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As the new millennium unfolds, it presents incredible challenges and opportunities. Science will unlock the genetic code, and all disease will be curable. Computers will connect everyone, everywhere, providing instant access to everything. Free energy will be perfected. People will travel the world in minutes. We will colonize space—journey to Mars and other planets. These things are within our reach now.
The mastery of genetics, atomics and space travel are only side trips when compared to the main human journey. Science and technology have become the gods of Western society—the external world and its physical rewards the primary focus of our attention. In the next millennium this will shift, and I predict so will the direction of the human adventure. The biggest and most important discoveries, will come not from the external world but from the journey within ourselves.
Advances in science and technology will be marvelous and far reaching but not as profound as the realizations that lie dormant, hidden within us all. My bold predictions for the new millennium are: Mental telepathy, clairvoyance, psychic healing, remote viewing and other extra sensory perception (ESP) abilities will not only be accepted and commonplace, but taught and developed in schools. Devices will be invented that will amplify our psychic powers; We will use the frequencies of sound and light to heal our mind and body and manipulate matter. Brain research will advance to a completely new level and reveal far reaching secrets about the true nature of our minds. And my boldest of all predictions:
The “Mind Warriors” who pursue the development of their inner potential will evolve consciousness at an ever accelerated rate; increasing their mind power and leading the human race to a new era of enlightened awareness. The third millennium—will become the millennium of mind.
The Beginning Is Near Mind is the true undiscovered country. The evolution of the human brain was completed some fifty thousand years ago and although its physical architecture has remained virtually the same, its untapped potential lays dormant, waiting to be awakened. Once we unlock its secrets the destiny of mankind will be forever changed. Let me take a moment and give you a glimpse of what I think that is and your important role in this.
The human brain is made up of three brains: A brain stem often called the reptilian brain which deals with involuntary responses, surrounding this is the limbic system or mid-brain as its sometimes called, involved with expression and emotional experience, and the outer part is the neocortex used for thinking, which as humans developed, grew and expanded at an phenomenal rate unprecedented in evolutionary history.
The three brains within a brain are all linked and perform in a synergistic way. The current scientific view on how the brain functions is through hierarchically organized and interconnected neural networks. This is essentially the bio-computer model. Some scientists however, believe much more is going on than the mere storage and retrieval functions of a sophisticated computer. We now know that memory is distributed over the whole cortex in much the same way a hologram functions. Brainwaves as we’ve discussed also play a significant role as it relates to states of consciousness, and especially altered states. The exploration of these states through meditation, biofeedback and other modalities seems to bring about an extraordinary acceleration in psychological information processing, as well psychic phenomena, and peak experiences. These brainwave states also seem to shift one’s personal space-time experience. Why, and how?
Mystics talk of the altered states experience as the “eternal moment,” a sense of “timelessness.” As D.T. Suzuki said in Essence of Buddhism; “In this spiritual world there are no time divisions as the past, present, and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense...The past and future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.”
These kinds of statements by mystics are very difficult to understand for those who have not had such an experience. Let me present you with a theoretical model for what may be going on inside the brain, which I believe science is on the precipice of discovering, and will be the opening of a new era in mind development.
Your Brain Is Really A Space-Time Machine It is now well established that in certain altered states experiences especially prolonged meditations, there is profound shift in brainwave rhythms associated with peak experiences, those moments of illumination where the experience plugs you into the “eternal moment” and connects you with the universe. What is not really understood is how this process works and what it means. Here is one hypothesis.
The brain and its internal substructures give off magnetic fields of energy. Although these energy fields are very subtle it is possible with sophisticated equipment to detect and measure them. One of these instruments is called a SQUID. It is a helmet sensor device that maps the brains energy, specifically tuned to detect magnetic fields in the ultra low frequency (ULF) range. Using a computer, these energy fields can be mapped and plotted on a graph. One scientist reported hooking himself up to a SQUID helmet sensor while in an altered states experience. Focusing this sensitive instrument on the mid-brain region (where the Thalamus-Pineal glands reside) the geometry of this magnetic field when plotted on a three dimensional graph had the same shape and appearance of an Einstein-Rosen space-time bridge.
What’s an Einstein-Rosen space-time bridge? It’s a wormhole. A funny sausage shaped structure that is able to tunnel its way through space-time. (A cosmic wormhole is a gravitational field that warps time-space—connecting two parallel universes or distant parts of the same universe. It derived its name for the shortcut a worm takes by boring through an apple, rather than crawling across it.) I’ll admit, a cosmic space-time bridge formed within our brains (even one that is only a few centimeters long), is a pretty far out idea. But if it turns out to be accurate it answers a lot of questions and provides a biophysical basis for mystical states, and psychic phenomena.
The human brain emits energy fields that resemble structures and processes found in the cosmos. If this model is a correct representation of what is going on inside our heads it could be speculated that such a system would also act in much the same way as a universe. In other words the brain isn’t just a hierarchy of neural networks processing and storing sensory inputs. It may also function as a biological space-time energy transducer. A mini-universe within the universe. The implications are literally astronomical.
The ancient Chinese always believed this was the case; that “the Tao (the universe) was in our head.” According to Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics, “The Eastern sages, too, talk about an extension of their experience of the world in higher states of consciousness, and they affirm that these states involve a radically different experience of space time. They emphasize not only that they go beyond ordinary three-dimensional space in meditation, but also—and even more forcefully—that the ordinary awareness of time is transcended. Instead of a linear succession of instants, they experienceso they sayan infinite, timeless, and yet dynamic present.”
He goes on to state in the words of Louis de Brogile; “In space-time, everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present, and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.” Meditation according to the mystics allows us to transcend the space-time experience and enter into a fourth dimension where space and time are integrated into a whole, where all events are interconnected. space-time becomes unified in a four-dimensional continuum, where there is no “before” or “after,” and so there can be no cause and effect relationships. It is only in our lower dimension of reality that we experience a temporal sequence of events, moving through time in a linear succession of cause and effect moments. Perhaps a mechanism in our mind-brain entraps us into this denser reality construct, in much the same way as physical forces in the universe operate to entrap and enclose space. Through meditation and altered states experiences we are somehow able to manipulate our consciousness and shift this energy field escaping the world of cause and effect. The secret of... |
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