Mind machine - Wikipedia
A light and sound machine with headphones and strobe light goggles. A mind machine (aka brain machine or light and sound machine) uses pulsing rhythmic sound, flashing light, or a combination of these, to alter the frequency of the user's brainwaves.[1] Mind machines can induce deep states of relaxation,[2] concentration,[3] and in some cases altered states of consciousness,[4] which have been compared to those obtained from meditation and shamanic exploration.[5] Photic mind machines work with flickering lights embedded in sunglasses or a lamp that sits on a tripod above your head or facing you. You then "Watch" with your eyes closed. The process applied by some of these machines is said to induce brainwave synchronisation or entrainment.[6] History[edit] The first scientific observations were made by William Charles Wells in the 1790s who described different effects of binocular vision. Application[edit] Technical setting[edit] A Brion Gysin Dreammachine. Application rate[edit] Safety[edit]
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How We Create Reality
Al Smith, Contributing WriterWaking Times Do you wonder why life is a chaotic roller coaster of both positive and negative events? Have you, like most, earnestly tried positive thinking, meditation or prayer without any tangible beneficial results? Do you stress over your quietly desperate realization that you have little control over your own life? After reading this a few times, you’ll understand the natural forces that create our individual and collective realities. We each wield enormous power throughout each day of our lives. Your subconscious mind is in continuous contact with the subconscious minds of everyone else alive today and possibly with all minds on other planes at all times throughout the universe. The collective subconscious does NOT understand “words” or language. To use your power with any degree of control, your conscious mind must communicate with the collective subconscious (place your order) in its own language: in deliberate mental images. Your past: Your present:
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What It Feels Like to Be an Octopus
On a recent Sunday, at my local Italian market, I considered the octopus. To eat the tentacle would be, in a way, like eating a brain—the eight arms of an octopus contain two-thirds of its half billion neurons. Delicious for some, yes—but for others, a jumping off point for the philosophical question of other minds. “I do think it feels like something to be an octopus,” says Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, who has spent almost a decade considering the idea. Stories of octopuses’ remarkable ability to solve puzzles, open bottles, and interact with aquarium caretakers, suggest an affinity between their intelligence and our own. Since a 2008 dive off the coast of Sydney, Australia, where Godfrey-Smith encountered curious, 3-foot long cuttlefish, he’s been fascinated by the minds of cephalopods, which have the largest nervous systems of all the invertebrates. Does an octopus have a sense of self? Well they are a tricky case. How do they learn?
Psychedelics As Tools For Spirituality
As Timothy Leary put it, a psychedelic experience is “a period of increased reactivity to stimuli both from within and from without.” In a YouTube video, freestyler Jason Silva eloquently discusses the potential for exploration of consciousness that psychedelics offer. In fluid, poetic detail complete with trippy music and visual effects, he explores the psychedelic experience, and spiritual realization. At both the start and finish of the video Silva includes a shout-out to the nonprofit, independent Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). As Silva describes in the video we are currently living through a type of psychedelic Renaissance: “All of a sudden people are starting to take these tools, these cognitive technologies that have been used for thousands of years [psychedelics] a little more seriously,” he says in the video. As Silva explains in the video, in a psychedelic experience “you are immediately plunged into a dialogue with your own subconscious.”
evidence
Healing at a Distance Astin et al (2000). The Efficacy of “Distant Healing”: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial Krucoff et al (2001).Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.
Why the modern world is bad for your brain | Science
Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago, travel agents made our airline and rail reservations, salespeople helped us find what we were looking for in shops, and professional typists or secretaries helped busy people with their correspondence. Now we do most of those things ourselves. Our smartphones have become Swiss army knife–like appliances that include a dictionary, calculator, web browser, email, Game Boy, appointment calendar, voice recorder, guitar tuner, weather forecaster, GPS, texter, tweeter, Facebook updater, and flashlight. But there’s a fly in the ointment. In the old days, if the phone rang and we were busy, we either didn’t answer or we turned the ringer off. Then there are the metabolic costs that I wrote about earlier. © Daniel J.
