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I guess I'm just questioning how they jump to these conclusions about the relationship between brain waves, you know, the electromagnetic field of the Earth and consciousness. All right, point 11, consciousness and energy. Before our explanation can proceed [clears throat] any further, it is essential to define the mechanism by which the human mind exercises the function known as consciousness and to describe the way in which that
consciousness operates to deduce meaning from the stimuli which it receives. To do this, we will first consider the fundamental character of the material world in which we have our physical existence in order to accurately perceive the raw stuff with which our consciousness must work. The first point which needs to be made is that the two terms matter and energy tend to be misleading if taken to indicate two distinctly different states of existence
in the physical world that we know. Indeed, if the term matter is taken to mean solid substance as opposed to energy, which is understood to mean a force of some sort, then the use of the former is is misleading. Science now knows that both the electrons which spin in the energy field located around the nucleus of the atom and the nucleus itself are made up of nothing more than oscillating energy grids. Solid matter in the strict
construction of the term simply does not exist. Rather, atomic structure is composed of oscillating energy grids >> >> surrounded by other oscillating energy grids which orbit at extraordinarily high speeds. In his book, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, Itzhak Bentov gives the following figures. The energy grid which composes the nucleus of the atom vibrates at approximately 10 to the 22nd power hertz, which means 10 followed by
22 zeros. At 70° Fahrenheit, an atom oscillates at the rate of 10 to the 15 hertz. An entire molecule composed of a number of atoms bound together in a single energy field vibrates in the range of 10 to the ninth hertz.
A human cell vibrates at approximately 10 to the third power hertz. The point to be made is that the entire human being, brain, consciousness, and all is like the universe which surrounds him, nothing more or less than an extraordinarily complex system of energy fields. The so-called states of matter are actually variances in the state of energy, and human consciousness is a function of the interaction of energy in two opposite states, motion versus rest,
in a manner described in the following paragraph. This makes sense, and and this really seems to echo um pretty modern theoretical field-based physics, at least for my very high-level understanding. All right, point 12, holograms. Should be a fun one.
Energy creates, stores, and retrieves meaning in the universe by projecting or expanding it at certain frequencies in a three-dimensional mode that creates a living pattern called a hologram. The concept of a hologram can be most easily understood by using the example cited by by once again.
You got to you got to say that this paper really lives and dies, for better or worse, by Bentov. Anyway, um the concept of the hologram can be most easily understood by using an example cited by Bentov, in which he asks the reader to visualize a bowl full of water into which three pebbles are dropped. As the ripples created by the simultaneous entry of three pebbles radiate outward toward the rim of the bowl, Bentov further asks the reader to
visualize that the to visualize that the surface of the water is suddenly flash frozen, so that the ripple pattern is preserved instantly. The ice is removed, leaving the three-dimensional pebbles still laying at the bottom of the bowl.
Then the ice is exposed to a powerful coherent source of light, such as a laser. The result will be a three-dimensional model or representation of the position of the three pebbles suspended in midair.
Holograms are capable of encoding so much detail that, for example, it is possible to take a holographic projection of a glass of swamp water and view it under magnification to see small organisms not visible to the naked eye when the glass of water itself is examined. The whole concept of holography, despite its scientific implications, has only been known to the physicist since the underlying mathematical principles were worked out
by Dennis Gabor in 1947. He later won a Nobel Prize for his work. Laboratory demonstration of Gabor's work only occurred years later following the invention of the laser, as biologist Lyall Watson explains.
The purest kind of light available to us is that produced by a laser, which sends out a beam in which all waves are of one frequency, like those made by an ideal pebble in a perfect pond. When two laser beams touch, they produce an interference pattern of light and dark ripples that can be recorded by a photographic plate. And if one of the beams, instead of coming directly from the laser, is reflected first off of an
object, such as a human face, the resulting pattern will be very complex indeed, but it can still be recorded. The record will be a hologram of the face. So, what they're starting to get at here is basically that holograms have this incredible property of a, you know, a small part of the hologram itself being able to encode the whole. And this is going to have huge implications for the argument this paper is making about
consciousness in that we in many ways are a microcosm of the macrocosmic consciousness hologram. All right, so moving on. Point 13. Okay, case in point. Point 13, the part encodes the whole.
Of further importance is the fact that even if we dropped our frozen hologram of the ripple pattern on the floor and broke it into a number of pieces, each individual piece would recreate the entire holographic image all by itself.
The smaller the piece, the fuzzier and more distorted would be the resulting holographic projection, but the fact remains that the whole projection would nonetheless be made. The key to creating any hologram is that energy in motion must interact with energy in a state of rest, non-motion. In the foregoing example, the pebbles represent energy in motion while the water before its agitation by the pebbles represents energy at a state of rest. To activate
or in effect to perceive the meaning of a holograph, energy in this case, a coherent light source such as a laser beam, must be passed through the interference pattern generated by interaction between the moving energy and the energy at rest. In the simple example given by Bentov, this requirement was fulfilled by holding the frozen interference pattern in front of the coherent light to project the three-dimensional holographic image, its
quote meaning, into space. As Marilyn Ferguson, editor of Brain/Mind Bulletin tells us, "Another feature of a hologram is its efficiency. Billions of bits of information can be stored in a tiny space. The pattern of the holographic photograph is stored everywhere on the plate." So, there you go.
Uh case in point uh whole in point of anywhere in a given hologram. Point four, "Ooh, here we go. The consciousness matrix, point 14. The universe is composed of interacting energy fields, some at rest and some in motion. It is, in and of itself, one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity. According to the theories of Karl Pribram, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, and David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London,
the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal hologram by the medium of energy exchange, thereby deducing meaning and achieving which we call consciousness. With respect to states of expanded or altered consciousness, such as Gateway uses, the process operates in the following way.
As the energy passes through various aspects of the universal hologram and is perceived by the electrostatic fields which comprise the human mind, the holographic images being conveyed are projected upon the electrostatic fields of the mind and are perceived or understood to the extent that the electrostatic field is operating at a frequency and amplitude that can harmonize with and therefore read the energy carrier wave pattern passing
through it. Changes in the frequency and amplitude of the electrostatic field which comprises the human mind determines the configuration and hence the character of the holographic energy matrix which the mind projects to intercept meaning directly from the holographic transmissions of the universe.
Then, to make sense of what the holographic image is saying to it, the mind proceeds to compare the image just received with itself. Specifically, it does this by comparing the image received with that part of its own hologram, which constitutes memory, by registering differences in geometric form and in energy frequency. The consciousness perceives, see exhibit two on the next page, as psychologist Keith Floyd puts it, contrary to what everyone
knows is so, it may not be the brain that produces consciousness, but rather consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain. So, I think this point is really of the utmost importance. And now, you know, this figure on the next page is one of, if not the most famous images from this whole report. But yeah, this point that we just ended on here, it's consciousness that produces the appearance of the brain, not the brain
that produces consciousness. That in and of itself is a really huge point, but this whole concept of consciousness of the individual being like a fractured piece of the hologram of the whole is a really huge point. And then, if we make that assumption, this idea that if you perturb the consciousness field of the human being with a different frequency, like Gateway does, you can therefore change its perception, you can change its level of
consciousness, you can expand its consciousness, you can tune it in to different frequencies of reality or different energy systems, probably, as Robert Monroe would like to say. All right, point 15, brain in phase.
The consciousness process is most easily envisioned if we picture the holographic input with a three-dimensional grid system superimposed over it, in such that all of the energy patterns contained within it can be described in terms of three-dimensional geometry, using mathematics to reduce the data to two to a two-dimensional form. Bentov states that the scientist suspect that the human mind operates on a simple binary go no-go system as do all digital
computers. Therefore, once it superimposes a three-dimensional matrix over holographic information at which is to interpret and reduces that information mathematically to two-dimensional form, it can completely process it using its fundamental binary system just as any computer made by the hand of man can process volumes of data and make various comparisons between the data and information stored in its digital memory. Our minds operate in the
same way, perceiving by comparison only. Bentov states the proposition this way, "Our whole reality is constructed by constantly making such comparisons. Whenever we perceive something, we always perceive differences only." In states of expanded consciousness, the right hemisphere of the human brain, in its holistic, non-linear, and non- verbal mode of functioning, acts as the primary matrix receptor for this holographic input while operating in
phase or coherence with the right brain. The left hemisphere provides the secondary matrix through its binary computer-like method of functioning to screen further the data by comparison and reduce it to a discrete two-dimensional form.
I'm not too sure what to think about this part about the brain operating in a similar way to binary with the go no-go kind of analogy. Um I don't think it's super important to the central um philosophy of the paper. Maybe I just need to chew this one over more, but anyway, that is my knee-jerk. Moving on to 16, evaluation.