Parapsychology

Introduction

What turns a mere piece of matter from being mere matter into an animated being? What gives certain special physical patterns in the universe the mysterious privilege of feeling sensations and having experiences?

D.R. Hofstadter



What is Parapsychology?

Parapsychology is the scientific and scholarly study of certain unusual events associated with human experience. These experiences have been called "psychic" for want of a better term.

A common misconception is that a parapsychologist is a psychic. Not so. Likewise, a child psychiatrist is not a child! Instead, a parapsychologist is a scientist or scholar who is seriously interested in the "paranormal." Unfortunately, many telephone books and on-line sites use "parapsychologist" as a synonym for psychic entertainer, mentalist, conjurer, astrologer, or psychic reader. This is an inappropriate use of the term "parapsychologist." The Parapsychological Association is an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific organization in the world. In contrast, organizations of psychic readers and mentalists are not members of the AAAS because they are entertainers, not scientists.

What does it mean to study psychic phenomena? A long-held, common-sense assumption is that the worlds of the subjective and objective are completely distinct, with no overlap. Subjective is "here, in the head," and objective is "there, out in the world." Parapsychology then is the study of phenomena suggesting that the assumption of a strict separation between subjective and objective may be wrong. Human experience suggests that some phenomena occasionally fall between the cracks, and are not purely subjective nor purely objective. From a scientific perspective, such phenomena are called "anomalous" because they are difficult to explain within current scientific models.

These anomalies fall into three general categories: ESP (terms are defined below), PK, and phenomena suggestive of survival after bodily death, including near-death experiences, apparitions, and reincarnation. Most parapsychologists today expect that further research will eventually explain these anomalies in scientific terms, although it is not clear whether they can be adequately understood without significant (indeed, probably revolutionary) expansions of the current state of scientific knowledge. Other researchers take the stance that existing scientific models of perception and memory are adequate to explain some or all parapsychological phenomena.



What is not parapsychology?

In spite of what the media often imply, parapsychology is not the study of anything considered weird or bizarre. Nor is parapsychology concerned with astrology, UFOs, searching for Bigfoot, paganism, vampires, alchemy, or witchcraft.

Many scientists have viewed parapsychology with great suspicion because the term has come to be associated with a huge variety of mysterious phenomena, fringe topics, and pseudoscience. Parapsychology is also often linked, again inappropriately, with a broad range of "psychic" entertainers, magicians, and so-called "paranormal investigators." In addition, some self-proclaimed "psychic practitioners" call themselves parapsychologists, but that is not what we do.



What do parapsychologists study?

Many feel that the strangest, and most interesting, aspect of parapsychological phenomena is that they do not appear to be limited by the known boundaries of space or time. In addition, they blur the sharp distinction usually made between mind and matter. In popular usage, the basic parapsychological phenomena are categorized as follows:

Psi : A neutral term for parapsychological phenomena. Psi, psychic, and psychical are synonyms.
Telepathy : Direct mind-to-mind communication.
Precognition: Also called premonition. Obtaining information about future events, where the information could not be inferred through normal means. Many people report dreams that appear to be precognitive.
Clairvoyance : Sometimes called remote viewing; obtaining information about events at remote locations, beyond the reach of the normal senses.
ESP: Extra-sensory perception; a general term for obtaining information about events beyond the reach of the normal senses. This term subsumes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
Psychokinesis : Also called PK; direct mental interaction with physical objects, animate or inanimate.
Bio-PK : Direct mental interactions with living systems.
NDE : Near death experience; an experience reported by those who were revived from nearly dying. Often refers to a core experience that includes feelings of peace, OBE, seeing lights and other phenomena.
OBE : Out-of-body experience; the experience of feeling separated from the body, often accompanied by visual perceptions as though from above the body.
Reincarnation: The belief that we live successive lives, with primarily evidence coming from the apparent recollections of previous lives by very small children.
Haunting : Recurrent phenomena reported to occur in particular locations that include apparitions, sounds, movement of objects, and other effects.
Poltergeist: Large-scale PK phenomena often attributed to spirits, but which are now thought to be due to a living person, frequently an adolescent.


Who is interested in Parapsychology?

Physicists tend to be interested in parapsychology because of the implication that we have a gross misunderstanding about space and time and the transmission of energy and information.
Biologists are interested because psi implies the existence of additional, unexplained methods of sensing the world.
Psychologists are interested for what psi implies about the nature of perception and memory.
Philosophers are interested because psi phenomena specifically address many age-old philosophical problems, including the role of the mind in the physical world, and the nature of the objective vs. the subjective.
Theologians and the general public tend to be interested because personal psi experiences are often accompanied by feelings of profound, ineffable meaning. As a result, psi is thought by some to have "spiritual" implications.
From the materialistic perspective, one of the foundations of the current scientific worldview, human consciousness is nothing but an emergent product of the functioning of Brain, Body, and Nervous System (BBNS). That is, no matter how different mind may seem from solid stuff like bodies, it is generated solely by the electrochemical functioning of the BBNS, and so it is absolutely dependent on it. When the BBNS dies, so does consciousness. From this perspective, claims of survival of bodily death, or ghosts, or apparitions, must be due to wishful thinking. Furthermore, the limits of material functioning automatically determine the ultimate limits of mental functioning, thus ESP and PK appear to be impossible, given our current understanding about how the world works.

And yet, psi phenomena have occurred in all cultures throughout history, they continue to occur, and some of the reported phenomena have been persuasively verified using scientific methods. Because psi seems to transcend the assumed limits of material functioning, and therefore the BBNS, some interpret psi as supporting the idea that there is something more to mind than just the BBNS, that there is some sort of "soul," or the like.

This "non-physical" aspect, an aspect that does not seem to be as tightly bounded by space or time as present scientific models require, might survive bodily death. If so, there may be important truths contained in some spiritual ideas and practices. Of course, parapsychology is a very long way from being able to say that "the data shows that X" (insert your favorite religious group here) are specifically right about religious doctrines A, B, and C but dead wrong about dogmas P, Q and R.

We must emphasize that there is a big difference between simply noting that the findings of parapsychology may have implications for spiritual concepts, versus the idea that parapsychologists are driven by some hidden spiritual agenda. Some critics of parapsychology seem to believe that all parapsychologists have hidden religious motives, and that they are really out to prove the existence of the soul. This is no more true than claiming that all chemists really harbor secret ambitions about alchemy, and thus their real agenda is to transmute mercury into gold. The reasons why serious investigators are drawn to any discipline are as diverse as their backgrounds.

The above introduction is based on
materials available at: http://www.psiresearch.org/

Psychic Phenomena

by Rich Anders



Introduction

Science has reached out to the farthest ends of the universe and it is exploring the deepest oceans. Everything in between is being researched and human knowledge grows by leaps and bounds. Regrettably, the human psyche and its wondrous potential have been woefully neglected for a very long time. Only recently, Professor Fredric Schiffer of Harvard University published his findings about the binary functions of the mind and opened an exciting new frontier of human nature.
There is, of course, a valid reason that anything that has to do with the invisible aspects of the human mind is approached with caution. For every respectable parapsychologist there are many others whose actions discredit the intangible realm, behind matter.

To begin with, let's define the object of this consideration:
The word psychic describes anything in connection with the psyche. This word dates back to ancient times when a goddess by the name of Psyche was in charge of the invisible but essential part of human existence. Over time the word and its meaning evolved and presently the thesaurus offers the following synonyms:
Mind, soul, self, subconscious, spirit, subliminal self, inner self, ego and individuality.
These words have wide range of meanings and, therefore, it makes sense not to use them in the context of this article. Instead, a definition of the source of psychic phenomena will be presented thereby establishing a clear conceptual basis these phenomena can be referenced to.

There are two types of energy:

The energy of matter and the energy behind matter, which religion calls the spiritual energy and science calls the energy of the quantum vacuum.
The energy of matter oscillates between the stages of energy and of matter. In a movie consecutive frames give the impression of continued action, which progresses with each frame. The succession of matter phases marks the change, which was achieved in the energy phase and expresses it in a material dimension of width, height and length. The progression of matter phases creates time, the fourth dimension of matter.

The energy behind matter is very different from the energy of matter. It always remains energy and, therefore, does not constitute space or time. In this realm of pure energy everything is interrelated. Most importantly, these energies can be programmed and they determine what happens in consecutive matter phases like software determines how a computer operates. For simplicity's reason let's call these the spiritual energies.

Any kind of change for matter happens in its energy phase. Were the oscillation of matter to stop in a matter phase everything would stop dead at this instance. For instance, when a body moves the displacement takes place in the energy phases and matter follows energy's lead in consecutive matter phases thus expressing the movement, which has taken place in the preceding energy phases.
For movement to take place a command has to be issued. The processes that determine what matter has to do take place in the spiritual energies, which give the appropriate command to the matter energies. These perform according to these commands and in the ensuing matter phases this performance is expressed by whatever kind of action the energies of matter took.

For instance, someone thinks that he wants to go to the refrigerator. First comes the thought in his spiritual energies. This thought issues a command to the energies of matter, which then progress towards the refrigerator. The movement of the energies of matter is expressed in consecutive matter phases as this someone walks to the refrigerator.

From the above it is clear that every moment of a person's life involves spiritual activity. Without the directions given to a person by the energies behind matter - the spiritual energies - nothing can happen in the realm of matter. Considering this it is logical to call these energies the spirit of a person. This means that from all the names given to these energies in the thesaurus "spirit" is the correct one.

The way Professor Schiffer explains the difference between the left - the conscious - and the right side - the unconscious - of the brain it is clear that these two halves are designed like a biological computer. The conscious corresponds to the processor and the working memory, the unconscious corresponds to a hard drive i.e. memory storage. Consequently, every person has two minds. Together these constitute a personality.

This opens a very interesting possibility. The conscious minds puts data into the unconscious mind with thoughts, words and actions. This data is stored and retrieved when a situation arises that it can be used. If such data is used to make the conscious mind do something specific on a specific occasion then this works like a computer program that makes a computer perform a certain task. Consequently, a person can program himself/herself with an easy trick: one just has to talk to oneself as a second person. To make a New Year resolution stick one should not say: next year I'll do this and I won't do that. We all know that does not work too well. Instead one should address oneself on a first name basis and say, for instance, "next year, Joe, you do this and don't do that". That programs one's own subconscious and a New Year resolution made this way has a good chance to succeed.

Since it has no memory the conscious mind is blank at the time of birth. All of its skills have to be learned and developed as a person grows up. The unconscious mind is the spirit of a person and it contains all the data put in during all previous lifetimes. It consists of spiritual energies or energies of the quantum vacuum as they are called, as well. Such energies are all interconnected and, therefore, a person who can use his/her right side of the brain to tune into this type of energies can extract information from or make use of these energies.

With its access to memories of previous lifetimes the unconscious mind also has access to a vast reservoir of previous experiences from which the conscious mind can draw if it pays attention to feelings and hunches etc. because the unconscious mind cannot talk, it just transmits images or feelings. Every time the conscious mind thinks or plans the unconscious mind checks on the information stored in its energies and issues responses in form of feelings and images. As this check is done by spiritual energies the information is provided instantly as in the spiritual realm time does not exist.

For instance, someone nearly drowned at some point of time in the present or a previous lifetime. Such person's subconscious will issue a warning not to get too close to any kind of water deep enough to be dangerous. This person will feel uncomfortable whenever he/she gets close to open water. A general term for this kind of warnings if it is too strong is psychosis and the job of psychotherapist is to uncover the hidden reasons for this situation. Once these are detected the psychotherapist can "talk the person out" of his/her anxieties i.e. reprogram the unconscious energies.

Everybody is a spiritual person for spirituality is the basis of life itself. Even though the words "spiritual" and "psychic" by our definition mean the same a psychic person is thought to be someone with special gifts or powers. Such person has abilities a normal "spiritual" person does not have. He/she can use his/her right side of the brain, to provide insights in or to establish connections with the spiritual realm and interpret the findings. Hence, we are not talking of spiritual but of psychic phenomena.

The term "psychic" is applied to a wide range of abilities and situations. To facilitate understanding categories of psychic phenomena are presented, which sum up the ones that are related. In each category the ones that are closely related are grouped together.



ESP = Extra Sensory Perception ( go there )

- Telepathy
- Tele-empathy

- Clairvoyance
- Precognition
- Premonition

- Remote Viewing
- Psychometry
- Psi detectives

- Dowsing
- Earth Radiation

- Deja Vu
- Psychic archaeology


Altered States of Consciousness ( go there )

- OBE - out of body experience
- Near Death Experience
- Dreams
- Psychic Dreams
-Hallucinations

- Hypnosis
Powers of the Mind ( go there )

- Telekinesis = Psychokinesis
- Levitation
- Teleportation

- Psychic healing
- Influencing plants
- Influencing weather
Psi Manifestations ( go there )

- Prophesies
- Divination - auguri
- Oracles

- The pendulum
- Reading cards

- Automatic writing
- Quija board

- TV Psychics
- Communication with animals

- Trance mediums
- Spirit doctors

- Psychic photography
- Psychic audio contacts
- Hauntings
- Poltergeists
Death and Re-incarnation ( go there )

Between the various psychic phenomena differences though substantial can be subtle. To facilitate understanding I am going to add examples to the descriptions given for each one of the above mentioned phenomena. - It is my opinion that in every family someone at some point of time has experienced some kind of unusual psychic event, a psychic phenomenon. To prove my point, I am going to give examples that happened to members of my family and to close friends.



ESP = Extrasensory Perception





Telepathy

Telepathy is the communication between two or more partners without spoken words. It is the transmission of thoughts and can consist of words, images, feelings, etc. This is similar to a two-way radio. Communication can take place between living beings or between a living person and a spiritual entity.

My wife was born in Yugoslavia and spent the first years of her life during WW2 in the area, which now is the border between Croatia and Serbia, formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. My wife's family had received a huge territory as a grant by the Austrian Emperor for valuable services rendered to the Empire and had settled there.

During the later years of WW2 partisans challenged the German occupation. One especially dangerous aspect of this conflict were landmines. Because the situation was so dangerous my wife had a bodyguard of her own. One day strolling hand in hand with this soldier over fields considered being safe her bodyguard stepped on a landmine. The force of the explosion threw the little girl on a haystack. When she regained consciousness she still was holding this man's hand but this was all that was left of him.

The little girl was unharmed but her eardrums were pierced by the force of the explosion and it took many months until her hearing came back; it is impaired to this day. She couldn't hear and she wouldn't speak. During these silent months as in retrospect she calls them something dramatic happened. Her father had been a prisoner of war in WW1 and had been sent to Siberia. He escaped and walked on foot from Wladiwostok to India where he had contacts with suppliers for the family factories. It took three years for this epic journey. On his way he learned to speak Chinese and he learned about the culture and religions of the peoples he encountered. Her also learned about direct communication between minds, telepathy.

When the little girl had recovered from the shock she noticed that her father's thoughts materialized in her mind. With a little practice she learned to communicate with him without words. This proved to be invaluable later when the family had to leave the castle and fled to Austria. The family took refuge in a farmhouse in a remote location. There was no phone and the only contact with her father was by telepathy. Through these contacts my wife was able to tell her father where the family was and eventually he was able to join them.

Telepathic communication can also take place between a living person and the spirit of a person who lived before. - My father died shortly before I moved to Vienna to study. The change was dramatic and very hard for me. In my home village I had a special position as the son of the Maire and of one of the leading politician of our province. In Vienna I was a nobody and a poor one at that. My father had died shortly before the move and in postwar Austria there had been no occasion to make money. - The Nazis had taken everything as my father was considered an enemy of the party.

I soon developed severe depressions and became dangerously suicidal. Then, one night, my father appeared in my dreams. From then on he talked with me many times and this helped me a lot even though I did not understand what went on because I knew that my father had died. Over time as I got better the contacts became scarcer and ultimately stopped altogether, when I was all right.

Tele-empathy

When someone feels the physical pain or the mental and emotional situation of somebody else this is called tele-empathy. - When I visited a friend in Atlanta I had a bad heart attack. The test showed that my arteries were dangerously clogged and I had to undergo a quadruple bye-pass surgery. The second day after surgery my wife was allowed to talk to me on the phone. She was relieved that the surgery was successful but she had question. My wife and I are very close so she understood that she had these terrible pains in her chest. She wondered, though, why her legs below the knees were swollen and hurt badly. - As my arteries had been clogged very badly the surgeons had taken blood vessels from both my legs all the way from the knees to the ankles and transplanted them to my heart.
My legs were swollen and hurt very badly.

Feeling someone else's emotions or mental state is the most common form of a psychic phenomenon. Twins frequently are so closely connected that they feel each other's emotions whenever something out of the ordinary happens. The same situation can exist between a mother and her child or between lovers. But this also happens on a daily basis when people sense someone else's mood or emotions when they meet, talk on the phone or just think of someone.

Clairvoyance

This French word means "clear seeing". Clairvoyance is the ability of a person to "clearly see" present or future events or situations at will. The best clairvoyant alive probably is my friend Rosalinde Haller, the foremost psychic in the German speaking world. The range of her work is truly amazing. She has her own TV and radio shows and makes predictions on those shows, which put her reputation at risk many a times. - She always is right! Here are a few examples:

Several years ago snowfall in Western Austria was unusually heavy. During her TV show a caller from that area asked whether there was increased danger of avalanches and, if so, where. Rosalinde paused for a moment, then she said: "The valley of Paznaun is in grave danger. It should be evacuated immediately". The valley was not evacuated and four days later a major avalanche killed 34 people.

On another show she was asked what the result of next days world champion soccer match would be for Austria. She predicted the minute the goals would be scored, the circumstances and the outcome. She was right on.

During one of my visits to Austria Rosalinde called and invited me to go with her to Lake Woerthersee in Carinthia over the weekend. She picked me up in a brand new Porsche she said the company had put at her disposition so she would get a feeling for the product. She was to conduct a seminar for this company's top management and to advise them which marketing strategies would be the right ones for this brand new product.

There is no speed limit on Austria's autobahn and Rosalinde proved she is a fast lady. Cruising at 120 mph she noticed my apprehension. - On the island where I live the speed limit is 30 mph. - She said she knew nothing bad would happen to me so she dared to really take the car to its limits. Again she was right. We had no accident but my nerves took while to recover.

Precognition

Precognition can happen to anyone. It does not require a special talent. Usually it pinpoints a dramatic event in someone's own life or in the life of a loved one. - Heidi was my wife's best friend. When she got married she moved to Germany where her husband had been offered a top management position. Heidi used to phone at least once a month to keep the contact alive. In one of those calls she was terrified. She had a vision of a crowd of people standing next to a streetcar. Next to the streetcar a woman was lying on the ground her left leg severed below the knee. Then she realized that she was that woman. - Several weeks later she called from a hospital. She had seen her own accident and she really had lost the lower part of her left leg.

Premonition

A premonition is a feeling about something to happen in a specific way without any details given. For instance, at an intersection one has the feeling that a car is coming even though one does not see it because something is obstructing the view - and there really is a car. There are long term premonitions, as well, and here is an example.

When my mother was 56 she came down with a severe pneumonia. She survived but from then on her health was not good. She knew we were worried about her but she always said: "don't worry. I'll live to be seventy." She never said why living to seventy years of age should be her life's goal. Several weeks before her seventieth birthday she contracted pneumonia again and had to be hospitalized. We usually visited on Sundays and so we came three days after her birthday. The nurses told us that on her birthday she had looked so bad that a priest had been called to give her the last rites. Nonetheless, she survived.

Mother did not look good. She took about 3 minutes to come to herself. As I was sitting on her bed she squeezed my hand and with a happy smile she said: "I made it"! Next morning the call came from the hospital. The nurse was upset not so much that my mother had died that night; that did not come unexpected. Before going to bed she usually took her false teeth out. The evening before she died she did not do that and her roommate inquired why. Mother said: "tonight I am gong to meet my husband and he is not supposed to see me without teeth." Her roommate knew that my father had died many years before and she got really scared because she thought my mother had gone mad. Very much to my mother's relief the woman was moved out of the room because, as she said: "tonight I want to be alone". - Mother's long term premonition of living to seventy was as accurate as was her short-term premonition about dying that night.

Remote viewing

When a person sees an event, a location or a situation getting images in his/her mind this is called remote viewing. - During WW2 my sister had to work in Germany. Surprisingly, one day she came home dressed in black, the color of mourning in Austria, her eyes red and swollen from crying. She claimed she had a vision of our brother Ernest killed in battle and she had come home to give support to mother. Next day the letter came with the terrible news.

My sister's husband served in the German military in Russia where casualty rate was very high. When the war was over she claimed he was imprisoned in Russia. She gave a precise description of the abandoned factory, where he was kept with thousands of other POWs. My sister said he had lost a lot of weight but he was all right. She was sure he would come home. - My sister's husband was one of the few who came out of this prison camp alive. He confirmed every detail of her description of his place of captivity.

During a lengthy period the US Government conducted experiments of Remote viewing. People were giving some information and then tried to psychically link to the object or person they were supposed to contact. I saw a TV movie about this activity and it seems that viewing inanimate objects remotely does not really bring very good results. Remote viewing of a hostage, for instance, brought better results but it seems that these could not help enough to justify the continuation of this remote viewers unit.

Psychometry and PSI detective work

Psychometry is similar to remote viewing. It happens when a psychic touches an object and receives images or visions; in this case the psychic needs a "trigger". A good example is a popular TV show called "The Dead Zone". When the psychic touches a person or an object he has visions, which can show circumstances of a crime, all kind of future events or relationships a person has had and the like. In this TV show as in real life people with this gift work together with the police to do Psi detective work, which has brought amazing results in many criminal cases.

Psychics working with the police often are able to describe how a murder happened, the location of the victim's body or can provide descriptions of the perpetrator. It has to be noted, though, that in this case remote viewing and Psychometry are just part of a psychic's arsenal. Frequently, a psychic receives further information, which leads to solving a crime, by telepathic impulses that can range from "feelings" to clear verbal messages.

Dowsing

People sensitive to radiation emanating from the Earth are quite common. Some become dowsers. Holding a forked twig or a similarly shaped metal instrument with both hands the dowser slowly walks over the area he/she is checking. When Earth radiation is met the instruments either bends down or up. Usually, dowsers look for water but they also can look for metals. Remote dowsing can be done with the help of a pendulum.

When I was a young boy I lived in a little resort village in Austria. Our neighbor wanted to drill a well and he called in a dowser. This was a big event and the entire neighborhood was watching. My sister was very skeptical and she made no secret of it. When the dowser hit a promising spot he invited my sister to give it a try. When she approached that spot the twig bent up forcefully full turn and hit her hard on the chest. She was convinced this was a sign she shouldn't mess with such weird things and never gave dowsing a try again.
Earth radiation

Each spectator gave it a try and several had similar reactions though to a lesser degree. I was one of them. When the dowser told me with dowsing I could locate radiation that had a bad influence on living organisms and could disturb someone's sleep I was hooked. I had been plagued by bad dreams as long as I could think back. Sometimes I had fights in my sleep and woke up with my knuckles bloody from hitting the walls instead of an adversary in an imagined fistfight. Checking my bed for bad radiation I found two veins crossing right where I rested my head. From then on I slept with my head on the other side of the bed and the nightmares never came back.

Dowsing can be done remotely with a pendulum. - Several years ago I met a Swiss national, Sigi, who lived on a catamaran. He had owned a factory for devices using radiation to measure and find things. Such devices come in handy when you look for gold. Sigi was retired and his hobby was treasure hunting. Back in Zurich he had a friend who used a pendulum to locate hidden treasures no matter where they were. Sigi provided maps of islands in the Caribbean where treasures might be hidden. His friend put the pendulum over the map and it showed the location of a treasure.

It really surprised me that with this method Sigi had indeed found 64 kilogram of gold. With the money from this find he bought himself a beautiful new catamaran and every conceivable tool to find even more gold. Regrettably, when he left to continue his quest for untold riches he would not take me with him.

Deja Vu

Déjà vu is very common and I don't know anyone who didn't have at least one such experience. The words are French and mean "already seen". Usually someone comes to a place he/she has never been before and knows it.

As a young woman my wife spent some time in Paris. One day she was invited to a friend's place. When she entered the house she was shocked how familiar it looked to her, just as she had been there before. She felt she really knew the house, which had been the home of the same aristocratic family dating back to a time before the French Revolution. When her friend lead her into the living room all the members of his family were gathered in front of the painting of a young woman who looked exactly like my wife. She was an ancestor of this family who had lost her life on the guillotine.

Déjà vu also happens with people. We all have met someone who gave the impression that he/she was a long lost friend found again. Love at first sight - the French call it "le coup de foudre" and it means the lightning strike - is a phenomenon, which happens when people who were in love in a former lifetime meet again. - When I met my clairvoyant friend Rosalinde Haller for the first time she didn't even say hello. She just looked at me and said: "it's about time we met. I missed you."

I am very interested in archaeology. During my stay on the peninsula of Yucatan I visited Chichen Itza, formerly a center of Mayan culture. The pyramid of Kukulkan attracted me like magic and when I went through the narrow passages inside I wondered why stones still blocked one passage. When I asked the tour guide about it, he said nobody knew about another passage.

Later we came to a house and I went inside. It looked very familiar to me and, suddenly, I saw the room painted in bright colors. There were lights and I could see the painted scenes in every little detail. The vision went as fast as it had come. When I asked the tour guide about the house, he said this had been the house of Kukulkan.

Psychic Archaeology

Psychic archaeology probably is a mixture of dowsing and déjà vu. Everything emits radiation and spiritual - psychic - energies. Buried remnants of times long gone by still have energies attached and people who lived in those remote times sense them. Archaeologists usually have special fields of interest and these take them back to places where they lived before. Their "feelings" lead them to the right places and to discoveries probably no one else could make. The German archaeologist Schlieman is a very good example. He was fascinated with everything Greek; he even married a Greek woman. His quest for the city of Troy led him to the right place. His "feeling" for the place made him find treasures nobody thought existed.



Altered States of Consciousness





NDE - Near Death Experiences

Near death experiences happen, when the spiritual entity leaves the matter body, which has been subjected to extreme stress by an accident, surgery or the like. There are several stages of separation from the body. If it happens during surgical procedures, as long as the body is alive the spiritual entity floats under the ceiling and watches what's going on. During this period the entity feels no pain and usually there is a peaceful feeling. If life is to continue in the matter body at some point of time the entity enters the matter body again. When consciousness returns pain is felt again.

In the next stage the entity is pulled through a tunnel toward a light - the expression "light at the end of the tunnel" refers to this situation. - Upon exiting the tunnel the entity meets other entities, usually relatives or friends who passed on earlier. These are very supportive and help the entity to understand what's going on. This is as far as a near death experience can go. Ultimately, the entity is told that his/her time to die has not come yet and then returns into the matter body.

The symptoms of a near death experience can also be activated by intentionally induced extreme stress, for instance, by very high g forces in a jet fighter or by this centrifuge type training device, which also produces very high g values. This does not mean that near death experiences are not genuine. It just means that there is a spiritual mechanism, which is activated as soon as a person approaches the threshold of death.

On rare occasions, persons who had a near death experience report having been to a terrible place where horrendous suffering was going on. One should think that people who went through this terrible ordeal believe that they had been in hell. Therefore, many probably won't talk about such an experience. Only few are ready to admit that they did not qualify for the good place.

OBE - Out of Body Experiences

Initially are the same as the first phase of a near death experience. The spiritual entity leaves and floats above the body. This does not require a stressful situation like surgery and can happen any time day or night from sleep or waking state. Some induce OBEs with drugs; others don't need anything to make it happen.
During reconstruction after hurricane George a 2x4 plank fell on my wife's head. She was unconscious for a little while and woke up with a terrible headache. An MRI showed no injuries of the brain. Nonetheless, in the weeks and months following the accident my wife a number of Out-of-Body Experiences. These could happen at any time of day or night without any apparent reason. Suddenly, she would find herself floating under the ceiling looking down on her body, which usually was comfortably stretched out in her favorite recliner. Initially, this came as a great shock to her because she thought she was dying.

As she got used to this experience she started floating through the entire house. She found herself always right under the ceiling and she was gliding through the walls as if they were not there. She kept this her secret until one day she came storming into the kitchen very angry. I had a chat with my daughter about her and we expressed our concerns about her behavior, which sometimes was quite irritable after the accident. She proved that we were right and this way we found out that she had been floating under the ceiling listening to everything we talked about. When she got real angry she found herself back in her body and went to the kitchen to give us a piece of her mind.

Finding out about her OBEs explained the behavior of our animals that evidently knew about it. I thought my wife was sleeping in her favorite chair and three cats and our three dogs were around her. It was always the same configuration. The two male dogs were lying to the left and right and the female was in front of the chair. One male cat was nibbling on her little finger, the female was kneading her solar plexus and the second male cat was pushing his head against her chin. Then I remembered that Cindy, the female cat who normally only walked very slowly as she was so fat, sometimes came running as fast as she could towards my wife's bedroom. Shortly afterwards the male cats and the dogs joined in. I realized that the animals sensed when my wife was out of body and called her back. My wife confirmed that the animals repeatedly had made her go back in her body when she had been floating overhead. - As time went by the headaches stopped and so did the OBEs.

Dreams

Humans, animals, everybody dreams. There are several stages of sleep and in the rem stage -rapid eye movements - dreams interrupt the otherwise quiet rest. There are many kinds of dreams. Some people dream in color others only in black and white. There are beautiful dreams and then there are nightmares. Basically, dreams are the sign that the right half of the brain, which processes the unconscious, is sorting out data.

The unconscious cannot make a difference between reality and dream event and this is extremely important. Consequently, negative spiritual patterns the unconscious considers to be too threatening to have them lived out in real life can be lived out in dreams. Dreams is also the unconscious' way to warn the conscious of imminent dangers or foretell an important event. As it only can convey images and feelings a dream is the one way the unconscious can express itself.

There was a time in my life when I had a recurring dream of the car breaks failing. When I had the car checked out the front disk brake on the left side was broken. The mechanic told me that I was extremely lucky to have come in time. Driving on steep hills and winding roads at that time I could have had a very serious accident. - When I was a young man I had a recurring dream about a very pretty girl. I had no idea who she was until I met her. She was my special friend for several years.

Psychic Dreams

There was a time in my life when I frequently had very intense dreams. I never was floating under the ceiling but I was flying sometimes at great speed. It was a wonderful feeling of freedom. I could be at a party with people I had never seen before. They saw me and would carry on a conversation. Then I thought how nice it would be to visit my niece in Vienna. The next moment I was there in her apartment but she did not see me and she did not hear what I said. In retrospect, I never felt a separation from my matter body like my wife did when she had her OBEs. Therefore, I believe my experiences were psychic dreams and not real OBEs.

My last psychic dream had me flying over a strange landscape. I had the vague feeling I knew the hills but the trees were completely stripped of leaves and the branches were all broken at the end. It was a weird experience, which upset me. When I flew down a hill and tried to fly up a hill on the other side of the valley I crashed. This was the last flying dream I had. - One week later hurricane Hugo devastated the island. It took several days to clear the debris. When we drove to the supermarket I found and recognized the landscape I had seen in my last psychic dream. The scenery on St. Peter Mountain road was exactly what I had seen a week earlier. I had not seen the future; I had been in it!
Hallucinations

When somebody sees things that are not real or are not there it is said he/she is hallucinating. Mostly this happens when someone is ill and has high fever or is on drugs. Hallucinations can be friendly but they also can be unspeakable horror. For the hallucinating person reality is altered, as is the state of consciousness.

Hallucinations are intense psychic events originating from the subconscious mind, the spirit. Fears, phobias or events of past lifetimes stored in the spirit's subconscious memories replace the conscious mind with an "unreal" reality. Sedation is the most effective means of counteracting the sometimes terrifying hallucinations as the hallucinating person rarely is able to respond to advice. Hallucinations can be a serious threat to a person's physical or mental health and should be treated by a health professional trained to deal with such matters.

In summer of 1999 I had two brain surgeries. The first one had to be stopped because of excessive bleeding. In between procedures I was in intensive care. Four days after the second surgery I flew to Atlanta to stay with friends. In retrospect I must say I don't understand the physician who said it would be all right for me to fly this soon after surgery. Within a week I got horrible headaches and was rushed to a hospital. I was hallucinating. Most remarkably, I fluently spoke in a language nobody ever had heard. The diagnosis was meningitis and I had contracted it during my stay at the intensive care unit. It was a close call but I survived. - I still dimly remember that my hallucinations were about encounters with dinosaurs.

Hypnosis

In hypnosis someone, the hypnotist, superimposes own commands on the hypnotized person's will. The hypnotist is in complete control and can make the hypnotized person perform anything he/she wants as long as the commands don't run against a barrier strong enough to oppose the hypnotists' commands. For instance, it is easy to make a hypnotized person dance. It is a totally different situation should the hypnotist demand that the hypnotized person commits murder. In this case the hypnotist's demand can be refused if the hypnotized person has strong enough convictions against violence and taking someone else's life.

Hypnosis has been used since ancient times. In fact, Hypnos was the god of sleep in ancient Greece. Therefore, one could say that a person's own will is put to sleep by hypnosis. Over time, hypnosis has been used for many different purposes. It is most effective when regression to past events is necessary to access memories the conscious mind is not aware of. Regression under hypnosis mostly reaches events of the present lifetime. But there are reports that regression under hypnosis was successful going back to previous lifetimes.

Hypnosis can be used to gain unfair advantages over the hypnotized person especially if post-hypnotic commands are implanted in the hypnotized person's mind before he/she is awoken from the hypnotic state. Therefore, hypnosis has a somewhat mixed track record and it is not generally appreciated as a means of treating patients medically. Also, it is easy for the hypnotist to influence the hypnotized person in order to obtain a specific result. Nonetheless, hypnosis has been found to be very useful for many purposes. It can be a valuable help if used conscientiously, for instance, when a witness in a police investigation can be made to remember details like a license plate number, which had slipped into his unconscious memory.


Powers of the Mind





Levitation

Hawaiian folklore tells of a time when little men, the hunas, were flying through the air in crafts and transported huge stones that floated in the air below without any sign of physical connection. At first sight this sounds too fantastic to be true. It tells us, however, that someone was using levitation to transport heavy loads.

More than 50,000 megaliths, some weighing 50 to a hundred tons, are found all over the planet. The trilithon at Balbeek in Lebanon consists of three stone slabs weighing an estimated 1000 tons each. In Tihuanaco stone blocks of up to 400 tons can be found. The Egyptians erected obelisks weighing up to 400 tons. Contemporary heavy construction equipment could not handle such weight. The only logical explanation is that these extremely heavy stone blocks were moved by levitation.

The conventional way of lifting things is by applying physical force. Levitation uses a different approach. Motion takes place in the energy phase anyway so it makes a lot of sense to make something move its energy phase when the object is weightless. If the energy of matter is moved it takes energy to make this move. Spiritual energies determine what the energies of matter have to do. This means that applying spiritual energies can make the energies of matter issue a specific command and this command in turn makes matter move as told. The question is, how strong must such spiritual energies be, how are they applied and who can do that?

In ancient times gods were everywhere. Frequently they are shown with headgear that varied considerably from god to god. Experiments with psychotronic devices have shown that such devices enhance even the modest psychic abilities of humans. The spiritual powers of the gods were awesome and these devices enhanced their powerful minds to a degree that they were able to make super heavy stones weightless. They were able to levitate the megaliths and this explains why in the world before using huge stones was the preferred building method, which disappeared with the gods of ancient times.

Telekinesis

To levitate something spiritual energy has to be applied to the energy of matter of the object to be levitated. This process is called tele-kinesis. Some call it psycho-kinesis. Both words are correct. The words have their routs in the Greek language. Kinesis stands for the application of energy; tele stands for distance and psycho stands for mind or spirit. Therefore, telekinesis means the application of energy from a distance and psychokinesis means the application of energy of the mind or spirit. Consequently, the correct word would be tele-psycho-kinesis, the application of mind power from a distance.

Teleportation

Teleportation is the transport of something through the quantum vacuum to a different location. As this happens in a realm where there is no space and no time this process is instant. Someone with sufficient spiritual prowess can teleport himself to a different location or can move an object this way. Teleportation can also be done with the help of a device capable of issuing the right commands to the energies of matter of the object to be moved. - Such experiments on a modest scale were successfully conducted at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Psychic Healing

The most powerful psychic healer of all times was Jesus of Nazareth. It is reported that his touching the sick person was enough to heal them. His input of energy into the sick person's energy reprogrammed this person's spirit to a healthy status. Since in the realm of energies there is no time healing was instant.

The power of prayer can heal. The spiritual energies of the ones praying are directed towards the sick person and strengthen this person's energies. Critical for the success is the amount of energy needed to turn the illness around. If the energy created by prayer is strong enough healing will ensue. Therefore, it makes sense when a religious community unites its efforts thereby creating more energy to support the healing process.
Influencing Plants

Some people are said to have "a green thumb". The plants they care for are healthy and grow big. Rumor has it that talking to plants helps and my wife talks a lot to everybody and everything. - My wife can grow anything. When we moved to a friend's house on a cliff towering over the Caribbean Sea the garden was a bone-dry dusty wasteland. Our friend intended to put gravel on it so it would look better. My wife persuaded him not to do that because she wanted to see what she could do.
We were to stay just for a year but when we left the garden had lush green grass and beautiful tropical plants all over the place. The one palm tree that had been on the verge of extinction when we came had strong healthy leaves and had grown to nearly double its height. - Our friend could not believe his eyes. Three months after we had left more than half the plants had died, the grass showed large empty patches and the lone palm tree had lost more than half of its leaves. Our friend was very upset because he had cared for his garden exactly as my wife told him she had.

My wife really does talk to plants. It sounds improbable but I think she had developed a personal relationship with every one of them. When we left she told me she had the feeling that she was abandoning friends who were very sad that she had to go.

Influencing Weather

There are parts of this world where people know how to influence the weather. The Kahunas on the island chain of Hawaii are such people whose secret knowledge and the ability to influence weather have been acknowledged even by Westerners who not readily accept such a possibility. In ancient Sumeria the king and the high priestess performed spring rites every year to make sure the weather during the planting season would be good and the crops would be plentiful. Allegedly, they sealed the rites with sex.

Christians pray for good weather. In the Virgin Islands there is Hurricane Supplication day, one of many local government holidays and this is supposed to unite the spiritual strength of the island community to keep hurricanes away from the island during the upcoming storm season. That did not work well in 1995 and 1996 when the eyes of two devastating hurricanes went over the island within 9 months. Since then several hurricanes took course on the island but somehow avoided it after all. Did the horror of the first two storms intensify the islanders' prayers?



Psi manifestations





Prophecies

Prophets make predictions about future events. The best example how prophecy works is Edgar Caicy, the sleeping prophet, because he illustrates that prophesies, if genuine, do not originate in the prophet's own mind. Whether sleeping or awake prophets receive information, which they pass on as prophecies. The source of this information is an intelligent unseen entity, a spirit, transmitting to the prophet's spirit whatever it is interested to let the prophet and through him other people know.

The prophets of the Old Testament predicted the coming of a Messiah and related topics. Nostradamus predicted a wide variety of events. A contemporary prophet predicted the assassination of President Kennedy. Over time many prophecies were made and many of them did not come true. The problem really is that it is impossible to know whether a prophecy is genuine or just a tool someone uses to make his point. Therefore, prophecies only can be trusted if they come from a prophet with a proven track record like Nostradamus or when the event they predicted has happened.

Divination

Divination is reading signs by an "initiated" found in divers media, for instance, in tealeaves and the entrails of domestic life stock. Before the Roman army went into battle the auguri, descendants of the Etruscans who were knew how to read the liver and entrails of slaughtered animals, predicted the outcome of the imminent battle. It was tradition to always predict a Roman victory. There are no records what happened to the auguri when a battle was lost.

Oracles

Contrary to prophecies Oracles provide answers to specific questions. The most famous was the Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece, which was the shrine of the god Apollo. A priestess, the Pythia, inhaled vapors emanating from fissures in the earth. That got her into a trance like or semi hypnotic stage and then she answered questions. These answers often were so cryptic that special priests had to figure out what they meant. Nonetheless, throughout antiquity many important people sought the oracle's advice and sometimes this really backfired. There was this king who asked the oracle whether it was the right time to attack the neighboring kingdom. He was told that if he attacked he would destroy a mighty kingdom. The king attacked and lost. The kingdom he destroyed was his own.

Summing up one can state that prophecies, divinations and oracles are frequently unreliable. Nonetheless, they can provide valuable information if the source is proven to be genuine.

The Pendulum

The pendulum can be any small object on a string, that someone holds with two fingers. A ring works fine but an expert I met who is doing most amazing things uses a special arrow shaped epoxy device. The pendulum is as good as the one who uses it.

My sister somehow found out about the pendulum and from then on she used it to get yes or no answers to all the questions concerning her and her children. It worked amazingly well. Sigi, a Swiss treasure hunter who showed up on the island several years ago had a "pendler" back home locate a gold treasure on the map of a Caribbean island. He found 64 kilos of gold, a value of roughly one million dollars.

Sigi was retired. He used to be the owner of the world's largest factory for radiation measuring instruments. He was in contact with the retired director of Germany's state institute for radiation measurements. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Prof. Chris joined Sigi on the island and he was the top expert using the pendulum for just about anything. The many-titled Chris cured my backache and he cured a lady living on a boat from her crippling arthritis. When he hit the corner of a glass table with his shin within several minutes he not only made the swelling disappear; he also closed the nasty gash.

Sigi and Chris conducted experiments on my porch to see whether there was any gold on the island. The reaction was very promising. Then we drove several miles away to triangulate the exact location. Again the pendulum showed a very strong reaction and it really found the exact location of all that gold: main street on St. Thomas with possibly the biggest concentration of jewelry stores in the world. - Next day the two old timers sailed into the sunrise towards fabulous riches pirates and Spanish deserters for sure had buried somewhere on neighboring islands. Chris and his pendulum were ready for action.

Reading Cards

Reading cards is probably the most popular methods to find out "things". - Rosine was from Paris, France. She claimed she was the best left over cook in the world, which actually could have been true. She also was very good at reading the cards. As accurate as her readings were they only could give information about the present and a maximum of three days into the future.

During a stay in Vienna, Austria, I visited a New Age fair. There I met and consulted a card reader. I know a lot about psychic matters but this man surprised even me. He was able to give precise information about important events and situations in my past, which decided future situations and events to come. His predictions went far into the future not only for me but also for my wife. Shortly before meeting him I had consulted my friend, the clairvoyant Rosalinde Haller, who had given me valuable information. This man confirmed her predictions but he was able to provide details Rosalinde could not give me. The cards as one says "were speaking clearly". - Several years have passed since this encounter and as much as I remember his predictions they all have come true.

The cards are a means to establish contact with the spiritual energies, which store the memories of things past and the programs of things to come. With their diversity they enable the reader to explain their meaning in great detail. There are no limitations in the information available; only the talent and abilities of the reader determine how much can be read.

Automatic Writing

In automatic writing a spiritual entity guides the hand of a living person. It is easily recognized as such because the handwriting is different and the living person does not know the information conveyed. - When we moved to the US my wife had to go back to Vienna to wrap things up. It was a very stressful time and the telepathic contact she had had with her father since childhood could not be established.

One evening she was very distressed and thought how much she would need her father's advice. Suddenly, her right hand lifted slightly from the table and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. Then the hand started writing in her father's handwriting. My wife was too flabbergasted to even think anything so she let this happen. Her father wrote that she was too nervous to be able to communicate telepathically but from now on whenever she had a question she just would have to think it and he would reply in writing.
After my wife returned to the US she was able to communicate this way with other spiritual entities, as well. For a while she spent many hours a week writing but, eventually, she lost interest and it stopped. - Automatic writing can also be done using a typewriter or a computer.

It is estimated that more than 50,000 people use a Quija board every day in the US. This board has written on it the letters of the alphabet as well as the numbers up to nine. Two people who place their fingers lightly on it use a small device with a hole in the middle. With some luck a spiritual entity makes contact and using the energy of the participants spells out a message. It takes some practice to get results but eventually communication can be quite fluent.

The Quija Board

The Quija board has a bad reputation because negative spiritual entities can easily contact anyone who is using the board. Like the living they can scare people and lie and mislead them. It is quite easy to avoid unpleasant incidents. Animals sense the presence of negative energies and get scared or aggressive. It should be a standard opening to ask whether a spirit is positive or negative because the spirit has to answer with the truth. If a negative spirit is present it is advisable to tell him/her to go away. This usually does the job because the energies of the living are much stronger than the spirit. Telling a spirit to get lost has an immediate effect because this is a spiritual command that places the spirits in a state of confusion and this they really fear.

We arrived in the US several days before Christmas. I felt I should get some more gifts for wife and daughter. The shelves were pretty much cleaned out but I chanced to see a box that had written Quija on it. We opened the presents at a friend's place and when she saw the box she told me that this was not child's play. When she said we better don't touch it my curiosity got the better of me. I asked my friend to teach me to use it and she graciously obliged.

When we came home we started right away using the board. My wife was not very interested and I had written down a lot of letters, which meant nothing to me, so we stopped after two hours. I thought this was time lost but when my wife looked at the letters she combined them into words. It was a message in Hungarian, which my wife speaks fluently. It addressed a problem we had and assured us that everything would be all right. The message was signed "Deak Ferenc" and my wife even knew that he had been the Prime Minister of Hungary after WW1. The spirit alleged that we had been friends in my former lifetime and that was the reason that he had had been able to come to talk to us.

Talking to spirits became our hobby and we had many interesting conversations until my wife lost interest in such contacts. By know she only has occasional contacts with her parents. Using the board can bring very interesting and entertaining hours but one should keep in mind that it is wise to use the above mentioned safeguards against negative spirits.
Psychic Readings

For several years "psychic shows" have been very popular on television. A psychic performs in front of an audience and establishes contact with a dead relative or friend of someone in the room. Usually a brief description is given of the circumstances accompanying the death of the person that now manifests itself as spirit. A simple message assures the awestruck audience that now everything is all right; the spirit sends his love and that's about it.

The psychic is not always right and some "fishing" can be needed to make the contact credible. Nonetheless, the audience loves these shows. Most importantly, people feel that the dead are not really dead and there is some kind of life after life. For the skeptic inside each person the performances usually have enough glitches to leave some doubt. People don't have to accept as irrefutable truth that there is a realm out there where spirits roam and who-knows-what might lurk to scare innocent minds.

As basic and simple as the contacts made during such a show are they fulfill a very important purpose: huge audiences are made aware that there is life after life. For Westerners this is an expansion of their belief system usually firmly engrained within the confinements of organized religion. These TV shows manage to spread the word in a way people are comfortable with and this is a great achievement.

There are psychics who establish contacts with dead relatives or friends in personal sessions. The quality of these readings depends entirely on the psychic's abilities and there are some that really are very good. They are able to communicate freely with relatives and friends who have passed over and they provide sometimes truly amazing details. Aside from the fact that these personal readings can bring better results over all they follow the same pattern as TV readings.
Communication with Animals
Communication with animals is presented in a new TV show on Animal Planet. A lady by the name of Sonya communicates with animals and spirits of animals. Sometimes when talking to animal spirits she also communicates with people spirits who mostly are relatives who passed over and who are with the animal spirits. - When talking with people spirits she is always right on the dot, which cannot be said by the other TV psychics. - She talks to every conceivable animal. Even though she talks mostly to cats and dogs she also talked on this show to alligators, birds, iguanas, lamas, horses and the list goes on and on and on….

The people whose pets communicated with Sonya comment on the contacts. It is truly amazing how accurate she is and how many details of the animals' lives' she uncovers. For instance, she tells what one animal said to another one. From this we can gather that animals communicate with each other telepathically. Moreover, people spirits and animal spirits being together tells us that in the afterlife contacts between people and animals seem to continue as they did during material life.

Animals understand want people think and talk about. Animals are worried about their humans' health and problems. A pet owner's partner in life, changes of partners, and changes of environment like a move strongly affect pets. - Out dog Sunny was getting very old. He had heartworms and arthritis really plagued him. At some point of time after he had another one of his heart worm attacks I suggested to my wife we should have put him to sleep so he would not suffer any more. I did not think anything of it but Sunny started to avoid me and he obviously was ill at ease in my company. When I saw Sonya's show I realized that Sunny was afraid I would have him put to sleep. So I told him that he was much better now and that he could stay with us as long as he lived. From then on Sunny slowly was getting to be the happy dog he was before. He died of natural causes lovingly taken care of by my wife in his last hours.

Trance Mediums

Trance sessions were very much in fashion during the earlier times of the last century.
A medium would fall in a trance and a spirit took over the mind of the medium. The spirit would talk with a different voice and was answering questions from the attendants to such sessions as done in today's psychic readings. There were some genuine trance mediums but, regrettably, many of the mediums were fakes who were ripping off believers.

The famous escape artist Houdini was very much interested to establish contact with the spirit of his mother. Being also a magician he knew the tricks many trance mediums used to fool their clients. He took it upon himself to expose their methods to the public. Before he died he agreed with his wife that she should conduct trance sessions to make contact with his spirit, which she tried for many years. It never worked.

Spirit Doctors

Spirit physicians and healers have been around since antiquity. Aesculaps, the famous Greek physician, invoked the assistance of spirits to enhance the effectiveness of his treatments. In the first half of the twentieth century a spirit physician working through Edgar Cayce, the so-called sleeping prophet, helped many people with his prescriptions and recommendations. For more than 50 years the spirit of a German doctor has done surgeries on thousands of people in Brazil. - A man with no medical training or knowledge suddenly started helping people doing the most astounding surgeries. When this man became too old to continue this work the German doctor's spirit recruited another man and continued his work.

Alleged psychic healing is often used to trick and to cheat people. The spirit healers of the Philippines doing fake surgeries have been exposed as frauds and this has happened to many others. Regrettably, these frauds give the whole field of psychic healing a bad name. Therefore, considering that peoples' health and wellbeing are at stake the track record and reputation of a psychic working with a spirit doctor should be carefully checked before consulting this person.

Psychic Photography

When on a photograph a "ghost" image appears this is called psychic photography.
Usually, there is a white shadow over part of the image but there are photographs when actual faces or complete figures of people show quite clearly. Normally, this is someone the one taking the photograph knows like a friend or relative who died but this is not always the case. This white shadow is called ectoplasm, which is an expression for the "ether" body of a spirit.

A long time ago I visited the "castle", a beautiful huge villa, on Skyline Drive on St. Thomas. My wife took several photographs and on some of them two shadowy white figures could be seen. When I talked to the castle's present owner he told me that this happens quite frequently. The two shadows are thought to be the spirits of the former owner of the castle and his special friend. - There are people who regularly can produce such pictures but normally these "ghost" images appear randomly.

Psychic Audio Communications

A birdwatcher in quiet rural countryside of Sweden spent some time recording the sounds of birds. Replaying the tapes he was surprised to hear voices of people, as well. He was even more surprised when he realized that these were the voices of spirits who told about the way they died and the conditions of spiritual existence they experienced. The spirits sounded distressed because they were experiencing quite unpleasant situations like they were freezing and there was no fire to warm them etc. The birdwatcher published his findings and since then many people recorded the sounds of spirit voices. It seems it can be done anywhere as long as the environment is absolutely quiet.

Haunting

Haunting commonly happens in old building with a history of violence or related events. Where I grew up there was a formidable castle, Schloss Forchtenstein. The ghost of a woman dressed in white has been seen many times. As the story goes she had been the wife of the knight who owned the castle. While he was away for a lengthy period of time his wife's reign of terror caused much suffering and cost many lives. To punish her he put her into a room on top of the tower overlooking the neighboring village. The door was taken out and the gap was filled with bricks. All that was left was a small opening for food and water. The cruel woman lasted no more than two years overlooking the village where so many of her victims had lived. After her death she was finally free to leave her prison. She has been seen ever since all over the castle scaring inhabitants and visitors alike.

Haunting happens when the spirit of a person remains attached to the place of death cannot leave. Such spirits can be harmless or they can be mischievous just as people can be while alive. Exorcism is meant to drive out mean spirits but this rarely works, as exorcists are not really familiar with the circumstances of spirit life. A radical but very effective approach so such a problem would be to burn the haunted house down. To tear down a house and to build a new one on the same location might prove to be a futile effort. A sensible approach to be tried first is not an exorcism but having a psychic talk to the spirit and tell him/her the circumstances of his/her death and that he/she now has to leave to go to the spirit world.

Poltergeists

Poltergeist manifestations can have two very different reasons:
Someone who lived and died in a house stays there after death. This is a confused spirit who has not realized that he/she is dead or has such a strong attachment to the place that he/she does not want to leave. Such spirits see people living in the house as intruders and try to scare them away. Exorcism rarely helps. Usually it makes the spirits angrier because they fell someone tries to chase them out of a place that belongs to them. A sensible approach is to talk calmly to the spirits and tell them that they died and if they want to have a happy life after life they need to move on to the spirit world. This does not make them angry and has a good chance of success.

The second kind of poltergeist manifestation usually occurs in connection with adolescents whose unconscious energies for whatever reason get out of control. Exorcism does not help. A relaxed even humorous attitude has a good chance to diffuse the situation whereas fear and anger will strengthen the uncontrolled energies and trigger unpleasant episodes more often and more violently. There are no pills that will help but a tea to soothe nerves and relax the teenager responsible for these incidences has a good chance to succeed. A cup of chamomile tea in the morning and at bedtime might do just fine.



Death and Reincarnation







With death the most spiritual phase in someone's life starts. Freed from the limitations of bodily existence the spirit is drawn to the plane of spiritual existence it qualifies for. Heaven and hell, eternal bliss or damnation are not supported by reports of the ones who came back from a near death experience. Instead a place of happiness and a place of suffering are described with details differing dramatically from the accounts of organized religions.

This is not the place to try to uncover the secrets of existence in life after life. Only this much be said: after a stay in a spiritual place of existence a reincarnation starts the cycle of evolution for another lifetime. Supported by a chemical metabolism, which creates the energies needed for life, the spirit now housing in a matter body goes its way from childhood to maturity. Then this period of evolution ends with death of body and another stay in a spiritual plane of existence begins. Thus, consecutive lifetimes in a matter body ensure an ever-advancing evolution, which can go towards positive or negative. Free will is God the Almighty's gift to life. It is up to the individual how this gift is used and what kind of consequences this choice ultimately will bring.



© 2003 by Rich Anders

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Astronomical Alignments of Ancient Structures

Astronomical
Alignments of
Ancient Structures




i have grasped the stake... I take the measuring cord in the company of Seshat. I consider the progressive movements of the stars. My eye is fixed upon the Bull's Thigh [Ursa Major]. I count off time ..... and establish the corners of the Temple'.

Inscription from the Temple of Horus at Edfu

Great is the recital, the history of the time when all the corners of the sky and earth were completed, and the quadrangulation, its measure, the four points, the measuring of the corners, the measuring of the lines, in heaven, in earth, at the four corners'

From the Mayan text of The Popul Vuh



The majority of ancient sites exhibit amazingly precise astronomical alignments.
In the following articles we present examples of such alignments, reveal reasons behind them, and suggest the most likely methods used by ancient builders to orient their pyramids and temples.

Introduction

Many ancient ruins demonstrate that the people who constructed them had not only a special regard for celestial bodies and mathematics, but also a spot-on accuracy. From Egypt to Mexico, there is no doubt that past civilizations were involved in incredibly complex space calculations, mathematics and architectural endeavors. Although many historians and archaeologists debate exactly what these civilizations did intentionally and what they did by mere chance, here are a few examples of how ancient architecture was created with mathematics and the cosmos in mind.

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Contents

Surveyors of the Ancient World

Mysterious alignment of ancient sites of the world

Archaeoastronomy

Archaeoastronomy - Introduction

Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy

Calendars: Using the summer solstice
to calibrate the secular calendar

Egyptian Archaeoastronomy

The astronomical ceiling from Senenmut's tomb

Dendera's Zodiac

Appendix 1: Angular Coordinates


Astronomically aligned ancient structures - Examples

Nabta in the Nubian Desert

Stonehenge, England

Egyptian Pyramids

Teotihuacán, Mexico

Edzná, Mexico

Chichen-Itza, Mexico

Zempoala, Mexico

Tikal, Guatemala


Methods of Finding Cardinal Points:

the stars

the sun (using obelisks)

magnetic compass

Northern Star


PRECESSION and other fluctuations in Earth's Orbit

Orienting Egyptian Pyramids

Solar and Stellar methods of finding Cardinal Points

Stretching the cord ceremony - Goddess Seshat

How the ancient Egyptians aligned their pyramids?


Obelisks

Links and Resources

Surveyors of the Ancient World




I have grasped the stake... I take the measuring cord in the company of Seshat. I consider the progressive movements of the stars. My eye is fixed upon the Bull's Thigh [Ursa Major]. I count off time ..... and establish the corners of the Temple.

The above text is an inscription from the Temple of Horus at Edfu accompanying the relief showing "Stretching the Cord" Ceremony.



The Pharaoh and the Goddess Seshat, planting stakes linked by
a looped rope, participate in the 'Stretching the Cord' ceremony.

A Great Circle drawn through the celestial poles divides the sky, marking out a point on the celestial equator from which measurement can begin. This is what is meant by 'Stretching the Cord', creating the first path across the trackless waste.
The Mayan celebration of the establishment of creation is a description of the process of surveying the world:

'Great is the recital, the history of the time when all the corners of the sky and earth were completed, and the quadrangulation, its measure, the four points, the measuring of the corners, the measuring of the lines, in heaven, in earth, at the four corners' (From the Mayan text of The Popul Vuh)

A more recent translation makes this even clearer; 'The fourfold siding, fourfold cornering, measuring, fourfold staking, halving the cord, stretching the cord in the sky, on the earth, / the four sides, the four corners as it is said '

The pillars which support the sky are to be regarded as benchmarks, boundary stones put down to enable an order to be imposed upon chaos, and a measure to be made of the earth. However, it should be apparent after all this discussion of the 'corners of the earth', that it is not the earth we walk about on that is of concern here. This particular 'earth' is not only square but flat. Exactly what this means will soon become clear. We should recall that it is the matter of Time that is being measured in this surveying process. This is the process that the prophet Enoch describes when, during his vision he asks his guide to explain the actions of the angels they see:

'Wherefore have they taken those long ropes and gone forth? He said 'They are gone forth to measure. These measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth' (Book of Enoch ch. LX v. 2-6)
The process these Angels were going forth to conduct must have been similar to that ceremony which in Egypt was known as 'stretching the rope' and which accompanied the commencement of any building project, thus relating its construction to the original founding of the earth.
In the Old Testament Book of Job, God challenges Job to answer:

'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? ..Who decided the dimensions of it... or who stretched the measuring line across it? What supports its pillars at their bases? (Jerusalem Bible tr.)'
This process of surveying the foundations of creation reappears in the verses of the Rig Veda which tell how Varuna made fast the earth and heaven, and here we are told specifically that he did so by using the sun as a measure, and as a commentary on these verses points out, 'we must take this measure as a measuring line'.

As if to emphasise the importance of this role of surveying, the Chinese deities responsible for creation come equipped with compass and plumbline.
What all this means is that the 'bindings' which hold heaven and earth together are to be taken also as plumblines which stretch out the measures of creation across the circle of the stars. It is a particular state of order that is being held fast.
Representations of the cosmos constructed in this way appear again and again, often in unlikely places.

An elemental one is the rectilinear cross which appears on the English flag ( the Royal Orb is a more complete image, including as it does the spherical universe bounded by the cross). Another more detailed example from China comes in the form of a series of mirrors known as the TVL mirrors, because of their decorative patterns, described as follows:

'The four T's that stand around the square earth are the four cardinal points. These lie at the extremities of the two cosmic lines or ropes which cross the universe and hold it together; the T's comprise a vertical prop which supports a horizontal beam; the four V's mark the four corners of heaven. The four L's represent devices used by carpenters to set a straight line...thus they symbolize the ends of the two cosmic lines as if they had been drawn with the help of such an instrument.'
[Related link: http://www2.uiuc.edu/unit/ATAM/archaeometallurgy/chimir.html ]



Bronze Mirror, 7th Century


For the Maya people today this kind of creation is still repeated as part of ceremonies to restore the correct balance of the world. David Freidel describes a ceremony he witnessed to bring to an end a prolonged drought. The officiant (referred to as h-men, 'a do-er') constructed an altar known as a 'sky-tree'. A table is overarched by four saplings bent to intersect above its centre. From this intersection is hung a circular platform referred to as the 'the sky-platform' .
'Sturdy vines of a kind called xtab ka'anil, 'the 'cords of the sky', completed the arches to form the 'sky tree'. In the Yukatek language, the words for 'sky' and the number 'four' are near homophones and frequently substitute for each other in the ancient writing system'.

Source: http://www.mythofcreation.co.uk/CreationText/Creation4_1text.htm

Related Links (this section):

Ancient ritual ceremony and Geometry
http://www.crystalinks.com/seshat.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/thoth.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/pyramidegypt2.html
http://www.seshat.ch/home/egypt1.htm
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak5.htm
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak10.htm
http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi70.htm
http://www2.uiuc.edu/unit/ATAM/archaeometallurgy/chimir.html
http://www.recoveredscience.com/const201seshathempmath.htm
http://www.mythofcreation.co.uk/CreationText/Creation4_1text.htm
Ancient Surveyors
Alignment of
ancient sites

Archaeoastronomy Examples Finding
Cardinal Points
PRECESSION Orienting
Egyptian Pyramids Obelisks Links and Resources
Mysterious Alignment of Ancient Sites of the World







The sites: Giza, Siwa, Tassili n'Ajjer, Paratoari, Ollantaytambo, Machupicchu, Nazca, Easter Island, Aneityum Island, Preah Vihear, Sukhothai, Pyay, Khajuraho, Mohenjo Daro, Persepolis, Ur, Petra are shown clockwise from Giza on the equal azimuthal projection. below. The projection is centered on the axis point in southeastern Alaska. Distances to any location from the center of an equal azimuthal projection are equally scaled. Since all of the sites on the great circle alignment are equally distant from the axis point at one quarter of the circumference of the earth, the alignment forms a perfect circle halfway between the center and the outer edge of the projection.



The locations of world's ancient sites on a global scale is puzzling on its own. However, our discussion is focused on astronomical alignments of these sites and their monuments.

The Wind Energy

The Wind Energy

by Mary J.

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You no longer need to become a nerd to find out how wind energy works

Wind is caused by the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the fact that temperatures are invariably attempting to reach an equilibrium (heat is always moving to a cooler area). With the rising expense of energy and the damage to the environment from standard fuels, it is more and more equitable to harvest this renewable resource.

Some great benefits of wind energy are that it is virtually free (in case you buy the equipment) and there is no pollution. The disadvantages include the fact that it's not a consistent source (the velocity varies and many times it is insufficient to make electricity) and it typically requires about one acre of land.

How Wind Energy Works

The quantity of power that's available varies by wind speed. The amount available is termed it's power density and it is measured in watts per square meter. That is why, the U.S. Doe has separated wind energy into classes from 1 to 7. The normal wind speed for class 1 is 9.8 mph or less while the average for a class 7 is 21.1 or even more. For effective power production, class 2 winds (11.5 mph average speed) are frequently required.

Usually, wind speeds increase as you get higher above the Earth. Due to this, the typical wind generator is a component of a tower at least 30 feet above obstructions. That there are two basic kinds of towers used for residential wind power systems (free standing and guyed). Free standing towers are self supporting and are usually heavier meaning they take special equipment (cranes) to erect them. Guyed towers are supported on a concrete base and anchored by wires for support. They typically are not as heavy and most manufacturer's produce tilt down models which is often easily raised and lowered for maintenance.

The kinetic (moving energy) from the winds is harnessed by a device known as the turbine. This turbine includes airfoils (blades) that capture the energy of the wind and use it to turn the shaft of an alternator (like you have on a car only bigger).

There are two basic kinds of blades (drag style and lifting style). We all have seen pictures of old windmills with the large flat blades which are an example of the drag style of airfoil. Lifting style blades are twisted rather than flat and resemble the propellor of a small airplane.

A turbine is classified as to whether it is built to be installed with the rotor in a horizontal or vertical position and whether the wind strikes the blades or the tower first. A vertical turbine typically requires less land for it's installation and is a much better option for the more urban areas around the globe. An upwind turbine is created for the wind to impact the airfoils before it does the tower.



These units ordinarily have a tail on the turbine which is required to keep the unit pointed into the wind. A downwind turbine does not require a tail as the wind acting on the blades tends to keep it oriented properly.

These turbine systems would be damaged if they were to be allowed to turn at excessive speeds. Therefore, units will need to have automatic over-speed governing systems. Some systems use electrical braking systems while others use mechanical type brakes.

The output electricity from the alternator is sent to a controller which conditions it for use in the home. The usage of residential wind power systems requires the home to either remain tied to the utility grid or store electricity in a battery for use when the wind doesn't blow sufficiently.

When the home is linked with the grid, the surplus electricity that is made by the residential wind power system can be sold to the utility company to reduce and sometimes even eliminate your electric bill. During periods with not enough wind, the home is supplied power from the utility company.



The price of Wind Energy

Small residential wind power turbines can be an attractive alternative, or addition, to those people needing more than 100-200 watts of power for their home, business, or remote facility. Unlike PV's, which stay at basically a similar cost per watt independent of array size, wind turbines get more affordable with increasing system size. At the 50 watt size level, for example, a small residential power windmill would cost about $8.00/watt compared to approximately $6.00/watt for a Photovoltaic module.

This is why, everything being equal, Photovoltaic is less expensive for very small loads. As the system size gets larger, however, this "rule-of-thumb" reverses itself.

At 300 watts the wind turbine costs are down to $2.50/watt, while the PV costs are still at $6.00/watt. For a 1,500 watt wind system the cost is down to $2.00/watt and at 10,000 watts the cost of a wind generator (excluding electronics) is down to $1.50/watt.

Solar Cycle and Wars

Solar Cycle and Wars

Science Mysteries

"I believe it will be the magnetic influence produced by the Sun which will usher in what is described by our ancient ancestors as "the transition" bringing us to a new state-of-being".

-- Mitch Battros


Credit: Louis Strous (LMSAL), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA, NASA


Solar Cycle 23-24. Image: Courtesy of NASA


Solar Cycle 24 has begun - and it has been predicted by NASA, NOAA and ESA to be up to 50% stronger than its 'record breaking' predecessor Cycle 23 which produced the largest solar flare ever recorded. The Sun will reach its 'apex' (maximum) in late 2011 into 2012.

We have tantalizing hints that the Earth's climate may be linked to sunspots. The "Little Ice Age" corresponded with a 70-year period, 1645-1715, when sunspots were sparse in number, the Maunder minimum. Also, there are strong statistical associations linking current trends in climate (surface temperatures) to trends in solar activity, as outlined in another paper by Wilson for the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).


The magnetosphere protects Earth against the relentless solar wind (Image: NASA)

Scientific research along with ancient text documents suggests the Mayan Calendar ending on December 21st 2012 may very well be connected to solar activity. Mitch Battros' research shows that charged particles emitted by the Sun in the way of solar flares, CME's and coronal holes are the cause of extreme earth changes such as earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornadoes. His research also indicates the very same magnetic flux which effects the Earth, will also affect humans. In fact, Battros will demonstrate how the magnetic field which surrounds the Earth is similar to the magnetic field which surrounds every living thing.



Could Cycles of War or Peace Be Tied to Cycles of the Sun?

by Dr. Buryl Payne - National Council on Geocosmic Research

A growing number of scientists, health care professionals, and concerned citizens argue that these invisible frequencies are responsible for a host of various health problems. Meanwhile, the largest polluter has gone unnoticed: the Sun. At certain times, the Sun's activity can also aggravate mental health problems.

Every 10-11 years, the number of sunspots found on our closest star rise from 0 (as it is currently in 2008) to a high of over 400. While the sunspots themselves don't affect Earth, the solar flares and other disturbances emanating from our Sun during increased sunspot activity result in an increased number of particles (electrons and protons) and harmful light radiation (ultraviolet and x-rays), known as solar wind. If it weren't for Earth's protective magnetic field and atmosphere, this bombardment of particles would burn us to a crisp.



Equation: Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

Fortunately, our planet's magnetic field diverts most particles into a circular path around the Earth. Like weather patterns found on Earth, solar wind patterns can change rapidly. Luckily, our planet's magnetosphere quickly responds to the threat and absorbs the impact, wiggling and jiggling in the process. Geophysicists call this reaction a geomagnetic storm, but because of how it disrupts the Earth's magnetic field, it could also be called electromagnetic pollution.

These storms, although minute, affect brain waves and hormone levels, causing a number of different reactions, predominately in males. While a few women may also experience changes during these storms, they generally seem less affected by the Sun's behavior.


We too have magnetic fields which surround each of us. I think it is not unrealistic to conjecture what is happening "externally" is also happening "internally". I believe current science will acknowledge this notion, showing the Sun's "charged particles" and its influence on Earth's magnetic field is the impetus of change. In-like, this same causal effect occurs with human magnetic fields ushering in a change or "transition". Perhaps this is what our Mayan elders are trying to tell us

Reacting to changing hormone levels, some men may become increasingly irritable and aggressive, while others may instead become more creative. An increase in solar activity is found to increase psychotic episodes in individuals who already suffer from unstable psychological states. While we might relate such behavior to a full moon, in 1963, Dr. Robert Becker and his colleague, Dr. Freedman, demonstrated that solar changes also lead to a noticeable increase in psychotic activity.

Yet these reactions are not simply isolated to a few particularly sensitive or unlucky individuals. Evidence indicates that wars and international conflicts most often break out when sunspots are rapidly forming or rapidly decaying, as these are times when there are more intense geomagnetic storms.

In addition, this increase in solar activity also correlates to periods of more accidents and illness, as well as an increase of crimes and murders. The entire biosphere is affected by this electromagnetic pollution, and human behavior seems to react accordingly.

Studies of how the Earth's environment interacts with space and the solar wind are far more than an academic exercise. They are important in shaping the environment we enjoy today - and whether we enjoy it in the dark.

The solar wind and space plasma storms induce massive electrical currents that can affect power systems on the ground, especially in the north. A large storm in 1989 induced currents in the American northeast that caused a failure in the Hydro-Quebec power system that deprived 6 million people of power for over 9 hours in Canada and the United States. The same storm expanded the upper atmosphere and increased drag on NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite which carried valuable specimens of materials in space exposure tests (NASA recovered LDEF before it could re-enter the atmosphere).
Similar storms can set up currents that corrode the metal structure of petroleum pipelines, disrupt satellite and land-based communications, short-circuit satellite electronics, and interfere with navigational systems on ships and aircraft.
We cannot stop geomagnetic storms, but we can understand them and, eventually, predict what their effects may be in time to take measures to protect valuable power grids, satellites, aircraft, and other systems.

Source: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/plasma_plume/bullet6.htm

Storm Tracking

Thankfully, not all geomagnetic storms are disruptive. Some are generally beneficial to humans. But over time, these extremes in solar activity may also affect periods of earthly conflict. The data on cycles of war and peace extend back at least 2,500 years. (Some believe that they may be traced even further, but the records are not as reliable.) Although some may argue that it seems as if there is always war somewhere, records show that periods of conflict increase and decrease in nearly regular cycles.



As early as 1915, some scientists were beginning to recognize connections between solar activity and human behavior. This work began with Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky, who observed that mass changes in human behavior correlated to sunspot cycles.

In the 1930s, Professor Raymond Wheeler, a historian at the University of Kansas, took this observation one step further. His research afforded numerical rankings to the severity of individual battles correlating to solar cycles.

His data was statistically analyzed by Edward Dewey, who validated the existence of these war cycles. Yet he was unable to make a definite connection with sunspot cycles because the data at that time was insufficient. In the 1980s, with a more detailed analysis of Wheeler's data, the connection became clear.

Upon close examination of the data, a pattern begins to emerge wherein wars are most likely to start in key points of the sunspot cycle. This is when the geomagnetic activity is changing most rapidly on the upsurge of solar activity, or the downward part of the cycle, when sunspots are rapidly diminishing. In addition we can also see how this affects physiological mechanisms, such as altered brain rhythms and abnormal hormonal levels. In other words, wars are a kind of mass psychosis. 'War Fever' is real.

With this in mind, should we view warring behavior as a type of disease? Are the related socio-political or economic factors as much a symptom of solar cycles as the battles they appear to create? And if the data on sunspot cycles points to an impending crisis, how can we best use this knowledge?

When we see the connection to physical mechanisms (electromagnetic pollution), this gives us some predictive insight for when increased aggressions were apt to start. Calculations indicate that we're due to see another rise in intense solar activity in about two years: September 22, 2010.

As with any disease, if we are aware of the cause, we can take precautions to lessen the symptoms. In past writings on this subject, I have suggested that global meditation might be one tactic for steering this aggressive cycle another way. (More information on this is available at www.buryl.com )

Imagine how valuable it would be to mankind, or even an individual, if we were able to address a potentially volatile situation by carefully studying the pattern of history. How would this influence our decisions and actions, and how might this change our fate?

Buryl Payne has a Ph.D. in psychology and an M.S. in physics and has written several books and articles on a variety of topics. He is currently working on a book exploring fifth dimensional consciousness.

References:

Battros M. 2005. "Solar Rain: The Earth Changes Have Begun." Earth Changes Press.
Becker, R. 0. and Marino, A. A., "Electromagnetism and Life," State University of New York Press, P.O. Box 978, Edison, N. J. 08808
Friedman, H. and Becker, R.O., "Geomagnetic parameters and Psychiatric Hospital Admissions," Nature, V. 200, pp 626-628, 1963.
Hundhausen, A. J., "Solar activity and the solar wind," Rev, of Geophysics and Space Physics, 17 (8), 20314-2011.8, 1979.
Payne, B. 1986. "The Power of Thought to Influence the Sun, Interim Report." National Council on Geocosmic Research, Winter-Spring.
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Memory of Nature: Akashic Field

Memory of Nature: Akashic Field

Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in the new field of vacuum physics now show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in the zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic-field--or "A-field"-- is not only the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen.


The Akashic Records

The akashic records (akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") is a term used in theosophy (and Anthroposophy) to describe a compendium of (mystical) knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. These records contain all knowledge of human experience and the history of the cosmos. They are metaphorically described as a library; other analogies commonly found in discourse on the subject include a "universal supercomputer" and the "Mind of God". People who describe the records assert that they are constantly updated automatically and that they can be accessed through astral projection or when someone is placed under deep hypnosis. The concept was popularized in the theosophical movements of the 19th century and is derived from Hindu philosophy of Samkhya. It is promulgated in the Samkhya philosophy that the Akashic records are automatically recorded in the atoms of akasha ("air" or "aether"), one of the five types of atoms visualized as existing in the atomic theory of Ancient India.


History of Akashic Records

Those who champion the truth of the Akashic Records assert that they were accessed by ancient people of various cultures, including the Indians, Moors, Tibetans, Bonpo and other peoples of the Himalaya, Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Chinese, Hebrews, Christians, Druids and Mayans. It is held that the ancient Indian sages of the Himalayas knew that each soul, jiva, atma, or entity recorded every moment of its existence in a "book", and that if one attuned oneself properly then one could access that book (refer mindstream for example).
Nostradamus claimed to have gained access to the Akasha, using methods derived from the Greek oracles, Christian and Sufi mysticism, and the Kabbalah. Other individuals who claim to have consciously used the Akashic Records include: Charles Webster Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, Samael Aun Weor, William Lilly, Manly P. Hall, Lilian Treemont, Dion Fortune, George Hunt Williamson, Rudolf Steiner, Max Heindel and Edgar Cayce amongst others.
A Chinese man named Sujujin was reported to need only the first name of anyone to access the Akasha and describe their life history. Another Chinese seer, named Tajao, explored a variety of topics in the Records which span over two thousand years.
In Surat Shabda Yoga cosmology, the Akashic Records would be located within the causal plane of Trikuti.






Description and Explanation of the Akashic records
The Akasha is said to be the library of all events and responses concerning consciousness in all realities. Every lifeform therefore contributes and has access to the Akashic Records. It is asserted that to gain access into the Akashic Records, every individual human can become the physical medium, and various techniques and spiritual disciplines (e.g., yogic, pranayama, meditation, prayer, visualization) can be employed to quiet the mind, become a "witness", and achieve the focused, preconscious state necessary to access the Records.



While accessing the Akashic Records, both the events and responses are said to be perceived. This is analogous to having a meta-enhanced cinematic experience. When accessing the future, the events are known, but the responses are only probable. Based on an individual's responses in the past, the Akashic seer/reader can investigate probable future responses and give the highest future probability. A simple illustration of this might be witnessing several alternate endings to the main characters in a movie (e.g., Run, Lola, Run). At some point in the evolution of the Akashic reader, however, a state of unification and awareness can be achieved whereby even the future responses are known with absolute clarity instead of only as a probability.

The Akashic Records / Hall Of Records

Akashic Records as described by dictionaries:

"The records are generated of everything that happens in the universe as it occurs. The appearance is that all matter and energy have a sort of built-in digital recording device, storing its entire history in a photographic code, but the records are actually windows into the past. The records show events exactly as they were experienced, so the information in them begins raw-it is not clarified, understood, and assimilated until a consciousness takes responsibility for doing so."
A theosophical term referring to an universal filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action. The records are impressed on a subtle substance called akasha (or Soniferous Ether). In Hindu mysticism this akasha is thought to be the primary principle of nature from which the other four natural principles, fire, air, earth, and water, are created. These five principles also represent the five senses of the human being.
Some indicate the akashic records are similar to a Cosmic or collective consciousness. The records have been referred to by different names including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the collective unconscious, or the collective subconscious. Others think the akashic records make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible.


It is believed by some that the events recorded upon that akasha can be ascertained or read in certain states of consciousness. Such states of consciousness can be induced by certain stages of sleep, weakness, illness, drugs, and meditation so not only mystics but ordinary people can and do perceive the akashic records. Some mystics claim to be able to reanimate their contents like they were turning on a celestial television set. Yogis also believe that these records can be perceived in certain psychic states.

Certain persons in subconscious states do read the akashic records. An explanation for this phenomena is that the akashic records are the macrocosm of the individual subconscious mind. Both function similarly, they possess thoughts which are never forgotten. The collective subconscious gathers all thoughts from each subconscious mind which can be read by other subconscious minds.


An example of one who many claimed successfully read the akashic records is the late American mystic Edgar Cayce. Cayce did his readings in a sleep state or trance. Cayce's method was described by Dr. Wesley H. Ketchum who for several years used Cayce as an adjunct for his medical practice. "Cayce's subconscious...is in direct communication with all other subconscious minds, and is capable of interpreting through his objective mind and imparting impressions received to other objective minds, gathering in this way all knowledge possessed by endless millions of other subconscious minds." Apparently Cayce was interpreting the collective subconscious mind long before the psychiatrist C.J. Jung postulated his concept of the collective unconscious.
The Hall of Records is in frequency, if it exists at all, being nothing more than an awakening tool for humanity. It is the place of truth, where one goes to find the answers about the nature of reality and their role in it, within and without. No one will find a physical Hall of Records. The truth exists within our souls, our DNA, and the initial 8 cells found at the base of our spine, that never change, but wait to activate when the time is right. It guides the quests we take, to unravel that which was hidden at the beginning of this program of time, that we sense will soon be discovered. Reality has become about discovery and recovery on all levels of awareness as we evolve in the alchemy of time and consciousness.
The Hall of Records goes by many names - the Akashic Record, Book of Life, Story of Humanity, matrix, grids, other. It is the point of origin, the place we find the answers. This knowledge explains the nature of our physical program which is a biogenetic experiment in which souls are all encoded with sacred keys of light to find their way out.
We trigger our personal Hall of Records, through archetypes, our genetic encoding, when our frequency is high enough, and we are ready.



Claims and Skepticism
Believers in the Akasha make many claims about how widely the Akasha was used, including:

The claim that in Egypt, those who could read the Akasha were held in high standing and would advise the Pharaohs on daily activities and dream interpretation.[citation needed]
The claim that the Druid cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England (???-500 (est.)) demonstrated the ability to access the Akasha.[citation needed]
The claim that the Bible refers to the Akasha records as the Book of Life in both the Old Testament (Psalm 69:28) and the New Testament (Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15 and Revelation 21:27 "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.")
Despite claims that the Akashic Records have been used by mystics throughout history, there are not any direct references to the Akasha to be found in any of the historical documentation of the aforementioned groups. The term Akasha itself, along with the concept of an aetheric library, originated with the 19th century movement of Theosophy. Skeptics say that the concept of Akashic Records has been attributed indiscriminately and inappropriately to a wide range of historical religious figures and movements.
Traditionally the theory has also been rejected by the scientific community, due to a lack of any independently verifiable evidence. Interestingly, Ervin Laszlo (2004) explores science and the Akashic Records in the spirit of Occam's razor, and champions the theory of the Records as resolving many anomalies within history, science and experience with simplicity.


Specific Accounts of the Akashic Records
In Theosophy and New Age discourse the Akashic Records are records of all knowledge, including all human experience, held in the Universe. The Akashic Records are metaphorically described as a library and are also likened to a universal computer or the 'Mind of God'.
The Akashic Records are referred to by Edgar Cayce, who stated that each person is held to account after life and 'confronted' with their personal Akashic record of what they have or have not done in life in a karmic sense. The idea is comparable to the biblical Book of Life which is consulted to see whether or not the dead are admitted to heaven.
Jane Roberts in the Seth books describes a different version of a similar idea when Seth asserts that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and consciousness, and that an idea once conceived exists forever. Seth argued that all ideas and knowledge are in principle accessible by "direct cognition". Direct cognition shares semantic congruency with intuition and allows for the possibility of direct knowing without time elapsing and without knowledge needing to be transferred e.g. in speech or text. This is similar to what Robert Monroe refers to as rotes in his out-of-body book trilogy.
Some writers believe that, free from and independent of all religions and faiths, there exist many libraries or record repositories such as the Akashic library throughout the universe, albeit on various planes of existence.
According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the Memory of Nature (Akashic Records) may be read in three different inner worlds. In the reflecting ether of the Etheric region there are pictures of all that has happened in the world - at least several hundred years back, or much more in some cases - and they appear almost as the pictures on a screen, with the difference that the scene shifts backward.
The Memory of Nature may be read, in an entirely different manner covering the essence of a whole life or event, in a higher world, in the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought of the World of Thought, and, last, it may be read in the World of Life Spirit, covering events from the earliest dawn of our present manifestation, but only spiritual adepts, spiritual entities and through grace is access to the Records granted.
In Michel Desmarquet's book Thiaoouba Prophecy, the author claims to have been abducted by supreme alien beings, that in one part of the book guides him through something that is most likely the Akashic records. The term they are using is Psychosphere. The author's understanding is that the Psychosphere is like a "vibratory cocoon, which turns at a speed seven times that of light. This cocoon acts as a blotter, as it were, absorbing (and remembering) absolutely every event occurring on the planet. The contents of this cocoon are inaccessible to us on Earth - we have no way of Œreading the story¹"


Urantia Book
The The Urantia Book confirms the validity and reality of these Living Records in several accounts. In Paper 25 is found the statement: "The recording angels of the inhabited planets are the source of all individual records. Throughout the universes other recorders function regarding both formal records and living records. From Urantia to Paradise, both recordings are encountered: in a local universe, more of the written records and less of the living; on Paradise, more of the living and less of the formal; on Uversa, both are equally available.

Again in Paper 28 in The Urantia Book we find reference: "The Memory of Mercy is a living trial balance, a current statement of your account with the supernatural forces of the realms. These are the living records of mercy ministration which are read into the testimony of the courts of Uversa when each individual's right to unending life comes up for adjudication, when "thrones are cast up and the Ancients of Days are seated. The broadcasts of Uversa issue and come forth from before them; thousands upon thousands minister to them, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before them. The judgment is set, and the books are opened." And the books which are opened on such a momentous occasion are the living records of the tertiary seconaphim of the superuniverses. The formal records are on file to corroborate the testimony of the Memories of Mercy if they are required."

URANTIA BOOK. The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, 1996.
This holy book is a synthesis of science, philosophy, and truth; of reason, wisdom, and faith; of past, present, and future. The book claims to be a revelation to our world from those who govern the universe.


Mention in "The Law of One"
In The Law of One, Book I, a book purported to contain conversations with a channeled "social memory complex" known to humans as "Ra," when the questioner asks where Edgar Cayce received his information, the answer received is, "We have explained before that the intelligent infinity is brought into intelligent energy from eighth density or octave. The one sound vibratory complex called Edgar used this gateway to view the present, which is not the continuum you experience but the potential social memory complex of this planetary sphere. The term your peoples have used for this is the "Akashic Record" or the Hall of Records.



Hall Of Records
The mythical Hall of Records is allegedly a library buried under the Great Sphinx in the Giza pyramid complex. It is rumored to house the knowledge of the Egyptians in papyrus scrolls, much as the Great Library of Alexandria housed Grecian knowledge. There is debate as to whether the Hall actually exists or not, but all excavation in the area has so far yielded little or no results.
In truth they never will find a Hall of Records, as that is a term referencing the frequency grids that create our reality, nothing more, and will not be accessed until consciousness evolves back into light at the end of the program. Our reality the Masonic (mother sound) Program began in the Middle East (Giza plateau) and so it shall return at the end of time.
Encoded in the journey of humanity is to quest for knowledge about our origins, our creators, and how that will lead us to discovering the truth about who we are and why our souls came here.
Finding enigmatic objects and places such as the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, the Akashic Records, Shambhala, Atlantis, etc. is about the quest to find sacred knowledge, the keys that will unlock the truth about reality.
Who are you? Why are you here? What is your soul's purpose? The answer: We exist in a consciousness hologram, a biogenetic experiment in linear time and emotion, created by electromagnetic grids through which we virtually experience. The program will soon end having come full circle in the cycles of time. It's all about knowledge.
Though repeatedly denied by mainstream Egyptologists, the mythology of the Hall of Records is a popular one among those who hold alternative theories of Ancient Egypt while conducting scientific inquiry in the mysteries of that time. The sources on which this topic is based are not robust. The origins of the story about the "Hall of Records" are unknown, though the idea that there is a cavity around the sphinx dates back to Pliny. In Pliny's Natural History, he states that "[the Egyptians] are of the opinion that a King Harmais is buried inside it."
The psychic Edgar Cayce had several psychic reading of the Hall of Records. He claimed that in 1998 the Hall would be discovered and opened and humanity would move into a new era of prosperity. The history of the Earth would be found in the right shoulder of the Sphinx. Cayce also suggested that the opening would coincide with the Second Coming of Christ.
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, in "Message of the Sphinx" stated that American archeologists and the Egyptian government had in the past blocked investigations around the Sphinx, including attempts to locate any underground cavities. Bauval later wrote Secret Chamber in 1999. According to Bauval's research, Egyptian Antiquities granted an American team a license to search for the Hall of Records under the Sphinx. It is know that there are three passages around the Sphinx, two have unknown origin. One is a small dead-end nineteenth century shaft behind the head. Also, little holes in the body of the Sphinx may be related to its construction, but this is unknown.
According to some, the Hall was not the work of Ancient Egyptians at all but another society (this has ranged from advance prehistoric societies to a superior race of intelligent beings). Accordingly, this society sealed the Hall away with scrolls of their accumulated knowledge at about 10,500 BC - the last period of time when the constellation of Leo was located between the Sphinx's paws when it rose in the night sky. Skeptics have relegated such notions to be much like the supposed inhabitants of Atlantis in the Hellenic Myth. The study of and the search for the Hall may fall under the category of pseudoarchaeology, if such activity does not use methodology that is part of the established scientific method. Also of note, There are 2 other Hall of records located in and around Bimini and in the Yukatan jungle, most likely the ruins of Piedras Negras.



The Hall of Records will be discovered in the right paw of the Sphinx.
148 sets of three people would try to enter the Halls of Records, until one of these sets, coming from the West, would open the doorway by making a sound with their voices. (harmonics). Inside they will find a spiral staircase leading to an underground chamber. (sacred geometry)
An inscribed cuneiform tablet (Sumerian program) will be found, which one of them will decipher. (3 = physical reality)
Three hallways lead away from this room. They will chose the correct one leading them into a long stone hallway lit with no apparent light source.
High up on the left side of a wall they will find 48 sacred geometry drawings etched in stone, the first one being the flower of life.
At the end of the hallway they make a slight right hand turn into a large stone chamber, whose walls describe the journey of humanity to that date.
Resting on the floor are 3 large stone sarcophagi covered in dust. Atop each is inscribed an image with the likeness of each of the 3 people along with their name as once it was. Underneath each name is the date of their discovery in the 21st century. Inside each sarcophagus is the way they were when first they entered the hologram of this reality along with instructions of how the remainder of time will play out.



Edgar Cayce - Atlantean Hall of Records

Edgar Cayce predicted the discovery of an Atlantean "Hall of Records" between the Sphinx and the Nile with a connecting entrance under the right, front paw of the Sphinx.






The following segment was taken from Cayce, Edgar "On Atlantis" New York: Warner Books, 1968.

...It would be well if this entity were to seek either of the three phases of the ways and means in which those records of the activities of individuals were preserved -- the one in the Atlantean land, that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same. (2012-1; Sep 25, 1939) - from page 146

...the entity joined with those who were active in putting the records in forms that were partially of the old characters of the ancient or early Egyptian, and part in the newer form of the Atlanteans. These may be found, especially when the house or tomb of records is opened, in a few years from now. (2537-1; Jul 17, 1941) - p.146

...[the entity] was among the first to set the records that are yet to be discovered or yet to be had of those activities in the Atlantean land, and for the preservation of data that is yet to be found from the chambers of the way between the Sphinx and the pyramid of records.

(3575-2; Jan 20, 1944) - p.147

Q.2: Give in detail what the sealed room contains.

A.2: A record of Atlantis from the beginning of those periods when the Spirit took form, or began the encasements in that land; and the developments of the peoples throughout their sojourn; together with the record of the first destruction, and the changes that took place in the land; with the record of the sojournings of the peoples and their varied activities in other lands, and a record of the meetings of all the nations or lands, for the activities in the destruction of Atlantis; and the building of the pyramid of initiation, together with whom, what, and where the opening of the records would come, that are as copies from the sunken Atlantis. For with the change, it [Atlantis] must rise again. In position, this lies -- as the sun rises from the waters -- as the line of the shadows (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx; that was set later as the sentinel or guard and which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's right paw until the time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man's experience. Then [it lies] between the Sphinx and the river. (378-16; Oct 29, 1933) - p.147-8

This excerpt was taken from Edgar Cayce on Atlantis
New York: Warner Books, 1968

Comments

See the Comments below on how the Akashic Field relates to the scientific re-expression of the mystic paradigm that is presented on this website.
Here are some informative quotes from and comments regarding the book “Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything” by Ervin Laszlo and published by Inner Traditions.

The overall idea behind the concept of an Akashic Field is that behind the materialistic and mechanistic world there is in fact another realm of interaction. This book presents compelling evidence for this from the fields of cosmology, quantum physics, biology and studies of consciousness. It is like a subtle communication network that underlies physical reality and that connects every point in space with every other point, and every thing with every other thing. This communication network operates in the realm of pure information that underlies empirical existence and thus does not rely on the transport of physical energy, hence, through this field, interactions can occur instantaneously regardless of physical separation and without any channel for the mechanistic transport of energy. Furthermore, like things tend to interact more strongly with like things, thus humans interact more strongly with humans, galaxies with galaxies and so on. The principle empirical and observable effect of this field is coherence between phenomena across any distances.
In regards to cosmology and the current puzzles therein Laszlo states that “these mysteries have a common element: they exhibit a staggering coherence throughout the reaches of space and time.” Furthermore, “There is no reasonable explanation in 'BB [big bang] theory' for the observed flatness of the universe; for the missing mass in it; for the accelerating expansion of galaxies; for the coherence of some basic cosmic ratios; and for the 'horizon problem,' the uniformity of the macrostructures throughout cosmic space. The problem known as the 'tuning of the constants' is particularly vexing. The three dozen or more physical parameters of the universe are so finely tuned that together they create the highly improbable conditions under which life can emerge... These are all puzzles of coherence, and they raise the possibility that this universe did not arise in the context of a random fluctuation of the underlying quantum vacuum. Instead, it may have been born in the womb of a prior 'meta-universe'... [i.e.] a vaster, more fundamental universe that is behind or beyond the universe we observe and inhabit.”
“The staggering coherence of our universe tells us that all its stars and galaxies are interconnected in some way. And the astonishing fine-tuning of the physical laws and constants of our universe suggests that at its birth our universe may have been connected with prior universes...”
In quantum physics the issues revolve around the phenomena of non-locality; superpositions of states; the collapse of the superposition where “it appears to choose its real states on its own”; EPR pairs where “once they are in the same state, they remain linked no matter how far they travel from each other” and also the effect of simply having an available observation channel, even if it is not used, it can still collapse the wavefunction of an experiment. These phenomena have been described exhaustively in countless places so I wont reiterate them here.
In regards to biology he states that “Instant, multidimensional correlations are coming to light between the parts of a living organism, and even between organisms and environments... [these] are nearly as 'entangled' as microparticles that originate in the same quantum state [such as EPR pairs]... What happens to one cell or organ also happens in some way to all other cells and organs... [also] what happens in the external milieu of the organism is reflected in some way in its internal milieu. Thanks to this coherence, the organism can evolve in tune with its environment... [Darwinian evolution and random mutation is not enough]... That our world is not populated solely by the simplest of organisms, such as bacteria ... is due in the last analysis to the kind of 'entanglement' that exists among genes, organisms, organism species, and their niches within the biosphere.” Furthermore, “the organism's coherence goes beyond the coherence of a biochemical system; in some respects it attains the coherence of a quantum system... Simple collisions among neighbouring molecules... must be complemented by a network of instant communication that correlates all parts of the living system, even those that are distant from one another. Rare molecules, for example, are seldom contiguous, yet they find each other throughout the organism. There would not be sufficient time for this to occur by a random process of jiggling and mixing; the molecules need to locate and respond to each other specifically, even if they are distant.”
In regards to consciousness Laszlo states that “in the conservative view human communication and interaction is limited to our sensory channels ... [but] we are linked by more subtle and encompassing connections as well.” Also “The connections that bind 'my' consciousness to the consciousness of others... are rediscovered today in controlled experiments with thought and image transference, and the effect of the mind of one individual on the body of another.” Furthermore, “Native tribes seem able to communicate beyond the range of eye and ear... In the laboratory also, modern people display a capacity for spontaneous transference of impressions and images, especially when they are emotionally close to each other... transpersonal contact includes the ability to transmit thoughts and images, and ... it is given to many if not all people... this is the finding of recent experiments... Reliable evidence is becoming available that the conscious mind of one person can produce repeatable and measurable effects on the body of another... [also] Intercessory prayer and spiritual healing, together with other mind- and intention-based experiments and practices, yield impressive evidence regarding the effectiveness of telepathic and telesomatic information- and energy-transmission. The pertinent practices produce real and measurable effects on people, and they are more and more widespread. But mainstream science has no explanation for them. Could it be that our consciousness is linked with other consciousnesses through an interconnecting Akashic Field, much as galaxies are linked in the cosmos, quanta in the microworld, and organisms in the world of the living?”
In regards to the origin of the universe and its metaphysical foundation Laszlo states that “the universe we observe and inhabit is a secondary product of the energy sea that was there before there was anything there at all. Hindu and Chinese cosmologies have always maintained that the things and beings that exist in the world are a concretization or distillation of the basic energy of the cosmos, descending from its original source. The physical world is a reflection of energy vibrations from more subtle energy fields. Creation and all subsequent existence, is a progression downward and outward from the primordial source.
In Indian philosophy the ultimate end of the physical world is a return to Akasha, its original subtle-energy womb. At the end of time as we know it, the almost infinitely varied things and forms of the manifest world dissolve into formlessness... In Akasha, all attributes of the manifest world merge into a state that is beyond attributes: the state of Brahman.
Although it is undifferentiated, Brahman is dynamic and creative. From its ultimate 'being' comes the temporary 'becoming' of the manifest world, with its attributes, functions and relationships. The cycles of samsara [individual lifetimes] ... are the lila of Brahman: its play of ceaseless creation and dissolution. In Indian philosophy, absolute reality is the reality of Brahman. The manifest world enjoys but a derived, secondary reality and mistaking it for the real is the illusion of maya...
The traditional Eastern conception differs from the view held by most people in the West... [that] reality is material. The things that truly exist are bits or particles of matter... Matter moves about in space, acted on by energy. Energy also enjoys reality (since it acts on matter), but space does not: space is merely the backdrop or the container... and is passive in itself... space is not experienced... it is only the precondition of experience... [this last comment exposes the Western reliance on sensory experience and therefore its entrapment within the illusion of the empirical world or Maya]
The view that space is empty and passive, and not even real to boot, is in complete opposition to the view we get from contemporary physics... it is clear that what they describe as the unified vacuum – the seat of all the fields and forces of the physical world – is in fact the primary reality of the universe... What we think of as matter is but the quantised semi-stable bundling of the energies that spring from the vacuum. In the last count matter is but a waveform disturbance in the nearly infinite energy-sea that is the fundamental medium – and hence the primary reality – of this universe, and of all universes that ever existed and will ever exist.”
Evolutionary Panpsychism: Laszlo further discusses the likelihood that consciousness is universal and that all 'things' are to some degree conscious; “there is no categorical divide between mind and matter... conscious matter at a lower level of organisation (the neurons in the brain) generates conscious matter at a higher level of organisation (the brain as a whole)... the emerging solution to the classical brain/mind problem is evolutionary panpsychism... [which claims that] all of reality has a mental aspect: psyche is a universal presence in the world... [and] psyche evolves , the same as matter... both matter and mind – physis and psyche [prakriti and purusha] – were present from the beginning: they are both fundamental aspects of reality... [although] we do not claim that they are radically separate; we say that they are but different aspects of the same reality. What we call 'matter' is the aspect we apprehend when we look at a person, a plant, or a molecule from the outside; 'mind' is the readout we get when we look at the same thing from the inside.”
We do not merely perceive the world through our empirical senses or the “five slits in the tower”, we can “open the roof to the sky”. He states that “The informed universe gives us not only a new view of the world, but also a new view of life and of mind. It permits our brains and minds to access a broad band of information... We are, or can be, literally 'in touch' with almost any part of the world, whether here on Earth or beyond in the cosmos. When we do not repress the corresponding intuitions, we can be informed by things as small as a particle or as large as a galaxy”.
He then discusses the question “Could the cosmos itself possess consciousness in some form?”, but this is difficult to answer since we cannot perceive the quantum vacuum directly and even if we could, “consciousness is 'private', we cannot ordinarily observe it in anyone but ourselves”. However “We could enter an altered state of consciousness and identify ourselves with the vacuum, the deepest and most fundamental level of reality [like the vedic method of meditating upon Brahman]... would we experience a physical field of fluctuating energies? Or would we experience something like a cosmic field of consciousness? The latter is much more likely... when we experience anybody else's brain 'from the outside' we do not experience his or her consciousness... But we know that when we experience our brain 'from the inside' we experience not neurons, but the qualitative features that make up our stream of consciousness... Would not the same hold true when we project ourselves into a mystical union with the vacuum? ... there is indirect yet significant evidence for it... in deeply altered states of consciousness, many people experience a kind of consciousness that appears to be that of the universe itself... They describe what they experience as an immense and unfathomable field of consciousness endowed with infinite intelligence and creative power. The field of cosmic consciousness they experience is a cosmic emptiness – a void. Yet ... it is also an essential fullness... The vacuum they experience is a plenum: nothing is missing in it. It is the ultimate source of existence, the cradle of all being... The phenomenal world is its creation: the realization and concretization of its inherent potential.”
Regarding the future evolution of human consciousness he mentions numerous theories, “but they have a common thrust. Consciousness evolution is from the ego-bound to the transpersonal form. If this is so, it is a source of great hope. Transpersonal consciousness is open to more of the information that reaches the brain than the dominant consciousness of today. This could have momentous consequences. It could produce greater empathy among people, and greater sensitivity to animals, plants, and the entire biosphere. It could create subtle contact with other parts of the cosmos. It could change our world. A society hallmarked by transpersonal consciousness is not likely to be materialistic and self-centered; it would be more deeply and widely informed.”

Some General Comments
The recent realisations by the post modern world of the Akashic field, information theoretic metaphysics and system theory provide a rational foundation for what many call 'faith'. They are a deep and systematic re-expression of ancient truths. No longer need we rely upon authority or literary or artistic persuasiveness, or persist at spiritual practices when we cannot be certain of the reality of their goal. Instead we can now rationally and intellectually obtain a firm understanding of the holistic nature of the cosmos and ourselves, which gives insight and motivation for our journey into the deeper levels of existence. The work presented on this website plays a pivotal role in this paradigm shift, it provides a foundation for a rigorous mathematical science of our holistic context, that encompasses both the physical and mystic aspects of reality, as well as the everyday experience of being in the world. Using the methods presented on this website we can create computer generated virtual worlds with fundamental metaphysical properties identical to our own reality. These can provide an experimental framework for further exploration as well as a rational approach toward understanding the subtleties of spirituality. This would provide motivation for personal spiritual development so that we can personally participate in the vastly greater reality that is accessible to us.
Laszlo and others describe the cosmos using a similar system theoretic paradigm as is presented here but are working from within the world and they focus primarily on a general understanding of what the implications are for beings such as ourselves. This is the most accessible approach for most people. However in the scientific analysis presented here I am working from beyond the world or prior to the world and I focus primarily on the transcendent dynamics that give rise to the world. Rather than conceive of the situation from within the virtual space and then propose a computational process that lies beyond it - I conceive of the situation from within the computational space and then propose a virtual world that arises from it. These two perspectives complement each other and they meet at a point that some call the unified vacuum and which I refer to in my own analysis as the Simulator/Simulation membrane, which is a conceptual membrane that separates the virtual reality space from the computational process that generates that space. For a quick example see The Central Metaphysical Idea and also the Metaphysical Context.
This conceptual membrane mediates the flow of all energy between these two realms (energy is the flow of information interpreted in an empirical dynamical context). When the computational process causes a form to arise in the virtual world the inhabitants of that virtual world would experience it as appearing out of the vacuum. From within the physical world the vacuum or the membrane represents the limit of what the materialistic paradigm can conceive of and from beyond the world it represents the first instance of empirical or physical manifestation as the information descends from the source and becomes energy and then finally empirical forms and phenomena.
Thus behind space there lies a simulation program or a virtual-reality generative information process that coordinates all that exists and all that happens. This information process has particular properties and constraints that give rise to the particular properties and constraints of the empirical simulation (physical universe). These can be determined and verified by mathematical inference and experimental measurement, indeed the phenomena of relativity and quantum physics are our experience of some of these properties and constraints, and so too is the Akashic Field. This is what I mathematically explore in the documents on The Mathematical Analysis and this could lead to direct experimental verification of the existence and the properties of the 'simulator' that underlies and manifests our reality, see the overview of this work.
In the many discussions on this website it is assumed that the basic metaphysical concepts implied by the systemic paradigm and the Akashic field are understood otherwise some of the assertions may seem spurious and superstitious. Indeed, without such an understanding most of ancient wisdom seems spurious and superstitious but they are in fact highly detailed and very accurate metaphysical analyses, see Correspondences between the Computational and Spiritual Paradigms. However since the ancients lacked modern mathematics they expressed their knowledge using elaborate analogies, which have over time become misunderstood and even taken literally, which leads to massive confusion.

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Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo

Introduces the embracing world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything.

Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy.
Reveals how the universe stores a record of all that is happening and has ever happened on Earth and throughout the cosmos.
Explores the origins, role, and future of life and consciousness in the universe.
Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in the new field of vacuum physics now show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in the zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic-field--or "A-field"-- is not only the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen.
Scientist and philosopher Ervin Laszlo conveys the essential element of this vision of the "informed universe" in language that is accessible and clear. The informed universe lends credence to our deepest intuitions of the oneness of life and the whole of creation. We discover that, as philosopher William James stated, "we are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

Ervin Laszlo is a highly honored and respected scholar. His new book examines the most advanced ideas in physics, cosmology, metaphysics, and consciousness research. This is a book that is highly readable and suitable for the layperson. Ancient wisdom and modern research in physics and consciousness are brought together as the author seeks to help us recognize the underlying coherence and integration of Creation. Non-local consciousness is found to be intrinsic to the nature of reality, allowing us to understand many phenomena that challenge the common illusion of linear, material existence. This is not a lengthy or overly technical book - it focuses more on examining concepts and piecing them together to form a deeper, more encompassing view of Life and Creation. I highly recommend this book as an introduction or summary of what the most aware thinkers of our world have to teach us.



How to Read the Akashic Records: Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey by Linda Howe

For thousands of years, mystics, masters, and sages from various world traditions have read the Akashic Records-a dynamic repository that holds information about every soul and its journey. Once reserved for a "spiritually gifted" few, this infinite source of wisdom and healing energy is now available for readers everywhere to answer questions big and small. How can I find freedom from my past? What are my life purposes? With How to Read the Akashic Records, healer and teacher Linda Howe offers the first book of its kind to help navigate these timeless "Records of the Soul"-now available in paperback. Drawing from more than 15 years' experience with the Akashic Records, Howe teaches us:

# The Pathway Prayer Process-a "password" for admittance into the Records
# How to work with your "MTLOs"-your Masters, Teachers, and Loved Ones-for assistance within the Records
# Insightful tips to glean the most critical information, whether you're reading for yourself, other individuals, or even your pet
"The time has come for us to be our own spiritual authorities and access this illuminating, rich source directly," explains Howe. With How to Read the Akashic Records, anyone who desires to read the Records now has immediate access to this valuable life resource.