Has there ever been RTZ Scientific Study?

[pmlonline]

Should we or should we not provide global proof to the scientific community?

There are only two options now (year 2005):

1) We should provide proof.
2) We should not provide proof.

It's good to see your question as it clearly shows responsibility. It's easy and perhaps lazy for one to just assume everyone could benefit from information. With the Internet, people may begin to believe that an open book is good for all. What about extraterrestrials? A lot of people believe in them, but ask why don't they just land in front of the white house and prove it to everyone??? Here's perhaps a poor analogy -> Janet has the sweetest kitten. And every time Janet goes to the kitchen, her kitten, which she dearly loves, meows the most pitiful cry for some milk. Yet as we know, most cats cannot digest the lactose in cow's milk and often makes them feel sick. For Janet, it is so difficult to not give her kitten some milk, but she does. So is that out of the goodness of Janet's heart? I would suggest that giving the milk was the easy thing to do. So with humanity in totality is begging for more information. Our elder brothers want more than anything to give us what we want. As difficult as this is to believe, they cannot give us everything and they restrain out of the goodness of their heart. That is concept that most seem to have difficulty with.

The answer to your question is difficult because it is truly a personal question. There is no absolute answer. I do not know your Souls vision for your life. That is information that your Soul does not give out to just anyone. The best way to find that personal answer would be through mediations.

Will you be able to provide such forceful, convincing, hardcore proof that no scientists could deny it? Not anytime soon, and I firmly believe that. My guess is that it won't happen till 20 years, possibly as soon as 10 years.

Would I personally make an attempt? No, because there are so many other areas to help humanity and the world. I don't like the karma associated with sitting in a chair or table and using what many would call a gift of projection for the purpose of proving it to a group of people. That is not the Divine path.

Perhaps a more balanced solution is to spend time gathering all the present information and tests regarding the projection of consciousness. You could compile all that information into one big project. Trust me, it would be no easy task as there's tons of information spanning decades.

Paul

The divine path is not something that can easily be explained either, there are many roads which lead to many places, and everyone is different. Each persons divine path is his own I believe.

Paul, you did not respond to one of my earlier posts, but I am assuming that's because it's written very badly. I wasn't fully awake during that, but the point I was trying to make was karma isn't something so simple. Divine beings do, in fact, rule over karma in certain planes. They don't sit on thrones as you say but they are, in fact, parts of the universe. The same is actually true of archangels. Energy, in my own opinion, is energy. It comes from things and from interaction with things. I know you have your own belief on this, but this is mine. Everyone's beliefs are, in fact, different. This is one thing that makes karma so difficult to understand for some people.

As to the original question of the thread, here is what I have seen happen, because as I stated before, these tests have allready been done. They have also been made public and anyone can go to a search engine and find writings on these tests. It's quite simple, simply type in "astral projection research."

People have the freedom to pick and choose what comes into thier life most of the time. A big announcement that these things are real would, I believe, not change too much. People would take the information in stride, but few would apply the information to thier own lives. All that would change is a small belief structure "OBE's are in fact real, but I can't and won't do them," would be the train of thought for people who, as you said, "are not ready."

[Tombo]

Also I want to add that if something is destructive or constructive is a very subjective thing. It depends an the system bounderies, the time span, the believe system of the person etc.

For example: Killing cancer cells in a body is destructive if viewed from the cell perspective. For the human perspective it is constructive (Human cured of cancer.

However the human benefits from this, it's still destructive. You don't cure the human, you merely destroy the problem at hand.

This depends on the view point, lets say I kill the cells by Radiation. I could say I create Radiation. Or we could go even further back in the cause-effect-chain. First I Have a thought/ Intent "heal the cancer patient"
constructive I would say. It all subjectice. Whats your proposal anyway. If you cure somebody from cancer you gain bad Karma.


[quote:3oor9qiv]It's irrelevant who you kill. You killed. If Karma is a fact, then you should not worry about your neighbour getting what he deserves, since eventualy, he'll get it.

I kill somebody and save 100, still bad? Lets say it don't do something but if I would I could save hundreds just by injuring one person. Do you really believe it generates better Karma if I don't move a finger? Our law thinks different, omited help in certain situations is a crime.

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What I wanna say is, that it all depends on the viewpoint. There is no construction or destruction per se. On the other side if you just look at the intention of an action, like Buddha, things get a lot more simple.

I'm sure that in a (from my viewpoint) sick way, Hitler's intention was to create a perfect world. He merely had to kill a few human cancer cells, but that was ok from his viewpoint.[/quote:3oor9qiv]

I strongly doubt his mind was in a peacefully, loving mood filled with kindness when he ordered to kill them.

The problem with intention, is that it is again subject to viewpoints. A 'Good Intention' or a 'Bad Intention' depends on the majority of the people judging it. While that seems to be what you would want, it also depends on what that majority has learned/come to belief. Intention based Karma would be rather useless. That would make only the leaders responsable, since the followers did so in the best intention and offcourse without questioning, as a good follower should.

[/quote:3oor9qiv]

This is not so easy to explain and actually I don't wanna defend the Buddhistic Karma-concept too much because as I said I rather base my understanding of the world on my own experiences.
For example you see that action also is included in this concept, I merely touched the subject, I do NOT have I full understanding of the Karma-concept in Buddhism!

Here is a detailed explanation of Karma in Buddhism: Haven't read it though.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm




Regards,

Tom

[Tombo]

3. World maybe the Souls incarnated in Africa because they wanna starve! I can not accept that my heart says NO!

Considder the human soul, in the sence where it remains after you day, to incarnate again in another body. Considder human nature, always growing, expanding, learning, surviving.

If there where to be young souls, and older souls, it would make sence that they choose a certain life consiously in advance, to learn (experience) certain factors of what human life means.

Possible, but we have to be careful with this understanding. Suffering = Progress, I really think we have to be carefull here. what kind of progress? It is possible but as I said it is just a believe.

Other then that I find the statement that Africa equals starvation rather narrow minded: Western Civ. doesnt dicate what a good or a bad life is, what good living conditions vs bad ones are. I'm sure everybody who has experienced hunger agrees that you shouldn't have to in a world like this. On the other hand, it makes you appreciate what you have even more.

I agree, you missunderstood me, I do NOT equal Africa with starvation. Truth is that thousands of children starve there every day though. Probably because of the western world I might add.

The problem is, this sounds all like I don't care, which isn't so: I admit that I cannot think of a good reason why people should experience hunger, war, etc. But the fact that we cannot think of a good reason doesnt mean there isnt one, nor does it mean that we as humans are able to determine who should/shouldn't be in that situation.

Agreed

If we presume that life doesn't end when you die, but that you reincarnate into a new body, and take the lessons learned with you, in your 'gut instinct', then it isn't a loss of a life anymore, it's only a learning experience.

Maybe so, maybe not, I don't know.

[pmlonline]

Hi,

The divine path is not something that can easily be explained either, there are many roads which lead to many places, and everyone is different. Each persons divine path is his own I believe.

I agree there are countless *paths* to the Divine. There is a difference between *path* and *perspective*. The Divine *perspective* is not different. The Divine is always in unison.

the point I was trying to make was karma isn't something so simple. Divine beings do, in fact, rule over karma in certain planes. They don't sit on thrones as you say but they are, in fact, parts of the universe. The same is actually true of archangels. Energy, in my own opinion, is energy. It comes from things and from interaction with things. I know you have your own belief on this, but this is mine. Everyone's beliefs are, in fact, different. This is one thing that makes karma so difficult to understand for some people.

First we need to agree on the topic. There is a difference between ruling over and actually being something. You say, "Divine beings do, in fact, rule over karma" Then you say, "they are, in fact, parts of the universe." I agree to the prior statement that the Divine does rule over, but I disagree with the later statement that they are karma. Karma is a rule, a law, but not an actual entity or life form as we know it. If for example a superhuman / Initiate or Adept looked at the energy of karma, they would not see any spark or Divine being or even a Soul. As you may know, the divine spark within any being is within a Soul. It is a very very very complex energy system. When such a superhuman views karma, they see energy, not a complex entity. I mentioned that even the electron has consciousness, but that it is nothing like human consciousness. It is a very simple energy system compared to a Soul. Karma is a law that *all* Divine beings agree to. For example, there is a difference between a U.S. Law and the people who create and enforce that Law. If what you say is true then karma would be the largest and most powerful omni present being in all creation for karma is a rule that applies in all solar systems, all galaxies, all universes, all planes, all cosmic realms, everywhere.
As you may know, energy flows from the higher planes down. It also flows back up, but that energy originates from above. It is our Divine, from above that binds the universe. That may sound like the movie "Star Wars", but it is what I am taught by my teachers. The above (higher in vibration) created the lower. It sustains the lower planes and all things there. It created the rules. Karma just happens to be one of those rules, a vitally important rule, just as on the physical plane there is a rule of electric charge. So what is the rule? As you know, it is Cause & Effect. That is, when something changes, then there will be a *guaranteed* effect. The key word is *guaranteed.* The guarantee is the law. So in that sense perhaps we agree, no?

As to the original question of the thread, here is what I have seen happen, because as I stated before, these tests have allready been done. They have also been made public and anyone can go to a search engine and find writings on these tests. It's quite simple, simply type in "astral projection research."

I am not sure it is so simple. Such an Internet search will yield but a very very small fraction of OBE tests and research. It goes far beyond Internet searching. The person will need to find contacts and get information from them, more leads. Contact various universities. Contact television stations that aired various research shows. I once saw a very convincing t.v. show on a OBE projection test about, oh, 30 years ago at least.

People have the freedom to pick and choose what comes into thier life most of the time. A big announcement that these things are real would, I believe, not change too much. People would take the information in stride, but few would apply the information to thier own lives. All that would change is a small belief structure "OBE's are in fact real, but I can't and won't do them," would be the train of thought for people who, as you said, "are not ready."

Please read one of my previous posts ->

Back to proof, as you said there are people who will not believe. Yet that does not mean that can be forced to believe. Everyone has a threshold. As mentioned in a previous post, if the 100 scientists had hard-core proof and went on national t.v. shows around the world then they could convince most people. Everyone has a threshold, and if an extraterrestrial wanted, they could fly down and prove their existence to *any* sane person. Do you know anyone that could deny that? If an extraterrestrial flew down to the capital of your country and then went to your street and allowed you to touch the saucer, and go inside, and talk with these beings, and even allowed you to fly inside, then what? Lets say you asked to be flown to your friends house, you got out and knocked on his or her door. Then what? Lets say for the next 10 years this extraterrestrial agreed to be your personal escort and fly you anywhere you wanted day or night. Would that convince you or anyone else in such a case?

There is no such thing as total Freedom for the lower self. The Divine created your lower-self. That is why suicide is one of the greatest sins because it is not our body nor is it our right to kill it. The divine created and sustains every moment you live. Even OBE's are not total freedom. When a person gets yanked back into their physical body, it is the higher self doing that. It protects you. Without these higher forces projectors would be killed and possessed by negative entities. This is no guarantee it will not happen. The lower cannot truly see from a Divine perspective, so we cannot say what is best for each person. We can only *try* to see from the Divine.
Often the time of our physical death is a destined moment. That is, when you experience certain things, then it is time to go home. It is often our Divine self that makes that decision since it created the lower. I am merely talking in terms of lower and divine self. I would agree that we are one being, that the lower, higher & divine are one. Yet in that sense, we cannot stop there. That is, truly all things in all creation are one.
The point is, no personality has total freedom. Freedom is earned. BTW, my definition of personality is the lower self.

Paul

[Tombo]

I try to see from a more Divine perspective.

How do you do that?

But I use it everyday. It is the law of Cause & Effect. I know that if I do something negative to a person then that energy which I created, karma, will reflect back on myself. I can easily see this through out my life. I reap what I sew. Karma does care about relativity. It is energy. It is beyond time and space. As example, if someone tortures another being, then that person one day in this or another life will see a reflection of that energy. The law of cause and effect doesn't care how you perceive that reflection / effect in your life. You can only know that you will see an equal and opposite reaction. How you interpret that reaction is up to you. It is your choice to perceive anything as pleasure or even pain.

Ok, now I understand you better. I actually agree with that. very well said. But I still can not comprehend how you shall know if providing proof to the scientific community is a bad thing. I agree with qbeac here. Only God or a enlighted being could know that, I would say. I simply can not see how we should be able to determine if such a thing would be good or bad.

It is true that the Wheel of Life never ends, but it does for an individual. I know for certain, with all my being, that Buddha did not say what you claim. Buddha knew that all things evolved and to suggest that any *actual* being will always reincarnate for eternity is a contradiction to that because that actual being will eventually evolve beyond the physical plane.

Yes it will evolve beyond the physical plane but sooner or later it will reappear in lower world. What I learned Buddha said was basically:

As long as I being has attachement to anything it will reappear (in different planes depending on the Karma) but no matter where it appears it will suffer again sooner or later as long as attachment is there.
Do you agree with that?

But this again is based outside of personal proof. Again, I am suggesting personal proof. I have my personal proof. I know that if I had some magic pill or device that could instantly give you all my proof that one day in your future, say a billion years from now, you will have not wanted me to do that! I nor anyone has the right to take the experience of your self discovery away from you.

Ok I agree with you but I think it is not possible. You can not give me your experience either I experience it or not. You can not explain me "Being in Love" . either I experienced it for my self or else I not know it really. So wouldn't you say it is impossible to take the experience of self discovery away from me

I have my own OBE experiences and tests I've performed. I have met superhumans. Perhaps you have, but that is your own personal information. I chose not to write a book and sell it. Just to merely make a few posts here and there. Yet that will change one day. Perhaps one day soon it may be my time to tell it. I doubt is since I was told my present life is one of observation. Many people reincarnated with the previous intent to become a world known teacher. Maybe you will become such a teacher one day.

First agin I would like to know where you have that knowledge from. You seem to know all this secret things I will become I teacher! at least I will teach physics

Once again, personal proof. That is where your answers are.

Ok that sounds good to me.

It is not my will or right that you accept but that you consider and do your best. My finger is pointing to self-proof. It may take 5 or more years, but so what. That's not too bad for most.

Ok thats a good advice.

Over time you learn what is more stable and predictable. Same goes with OBE's. Over time a person not only will learn what's real but even how to see without creating one's own illusionary world.

How do i learn that?

[pmlonline]

I try to see from a more Divine perspective.

How do you do that?

Well, key word was *try.* The more you try, the closer you'll eventually get. Anyone can try simply by self-control from the Mind. This would include control over the beast within, which is ones own self demons; i.e., the emotions. Also control over the physical body along with daily self contemplation, mediations, and even visualization exercises. This will eventually in one life time bring liberation which links the lower and higher self. When the lower & higher self truly become one, then you could say that person is a superhuman.
That is step 1 of 2. Step 2 is the process of the lower & higher become one with the Divine self.

Ok, now I understand you better. I actually agree with that. very well said. But I still can not comprehend how you shall know if providing proof to the scientific community is a bad thing. I agree with qbeac here. Only God or a enlighted being could know that, I would say. I simply can not see how we should be able to determine if such a thing would be good or bad.

I agree that you cannot know, but the key words were "try your best." That is all God can expect from you.

Yes it will evolve beyond the physical plane but sooner or later it will reappear in lower world. What I learned Buddha said was basically:

As long as I being has attachement to anything it will reappear (in different planes depending on the Karma) but no matter where it appears it will suffer again sooner or later as long as attachment is there.
Do you agree with that?

Yes, attachment will keep you in the reincarnation cycle. A liberated being does not have any physical attachments, which is why such a being does not have to reincarnate.

You said, "sooner or later it will reappear in lower world." That part I disagree with. Evolution is always an upward spiral. It is not an endless circle. From a material perspective it may appear as a circle. There are always higher planes. When you become liberated, you will eventually no longer reincarnate. There you will move to the great mental realms which are more vast than you and I can comprehend. These mental realms btw exist everywhere as your mental unit generates waves in these high planes. Yet, these vast cities in even the lowest mental realm begin at the outer edge of our physical universe. Albeit, the mental body may travel from the end of our universe to here within about ~10 seconds depending how far out in these realms you are.
After mental realms exists yet another, and then another and another and then another. All of these 7 planes or realms consist of just one Cosmic plane. When you reach the 7th, then there is a major graduation to the lowest plane in the next Cosmic plane. This is already far far more than we can imagine, but there are 7 Cosmic planes and within each Cosmic plane are seven planes. Beyond this point, the highest Cosmic plane, is unknown to almost all beings on this side. Think of it this way. Most people on Earth wonder what it's like beyond physical death. Ok, a superhuman knows what it is like beyond physical death. Yet, even most superhumans on Earth do not know what it is like even beyond *our* Cosmic plane much less the next Cosmic plane. Yet, there are beings so spiritually evolved that have reached the next highest Cosmic plane. These beings are so beyond our comprehension it makes my head spin. Yet, even these beings for the most part do not know what is beyond the highest Cosmic plane. To them, that is a boundary just like the physical plane is the boundary to most Earth humans. They know about its existence, but they don't know all that much. They know that every so often a group consciousness, which consists of 1000's of enlightened beings (beings far beyond Buddha), will become one entire spark of light, a pillar of light you could say. Then this incredible pillar of light ascends beyond the highest Cosmic plane. I am told that to date no such pillar of light has even come back. You could say that it is an incredible change.

The point is, at least as far as I'm told, there's no endless evolutionary cycle. It is an upward spiral.

Ok I agree with you but I think it is not possible. You can not give me your experience either I experience it or not. You can not explain me "Being in Love" . either I experienced it for my self or else I not know it really. So wouldn't you say it is impossible to take the experience of self discovery away from me

What I was trying to say was that even your beliefs can be forced to change presuming you have a working sane mind. This is due to the reason that everyone has a threshold. If an extraterrestrial landed in someone's front yard and offered to spend the next 10 years proving their existence, then surely they will succeed. Such an extraterrestrial could apply great mental, emotional, and even physical proof that any sane person could not deny.
What's being taken away from you are your beliefs. Even though a particular person may not benefit from such beliefs at the moment, it is possible for a more power being to take those away from you. This is all surrounding the idea that even the top 100 scientists of the world could persuade nearly everyone to believe in a truth. So if a person did not believe in OBE's, and if say the top 100 scientists in the world had hardcore proof, then the beliefs of a lot of people will change.

Over time you learn what is more stable and predictable. Same goes with OBE's. Over time a person not only will learn what's real but even how to see without creating one's own illusionary world.

How do i learn that?

Stability comes with experience / time. For example, a newborn baby just entered this new outside world. It is new, so over time things become familiar. First the baby needs to learn how to interpret what it sees. Oh it can see light, but it may look at a candle flame and see a monster. Same goes with any plane. The more you consciously travel and experience the Etheric and astral planes the more it will become real and stable to you. For most people, projections are not much more than a self created world. The astral is dominated by a completely different set of universal laws than the physical. It is made of matter / energy that is far finer and higher in intrinsic vibrational rate. You may be out of body fully conscious, but staring at your faucet. Yet in your own mind, you believe you are standing before Niagara waterfall. With some focus you'll learn to snap out of it. Over time you'll learn to focus in the present time line that your material body is in.

Paul

[Chris]

Well, key word was *try.* The more you try, the closer you'll eventually get. Anyone can try simply by self-control from the Mind. This would include control over the beast within, which is ones own self demons; i.e., the emotions. Also control over the physical body along with daily self contemplation, mediations, and even visualization exercises. This will eventually in one life time bring liberation which links the lower and higher self. When the lower & higher self truly become one, then you could say that person is a superhuman.
That is step 1 of 2. Step 2 is the process of the lower & higher become one with the Divine self.

Do you believe the methods you mention above would bring a person closer irregardless of belief system? Or would only a certain set of beliefs bring progress, and if so, which ones?
I ask this as there are many people who do not believe in Karma to the extent you do, and yet they meditate and do a variety of techniques which ensure control of the mind daily. Either they are deluding themselves, and are not getting closer to the divine (even if they feel and believe they are) or their lack of true belief in Karma (and other belief systems) seems in no way detrimental to their spiritual development.

[pmlonline]

Yet, these vast cities in even the lowest mental realm begin at the outer edge of our physical universe.

Actually I should say that the outer edge of our physical universe is the beginning of the spiritual realms, which would begin in the abstract mental realms. If I recall, that is correct. It's been a long time since I was taught that, so I'm not exactly sure.


Chris,
I don't think people need to believe in karma as I do, but as long as they understand the basic law of cause and effect. That is, you reap what you sew. In other words, it's unhealthy to disregard basic universal laws. Take for example citizens. What if the citizens of a country suddenly disregarded all the laws. They ran traffic lights, etc. What a disaster. This is perhaps a poor example since most people who practice things as mediations do believe in cause & effect.

You say most people here don't believe in karma as I do, but my definition of karma is really simple. That is, it is the law of cause & effect. How complex that law is depends on what example you want to use. As with any law, it can be as difficult as your example.

You said, "there are many people who do not believe in Karma to the extent you do, and yet they meditate and do a variety of techniques which ensure control of the mind daily. Either they are deluding themselves, and are not getting closer to the divine" I would have to disagree with that. The improvement is there even though they may not be able to sense it. A person usually makes fast improvement until they reach their normal growth level as left off in previous existence before birth. So, the person may sense such fast growth and then all of a sudden everything comes to a halt and they believe they are making no headway. Regardless what they sense, they are still making headway. It may not be the fast growth that they initially made, but it is still growth nevertheless.

As you know, in life there are countless dips and rises. One day they might fall a little, or perhaps for even a few years. If they keep up the good work, things will eventually get better either in this or a future life.

Personally I find it difficult to understand why people would want to give up such good work as meditations. Even if they fail to believe the fact that it is improving their entire system from physical to spiritual, then they should at least do it for physical & emotional benefits. There's a lot of study that clearly shows mediation helps reduce stress, which in turn is a great aid to the body. That's just one of many benefits of meditations.

Do you believe the methods you mention above would bring a person closer irregardless of belief system? Or would only a certain set of beliefs bring progress, and if so, which ones?

That's a tough question. As you know, what we believe has such a powerful impact on our future. For example, lets say a physically healthy person goes to the gym several times a week to exercise. Yet at the same time, this person believes they are sick. All day long this persons thinks and thinks about negative thoughts and believes they are dying of something. This causes great stress. By probability, this person will most likely manifest what they believe. Thought is very powerful. It creates bodies in the mental planes that become more complex and powerful as we continue to think about such a thought. Over time these bodies in the mental planes can become so powerful and control our life. People for the most part have no conscious perception what hells they create around them in the astral / emotional & mental planes. The truth is, we are today our past thoughts and feelings.

The answer to your question would be different for each person.


Paul

[CFTraveler]

Spectral Dragon wrote:

People have the freedom to pick and choose what comes into thier life most of the time. A big announcement that these things are real would, I believe, not change too much

I want to put in my last two cents on this: About 2 years ago the Canadian Government made the very public announcement that the science community now were convinced that consciousness existed out of the body, and would conduct research to that effect. That announcement provoked comment for about 2 days and then everyone forgot about it completely. I Googled the info because (as usual I don't remember when exactly the announcement was made and what conclusions they reached) and this is what I found:
I tried to copy the link but it wouldn't let me- the only option was to copy it- so here is the whole article:
(Please ignore at will) :cry:

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
AND EXTENDED REMOTE VIEWING.

GOALS

The goals of this Session are to educate the student in the various definitions and functions of human consciousness and the people in the field, giving the student an understanding of altered states of consciousness, and to provide examples and exercises in remote viewing methods that utilize an altered state of consciousness.
READING LIST:

It is not necessary to read all the books on this list. They are provided as resource materials.

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper and Rowe

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Edwards, Betty. (1979). Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. J.P. Tarcher.

Gazzaniga, Michael S. (198. Mind Matters. Houghton Mifflin.

Graff, Dale. (199. Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness: An Exploration of ESP, Remote Viewing, Precognitive Dreaming and Synchronicity. Element Books.

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Hamptden-Turner, Charles. (1981). Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths. Macmillan Publishing.


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Monroe, Robert. (1971). Journeys Out of the Body. Dolphin Doubleday.

Monroe, R.A. (1985). Far Journeys. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

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Ornstein, R. (1977), The Psychology of Consciousness, 2nd. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Radin, Dean. (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. Harper Collins.

Ring, K. (1984). Heading Towards Omega. New York: William Morrow.

Swann, I. (1993). Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP. Los Angeles: Tarcher.

Swann, I. (1977). To Kiss Earth Goodbye. NY: Dell.

Tart, Charles. (1972) Altered States of Consciousness. Doubleday Anchor Books.

Thompson Smith, Angela. (1999). Remote Perceptions: Out-of-Body Experiences, Remote Viewing, and other Normal Abilities. Hampton Roads Publishing Company.

Ullman, M., Krippner, S., & Vaughan, A. (1973). Dream Telepathy, New York, Macmillan.

Valle, Ronald S. & von Eckartsberg, Rolf. (1989). Metaphors of Consciousness. Plenum Press.

Watson. L. (1974).The Romeo Error. London: Coronet Books.

Wilson, C. (1975). Strange Powers. London: Abacus.









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RV010- Banquet Address: Learning to use ESP. Charles Tart

RV019- What do the brains of remote viewers look like? Azra Simonetti

Year 2000 Remote Viewing Conference: Mesquite, NV. Prices and availability can be obtained from CogniSense, Inc., POB 4473, Grand Junction, CO 81502-4473.
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AUDIO CD LIST

Stephan Schwartz has produced an excellent audio CD, Remote Viewing, for the remote viewer who is exploring the world of RV beyond (or before) Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). If you are looking for instruction in CRV, this is not it, but if you are wanting to investigate earlier methods of remote viewing you will find this audio CD explanatory and concise. Stephan Schwartz writes:
"Remote viewing is a discipline. A particular process proven to provide accurate information about the future as well as information about persons, places, and events which aught to be unknown because the information is unavailable to normal sense awareness.
The exercises on this CD are simple, yet profound. They will teach you how to master the skills necessary to access that part of your mind that can move in time and space. The exercises can be done either in real time or precognitively."
Schwart's CD takes just over an hour to listen to and is divided up into 13 tracks. I listened right through but you might want to divide your listening time into segments, as there is so much material to digest on this disk.
Remote Viewing begins with segments on what is remote viewing, how to remote view and information about targets, that are extremely important for anybody developing a target pool, particularly for ARV, tracks on when to do your session, discussing sidereal time, geomagnetic and solar effects that are invaluable to the viewer, especially web site information (urls) where the viewer can access current information on environmental conditions that might affect remote viewing.

Schwartz describes remote viewing but does not cover the detailed protocols of Controlled Remote Viewing, focusing instead on successful methods that were formulated at SRI and within his research and applications group, Moebius. Next, follow tracks on judging, analysis and feedback. One problem, that I have, is that Schwartz is an advocate of human judging. Human judging has been found to have problems if not handled well by trained and objective judges. He covers feedback and how to deal with problems that are encountered in remote viewing. In the judging session, Schwartz offers mathematical suggestions for computing your RV success. However, these might be beyond the average person and the use of software stats tools such as Excel or SPSS might be of more benefit to the beginning viewer. However, it is worth giving Stephan's formulations a try.
Following, on the CD, is a hands-on section containing a meditation and four different experiential protocols that are led by Stephan Schwartz. First Stephan leads the listener through a location protocol, then an object protocol. Thirdly, he takes the viewer through an out-bound protocol, and lastly an intuitive diagnosis protocol. The CD, Remote Viewing, can be purchased alone or with the companion book Through Time and Space by Stephan Schwartz.
http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/home.htm
Overall, this is an excellent audio CD and includes much of the knowledge that Stephan Schwartz has gained over his many years of research and applications - an excellent resource for your RV audio library!

CONSCIOUSNESS AND
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

One of the earliest references to consciousness was William James' "function of knowing". and descriptive definitions of consciousness have been given by Margaret Mead (social origins of individual consciousness), by Duval and Wicklund; (objective self-awareness), by Natsoulas’:
seven definitions of consciousness, and Baruss; who has given us a further twenty-nine definitions!

Natsoulas’s 7 Definitions are as follows:

Consciousness 1: Joint or Mutual Knowledge “a shared, social awareness, a mutual knowledge about the world.”, such as a group of individuals “consciousness raising about some social issue.

Consciousness 2: Internal Knowledge or Conviction. It is derived from Margaret Mead’s Theory of Social Origins of Individual Consciousness and Duval and Wickland’s Theory of Objective Self Awareness. Consciousness 2 is the ability to see ourselves as other see us or objective self-awareness, such as the ability to observe our own selves when we are learning a new skill.

Consciousness 3: Awareness. Is the ability to be mentally consciousness of anything either Internal (Imaginal) or External (Perceptual)

Consciousness 4: Direct Awareness. A philosophical concept which includes introspection of one’s own self and one’s internal states.


Consciousness 5: Personal Unity encompasses the sum of our conscious processes “a totality of the sum of our internal subjective processes such as impressions, thoughts, and feelings. It is a self-regulating system.

Consciousness 6: The Normal Waking State. Consists of the daily ebb and flow that includes various levels of consciousness. It is person specific and subject to both internal and external influence.

Consciousness 7: Double Consciousness. Can be observed in mental states that encompass Out-of-Body Experiences, multiple personality, hypnosis, and in self-deception. The consciousness researcher Sperry suggested a bilateral, hemispheric organization of consciousness, that a separate consciousness exists in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain. Philosopher Jaynes wrote that up to 3000 years ago humans existed in a state of cerebral disconnectedness, that is that the two hemispheres of the brain acted independently. He thought that the “voices of the gods” that the ancients heard, were actually the left hemisphere “hearing the right hemisphere as an abstract, disembodied entity. Jaynes sees dual consciousness as a vestige of this early bi-cameral mind. Double consciousness is of special interest to us in this Module as we consider remote viewing methods that utilize an altered state of consciousness.

EXERCISE

What is your definition of “consciousness?” Write it down. Give personal examples of Consciousness 1 through Consciousness 7.

THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

During the end of the last century consciousness was considered to be the undisputed subject matter of classical psychology which, at that time, considered sense-data (sensory manifestations of consciousness) to be the foundation of all mental life. This paradigm existed until a taboo on introspection led psychologists to abandon consciousness as the subject of psychology in favor of research into behavior.

Behaviorism is a radical form of objective psychology in which all references to introspection and consciousness are rejected in favor of a discussion of physiologically relevant events, primarily in terms of stimulus and response. The Behaviorists believed that “If it cannot be measured, it does not exist.”

Two separate schools of thought have emerged: the Monist school which states that mind and matter are the same i.e. the mind is just the functioning of the brain, and the Dualist school, that sees consciousness (mind) and matter (body and brain) as separate and able to exist independently of each other.

Other theories have been viewed consciousness from several perspectives: as an evolutionary or developmental process (Jaynes); as being a product of language development (LeDoux, Wilson & Gazzaniga); and a function of the divided brain (Ornstein).

Lyall Watson, in Gifts of Unknown Things, offers some interesting insights into the factor we call consciousness. He claims that consciousness is an unmeasurable something associated with the brain but which is not the brain. Watson likens the relationship of consciousness with matter as light to matter. Matter can influence the motion of light and, he feels, that somehow the same process is implicated when considering matter and consciousness. Maybe there is a reciprocal interaction between matter and consciousness. Body and mind may be able to separate and affect each other in subtle ways.

There is no lack of theory to explain consciousness. However, the theories that are available are diffuse and orthogonal, and there seems to be little common bond between them. What may be needed is an integrative key which will clarify their differences and combine their advantages. After decades of deliberate neglect, consciousness is once again coming under scientific scrutiny and discussions on the topic are now appearing in respected psychology and medical literature. Researchers such as Baars, Baruss and Natsoulas are bringing consciousness back into repute in a field that has long denied consciousness as a valid topic for investigation. Subscribe to the Journal of Consciousness Studies for up to date peer-reviewed articles and papers on human consciousness. Their web site can be located at http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html.

SOME FUNCTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

It is an information-processing system.

It is a decision-making tool.

It gives us a sense of identity and participation.

It processes intentionality.

It is a survival tool.

It is a learning tool.

It helps us select between alternatives, and

It helps us plan for the future.

What you wrote down as your definition of consciousness, was probably correct. Any definition of consciousness cannot provide an adequate description of total consciousness, nor can it address the problem that consciousness is, in essence, an individual phenomenon and suffers the same problems of definition as emotional concepts such as love and hate. Maybe, because of the personal and individual nature of consciousness, a precise and consistent definition of consciousness may not be possible.




ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS


Dr. Charles Tart describes an altered state of consciousness as any change in our state of consciousness. He has defined an “altered state of consciousness” as the following:

“An altered state of consciousness for any given individual is one in which he or she clearly feels a qualitative shift in his or her pattern of mental functioning i.e. more or less alert, more or less visual imagery, sharper, fuller, etc.”

PROTOCONSCIOUS STATES

These following altered states of consciousness: hypnosis, hypnogogic and hypnopompic states are streams of consciousness that persist around the clock. They are all defined under the umbrella of Protoconscious States. Some of the more common altered states of consciousness are:

Dreaming: Is the most common state of altered consciousness. Lucid dreaming, where consciousness briefly intrudes upon the unconscious process is an interesting component of dreams. Some research groups believe that lucid dreaming can be purposefully induced.

Meditation: Is the purposeful stilling of the body and mind to bring about a relaxed, peaceful and insightful state.

Daydreaming: Occur when the mind shifts to another state of consciousness during waking hours that allow visual imagery and imagination to create fantasies in the mind.

Hypnosis: Hypnosis is not one altered state of consciousness but a wide range of altered states. Hypnosis is able to access areas of consciousness not normally available during normal, waking consciousness.

Hypnogogic States: Just prior to falling asleep the mind slips into a state of intense visual imagery. The body is often in a state of paralysis. The visual imagery can take the form of cartoon characters, faces, places, or people unknown to the dreamer. The dreamer may suddenly awake from this state with a jump or jolt. Some hypnogogic states include hearing sounds or voices.

Hypnopompic States: As an individual is waking from sleep the opposite of hypnogogic imagery may occur. A person may feel awake and yet realize they were still dreaming. Another common occurrence during hypnopompic states is “false awakening” whereby a person thinks that they wake up and go about their morning routines, only to awaken to realize that they were dreaming.

EXERCISE

Describe a dream where you became lucid and were aware that you were dreaming. Describe what you did in the dream once you realized that it was a lucid dream.


ULTRADIAN RHYTHMS

Just as a normal sleep pattern includes 90 minute oscillations between light and deep sleep, these cycles occur throughout the day, too. There are times during the day when you feel really alert and other times when you feel like you could use a nap! Ultradian rhythms are short, psychological fluctuations that occur during our waking hours. Day-dreaming for example, could be the day-time equivalent of lucid dreaming at night.

EXERCISE

You can take advantage of Ultradian Rhythms to plot the times of day when you are your most productive. Make a graph that plots your level of consciousness, on the left side of the graph, from super alert (10) at the top, to “have to take a nap”(1) at the bottom. Along the bottom of the graph, plot 15 minute intervals. Throughout the day assess your state of consciousness and mark it on the graph. See how you become more alert as you wake up, and then see how your rhythms fluctuate throughout the day and evening.

HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

What happens to the body during an altered state of consciousness? Generally, the body switches to an automatic or autonomic mode of functioning - a sort of “automatic pilot” mode. The brain often switches to a predominantly right-hemisphere dominant mode. That is the right hemisphere has more activity taking place during an altered state of consciousness. Two researchers Fromm and Shor found that left brain hemisphere activity usually predominates during normal consciousness and the right during altered states of consciousness.

EXERCISE

Write down an example of an altered state of consciousness that you have experienced.

PSI (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY) AND CONSCIOUSNESS

The idea that an altered state of consciousness can aid the retrieval of information is not new. Modern researchers have noted that optimal effects may be linked to certain mental states and some interesting correlations have been noted by Ullman, Krippner & Vaughan; Honorton; Braud & Braud; Stanford & Mayer; Child; and Glickson. Meditation, dreaming, hypnosis, and mental imagery are some of the ways that have fostered the ability to access hidden information. Anecdotal accounts of apparent paranormal phenomena recur frequently in the early literature of hypnosis and meditation. Similarly, in traditional meditation texts, psi effects or siddhis were claimed to be natural by-products of a state of abstraction in which there is a diminution of ego-boundaries and self-object differentiation.


Sleep is the most common altered state of consciousness and dreaming the most frequently reported mediator of spontaneous paranormal responses. Dream studies, in which sleeping subjects were able to retrieve information sent to them during the night by a "sender", were conducted at the Maimonides Medical Center Sleep Laboratory in the 1970's.

Historically ascetics, shamans, and hermits sought out solitude and there are reports of these individuals experiencing what we now call OBEs. Isolation tanks and other means of perceptual isolation have superseded the hermit's cell and altered state experiences continue to be reported.

It is generally accepted in the parapsychological community that altered states of consciousness may facilitate access to hidden information, although some of the military CRV remote viewers, such as Lyn Buchanan, claim that their methods do not require an altered state of consciousness.

REMOTE VIEWING

As mentioned, the earliest written reference to remote viewing can be found in an IEEE 1976 paper written in 1976 by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ and entitled “A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances. They wrote:

“As observed in the laboratory, the basic phenomenon appears to cover a range of subjective experiences variously referred to in the literature as autoscopy (in the medical literature); exteriorization or dissociation (psychological literature); simple clairvoyance; traveling clairvoyance or out-of-body experience (parapsychology literature); or astral projection (occult literature). We choose the term “remote viewing” as a neutral descriptive term, free from prior associations and bias as to mechanism.”

EXTENDED REMOTE VIEWING (ERV)

Extended Remote Viewing is another method of remote viewing used to access information about hidden targets. ERV, in its simplest definition, is the access of hidden information using an altered state of consciousness. Extended Remote Viewing or ERV was developed at the Army’s Fort Mead Remote Viewing Unit by F. Holmes (Skip) Atwater. According to Skip Atwater, “Extended”, in this respect, means the length of time that the viewer was in an altered state and accessing the target. Currently, ERV has come to have a generic definition i.e. any remote viewing that is done within a defined protocol, in an altered state of consciousness.
ERV generally requires a Monitor to help the viewer stay in the required state of consciousness and to guide the viewer towards the target. The Monitor’s role is to elicit verbal information from the viewer, keep them on task, helps the viewer maintain the required altered state and, using information already accessed by the viewer, gives the viewer Movement Exercises around the target to access further information. The Monitor does not ask leading questions and is usually "blind" to the identity of the target. Both ERV and CRV can both be carried out, by an experienced viewer, without a Monitor. Joe McMoneagle, in particular, frequently gives live, unmonitored, demonstrations of RV of a very high quality. He does not offer training and has more or less superseded the use of accepted CRV structures, preferring to use his more personal type of remote viewing protocol. Anything that uses a pre-stated methodology and utilizes an altered state of consciousness can be termed ERV.


EXAMPLE

Using an OBE methodology (the Harmony of Opposites) that I had developed, I mentally traveled to a place where it was autumn. I was high up on a hillside surrounded by trees in autumn foliage. I was walking along a dirt path, enjoying the beauty of the leaves. To the left I saw three lakes, two small ones and one large. They made the shape of a fish and I "knew" that the combined lakes were called "Fish Lake". I walked along looking at the hills. Small rivers ran into and out of the three, joined lakes. There was a monument in front of me and I walked up to it. It was a huge stone seat and I realized that it had been made by early people. I thought that the place might be in Canada. The stone seat had mystical, religious significance. The back of the seat was made of one huge stone. I walked behind it and on its back it was carved with religious symbols such as fishes, moons, and stars.

EXERCISE

A good exercise, to gain experience with remote viewing, is to choose an event that has recently occurred, remote view this target, and then watch the news media for further information. First try to actively day-dream. Then direct your consciousness to view a chosen target. (Be ethical and do not intrude on the privacy of others). Record your impressions and try to verify what you saw. You will not always reach your target, it takes time, practice and practice. When you know that you are going to visit a new location remote view it and record your impressions. Later, when you actually visit the location you can check the accuracy of your perceptions. Remember to practice regularly!

REMOTE VIEWING THROUGH THE AUDITORY ROUTE

Even before birth our lives are affected by rhythm. A researcher named Salk was observing apes, when he noticed that the majority of the primate mothers held their infants to the left side of their chest. He wondered if this finding applied to human mothers. Indeed, he found that mothers on a maternity ward also held their babies to the left sides, close to their hearts. This finding was irrespective of the mother’s right or left handedness. Further studies found that:

Babies became accustomed to the heart-beat sound in the womb and could be calmed after birth by hearing the same beat.

Mothers who held their babies to the right, may have a history of a disturbed mother/infant bond. 85-90% of mothers held their babies to the left side and nursed their babies first on the left side.

Babies who heard the heart-beat sound after birth fussed less, gained more weight and had few post-birth problems.

The majority of babies have a right head-turning preference from birth that allows them to face their mothers when they are held by the mother on her left side.

Adults can also be calmed by hearing the heart-beat rhythm.


The heart-beat rhythm is a basis for some Baroque music that has been claimed to have calming effects such as the Pachabel Canon and Vivaldi’s Winter Suite from The Four Seasons. This type of music can be helpful for creating an altered state.

Ancient cultures knew the potential of rhythm and developed instruments that took advantage of “resonant cavities” - caves and kivas - that could amplify the effects of these rhythms on the human neurological system. Recent researchers have examined this effect.
In the fall of 1998, Skip Atwater science director of The Monroe Institute participated in “a unique study of ritual practices” that became part of a documentary film commissioned by The Discovery Channel television network. According to Skip Atwater, their part in the project was reported in an article in The Monroe Institute’s HEMI-SYNC Journal XVII No. 1, Winter, 1999, and was also published in the Journal of Religion and Psychical research, Vol. 22. No. 1., July, 1999. You can access the Monroe Institute at http://www.monroeinstitute.org.

Modern researchers have investigated the power of certain rhythms on the human brain and have developed a term for the effect called “entrainment”. For example, drums beaten at certain rhythms can produce entrainment effects, called “sonic driving”, that can produce an altered state.

Researcher Jack Houck has asked: What if the ability to do remote viewing, PK, and other high performance mental techniques could be induced with high-tech means? Houck says that there is some evidence that there exists a mental access window or MAW, when the predominate frequency of an individual's electro-encephalograph (EEG) measures 7.81 to 7.83 Hz. This is the same frequency range in which slight oscillations in the earth's magnetic field occur, known as the Schumann Resonance.

Houck first learned of this from Dr. Bob Beck when he purchased a simple EEG biofeedback unit from Beck. The unit provided auditory feedback of brain activity to the user. Beck suggested that he and Houck make a recording of an input signal of exactly 7.81 Hz. Houck listened to the EEG unit attached to his head in one ear, while simultaneously listening to the 7.81 Hz recording in the other ear. After a few minutes of relaxing, the two sounds became very similar and then Houck experienced a full-blown OBE. Of the 45 people who have tried the device at this frequency about one-half have reported a full or partial Out-of-Body Experience. Interestingly, Houck found that some people, particularly psychics and geniuses, have strong components of their natural EEG frequency in the MAW range, even in their awake state.

You can read Houck’s paper The Mental Access Window (MAW) in its entirety with illustrations at http://www.tcom.co.uk/npnet/houck2.htm


Another researcher who has investigated the effect of tones and rhythms on the human brain is Robert Monroe. Former businessman Monroe developed the Monroe Institute which now offers seminar programs and audio learning systems on cassette tapes and CDS. They enable others to explore expanded states of awareness through various exercises and techniques, using what they call the Hemi-Sync process. The Hemi-Synch process involves the use of autohypnosis and breathing techniques, imagery, and specifically sequenced stereo sound patterns called “binaural beats” that can assist in creating appropriate brain-wave states. Many people have OBEs as an integral part of their experience while participating in the Hemi-Sync process, although these experiences are not guaranteed. Many of the army remote viewers from the Fort Mead Unit attended the Gateway program at the Institute. The Monroe Institute is located in Faber, Virginia and you can take a virtual tour at their web site at http://www.monroeinstitute.org.

EXAMPLE

A few years ago, I was fortunate to attend a sonic driving workshop with Dr. Ruth Inge Heinz in California. Before the class began Dr. Heinz described sonic driving and then proceeded to gently beat out a rhythm on a copper bowl. The effect was pleasant and relaxing. We lay down in a large room which echoed the rhythms, over and over. At first nothing happened and I decided just to lie and listen to the beats. Suddenly, I “became” an eagle. There was no decision to become a bird - I just felt that I had wings, and talons, and I could fly. I flew over northern spruce woods, following a river, until it ended at a huge waterfall. I flew out over the waterfall, over a scene of snow covered trees and valleys. It was an awesome experience. I flew some more then settled in a tree, grasping the branch with my talons, and ruffling my wings to fold them neatly together. It really felt like I was an eagle!

EXERCISE

Find a pleasant sounding drum or other percussion instrument. Have a colleague or friend gently beat the instrument at between 60-70 beats per minute. The beat needs to be continuous for about 30 minutes. Lie down in a warm, comfortable place and listen to the beat. You need to listen to the beat for at least 20 minutes to allow your brain to entrain to the rhythm. See what your visual imagery produces while listening to the beat.

Alternatively you can obtain a CD of shamanic drumming and listen to that in a comfortable place. Shamanic drumming CDs and tapes have been produced by Michael Harner of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Information can be obtained from the Foundation of Shamanic Studies at the World Wide Shamanic Web http://www.shamanism.org/

The World Wide Shamanic Web is the website of Michael Harner and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. The Foundation can be reached at P.O. Box 1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942. Telephone (415) 380-8282 or email info@shamanicstudies.com. The Foundation’s website contains information about shamanic courses with Michael Harner, membership in the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and information about books, tapes, and shamanic supplies. Shamanic supplies promoted by the Foundation include eye-masks to cut-out visual distractions, drums and rattles.

“HARMONY OF OPPOSITES” METHOD


Over the years I have come to realize that there are certain conditions under which ERV can be enhanced. There has to be a certain state, a harmony between the body and the mind, I call this the “Harmony of Opposites method” The physical body has to be relaxed and quiet, with no distractions, and the mind has to be conscious and alert. This is similar to Robert Monroe’s “Body Asleep, Mind Awake” conditions for OBE.

EXERCISE
Here are some conditions that may help you carry out remote viewing using the Harmony of Opposites method You need:

A warm, comfortable environment with no undue distractions.

A belief that you are in complete control and that you can initiate and terminate the session at will and the belief that remote viewing is a natural part of our human abilities - that it can be trained and developed.

Close your eyes and focus on "nothing". Exclude thoughts that interrupt and try to create a "blue space" in your imagination.

Next, do some visualization exercises. You might want to have a friend read these to you, while you are relaxed and have your eyes closed:

The Sense of Touch:
Imagine touching velvet, a baby bunny, sandpaper, an ice cube in the palm of your hand, grains of sand.

The Sense of Smell:
Imagine smelling sweet perfume, the scent of new-mown grass, a freshly opened can of coffee, the wind off the sea.

The Sense of Hearing:
Imagine hearing a train whistle, a young baby crying, the rustle of a paper, the wind through the trees.

The Sense of Taste:
Imagine tasting a sweet candy bar, a lemon, a salty pretzel, a segment of grapefruit.

The Sense of Sight:
Imagine seeing a flat square, then a cube, a red circle, a blue pyramid.
Then proceed to visualizing a picture of a scene that is enjoyable to you, say a field of flowers.

Next, as your body relaxes and your mind and imagination are busy, you may begin to feel a slight sense of disorientation. At this point say " I want to go to ........ (and name your destination)”. The images you receive may be fragmented and unclear but with time and practice they will resolve into clearer, more complete pictures. Remember to practice!