“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” – Charles Dubois
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi
“You are what you think, not what you think you are.”
-Bruce MacLelland from his book Prosperity Through Thought Force
“Who looks not with compassion, sees not what the eyes of compassion see.”
(Tibetan quote)
“The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of relationship you have with yourself.”
– Cheryl Richardson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Williamson
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In Dean Radin’s book “Entangled Minds” he writes about many different scientific experiments that confirm the existence of psychic phenomena, also known as ESP or ‘psi’. It seems that people who are very closely bonded together experience more psychic connections with each other than those who are not close or emotionally invested in one another.
Dean cites an experiment involving a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scanner. They found a couple who did well in other psi tests where they were able to send and/or receive information to/from each other with successful results much better than random chance. One person was put in the fMRI scanner to act as the ‘receiver’ while the other person (the ‘sender’) was exposed to a flickering light. The purpose of the light was to stimulate the brain activity of the ‘sender’, and to see if anything would happen at the same time to the brain of the ‘receiver’. The receiver’s brain showed a significant increase in activity, with odds against chance of 14,000 to 1! Not only were they able to show an increase in brain activity at the exact same time, but the fMRI machine was able to show the specific location in the brain where the connection was found. WOW!
Why is this information such a well kept secret? Part of Dean’s plight is about how difficult it is for the existence of psi to be taken seriously, regardless of the scientific evidence confirming it. I agree, and appreciate Dean’s humor as he comments on the nature of this:
“This discovery is so shocking that it virtually guaranteed no one would hear about it, despite it being published in a medical journal. This is worse than missing a story about aliens landing on the White House lawn. It’s more like spotting an alien shopping in the frozen food section of the local grocery store and no one caring.”
(For all his scientific expertise, the man has a sense of humor, too! Most of his writing is not pondering aliens, I just thought this excerpt was too funny to leave out!)
His other book “The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena” will be released in June, I can’t wait!
http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Universe-Scientific-Psychic-Phenomena/dp/0061778990/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243404556&sr=1-2
A couple months ago, CBS’s ‘60 minutes’ did a show about a new form of technology called “Thought Identification”. Through the use of a form of MRI scanning called functional MRI (fMRI), scientists can see the parts of the brain that are active when a person thinks about something like an object or a place. This research is being done by cognitive neuroscientist Marcel Just, and computer scientist Tom M. Mitchell, at Carnegie Mellon University.
They have found that when a person thinks of a noun, it doesn’t just activate one area of the brain. It also activates the way the nouns are associated with verbs, such as see, hear, listen, and taste. Marcel Just explains “Screwdriver isn’t one place in the brain. It’s many places in the brain. When you think of a screwdriver, you think about how you hold it, how you twist it, what it looks like, what you use it for….And we found that we could identify which object they were thinking about from their brain activation patterns.”
Though different people’s brains are not identical, they are close enough that the computer is able to find the commonalities, and then identify which of these a person is thinking of while they are in the fMRI machine. During the segment, they had a producer from the show try out the machine while thinking of 5 objects and 5 places, and the computer was able to correctly identify what she was thinking of 10 out of 10 times!
I find this information fascinating, and I decided to write about it because I feel that it has a direct correlation to dream work. I talk a lot about the importance of individual associations in dream work, and yet I cannot ignore the fact that there are certain Universal Dream Themes that most of us as human beings share (some examples of these include flying, falling, teeth falling out and being naked in public). While there can be individual variations (and I always do like to check this), much research has been done by people like Patricia Garfield and Gillian Holloway on Universal Dreams and it is amazing to find that certain dreams often do hold a similar meaning for most people. The fact that most of us will have similar areas of the brain ‘light up’ when thinking of a certain object or place, and that we can share a common dream and find a common meaning to it, illustrates the idea that we are all sharing this experience of being human and that perhaps we are more connected than not. When I have the chance I like to check with an individual to see if their associations match the universal interpretation, and interestingly enough they usually do indeed apply.
For more information on the show that featured this story, visit:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694713.shtml