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1993 Professional Seminar: F. Holmes ' Skip' Atwater

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with my hands. But the energy that they were measuring was emanating from the solar plexus. So I found that very interesting. They're continuing to do more work and try and determine much more about that, again, not that the electrical pulse thing is the thing doing the healing, we could just hook up a bunch of car batteries if we wanted to do that. In this case, that seems to be some other phenomena that's happening at the same time that the healing energy is occurring. Okay. So much for my adventures with the ICMP. I'm going to talk now about actually I'm going to give you the same presentation that I gave them on what Hemi sync is because the reason I was out there to talk is ways in which people can obtain altered states of consciousness that might facilitate the his hearing mode. And then I've tried this out as a lab tour talk several times. So if you were here last week, you've probably heard this talk before, but I'll change my story a little bit to make it more interesting. For those of you who haven't heard this before, this will be kind of new material presented. So I'm going to talk to you about the same kind of talk I gave to them about how Hemi sync generates altered states of consciousness and that may be helpful for people doing these healing things. Yeah, if you can open the curtain mirror, maybe you the middle key. Okay. We're going to talk about using brain mapping to measure brain waves, brainwaves being in control, I think that they might want that Mark coat to be able to see the right 14 There you go. If you measure brainwaves, those brainwaves are paralleled with defined states of consciousness. So just like measuring the little spark that we're talking about isn't truly measuring the healing energy. If we can measure some brainwaves, we can get an idea about changes in states of consciousness. So what we're going to talk about is measuring those brainwaves. To do this, we have a brain mapping system from Mexico or a company out in Boulder, Colorado. This is a system that is inexpensive enough for a small organization like ours to have a hospital type system cost between 50 $150,000 to do brain mapping, but this with $12,000. And your own computer, if you already have your own computer. For $12,000, you can do brain mapping with this system here and it's a real nice system has worked really well for us. You hook it up like this, for those of you who haven't experienced this, this is a cap system that's very much like a woman's bathing cap, it feels like it's pressing against your head when it's on your head. It has the electrode position spaced around the head and information runs down this wire and onto the computer, we lay the person down in the booth like this and plug them into this little gray box here and send the signals off to the other room, I have to pause here and tell a little story. Usually when I do this lecture, it's for the people that are the gateway voyage and several of you have been to the Gateway bridge. And you know, the first thing we do is we take their watches away. Well, someone jumps up and says she's got a watch on, she's got a watch on. It's they become very, very interested in what time it is. And so they they begin to look at the slide and wonder what time it is on her watch there, which doesn't make a whole lot of suits because I took the picture three or four years ago, that's okay. 18:04 Now this is what the pictures coming off the brain look like initially in there the squiggly line so that you have all seen on a graph machine when the paper rolls through the graph machine and makes the squiggly lines, when when they first invented this machine, the first thing they had to do was make a readout that looked just like what everybody else had always used the squiggly lines coming out, it's hard to interpret and understand these lines. And we're going to not look at them again after this. But I just want to show you looking at a computer screen, the very first thing you can see is what we call the raw EEG or the squiggly lines coming across. Moving from that we can do different analysis. This one is a topographic and spectrum analysis. By topographic I mean this is organized, the way the head is organized. And if you look at this picture of the head, you can see how the letters parallel certain positions on the head. Well, that's you're just like you're looking down on top of somebody's head with a nose up. Well, that's the way all these figures are going to be that we're going to look at. So here we're looking down on the top of the head with a nose up. And these are the bar graphs are easy to understand in terms of frequency, here's a zero to 64 cycles per second guide here and we can just lay that right up on any one of these Intel what frequencies are predominant this one particular time. This is one second of information. So when we do a brain mapping, we collect lots and lots of seconds of information. 19:44 Here is a different analysis here using Fast Fourier Transform mathematics. And if you memorize that, then you can go home and impress your friends. Fast Fourier Transform mathematics means that if I look at this and you say okay, so that's a brainwave, but what free Couldn't see is it? Well, you can go over here and say it's made up of a lot of different frequencies. Predominantly, it's made up of alpha here. So we have delta frequencies, Theta Frequencies, alpha, beta, and gamma. But the Fourier transform mathematics can break out and determine what are the frequency components of this wave, and then makes a little bar graph easy to read here, and breaks them out into the proportions that they exist within that waveform itself. So it's really a nice, very quick, detailed analysis. Once the information is inside the computer, it will tell you anything you want to know, you just have to think of the question that you want to ask it. Here's what it looks like when it's mapped out the same Epic's of data, the same one second of information, that now it's in a map form, and by map form, I mean, these are the amplitudes, various frequencies, these ovals over here pertained to Delta frequencies, and these are ovals representing what's happening in delta. This is theta here. And these ovals represent what's happening in theta in this is alpha. In this case, now we can ask the computer to look at any ranges of frequencies. This is just delta, theta and alpha for now. The top row of ovals represent absolute values. The bottom row of ovals is more interesting to us at this time, because it represents relative values, meaning that these are mathematically compared with one another for power purposes. And what this is saying to us, this bottom row is saying to us is that in the Alpha range in the back of the head, here, there's a lots of amplitude of alpha, there doesn't seem to be in comparison, very much power in these ovals here. This being the power scale, and the brighter colors here are representative. So just a very quick look at this, you say well, what's happening, he's got a whole lot of alpha in the back of his head. That's what's happening in this picture. And that's a whole lot easier to see in this picture than it was in those squiggly lines when I first showed you, although it's the same situation, same moment in time, it's very easy to look right at this and say there's a lot of alpha in the back of the head here. We call that resting state alpha, which we'll talk about a little bit more. Here are some of the kinds of things that we're here at the Institute look at in terms of what's going on with brainwaves here. 22:37 Don't change a quick look at? We're going to talk about several of these as we go along. What's the black thing on the left hemisphere? Is he on camera? Yeah, this is black, meaning there's nothing happening. It's not like there's a hole in his head. It's just saying there's no activity there. The blue is very, very low activity happening. How can someone not have anything? Yeah, that's a good idea. In this is looking at only the gamma frequencies. Okay? So it's saying there's no gamma there. At the same moment in time, they might have some other frequencies happening there. But it's saying in the gamma range, there is nothing happening. Okay, gamma frequency, anything right now, anything about 30 cycles per second, we've lumped into the range of gamma. We've learned over the years to talk about delta theta, alpha and beta. And now with the advent of computerized electroencephalography, there's another one you can learn to say really fast computerized electroencephalography. We can look at frequencies faster than 30 cycles per second, for 40 years, there were no brain waves faster than 30 cycles per second, because those little pins couldn't spoil any faster than 30 times per second. So there's simply no research on basis of brainwaves happening over 30 cycles per second. Now, since 1982, when these concepts were all invented, began to look at brainwaves moving much, much faster. In at UCLA, they're looking at some brainwaves up in the kilohertz ranges that are happening. So you have to have an expensive machine to look at that. I want to go into now, talking about not laying a foundation first about what the greater community knows about brainwaves and state of consciousness. And so this isn't Monroe Institute stuff right now this is just kind of a background of what the community knows about in the literature says about brainwaves and altered states of consciousness. And then from that basis, we'll look at what Hemi Sync does to your brain. So to start out with I'm going to talk about two things very simplistic things dissociative states of conscious dismissing transcendent states of consciousness. And these are not academically complete definitions that we're going to be using. But they're going to be just simple things that we can talk about really easily. For example, in transcendent states of consciousness, the Tibetans have 251, discrete, different transcendent states. And I won't be covering each one of those this afternoon, I'm going to lump them all together and just talk about the thing called transcendent states of consciousness. Let's talk about dissociative states of consciousness. First. Dissociative states of consciousness are very common to all of us. Because it's very much like sleeping and dreaming is your basic dissociative state of consciousness. And we have these really rough definitions of it saying that 25:53 the things that you perceive to be happening to you are non physical, for example, in a dream when you're dreaming about running down the beach, and you feel the sand beneath your feet, and you hear the sound of the surf and so forth. Those are not physical indicators. Those are somehow non physical things that are happening to you that comprise your experience. Physically, what's happening is you're laying in bed, and the blankets are on top of you, and the sheets are below you, and so forth, and so on. So the experience you're having is the result of non physical input. So we can say that's kind of one of the first things you also are not normally in your physical body, meaning that the physics of being in my physical body don't apply in this particular condition. If I want to go upstairs, now, I simply have to take this body of mine and walk up the stairs to get upstairs. That's the physics of being here. In a dissociative state of consciousness, I might just wonder, in my mind, well, I wonder what's upstairs and blink, I'm right there. So the physics of having to maneuver this body around are different. In terms of what's happening with the physical body, it's usually laying on the bed totally asleep, or in some sort of a trance. So these are just very general concepts of what it takes to be in a dissociative state of consciousness. Obviously, if they were always to talk about focus levels,