right around 250 hertz — before sending the signal to the brain, where the touch sensation is processed [science news]. but since pacinian fibers are located relatively deep—about 2 millimeters—under the skin, researchers guessed that fingerprints help magnify the vibrations.

[ggw_bach]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1128045835761675934

excellent bbc documentary on epigenetics.

new findings that genes can be switched on or off, depending on environmental cues. explores the concept that some form of 'experiential inheritance' may take place.

-- things such as stress, poor nutrition, toxins may be triggers

-- on the flip side, things such as joy, harmony, balance were not explored as positive factors. like much of science, it explores a field through its abnormalities and disease states, rather than seeking out the spiritual :)

confirms the work of bruce lipton quite nicely; that our thoughts can shape dna expression, and ultimately, our physical beings.

really good storytelling of what could appear to be an arcane and inaccessible subject. lovely graphics work and editing; makes one appreciate professionals working in the video media field.

love and light

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the electromagnetic field of your heart creates the frequency that you experience as you. this field is the aura that emanates from you. it is the underlying field of all that you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hup1c5zicks

dna/heart connection

your dna have an integral connection within a coherent wavelength. you are the creator of that frequency. your very life depends upon it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyzivz7wz4

be well, be love.

david

[Deerclan]

yes, it's all true, and epigenetic transmission is now a part of the mainstream body of science. the implications this newly emerged fact has for the vaious ways in which different cultures shape themselves are mind-boggling. from that tiny amount of time i've been privileged to spend overseas, i reached the personal conclusion that the euro-american part of the usa is a culture of anxiety. i wondered how that could be, and then i learned about epigenetic transmission, and it all came clear.




http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1128045835761675934

excellent bbc documentary on epigenetics.

new findings that genes can be switched on or off, depending on environmental cues. explores the concept that some form of 'experiential inheritance' may take place.

-- things such as stress, poor nutrition, toxins may be triggers

-- on the flip side, things such as joy, harmony, balance were not explored as positive factors. like much of science, it explores a field through its abnormalities and disease states, rather than seeking out the spiritual :)

confirms the work of bruce lipton quite nicely; that our thoughts can shape dna expression, and ultimately, our physical beings.

really good storytelling of what could appear to be an arcane and inaccessible subject. lovely graphics work and editing; makes one appreciate professionals working in the video media field.

love and light

[Ultramind]

last night i stumbled upon this very interesting video clip on youtube about how reality around us is actually only an illusion. i illustrates how our senses actually work and presents it a actual proof of this increadible concept. this video clip was put together very well and explains a lot about the world that we live in. here is the link to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqnegu8vf8y

please comment on this and tell me what you think. there is a lot of comments on the youtube site but i think the most of the people are making comments based on a limited amount of knowledge and understanding.

[Earthforce]

synchronicity, knowing, truth, love, all correspond to this well created video. thank you. i posted it to care2.com. david gave an excellent interview on ctc on 06feb2009 and it brought good energy to me and others that saw it on care2. thank you!

[alchemikey]

"this is an outstanding 20 minute presentation by juan enriquez from recent ted conference. he tells it like it is concerning the economic crisis and then takes us beyond to the volcano of technology that is about to erupt. with wit and levity enriquez shows us what is actually happening in the fields of microbe, tissue and robotics engineering and how they are a part of the birth of a new animal: homo evolutis."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnclkbjs3xk

this is all pretty interesting stuff but isn't this the kind of stuff that happened during atlantis and also what ra kinda warned about...focusing on creating new life forms instead of focusing on love?

peace,
mikey

[LightEye]

dear friends,

a lovely perspective of just how things are...

http://startswithabang.com/?p=952

be well, be love.

david

humans vs. galaxies

pop quiz, everyone. the most wonderful, beautiful, and complicated things in the universe are all made up of tiny components. humans, the most differentiated animals on the planet, are made up of cells.

galaxies, on the other hand, are made up primarily of stars. (at least, the portion of them that we can see is!)

so my quiz question for you is this:

are there more cells in the typical human body or more stars in a typical galaxy?

[Ultramind]

hey everyone, i'm not sure if this is the right thread to be posting this but hopefully the mods can help me out if it's not. i have a photo here that my mother shot last fall i believe. to me it appears that the clouds over head are definitely conscious. i was hoping to see some comments on this photo. i'm curious as to what may be causing this and i am wondering if this is just co incidents that this incredible formation took place. my mother calls this photo, "face in the clouds" have a look and tell me what you think.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u49/meadman718/faceintheclouds.jpg

[billybobbutterball]

so my quiz question for you is this:

are there more cells in the typical human body or more stars in a typical galaxy?

the milky way is generaly estimated to have around 100 billion stars.

according to bruce lipton (the biology of belief) the average human has 50 trillion cells.

the possible combination of connections in the brain is of an order of magnitude that is so unbelievable that i can't believe it.:eek:

billybob -- furiously counting away on his fingers as fast as possible!! --will soon get back to you from some infinite value or other..,:rolleyes:

[Deambor]

amazing picture, ultramind. not exactly a smily face though...
i do think, as amazing as it looks, it could be a usual cloud formation shaped in an unsual facial form. shaped by what forces? it could be air jets and regular (or irregular) air flows, combination of pressure and winds and who knows what else.

but if it is a conscious formation, then it looks down at the power lines with not exactly a look of approval.

love to all

[alchemikey]

kozyrev's mirrors and electromagnetic null zones:
reflections of russian cosmic science

http://spiritofmaat.com/mar09/russian_cosmic_science.html

"imagine standing under a vast, scintillating aurora borealis, and seeing it change colors as you changed your thoughts. this exact situation led russian medical doctor alexander v. trofimov into his groundbreaking research on human consciousness, in collaboration with vlail p. kaznacheev, and following in the footsteps of the great 20th century physicist nikolai kozyrev.

essentially, kozyrev devised reproducible experiments that prove the existence of a "torsional energy field" beyond electromagnetism and gravity, which travels much faster than light. he called it the "flow of time." others, einstein among them, have called it "ether." others call it "zero point energy."

within this "flow of time," the past, present, and future all exist at the same time, and in every place. this discovery sets the stage for all psychic phenomena to be scientifically explainable. trofimov and kaznacheev have, for the past thirty years, been experimentally developing the practical explanations, and have made some surprising discoveries."

peace,
mikey

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.realitysandwich.com/animal_architecture_buckminster_fuller_tensegrity

be well, be love.

david

animal architecture: buckminster fuller's tensegrity
renee verdier

in 1932 r. buckminster fuller famously philosophized: "don't fight forces. use them!" (fuller, shelter). a man of many trades -- architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and the second president of mensa -- he applied this mantra throughout many aspects of his work. in particular, it is more or less the backbone of his studies of and theories on synergetics, an interdisciplinary science that explores the formation and self-organization of patterns in systems. fuller believed that all experience could be communicated using geometric concepts, and further claimed that the natural analytic geometry of the universe is based on tetrahedra, or triangular pyramids. he explored these ideas through studies of the close-packing of spheres and tensile and compressive stabilization models, noting that tension and compression are not opposites, but rather complements that can be found together; when the two forces are harmonious, continuous pull is balanced by equally discontinuous pushing forces. this synergy between compression and tension is what fuller calls tensegrity, "a system that stabilizes itself mechanically because of the way in which tensional and compressive forces are distributed and balanced within the structure (ingber 48-9). it is the underlying principle behind what is perhaps his most well-known invention, the geodesic dome -- a nearly spherical shell structure based on a network of triangular elements lying approximately on the surface of a sphere. on a grander scale, it is also a fundamental property of several self-assembled systems within the body, from the anatomical to the cellular to the molecular level.

fuller originally coined the term tensegrity, a portmanteau of tensional integrity, while studying "energetic-synergetic geometry" during world war ii. he provides a comprehensive definition of the term in his book synergetics:

tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder (fuller, synergetics 372).

tensegrity structures fall into two main categories -- prestressed and geodesic. both types rely on continuous transmission of tensional forces in order to maintain their shape, and stabilize themselves through decentralized tension and local compression; an increase in tension on one part of the structure causes increased tension on other parts of the structure - even those on the opposite side -- which is then balanced out by increased compression within other parts of the structure. the former encompass structural members which are already in tension or compression before they are exposed to any external force, stabilizing themselves through a phenomenon called prestress; within these structures, "the compression-bearing rigid struts stretch, or tense, the flexible, tension-bearing members, while those tension bearing members compress the rigid struts. these counteracting forces, which equilibrate throughout the structure, are what enable it to stabilize itself" (ingber 49).

[Understanding]

the placebo effect is a pervasive, albeit misunderstood, phenomenon in medicine. in the uk, over 60% of doctors surveyed said they had prescribed placebos in regular clinical practice. in a recent times magazine article, 96% of us physicians surveyed stated that they believe that placebo treatments have real therapeutic effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp39e6elu34

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from the intention experiment...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-roy-water-experiment
the roy water experiment: april 26, 2008

with this study we wished to delve further into water, by testing whether intention can changes the molecular structure of water.

this time, we decided to work with rustum roy, professor of materials science at pennsylvania state university, who is arguably one of the world’s experts on water. we wished ascertain whether there were any changes in the structural organization of our water sample by looking for any changes in the scattering of light waves through our water sample.

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-germination-intention-experiments
the germination intention experiments

after our successful germination intention experiment, and the interesting results we got from our three water intention experiments, psychologist dr. gary schwartz, director of the laboratory for advances in consciousness and health at the university of arizona, and i decided to merge the two by carrying out a water germination experiment. we’d try another germination experiment, but this time we would send the ‘grow’ instructions to the water, not directly to the seeds themselves.

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from the intention experiment...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-peace-intention-experiment
the peace intention experiment

peace intention experiment

after all these small-scale studies of leaves and seeds and water, the intention experiment decided to take a giant leap, to examine whether ‘group mind’ has the power to lower violence and restore peace. the plan was to have readers all over the world join forces on our website to send peace to a particular war-torn area.

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this is great...

sound gives birth to all that is. it is the power behind existence itself and the universe is its outer effect. the sounds we project into the outer world must eventually be harmonized with the sonata being played by the cosmic symphony and the master musician who directs it. music can awaken the heart, and plays an important role in facilitating human betterment and spiritual evolution. in this unique presentation, william meader will discuss the metaphysical implications of sound, particularly as it pertains to the transformational power of the spoken word. he will also explore the profound and far-reaching impact of sound as it facilitates the evolution of human consciousness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgiy5xul5s

be well, be love.

david

[weboy78]

but this case of what is known as a supernumerary phantom limb (spl) is a genuine head-scratcher.

the upshot is that the woman can use the apparitional extremity to relieve very real itches on the cheek. it cannot penetrate solid objects.

she does not always perceive the arm but "retrieves" it when needed, doctors told the swiss news agency.

it is nevertheless the first case known to doctors of a person being able to feel, see and deliberately move a limb that doesn't exist. the findings are published in the annals of neurology

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/doctors_confirm_woman_s_imaginary_third_arm.html?s itesect=105&sid=10522330&rss=true&ty=st&ref=ti_spa

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=151449

be well, be love.

david

aetheric thoughts
posted on sunday, 12 april, 2009 | 5:32 | comments: 0

image credit: f. schmutzerwilliam b stoecker: in the latter part of the nineteenth century, physicists theorized that light and other electromagnetic radiation might be propagated through space via some tenuous medium they called the luminiferous (light bearing) aether. it could be thought of, perhaps, as another kind of matter. then, in 1887, two american physicists, michelson and morley, constructed an apparatus using two mirrors and a semi-silvered mirror to split a light beam into two beams travelling at right angles to one another and then recombined them and measured the size of the interference fringes caused by constructive and destructive interference. it was reasoned that, as the earth orbited the sun and moved through the aether, the beams, due to a kind of aether wind, would travel at different velocities, creating patterns within a certain range. they repeated the experiment over and over and in many directions, and never found evidence of an aether wind. other physicists, more recently, have had the same result. it was reasoned that if there was an aether, there would have to be an aether wind, so, clearly, there is no aether.

science had to go back to the drawing boards, so to speak, and one of the results of this was einstein's special theory of relativity, published in 1905 and dealing, as the title implies, with the concept that motion is never absolute, but only relative. yet it seems to me, even though relativity theory seems to have passed every test, that there can, indeed, be absolute motion. imagine that you are in a room with a large balloon filled with air. the air molecules inside the balloon are vibrating and circulating, but you can still move relative to the balloon as a whole. if the balloon were removed and you had only the air mass, for all its internal movements, you could move relative to the mass as a whole. planets like our earth orbit the sun, but you can move relative to our solar system taken as an entire unit. and you can move relative to our entire galaxy, despite all of its internal movements. by extension, then, it is possible to consider our entire universe, whether it is expanding or not, as a single immense "object"...and move relative to it. since the universe is, by definition, everything that exists, that would make the motion absolute.

[starborne]

hello all! i wanted to share something i found today that i thought would be of interest. it's a picture taken by the chandra observatory just recently of a pulsar in our galaxy. the image is of a great cosmic hand, or so it appears. it got me to thinking about how the image of human beings is written into the very consciousness of the logos. without further ado, i give you the picture:


http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/b1509.jpg

incase the picture does not show up, or if you want more science behind the image, here is the link:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/


hope you all enjoy this as much as i have. :)

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_body_politic/

be well, be love.

david

the deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: are we organisms or living ecosystems?

as soon as we are born, bacteria move in. they stake claims in our digestive and respiratory tracts, our teeth, our skin. they establish increasingly complex communities, like a forest that gradually takes over a clearing. by the time we’re a few years old, these communities have matured, and we carry them with us, more or less, for our entire lives. our bodies harbor 100 trillion bacterial cells, outnumbering our human cells 10 to one. it’s easy to ignore this astonishing fact. bacteria are tiny in comparison to human cells; they contribute just a few pounds to our weight and remain invisible to us.
it’s also been easy for science to overlook their role in our bodies and our health. researchers have largely concerned themselves with bacteria’s negative role as pathogens: the devastating effects of a handful of infectious organisms have always seemed more urgent than what has been considered a benign and relatively unimportant relationship with “good” bacteria. in the intestine, the bacterial hub of the body that teems with trillions of microbes, they have traditionally been called “commensal” organisms — literally, eating at the same table. the moniker suggests that while we’ve known for decades that gut bacteria help digestion and prevent infections, they are little more than ever-present dinner guests.

but there’s a growing consensus among scientists that the relationship between us and our microbes is much more of a two-way street. with new technologies that allow scientists to better identify and study the organisms that live in and on us, we’ve become aware that bacteria, though tiny, are powerful chemical factories that fundamentally affect how the human body functions. they are not simply random squatters, but organized communities that evolve with us and are passed down from generation to generation. through research that has blurred the boundary between medical and environmental microbiology, we’re beginning to understand that because the human body constitutes their environment, these microbial communities have been forced to adapt to changes in our diets, health, and lifestyle choices. yet they, in turn, are also part of our environments, and our bodies have adapted to them. our dinner guests, it seems, have shaped the very path of human evolution.

[weboy78]

do you know this?

http://www.answers.com/topic/baron-karl-von-reichenbach
meanwhile his experiments in human sensitivity from 1839 onward were not as well received by his colleagues; in fact, he was harshly criticized. these experiments involved attempts to demonstrate a mysterious vital force which he named "od," for the norse deity odin, indicating a power, like the animal magnetism conceived by franz a. mesmer, which permeates the whole of nature.

detection and demonstration of this force depended upon sensitives—specially gifted individuals rather like psychics, although reichenbach's sensitives were ordinary people from all walks of life. these individuals experienced specific reactions to the proximity of other people—feelings of pleasant coolness and drowsiness or, on the other hand, disagreeable, numbing, or exciting feelings. they also manifested a special right-hand/ left-hand polarity, which affected their reactions to other people standing or sitting near to their right or left sides, and particularly to sleeping positions with partners. they were also sympathetic to the color blue, and antipathetic to yellow; they had particular food fetishes; were sensitive to certain metals; and unpleasantly affected by mirrors.

in a long series of experiments with some two hundred individuals, reichenbach documented the reports of sensitives to seeing emanations from crystals and magnets in total darkness and detecting alternations of electric current. they could also perceive an aura surrounding the human body....

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.greenearthfound.org/write/expanding.html

be well, be love.

david

expanding consciousness in a living systems universe
ralph metzner, ph.d.

california institute of integral studies

the word consciousness is derived from the latin con-scire - “with-knowing”. we can ask “knowing-with” - what? a relational, or systems, view is implicit in this etymology: pointing to the relation between subject and object, between the knower and the known. conscious knowing (con-scire) is knowing with knowing that you know. this can be contrasted to the unconscious knowing involved in my knowing how to grow hair, or skin cells over a wound; and my knowing how to tie my shoelaces, or ride a bicycle, which has become a kind of unconscious or automated knowing.

historically there have been two main metaphors for consciousness, one spatial or topographical, and one temporal or developmental. the topographical metaphor is expressed in conceptions of consciousness as like a territory, a terrain, or a field, a “state” one can enter into or leave; or like empty space, as in buddhist psychology. the spatial metaphor, can lead to a certain kind of fixity in one’s perception or worldview, a craving for stability and persistence, and anxiety about change. from this point of view, ordinary waking consciousness is the preferred state, and “altered states” are viewed with some anxiety and suspicion, -- as if an “altered” state is automatically abnormal. in many ways this is the attitude of mainstream western thought toward alterations of consciousness—even the rich diversity of dreamlife and the changed awareness possible with introspection, psychotherapy or meditation is regarded with suspicion by the dominant extraverted worldview.

the temporal metaphor for consciousness is seen in conceptions such as william james’ “stream of thought”, or the stream of awareness, or the “flow experience”, as well as in developmental theories of consciousness going through various stages. historically, we see the temporal metaphor emphasized in the thought of the pre-socratic philosophers thales and heraclitus, in buddhist teachings of impermanence (anicca) , and in the taoist emphasis on the flows and eddies of water as the basic patterns of all life. from this point of view, wave-like fluctuations of consciousness are regarded as natural and inevitable, and health, well-being and creativity are linked to one’s ability to tune into and utilize the naturally occurring, and the “artificially” induced, modulations of consciousness.

[GlassOfWater]

hello all. i am new to these forums as i have just lately got into this whole thing. i must say its a great place to learn and get a new perspective on all of these spiritual things.

the question i have is about getting my body fixed. i red few davids posts where he mentions that one must pay attention to mind,body,spirit to move further and be able to connect with your higher self.

i been spending a lot of time working with my mind... i would even go as far as saying i been working with it my whole life and i just lately i been getting a lot of progress just because i got into the principles of "the now" and living in present.

as it came to my mind the next step i am going to take is my body. i never really led a healthy life style not even mentioning diets like david wrote in his post or anything like that.

i was thinking maybe you could recommend me some material/book/post about diet/foods to eat and all this food aspect since its something totaly new for me and also i am not ready to take the whole diet what david posted in his thread. but i am thinking of taking a lot out of it. also i must mention that there is so much info out there i am just not sure what to listen to. i am looking something that is similar to davids approach just more explained and more details. is there anything like that out there?


lastly i want to ask a question i think would fit in this thread since i dont want to make another thread about these things is about how much of body "issues" (overweight, acne, sweating) are caused by food we eat or its deeper mind/energetic issues? mostly i am going to do this diet thing and try to find answers for myself but a preview or an opinion would be much appreciated as well.

thanks.

[weboy78]

http://www.physorg.com/news161439308.html

in this fluorescent image of a zebrafish embryo, endothelial cells (blood vessels) are labeled green and erythrocytes (red blood cells) are labeled red and imaged by confocal microscopy. this embryo was exposed to snap, which enhanced no production, increased blood flow and elevated blood stem cell formation. in the picture, the red "lines" are red blood cells flowing through the large vessels (like the aorta where the stem cells are formed) and heart in a live embryo. image courtesy of wolfram goessling and trista north...

[billybobbutterball]

hello all. i am new to these forums as i have just lately got into this whole thing. i must say its a great place to learn and get a new perspective on all of these spiritual things.


i was thinking maybe you could recommend me some material/book/post about diet/foods to eat and all this food aspect since its something totally new for me and also i am not ready to take the whole diet what david posted in his thread. but i am thinking of taking a lot out of it. also i must mention that there is so much info out there i am just not sure what to listen to. i am looking something that is similar to davids approach just more explained and more details. is there anything like that out there?

snip


lastly i want to ask a question i think would fit in this thread since i don't want to make another thread about these things is about how much of body "issues" (overweight, acne, sweating) are caused by food we eat or its deeper mind/energetic issues? mostly i am going to do this diet thing and try to find answers for myself but a preview or an opinion would be much appreciated as well.

thanks.

hi, mr. water. (or do you prefer, glass?)

boy,gw, that is a big order!

healthy diet?/spiritual diet? sometimes they are not quite the same thing.

and yes, the mental outlook is important. there is one advocate of this aspect who has what he calls the gabriel method, which stresses attitude and mental visualization above diet per se. but such concentration and attention to one's physical development through psychical means can skirt perilously close to turning into too much service to one's self ( sts) --which is contrary to the basic theme of divine cosmos in its emphasizing service to others (sto) path --- sts/sto are ubiquitous terms you will run into as they are constantly being used on this forum.

i would suggest you do some exploring using the search function concerning food, etc. changing ones diet is one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish --that is, for more than how long a short burst of resolution lasts:) --

our food supply is lacking in vital micronutrients and that makes getting everything strictly from food difficult. for general diet discussion google dr. mercola.com. every few days has a free newsletter that is worth your time; also he offers a vast archive of information you can tap into...mercola is a medical doctor, but his concentration is on the alternative options. and when it turns out he is wrong, he will correct it

one immediate bit of vital advice you (everyone!) can put into action immediately. don't eat or drink anything that has been nuked in a microwave oven !...not even 'innocently' warming up your coffee, or a bit of leftovers. seriously!

i really hate to write this response :o--because it is so totally inadequate in answering the important questions you raised... sorry.

my best, etc. bbb:)

and, yes, do give thanks and gratitude to/for your food and drink! such attention can make a vital difference!

[GlassOfWater]

thanks for your suggestion of mercola.com its a great site and i have found most of the questions i was looking for there.

also i can add that anyone who is new to whole eating healthy thing can check out the mercola.com because its a great place to start.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://lach.web.arizona.edu/sophia/

be well, be love.

david

the sophia project

sophia project entity communications study is now recruiting new subjects.

about the sophia project

the sophia project is being conducted under the direction of gary e. schwartz, phd in the laboratory for advances in consciousness and health.

the first study in this project is the entity communications study.

background and rationale

numerous individuals in various cultures throughout history have reported an ability to communicate with non-human entities, deceased people, and other-worldly beings. over the past few years, an increase in the reporting of these types of experiences has been seen in popular american culture including books, websites, and television shows. the rational scientific investigation of this topic is necessary to either validate the experiences or elucidate the psychological mechanisms behind these phenomena. this study is intended to investigate this controversial topic in a thorough and objective manner.

purpose and objectives

the purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of people who claim to channel or communicate with deceased people, spirit guides, angels, other-worldly entities / extraterrestrials, and / or a universal intelligence / god. the ultimate objective is to investigate if these communications can be validated

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.alienseekernews.com/articles/god-and-multiverse.html?vivvosessionid=31814d614a11adf5769 95

be well, be love.

david

god and the multiverse
peter fotis kapnistos may 17 2009

stephen hawking once thought that if the universe began to contract, the whole thermodynamic arrow of time must reverse with it. "everything would go into the reverse of the way we experience things today: light would travel back to the stars, and broken eggs on the floor would miraculously put themselves back together again."

when it was originally published in 1902, "the varieties of religious experience" by william james established the first psychological analysis of religion. it paved the way for the clinical and paranormal branches of psychology created by freud and jung.
william james's book remains the best introduction to his pragmatic way of thinking, his almost devotional respect for discoveries of the human mind, and his unique claims upon the significance of personal experience. james's classic study is of fundamental importance not only to the awareness of religions, but to modern psychology and psychiatric medicine. underscored with personal accounts of belief and possession, intoxication, and near-death experience, james's theories of conversion, saintliness, ecstasy, and mysticism continue to raise new questions and stir up fresh debates.

but some extreme adjustments have been made to the realm of science since then. it nowadays looks as if a groundless (and maybe financial) fear of touching the electrified "third rail" of intellectual disapproval prevents many researchers from speaking out about the varieties of unworldly experience. just one year after william james published his psychological analysis, orville and wilbur wright launched their famous first aircraft flight. our contemporary space epoch finally got underway. today, perhaps space exploration also influences the scientific viewpoint of the paranormal. for regardless of how skeptical we may be of the unknown, there is really nothing very "normal" to be said about walking on the moon or encountering distant worlds. new technological miracles surprisingly awaken old insights of traditional beliefs. as a result, some of the greatest efforts of modern skeptics to block the bonding of unconscious archetypes are merely wasted labors in our current point in time.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=104291534&ft=1&f=1012

be well, be love.

david

are spiritual encounters all in your head?
by barbara bradley hagerty

all things considered, may 19, 2009 · according to polls, there's a 50-50 chance you have had at least one spiritual experience — an overpowering feeling that you've touched god, or another dimension of reality.

so, have you ever wondered whether those encounters actually happened — or whether they were all in your head? scientists say the answer might be both.

if you're looking for evidence that religion is in your head, you need look no further than jeff schimmel. the 49-year-old los angeles writer was raised in a conservative jewish home. but he never bought into god — until after he was touched by a being outside of himself.

"yeah," schimmel says, "i was touched by a surgeon."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1691125/air_pollution_can_damage_dna_in_three_days/index.html?source=r_health

be well, be love.

david

air pollution can damage dna in three days
posted on: monday, 18 may 2009, 18:54 cdt

inhalation of some particulates can cause some genes to become reprogrammed, affecting the development and outcome of cancers, italian researchers said.

dr. andrea baccarelli of the university of milan enrolled 63 healthy subjects who worked in a foundry near milan. blood dna samples were collected on the morning of the first day of the work week, and again after three days of work. comparing these samples revealed that significant changes had occurred in four genes associated with tumor suppression.

the changes were detectable after only three days of exposure to particulate matter, indicating that environmental factors need little time to cause gene reprogramming which is potentially associated with disease outcomes, baccarelli said said in a statement.

[Bluegreen]

what i miss in this thread is a reference to research being done by medical doctors on near death experiences which seem to indicate that the consciousness does not need a brain to 'experience'. one of the pioneers in the medical profession happens to be a dutch cardiologist, pim van lommel. his and other doctors' findings were discussed in the media.

however, since i am new to this board, the subject may already have been discussed in the past.

[LightEye]

dear friends

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2009/brain/

be well, be love.

david

is this your brain on god?

more than half of adult americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. now, scientists from universities like harvard, pennsylvania and johns hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual -- from christians who speak in tongues to buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-peace-intention-experiment

the peace intention experiment

download the pdf of the full results here;

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/the-peace-intention-experiment.pdf

be well, be love.

david

peace intention experiment

after all these small-scale studies of leaves and seeds and water, the intention experiment decided to take a giant leap, to examine whether ‘group mind’ has the power to lower violence and restore peace. the plan was to have readers all over the world join forces on our website to send peace to a particular war-torn area.

for eight days beginning september 14, the intention experiment carried out its first peace intention experiment. as this was a pilot, testing the entire idea and the technology, we deliberately attempted to keep numbers low by carrying out no publicity or advertising. nevertheless, the idea of a mass intention for peace under scientific conditions caught the public imagination, creating a huge buzz virally on the web and attracting tens of thousands of sign ups in just a few weeks.

we enjoyed participation from more than 65 countries and every continent but antarctica – even many far-flung quarters such as mongolia, nepal, indonesia and china.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/article/intuition_delusion_or_perception.html

be well, be love.

david

intuition: delusion or perception? toward a scientific explanation of the akashic experience
© by ervin laszlo

the intuitions reported by mystics, poets, artists, ordinary people, even scientists, often go beyond the range of sensory perception. in the reductionist culture inspired by classical science, they are dismissed as mere delusion – classical empiricism claims that there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the eye. however, the classical tenet is not universally upheld. it is exceptional in the annals of history, and even in the context of contemporary cultures.

in history intuitions were embedded in the conceptual framework through which a given culture interpreted the nature of reality. in indigenous societies shamans and medicine-men (and women) tuned themselves to spontaneous apprehension through rigorous initiation and training; they derived their mystical vision from them. in mythically oriented societies the world was seen as a cosmic realm of spirits, and in classical cultures it was believed to be governed by a panoply of unseen gods. the abrahamic monotheistic religions recognised the intuitions of their prophets as conveying fundamental truths about god and the nature of his creation. eastern cultures have always held that reality extends far beyond the domain of the senses.

[starborne]

ervin laszlo never ceases to amaze me. he is an extreamly brilliant man who all too often isn't given the credit he deserves. it's nice to see that more and more mainstream scientists are coming around and opening their eyes to see that the old dogmatic ways aren't yeilding anything anymore. just imagine the world we could have right now if it weren't folks like jp morgan who chose to squander our future.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/16/1966953.aspx

be well, be love.

david

the universe in your head
posted: tuesday, june 16, 2009 6:30 pm by alan boyle

our consciousness plays a key role in how we perceive space and time, biomedical researcher robert lanza says in "biocentrism."

biomedical researcher robert lanza has been on the frontier of cloning and stem cell studies for more than a decade, so he's well-acclimated to controversy. but his book "biocentrism" is generating controversy on a different plane by arguing that our consciousness plays a central role in creating the cosmos.

"by treating space and time as physical things, science picks a completely wrong starting point for understanding the world," lanza declares.

any claim that space and time aren't cold, hard, physical things has to raise an eyebrow. some of the reactions to lanza's ideas, first set forth two years ago in an essay for the american scholar, brand them as "pseudo-scientific philosophical claptrap" or "no better than any religion."

lanza admits that the reviews haven't all been glowing, particularly among some physicists. "their response has been much how you'd expect priests to respond to stem cell research," he told me monday.

other physicists, however, point out that lanza's view is fully in line with the perspective from quantum mechanics that the observer plays a huge role in how reality is observed.

[mahstar]

wow david, how doyou do it to stay on top of all topics like that?
i found to wonderful articles today, and in both cases found out you posted them first. congrats, you truly stay on top!
wonderful article anyway, nice to hear it from a source independent of yourself.
take care, ciao! thkr

[LightEye]

dear friends,

parts i & ii of a 3 part video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br02bhpvp7m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-hxereeyk

be well, be love.

david

a 10-year database of random trials in continuous parallel sequences generated in a world-spanning network has a rich potential for analysis of factors that might affect physical randomness. the design of the global consciousness project (gcp) successfully shields the data from environmental influences like temperature and electromagnetic fields, but the vetted, normalized database can be probed for responses to a variety of other geophysical influences. however, our primary analyses apply to factors that are psychological and sociological. in particular, the formal “event experiment” is a replication series comprising a composite test of the general hypothesis that there will be non-random structure in the gcp data collected during major world events.

as of june 2008, we have examined about 250 events, and find structure associated with them, in confirmation of the composite hypothesis with million to one odds against chance. we can infer that this is related to human consciousness because the gcp data are affected during times of importance to people. a particular case is structure found during destructive earthquakes on land where they matter to humans, but not when the quakes are in the oceans. we see changes in the data when many people are focused on an event, sharing thoughts and especially emotions, indicating that some form of coherent interconnection is fundamental. we see a significant link with emotions. large effects arise only for strong emotions, and the most powerful effects are produced by events that evoke or embody either fear or compassion.

we have determined that events engaging large numbers, millions of people, reliably show larger effects than those attracting attention from thousands or tens of thousands. the effects are driven by pair-wise correlation of the reg devices during events. we have identified multiple independent response measures which show deviations tracking the same global events. these include network variance and covariance, and anomalous time and distance relationships for the measures.

among the questions we are actively pursuing are indications that the gcp network response may begin minutes or hours before an event. we are looking carefully at an apparent distance scale for the correlations between regs in the network, and at the possibility there may be a time-symmetrical response to the events. other questions that deserve attention are significant long term trends in our measures that may reflect a collective mood or attitude prevailing over months and years, and suggestions of regular correlations for an exact 24-hour cycle but not for slightly longer or shorter artificial “days”, which may reflect a persistent, general effect of human consciousness.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

parts i & ii of a 5 part video series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sawcd8xqirk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_dnlml5jhs

be well, be love.

david

why esp is consciousness only hope

summary:
paul smith makes the case that psi phenomena do not support a strictly physical notion of consciousness.

about the author(s):
paul h. smith is a retired army intelligence officer, and alumnus of the military stargate remote viewing program. paul has degrees in middle east studies, and is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the university of texas at austin. he is president of remote viewing instructional services, and past president of the international remote viewing association (irva).

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qppy-h_ptm4

be well, be love.

david

what if you found out that major university scientists and top secret facilities all over the world were studying the secret powers of the mind and the results were classified until now?

what if the search for the grand theory of everything, the holy grail in physics,
could not be solved without identifying consciousness as a new secret force?

what if this force could be unleashed?

from the body electric, to the human aura, einsteins field equations, and the 9 rings of cosmic consciousness, human beings thoughts and feelings are more powerful than radio transmissions. explore with the experts, the hidden psychic force of your own potential. discover scientific evidence of mental telepathy, how your thoughts shape your reality, to awaken the genius within, cause manifestation, and co-creation to happen.

[moderator note - interesting info, yet is advertising a commercial product - fyi]

[LightEye]

dear friends,

parts i & ii of an 8 part video series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43-unek9d8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odevctxhzxe&feature=related

david

be the change you want to see in this world...

it all starts with one...

all is one...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6016857/invisible-doorways-or-portals-a-step-closer-to-reality-claim-scientists.html

lots of nice new videos at the blog ;-)

be well, be love.

david

invisible doorways or portals a step closer to reality, claim scientists

invisible gateways like the one to platform 9 and 3/4 in harry potter and to lewis carroll's hidden world in through the looking glass are a step closer to reality after scientists developed a new theory.

by richard alleyne, science correspondent
published: 8:00am bst 13 aug 2009
harry potter: platform 9 and 3/4
scientists close to inventing a harry potter platform 9 and 3/4

using a technique known as transformation optics, the researchers have revealed a way to alter the pathway of light waves that could eventually allow them to create portals that are invisible to the human eye.

pushing the laws of refraction and reflection to the limit, the team from hong kong university and fudan university in shanghai, describe the concept of a “a gateway that can block electr

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-theory-of-consciousness

be well, be love.

david

a "complex" theory of consciousness
is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness?
by christof koch

do you think that your newest ac*quisition, a roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious? what about that bee that hovers above your marmalade-covered breakfast toast? or the newborn who finally fell asleep after being suckled? nobody except a dyed-in-the-wool nerd would think of the first as being sentient; adherents of jainism, india’s oldest religion, *believe that bees—and indeed all living creatures, small and large—are aware; whereas most everyone would accord the magical gift of consciousness to the baby.

the truth is that we really do not know which of these organisms is or is not conscious. we have strong feelings about the matter, molded by tradition, religion and law. but we have no objective, rational method, no step-by-step procedure, to determine whether a given organism has subjective states, has feelings.

the reason is that we lack a coherent framework for consciousness. although consciousness is the only way we know about the world within and around us—shades of the famous cartesian deduction cogito, ergo sum—there is no agreement about what it is, how it relates to highly organized matter or what its role in life is. this situation is scandalous! we have a detailed and very successful framework for *matter and for energy but not for the mind-body problem. this dismal state of *affairs might be about to change, however.

[angelboy]

dear loved ones, i have a question i would like to put to you if i may. my niece who as young as she is is engrossed with information on spiritual issues and metaphysics which pleases me no end and i am only too happy to indulge in wonderful topics of all sorts with her. recently we were talking about how interesting and fundamentally complex the human body is and functions so that we can do some of the most basic things with such ease forgetting what it takes in order for these things to occur. i explained that our bodys are made up of intelligent information that is encoded within every atom and every cell of our being, and it is at this quantum level that our bodys in perfect harmony interacts with itself. i even thru in a tremendous quote i heard off a nassim haramein interview where if states that if we unravelled all the dna in a human body and stretched it out it was enough to wrap around this beautiful blue planet 30million times! (hope i got that right) anyway whilst chatting with my niece about this i had a thought which has troubled me since...if we are blessed with encoded dna, and i believe we are, then wouldnt that encapsulate our consciousness being too...and infact an ascension or harvest is already pre-programmed within us for this specific time, and infact it is nothing but a waiting game for everybody involved irrespective of their spiritual disposition or polarity orientation. so really all one needs to do is follow ones heart and what is right within...everything else will just be. your views on this would be most welcome and indeed would assist myself in any tricky questions my niece will throw at me, let alone for my own informational needs. if not i thank every single one of you for taking the time to read this. much love to you all, always. angelboy

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from dr. bruce lipton.

http://www.brucelipton.com/spontaneous-evolution/spontaneous-evolution-chapter-1

be well, be love.

david

spontaneous evolution chapter 1
chapter 1
believing is seeing

“we don’t need to save the world, just spend it more wisely”
— swami beyondananda

we all want to fix the world, whether we realize it or not. on a conscious level, many of us feel inspired to save the planet for altruistic or ethical reasons. on an unconscious level, our efforts to serve as earth stewards are driven by a deeper, more fundamental behavioral programming known as the biological imperative—the drive to survive. we inherently sense that if the planet goes down, so do we. so, armed with good intentions, we survey the world and wonder, “where do we begin?”

terrorism, genocide, poverty, global warming, diseases, famine . . . stop already! each new crisis adds to a looming mountain of despair, and we can be easily overwhelmed by the urgency and magnitude of the threats before us. we think, “i am just one person—one out of billions. what can i do about this mess?” combine the enormity of the mission with how small and helpless we imagine we are, and our good intentions soon fly out the window.

consciously or unconsciously, most of us accept our own powerlessness and frailty in a seemingly out-of-control world. we perceive ourselves as mere mortals, just trying to make it through the day. people, on presuming helplessness, frequently beseech god to solve their problems.

the image of a caring god deafened by a never-ending cacophony of pleas emanating from this ailing planet was amusingly portrayed in the movie, bruce almighty, in which jim carrey’s character, bruce, took over god’s job. paralyzed by the din of prayers playing endlessly in his mind, bruce transformed the prayers into post-it notes only to become buried under a blizzard of sticky paper.

while many profess to live their lives by the bible, the perception of powerlessness is so pervasive that even the most faithful seem blind to the frequent references in the scriptures that extol our powers. for example, the bible offers specific instructions in regard to that looming mountain of despair: “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’ and it will move. nothing will be impossible for you.”1 that’s a hard mustard seed to swallow. all we need is faith, and nothing will be impossible for us? yeah . . . right!

but, seriously, with these divine instructions at hand, we ask ourselves, “is our presumed powerlessness and frailty a true reflection of human abilities?” advances in biology and physics offer an amazing alternative—one that suggests our sense of disempowerment is the result of learned limitations. therefore, when we inquire, “what do we truly know about ourselves?” we are really asking, “what have we learned about ourselves?”

[moderator note: we don't usually allow links to or discussion of books, but here there is only the first chapter given - i've read it and it's quite on topic for the thread ;)]

[Threethree]

..and infact an ascension or harvest is already pre-programmed within us for this specific time, and infact it is nothing but a waiting game for everybody involved irrespective of their spiritual disposition or polarity orientation. so really all one needs to do is follow ones heart and what is right within...everything else will just be. angelboy

it is pre-programmed, but not within the frame work of time. the waiting game is a diversion. that's the entirety of the game. ascension/harvest occurs when you cease desiring. time devolves into a vortex of limitless love at that zero-point.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i believe this was posted in article form, but not the original research paper.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2f10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0006256

be well, be love.

david

imaging of ultraweak spontaneous photon emission from human body displaying diurnal rhythm

masaki kobayashi1*, daisuke kikuchi1, hitoshi okamura2,3*

1 department of electronics and intelligent systems, tohoku institute of technology, sendai, japan, 2 department of systems biology, kyoto university graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences, kyoto, japan, 3 department of brain science, kobe university graduate school of medicine, kobe, japan

abstract top

the human body literally glimmers. the intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes. ultraweak photon emission is known as the energy released as light through the changes in energy metabolism. we successfully imaged the diurnal change of this ultraweak photon emission with an improved highly sensitive imaging system using cryogenic charge-coupled device (ccd) camera. we found that the human body directly and rhythmically emits light. the diurnal changes in photon emission might be linked to changes in energy metabolism.

copyright: © 2009 kobayashi et al. this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

bioluminescence, which is weak but visible, is sometimes produced in living organisms, such as fireflies or jellyfish, as the result of specialized enzymatic reactions that require adenosine triphosphate. however, virtually all living organisms emit extremely weak light, spontaneously without external photoexcitation [1]. this biophoton emission is categorized in different phenomena of light emission from bioluminescence, and is believed to be a by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species [1], [2]. human body is glimmering with light of intensity weaker than 1/1000 times the sensitivity of naked eyes [3], [4]. by using a sensitive charge-coupled-device (ccd) camera with the ability to detect light at the level of a single photon, we succeeded in imaging the spontaneous photon emission from human bodies [3].

[LightEye]

dear friends,

check out the other articles too...

http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/edgescience_01.pdf

be well, be love.

david

is the global mind real?
roger d. nelson

history changed course in late 2001, when the world watched in shock and horror as the world trade towers collapsed, destroyed by passenger planes turned into bombs by terrorists. it was a long moment of profound emotional sharing across the globe, with shock and fear turning to anguish
and ultimately to compassion. in the midst of the tragedy many of us could see signs of humanity
coming together as one. that was not to be, sadly. but for a moment, there was a powerful
convergence of thought and emotion across the world that registered clearly in data from the global consciousness project. maybe this scientific instrument also picked up our coherence, the signature of a global mind startled awake by the intense synchronized activity of our local minds.
broadly shared responses to events are increasingly common because our communication networks spread the word instantly when disasters strike. the great earthquakes in turkey and the tsunami in the indian ocean created tragedies that we all saw. the internet and mobile phones and high speed travel are making the world accessible and interconnected in ways that are new, but not strange. humans are social animals and we naturally congregate. nowadays we gather in ever larger numbers, even though global distances may separate us physically. as the new year arrives
in each time zone, we share the celebrations in fiji, hong kong, novosibirsk, london, new york, and share the anticipation of a singular midnight moment. the internet enables organized meditations that can bring a million people around the world into synchronized focus. and bad
news travels very fast in the 21st century. the global consciousness project, or gcp, is
an international collaboration of scientists running an instrument designed to capture possible effects of shared consciousness, much in the way that laboratory experiments have shown effects of intention on sensitive electronic devices that generate random numbers. in the lab, a person tries to change the behavior of a random number generator (or rng, which is a physical device, not a computer program) to produce smaller or larger numbers—the equivalent of flipping a coin and getting an excess of heads—just by wishing or willing the change. the experiments show that human
intention can induce small, but significant changes in the output of an rng. when we take the same instruments into the field, we find they also respond to special moments of group consciousness produced by shared experience in rituals and ceremonies, or inspired by great music or intense meetings of mind. the gcp instrument is a network of stations around the world where random data are collected. it uses the same technology as the lab and field experiments, and asks the natural question: is there non-random structure in the data when great events occur? by implication we are asking whether the rngs might capture evidence of a global consciousness, but it will it is our
duty—as men and women—to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist. we are collaborators in creation of the universe.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/06/near-death-brain.html

be well, be love.

david

brain waves surge moments before death
irene klotz, discovery news

oct. 6, 2009 -- a study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals.

doctors at george washington university medical faculty associates recorded brain activity of people dying from critical illnesses, such as cancer or heart attacks.

moments before death, the patients experienced a burst in brain wave activity, with the spikes occurring at the same time before death and at comparable intensity and duration.

writing in the october issue of the journal of palliative medicine, the doctors theorize that the brain surges may be tied to widely reported near-death experiences which typically involve spiritual or religious attributes.

at first, doctors thought the electrical surges picked up by electroencephalographs were caused by other machines or cell phones in the rooms of dying patients, lead author lakhmir chawla told discovery news.

the eecs were being used to monitor patients' level of consciousness as doctors and families wrestle with end-of-life issues.

[weboy78]

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/news-and-notices/news/press-releases/genome-10082009.shtml
scientists decipher the 3-d structure of the human genome

fractal globule architecture packs two meters of dna into each human cell, avoids knots

cambridge, mass. - october 8, 2009 - scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular dna folds at scales that dwarf the double helix.

in a paper featured this week on the cover of the journal science, they describe a new technology called hi-c and apply it to answer the thorny question of how each of our cells stows some three billion base pairs of dna while maintaining access to functionally crucial segments. the paper comes from a team led by scientists at harvard university, the broad institute of harvard and mit, university of massachusetts medical school, and the massachusetts institute of technology...

[cramoo]

when david spoke to dr pete peterson in the project camelot interviews some interesting thoughts about the development of the mind and brain were mentioned. the work of joseph chilton pearce was referenced, his research about how the brain develops is essential for human kind to grasp before one can take further steps to live in a more peaceful, harmonious, integrated and considered world.
our birthing and child practises are still backward and do not give the infant the greatest opportunity for optimal brain development, as chilton pearce suggests the formulation and accumulation of brain matrices, one developmental matrix being essential to every one which follows. so to miss out on essential developmental stages through poor birthing, parenting and schooling practices results in children being stuck. therefore we see arrested development in adults - which has such a negative impact for our emotional, intellectual and spirtual growth.

thanks david and pete peterson for directing me to read the work of joseph chilton pearce.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

obe's are way cool and i must be part of that 5% of those "normal" people who've had them... ;-)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427291.100-out-of-your-head-leaving-the-body-behind.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

out of your head: leaving the body behind
13 october 2009 by anil ananthaswamy

the young man woke feeling dizzy. he got up and turned around, only to see himself still lying in bed. he shouted at his sleeping body, shook it, and jumped on it. the next thing he knew he was lying down again, but now seeing himself standing by the bed and shaking his sleeping body. stricken with fear, he jumped out of the window. his room was on the third floor. he was found later, badly injured.

what this 21-year-old had just experienced was an out-of-body experience, one of the most peculiar states of consciousness. it was probably triggered by his epilepsy (journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry, vol 57, p 838). "he didn't want to commit suicide," says peter brugger, the young man's neuropsychologist at university hospital zurich in switzerland. "he jumped to find a match between body and self. he must have been having a seizure."

in the 15 years since that dramatic incident, brugger and others have come a long way towards understanding out-of-body experiences. they have narrowed down the cause to malfunctions in a specific brain area and are now working out how these lead to the almost supernatural experience of leaving your own body and observing it from afar. they are also using out-of-body experiences to tackle a long-standing problem: how we create and maintain a sense of self.

dramatised to great effect by such authors as dostoevsky, wilde, de maupassant and poe - some of whom wrote from first-hand knowledge - out-of-body experiences are usually associated with epilepsy, migraines, strokes, brain tumours, drug use and even near-death experiences. it is clear, though, that people with no obvious neurological disorders can have an out-of-body experience. by some estimates, about 5 per cent of healthy people have one at some point in their lives.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.300-timewarp-how-your-brain-creates-the-fourth-dimension.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

timewarp: how your brain creates the fourth dimension
21 october 2009 by douglas fox

the man dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. and then it happens. the cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.

panic sets in, but he's been given an assignment and so, fighting his fear of death, he stares at the instrument strapped to his wrist, before falling into the sweet embrace of a safety net. a team of scientists will spend weeks studying the results.

the experiment was extreme, certainly, but the neuroscientist behind the study, david eagleman at baylor college of medicine in houston, texas, is no dr strangelove. when we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. eagleman wanted to know whether the brain's clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain's workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.

it's just one of many mysteries concerning how we experience time that we are only now beginning to crack. "time," says eagleman, "is much weirder than we think it is."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/

be well, be love.

david

how terahertz waves tear apart dna

a new model of the way the thz waves interact with dna explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather

great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance.

the way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. and even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=easy-go-easy-come

also dean's blog where he predicts this shall eventually lead to proof of telepathy;

http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2009/11/dynamic-entanglement-in-living-systems.html

be well, be love.

david

how noise can help quantum entanglement
what spoils quantum entanglement can also restore it
by george musser

wouldn’t it be nice to be an electron? then you, too, could take advantage of the marvels of quantum mechanics, such as being in two places at once—very handy for juggling the competing demands of modern life. alas, physicists have long spoiled the fantasy by saying that quantum mechanics applies only to microscopic things.

yet that is a myth. in the modern view that has gained traction in the past decade, you don’t see quantum effects in everyday life not because you are big, per se, but because those effects are camouflaged by their own sheer complexity. they are there if you know how to look, and physicists have been realizing that they show up in the macroscopic world more than they thought. “the standard arguments may be too pessimistic as to the survival of quantum effects,” says nobel laureate physicist anthony leggett of the university of illinois.

in the most distinctive such effect, called entanglement, two electrons establish a kind of telepathic link that transcends space and time. and not just electrons: you, too, retain a quantum bond with your loved ones that endures no matter how far apart you may be. if that sounds hopelessly romantic, the flip side is that particles are incurably promiscuous, hooking up with every other particle they meet. so you also retain a quantum bond with every loser who ever bumped into you on the street and every air molecule that ever brushed your skin. the bonds you want are overwhelmed by those you don’t. entanglement thus foils entanglement, a process known as decoherence.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24425/?a=f

be well, be love.

david

the emerging field of biophotonic communication

the growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research.

last year, researchers at the rush university medical center in chicago showed that human cells in culture could synchronize their internal chemical processes even though they were mechanically, chemically, and electrically isolated from one another. the cells, it seemed, were communicating through the exchange of photons.

various other groups have shown similar effects. many cells seems to produce optical and uv photons at about 10 photons per square cm/s, a rate that cannot be explained by ordinary thermodynamic emissions. other evidence indicates that this form of optical communication can increase the rate of mitosis in cells by up to 50 percent.

so how do they do it? today sergei mayburov at the lebedev institute of physics in moscow puts forward the idea that optical communication is a natural process in many cells that can be explained by the way we already know many cells to function.

he points out that biologists have long known that photons play a central role in the biochemistry of many plant and bacterial cells. the basic idea, laid out in the 1960s, is that optical or uv photons enter a cell and stimulate the creation of excitons, electron-hole pairs, on certain long chain molecules. the exciton travels along the molecule, influencing the way it reacts with other species within the cell. this is the basic theory behind photosynthesis.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

translation from babelfish.

you'll have to paste the article whole here and translate it.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/dna2.html

be well, be love.

david

dna communicates in the universe
grazyna fosar and franz bludorf

the older our civilization is, becomes the more curious we. topics such as telepathie, selbstheilung, affirmationstechniken, teleportation, trance, meditation etc. do not only fascinate psi researchers, in addition, completely normal humans, who are confronted nowadays more and more with such consciousness phenomena. all these terms have somewhat together - this concerns remote transmission of subject, information or completely simply from light. the newest experiments in the science open completely new perspectives to us to understand these abilities of consciousness and to shake our momentary conception of the world. and vibrations are always good. in such a case must one for beginning always think. dna and wave genetics can our dna think? up to now we know only that we carry an organic giant molecule, which is called dna deeply inside each cell of our body. it is the carrier of the genetic code, and from it all genes are formed, which are responsible for the structure of our body. one, this believed long time exclusively happens on biochemical way. the dna forms an enormous doubling rank of bases, in whom the heiress formation is coded, with whose assistance then inside the cell protein be made can. russian scientists found out however that the dna can do still much more.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brainwaving.com/?p=377

be well, be love.

david

left in the dark
science of the mind — posted by tony wright on november 17, 2009 at 10:25 am

while a student at edinburgh botanic gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘the genetic manipulation of plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in tony wright’s mind. over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation resulted in the development of a simple idea that explains the emergence of increasingly anomalous traits in human evolution. from the rapid and accelerating expansion of our large brain to the mysteries of our mind and the origins of spiritual practice he has developed a new context in which we may understand who we are and has provided a framework for the reunification of the academic and spiritual science of consciousness.

working independently and alone, the fruits of his labour are only now beginning to reach a wider audience through the recent publication of ‘left in the dark’, despite the major practical and philosophical implications initial reaction has been exceptionally favourable. tony is now focused on bringing this modern translation of very ancient wisdom into mainstream culture in the hope that it may help provide a way out of the self-imposed madness we currently mistake as normality.
the following article was written exclusively for brainwaving:
consciousness and the direction of structure

the molecular origins of our species wide insanity
the fundamental causality of our self inflicted suffering

by tony wright (pdf version)

solving the mystery of human evolution using darwin’s basic theory required no more than a simple reinterpretation of existing data and the application of basic biological principles. the same approach simultaneously resolves several other major enigmas in disciplines rarely considered within the same context. by following in the footsteps of william of ockham, the path of least resistance leads to a simple, coherent and elegant explanation for our unique physiological traits and sheds light on the state of our mind.

your ability to read and understand this article, your perception, state of mind and sense of self is directly related to the co-ordinated real time variations in structure and cascading flood of chemical and electrical chain reactions in your brain. that is not to say your consciousness is the structure, rather one facilitates the other. forget for now the so-called hard problem, how does consciousness arise or emerge from a large glob of fatty stuff, or the esoteric realms of physics where the nature of matter and energy is indeterminate. let us begin with a model based on the concept of structure, in this case the microstructure and molecular arrangement of our brain as an understanding at this level may shed light on some of the more esoteric mysteries.

a single brain cell is more complex by many orders than anything most of us have ever imagined, a comparison with the best of our technology would be laughable. sub atomic, atomic and molecular engineering of extraordinary elegance, a whole dynamic ecosystem in constant yet precisely orchestrated flux.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

yes! there is only light...

http://www.viewzone.com/dna.html

be well, be love.

david

are humans really beings of light?
share this site dan eden for viewzone.com

i get lots of suggestions for stories, and i really appreciate them. but some of them are too good to be true. an example of this was a story of a giant human skeleton -- maybe 40 feet tall -- that was discovered by a russian archaeological team. the story had photos and links accompanying it and looked promising. but when the links were researched they went in a circle. each link used the other link as the source. finally the elements of the photos turned up and we recognized a good photoshop job had fooled everyone.

i had this same experience this week when i was sent an article where a russian (again) scientist, pjotr garjajev, had managed to intercept communication from a dna molecule in the form of ultraviolet photons -- light! what's more, he claimed to have captured this communication from one organism (a frog embryo) with a laser beam and then transmitted it to another organisms dna (a salamander embryo), causing the latter embryo to develop into a frog!

but this was just the beginning.

dr. garjajev claims that this communication is not something that happens only inside the individual cells or between one cell and another. he claims organisms use this "light" to "talk" to other organisms and suggested that this could explain telepathy and esp. it was like human beings already had their own wireless internet based on our dna. wow!

i tried to find a scientific journal that had this experiment. all i could find were blogs and other websites that carried the same story, word for word, without any references. that is until i stumbled on the work of fritz-albert popp [right]. then everything i had just read seemed very plausible.

fritz-albert popp thought he had discovered a cure for cancer. i'm not convinced that he didn't.

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. popp was too early to worry about things like cellphones and microwave towers which are now commonly linked with cancers and leukemia. his world was much smaller.

he'd been examining two almost identical molecules: benzo[a]pyrene, a polycyclic hydrocarbon known to be one of the most lethal carcinogens to humans, and its twin (save for a tiny alteration in its molecular makeup), benzo[e]pyrene. he had illuminated both molecules with ultraviolet (uv) light in an attempt to find exactly what made these two almost identical molecules so different.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.viewzone.com/archeosound.html

be well, be love.

ancient temple architects may have been chasing a buzz from sound waves

emerging archaeology in a new study highlighted by the old temples study foundation suggests that sound and a desire to harness its effects may have been equally important as vision in the design of humankinds earliest ancient temples and monumental buildings.

sarasota, fl (prweb) december 1, 2009 -- six-thousand-year-old ancient temples are giving up acoustic clues for modern scientists. intriguing new research on ancient temples in malta and highlighted by the old temples study foundation is resonating through international archaeology and interdisciplinary classics research. reaching beyond the scope of traditional archaeology, a multi-disciplinary approach has opened a new dimension for the study of the ancient world.

"we may be hitting on one of those 'lost secrets'," says linda eneix, president of the ots foundation, dedicated to archaeology research and education related to the ancient temples of mediterranean malta.

[PriestOfLight]

i couldn't believe that i just read this in the huffington post. great article on the science of spirituality...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html

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?

love and light

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.viewzone.com/memorytest1.html

be well, be love.

david

are memories really in the brain?

it shouldn't be surprising that computers are designed to work like our own minds. they have basically three different types of memory to store data. there's the randon access memory (ram), the hard drive (hd) and the archival storage like cd's, flash drives and such. while we can point to the components in our computer which store this digital memory, scientists are still unable to explain exactly where memory is stored in our brains.

we assume that our memories are somewhere inside our cranium. the common belief is that they are stored in brain cells which can be stimulated and retrieved. this view of memory storage is supported by neurosurgeons who use electrical stimulation during delicate brain operations. they do these operations with the patient awake and the electrical stimulation is done to determine which areas of the brain control vital functions so they can avoid damaging or accidentally removing them with a tumor. frequently, patient report that this stimulation triggers detailed memories of past experiences which are replayed like a video in their mind.

but other medical procedures only complicate the understanding of where memories reside in the brain.

over many decades of medical history, patients have had large chucks of their brains removed -- just about every region -- and many reported only small or insignificant memory loss. one famous 44 year old french patient [right] had completely intact memory despite the discovery that his skull almost completely empty! it was full of fluid with just a few centimeters of brain tissue surrounding this empty space, clinging to the bony cranium. he apparently suffered from encephalopathy as an infant and it was never previously detected.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brainwaving.com/2009/09/29/the-conscious-heart/

be well, be love.

david

the conscious heart
science of the mind — posted by cosmo on september 29, 2009 at 3:30 pm

rollin mccraty reveals the discovery that neural activity within the heart appears to influence our conscious perception, cognition, and emotional processing, which suggests that the traditional role attributed to the heart as the seat of our deepest emotions may be true after all.

the body’s heart field

many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. a growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.

the nervous system within the heart (or “heart brain”) enables it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the brain’s cerebral cortex.

far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is now recognized by scientists as a highly complex system with its own functional “brain.” research in the new discipline of neurocardiology shows that the heart is a sensory organ and a sophisticated center for receiving and processing information. the nervous system within the heart (or “heart brain”) enables it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the brain’s cerebral cortex. moreover, numerous experiments have demonstrated that the signals the heart continuously sends to the brain influence the function of higher brain centers involved in perception, cognition, and emotional processing.

in addition to the extensive neural communication network linking the heart with the brain and body, the heart also communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. the heart generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field. compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body. the magnetic component is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091216151151.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3a+sciencedaily+%28sciencedaily% 3a+latest+science+news%29&utm_content=google+reader

be well, be love.

david

cells move in mysterious ways, experiments reveal

sciencedaily (dec. 17, 2009) — scientists at brown university and the california institute of technology have for the first time tracked how cells move in three dimensions by measuring the force exerted by them on their surroundings. the scientists' experiments revealed that cells move in a push-pull fashion, such as probing at depth, redistributing weight at various points and coiling and elongating.

our cells are more like us than we may think. they're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether and where to move. such caution serves us well but has vexed engineers who seek to create synthetic tissue, heart valves, implants and other devices that the human body will accept.

to overcome that obstacle, scientists have sought to learn more about how cells explore what's around them. while numerous studies have looked at cellular movement in two dimensions and a few recent experiments involved cellular motion in three dimensions, scientists remained unsure just how much cells interacted with their surroundings. now, a study involving brown university and the california institute of technology has recorded for the first time how cells move in three dimensions by measuring the force exerted by cells on their environs. the research gives scientists their most complete assessment to date about how cells move.

[Rava]

aloha,
does anyone have more information about the russian scientist peterson mentioned? he did extensive research on the heart of the mother and the baby according to peterson. the russian was inspired by the work of chilton pearce. please let me know because i am holding my daughter in my arms within a few days :-)

[weboy78]

elizabeth a. rauscher is an american physicist who has had a wide range of interests. rauscher received a b.s. in physics and chemistry, an m.s. 1965 and a ph.d. 1978 in physics from the university of california at berkeley (ucb). rauscher was a researcher at lawrence berkeley national laboratory from 1962 until 1979. she was a researcher at stanford research institute radio physics laboratory from 1974 until 1978 and a professor of physics at john f. kennedy university from 1978 to 1984....
rauscher served on the congressional ota advisory committee from 1970 to 1980, and has been delegate and adviser to the united nations in 1979, 1989, and 2002. elizabeth rauscher claims to have developed a detailed theory of a hypotheses of consciousness and spacetime based on an eight-dimensional complex minkowski space...
http://wikibin.org/articles/elizabeth-rauscher.html

investigation of a complex space-time metric
to describe precognition of the future
http://www.espresearch.com/espgeneral/doc-speedofthought.pdf

[weboy78]

ccsvi in multilple sclerosis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8xqnzd2f8

[mod: if this discovery works, it will be revolutionary to those with ms]

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/29564/

be well, be love.

david

'primary perception'—the secret life of life (part 1)
an interview with cleve backster and a look at his seminal work on primary perception
by ben bendig
epoch times staff created: feb 12, 2010 last updated: feb 14, 2010

there exists a body of research poised to rend apart our modern paradigms—revealing consciousness in places we might not have expected it, and connections between life forms that seem startling and impossible.

imagine coming into a laboratory with a friend, and the experimenter tells you to simply start up a conversation. after some time, the experimenter stops you and shows you a recording that was taken of the conversation. the audio is of the conversation, but the video is of a line that looks something like a seismograph—which is actually a measure of electrical activity that was taking place in a plant that had been sitting in the corner of the room.

you see, perhaps to your amazement, that with every emotional moment between you and your friend, the plant shows a reaction corresponding to the onset of, for example, surprise, disgust, or embarrassment.

[weboy78]

ccsvi in multilple sclerosis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8xqnzd2f8

[mod: if this discovery works, it will be revolutionary to those with ms]

http://interactmd.com/content/podcast-buffalo-researchers-seem-confirm-zamboni-ccsvi-theory-ms
researchers at university of buffalo released preliminary data this week seeming to confirm a link between venous narrowing and multiple sclerosis, a theory known as ccsvi. sciencedaily had good coverage with a nice writeup.

a guy named paolo zamboni has been working on this theory for years in italy, but the report this week was some of the only confirmation from an independent center that impaired venous circulation between the brain and heart could be associated with ms. the buffalo researcher, dr. zivadinov, found that ms sufferers were twice as likely as controls to have narrowed venous circulation.

[JoshERTW]

here is a story from personal experience that i would like to share. perhaps its nothing but i think i may have stumbled upon something here:

i was at the hospital today with my wife and daughter for her final check up before we could take her home. the doctor went through the list of things we should do, on that list (to my pleasant surprise) was to give her vitamin d drops for her immune system, something i do for myself. also on that list (to my chagrin) was to give her fluoride drops. this is something i'm against, but i didn't give it away. i let him know that we have fluoride in the water in my town, so we don't need drops.

again, a pleasant surprise, it turns out there isn't fluoride in the water in my town anymore, or many other smaller towns. this is because there is apparently (according to this doctor) a fluoride shortage!

many reading this are likely suspicious of the role fluoride has played in our lives, and of some of its effects which have been reported, usually in alternative health or news circles like this one, which are predominantly negative, and contradictory to what we are led to believe (i.e. that its 'good for you').

i asked my father (also an md) when we got home about this, and he backed up my stance that fluoride and babies shouldn't really be mixed, that this is "not really done" anymore.

anyhow, the reason for my post, is to see if anyone else has read or heard about this shortage. the noteworthy point, is that he says many municipalities which previously dosed their water with fluoride are no longer doing this, perhaps because cost is becoming prohibitive if the element is so "rare" now. i had heard nothing about this until today, from the horses mouth (so to speak) and i generally consider myself someone with their "ear to the ground."

if this is true, it may be contributing to the number of people who are "waking up" right now, as fluoride is (in 'popular' consiracy theory, as they will undoubtedly start to call it as such things become more and more obvious to the public) one of the tools used to keep us from thinking too much.

cheers,

josh

[evolving]

again, a pleasant surprise, it turns out there isn't fluoride in the water in my town anymore, or many other smaller towns. this is because there is apparently (according to this doctor) a fluoride shortage!

anyhow, the reason for my post, is to see if anyone else has read or heard about this shortage. the noteworthy point, is that he says many municipalities which previously dosed their water with fluoride are no longer doing this, perhaps because cost is becoming prohibitive if the element is so "rare" now. i had heard nothing about this until today, from the horses mouth (so to speak) and i generally consider myself someone with their "ear to the ground."

having a shortage... people want more of what is in short supply...
... used in toys around xmas to cause increased prices and a frenzy... a need to obtain these hard to get items
... used in the h1n1 vaccine and (cough) pandemic (cough) to cause people to work harder to get the vaccine, promoting increased sales on mass scale
... used with fluoride to increase the price and ensure larger centers bought more so as to avoid shortage.

monsanto. anyone know what the meaning behind that word is?

[weboy78]

emotional stress of daily trigger tumor growth
scientists have discovered that the emotional stress of daily trigger tumor growth / cancer. they found that any form of trauma, either emotional or physical, can serve as a “line” between the mutation and the potentially deadly cancer. the findings, published in nature, shows for the first time that the condition of disease progression can be influenced by the emotional environment every day, including work and family.
professor tian xu, a geneticist at yale university who led the research, said that many different conditions that can lead to stress, both physical stress or emotional stress. according to him, reducing stress or avoid stress conditions is a good thing. until now, scientists believe, more than one cause of cancer is necessary in a cell to tumor cell / cancer able to grow.
http://bestusahealth.info/emotional-stress-of-daily-trigger-tumor-growth.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://ervinlaszlo.com/?p=263

be well, be love.

david

the quantum computer in your head
by ervin laszlo on february 27, 2010

for some years now, it has been rumored that the next major development in computer technology will be the quantum computer. this is a computer that doesn’t require a flow of electrons to convey information from one point to another; it will use “teleportation.” the term refers to the instant transmission of the state of one quantum—or one whole atom—to another over any finite distance. the transmission is instant and doesn’t require being mediated by contiguous elements: it seems to leap over space as well as time.

teleportation has been experimentally proven by physicists: it’s an instance of the “nonlocal entanglement” manifested in the submicroscopic world of the quantum. when a particle, or even an atom, is “entangled” with another, it’s in instant communication with it, so that what happens to that particle or atom also happens to the other. for example, when in the laboratory a particle is split into two halves and one of the halves is projected in one direction and the other in another direction, no matter how far they travel from each other, when a measuring instrument “interacts” with one of the halves, it’s exactly as if it would have interacted with the other. (this was the astonishing result of the thought experiment suggested by einstein with colleagues podolski and rosen in the 1930s: the “epr experiment.” the finding was not what einstein expected and was not the reason why he proposed it, but when the experiment was actually carried out, some forty years later, it was this instant “nonlocal entanglement” that came to light.)

the rumor about the next breakthrough in computer technology is that engineers will succeed in entangling a whole set of relays with each other, so that they would teleport information among themselves “nonlocally.” this would generate a flow of information that’s entire dimensions faster than the electronic means used today. it would be a giant leap in information processing speed and capacity.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/mar/05/meaning-life-evolution-universe
is this the meaning of life?

be well, be love.

david

is this the meaning of life?

john stewart argues that despite the perception that science has stripped the meaning from life, recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that humans have a central role to play in the future of the universe

it is often assumed that the science-based worldview implies that life on this planet is a meaningless accident in a universe that is indifferent to our existence. humans struggle to find purpose within this purely naturalistic understanding of reality, and so they supplement it with beliefs in supernatural processes and entities.

however, recent advances in our understanding of evolution are revealing a bigger picture that can, by itself, give meaning to life. this new worldview locates humanity within a much larger evolutionary process that appears to offer us a meaningful role to play.

this new understanding of evolution is founded on the recognition that evolution is headed somewhere – it has a trajectory. in particular, evolution on earth has repeatedly gathered small-scale entities into cooperative organisations on a progressively larger and larger scale. self-replicating molecular processes were organised into the first simple cells. communities of these simple, prokaryotic cells formed the more complex eukaryotic cell. collections of these formed multicellular organisms, and organisms were organised into cooperative societies.

a similar sequence appears to have unfolded in human evolution: from family groups, to bands, to tribes, to agricultural communities and city states, to nations, and so on.

this trajectory has applied regardless of whether evolution proceeds by gene-based natural selection or cultural processes. it is driven by the potential at all levels of organisation for cooperative teams united by common goals to be more successful than isolated individuals.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://ervinlaszlo.com/?p=308why

be well, be love.

david

why your brain is a quantum computer

by ervin laszlo on march 6, 2010

scientists have believed that the brain operates as a biochemical and bioelectric system. individual brain cells, so-called neurons, fire in complex coordinated patterns, and their chemical and electrical discharges make up a network that processes information. somehow, this information (or some part of it) gets translated into conscious “mind-events”: shapes and colors, sounds, and the other “data” of your senses.

however, there is mounting evidence that your brain doesn’t operate merely by biochemical and bioelectric information processing. what your brain does is far more complex, fast, and sophisticated than could be accomplished by this standard kind of information-processing. thousands of chemical reactions take place every second in every cell of your body, and your brain and nervous system ensure that they are sufficiently coherent and coordinated so that your body can maintain itself in the complex and physically highly improbable state we call living.

your brain is the command center that directs the flow of the precise, highly coordinated information crucial to your body’s genetic, chemical, and physiological processes. these processes are based on the interaction of molecules and atoms, and subatomic particles. though in large part biochemical, these processes have a significant nonlocal component as well. by “nonlocal,” i refer to the finding in physics that particles once connected retain their connection and influence upon each other even at a distance—they are said to remain “entangled.”

[feelgood]

according to david hudson, the ormus elements connect with the non-physical reality through what is called the zero point. one way to look at this idea is that there is endless potential for new energy. some believe that consciousness influences matter. many studies of these materials consist of looking for and understanding the linkages between consciousness, matter, and all that exists, the oneness seen by bohm, everett, bohr and other such pioneers as the quantum domain.”

http://zptech.eu

[LightEye]

dear friends,

and what do you think would happen with a magnetic change on earth?...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1262074/scientists-discover-moral-compass-brain-controlled-magnets.html

be well, be love.

david

scientists discover moral compass in the brain which can be controlled by magnets
by david derbyshire
last updated at 11:52 am on 30th march 2010

scientists have discovered a real-life 'moral compass' in the brain that controls how we judge other people's behaviour.

the region, which lies just behind the right ear, becomes more active when we think about other people's misdemeanours or good works.

in an extraordinary experiment, researchers were able to use powerful magnets to disrupt this area of the brain and make people temporarily less moral.

the study highlights how our sense of right and wrong isn't just based on upbringing, religion or philosophy - but by the biology of our brains.

dr liane young, who led the study, said: 'you think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour. to be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgements is really astonishing.'

the moral compass lies in a part of the brain called the right temporo-parietal junction. it lies near the surface of the brain, just behind the right ear.

[Deambor]

some scientists have argued that happiness is largely determined by genetics, health and other factors mostly outside of our control. but recent research suggests people actually can take charge of their own happiness and boost it through certain practices.


"the billion-dollar question is, is it possible to become happier?" said psychologist sonja lyubomirsky of the university of california, riverside. "despite the finding that happiness is partially genetically determined, and despite the finding that life situations have a smaller influence on our happiness than we think they do, we argue that still a large portion of happiness is in our power to change."

lyubomirsky spoke here saturday at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of science. she and colleagues last year reviewed 51 studies that tested attempts to increase happiness through different types of positive thinking, and found that these practices can significantly enhance well-being. the results were published in the journal of clinical psychology.

here are five things that research has shown can improve happiness:

1. be grateful – some study participants were asked to write letters of gratitude to people who had helped them in some way. the study found that these people reported a lasting increase in happiness – over weeks and even months – after implementing the habit. what's even more surprising: sending the letter is not necessary. even when people wrote letters but never delivered them to the addressee, they still reported feeling better afterwards.

2. be optimistic – another practice that seems to help is optimistic thinking. study participants were asked to visualize an ideal future – for example, living with a loving and supportive partner, or finding a job that was fulfilling – and describe the image in a journal entry. after doing this for a few weeks, these people too reported increased feelings of well-being.

3. count your blessings – people who practice writing down three good things that have happened to them every week show significant boosts in happiness, studies have found. it seems the act of focusing on the positive helps people remember reasons to be glad.

4. use your strengths – another study asked people to identify their greatest strengths, and then to try to use these strengths in new ways. for example, someone who says they have a good sense of humor could try telling jokes to lighten up business meetings or cheer up sad friends. this habit, too, seems to heighten happiness.

5. commit acts of kindness – it turns out helping others also helps ourselves. people who donate time or money to charity, or who altruistically assist people in need, report improvements in their own happiness.
lyubomirsky has also created a free iphone application, called live happy, to help people boost their well-being.

http://www.livescience.com/health/ho...py-100222.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/srr1.html

be well, be love.

david

the scientist’s search for the soul
by simon ralli robinson

in 1687, isaac newton first published ‘principia mathematic’ considered to be one of the most important works in the history of science. having developed a conceptual frame of the universe as one great machine governed by exact mechanical laws, newton’s calculus enabled scientists for the first time to calculate the exact speed of accelerating bodies at a given time. (1) for newton, the world consisted of atoms and fields, the primary building blocks of the universe, a universe of solid matter of independent parts, independent too of observers, waiting to be explored empirically and through measurement.

in contrast to newton, at the same time leibniz published his treatise “the monadology” in which he proposed that reality consists of monads, which are the primary architecture of reality, and not matter. leibniz was critical of newton’s concept of an absolute time and space, and in many ways could be seen as developing an early theory of general relativity, although his theory never reached the point of being proven.

“because of the infinite multitude of simple substances, there are, as it were, just as many different universes,which are,nevertheless, only perspectives on a single one.” (2)

the unreconciled philosophies of leibniz and newton can be modeled in figure 1, showing leibniz’s philosophy where wholeness and the relationships between the parts is primary, and newton’s philosophy where the parts, or matter is primary. leibniz was caricatured by voltaire, and today is criticised as being not properly thought out, although many of the individual ideas would persist and inspire future philosophers. (3) mckenna for example, saw the monads as a precursor to modern theories of a holographic universe. (4)

[weboy78]

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/07/59434
a new handheld scanner may mean patients being screened for cancer will no longer have to cram into the narrow tunnel of an mri or ct scanner for a grueling 40-minute exam -- the patient won't even need to undress.
the doctor will simply swipe a 30-centimeter baton over the patient's body, and information on any irregular tissue will be displayed on a computer screen. in five minutes the exam is over.
the new device, trimprob (tissue resonance interferometer probe), consists of a battery-powered baton and a specially designed computer being developed in turin, italy, by galileo avionica.


[duplicate link removed]

[LightEye]

dear friends,

great stuff from lynn...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the-human-antenna.htm

be well, be love.

david

the human antenna
april 30th, 2010 by admin ·

no one quite knows what to make of the pineal gland. this cone-shaped pea of a gland sits on the roof of the third ventricle of the brain, directly behind the root of the nose, floating in a small lake of cerebrospinal fluid. because it lies in the center of the brain, neurosurgeons and radiologists have found it a useful landmark for brain surgery.

but until relatively recently, it was the subject of much lore as the gateway into the soul or the higher realm, the memory valve, an energy vortex, the main tap for vital fluids and even the source of mental illness.

it was philosopher rené descartes, who first laid claim to the idea that the pineal gland is the seat of the soul, a unique meeting point between body and soul. in modern times, the gland has been consigned to the neurological dustbin, regarded by the scientific community as an evolutionary leftover, the appendix of the brain.

in all higher vertebrates, including humans, the pineal gland secretes melatonin. production of this hormone is stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light.

the pineal has been called a photo-neuroendocrine transducer, through which a neural signal with environmental information is converted into a chemical message – in this case, to switch on or off the production of melatonin.

[Foghorn]

david: i think it's fantastic that you find all these articles and share them on the board.

i had to chuckle when i read all of the posters comments at the end of the article.

so many of them said the best information is on divinecosmos.com about the pineal gland and david has a movie on it.

now, i must do a search and find it.

again, many thanks

[LightEye]

dear friends,

it's all in your heads - just like those ufo sightings... ;-)

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25166/

be well, be love.

david

magnetically-induced hallucinations explain ball lightning, say physicists

powerful magnetic fields can induce hallucinations in the lab, so why not in the real world, too?

transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is an extraordinary technique pioneered by neuroscientists to explore the workings of the brain. the idea is to place a human in a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce currents in neurons in the brain. then sit back and see what happens.

since tms was invented in the 1980s, it has become a powerful way of investigating how the brain works. because the fields can be tightly focused, it is possible to generate currents in very specific areas of the brain to see what they do.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from lynne...

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/thinking-in-pictures.htm#more-936

be well, be love.

david

thinking in pictures
may 10th, 2010 by lynne mctaggart · 2 comments

michelle dawson, a neuroscientist, maintains that people with autism gets a bad rap. dawson knows from whence she speaks as she herself has autism.

medicine looks upon autism as essentially a three-pronged impairment — in communicative, imaginative and social skills. in fact, three-quarters of people with autism are classed as mentally retarded.

dawson’s line is that far from being retarded or impaired, ‘auties’ process stimuli differently – in fact, in a way that probably renders them open to information received beyond the five senses. in fact, they are far better than the rest of us at processing all sorts of things.

generalized whole
scientists believe that all of the rest of us ‘neurotypicals’ have an unconscious screening process – what they term latent inhibition – of constant stream of sensations and stimuli to which we are exposed every day to prevent sensory overload.

most of us process and lump all the sensory data about a particular thing — into a generalized whole.

the forebrain sees a portion of something and, in a sense, ‘fills in’ the conceptual details to produce a whole. hence why, when we see a familiar scene, or we’re concentrating on something, we become blind to the details of it.

people with autism, much like animals, learn to perceive their world differently – up close and in greater detail – and to observe hidden connections. this allows in the flow of all information, with greater attention to detail and subtle connection.

rather than seeing an entire object, people with autism see what temple grandin, an animal trainer with a history of autism, terms a ‘slide show’ of the object, with“privileged access to lower levels of raw information”.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i didn't know that giuliana had any videos...but now i do...enjoy. there's 3 videos.

be well, be love.

david

life energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pi8khssk7y

copernican illusions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23engmh0sgg

recent data confirm what ancient astronomers had suggested: space is not 3d, but wrapped, composed of "crystalline spheres", which challenge the copernican principle and show humans' huge illusions

[LightEye]

dear friends,

wonder why? ;-)

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3454/harmonic-frequencies-make-sweeter-sounds

be well, be love.

david

harmonic frequencies make sweeter sounds
friday, 21 may 2010
by lindsey doermann

sydney: we know a beautiful sound when we hear it, but the underlying reasons for why some musical chords sound better than others have baffled scholars for centuries. until now.

in a new study published in current biology, psychologists may be a step closer to unravelling the secrets of what makes certain sounds pleasing to human ears.

a team at the university of minnesota asked more than 250 students to rate how pleasing they perceived a variety of sounds. the most appealing, they found, were combinations of notes that had harmonically related frequencies.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7745868/scientist-craig-venter-creates-life-for-first-time-in-laboratory-sparking-debate-about-playing-god.html

be well, be love.

david

scientist craig venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god'

artificial life has been created in a laboratory for the first time by a maverick scientist.
by richard alleyne, science correspondent

published: 6:00pm bst 20 may 2010

scientist craig venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god'

dr craig venter, a multi-millionaire pioneer in genetics, and his team have managed to make a completely new "synthetic" life form from a mix of chemicals.

they manufactured a new chromosome from artificial dna in a test tube, then transferred it into an empty cell and watched it multiply – the very definition of being alive.

[Fortyball]

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/autism_evolution.shtml

this is an article proposing that autism and aspergers syndrome might be connected to evolution...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/science-spirituality-what_b_624292.html

be well, be love.

david

robert lanza, m.d.
scientist, theoretician
posted: june 29, 2010 08:00 am
what are we? new experiments suggest we're not purely physical

the world was once wondrous. as a boy i remember mounting the stairs that led to the legendary harvard medical school. the huge granite slabs were worn by past generations of scientists. here, i fancied, the greatest minds on the planet busied themselves around electron microscopes and ultra-centrifuges, working in their laboratories on secret experiments. but i'm older now, and my colleagues tell me we're just the activity of carbon and some proteins; we live awhile and die.
and the universe? it too has no meaning. they have it all worked out in the equations -- no need for woo.

but a series of new experiments suggest this may be all wrong, and that part of us exists outside of the physical world. the implications of these experiments have been downplayed because, until recently, quantum behavior was limited to the microscopic world. however, this 'two-world' view (that is, one set of physical laws for small objects, and another set of laws for the rest of the universe, including us) has no basis in reason, and more importantly, is being challenged in labs around the world.

we're trapped in an outdated paradigm. a few more equations, we're told, and we'll know it all -- any day now. there's no adventure left, no lost gardens in far away lands. but we all intuitively know there's more to existence than our science books grant. it's the same nostalgic yearning that gives religion its persistent power over humanity.

[Psion 3-K]

i have explained in other threads about my experience with psionics and how i've been using this to help the world evolve. the more and more i delve into my ability i realize just how much of the good stuff in life people are missing. i believe i came into this life as an already accomplished soul, that i am a wanderer, the most common term used around here. as i've practiced my ability more and more, i've come to realize just how physical thought really is.

by this i mean that in my experience, i feel like thoughts are an energy form not that much different than electricity. the only problem is that we cannot detect it with scientific equipment because it is of a spiritual nature. i agree with the unified field of consciousness theory as well and the way it affects humanity so profoundly because i've had consistent experiences which support it. in my meditations, i came across the idea of 'sectors of energy harmonics' something i'd never thought of before.

this is a system which governs the ebbs and flows of the energy people create using their thoughts. when someone desires a physical object or event to come into their experience, they think about it in more and more detail until it manifests. there is an astral realm which contains the collective thought energy of humanity but as of right now it is a mess because people have been disconnected from it for so long. our evolution depends on us recognizing this and cleaning it up but that's not what i want to talk about specifically. also, the unified field of consciousness puts everyone on the same level so that every event falls into the right place for the right reason.

i have come to feel this entire concept, especially the idea of thought as an energy similar to electricity, as more and more real as time has progressed. i'll give an example. since everyone has their thoughts represented on an astral level, this means that anything you think can come back to you at any time. a couple years ago i used to get consistent and painful flashbacks of past events, some of which probably nobody remembers but me. usually the prevailing feeling was one of some kind of embarrassment or something of that nature. it was never a pleasant feeling.

eventually i got fed up with dealing with these random spikes in emotion so i began to call on my psionic ability to shield myself. the way i perceived these events was like an actual, physical projectile hitting my body. i'm not joking, it was bizarre how concrete these sensations were. when i finally began to use my psionic gifts to form a barrier against these things, i noticed them beginning to be deflected away from me instead of impacting me directly. this is an example of the way unchecked emotional baggage forms 'energetic projectiles' which can cause you pointless strife.

with my new psychic barriers, it was like i was wearing one of those shield belts from dune; it is one of the most concrete energetic experiences i feel regularly. i believe a lot of people get this sensation as well, but they do not know that there is a whole system governing these occurrences. as i've developed my psionic ability, i've noticed dramatic changes in my attenuation to the energies of life. now whenever i feel these incoming energetic projectiles i sense them impacting an area of space inches away from my skin along with an emotional signature which carries no pain at all. what i've accomplished is an effective shield which disperses a lot of the negative effects of these leftover emotional imprints.

soon enough i'm sure i won't get these sensations at all as now i'm much more in control of what i think and also in tune with the level of existence our thoughts behave on. i know for certain the paranormal exists. there have been too many things in my life pointing to this fact for me to turn a blind eye. my feeling is that anyone whom opens up to it will eventually see it as well.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/49741/your_biological_computer/

be well, be love.

david

your beliefs condition and qualify the space that surrounds you, creating an electromagnetic imprint that ultimately serves to attract all of your life experiences. thoughts are real in that they have a life of their own once you create them. most of the time, however, you are clueless on how you set your version of the world into motion. beliefs are agreements about reality, and agreements can be changed. it is essential to understand that beliefs are the thoughts you hold within your imagination-consciously, subconsciously, and unconsciously-and in the imagination all things are real. all thoughts produce energetic vibrations, and even though you cannot see frequencies, the airwaves are full of who you are.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727694.100-quantum-entanglement-holds-together-lifes-blueprint.html

be well, be love.

david

quantum entanglement holds together life's blueprint

* 15 july 2010 by anil ananthaswamy


the most celebrated molecule in biology - the dna double helix - might owe its shape to a mysterious quantum property called entanglement. in recent years, animals have been shown to use quantum processes to their advantage. for example, some birds' eyes usequantum trickery to "see" the earth's magnetic field, and light-harvestingmolecules in algae and bacteria rely on quantum processes to transfer energy efficiently. now it seems the blueprint of life could also owe its functioning to such phenomena.

dna consists of two strands, each made of a chain of nucleotides, or bases. the bases in each strand link up like the rungs of a ladder, with each rung called a base pair, and the
whole thing is twisted into a double helix. the helical shape is vital to dna's stability, as it prevents it from disintegrating inside a cell.to see if quantum processes play a role in determining the shape of dna, elisabeth

rieper of the national university of singapore and colleagues modelled each base pair as a cloud of electrons that oscillates around a positively charged nucleus. the team found that quantum entanglement between these clouds helped dna to maintain its helical structure.

ntanglement is a quantum property where two or more objects are linked and in "superposition" - existing in many possible states at once. when this happens, it is impossible to describe the state of each object individually - the entangled objects must be considered as a whole.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

all is one...

http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/08.25.10/feature-1034.html

be well, be love.

david

entangled atoms

dean radin's research suggests that all separation is illusory
by caroline osborn

"i don't care too much what people think," says dean radin, ph.d., senior scientist at the institute of noetic sciences. "i'm much more interested in tracking something which i think is meaningful and which i think eventually will become more and more meaningful. that's what science is all about. we're driven by curiosity."

nestled in the rolling golden hills on the outskirts of petaluma, the institute of noetic sciences' (ions) enclave of wooden buildings almost disappears among the trees. within one of those buildings, radin conducts scientific experiments that question whether such seemingly fantastical abilities as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition could actually be real.

radin works in the field of parapsychology, or research on psychic phenomena, a phrase often shortened to "psi." he has a master's degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in psychology, both from the university of illinois. in addition to his position as senior scientist at ions, he is an adjunct faculty member of the department of psychology at sonoma state university. his two published books, the conscious universe and entangled minds, explain his research and ideas to those without access to scientific journals. radin has spoken at stanford, cambridge, harvard and princeton, among other universities. the new york times magazine wrote a profile on him. oprah interviewed him.

the public is listening. but what exactly is radin saying? wouldn't we all like to have paranormal powers of perception? is this anything more than age of enlightenment fervor to justify secret fantasies with rationalized, scientific research? radin would argue that there is absolutely more to it than that, and he has the laboratory data and physical theory to back up his claims.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/mind-blowing-power-of-love-20100925-15rl7.html

be well, be love.

david

mind blowing power of love
tim barlass
september 26, 2010


exclusive

the mystery behind the ''sixth sense'' - how people interact on a physiological level - is a step closer to being unravelled, according to a sydney neuroscientist.

a five-year study monitoring brain activity during therapy sessions has shown that two people can become physiologically aligned - parts of their nervous systems beating in harmony - despite having no physical contact with each another.

trisha stratford, the neuropsychotherapist who did the research at university of technology, sydney, said her study provided a deeper understanding of what happened when people interacted, including when a couple fell in love.

ms stratford said her research could also provide clues about how best to communicate with or ''chat up'' a potential partner using this sixth sense, which has long been suggested but never extensively identified in science.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/opinion/10/10/treasure.sound/index.html?hpt=mid
10 things you didn't know about sound

be well, be love.

david

10 things you didn't know about sound

october 10, 2010

editor's note: ted is a nonprofit organization devoted to "ideas worth
spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website. julian
treasure, the author of "sound business," is chairman of uk-based audio branding
specialist the sound agency and an international speaker on sound's effects on
people, on business and on society.

(cnn) -- most of us have become so used to suppressing noise that we don't think
much about what we're hearing, or about how we listen. yet our well-being is now
being seriously damaged by modern sound. here are 10 things about sound and
health that you may not know:

1.) you are a chord. this is obvious from physics, though it's admittedly
somewhat metaphorical to call the combined rhythms and vibrations within a human
being a chord, which we usually understand to be an aesthetically pleasant
audible collection of tones. but "the fundamental characteristic of nature is
periodic functioning in frequency, or musical pitch," according to c.t. eagle.
matter is vibrating energy; therefore, we are a collection of vibrations of many
kinds, which can be considered a chord.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://davidpratt.info/survival1.htm

be well, be love.

david

life beyond death: evidence for survival
david pratt
august 2010

1. introduction

from prehistory to the present, in virtually every culture and ethnic group, there has been a widespread belief that some higher part of us survives the death of the body. a 1991 poll found, for example, that about 55% of americans, 37.8% of the poles, and 26.5% of the british and dutch believed in life after death. some people are convinced that belief in an afterlife is just a primitive superstition. in a heated debate on the immortality of the soul, a college professor once ended his argument by declaring: ‘there is no such thing, and when i die i shall come back and prove it!’

materialists often claim that people turn to a belief in an afterlife due to wishful-thinking and an inability to accept the finality of death. but it could just as easily be argued that materialists are so attached to their own beliefs that they are incapable of objectively assessing data that contradict them. the voluminous literature on paranormal, mediumistic and other ‘anomalous’ consciousness-related phenomena provides strong evidence for unseen worlds inhabited by normally unseen beings, including subtler bodies or souls of living and dead humans.

this article surveys some of this evidence, but begins by outlining three differing viewpoints on the nature of the afterlife: christian theology, spiritualism, and theosophy.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-social-thinker/201010/have-scientists-finally-discovered-evidence-psychic-phenomena

be well, be love.

david

have scientists finally discovered evidence for psychic phenomena?!
new studies show people can anticipate future events.
published on october 11, 2010

in lewis carroll's through the looking glass, the white queen tells alice that in her land, "memory works both ways." not only can the queen remember things from the past, but she also remembers "things that happened the week after next." alice attempts to argue with the queen, stating "i'm sure mine only works one way...i can't remember things before they happen." the queen replies, "it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

how much better would our lives be if we could live in the white queen's kingdom, where ours memory would work backwards and forewords? for instance, in such a world, you could take an exam and then study for it afterwards to make sure you performed well in the past. well, the good news is that according to a recent series of scientific studies by daryl bem, you already live in that world!

dr. bem, a social psychologist at cornell university, conducted a series of studies that will soon be published in one of the most prestigious psychology journals (journal of personality and social psychology). across nine experiments, bem examined the idea that our brain has the ability to not only reflect on past experiences, but also anticipate future experiences. this ability for the brain to "see into the future" is often referred to as psi phenomena.

[estopatitiana]

dear friends,

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/49741/your_biological_computer/

be well, be love.

david

your beliefs condition and qualify the space that surrounds you, creating an electromagnetic imprint that ultimately serves to attract all of your life experiences. thoughts are real in that they have a life of their own once you create them. most of the time, however, you are clueless on how you set your version of the world into motion. beliefs are agreements about reality, and agreements can be changed. it is essential to understand that beliefs are the thoughts you hold within your imagination-consciously, subconsciously, and unconsciously-and in the imagination all things are real. all thoughts produce energetic vibrations, and even though you cannot see frequencies, the airwaves are full of who you are.




this is an absolute picture perfect description of the law of attraction which yes is working 24/7 because your brain is working 24/7

[Scopetek]

has anyone heard of the study of biofeedback? or seen the commercial for that mind controlled ball game? is this them pushing/ guiding humanity's evolution?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110102222950data_trunc_sys.shtml

be well, be love.

david

brain's neurons found to communicate via electric fields
by kate melville

neurons in the brain had been thought to communicate exclusively via the physical connections that are known as synapses, but caltech researchers say they have uncovered strong evidence that neurons also communicate with each other via weak electric fields, a finding that could help us understand how biophysics gives rise to cognition - the holy grail of neuroscience.

the new research, appearing in the journal nature neuroscience, explains how the brain is awash with electrical activity, and not just from the individual pings of single neurons communicating with each other. in fact, the brain is enveloped in countless overlapping electric fields, generated by the neural circuits of scores of communicating neurons.

"these fields were once thought to be an epiphenomenon, a 'bug' of sorts, occurring during neural communication," said caltech neuroscientist costas anastassiou. but the work done by anastassiou and his colleagues suggests that the fields do much more, and that they may, in fact, represent an additional form of neural communication.

[Tim Bravo]

i'm looking for recommendations as to the best books on self-hypnosis. anyone had substantial success with one author or another?

[moderator note: as book recommendations are considered off topic for the forum, please private message tim with any ideas.]

[LightEye]

dear friends,


be well, be love.

david

tasting the universe: what synesthesia suggests about the nature of consciousness
by maureen seaberg

among the beneficiaries of the various shifts in human consciousness now underway are a little-known group of outliers known as synesthetes. synesthesia is defined as a blending of senses or a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. those definitions are only a hint of what synesthetes experience in terms of form and color and other add-on impressions in their sensory lives. and “synnies” reject the word “condition,” as there are few deficits associated with what they prefer to call a “gift” or a “trait.” a synesthete may hear a symphony but also see amorphous, multi-colored shapes go by. she may say the word “table” and taste cake, just like academy award-winner tilda swinton. he may be able to compute pi to 22,500 places, like the british writer daniel tammet (who has asperger syndrome and savantism), or be able to equate celestial imagery to communion with the creator, like three-time grammy award-winner pharrell williams.

just over 100 years ago, synesthesia was a blip on the radar of modern science for one shimmering moment. ironically, the same man most credited for drawing attention to this trait would unwittingly help show it the door. sir francis galton recognized synesthesia but then went on to be an early pioneer of behaviorism, which stamped out any shred of respect for or inquiry into inner experience.

galton named the joining of senses synesthesia – from the greek syn, meaning “union,” and aesthesia, meaning “sensation.” as he wrote in “the visions of sane persons” for the fortnightly review in june 1881: “these strange ‘visions,’ for such they must be called, are extremely vivid in some cases but are almost incredible to the vast majority of mankind who would set them down as fantastic nonsense. nevertheless, they are familiar parts of the mental furniture of the rest, whose imaginations they have unconsciously formed and where they remain unmodified and unmodifiable by teaching.” galton had great sympathy for the synesthetes he encountered throughout his career, particularly when they would relate to him how strange they felt as children.

not long after synesthesia made its modest, respectable appearance on the world’s scientific stage, a radical shift occurred in the field of psychology, foreshadowed by galton’s interest in the psychology of the behavior of twins: the school of behaviorism emerged. led by american psychologist john b. watson, this new school of thought banished personal experience in favor of people’s observed interactions with one another. a paper watson wrote in 1913 started the wave, and in his 1924 book, behaviorism, he explained it further: “behaviorism . . . holds that the subject matter of human psychology is the behavior of the human being. behaviorism claims that consciousness is neither a definite nor a usable concept. the behaviorist, who has been trained always as an experimentalist, holds, further, that belief in the existence of consciousness goes back to the ancient days of superstition and magic.” [italics appear in the original.]

[weboy78]

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/views/topological.html
the microtubule lattice features a series of helical winding patterns which repeat on longitudinal protofilaments at 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and higher numbers of subunit dimers (tubulins).

[ILoveCoffee]

by now everyone is familiar with advances in brain imaging and the fascinating insights being produced in many areas of brain research. much less known are advances in locating the mind outside the brain. the reality of many phenomena is being verified. for a long time there has been a popular belief in esp, clairvoyance, and related abilities. i thought it would be interesting to devote a series of posts to some intriguing studies, but more importantly, there is a major discovery waiting around the corner. science is about to realize that intelligence is a field effect and that this "mind field" surrounds us on all sides, like the earth's magnetic field. it is thanks to the mind field that our brains are able to think and also to connect with other minds, not by physical means but invisibly, the way one magnet is connected to every other on earth.
the latest findings, which got wide publicity in the media, have to do with our ability to sense what is going to happen in the future.
is this really proof that man can see into the future?

london's daily mail reports on a dutch professor of psychology, dr. dick bierman, who is using real-time brain scans to see if people sense things before they happen. "sense" is different from "envision." bierman is working with "presentiment," the physical or emotional feeling that something unusual is about to happen. anecdotally, presentiments have been associated with many if not most great disasters. some people didn't go to work at the world trade center on 9/11 because they felt suddenly sick or uneasy. similar symptoms have kept passengers from flying on planes that later crashed. the french crew of the concorde had dark premonitions before one of the supersonic jets crashed in 2000. children felt uneasy going to school the day a coal-mine disaster engulfed a school in wales in 1966, killing 144 people. one mother reported that her young daughter had a dream the night before of a black mass burying the school, which is exactly what occurred.
bierman wants to quantify such presentiments, following up on a revealing experiment done by dr dean radin, a former researcher on the military project stargate, which looked into the phenomenon of 'remote viewing' and psychic premonition. radin hooked ordinary subjects to a lie detector in order to measure changes in galvanic skin response. he then flashed at random a series of photos, some of which were violent or erotic. one would expect galvanic skin response to spike when such pictures appeared, but radin discovered a strange phenomenon. subjects tended to respond a few seconds in advance of the actual image flashing on the screen. in other words, they sensed an event before it occurred.[/quote]

this all goes into so many things, but this part is also interesting. right now, i am unsure if it means that we can tell the future though. it's just really neat how that esp, etc., is or could be connected to that (some kind of magnetism). it is also odd how we can and do sometimes have a sense whether it's by logic thought or intuition, and it happens. lately, for me i have had this happen with some smaller things. not that i have never had a big hunch about something big, but lately it hasn't at all been that way.
and when i was a child of about nine or so, me and a friend were out at a big city festival. it was a bright/sunny day. everything was going great, and there was no indication of that changing. we walked around to all the booths, listening to bands play. stopping me in my tracks, my friend asked " would you like to get something here to eat?"

i don't know what happened, i just felt something wasn't right. so, i explained to her or tried to explain that i just didn't feel right about something there. she was very amused at first and wanted to know why...afterall everything was going great.

well, i just said that i didn't know really but had a strange feeling about something and felt that maybe we should leave right then.
not really wanting to do that she finally said, "well, ok. maybe you are right, then." we left, and not hardly 15 minutes later...a horrible afternoon storm approached the place, literally tearing down the tents and slinging everything else there around like crazy. not sure if it was a tornado or what, but it was pretty bad...with really no indicator of it approaching. unless, i really didn't notice. i just don't recall any changes before that (including humidity changes,etc.) but i was really little, too.
why is it that some people pick up on things approaching, while others don't?
could some of us have stronger magnetism with the earth?
that mind connection mentioned is very interesting, too. but, i'm still unsure if it is proof, we can see the future. however, as i said, it is possible to predict or feel a certain way and it happen. i just felt/thought a friend would say something to another when i had hoped she wouldn't.....and it happened.

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

researchers discover 2 new chemical building blocks of dna


chapel hill, n.c. - for decades, biology students have learned their atgcs - a four-letter alphabet that spells out the four chemical building blocks of dna: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.

but dna’s alphabet expanded years ago. a fifth chemical building block was discovered in 1948, and a sixth in 2009.

now, researchers at the university of north carolina-chapel hill have discovered two new building blocks, for a total of eight. their discovery was published thursday in the journal science.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/researchers+discover+chemical+building+blocks/5144078/story.html


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[ILoveCoffee]

researchers discover 2 new chemical building blocks of dna



http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/researchers+discover+chemical+building+blocks/5144078/story.html


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some dna i think is different. it would also explain why they need to find what functions they do serve. if they can find it. that will be neat to know, but then it said they have only found mice to have it.

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

well mice are the next closest relatives of us after the chimpanzee. :) and i guess they are still looking for it.
my theory is that the junk- dna is a backup system. i think all of our backup data is stored there. maybe form past lives? who knows. everything has a wave, so the dna codes might be easier to transport than we think. like the scientist who turned the salamander into the frog (or was it the other way). doesn't matter, the fact remains the same: the laser was able to transport the dna code from one organism to the other, mutating it. this makes me think of computer technology and how exactly the evolution process is going to go down. it makes sense if all it will take is some sort of radiation (light/laser) to penetrate our bodies and update our dna. if we follow paul lavoilette's idea about the electromagnetic pulse waves from the middle of the galaxy, the whole galaxy alignment and the sun storm that we are expecting in 2012 fits perfectly into this plan.

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

wait,
do you guys know about this?

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

this played an important role in my evolutionary process.

love,
ra ma

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

sorry, forgot about the paragraph!


coherent consciousness creates order in the world

subtle interactions link us with each other and the earth

when human consciousness becomes coherent and synchronized, the behavior of random systems may change. quantum event based random number generators (rngs) produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. but when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of rngs becomes subtly structured. the probability is less than one in a billion that the effect is due to chance. the evidence suggests an emerging noosphere, or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

[loveis8hertz]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/15/time-on-the-brain-how-you-are-always-living-in-the-past-and-other-quirks-of-perception/

september 15, 2011
time on the brain: how you are always living in the past, and other quirks of perception (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/15/time-on-the-brain-how-you-are-always-living-in-the-past-and-other-quirks-of-perception/)

neuroscientist kathleen mcdermott (http://psychweb.wustl.edu/mcdermott) of washington university, investigated the perception of past and future in people without brain injuries. mcdermott did fmri brain scans of 21 college students, asking them to recall a specific incident in their past and then envision themselves in a specific future scenario.

findings & explanations:

* our minds construct the past, present, and future, and sometimes get it badly wrong
* the bottom line is that memory is essential to constructing scenarios for ourselves in the future.
* mcdermott’s colleague henry roediger (http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/) studies metacognition. roediger said we store only bits and pieces of what happened—a smattering of impressions we weave together into feels like a seamless narrative. when we retrieve a memory, we also rewrite it, so that the time next we go to remember it, we don’t retrieve the original memory but the last one we recollected. so, each time we tell a story, we embellish it, while remaining genuinely convinced of the veracity of our memories.
our consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind actual events. “when you think an event occurs it has already happened,”
* our brains also paper over gaps in information, such as eyeblinks. “your consciousness goes through all the trouble to synchronize things,”
* our memory becomes distorted because our brains react more strongly to novelty than to repetition. conversely, when you’re doing something exciting, time seems to race by, but when you look back on it, it stretched out.


:d it would seem the human mind instrument is a movie editor.

[wrathfuldeity]

my second post; yesterday finished source field investigations it seems that david's reference to the barrel type mechanism could be a flotation tank. having had some experience with tanks, it seems to me that tanks are very applicable. tanks provide a gravity free, skin temperature and sound attenuated environment. it’s an environment that really free up a lot of energy that is usually dealing with the proprioceptive activities. if the freed up psychic/psychological energy could then be focused/directed by meditative techniques such as vipassana to various activities/investigations. from my experience, activities such as self-healing, astral projection, accessing dna memories, remote viewing, time/space travel, charka/pineal activation and etc could be greatly facilitated.

anyway, just a thought and would like to know what others have to say about the utility of flotation tanks. pm if you want.
wrath