2. NEUROSCIENCE AND THE MIND
Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are
animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival
possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain
and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the
kind of consciousness that will help us to stay alive on the surface of this
particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced
awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbols that we call
languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the
linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as
language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience,
the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is
the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he
is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That
which, in the language of religion, is called "this world" is the
universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by
language. The various "other worlds," with which human beings
erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness
belonging to Mind at Large. (Aldous
Huxley)
Professor Michael Persinger,
Chair of Neurosciences, Laurentian University, along with his graduate students
has for several decades been experimenting on the effects of computer
structured sine waves which, after being recorded on computer sound cards,
activate magnetic solenoids strategically placed over the human brain. In this
fashion Persinger’s group were able to introduce designed frequencies that
resulted in clients experiencing prescriptive images, mood changes, and sensory
effects including the feeling of Divine presence. The goal, over time, is to be
able to program additional computer analogues which will bring about not only
desired effects in emotions and psychological states, but also magnetic
frequency analogues enabling induction of desired changes in clients’ physical
health. The premise is that for every pharmaceutical compound, there is a
prescriptive magnetic frequency analogue which when introduced into the brain
as a signal line will instruct the brain to produce the necessary endogenous
chemical without resorting to synthetic drugs and their frequent side-effects.
Aside, Dr. Persinger’s group has
also determined that there is a time correlation between shifts in geo-tectonic
plates involving for instance earthquakes (which would also involve field
changes in geo-magnetic levels), and the incidence of anxiety, hallucinations,
anomalous sightings etc. in the general population. What affects the magnetic
fields of our planet affects its creatures.
Along these lines, for the past
decade in France, Dr Jacques Benveniste, Directeur de Recherches at INSERM
Digital Biology Laboratory has determined that the specific effects of biologically active
molecules such as histamine, adrenalin, nicotine and caffeine, and the
immunological signatures of viruses and bacteria, can be digitized and recorded
onto computer sound-cards. A keystroke later, and these signals can be winging
their way across the globe, courtesy of the Internet. Biological systems far
from their activating molecules can then be triggered simply by playing back
the synthetic recordings. Benveniste’s
findings also indicate the electromagnetic frequency nature of trans-molecular
signaling, heretofore unknown. This specific signal line is ‘memorized’ over a
water carrier wave to enable in vivo transmission of the molecular
specific information within our bodies. Life depends on signals
exchanged among molecules. For example, when you get angry, adrenalin tells its
specific receptor, and it alone (as a faithful molecule, it talks to no other)
to make your heart beat faster, to contract superficial blood vessels, etc.
In explaining his findings,
Benveniste advised that all molecules are made from atoms which are constantly
vibrating and emitting infrared radiation in a highly complex manner. These
infrared vibrations have been detected for years by scientists, and are a vital
part of their armory of methods for identifying molecules. This, Benveniste
claims, is how millions of biological molecules manage to communicate at the
speed of light with their own corresponding molecule and no other. It also
explains why minute changes in the structure of a molecule can profoundly alter
its biological effect. It is not that these tiny structural changes make it a
bad fit with its biological receptor (the classical lock-and-key concept). The
structural modifications ‘detune’ the frequency of the molecule to that of its
receptor. What is more, and just like radio sets and receivers, the molecules
do not have to be close together for communication to take place.
What does the foregoing have to
do with the “Windows of Perception”? What is the “key” here? Until Drs.
Persinger and Benveniste had access to appropriate instrumentation – in their
case, computer technology and sound cards on which to record specifically
engineered magnetic frequencies – a proper understanding of what processes
actually affected physical molecules could not be attained. And, by analogy, it
follows that what affects the molecules of our bodies, including our brains, is
going to have a significant effect on our thinking – i.e. upon our
consciousness. For millennia, mystics and seers have tried to use their minds to
look into and beyond their minds. The instrumentation for this purpose has been
virtually non-existent – the only technology being the findings of one seer’s
insights, say through meditation, paving the way for and guiding a later
seeker. Now, though, with advances by scientists such as Persinger and
Beneveniste one can see within one’s own meditation exercises how
certain thoughts and realizations can have such an immediate effect throughout
one’s own mind and body. Without having such means to see/understand what is
happening, it is otherwise difficult to advance. Intentional participation in
the creation of neuro-chemicals arising from one’s thoughts cascade throughout
one’s body and give rise to desirable attitude adjustments concurrently.
Jeremy Narby, the celebrated
Amazonian ethno-biologist, in his book “The Cosmic Serpent”, (see "Book Reviews" in ‘remedy’), points
to his realization that there is an intelligence - a capacity to make choices -
operating inside every cell of our body, down to the level of individual
proteins and enzymes. This intelligence interacts and communicates through
chemically coded interfaces, ensuring health of the organism and, in the case
of primitive societies, allowing individuals access to insight and non-local
information.
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel
time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and future, and then
everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Therefore, it
seems to me that everything that exists is good – death as well as life, sin as
well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. (Hermann Hesse)
Now, gentle reader, please bear
with me as I relate - from our travel notes - three realizations experienced
over a period of a week when traveling in Mexico’s central plateau which may be
seen as reflecting aspects of the foregoing. In San Miguel Allende,
during a very quiet pre-dawn meditation (hypnopompic), I saw again the
‘formula’ process, wherein one can reach a state so still and quiet that
through viewing one’s own natural (chemical) aspect, one becomes like Blake’s
“heaven in a grain of sand/ eternity in an hour” – i.e. connected with all
things. In this stillness one selects the target of choice and automatically
merges / becomes at-one with it. In a world which is All Thought, to direct
one’s thought whilst in still natural repose, connects one to the target – the
formula itself is not a number to be sought, but rather it is simply
intentionally engaging the deep stillness through which all mind-spirit
is one.
To see a World in a
Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an
hour.
(William Blake)
A couple mornings later, at Tequisquipan,
I was unable to attain the former unity state, but by being a ‘parallel detached
observer’ (allowing ‘whatever’ to present itself for viewing yet subtly
directing mind to the area of interest) I realized that the formula process of
travel/union/viewing is very similar to the process of prayer whereby Christian
Scientists/ Religious Scientists and similar modalities effect their healing
influence onto others, at distance. The same stilling ‘formula’ to transmit
intentional scalars (informational data) of healing – to see the affliction as
‘error’ and to re-signal the perfect holistic pattern so that the afflicted
recipient can re-member his holistic state.
[Hence the concern of these
practitioners with the client’s permission, as to proceed otherwise would
pollute the connective conduit between healer and client –the healer’s
unsolicited intrusion could otherwise skew the holistic scalar pattern to one
of his own preference, rather than signaling holistic love.] [Thus the old
caution “one can become able to see anything, but do not attempt to
influence anything unless requested.” One may know that the client harbours an
error, but the client may need to live/grow through that error alone,
without any biased push by another, no matter how well-intentioned].
I could see though that it is
possible to subtly communicate to/influence another in a seed format, wherein
one can implant and quicken the truth seed in another, and in time the other
realizes the truth and yet feels proprietorship of it - including any
conscience aspects through not acting on that personally realized insight.
Allegories and parables have traditionally served this same goal in
conventional dialogue.
At Tlaxcala, an
old dream was revisited one morning, and later discussed with Marnie. In this
dream, which had periodically been presented to me over many decades, the
creation gods revealed the secret of eternal life – that it’s neither resurrection
nor reincarnation – these are but mortal constructs – rather the secret is reproduction
– reproduction of consciousness itself through its sentient carriers.
The gods’ agency in this marvel is imbedded plant and animal DNA, which
provides continuing body-hosts for life, in the eternal here and now. Ever
renewing hosts for the Tao, as it were. The injuries and memories of the old
hosts are of no essential concern to either life or the new offspring; in the
new corpus, consciousness takes on/embodies its own ongoing reality. And while
each successive generation’s memories seem so important to their current hosts,
they are of little concern to the eternally reproducing spirit – the tired old
tree drops its seeds and in the fullness of time fades to sleep, glad to be
relieved of its injuries, while the fresh new tree emerges into a waiting world
from its parent’s DNA.
While to us humans it seems like
such a waste to lose one’s life learning/ memories, these are on one level an
unimportant slide show to the spirit, even a diversion from spirit’s main goal
– eternal existence. Yet on another level the sense of vital reality
experienced by the host is critical to life herself – life’s game proceeds with
a sense of meaningful, vital reality (all life is precious to all of its
creatures) – and this is life’s spiritual real-time ground of being that can
only be realized through her embodied creatures.
I am an experiment on the part of nature, a gamble within
the unknown, perhaps for a new purpose, perhaps for nothing, and my only task
is to allow this game on the part of the primeval depths to take its course, to
feel its will within me and make it wholly mine. (Hermann
Hesse)
Keith and Marnie
Elliott’s “REMEDY” Site
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