Human Brain & The Universe

I see that indeed the universe is a cosmic brain or the human brain is a miniature universe. The circuit pathways are the same. Conveying signals point to point. So then you see that if the Kingdom of God is the cosmos, the universe, then it appears to have been duplicated within us, just as Jesus said. You are not trying to make contact with a stone, you are trying to make contact with another brain. As it is in heaven so it is on earth. People who may not understand this see astrology as something evil when in fact the parts of the cosmos used in professional astrology are actually organs of the cosmic brain just as each one of us have organs such as Fornix or Arachnoid in the human brain.

"Not only stars in the universe fascinate man with i mpressive numbers. In another universe, our own biological one, a gigantic galax y with billions of small neural cells forms our brain and the rest of the nervous system and communicate among themselves by means of flashes of electrochemical pulses.
Without them it would be impossible to achieve our rich internal world and to communicate with the surrounding environment by means of sound, smell, taste ,touch, and light, including that of the stars in our universe."

This writer compares the outer cosmic universe with the inner brain universe. Look at how the writer describes the human brain as a galaxy. Electrochemical pulses described as flashing neural cells. The same galactic activity that fascinate us so, going on in our heads and being the catalyst of our existence.

"Neurons are specialized cells. They are made to receive certain specific connections and pass their decision to other neurons. These specializations include a cell membrane which is specialized to convey nerve signals as electrochemical pulses.
The dendrite from the Greek dendron or tree, which gets and delivers the signals.
Most signals are delivered to dendrites.
So a part of the brain that gets and delivers the electrical signals is dendrite which means tree.
We suddenly are realizing that the part of the brain that provides the information is called dendrite or tree, now maybe we can understand the Old Testament admonition not to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

dendro- or dendri- or dendr- pref. Tree; treelike: dendrochronology. [From Greek dendron, tree. See deru- below.]deru-. Important derivatives are: tree, truce, true, truth, trust, tray, trough, trim, tar1, endure, druid. Variant form *derw-. TAR1, from Old English te(o)ru, resin, pitch (obtained from the pine tree)

then we find the word connected to pine tree which takes us to the pineal gland of the brain which means pine cone. And we see the word connected to dura mater which is the outer part of the brain.

Now what is it in the sky that is an organ of the cosmic brain? Connected to the human brain?

How about Pegasus. The White Horse Constellation. Pegasus father was Poseidon the God of the Sea making Pegasus a white sea horse. Sacred to the Goddess Mnesomyne the Goddess of Memory. White sea horse Memory.

The hippocampus of the brain is the place of memory. The word hippocampus means sea horse. Now let us look at Stedmans Medical Dictionary

--The hippocampus major or cornu Ammonis is a white eminence.

So the white sea horse in the sky Pegasus, is the white sea horse in the brain, Hippocampus. And both are connected to memory.

In your brain is an organ called fornix. We understand that Eta Carina is a hypernova in the sky. But we also have a carina in the brain. We not only have a carina, but we have a carina fornicis which is defined as:

"A ridge running along the undersurface of the fornix of the brain"

In the human brain we have an organ called Fornix. In the cosmic brain, the universe, we have a constellation called Fornax.
What I am showing you is that there are organs in the human brain that match up with organs in the cosmic brain. For a purpose .
In your head there is a single eye which can be ignited and it is situated between the two outer eyes. It is the Pineal Gland of the brain.
In the cosmic brain, the universe is Supernova 1987a .It is the single eye in the center of the two outer eyes. It is on fire.


What does this mean you ask? To me it means when we look into the sky on a clear night we are looking into the brain of God.
Imagine inside of your body. The little people who live in there. Cells in your body. They have lives and things they need to do to. And if they did not do their jobs properly you would get sick and even die. And as we know sometimes these little people (cells) do not do their jobs properly.

You look up at the sky and you see Pegasus, and Supernova, and Fornax, and Carina. It is treuly beautiful. You stand with your loved one hand in hand and look up at all of those exciting displays in the night sky..
Could there be little people inside of you standing cell to cell and looking up into the brain at all of those exciting displays?
But you say , you cant compare human beings with little cells. We are sophisticated. We do special things. They are just cells.
You might say, I work with lasers and electronics, or I work for the post office and send messages all over the place. I have an important job.
All kinds of cells are inside of you creating large molecules called proteins. They fire impulses from one part of you far away to the other part. They send messages too.
You might say, I work in aerobics, I work in a gym. There are cells that actually squeeze muscles in your body . They seem to work in a gym too . You might say, I work in fire prevention, there are cells in your body that work in fire prevention too.
I work in a museum you say. There are cells working in the hippocampus which is the memory bank of your brain. You might say they are also working in a museum. I work for an optometrist you say. There are cells that work in caring for your eyes. I guess you could kind of say, the work for an optometrist.
But what ever you do for a living, there are little people (cells), inside of you doing the same thing. They do it inside of you and they look up into your brain. You do it outside of them and you look up into the sky brain.
And so two little people place their cell hands in one anothers and look up at the night brain sky. Hey look, you can hippocampus. Wow look over there whats that, that?s Fornix. I think I can see carina. Isn't thalamus beautiful tonight. Look over there, its Ventricle. Beautiful !
What they look at inside of your human brain, you look at inside of the cosmic brain. The universe. But it is all the same thing, just on small or larger dimensions.


Basically the concept returns to the reality of observation, of watching. Someone inside of you is watching. Cells, little people. They watch, they read the genetic code like you read instructions with an appliance and they follow the instructions as you do.
And you are watching. You read directions and Bibles, and books, and you observe other things and you act accordingly.
Which means that someone in the sky is also watching. And they are watching what is beyond the sky. It is observation, both sight and sound, and concentration of mind, that creates life , existence, and all circumstances.
Your health, your feelings, your happiness, or sadness are totally dependent on external stimuli. What has stimulated cellular and neural activity inside of you , has had its origin outside of you.
Everything that goes on inside of you is the result of a stimulation of some kind from the outside even your genetic makeup at the time of gestation.
And so we are a cell inside of a cosmic brain in the same way that there are cells inside of the human brain, in the same way that there are molecules inside the cells. It is like peeling an onion until you come to nothing which is everything.

Researchers have revealed the workings of a machine, the ribosome that helps turn genes into flesh and blood.
Within each of your cells the molecular equivalent of a tape player is ceaselessly translating your genetic code. When this complex molecule was first glimpsed under an electron microscope it looked somewhat inconsequential.
But the talents of this tiny blob put the best efforts of scientists to shame. ---this tiny machine measuring one millionth of an inch across routinely helps turn genes into flesh and blood. This machine is called ribosome and scientists have now glimpsed it in action to reveal how within every cell tens of thousands work with mind boggling Precision. Armies of them toil in all living things creating large molecules called proteins that build and operate cells, some catalyse chemical reactions, other send signals , act as hormones even squeeze muscles. As one scientist wrote in the journal of Science the new research is like uncovering an ancient drawing depicting in exquisite detail a universal mechanism for one of the original steps in the evolution of life.
The ribosome works like a tape reader, threaded through it is the chainlike messenger RNA, a sequence of 4 chemical letters A G C U that spells out the recipe of a protein. The ribosome reads this sequence three letters at a time and matches it to three letters on each transfer RNA lining up their cargo in proper order."

The point being made here is that the universe is a brain. The things we see as planets and constellations etc are actually parts of the brain as the ventricles, and thalamus etc are parts of your brain. There is a connection between the two. As the little cells work inside of your brain, so you work inside the cosmic brain.

Let's break down the word Ribosome which we have just studied. As part of that word ribosome you can see the words rib and the word some.
Why that is important is because of Eta Carina. There is a carina inside of you and the word rib connects to the words ridge or sternum which connects to the definition of carina. It also connects to the description of the keel of a ship which Carina means in the universal definition of Eta Carina. The keel of the ship Argo.
And of course what is important here is Ribosome manufacturers protein and is connected to DNA. Eta Carina is formed of highly structured molecular gas which is DNA. So there is a connection there as well.
Carina is the Keel of the Ship Argo which carried the healing golden fleece. I am saying that DNA is the healing Golden Fleece that Carina is carrying now. In other words , what I am proposing to you is that the golden fleece was a mythological symbol of DNA and the ship Argo which carried that fleece was a mythological symbol of Eta Carina.
So if we connect the Keel of the Ship Argo to Eta Carina, we then connect Eta Carina to the brains Carina and the word Ribosome which manufactures DNA and protein. The two become connected, inner brain and cosmic brain.
And I will show you how mythological symbols work in deep detail. As the story of the Argo is written. If it is speaking of Eta Carina in the cosmos and carina in the brain as healing DNA factors, then you would write the story consistent with the molecular break down .
Ribosome manufactures DNA, protein.

Rib, =Carina in the brain.
Rib=Keel of the Ship Carina in the Universe.
Carina in the universe =the Ship Argo= Ribosome.

"The ribosome now looks more of a factory then a machine. Each one is composed of 3 different RNA molecules and more then 50 different proteins. In the watery interior of the cells thesepieces form two parts called the 30S and 50S sub units which drift apart and together during its operation.
The small 30S unit is the brain of the ribosome which reads the genetic code. The bigger 50S is its heart where proteins are made"


The ship Argo had 50 oars. That is spelled out in the myth. There must be a reason. Why does a mythological story which by its very nature is a symbol of something else, specify 50 oars.
We again look at the definition of the word Ribosome and may find a curious answer.

Argo had 50 oars. And that is the way that symbols are studied and discerned in this work. Every item that matches is a clue that must be placed in the picture as part of the puzzle. Unless you match every part you will never see the finished picture.

As the bible says,now we look through a glass darkly but then face to face.

that brings us to the point of considering the universe as a cosmic brain that is constructed the same as the human brain. We can see it with our own eyes and consider the comments of scientists studying the universe.


"We are the light beings, we are the aliens, that we keep wondering about, that we keep looking for. When we go into meditation we are actually opening ourselves to the very headquarters that we originated from. It is called in ancient metaphysics, ?the Great White Lodge?."

And so we are totally consumed in our existence by family, friends, associates, religion, government, employers, etc. etc. and find ourselves in an ever expanding chasm between us and home, the invisible existence of light where we came from .

Exodus 26:33 says the tabernacle must be built with an outer room called the holy place, an inner room called the holy of holies, and the holy place
and the holy of holies must be separated from each other by a curtain or veil.

he human brain has an outer covering called Dura Mater (hard mother), an inner most sensitive area called Pia Mater, (tender mother). Dura Mater and Pia Mater are separated from each other by Arachnoid, the web, or veil, or curtain.

There we have an anatomically correct description of the human brain written over 4000 years ago, and described as the temple, not made with hands, where God dwells. Who wrote it ?

1 Kings 6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another
in the midst of the house.

If you look at a picture of the human brain you will see the wings touching both sides and meeting in the middle.

SEE THE WORD CEREBRUM, THAT ROOT CERE MEANS "TO COVER".

WHAT WAS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHERUBIM OF THE TEMPLE ?

EXODUS 25:20 "And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat with their wings"

THE CHERUBIM COVERED THE MERCY SEAT

THE CEREBRUM COVERS THE BRAIN. THEY ARE THE SAME.

AND THEY BOTH ARE IN THE TEMPLE NOT MADE WITH HANDS.
WHERE THERE IS AN OUTER, AND AN INNER, AND A VEIL IN BETWEEN.

YOUR HEAD!!!

The human brain is an electrical circuit.

Current flows from the brain and to the brain within the human body. Like any electrical circuit too much current can cause an overload, short circuit, etc. What is needed are resistors. Just like this computer, without resistors it cannot function.

The ancients entered into meditation and brought current up from the base of the spine to the brain. It is called Kundalini. The energy would flow through chakras which are actually nerves or resistors in the spine.

As the energy passed through the resistors

the meditator would chant OHM.

Is it just a coincidence that the universal
measurement of electrical resistance is OHM??


What is Manna and Where is Heaven ?

let us consider the higher mind as heaven.
The human brain. From the brain comes all those things that
can make life a wonder.

Manna is from mannitol, a sugary substance. Since we are considering the human brain as the source, let us look at brain sugar. Brain sugar is galactose, Galact means milk. Thus brain sugar is a milky sugary substance.

In the Bible we read the following, Deuteronomy 11:9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Amazing isn't it. The promised land flowing with milk and honey, is closer then our breath.

PS: We live with our milky brains, in a galaxy called the Milky Way !.

Gary Toller of the NASA Space Flight Center tells us that we can only see 10% of the universe. 90% is hidden. The universe is the same as the human brain where we use 10% intellectual with 90% the right side or spiritual etc. We breath 21,600 times a day and each breath takes 4 seconds for a total of 86,400 seconds. And we only see 10% of the universe.

Now let's look at it.

A day consumes 86,400 seconds.

The diameter of the sun is 864,000 miles.

Thus the number of seconds in a day is 10% of the diameter of the sun.

The number of times we breathe in a day averages 21,600. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles or 10% of the amount of breaths we take in a day.

Is this all just some big coincidence. I don't think so, do you.


Who is the Sun God ?.

The Sun God is Amun Ra or Amen Ra.

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus is called ?The Amen?


the opening in the fornix by which the energy may travel from one side to the other.

Who is the opening for ?, or if you prefer what is the opening for.?

The name that you will find in the anatomy book is FORAMEN.

Consider that this is the vault or the tomb of Christ.

The energy which is the sun, or solar energy, moves out of the tomb and into the conscious realm of perfection.

It is for Amen.

Coincidence ?, that?s not the point.

The point is that there is a vault within you , a burial place and it is foramen.

And Amen in the Bible is Jesus. and Jesus says in John 14:20 ? At that time you will know, I am in the father, you in me and I in you.?

Now there is no doubt about that is there ?

Jesus instructed how to make direct contact with God through meditation. He said that he was not a judge or divider over you, you take care of your own problems. He said that he would not go to God for you, you go for your self and he told you, don?t ask him for anything.



It?s a continuing violent mess because we simply refuse to accept who and what we are. We continue to accept ourselves as physical beings and simply cannot accept the fact that we are invisible light beings inside of bodies, operating those bodies electrically. We cannot accept that and so we cling to all of the nonsense that is pumped into us by religion and government like it was true, even when we know that what they both say is not true.

Because of our obsession with the illusion of the physical, we have taken the manuscript called the Bible which is an instruction book of the invisible and twisted it into an adventure of the physical complete with talking snakes and bushes, opening oceans, virgin births, visiting angels etc etc.

We have taken a book written about the mind and the invisible and use it to assault the brain as a document of physical truth. We have decided that it is written about the brain and the body instead of the mind and the person, and have learned nothing from its deep mysterious words.



Nothing......

You must separate your understanding of the brain from the mind. You must separate your understanding of your self from your body. You must separate your understanding of the invisible power we call God from the physical things that we see through Hubble and NASA etc.



You cannot learn anything about God by receiving information from another person no matter how holy that person professes to be. You can only learn by receiving electrical information within yourself invisible to invisible.



When we look at the cosmic things we have to understand that they are signs. They are symbolic forms that mean something. They mean something, not to our physical body but to our non physical person.


"The Kingdom Of God Is Within"

Through meditation you will be able to make heaven on earth.....

I'm going to reply... but I need to go shave...

Interesting post! Its something for the spirituality boards, tho.
I liked most of the connections and only strongly disagree with: "Manna is from mannitol, a sugary substance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna

I always perceived the term as a purely spiritual energy, not plant secretions.

I did find the connection between jesus and ra most fascinating, though.

The 10% Brain Usage Myth!

The question is: Do we use only 10% of our brains?
Let me state this very clearly:


There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains.
http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_028.html

Meditation changes the brain's activity frequency from the Beta to Theta.

THETA WAVES Theta waves (4-7 cps) occur in sleep and are dominant in our highest state of meditation. We normally only experience theta waves as we drift off to sleep, during some dreaming, and as we return from the depths of delta sleep. The pictures we perceive as we drift off and awaken are in theta wave. During theta wave meditations, we are in a waking dream where vivid imagery flashes before our inner vision. In this state, we are extremely receptive to information sent from the higher dimensions.
The Theta state is where intuition comes, instantaneous healings occur and accelerated learning occurs. Einstein trained himself to spend many hours in that state. It is where you feel one with All.

LSD , shrooms ect. put you in Theta state too. FYI ;)

P.s. Cannabis alters the brain to produce Alpha waves.

http://holywine.blogspot.com/2006_01...e_archive.html

We can only see 4% of the universe which is matter, 23% is postulated to be dark matter, which is invisible, and currently impossible to detect, and the remaining 73% is supposed to be dark energy in the form of vacuum fluctuations, which is also impossible to detect, to which there's a lot of controversy attached, because the only reason cosmologists hypothesize this, is because our most accurate description of the mechanism which controls the universe, is inadequate for supermassive structures, there simply isn't enough mass in the universe for the current theory to synchronize with the observations and measurements of the movements of galaxies and interstellar bodies.
The link between the diameter of the moon and the breaths is coincidential, because a mile is a ratio, used to measure a distance (you take the length of a piece of string, and ascribe to it a name, whatever the 'real' length is in cm, you could call it one, and measure everything to the string scale, and get accurate results) and the connection you state is lost when you convert the miles to metres, or the seconds to minutes etc, or another measurement scale (the sun's diameter will also loose its connection with the length of a day, as our standard length of time, the second, isn't a very accurate ratio with that which it was measured against, the obvious connection with the time of revolution of the earth on its axis, and the more recent, rigorously defined unit, the time needed for a cesium-133 atom to perform 9,192,631,770 complete oscillations, like the string analogy), and the brain uses about 10% of all neurons and synaptic gaps, at any one time, not just 10% of the total brain is used at all times, while the 90% is obsolete, it is all used interchangeably.
I think you meant to put astronomy at the begining, I used to get these mixed up quite a bit aswell, unless you're actually referring to the study of the planetary orbits, with regards to behaviour, and earthly incidences, like horoscopes etc. but that again is the same as the ratio, as it only appears like that from earth, and could never be transformed, when you apply the same principles to derive astrology, from another reference frame, like the relative nature of the second, metre, cm etc. could be as the principle of relativity states, this is the defining factor between astrology, astronomy, philosophy and science, as there roots, are closely intertwined.
I am certainly not disagreeing with you, I agree with a lot of what you said, and have got to praise you for how easy to understand ure post will be to someone who doesn't have ANY prior knowledge of science or religion, and how easily it will provoke there own ideas of the connectivity of everything (which is a skilful practice :D), but the things I've stated above I've only told you because I believe you don't need to validate you're overall belief of the universe, with arbritary units, plus only 4% of the universe is visible, so there is no link (well there is but its a lot more technical than that, and so far unknown) between the diameter of the sun and the length of a day like in your example, other quantities will come in to it, like density and mass, relative speed blablabla, but the point is it is all connected, and very fucking odd, with an air of basic symmetry, underlined by chaos (chaos in the sense of mathematics, the indeterminate nature of an overall system, with determinable, defined components, i.e. the system appears to act randomly and on a whim, but it is governed by processes which contain no random parameters, so in this sense is deterministic, in that it has defined characteristics).

Your word analogies suffice in clearly showing that the processes that make you, you, and the experience of emotion you hold so dear to yourself, is somehow connected, and has the same basic principle, as the abstract waterfall careening over the side of a cliff, or the motions of the dots you see in the sky.
Excellent post man:thumbsup:

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Interesting post! Its something for the spirituality boards, tho.
I liked most of the connections and only strongly disagree with: "Manna is from mannitol, a sugary substance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna

I always perceived the term as a purely spiritual energy, not plant secretions.

I did find the connection between jesus and ra most fascinating, though.

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First off i wanna give thanks to you who replied for actually taking the time to go through and read it. I was afraid that most people would notice how long it was and look the other way. So thanks for taking the time to read it. I think everyone should atleast go through and read bits and parts and see if it interests you like it interests me.

I agree it is something for the spirituality boards but i decided that most of you in the lounge didnt visit that board and deserved the chance to read it also.

I dont disagree that manna is something spiritual but that statement was more for the sake of argument and trying to find a connection. Just more food for thought!! I dont exactly like to use wikipedia for information either....

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Meditation changes the brain's activity frequency from the Beta to Theta.

THETA WAVES Theta waves (4-7 cps) occur in sleep and are dominant in our highest state of meditation. We normally only experience theta waves as we drift off to sleep, during some dreaming, and as we return from the depths of delta sleep. The pictures we perceive as we drift off and awaken are in theta wave. During theta wave meditations, we are in a waking dream where vivid imagery flashes before our inner vision. In this state, we are extremely receptive to information sent from the higher dimensions.
The Theta state is where intuition comes, instantaneous healings occur and accelerated learning occurs. Einstein trained himself to spend many hours in that state. It is where you feel one with All.

LSD , shrooms ect. put you in Theta state too. FYI

P.s. Cannabis alters the brain to produce Alpha waves.

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Very good information! Psychedelics has always amazed me in this way and i always knew from the first time i took them that they were extremely powerful and profound and if used correctly they would be useful for healing you spiritually and possibly physically. I didnt know that cannabis alters the brain to produce Alpha waves, what are the Alpha waves role?

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The 10% Brain Usage Myth!

The question is: Do we use only 10% of our brains?
Let me state this very clearly:


There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains.
http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_028.html

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To say "we use all of our brain all of the time" or something similar to that says nothing about the potential of human intelligence, creativity, and problem solving. Such a skeptical rebuttal of the vast potential of the human think machine implies that we have reached our limits of brain potential- probably the most harmful dead end notion of all. We haven't even gotten close


" Research Report
Dormancy of the Human Brain
Dormant Brain Research and Development Laboratory
T.D.A. Lingo, Director

The human brain is only 10% functional, at best.
The first to outline this theory, later proved a fact by others, was Australian Neurology Nobel Laureate Sir John Eccles. (Lecture: University of Colorado, University Memorial Center Boulder, July 31, 1974.) "The brain indicates its powers are endless."

In England, John Lorber did autopsies on hydrocephalics. This illness causes all but the 1/6th inch layer of brain tissue to be dissolved by acidic spinal fluid. He tested the IQ's of patients before and during the disease. His findings showed that IQ remained constant up to death. Although over 90% of brain tissue was destroyed by the disease, it had no impact on what we consider to be normal intelligence.

Russian neurosurgeon Alexandre Luria proved that the 1/3 bulk of frontal lobes are mostly dormant. He did this by performing ablation experiments on persons. He gave physiological and psychological tests before, cut out parts and whole frontal lobes, the re-tested after. His conclusion: removal of part or all of frontal lobes causes no major change in brain function, (some change in mood alteration). The frontal lobes are mostly dormant, asleep. (Luria, A.R. "Frontal Lobes and the Regulation of Behavior." In: K.H. Pribram and A.R. Luria, Editors, Psychophysiology of the Frontal Lobes. New York, and London, Academic Press, 1973)

Finally, the human brain contains 10 billion neurons, mostly in the outer layer of brain cortex. the function of these currently dominant cells is fairly clear. but the brain also contains 120 billion glial cells. Aside from some secondary nurturing of neurons, the primary function of the glia is not clear. What big bang mirical awaits mankind within these mysteries?

Today, most would agree without argument that the potential of the human brain is infinite. Thus, to state that a person uses 10%, 5%, or even 1% of their potential brain capacity (infinity) is overly generous.

The point is this: There is no dispute among honestly rational experts about the latent potential of the human think box. There is only friendly dispute about how much and what still awaits us, patiently to be self-discovered between each set of ears. Hence, the wisdom of intuitive folksay was correct: "The human brain is only 10% functional." John Eccles thinks that number is too high. "How can you calculate a percentage of infinity?" "

Its an interesting subject and id like to hear more as to why you think otherwise!

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We can only see 4% of the universe which is matter, 23% is postulated to be dark matter, which is invisible, and currently impossible to detect, and the remaining 73% is supposed to be dark energy in the form of vacuum fluctuations, which is also impossible to detect, to which there's a lot of controversy attached, because the only reason cosmologists hypothesize this, is because our most accurate description of the mechanism which controls the universe, is inadequate for supermassive structures, there simply isn't enough mass in the universe for the current theory to synchronize with the observations and measurements of the movements of galaxies and interstellar bodies.
The link between the diameter of the moon and the breaths is coincidential, because a mile is a ratio, used to measure a distance (you take the length of a piece of string, and ascribe to it a name, whatever the 'real' length is in cm, you could call it one, and measure everything to the string scale, and get accurate results) and the connection you state is lost when you convert the miles to metres, or the seconds to minutes etc, or another measurement scale (the sun's diameter will also loose its connection with the length of a day, as our standard length of time, the second, isn't a very accurate ratio with that which it was measured against, the obvious connection with the time of revolution of the earth on its axis, and the more recent, rigorously defined unit, the time needed for a cesium-133 atom to perform 9,192,631,770 complete oscillations, like the string analogy), and the brain uses about 10% of all neurons and synaptic gaps, at any one time, not just 10% of the total brain is used at all times, while the 90% is obsolete, it is all used interchangeably.
I think you meant to put astronomy at the begining, I used to get these mixed up quite a bit aswell, unless you're actually referring to the study of the planetary orbits, with regards to behaviour, and earthly incidences, like horoscopes etc. but that again is the same as the ratio, as it only appears like that from earth, and could never be transformed, when you apply the same principles to derive astrology, from another reference frame, like the relative nature of the second, metre, cm etc. could be as the principle of relativity states, this is the defining factor between astrology, astronomy, philosophy and science, as there roots, are closely intertwined.
I am certainly not disagreeing with you, I agree with a lot of what you said, and have got to praise you for how easy to understand ure post will be to someone who doesn't have ANY prior knowledge of science or religion, and how easily it will provoke there own ideas of the connectivity of everything (which is a skilful practice :D), but the things I've stated above I've only told you because I believe you don't need to validate you're overall belief of the universe, with arbritary units, plus only 4% of the universe is visible, so there is no link (well there is but its a lot more technical than that, and so far unknown) between the diameter of the sun and the length of a day like in your example, other quantities will come in to it, like density and mass, relative speed blablabla, but the point is it is all connected, and very fucking odd, with an air of basic symmetry, underlined by chaos (chaos in the sense of mathematics, the indeterminate nature of an overall system, with determinable, defined components, i.e. the system appears to act randomly and on a whim, but it is governed by processes which contain no random parameters, so in this sense is deterministic, in that it has defined characteristics).

Your word analogies suffice in clearly showing that the processes that make you, you, and the experience of emotion you hold so dear to yourself, is somehow connected, and has the same basic principle, as the abstract waterfall careening over the side of a cliff, or the motions of the dots you see in the sky.
Excellent post man:thumbsup:

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Im guessing where i got my information on the percentages is either incorrect or outdated.

I see what you are saying and now that i think about it, it is most likely coincidential but you know how it is when you are stoned :p

And yes that was the reason i posted this, to maybe spark some thought on the subject like it has for me! Its all very fasinating and i will post some more once im done deep frying some potstickers!!!!!!!!!

it's amazing what you can do with copy and paste isn't it?

its mans greatest invention, whats your point......

You actually think i wrote this all out? hahaha

sounds to me like your just trying to stir shit up!


Im sure itd be pretty easy to find where i got this from, i actually had it printed out in word format and then scanned it to text and picked out the valueable information from it! But im glad you enjoy pointing out the obvious!

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its mans greatest invention, whats your point......

hahaha

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The human brain has 10 trillion neurons, with 10 x as many support cells. There's a possibility for more synapses than atomic particles in the Universe.

Do you think maybe that's the greatest invention?

No scientist can say that we use 100% because we haven't studied, every single neuron.

it is by far the greatest invention, but it wasnt man's invention!

I was just giving bob shit for being captain obvious!

10 trillion??? are you sure?

So basically we cannot know what percentage of our brain we use?

No, I'm not. Hold on. It may be 100 billion, making it a trillion support cells, making it an infinite possibility of synapses.

One neuron may receive information from 1,000 neurons.

And with cannabinoids doing their part, they can interact.

One thing ive been curious about lately is the pineal gland and its purpose. I've read that it secrets melatonin but some disagree that that is its primary function. Ive also read a book called "The spirit molecule" that suggested that it produced small amounts of DMT. Whats your take on this?

* Alpha Waves: Alpha waves range between 7-12 HZ. This is a place of deep relaxation, but-not quite meditation. In Alpha, we begin to access the wealth of creativity-that lies just below our conscious awareness - it is the gateway, the entry-point that leads into deeper states of consciousness. Alpha is also the home-of the window frequency known as the Schuman Resonance, which is the-resonant frequency of the earth's electromagnetic field.


* On the 10% Myth: I noticed the studies you posted were from the 70's. My references were from the 90's! So, this is moden science talking.

It seems that a lot of people want to believe the 10% Myth because they associate psychic power with more of the brain being used..which is misguided. It is the protoplasmic multidimensional "soul" inhabiting the body that controls esp, telepathy,telekinesis, ect.
Its like this: you can give a computer infinite thinking capcity but it wont be able to move an object in the room. To do that it would need access to the object, much like our soul core is connected to the outer dimensions.

* Pineal Gland: Some say it is the 3rd eye!

Whew. C4nn4bliss is deep, man.
I'm going to have to print all this shit out and go over it one day.

Movie reccomendation: "Altered States"

i wish i came up with all these ideas!

I had printed it out a long time ago and never read it so i scanned it back into text and picked out the good parts. I suggest you do print it out and when you get the chance spark a doobie and soak up this information!

Whats this altered states movie keep hearing about...

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* On the 10% Myth: I noticed the studies you posted were from the 70's. My references were from the 90's! So, this is moden science talking.

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I noticed it was outdated but i found it interesting that this disease, hydrocephalics, destroyed brain tissue but the test subjects IQ still remained the same or somewhat close to it even after 90% was destroyoed. Im not sure if this information is correct though.

Altered States = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

William Hurt is a prof experimenting with psychodelics while being submerged. You mentioned tripping around the wilderness at night and I thought of this movie.

I also strongly believe that the Bible is completely misunderstood and it has been for so long that everything was blasted out of context to where now it isnt even what it was meant to be, a guide to show you how you are closer to God than you actually think and that you are truely made in his image. Within the guide, we will refer to it as the Bible to clear up confusion, there are specific guidelines on how to come to terms with God and be as close as you possibly can be to Him in this life(meditation). All the Bible asks of you is to believe it as truth and the truth shall set you free. Now i most certainly do not want to scare anyone off with this type of talk. I would want people to take this in as food for thought and properly digest it so maybe they might catch a glimpse of what I see. Im guessing the Bible is so misunderstood is because of the time it was written in. I dont think the exact text of the Bible should be taken so literally when infact i find most of the stories to be metaphors on how we could live a better life, closer with one another and also with God. I dont believe you have to go to church or even worship him in a traditional matter, but all He wants is for you to realize how amazing you really are and that you were created by him in his image and for you to accept this in your heart and soul.

I dont want this to turn into a religious debate because thats not what i intended this to become and it wouldnt be right. All i really wanted is to show some connecting dots in both the Bible, yourself, and the universe. It makes you seem more like a work of art than some evolved bacteria...

The pineal gland converts amino acids from food and converts them into tryptophan, then 5-hydroxy-tryptophan, then serotonin, then melatonin.

After we're three months old, we can do this, before that we need breastmilk for melatonin.

But, natural production drops steeply at 30 and we have little, to none, when we're 60.

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LOL, I saw that in 1993, late one night, at college. I was heading to bed and stopped in the lounge. Saw that movie and, I swear, I was tripping when I went back to my room.

c4nn4bl4ss, people started messing with the Bible around 150 A.D. When people bash it, like everyone always does, it's too hard to refute their claims. Just like, it's too hard to support The Bible's validity. In the 4th Century, Roman Emperor Constantine really messed it up, and then Hasif Numar told people that his third cousin wrote it, in 968 A.D. The last fact (line) can be referenced through the state that you're in when you wake up from a long sleep. Seven hours or more.

I don't know what to think about this information. I guess, that's why I've never found my place in the world, after it changed. I don't know who to believe. The smartest guy in the world was wrong. It's true, hard work pays off in the end, but, you don't see the everything else going on in the world. Everyone needs time to evolve, not rest. Stupid news time.

I doubt very much that the synaptic connections in the brain are as abundant as the atomic particles in the universe, since the brain would have to be made up of those atomic particles, and the space occupying any synaptic gap, would have to be made up of those atomic particles. Around about 100 billion neurons, each linked up, to around 25,000 others, via synaptic connections (but this information varies greatly from source to source, but to the laymen like you and me the point is, its alot man!), this is the infinity you talk of. The infinite number of pathways, any one neuronal impulse, can take, due to the interconnective nature of all the neurons in the brain, this has made it one of the most complex systems in the "known" universe (this doesn't mean it is, and probably falls very very short, because I mean, LOOK AT THE FUCKIN UNIVERSE MAN WOOOOOOOOW! to which somehow spawned freakish shit like us :thumbsup: ) I imagine it like a quantum computer (however you would imagine that) parallel processing (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?...&curtab=2222_1) and other techniques of simultaneously processing many sources of information, to arrive at a 'single' outcome (like the processing of light, in to the depth, colour, etc., but is finally 'received' as a single perception, like the sensation of sight). The neurons are designed in a way, that an action potential (electric signal) traversing one neuron, will cause the synaptic gaps of the connected neurons to misfire and begin its own impulse which in turn will stimulate another unique set of synaptic gaps, etc etc.. like the expanding energy of transversal waves, the ripple on the surface of a pond for example, this allows for an infinity of pathways a single 'bit' of sensory stimuli can take, to arrive at a perceptive outcome, scientifically speaking, seeing colours, or synesthesia, should be expected if we are to believe anything about the current understanding of the brain, and it does happen, which is a good sign, but of course this is somewhat an exagerration of the mechanism behind sensory processes in the brain, as not every1 see's and taste's colours (unless you take a peak behind the curtain with a few chemical brothers :thumsbup:). According to Hans Moravec, by extrapolating from known capabilities of the retina to process image inputs, a brain has a processing capacity of 100 trillion instructions per second.

The brain is a giant, limitless electrical circuit of interconnecting neurons, powered by the conversion of chemical energy via decomposition of a neurotransmitter's molecular bonds, at a synapse, this breakdown will give off electrochemical energy, causing a change in membrane potential between the inside and outside of the cell, if the imbalance is large enough, it is stimulated above a certain voltage known as the "threshold" it causes the cell membrane to contract (you ever gotten electricuted, same thing, I didn't know my muscles could work that hard), and opens holes in the membrane, known as ion channels, which due to the natural flow of electricity (or any charged particle) from negative to positive (or more generally the natural tendency to neutralize charges which causes this phenomena), ions (chemicals with a charge, either positive or negative) flow down this natural electrochemical gradient, the particles (Sodium) flowing in through the membrane, increase the membrane potential dramatically, but the membrane also has a rectifying mechanism, which are also voltage dependent, when the voltage gets to a certain level, the channels (sodium) close, and the charges between the inside and outside are dramatically different than before initial stimulation. A second set of channels open, which allow ions of opposite charge to come through (also following the natural electochemical gradient, this is potassium) this causes the membrane potential to fall and undershoot, because the voltage is no longer the value required to stimulate the opening of the potassium channels, they close, and because there is no further stimulation, the cell returns to resting potential. When the cell is at its resting potential the electric forces between the sodium and potassium of the neuron is counterbalanced by the "diffusive forces," creating a state of equilibrium. This is the very basic (and simplified) mechanism that underlies all neuron stimulation, point being not 'Wow look what we can find out! Look how clever we are' but that all those processes that cause you to experience the touch/smell/sight of something, and even the emotions of happiness/sadness/anger are governed by the same exact mechanisms as everything else in the universe, they are completely natural and free flowing, plus you can't believe that all that happens, and you take it completely for granted, to me the tapping of keys, the touch of my fingertips, the light bouncing off my eyes, I don't think about processing, the shit just happens, but I feel it, and respond to it, whats up with that?

100 billion (times) ten (times)1,000= A pretty big number. I read it, somewhere, that fact about the brain.

If you travelled at 186 thousand miles a second, it would take about 13.7 billion years, to traverse 1/2 of the observable universe.

The volume of the universe, given that it would be a perfect sphere, is 128 trillion trillion metres cubed, or 80 billion trillion miles cubed, I admit the brain is impressive, but that takes the piss, being as its the reason for all existance:confused:

Ahh well, whats on the tele?:dance:

http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian/files/brain-wv.txt

^^An interesting site on brain waves and drugs!!

http://www.causeof.org/brainwaves.htm <--is an interesting site on TV and other media's effects on brain waves

Hey Jimmicracked, I had just read that before I typed it. I, also, read that each neuron only can have 1,000-10,000 connections with other cells, not 25,000.

Number of synapses in cortex = 0.15 quadrillion (Pakkenberg et al., 1997; 2003).

This Koch guy, seems to have found twice the amount of neurons: Total number of neurons in cerebral cortex = 10 billion (from G.M. Shepherd, The Synaptic Organization of the Brain, 1998, p. 6). However, C. Koch lists the total number of neurons in the cerebral cortex at 20 billion (Biophysics of Computation. Information Processing in Single Neurons, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999, page 87).

Koch lists the total synapses in the cerebral cortex at 240 trillion (Biophysics of Computation. Information Processing in Single Neurons, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999, page 87).

http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html

Perhaps even more surprising is that in addition to the neurons, there are 10 times as many support cells, known as glia or neuroglia, which serve to nourish and protect the brain, guide its development, and perhaps even modulate its activity.
The number of possible interconnections among our neurons, called synapses, is greater than the number of atomic particles in the entire universe.
But of course the brain is not organized in a haphazard or random fashion. The actual number of synapses in the human brain has been estimated at 100 trillion, or an average of about 1,000 synapses per neuron:
100 billion neurons x 1,000 synapses/neuron = 100 trillion synapses.
Lastly, the human brain can carry out about 10,000 trillion operations/second. By contrast, the 2004 worldâ??s most advanced supercomputerâ??IBMâ??s ASCI Purpleâ??performs only 100 trillion operations/second.

http://uwf.edu/jgould/BrainFacts.pdf

I'm sorry I had to bump this.

BUMP IT UP

So if the cosmos is the hypothetical "brain of god" then arent we all just a thought that God had?


trippy

Well, if that's what it takes to create us. But, I can't imagine your blood transcending into thoughts.

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I also strongly believe that the Bible is completely misunderstood and it has been for so long that everything was blasted out of context to where now it isnt even what it was meant to be, a guide to show you how you are closer to God than you actually think and that you are truely made in his image. Within the guide, we will refer to it as the Bible to clear up confusion, there are specific guidelines on how to come to terms with God and be as close as you possibly can be to Him in this life(meditation). All the Bible asks of you is to believe it as truth and the truth shall set you free. Now i most certainly do not want to scare anyone off with this type of talk. I would want people to take this in as food for thought and properly digest it so maybe they might catch a glimpse of what I see. Im guessing the Bible is so misunderstood is because of the time it was written in. I dont think the exact text of the Bible should be taken so literally when infact i find most of the stories to be metaphors on how we could live a better life, closer with one another and also with God. I dont believe you have to go to church or even worship him in a traditional matter, but all He wants is for you to realize how amazing you really are and that you were created by him in his image and for you to accept this in your heart and soul.

I dont want this to turn into a religious debate because thats not what i intended this to become and it wouldnt be right. All i really wanted is to show some connecting dots in both the Bible, yourself, and the universe. It makes you seem more like a work of art than some evolved bacteria...

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beautiful man.

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thanks :)

i wanna touch an animal today, that is my goal for the day...to touch an animal

Heres some more food for thought for you fellas, careful, too much of this type of stuff and my head starts to really hurt...

http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

The Universe as a Hologram
by Michael Talbot
Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.


University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.
To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.
What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is."
Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development".

Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain.
In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage.
Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly. Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with every other portion, it is perhaps nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.
The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions.
Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic principles to perform its operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists.
Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability. Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost uncanny realism.
Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct "hard" reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also received a good deal of experimental support. It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smellisin part dependent on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions.

But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.
We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.


This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the-holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature. Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level.
It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolvedpuzzles in psychology.
In particular, Stanislav Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness. In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. During the course of her hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted that the portion of the male of the species's anatomy was a patch of colored scales on the side of its head. What was startling to Grof was that although the woman had no prior knowledge about such things, a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal. The woman's experience was not unique. During the course of his research, Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree (research findings which helped influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate.
Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort of collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with little or no education suddenly gave detailed descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life incarnations.
In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use of drugs. Because the common element in such experiences appeared to be the transcending of an individual's consciousness beyond the usual boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the late '60s he helped found a branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study.
Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and has become a respected branch of psychology, for years neither Grof or any of his colleagues were able to offer a mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological phenomena they were witnessing. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.
As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.


The holographic paradigm also has implications for so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain -- as well as the body and everything else around us we interpret as physical.
Such a turnabout in the way we view biological structures has caused researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process could also be transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn effect changes in the hologram of the body.
Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because, in the holographic domain of thought, images are ultimately as real as "reality".

Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the holographic paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things," biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again several times in succession.
Although current scientific understanding is incapable of explaining such events, experiences like this become more tenable if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection. Perhaps we agree on what is "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely interconnected. If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.

What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending spoons with the power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in our dreams.
Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out, even random events would have to be seen as based on holographic principles and therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in reality would have to be seen as a metaphor, for even the most haphazard events would express some underlying symmetry.

Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not provide the best explanation for the instantaneous communications that seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality".