Merkabah

[Angela]

@Kgal

Here is the rundown of what took place.
In my dream I rose out of bed because I could sense something in my house (as I was aware of the whole house, except it looked like I was looking through thin linen or very sheer fabric)…when I came to the hallway, I pinpointed where it was and as I started to push it out with waves of my Qi I yelled at it over an over to “get the fuck out of my house, you have no right to be here!” and I rose off the ground the more intense the waves got. I pushed it through the living room wall and it took off from my house fast!
I couldn’t tell you what it was…I just know it was negative.
Then I woke up just drenched in sweat…now I don’t know the timeline from the dream to when my Son got up…I don’t know if this happened and then he got up or if he was up while this was taking place.
Let me just add…he usually just rolls his eyes when I put on a show about ghosts hahaha…though he says he doesn’t disbelieve…he’s just never seen anything besides this…so I highly doubt he was making things up…he isn’t like that….he tells the truth regardless of if he gets in trouble or not. (not to mention that he told me his story before I ever disclosed my own dream to him)
Also, I wanted to add, that I feel the previous dream we discussed where I was shown how to push things and manipulate things with my mind (though I could already do this somewhat and have “Qi blasted” something/someone 4 times now..3 in my house)…anyhow, I feel this was further instruction of how to protect myself and my loved ones looking back on it now.

I have no explanation for this for you, but a similar experience from when i was married. Well maybe similar, maybe not.

My ex husband was always an extremely heavy sleeper, hurricane katrina couldn't have woken him up. We also had (I still have him) a dog, a very mellow soul, never barked or raised his hackles or anything of the sort.

So in the middle of the night I am woken by the bed shaking, in my unconscious state, I would've compared it to an earthquake, but we dont really have earthquakes in Colorado. Also I kept hearing the phrase "my time is now". It was not coming from my husband. Once I realized there was something not quite right, I looked into his eyes, they were wide open and dark as could be (he has baby blue eyes) staring directly into the closet. He told me that his uncle was there, but it wasnt his uncle, it just looked like him. (his uncle had passed 10 years prior) I got out of bed, closed the closet door, and shoved a 9 drawer oak dresser in front of the door, and went back to sleep. The next morning, the dresser was in its usual place, the closet door was open, and my ex husband was still huddled in the fetal position on the bed, staring at the closet. My dog had placed himself between the closet and the bed, was staring in the closet and growling with his hackles raised.

Now, I think about this night often, I cant physically move that dresser myself. I was sleeping to his back, so how did I readily see his eyes? The dresser looked unmoved the following morning, but my memory says it was firmly in front of that door the night before. I brought in a Bruha (not sure of spelling here), in spanish the meaning is witch, but she performed a ritual on him with an egg, cleansed the house with sage and gave me further instructions to keep the egg under the bed overnight, in the morning crack it into a glass of water and immediately send her a picture of the egg. I sent her the picture and she came right over, she told me that since the yolk was solid like it had been cooked, the whites were floating on top of the water and there was a kind of ghosting effect in the water, that meant that there was some spirit that had a hold of him. She performed a different ritual, that made him smell like fresh tortillas, and told me he would awaken and to feed him whatever he wanted, no matter how weird the request.

2 days later he woke up, asked for chocolate ice cream with oreos and mustard. umm.... ok..... I fed him the disgusting concoction, he ate it like it was delicious, and then its like he forgot everything. He has no memory of this happening.

 

[Skarekrow]

I have no explanation for this for you, but a similar experience from when i was married. Well maybe similar, maybe not.

My ex husband was always an extremely heavy sleeper, hurricane katrina couldn't have woken him up. We also had (I still have him) a dog, a very mellow soul, never barked or raised his hackles or anything of the sort.

So in the middle of the night I am woken by the bed shaking, in my unconscious state, I would've compared it to an earthquake, but we dont really have earthquakes in Colorado. Also I kept hearing the phrase "my time is now". It was not coming from my husband. Once I realized there was something not quite right, I looked into his eyes, they were wide open and dark as could be (he has baby blue eyes) staring directly into the closet. He told me that his uncle was there, but it wasnt his uncle, it just looked like him. (his uncle had passed 10 years prior) I got out of bed, closed the closet door, and shoved a 9 drawer oak dresser in front of the door, and went back to sleep. The next morning, the dresser was in its usual place, the closet door was open, and my ex husband was still huddled in the fetal position on the bed, staring at the closet. My dog had placed himself between the closet and the bed, was staring in the closet and growling with his hackles raised.

Now, I think about this night often, I cant physically move that dresser myself. I was sleeping to his back, so how did I readily see his eyes? The dresser looked unmoved the following morning, but my memory says it was firmly in front of that door the night before. I brought in a Bruha (not sure of spelling here), in spanish the meaning is witch, but she performed a ritual on him with an egg, cleansed the house with sage and gave me further instructions to keep the egg under the bed overnight, in the morning crack it into a glass of water and immediately send her a picture of the egg. I sent her the picture and she came right over, she told me that since the yolk was solid like it had been cooked, the whites were floating on top of the water and there was a kind of ghosting effect in the water, that meant that there was some spirit that had a hold of him. She performed a different ritual, that made him smell like fresh tortillas, and told me he would awaken and to feed him whatever he wanted, no matter how weird the request.

2 days later he woke up, asked for chocolate ice cream with oreos and mustard. umm.... ok..... I fed him the disgusting concoction, he ate it like it was delicious, and then its like he forgot everything. He has no memory of this happening.

How very interesting!
That’s a good one!
Frightening….did you feel that it was gone totally after all that?
Was he a vet? PTSD?
A couple of years ago the pain doctors had me on some really heavy duty shit…I was taking Methadone, Oxymorphone, and had a 72 hr Fentanyl patch that I changed every 48…all of this was prescribed to me mind you…even they early day on the patch.
Anyhow…long-story short (I’m sure you can find the full story around here somewhere), I left that Doctors office because I went in to see him being in excruciating pain (see: Hyperanalgesia), he suggested we actually go UP on what I was already taking and I started to detox the next day by myself.
Cold turkey.
Anyhow…during that time, there was a lot of strange occurrences going on around here…loud knocks on the wall and the bedroom door…(I’m pretty sure one was me trying to get back to my body fast)…it was one of those sounds that you hear just as you are waking up, except this coincided with me dashing thorough the doorway in my dream just as there was a loud bang on the door as I woke up. Woke up my girlfriend too.
What is stranger…you would think that something with enough force to bang as loudly as it was (which was, if it were shut…would be like a very heavy fist hitting it) not closed, that it would swing one way or another….we aren’t talking a heavy door here…and yet it didn’t swing open or closed.
Like there was just an internal “thump”.
Just one example….there are more and more in my life these past few years...

 

[Angela]

How very interesting!
That’s a good one!
Frightening….did you feel that it was gone totally after all that?
Was he a vet? PTSD?
A couple of years ago the pain doctors had me on some really heavy duty shit…I was taking Methadone, Oxymorphone, and had a 72 hr Fentanyl patch that I changed every 48…all of this was prescribed to me mind you…even they early day on the patch.
Anyhow…long-story short (I’m sure you can find the full story around here somewhere), I left that Doctors office because I went in to see him being in excruciating pain (see: Hyperanalgesia), he suggested we actually go UP on what I was already taking and I started to detox the next day by myself.
Cold turkey.
Anyhow…during that time, there was a lot of strange occurrences going on around here…loud knocks on the wall and the bedroom door…(I’m pretty sure one was me trying to get back to my body fast)…it was one of those sounds that you hear just as you are waking up, except this coincided with me dashing thorough the doorway in my dream just as there was a loud bang on the door as I woke up. Woke up my girlfriend too.
What is stranger…you would think that something with enough force to bang as loudly as it was (which was, if it were shut…would be like a very heavy fist hitting it) not closed, that it would swing one way or another….we aren’t talking a heavy door here…and yet it didn’t swing open or closed.
Like there was just an internal “thump”.
Just one example….there are more and more in my life these past few years...

No war vet, no diagnosed PTSD. However he was a Cocaine addict, and claims to have had a very horrible childhood. I know it sounds harsh, but he was a pathological liar, and I now question everything he ever told me. He told me he was Italian, will still argue with me to this day that he is Italian, but all of his ancestry lines go back to Ireland. He says his mom left when he was a kid, yet there is court documentation that he had been in and out of trouble, and his mother was always the one that signed him out of jail, or it was her car he wrecked. So, I dont know if it was the drugs or not. Likely could've been, here lately he has been trying to guilt trip me into getting into my dad's pain meds stash, however the doctors are very stingy with meds for my dad, and I no longer think highly of my ex, so there is no chance in hell.

Back on topic however, somewhat. Astral Projection (OOBE if you will) is something I studied, and meditated to try to learn. I had a very profound desire to do this. I believe I have done it, but couldnt give any concrete examples, it just seems that i know things, or maybe that has just been my intuition. I have awoken, and felt like I had to come back to myself.

Ok, back on topic. I never felt anything angry after that night, but I felt and seen things, that I had never felt or seen prior, Like the situation opened up a portal. I had a ghost with curly red hair and a beard, always walk up to the front door, I'd see him 3 or 4 times a week for a long time. My dog started acting out like he never had before. I moved from that house a few years ago, and have experienced absolutely nothing that I would consider paranormal after that, inside my own home.

 

[Skarekrow]

No war vet, no diagnosed PTSD. However he was a Cocaine addict, and claims to have had a very horrible childhood. I know it sounds harsh, but he was a pathological liar, and I now question everything he ever told me. He told me he was Italian, will still argue with me to this day that he is Italian, but all of his ancestry lines go back to Ireland. He says his mom left when he was a kid, yet there is court documentation that he had been in and out of trouble, and his mother was always the one that signed him out of jail, or it was her car he wrecked. So, I dont know if it was the drugs or not. Likely could've been, here lately he has been trying to guilt trip me into getting into my dad's pain meds stash, however the doctors are very stingy with meds for my dad, and I no longer think highly of my ex, so there is no chance in hell.

Back on topic however, somewhat. Astral Projection (OOBE if you will) is something I studied, and meditated to try to learn. I had a very profound desire to do this. I believe I have done it, but couldnt give any concrete examples, it just seems that i know things, or maybe that has just been my intuition. I have awoken, and felt like I had to come back to myself.

Ok, back on topic. I never felt anything angry after that night, but I felt and seen things, that I had never felt or seen prior, Like the situation opened up a portal. I had a ghost with curly red hair and a beard, always walk up to the front door, I'd see him 3 or 4 times a week for a long time. My dog started acting out like he never had before. I moved from that house a few years ago, and have experienced absolutely nothing that I would consider paranormal after that, inside my own home.

It sounds like he could have some really negative attachments from his addiction and childhood.
There are some that feel the certain drug addicts are actually possessed by a negative entity…many will tell you this themselves.
That’s good that it seemed to keep whatever it was out of the house at least.

As far as having an OOBE, I have never been able to do the whole routine where you lay in bed and focus on this or that to try an lull your brain into a conscious dream state.
Mine have always been spontaneous and haven’t necessarily been for that long either.
I believe that I used to have OOBE as a small child, I would frequently have dreams of being in the house and getting out of bed, in the dark, though I could see…and sometimes I would walk around the house, and other times I would float.
But I wasn’t always alone in the house either IMO.
Sometimes I would have these dreams and I would hear someone in the kitchen doing the dishes…I knew everyone was asleep, so I wouldn’t leave my room in my dream…I didn’t want to see who/what it was.
There was also a noise that was associated with the appearance of a negative entity into my dream, it was an electrical sound and a sound like a microphone in a strong wind blended together for a brief second….and then I would RUN!
Run, back to my bed as fast as I could and I clearly remember jumping back into my sleeping body several times only to wake up screaming and trying to fight off what I could not see now.
That was just the beginning of it all.

 

[Skarekrow]

Pablo Sender:
An Esoteric Approach to Happiness

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Everyone is searching for happiness.
Some think it can be achieved through acquiring possessions, power, or position, but many have found that this is not true.

Others believe that spirituality can lead them to happiness, only to discover that a spiritual discipline frequently implies effort, inner conflict, and renunciation.
So, many wonder–What is happiness?

And is it attainable at all?
Explore the nature of happiness from an esoteric perspective and discover how it can flower in daily life.​

 

[Skarekrow]

Just in case you needed to catch up on a few things...

Fibonacci and the Golden Mean


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[Skarekrow]

Brainy Thoughts

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Vitor Moura has called my attention to an article by Donald R. Forsdyke of the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Biological Theory (available online behind a paywall).

Its title is "Wittgenstein’s Certainty is Uncertain: Brain Scans of Cured Hydrocephalics Challenge Cherished Assumptions."
Forsdyke, revisiting the work of British pediatrician John Lorber in the 1970s, finds a few more recent cases supportive of Lorber's controversial (to put it mildly) contention that very little gray matter is necessary in order to support normal mental function.

Taking brain scans of hydrocephalics, Lorber found that in the most extreme cases, cerebrospinal fluid occupied "at least 95% of cranial capacity," leaving little room for brain tissue. Forsdyke writes:

Shocking enough. But now for what really rocked the neuroscientists. Half of Lorber’s 60 cases were of above-normal intelligence (as determined by standard IQ tests). The central scans in the figure [reproduced below]–virtually indistinguishable from the severely impaired case on the right–are representative of this group. And doubtless a candid camera would have caught Lorber’s jaw dropping when, among them, he found a student who was ‘‘socially completely normal’’ and had a first class honors degree in mathematics.

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The math student's brain was estimated to weigh between 50 and 150 grams, while a normal brain would weigh 1.5 kilograms (1,500 grams).

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Photo reproduced from the Discover blog post.
The brain on the left is normal; the brain in the middle is that of a hydrocephalic patient who showed no sign of mental dysfunction; the brain on the right is that of a hydrocephalic who was severely impaired.

For decades Lorber's conclusions were largely ignored. But in 2007, The Lancetreported that a married civil servant with two children displayed a "massive ventricular enlargement" in his scans – essentially the same condition Lorber had observed decades earlier.

Shortly afterward, another case along the same lines was reported by Brazilian neurosurgeons.
These cases remain exceedingly rare.

Most hydrocephalics do not lead normal lives; their mental function is often severely compromised.
But the existence of even a few such cases would seem to pose a challenge to the conventional wisdom in neurology.

Before we go on, though, we need to take note of an opposing view – namely, that these cases are less dramatic than they appear.
In Discover magazine's blog, a contributor with the screen name Neuroskeptic argues that what is mainly missing in these scans is not gray matter, but white matter:

There’s no question that some of these brains are very striking. But I don’t think we need to throw out the textbooks yet.
While the enormous “holes” in these brains seem dramatic, the bulk of the grey matter of the cerebral cortex, around the outside of the brain, appears to be intact and in the correct place — this is visible as the dark grey ‘shell’ beneath the skull. What appears to be missing is the white matter, the nerve tracts that connect the various parts of the cerebral cortex with each other, and with the other areas of the brain.
However, some white matter is still visible as the pale grey layer that borders the holes. The big question is whether this layer of white matter is sufficient to connect up the grey matter and allow it to function normally. There doesn’t seem to be much of it, but on the other hand, we really don’t know how much white matter is strictly necessary.
I wonder also if the white matter might be denser than normal i.e. if the fibers were packed together due to being gradually compressed by the expanding fluid spaces?

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After pointing out the need for more research, Neuroskeptic concludes:

In my view, these cases probably won’t require us to rethink neuroscience, although they do raise the issue of how much white matter is necessary. It may be that much of our white matter is redundant, which would be interesting, but not on a metaphysical level.

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Getting back to Forsdyke, he devotes the rest of his article to arguing that the Lorber-type cases call into question the information-storage models of the brain. He rejects the idea that the brain can demonstrate unlimited plasticity:

... there must be rules for redundancy and plasticity. There must be limits. It is a matter of elementary logic that, at some stage of brain shrinkage, these explanations must fail. The drastic reduction in brain mass in the hydrocephalic cases seems to demand unimaginable levels of redundancy and/or plasticity–superplasticity. How much brain must be absent before we abandon these explanations and admit that the standard model, however incarnated, will not work?

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The plasticity explanation is essentially what Neuroskeptic relies on.
The skeptical argument is that the brain has so much "redundancy and/or plasticity" as to achieve "superplasticity" (Forsdyke's words).

Thus even a loss of 95% of brain tissue is not necessarily catastrophic, as long as a "shell" of gray and white matter (the latter possibly compacted) remains intact.

For Forsdyke, this explanation pushes plasticity/redundancy past the breaking point.
Instead, he's partial to a different, though admittedly speculative, idea:

Information relating to long-term memory is held outside the brain.
Since most nonneural tissues and organs appear unsuited for this task, this extrapolates to long-term memory being outside the body–extracorporeal! Amazingly, this startling alternative has been on the table for at least two decades. A Georgetown University professor of computing science has sketched out how it might work (Berkovich 1993, 2014). A 10th century Arabic philosopher-physician even had a version (Avicenna 1631) ...

With respect to long-term memory, a stand-alone computer can be regarded merely as a terminal for manipulating data, and one retrieves from, and store files at, some remote location by way of the Internet. There are imaginative attempts to relate this to the workings of individual brains (Al Shargi and Berkovich 2009). The brain is seen as a receptor/transmitter of some form of electromagnetic wave/particle for which no obvious external structure (e.g., an eye) would be needed. Considering the universe as a holographic information storage device, and invoking the ‘‘spooky’’ physical principle of ‘‘non-locality’’ (Rudolph 2008), a ‘‘possible ‘hardware’ implementation’’ has been described (Berkovich 1993).

While various versions are considered in more detail elsewhere (Clark 2008; Noe ̈ 2009; Forsdyke 2011), they all fall far short on evidence. However, the rare hydrocephalic cases described here suggest that we should be cautious when tempted to cast aside the astonishing idea of personal information–long-term memory–being stored elsewhere ...

And, of course, when speaking of extracorporeal memory we enter the domain of ‘‘mind’’ or ‘‘spirit,’’ with corresponding metaphysical implications. ... Perhaps we should return to 1867 and harken to an exchange between two of Charles Darwin’s contemporaries, Robert Chambers and Alfred Russel Wallace: ‘‘My idea is that the term ‘supernatural’ is a gross mistake. We have only to enlarge our conceptions of the natural, and all will be alright’’ (Wallace 1905, pp. 285—286).

We chuckle on learning how spiritualists duped such characters. Yet the possibility now emerges of at least some grains of truth amidst the dross that we poor creatures, imprisoned within the second decade of the 21st century, can understand no better than those imprisoned in the latter decades of the 19th could fathom ‘‘the missing five ounces’’ (Romanes 1887; Forsdyke 2014, 2015).

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Though I don't think spiritualists necessarily "duped" the early researchers (my opinion is that some spiritualists were genuine and others were fraudulent, and many of the early researchers were quite adept at discerning between them), I welcome Forsdyke's willingness to look beyond the existing paradigm.

As he himself says, it is somewhat astonishing that these cases have excited so little interest or curiosity.
And even Neuroskeptic writes, "I’m surprised that more research hasn’t been done into this issue."

Forsdyke quotes philosopher Marek Majorek as being startled by the cognitive dissonance of experts reporting on the hydrocephalic cases without registering much of a reaction. Majorek wrote,

Yet it seems that the report should have been supplied with a large red title stating something to the effect ‘‘A major medical miracle: normal life with half a brain!’’, published not only in an academic journal but on the first pages of every major newspaper in the world, and extensively discussed in professional journals.

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More than thirty years after Lorber's work, these anomalous cases still have not been explained.
Perhaps even more astonishing, there seems to be very little interest in explaining them.

They are unwanted, inconvenient scraps of data, duly reported and quickly filed away.

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Hmm.
Maybe he didn't need a brain, after all!​

 

[Skarekrow]

This article compliments the above ^^^
Enjoy!

No Brainer.​

For decades now, I have been haunted by the grainy, black-and-white x-ray of a human skull.
It is alive but empty, with a cavernous fluid-filled space where the brain should be.

A thin layer of brain tissue lines that cavity like an amniotic sac.
The image hails from a 1980 review article in Science: Roger Lewin, the author, reports that the patient in question had “virtually no brain”.

But that’s not what scared me; hydrocephalus is nothing new, and it takes more to creep out this ex-biologist than a picture of Ventricles Gone Wild.

The stuff of nightmares. (From Oliveira et al 2012)

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What scared me was the fact that this virtually brain-free patient had an IQ of 126.
He had a first-class honors degree in mathematics.

He presented normally along all social and cognitive axes.
He didn’t even realize there was anything wrong with him until he went to the doctor for some unrelated malady, only to be referred to a specialist because his head seemed a bit too large.

It happens occasionally.
Someone grows up to become a construction worker or a schoolteacher, before learning that they should have been a rutabaga instead.

Lewin’s paper reports that one out of ten hydrocephalus cases are so extreme that cerebrospinal fluid fills 95% of the cranium.
Anyone whose brain fits into the remaining 5% should be nothing short of vegetative; yet apparently, fully half have IQs over 100. (Why, here’s another example from 2007; and yet another.)

Let’s call them VBNs, or “Virtual No-Brainers”.
The paper is titled “Is Your Brain Really Necessary?”, and it seems to contradict pretty much everything we think we know about neurobiology.

This Forsdyke guy over in Biological Theory argues that such cases open the possibility that the brain might utilize some kind of extracorporeal storage, which sounds awfully woo both to me and to the anonymous neuroskeptic over at Discovery.com; but even Neuroskeptic, while dismissing Forsdyke’s wilder speculations, doesn’t really argue with the neurological facts on the ground. (I myself haven’t yet had a chance to more than glance at the Forsdyke paper, which might warrant its own post if it turns out to be sufficiently substantive. If not, I’ll probably just pretend it is and incorporate it intoOmniscience.)

On a somewhat less peer-reviewed note, VNBs also get routinely trotted out by religious nut jobs who cite them as evidence that a God-given soul must be doing all those things the uppity scientists keep attributing to the brain.

Every now and then I see them linking to an off-hand reference I made way back in 2007 (apparently rifters.com is the only place to find Lewin’s paper online without having to pay a wall) and I roll my eyes.

And yet, 126 IQ.
Virtually no brain.

In my darkest moments of doubt, I wondered if they might be right.
So on and off for the past twenty years, I’ve lain awake at night wondering how a brain the size of a poodle’s could kick my ass at advanced mathematics.

I’ve wondered if these miracle freaks might actually have the same brain mass as the rest of us, but squeezed into a smaller, high-density volume by the pressure of all that cerebrospinal fluid (apparently the answer is: no).

While I was writing Blindsight– having learned that cortical modules in the brains of autistic savants are relatively underconnected, forcing each to become more efficient– I wondered if some kind of network-isolation effect might be in play.

Now, it turns out the answer to that is: Maybe.
Three decades after Lewin’s paper, we have “Revisiting hydrocephalus as a model to study brain resilience” by de Oliveira et al. (actually published in 2012, although I didn’t read it until last spring).

It’s a “Mini Review Article”: only four pages, no new methodologies or original findings– just a bit of background, a hypothesis, a brief “Discussion” and a conclusion calling for further research.

In fact, it’s not so much a review as a challenge to the neuro community to get off its ass and study this fascinating phenomenon– so that soon, hopefully, there’ll be enough new research out there warrant a real review.

The authors advocate research into “Computational models such as the small-world and scale-free network”– networks whose nodes are clustered into highly-interconnected “cliques”, while the cliques themselves are more sparsely connected one to another.

De Oliveira et al suggest that they hold the secret to the resilience of the hydrocephalic brain.
Such networks result in “higher dynamical complexity, lower wiring costs, and resilience to tissue insults.”

This also seems reminiscent of those isolated hyper-efficient modules of autistic savants, which is unlikely to be a coincidence: networks from social to genetic to neural have all been described as “small-world”.

(You might wonder– as I did– why de Oliveira et al. would credit such networks for the normal intelligence of some hydrocephalics when the same configuration is presumably ubiquitous in vegetative and normal brains as well. I can only assume they meant to suggest that small-world networking is especially well-developed among high-functioning hydrocephalics.)

(In all honesty, it’s not the best-written paper I’ve ever read. Which seems to be kind of a trend on the ‘crawl lately.)

The point, though, is that under the right conditions, brain damage may paradoxically result in brain enhancement.
Small-world, scale-free networking– focused, intensified, overclocked– might turbocharge a fragment of a brain into acting like the whole thing.

Can you imagine what would happen if we applied that trick to a normal brain?
If you’ve read Echopraxia, you’ll remember the Bicameral Order: the way they used tailored cancer genes to build extra connections in their brains, the way they linked whole brains together into a hive mind that could rewrite the laws of physics in an afternoon.

It was mostly bullshit, of course: neurological speculation, stretched eight unpredictable decades into the future for the sake of a story.
But maybe the reality is simpler than the fiction.

Maybe you don’t have to tweak genes or interface brains with computers to make the next great leap in cognitive evolution.
Right now, right here in the real world, the cognitive function of brain tissue can be boosted– without engineering, without augmentation– by literal orders of magnitude.

All it takes, apparently, is the right kind of stress.
And if the neuroscience community heeds de Oliveira et al‘s clarion call, we may soon know how to apply that stress to order.

The singularity might be a lot closer than we think.
Also a lot squishier.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if things turned out to be that easy?

This entry was written by Peter Watts

 

[Skarekrow]

5 Classic Experiments Showing Extremely Significant Results For Human Telepathy

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Why is it that extrasensory perception, like human telepathy, remote viewing, psychokinesis and more are commonly shunned by a large portion of the mainstream scientific community?

The answer is simple, it’s our inability to understand or develop a sound scientific theory to explain phenomena that, so far, is completely unexplainable, but real.
Despite the fact that they are unexplainable, these occurrences (telepathy, remote viewing, psychokinesis, etc..) have been observed in laboratory settings by scientists all over the world for decades.

It’s a troublesome thought that experiments, showing repeatedly significant results, continue to be ignored by the mainstream just because we can’t explain them.
Again, It’s important to remember that just because we cannot explain them, or figure out (in modern day scientific terms) how they are happening, does not mean that they are not happening.
“Some materialistically inclined scientists and philosophers refuse to acknowledge these phenomena because they are not consistent with their exclusive conception of the world. Rejection of post-materialist investigation of nature or refusal to publish strong science findings supporting a post-materialist framework are antithetical to the true spirit of scientific inquiry, which is that empirical data must always be adequately dealt with. Data which do not fit favoured theories and beliefs cannot be dismissed a priori. Such dismissal is the realm of ideology, not science.” — Dr. Gary Schwartz, PhD., professor at the University of Arizona (source)

Human Telepathy

Albert Einstein, reporting a conversation with an unnamed but “important theoretical physicist,” regarding telepathy(1)He: “I am inclined to believe in telepathy.”
Einstein: “This has probably more to do with physics than with psychology.”
He: “Yes”
Again, there has been a multitude of published research, showing extremely significant results when it comes to this type of phenomena.
For a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed articles reporting studies of psychic phenomena, mostly published in the 21st century, you can click HERE.

1. Since this topic has been examined in depth for decades by various scientists, it’s hard to pick out which ones to present, but most of them are interesting, so I thought I’d start with a classic experiment that was conducted in 1923 by Dr. H. I. F. W. Brugmans and his colleagues in the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.In this experiment a physics student was investigated for telepathic abilities.

He was placed inside a curtained booth, blindfolded and asked to place his arm under the curtain to select one square on a 6 by 8 checkerboard placed on a table next to the curtain. The target he was trying to select was determined randomly by the experimenter on each trial.

An assistant experimenter knew the target square and tried to mentally influence his arm movements to guide him to select the correct target square.
This study was also one of the first to employ the use of a physiological measurement — galvanic skin response, to see if the subject’s skin resistance would vary according to his selection of correct versus incorrect targets.

It’s also noteworthy to mention here that a recently published study (meta analysis) in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience titled “Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity” examined a number of experiments regarding this phenomenon that were conducted by several different laboratories.

These experiments indicate that the human body can actually detect randomly delivered stimuli that occur 1-10 seconds in advance.
In other words, the human body seems to know of an event, and reacts to an event that has yet to occur.

What occurs in the human body before these events are physiological changes that are measured regarding the cardiopulmonary, the skin, and the nervous system.
You can read more about that HERE.

The results of this experiment in the Netherlands were extremely significant, with 60 success cases out of 197 trials rather than the 4 expected by chance.
That’s associated with odds against chance of 121 trillion to 1.
“A reanalysis of this study in 1978 explored in great detail a number of criticisms that had arisen over the years. It found that potential flaws, such as biases in the random target sequences and possible sensory cues, could not plausibly explain away the extremely significant results.” — Dean Radin (1)

2. The phenomenon of “dream telepathy” has also been well documented in a laboratory setting.
These experiments have been conducted over a number of years and have yielded statistically significant results.
“A wealth of anecdotal and clinical material exist which supports the possibility of telepathic effects occurring in dreams (Krippner, 1974).
However, an experimental approach to the topic did not become possible until psycho-physiological laboratory technology became available. It was discovered that sleeping research participants awakened from periods of rapid eye movement (REM) activity were frequently able to recall dream episodes. As a result, it was possible to request a “telepathic receiver” to attempt dreaming about a target stimulus that was being focused on in a distant location from a telepathic sender.” (source)

You can read more about dream telepathy, and view the experiments/results/sources in THIS article.
They are quite remarkable.

3. Another very popular, classic experiment that has withstood the test of time is what’s known as the “ESP card test.”
It gained well-deserved attention when J.B. Rhine’s Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University started examining it.

The test involves cards imprinted with one of five symbols: circle, square, wavy lines, star or cross.
A deck of ESP cards had five repetitions of each symbol for a total of 25 cards.

In a typical experiment, the deck was thoroughly shuffled and then one person would select each card in turn and try to mentally send the symbol on that card to a distant person. Because of this, hundreds of trials were collected quite quickly, in a number of different environments and under controlled conditions.

Analysis of the results from this experiment were quite clear, and some of the experimental results conducted under high security conditions provided extremely strong evidence for the phenomenon.

Analysis of the 188 experiments that were described in Rhine’s 1940 book, Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Years, according to Dean Radin:
“The combined results are so far from chance that it would take 428,000 unreported studies averaging a chance effect to eliminate the results of the known 1888 experiments. Given that it took 60 years to produce those 1888 experiments, or about 2 studies per year, at that rate the missing studies would have taken 137,000 years to produce.” (1)

4. Another frequently cited experiment is what’s known as the “Pearce-Pratt” distance telepathy test. It took place from August 1933 through March 1934.
The test consisted of 74 runs and 25-card ESP decks.

Prior to this, Rhine (mentioned in #3) and Pratt had already conducted 700 runs of 25 cards under a variety of conditions, with an overall hit rate of 32 percent where chance expectation was 20 percent.

The “Pearce-Pratt” test had 74 planned runs, and a total of 1,850 individual trials.
Pearce recorded 558 hits, which was approximately 200 hits above chance expectation.

This is associated with odds against chance of multiple billions to one.
All of the above results clearly indicate that chance is ruled out.

This is what Pearce concluded:
“The series contributed all that an experiment can do toward establishing the ESP hypothesis. The rest is a question of receptivity on the part of the professional group.” (1)

You can read more details about this test here.

5. This last example deals with clairvoyance, in which a picture-drawing experiment is usually used where one person selects or imagines an object, sketches it, and then concentrates on “sending” that image to a distant partner.

The partner then attempts to reproduce the same object or sketch, and then the two pictures are judged for similarities.
One great, classic example is the Upton Sinclair test.

This involved a successful series of picture drawing experiments that was published in 1930 by Upton Sinclair, a popular American social activist who first rose to fame because of his 1906 novel, The Jungle, a book that led to the U.S. government’s Pure Food and Drugs Act, as well as the Meat Inspection Act.

He was also a Pulitzer Prize winner.
In his experiments, Sinclair would sketch out a small object, then another person at a distance would try to mentally perceive the sketch and reproduce it.

He produces dozens of examples that prove telepathy far beyond what one would expect by chance.
He conducted these experiments because he was a skeptic.
“There isn’t a thing in the world that leads me to this act except the conviction which has been forced upon me that telepathy is real, and that loyalty to the nature of the universe makes it necessary for me to say so. It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.” — Upton Sinclair (1)

Albert Einstein was one of Sinclair’s good friends, who both trusted him and considered the data carefully.
He provided a preface for the German version of Sinclair’s book, Mental Radio, and wrote the following:

“I have read the book of Upton Sinclair with great interest and am convinced that the same deserves the most earnest consideration, not only of the laity, but also of the psychologists by profession. The results of the telepathic experiments carefully and plainly set forth in this book stand surely far beyond those which nature investigator holds to be thinkable. On the other hand, it is out of the question in the case of so conscientious an observer and writer as Upton Sinclair that he is carrying on a conscious deception of the reading world; his good faith and dependability are not to be doubted. So if somehow the facts here set forth rest not upon telepathy, but upon some unconscious hypnotic influence from person to person, this also would be of high psychological interest. In no case should the psychologically interested circles pass over this book heedlessly.” — Albert Einstein (1)

There are many classic examples of these experiments, another comes from Cambridge University Professor Whateley Carington, who conducted multiple studies in this realm and provided sound evidence for “parapsychological” phenomenon (starting in 1941).

Apart from his own experiments and studies that yielded statistically significant results, he spoke of the prior evidence before his:
“Those studies convinced me that, despite the machinations of the malevolent hoodoo which apparently dominates the subject, the case for supposing that significant and genuine positive results had been obtained in the past from experiments of this kind was very strong.” (1)

Sources:
(1) Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds; Extrasensory Experiences In Quantum Reality. (View on Amazon here)

 

[Kgal]

Here is the progression on the wood burning project that I’m currently working on…
I will still even out the color I added and I am going to copper-leaf the internal panels of the butterfly wings.
Then will hit the natural wood with a very light stain and clear coat the whole thing before framing.
I think it will turn out really well! @housel

This is the first version…I sketch the design first then do a light/rough version of the line work.

Then I darkened the lines and fixed any discrepancies in the mirror image…added a few embellishments. (pen is for size reference)

Then I added some color (which will still be evened out). I was going for the same color that copper tarnishes to…that blue green color because I am going to put copper leafing within the panels of the butterfly’s wings.
The raw wood will receive a light stain of some sort with a clear coat finish over it all before framing it.

This is beautiful! Oooo....and with copper inlaid into it....it's going to be fantastic! I really like it...and the butterfly is perfect because we're going through a similar metamorphosis like the caterpillar to the butterfly.

 

[Skarekrow]

Here is an updated version of the peer-reviewed studies and experiments proving our minds are not trapped in our skulls.
This is the data that materialist science likes to ignore.
Enjoy!

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications on Psi Research​

The following is a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies of psychic phenomena, mostly published in the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century.

There are also some important papers of historical interest and other resources.
A comprehensive list would run into thousands of articles.

Click on the title of an article to download it.
The international professional organization for scientists and scholars interested in psi phenomena is the Parapsychological Association, an elected affiliate (since 1969) of the AAAS, the largest general scientific organization in the world.

Commonly repeated critiques about psi, such as “these phenomena are impossible,” or “there’s no valid scientific evidence,” or “the results are all due to fraud,” have been soundly rejected for many decades.

Such critiques persist due to ignorance of the relevant literature and to entrenched, incorrect beliefs.
Legitimate debates today no longer focus on existential questions but on development of adequate theoretical explanations, advancements in methodology, the “source” of psi, and issues about effect size heterogeneity and robustness of replication.

This page is maintained by Dean Radin. Updated April 18, 2014.

Healing at a Distance

Astin et al (2000). The Efficacy of “Distant Healing”: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials

Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial

Krucoff et al (2001).Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot

Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.

Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) IIrandomised study

Benson et al (2006). Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients

Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and Health: Review, Meta-Analysis, and Research Agenda

Radin et al (2008). Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system.

Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study.

Physiological correlations at a distance

Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins.

Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain: The transferred potential

Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring.

Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains.

Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects

Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses

Radin (2004). Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects.

Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects

Richards et al (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects.

Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis

Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis.

Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study.

Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology.

Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate.

Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study.

Hinterberger (2010). Searching for neuronal markers of psi: A summary of three studies measuring electrophysiology in distant participants.

Schmidt (2012). Can we help just by good intentions? A meta-analysis of experiments on distant intention effects

Jensen & Parker (2012). Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds.

Parker & Jensen (2013). Further possible physiological connectedness between identical twins: The London study.

Telepathy & ESP

Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding.

Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research

Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans.

Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist?

Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton

Bem (1994). Response to Hyman

Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does Psi Exist? Lack of Replication of an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane.

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). A dog that seems to know when his owner to coming home: Videotaped experiments and
observations.

Storm & Ertel (2001). Does Psi Exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) Meta-Analysis of Ganzfeld Research

Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001)

Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy.

Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy.

Sherwood & Roe (2003). A Review of Dream ESP Studies Conducted Since the Maimonides Dream ESP Programme

Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures

Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard

Radin (2007). Finding Or Imagining Flawed Research?

Storm et al (2010). Meta-Analysis of Free-Response Studies, 1992—2008: Assessing the Noise Reduction Model in Parapsychology

Storm et al (2010). A Meta-Analysis With Nothing to Hide: Reply to Hyman (2010)

Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences

Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental Connection at Distance: Useful for Solving Difficult Tasks?

Williams (2011). Revisiting the Ganzfeld ESP Debate: A Basic Review and Assessment

Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor Meta-Analysis of Recent Extrasensory Perception Experiments: Comment on Storm,
Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010)

Storm et al (2013). Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis Using Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013)

General Overviews & Critiques

Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning

Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance

Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi

Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win.

McLuhan (no date). Fraud in psi research.

Survival of Consciousness

van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands

van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain

Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol

Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences

Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research

Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons

Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection.

Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice

Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable)

Precognition & Presentiment

Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987

Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin Conductance Prestimulus Response: Analyses, Artifacts and a Pilot Study

Radin (2004). Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions.

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process?

Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor.

Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see?

Bem (2011). Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect

Bem et al (2011). Must Psychologists Change the Way They Analyze Their Data?

Bierman (2011). Anomalous Switching of the Bi-Stable Percept of a Necker Cube: A Preliminary Study

Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators.

Radin (2011). Predicting the Unpredictable: 75 Years of Experimental Evidence

Tressoldi et al (2011). Let Your Eyes Predict : Prediction Accuracy of Pupillary Responses to Random Alerting and Neutral Sounds

Galek et al (2012). Correcting the Past: Failures to Replicate Psi

Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

Theory

Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality

May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena

Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an Observational Theory of Paranormal Phenomena

Bierman (2003). Does Consciousness Collapse the Wave-Packet?

Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems

Henry (2005). The mental universe

Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can Mind Affect Matter Via Active Information?

Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic Phenomena as Entanglement Correlations in Generalized Quantum Theory

Rietdijk (2007). Four-Dimensional Physics, Nonlocal Coherence, and Paranormal Phenomena

Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective

Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition.

Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power?

Mind-Matter Interaction

Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism

Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH

Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship.

Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home)

Braude (1985). The enigma of Daniel Home.

Zorab (1971). Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced?

Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective.

Inglis (1983). Review of “The spiritualists. The passion for the occult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Ruth Brandon.”

Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis.

Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events

Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems

Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis

Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program.

Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events.

Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in Random Event Measures Associated with a Healing Practice

Freedman et al (2003). Effects of Frontal Lobe Lesions on Intentionality and Random Physical Phenomena

Bierman (2004). Does consciousness collapse the wave function?

Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition.

Bosch et al (2006). Examining Psychokinesis: The Interaction of Human Intention With Random Number Generators–A Meta-
Analysis

Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis: Commentary on the Bösch, Steinkamp and Boller meta-analysis.

Radin et al (2006). Assessing the Evidence for Mind-Matter Interaction Effects

Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction.

Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge.

Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events.

Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments

Shiah & Radin (2013). Metaphysics of the tea ceremony: A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea.

Radin et al (2013). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern

Potential Applications

Carpenter (2011). Laboratory psi effects may be put to practical use: Two pilot studies

Schwartz (1980/2000). Location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure … [by remote viewing]

Some recommended books

Radin (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena

Radin (2006). Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

Irwin & Watt (2007). An Introduction to Parapsychology

Mayer (2008). Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind

Kelly et al (2009). Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Tart (2009). The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together

Carter (2010). Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death

Van Lommel (2011). Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

Sheldrake (1999; new edition 2011) Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals

Alexander (2012). Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Carpenter (2012). First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life

Carter (2012). Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics

Targ (2012). The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities

Sheldrake (2003; new edition 2013) The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind

Radin (2013). Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities

Websites with access to more articles

Daryl Bem: Click here

Brian Josephson: Click here

Edwin May: Click here

Stephan Schwartz, Click here

Rupert Sheldrake: Click here

James Spottiswoode: Click here

Charles Tart: Click here

Russell Targ: Click here

Patrizio Tressoldi: Click here

Jessica Utts: Click here

Richard Wiseman: Click here

Journal of Scientific Exploration: Click here

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory: Click here or here.

Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia: Click here

Esalen Center for Theory and Research: Click here

Videos

Greyson (2008). Consciousness Without Brain Activity: Near Death Experiences (United Nations)

Radin (2008), Science and the taboo of psi (Google TechTalk)

Sheldrake (2008) The extended mind (Google Tech Talk)
… more to be added …

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[Kgal]

@Kgal

Here is the rundown of what took place.
In my dream I rose out of bed because I could sense something in my house (as I was aware of the whole house, except it looked like I was looking through thin linen or very sheer fabric)…when I came to the hallway, I pinpointed where it was and as I started to push it out with waves of my Qi I yelled at it over an over to “get the fuck out of my house, you have no right to be here!” and I rose off the ground the more intense the waves got. I pushed it through the living room wall and it took off from my house fast!
I couldn’t tell you what it was…I just know it was negative.
Then I woke up just drenched in sweat…now I don’t know the timeline from the dream to when my Son got up…I don’t know if this happened and then he got up or if he was up while this was taking place.
Let me just add…he usually just rolls his eyes when I put on a show about ghosts hahaha…though he says he doesn’t disbelieve…he’s just never seen anything besides this…so I highly doubt he was making things up…he isn’t like that….he tells the truth regardless of if he gets in trouble or not. (not to mention that he told me his story before I ever disclosed my own dream to him)
Also, I wanted to add, that I feel the previous dream we discussed where I was shown how to push things and manipulate things with my mind (though I could already do this somewhat and have “Qi blasted” something/someone 4 times now..3 in my house)…anyhow, I feel this was further instruction of how to protect myself and my loved ones looking back on it now.

Holee crap.... I don't know what I'd do if an entity came into my house and seemed threatening.
I came across some youtube videos of men using their Qi to defend themselves against other men attacking them. It was fascinating to see...

It's great to know you can defend your house and your loved ones from any "uninvited guests".

 

[Skarekrow]

This is beautiful! Oooo....and with copper inlaid into it....it's going to be fantastic! I really like it...and the butterfly is perfect because we're going through a similar metamorphosis like the caterpillar to the butterfly.

Thank you so much!
I’ve started to inlay the copper…it’s not the easiest stuff to work with especially on wood I think….but I have found a razor blade extremely helpful….I’m thinking I will try to finish the copper leafing today…as I feel good today.
So…I was going to do a light stain on the rest of the wood before clear coating it….but I’m worried that the stain may bleed through some of the thiner line work and infiltrate the blue color.
So I’m going to also use a light water-color paint (which is what the blue is)…that way, even if it bleeds through, it will blend with the other paint and not look strange.
I’ll post pictures!
(This is the result of Sensiko pleading with me NOT to make another Ouija board hahaha…not that I use the one I made…I will give it away one day)
Anyhow…I already have my next sheet of wood to think of…I thinking some kind of stylized gnarled tree…we’ll see!

 

[Kgal]

Thank you so much!
I’ve started to inlay the copper…it’s not the easiest stuff to work with especially on wood I think….but I have found a razor blade extremely helpful….I’m thinking I will try to finish the copper leafing today…as I feel good today.
So…I was going to do a light stain on the rest of the wood before clear coating it….but I’m worried that the stain may bleed through some of the thiner line work and infiltrate the blue color.
So I’m going to also use a light water-color paint (which is what the blue is)…that way, even if it bleeds through, it will blend with the other paint and not look strange.
I’ll post pictures!
(This is the result of Sensiko pleading with me NOT to make another Ouija board hahaha…not that I use the one I made…I will give it away one day)
Anyhow…I already have my next sheet of wood to think of…I thinking some kind of stylized gnarled tree…we’ll see!

I'm glad she talked you out of making another one.

Ummm....I'm surprised you're not designing a merkaba into your creation out of wood.

 

[Skarekrow]

Holee crap.... I don't know what I'd do if an entity came into my house and seemed threatening.
I came across some youtube videos of men using their Qi to defend themselves against other men attacking them. It was fascinating to see...

It's great to know you can defend your house and your loved ones from any "uninvited guests".

It’s a very interesting feeling….it’s like waves that emanate from my core…they are warm…they seem to be powerful…at least I perceive them to be like waves in the ocean…just as you can’t stand your ground and “stop” a wave…this seems similar.
That last time though….it was probably the most powerful that I have felt it….I mean…it was as if I could see a layout of the whole house in my vision…though it wasn’t super-clear like I said…like looking through sheer fabric or thin muslin.
And I could feel my mind actively searching this thing out….it was a subconscious action….it only took a second but once my mind pinpointed where this thing was I began to yell and the Qi waves were pushed toward it.
I wonder if this was taking place while my Son was standing there in the hallway where I was in my dream….though I didn’t see him….perhaps it was some kind of Fatherly instinctual protection for him…idk.
Maybe they are not connected at all?

 

[Skarekrow]

I'm glad she talked you out of making another one.

Ummm....I'm surprised you're not designing a merkaba into your creation out of wood.

That is a good idea…or to at least do some really interesting version of some kind of Sacred geometry….nice!
Maybe I can incorporate the two…the tree with this….hmmmmm?

 

[Angela]

Thank you so much!
I’ve started to inlay the copper…it’s not the easiest stuff to work with especially on wood I think….but I have found a razor blade extremely helpful….I’m thinking I will try to finish the copper leafing today…as I feel good today.
So…I was going to do a light stain on the rest of the wood before clear coating it….but I’m worried that the stain may bleed through some of the thiner line work and infiltrate the blue color.
So I’m going to also use a light water-color paint (which is what the blue is)…that way, even if it bleeds through, it will blend with the other paint and not look strange.
I’ll post pictures!
(This is the result of Sensiko pleading with me NOT to make another Ouija board hahaha…not that I use the one I made…I will give it away one day)
Anyhow…I already have my next sheet of wood to think of…I thinking some kind of stylized gnarled tree…we’ll see!

you might like to try putting wax where you would like it to not bleed through, (rubbing wax on it then letting it sit in the sun to kind of melt in and act as a dam

 

[Kgal]

It’s a very interesting feeling….it’s like waves that emanate from my core…they are warm…they seem to be powerful…at least I perceive them to be like waves in the ocean…just as you can’t stand your ground and “stop” a wave…this seems similar.
That last time though….it was probably the most powerful that I have felt it….I mean…it was as if I could see a layout of the whole house in my vision…though it wasn’t super-clear like I said…like looking through sheer fabric or thin muslin.
And I could feel my mind actively searching this thing out….it was a subconscious action….it only took a second but once my mind pinpointed where this thing was I began to yell and the Qi waves were pushed toward it.
I wonder if this was taking place while my Son was standing there in the hallway where I was in my dream….though I didn’t see him….perhaps it was some kind of Fatherly instinctual protection for him…idk.
Maybe they are not connected at all?

It would appear you were also using the power of Sound through your voice. We all had that capability at one time or the other in our long history of civilization....

Wow....You could feel your mind actively searching for it.... I wonder how your mind knew it was there in the first place. I wonder if your higher self knew and merged with you in the 4th frequency plane to expunge the entity from your space. Although since you woke up in a sweat I wonder if this all took place on the 3rd level as well. The frequencies are overlapping now...so it's hard to wrap my mind around it all.

At least you know your higher self is protecting you. That must feel good....

 

[Kgal]

That is a good idea…or to at least do some really interesting version of some kind of Sacred geometry….nice!
Maybe I can incorporate the two…the tree with this….hmmmmm?

What about?.... The TREE of LIFE!!!!

 

[Skarekrow]

It would appear you were also using the power of Sound through your voice. We all had that capability at one time or the other in our long history of civilization....

Wow....You could feel your mind actively searching for it.... I wonder how your mind knew it was there in the first place. I wonder if your higher self knew and merged with you in the 4th frequency plane to expunge the entity from your space. Although since you woke up in a sweat I wonder if this all took place on the 3rd level as well. The frequencies are overlapping now...so it's hard to wrap my mind around it all.

At least you know your higher self is protecting you. That must feel good....

That one time with the “old hag” that entered my apartment a few years ago….I distinctly remember having a dream, then it was like my mind was instantly redirected to her coming down the hallway (again my eyes were closed) that’s when I sat up in my sleep and the same type thing happened….except she threw that clock at me….or maybe it just got Qi blasted too…lol….the difference this time was I rose out of bed, but I knew I wasn’t awake.
So it seems that there is some kind of subconscious warning process that takes place.