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“We have never encountered poor engineering in nature” –Albrecht-Buehler

 

It’s 1978 and I’m sitting at a workbench, electronic test equipment arrayed all around me on shelves — oscilloscopes and ‘bit boxes’, the tools of my trade.   It’s the night shift and the factory is ‘cooling fan’ quiet, almost like sitting in my living room — at least in comparison to the buzzing of the day shift when the isles are full of managers and engineers…  office types, disturbing my otherwise silent technical devotions.   And just like in my living room, I light up a ‘righteous’ cigarette and lean back on my swiveling chair, contemplating a problem with a printed circuit board I’m troubleshooting — trying to put some ‘soul in the machine’ — but it won’t initialize — stuck in a loop. I take a puff (menthols!) and exhale up toward the high industrial ceiling. When my eyes come back to the problem I glance at the scope and notice a straight line on the screen but one that is fuzzy somehow — they are never really straight. Only moments before it had been an incomprehensible blur, racing at megahertz speed and I had barely been able to sync it up so as to bring the blur into focus. Now, as I rest the probe at my side the screen is quiet — in keeping with my surroundings — relaxed at ‘zero’ volts.

It is my habit when I am stuck — when I have no place left to look — to absently rub my thumb back and forth across the tip of the scopes probe as if rubbing a genie bottle — unconsciously ‘wishing’ perhaps that an answer will pop into my head. Whenever I practice this ritual the line will jump and its tiny, unseen curves are amplified somehow — you can see it. The ‘fuzz’ gets louder. The dance of this noise distracts me somehow — mesmerizes me into neutral like a brief ‘reset’, for a moment, till I’m ready to take up the loop again. Loops are the worst… no hooks to get a handle on. The rack of unfixed boards on the shelf behind me is predictably full of the ones with loops — cut to ribbons with exacto knives in futile attempts to isolate the problem. No one likes them. They are always saved for last, undesirable scraps set aside for nights like this when the work flow slows to a trickle and we have nothing else to do.

When I’m done with my smoke I lean forward and place the tip of the probe on the lower right pin of a 16 pin chip… the ground pin (Earth!) and it jumps again. Noise. Same noise. It’s everywhere.

Fast forward about 25 years and I’m sitting in my cube — I am an ‘office type’ now (tobacco free!… and no degree!) and an email has arrived on my UNIX workstation from an author whom I have been in intermittent contact with about esoteric topics that occasionally pop into my mind  — when I’m stuck. It’s a sort of ‘smoke break’ to distract me from my otherwise absorbing design gig.  He’s sent a link — a link to a scientific paper — a paper about noise. Noise… and the brain!

Timeout.

It’s written by a researcher from a prestigious university and it’s the usual incoherent ‘code talking‘ (to the unwashed like myself) but one phrase jumps out at me like a left hook and I flinch — it’s the essential point of the whole paper, boiled down to one very uncharacteristically brief little sound byte — a sort of Sesame Street moment in an otherwise convoluted read.  The brain, according to this distinguished professor… feeds on noise… pigs out on it in fact… can’t operate without it! Slops it up and spits it out as signals — signals in the AM & FM bands — like a damn TV!  And like a contented cow, it grazes all day (and night!) — not in a field of clover… but in a field of noise!

As it turns out, the brain and I had not been on speaking terms for some years now for I had been singing the praises of ‘energy’ to anyone who would listen. Any mention of anything thicker than a nadi was dismissed in my steel trapped mind as an artifact of the primary subtle source code and as such, an irrelevant distraction — not worthy of my valuable time. But here was something that hit home in a way that I couldn’t dismiss… I mean this was engineering… or more accurately, reverse engineering.  It was right in my under educated wheelhouse, in a language I could relate to. Suddenly, in my mind, the brain had been ‘elevated’ somehow.  No longer so easily dismissed, it was now an ‘organ of respect!’ — an unbelievably sophisticated and counterintuitive bio-electric genius, its underlying mechanism having gone under reported in an otherwise ‘Big-Pharma’s’ field.    And it had been doing a ‘rope a dope’ — with noise! the scourge of the electronics world, right ‘under’ my nose the whole time… Damn!  I was impressed!

And in addition this paper just happened to come complete with a handy Block Diagram — just like the ones on my desk. And like all block diagrams this one had something that was visually revealing about it — but not so much in what it ‘said’ — but in what it didn‘t ‘say’.  The brain, according to the usual suspects (i.e., the experts) was supposed to be the storehouse of memory — of all memories.  Except this diagram had no large scale caches — only ‘data paths’ (parallel bus’s) and multiplexers! (millions to one!).  It was all about movement and feedback (i.e., amplification and signal conditioning) not massive static storage.  And like any good multiplexer it funneled down each of the many neurons’ massively parallel signals into individual serial signals — ones that we could, potentially (I would assume!) “select”… and “see!”… and “hear!”

Yikes!  Somebody change the channel!!   This was too much

Or was it?

Rewind to a few years earlier — stuck again! — and I had come across an article by a Phd by the name of James L. Oschman, author of the ground breaking book Energy Medicine — The Scientific Basis. Oschman was a biologist who’d done a tour at the prestigious Wood‘s Hole Oceanographic Institute and he was describing his own metamorphosis from a traditional western scientific view to what could only be described as a full blown empirically derived ‘energy view’ of the human body-mind (and cosmos).  All of this had been precipitated by an aching back which had led him, eventually, to a paradigm changing encounter with a practitioner of the art of Rolfing who took the time to bring him up to speed on the subtle world.  Fascinated, he took it upon himself to unearth the scientific evidence to substantiate it all and it turned out to be voluminous. For the newly initiated Oschman, the scalability and intelligence of this amazing ‘human energy system’ was elegance itself — a thing to behold, but he was curious why there was no talk of it in the scientific community.  Eventually he found himself contemplating a sort of ‘McKenna’s Dilemma’ — no one else seemed to want it!  He was alone in line at the Buffet!  And to ‘top’ it all off, despite all the ‘Surf & Turf’ on his plate, he found that it all ‘boiled’ down to water.

As it turns out, one of Oschman’s colleagues at ‘the Hole’ was a Hungarian scientist of worldwide repute by the name of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the discoverer of vitamin C.  It was Szent-Gyorgyi who initially postulated that proteins are more than just ‘proteins’ but only when saturated with water, at which point — like biological comic book Super Heros — they ‘transform’ into semiconductors! His observation was that water, a conductor, was what made electrons (energy!) mobile throughout the body’s intricate collagen network (protein!) and that this was responsible for the flexibility, speed and subtlety that combined to help facilitate what he referred to as the ‘living state’. And this network reached into literally every single one of our cells, right down to our DNA.  So the body not only had a ‘wireless’ network but collagen ‘land lines’ as well! His term for this dynamic combination was ‘Electronic Biology’ and Oschman referred to his discovery of this system thusly:

Breakthroughs in cell biology now enable us to describe the scientific basis of this system. The first of these breakthroughs was the discovery that the molecules of which the body is formed are semiconductors. Conductors, such as the wires that go to a light or a toaster, carry useful energy. The wire to your telephone carries information. Semiconductors can convey both energy and information, and can do other things as well. Semiconductors are used to store information and to process signals — to make choices or decisions. Semiconductors are used to make sensitive detectors of energy fields. Semiconductors can transport large amounts of power. Semiconductors are the essential components of our modern electronics industry, and make possible the miracle of the computer we are using to write this article.

In living systems, semiconductors probably play the same roles we have assigned to them in our technology. Living systems undoubtedly have developed additional tricks that have not yet been discovered by the electronics industry.

I had been contemplating this technological stew for a number of years when one more juicy ingredient arrived on my laptop in the form of a link to a video called “Thunderbolts of the Gods”.  It was about a theory that the ‘quantumized’ and sterile, disconnected ‘gravity in a vacuum’ idea of the cosmos (with mysterious spots of so called “dark energy” lurking about) is a ‘dead short’ so to speak. This ‘new’ view of the cosmos is actually a hundred years old and is referred to as the ‘Electric Universe’ and it talks of a ubiquitous primal universal force trillions of times more powerful than ‘gravity’ (and a lot less mysterious) — i.e.,  electricity.  Nice… And of course, where there is electricity there is magnetism (“for every force there is an equal and opposite…”)  Nice…  And as it turns out, all the billowing clouds of ‘stuff’ out there have the qualities of plasma which is a nebulous fourth state of matter where particles are suspended in a soup of free floating electrons (i.e., energy) — perfect for the conduction of electric currents.  No dry ‘dust’, these currents have a name — Birkeland currents — and they have been recorded for decades.  And these currents travel through space primarily in paths that resemble ‘twisted pair’ wires (long preferred in the computer industry for their ideal conducting properties) — i.e., they are spiraling! — like our DNA. And these currents form a huge network — literally — between all the planets and stars in the Universe like some kind of crazy cosmic web (imagine that!). So it’s alive… it’s electric… and the whole thing is buzzing like Yankee Stadium on opening day!  And the entire model is completely scalable and has been reproduced in supercomputers that can replicate the whole process while it forms spiraling galaxies — something the standard model has never been able to do. Imagine that!

So it was all coming together ‘nicely’ now… electromagnetic signals in the mind coursing through an electromagnetic body inside an electromagnetic cosmos.  Electromagnetic universe, electromagnetic mind, electromagnetic body!  Waves, waves, waves!  It’s a veritable sea of noise… one big Cymatic cacophony of a world, all joined together through a single ubiquitous universal web — complete with user friendly ‘wireless’ and ‘hard wired’ connections at every level. It’s a Wide Wide Wired World…  the World Wide E-web…  wired from the furthest galaxy right down to our teeth!… now imagine that!

The Gods must be smiling.

 

Now it’s difficult to talk of time — as we know it — without talking about space — as we know it.  Although in the end, both may be subsets of absolute Time and absolute Space, the point of this discussion is to analyze the former as the latter is beyond words and quite frankly, not an obstacle to understanding in the way that time and space (as we know it) have become.  In fact, the answer lies in the absolute but in order to get to the answer it first helps to define the problem — or at least come up with a useful abstract working model of the problem to be used to turn over the crust of confusion and reveal the fertile top soil of reality.  Concepts are useful in defining the problem. After that, the answers tend to get revealed by themselves.

One such method for turning soil is to employ a ‘thought experiment’.  A thought experiment is not a statement of empirical fact but a means of employing useful imagination to uncover possible hidden mechanisms (i.e., moving parts) which could then be assembled in the mind as a sort of working model which can then be employed by the mind as a visualization tool.  It’s what virtual reality used to be.  It’s an experiment with imagination instead of a test tube.  But instead of gathering data, we’re gathering possibilities.  So when we employ a thought experiment we are still quite possibly a long way from the facts but one has to start somewhere and that is especially so in this case as there is scant empirical evidence to begin with. Time — as we know it — is short on hooks and handles.

One major obstacle that a seeker encounters in uncovering the absolute is that the individual has to deal with a layer of paradox which is created by the limited view of the intellect.  Without an overlay of intuition the intellect simply isn’t up to the job of ‘understanding’ as true understanding includes a simultaneous view of both the temporal and the absolute which by default resolves the misunderstandings of the intellect with the non-verbal knowing ‘overview’ of one’s being. You could say that intuition, like water, fills in the ‘cracks between concepts’… connecting ‘things’… so to speak.  So our model will attempt to address this symbiotic relationship.

According to at least one ancient occult view, time was tied only indirectly to space.  Temporal time, to these ancients, was the mind’s interpretation of movement in space which is a slightly different view than the contemporary one but it’s the one that we’ll employ here. As it turns out, the contemporary and the ancient may be closer than they first appear.

Any seeker who has had even an inkling of a ‘timeless’ moment knows that movement continues in spite of the apparent absence of ‘time’. So it would appear that movement in space is a trigger — it triggers an assumption in the mind which we interpret as ‘time’. Thus the oft-referred to ‘continuous moment of timelessness’ would be, in our model, one where movement ‘continues’ in the absence of this assumption about time.

In order to help decouple movement from time in our minds though it will help to redefine it and in this case we’ll rename movement and instead, refer to it as a ‘sequence’.   So timelessness — as we know it — could then also be defined as a ‘continuous moment’ when all ‘sequences’ in space have been ‘decoupled’ in the mind from the assumption of ‘time’ as we know it. This will be a primary assumption in our experiment.

If the world as we know it is based on waves then it might be useful to make another assumption, for our model’s sake, and that is that space (as we know it ) is also a wave.  So our experience of it would then be the mind’s interpretation of a wave-like phenomenon, except this wave only takes ‘shape’ so to speak in the brain. But these are not just ‘waves’ — they carry information — information that is modulated onto them — like in the AM & FM bands. Such waves that carry modulated information are called carrier waves, so in our experiment we are going to refer to space (as we know it) as a primary carrier wave produced inside the brain.

One reason carrier waves were developed was to distinguish one signal from another when they shared a common conductor by giving each piece of ‘information’ on that conductor its own unique ‘carrier’ frequency — as in a telephone line or modem.  Thus the carrier waves of ‘space’ in our model would serve to distinguish one sequence from another by not only creating ‘space’ between individual competing sequences but also by helping to create a series of sequences — with ‘spaces’ between them, so to speak. Thus sequences as we know them, whether in the guise of thoughts or images, would be the modulation of information waves onto the primary carrier waves of ‘space’ — as we know it — inside the brain.  Also, in our model, this innumerable sea of sequences (information waves) outside the brain would then be referred to as noise… a field of noise — Cloud computing if you will… like an electromagnetic fog.

So if we look back on what we’ve seen and discussed so far, it appears that the brain has a genius for creating modulated serial signals — in the AM & FM bands — from a sea of noise. Thus it takes a massively parallel phenomena (noise) and creates from it a set of sequences which are offered up to us — in series — as movement… movement in the form of a series of thoughts and images. And it is this presentation of the information in series — that gives the impression of a ‘series of sequences’ in our mind — like a damn TV.   So in our model we’ll assume that the mind in its reasoning mode has little choice but to interpret this sequence as such.   Only one thing then, in our model, can override such an overwhelming presentation and that is to reintroduce noise back into the sequence — in parallel with the sequence… massively parallel noise in the form of knowing, timeless intuition introduced into the mix as an ‘overlay’ of higher perception.  Since the sequence appears to be a product of the neural net we can assume that we can’t look to it for help here so this introduction of noise would have to come from an independent agent of the brain.  So we’ll say that this agent — or backdoor savior — is something like the pineal gland, which no doubt has its own twist on things.  Thus in our model, this noise would then be re-introduced on the ‘back end of the process’, downstream of the neural network where the original noise was ‘sifted’ and then presented as a series of sequences.  So the pineal gland would then be ‘rope a doping’ the sequence… so to speak… in our model.

So in our experiment, when left to its own devices, the mind has no choice but to interpret the serial presentation of sequences as a sequence in serial time.  And the only thing that can overrule this logic is an introduction of something so overwhelming that the mind has no choice but to drop its assumption about this serial sequence of time and bow to the truth of the situation.

Thus in our model, the default reasoning of the mind’s interpretation of the sequence as serial time can — at times, be ‘overshadowed’ by the overwhelming evidence of the timeless knowing which is the default mode of the massively parallel noise of the world beyond the narrow multiplexing funnel of the neurons.  Belief (and doubt!) would then be a product of the ‘series’ and ‘knowing’ a product of the noise.  So knowing would, by its massively panoramic nature, ‘trump’ serial belief (and doubt!) and put it in it’s proper perspective, while leaving the sequence of thoughts and images intact.  Thus when the noise is present (on the backend of the process) we would ‘see through’ the belief in the sequence even while making practical use of it.  We’re not fooled by it. So when working in parallel with both the sequence and the panoramic noise, the necessary belief in the useful everyday things we need to have presented to us as a sequence would be ‘seen through’, so to speak, by the knowing timeless noise of the greater universal mind, while still being put to use, for practical purposes.  You could call this multidimensional experience a form of ‘moving meditation’ or a ‘continuous moment’ of real time. Nice.

Now so called ‘movement’ in the sequence is a relative term as noise itself is movement.  But the difference is that when the highly amplified series of sequences is exclusively presented it naturally gets our undivided attention.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease.  So in the brain, our attention is compelled to focus exclusively on the highly amplified series of sequences — like a damn TV — whereas in the vast sea of noise our attention would be diffused across the entire vista. So in our model, it’s the exclusive attention on the amplified, high amplitude squeaky wheel of the serial sequence that creates the single minded impression of time — as we know it.  Likewise, any diffusion of attention over the vast sea ofnoise would disperse this single minded focus and create a much ‘broader’ view… a more ‘timeless’ view.  So when the two are occurring simultaneously — as in our description of a walking meditation — we would have the impression of being ‘in the world, but not of it’… so to speak.   That is… in our model.

Thus in a way ‘time’ (as we know it) and ‘space’ (as we know it) would go hand in hand in our minds like ‘fellow travelers‘. One is tied inevitably to the other — but one is not necessarily the other.

And all of this happens… ‘between the ears’, so to speak, because in our model, it doesn’t matter what we see and what we hear ‘out there’ —- it’s what we think and what we imagine ‘in here’.   You see, when it comes to time — as we know it — we don’t “know it” at all… not  the way it actually is… just the way we think it is.  And what we ‘think’… what we assume… is what we believe.  And what we believe is a direct result of what we place our single minded inner attention on… and then we project that out… onto whatever we place our outer attention on.

So to the ones with the ‘eyes to see’ everything that happens ‘out there’ is happening in a single moment of time.  Thus these ‘ones’ see a multiplicity of movement occurring in a ‘Singular time’… whereaswe see a series of movements — and equate that with a series of times.  Likewise, such ones may or may not see wondrous things, with their eyes… but they would all see through things… with the ‘eye of knowing‘ — in real time — the only time there is.

So ironically, in our model, the brain would, in a sense, be a… “Time Machine”.   Only not in the way we normally think of it. It would be responsible for time ‘as we know it’… but that doesn’t have to prevent ‘that which attends’ from seeing time… as it is.

We live in a divided world… one of conflicting beliefs and confusion, doubt and double messages.  We can’t seem to concentrate on anything anymore for more than a moment.   And that’s just between the ears.   Even our attention is divided(think about that).  It’s a prescription for distraction… by design.  In fact, in our model, this world wasn’t just ‘designed‘ for distraction… it was engineered that way.   So is it any wonder we don’t know what time is?

 

Technology (as we know it) has become a beast of mythic proportions.  Like a many headed Cyclopian Hydra, it is often seen as a ubiquitous ‘all seeing eye’ from hell that is portrayed (via technology!!) as a transistorized vehicle for the death of us all (even at times to some of those who helped to design it).   And not for ‘no good’ reason — dealing with its health effects alone has become like a second job for many, even while we use it to search the world — and the web, for the latest remedy.  It’s enough to ‘drive’ you crazy.   It contributes to every major problem of the modern world (and some solutions!!)… while seeping into every pore of our existence… into our very own ‘wireless networks’ and the ‘land lines’ to our DNA!    It’s a ‘fix’ to fix us and a fix for our ‘fix’!   A loop!   (like the mind!!)   Damn!

But there is an another view of technology that says that technology’s real purpose is not ‘just’ to torture us… that its creation is our attempt to simultaneously reveal our selves to our selves… like a self created late model demon.   Thus if seen correctly, it ceases to become just ‘the problem’ and instead it then has the potential to transform itself before our eyes into a lesson book — from our selves to our selves (from our ‘engineer’… to our ‘engineer’!!!) about the hooks and handles inside us and the universe around us… a mirror of the mechanism of our perpetual dilemma.   As such, when seen correctly, technology (and our universe) can become a tool for liberation from the unconscious mechanical patterns that are the fabric of our habits.   And the first step in breaking any habit is awareness of the habit… and then of its mechanisms.   Loops can be instructive.   They do have a message.   And they can be ‘rope a doped’… with inner attention.

The ancients taught that gazing at the world correctly was a spiritual practice, especially  when the universe was viewed the way it truly is. This is why we are attracted to its mysteries even while attempting to shove it all away.  So with 2012 approaching and the looming possibility of the end of time — as we think we know it  — perhaps we have something to look forward to after all… in a time that‘s larger than any loop.

 

Postscript

For an excellent look at the chemical side of the brain (which I conveniently brushed under the rug!) as well as the effects of electromagnetic fields on the brain click here. The piece appeared  recently on Reality Sandwich and it is an excerpt from the book “Revolution 2012” by Dieter Broers called “2012” and Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness.   It raises many excellent points outside the narrow scope of this piece including possible future electromagnetic Solar scenarios in 2012 and sage advice on how to prepare for them.

Another point conveniently ignored in this piece is the ‘past’ and ‘future’ (oh that!).  I can only offer up my own individual opinion for what it’s worth and that is that in our model here, both would then be seen as being ‘simultaneously and continuously’ available to the individual amongst the panoramic noise of Mind at Large at any given moment in ‘real time’.   More on that, perhaps at another ‘time’.

And to carry the model to the next level, as in ‘out of body’ experiences, one could speculate that in cases such as Robert Monroe’s instantaneous ‘thought ball’ transmissions, the usual ‘serial thought sequences’ experienced inside the body would then have been ‘massively short circuited’ so to speak, outside the body… by instantaneously available ‘massively panoramic noise’ that is no longer sifted by the neural networks in the brain.  Examples of this abound such as in the cases where individuals outside the body report hearing the thoughts of several individuals simultaneously and on up to universal consciousness.  In other cases, such as in the classic Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda, chapter 43… “The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar” he gives an example of how a potential temporarily manifested ‘subtle body brain’ might work as well as in other anecdotes scattered through the narrative such as the bi-location of one particular yogi, (not to mention the ubiquitous presence of the ethereal Babaji) a feat not unheard of in the literature of India, as well as in other cultures around the world. Perhaps the difference would be determined by the conscious intent and experience of the individual.  But this would be pure speculation on my part.

For some interesting links on space as a wave and time as motion see the GOOGLE search on the topic…  The WSM pages (Wave Structure of Matter) include an Aristotle quote implying that time is either the equivalent of motion or some ‘effect’ of it.  Nice… There is also the proposition that all motion (time) are waves of and in space thus you could make an argument that all waves in space are essentially ‘modulated’ onto space itself, merely by their existence as space itself would be the ‘common carrier’.  There isn’t room here obviously to dissect all of that but clearly in this model the terms ‘modulation’ and ‘carrier’ are relative terms!  To conclude, we could speculate here that ‘timelessness’ then is the experience of a ‘massively diffused panoramic inner attention’ which overshadows the singular impression of time as we know it, while we’re enjoying — or consciously suffering through — the outer sequences in all their amazing varieties.  It’s simple.  (Whooa!)

Note:  In our model. the degree to which belief (and doubt!) would reign over knowing would then be known as the ‘sequence to noise’ ratio.  Thus degrees of awareness would be a fluctuating ‘analog function’ — and not some static state — except… in the ultimate  ‘state’… wherever that is.

 

The Wave Structure of Matter pages are found here

 

Note:  Another interesting ‘view’ from the point of view of our model comes from Robert Monroe and his ‘Focus levels’ as a means of altering our perception of time, space and other dimensions.   See the Overview of Focus levels from their website here.

 

One last ‘loose end’ to tie is the implication of this ‘Electric Universe’ and its ubiquitous web of currents — from the furthest Galaxy right down to our DNA!   More on that as well at another ‘time’ as it is a subject with vast implications in every area of our existence and there is no way to do it justice in this piece.  In fact, just to even contemplate it is enough to ‘drop ones jaw’… so to speak.  To be continued…

 

Note:   If the reader takes exception to my characterization of the standard model of the Universe that’s understandable.  It’s just that I was never quite able to wrap my mind around it in a way that left me smiling.  Since then I have put together a short list of qualifications that I filter any cosmological theory through and that is this:   Is it simple?  (Occam’s razor and common sense);   Is it scalable?  (as above so below);    Is it satisfying? (moi!).   The Electric Universe fits all 3 IMO so I’m ‘satisfied’ with it for now.   In fact I could even add a fourth:  Does it spiral?   but in interest of ‘simplicity’ I’ll leave it at 3.  No doubt I’m not the first to come up with such a cosmological ‘short list’ as all ‘roads’ seem to lead to it eventually.

The DVD on the Electric Universe mentioned above, “Thunderbolts of the Gods” can be found here, along with other excellent DVD’s on this subject.

For an excellent website on the Plasma Cosmos see here

 

Note:  I’ve lost touch with the original paper about noise and the brain but several follow up studies are out there.  So if you look for them online you may want to keep in mind that many are in Adobe pdf format.  Also in your string search you’ll want to include the phrase “stochastic resonance” as this is a key to understanding how noise works in the brain and possibly as a factor in Cymatics as well.  It’s also important to note that there is a fine distinction (in my mind) between noise in the brain and the noise of Mind at large.  The noise in the brain would then be — in our model — an intermediate step between the panoramic noise of Mind at large and the serial sequence.  See GOOGLE search.

 

Note:  To say that James Oschman was ‘alone at the Buffet’… well, I would have to qualify that as clearly he is reporting a slew of evidence reported by other interested and courageous scientists.  But where he stands alone is in his reminding us of it all by compiling these discoveries in one place and reporting on them in a comprehensive fashion with language that the layperson can relate to.   In doing so he placed a very bright spotlight on a field that had nearly been scattered to the winds by the power of conventional science to ignore it.

The quote by Albrecht-Buehler found at the head of this piece was from page 189 of James L’ Oschman’s book Energy Medicine — the Scientific Basis.

The quote about water and proteins forming semiconductors came from an article by James and Nora Oschamn called “How Healing Energy Works”.  In it they also mention that Albert Szent-Gyorgyi received the Nobel for his discovery of vitamin C.   They also employ a slew of technological analogies in their model of the human energy system. See here.

For an excellent interview with James Oschman see here.

For an interesting look at the conventional western scientific view of the purpose of water in “proteins” see here

Although I use TV as a loose analogy in this piece,  the quote below is interesting as both AM & FM signals would need to be present in Analog TV — as are present simultaneously in the brain… kinda makes ya’ wonder!

“Analog TV uses an amplitude-modulated (AM) signal for pictures and frequency modulation (FM) for audio.”

 

The seekers ‘double-life’ dilemma between thought and being — the path of Reason — was summarized by Paul Cash in the quotes below from an article called ‘Beyond the Maps’.   It was written as a posthumous tribute to Paul Brunton, one of the early proponents of Yoga in the West….

“One of Brunton’s most frequently repeated themes is that the thinker within us and the mystic within us need each other desperately: both the ability to think deeply with great precision and the ability to withdraw at will from thinking must be cultivated. And, most importantly to the philosophic approach, all must be turned in the direction of altruistic service to humanity at large.”

In the same piece, Cash gives an example of Brunton’s direct view of the ‘practical mystical’ state which he often referred to as an experience of the continuous presence of the ‘Overself’…

“The mystical stages of this process involve a gradual displacement of the individual’s mind’s exclusive fascination with its own thoughts as ‘the whole of one’s identity’ shifts to a higher plane. When this displacement is complete, or in parallel with its development, the philosophic stage begins. This stage involves reembracing of the thinking processes in a radically different way by a vastly deepened continuous self-awareness.”

See here.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton can be found here.  

 


Endless…

 

Time… endless time…

no excuse.

Long train running… no caboose!

Thought not the problem… attention the key.

Un-trained attention… running over me!

Retraction of attention from report card on I

produces space… endless space…

for train of whole new dimension!

 

And finally… ‘Where is time?’   Well, if it’s like everything else… it’s probably going to be found in the last place we’d ever think to look for it!

 

Image by frostnova, courtesy of Creative Commons license.

 

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From microdoses to macrodoses, the psilocybin experience has been sought after both medicinally and recreationally for millennia.

Psilocybin and Magic Mushroom Resources
Curious to learn more about psilocybin? This guide is a comprehensive psilocybin resource containing books, therapeutic studies, and more.

Paul Stamets Profile: Mushroom Guru, Filmmaker, Nutritionist, Scientist
Learn about Paul Stamets, read his thoughts on psilocybin mircodosing, the future of psilocybin, and his recent film “Fantastic Fungi”.

Microdosing Psilocybin & Common Dosage Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivably, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing psilocybin.

Psilocybin Nasal Spray: Relief for Anxiety, PTSD, and Depression
Microdosing nasal spray with psilocybin, is that possible?! Oregan a start-up Silo Wellness believes so and has created this new option for PTSD treatment.

Mazatec Mushroom Usage: Notes on Approach, Setting and Species for Curious Psilonauts
A look at traditional Mazatec psilocybin mushroom usage, and a comparison to the cliniical therapeutic approach, with an examination of the Mazatec setting and species used in veladas.

María Sabina: The Mazatec Magic Mushroom Woman
Magic mushrooms are incredibly popular today. How they became introduced to into American culture isn’t usually a topic discussed while tripping on psilocybin fungi. We all may have María Sabina to thank for exposing the Western world to the healing properties of the psilocybin mushroom.

Guide to Magic Mushroom Strains
Are there different types of psilocybin? Read our guide to learn about the different magic mushroom strains and their individual effects.

Kilindi Iyi: Mycologist, Traveler, Teacher
Learn about traveler and mycologist Kilindi Iyi known in the psychedelic community for his research and exploration of psilocybin.

How to Store Shrooms: Best Practices
How do you store shrooms for optimal shelf life? Learn how and why the proper storage method is so important.

Shroom Chocolate Recipes: How to Make Magic Mushroom Chocolates
This recipe provides step by step directions on how you can make mushroom chocolates with the necessary ingredients. Read to learn more!

Why Do People Use Psilocybin? New Johns Hopkins Study
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicines has just published a new study on psychoactive effects of psilocybin. Read here to learn more.

How-To Lemon Tek: Ultimate Guide and Recipe
This master guide will teach you how to lemon tek, preventing the onset of negative effects after consuming psilocybin. Read to learn more!

How to Intensify a Mushroom Trip
Learn about techniques like Lemon tekking, or discover the right time to consume cannabis if you are looking to intensify a mushroom trip.

How to Grow Magic Mushrooms: Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide will show you how to grow magic mushrooms at home. Read this guide before trying it on your own.

How to Dry Magic Mushrooms: Best Practices
Read to learn more about specifics for the best practices on how to dry magic mushrooms after harvesting season.

How to Buy Psilocybin Spores
Interested in psilocybin mushrooms? We’ll walk you through all you need to know to obtain mushroom spores. Nosh on this delish How To guide.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

Having Sex on Shrooms: Good or Bad Idea?
Is having sex on shrooms a good idea or an accident waiting to happen? Find out in our guide to sex on magic mushrooms.

Gold Cap Shrooms Guide: Spores, Effects, Identification
Read this guide to learn more about the different characteristics of gold cap mushrooms, and how they differ from other psilocybin species.

Guide to Cooking with Magic Mushrooms
From cookies to smoothies and sandwiches, we cover various methods of cooking with magic mushrooms for the ultimate snack.

2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

How DMT is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make DMT? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how DMT is made.

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

Microdosing DMT & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing DMT.

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

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The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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