for renegade researchers and their pioneering paradigm-shifting work, Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne, Russel Targ, Harold Puthoff, the late Cleve Backster and the likes, there really should be some kind of award for their efforts!
Pure awareness is absolute peace, life as wholeness, like the infinite ocean and all aspects are waves on it only. It is like that already but to get a direct insight into it needs training for most of us.
reinhard j It's great to have pure awareness and inner peace, but do you think this would naturally - without the need to speculate upon the future as far as intellectualizing , make all or most of humanity turn around and do less of the bad things we're doing to our environment?
Frater Tenc That's not a sarcastic question by the way, in case you think i'm being rude - just genuinely asking if you think it'd help. As someone who hyper-intellectualizes a LOT, if not almost always, (I feel I'm developing schizophrenia from my amphetamine use) I could benefit from being mindful more. All that puts me in that state of awareness is playing the piano in a really focused way for say an hour at least, maybe two. Same goes for focusing totally on reading a book. I find that the standard meditation approaches don't work.. the 'clear your mind'. I don't like to clear my mind to get into flow, what seems to work instead is exhausting my intellect and creativity.
Frater Tenc I have a mental health diagnosis of bipolar, and have been diagnosed as schizophrenic in the past. I have what's known as dual diagnosis, I've been self medicating with amphetamines and alcohol in the past, I used to go to therapy 3 times a week trying to figure it all out. I used to drink a lot of coffee, that's one of many drugs the health workers at the mental clinic demand we give up. Go get some professional help, they'll sort you out, once we give up all the crap, and sleep well, keep our bodies healthy, the answers are kind of like present we don't need to look for them!
psx1337 The paradigm shift is not going to occur without individual effort. Anyone who believes that human consciousness will advance without an ounce of work on the part of the individual is simply deluding themselves with wishful thinking. Read The Evolution of Consciousness series by Endall Beall that you can find on Amazon if you are truly interested in advancing your own consciousness without all the speculations of the unknowing and the mystical solutions.
Another excellent presentation by the courageous (and entertaining) Dean Radin, whose research is invaluable at this time. One of a precious few scientists who are exploring consciousness as the ground of everything, rather than a result of material brain chemistry. This work has the potential to lift us out of our Dark Age and bring the right-brain back online!
Kerrie Redgate You're welcome ! You can also checkout *Cracking the Nutshell* while youre at it. You'll find her informative, enlightening and inspiring, for sure :)
Buddha was a regular human being who had advanced his cognitive awareness into a higher level of perception. This level of cognitive advancement can be achieved by anyone without resorting to mystical spiritualism or supernatural explanations. I found some books on Amazon by Endall Beall called The Evolution of Consciousness series that explains it all in easy to understand terminology. The books are hard hitting and are no nonsense, but I found them to provide the most powerful explanations about advancing individual consciousness. The books are not based on speculation guesswork. They deliver what they promise of the reader has the stomach to come face to face with removing their own perceptual illusions.
David Lloyd-Jones You'll never know until you read it. Or you can stay ignorant and challenging and remain an uninformed opinionated drone. It's your life. Who cares what name an author chooses?
Thank your for the video. For anybody of a mystical persuasion, the core mind technology or "teaching" passed down through Buddhism is very obvious, as it is both a commentary and an arrow pointing at our own ignorance, that is to say, our own perception, and anybody who has personal experience with this state is grateful that such a wonderful intellect such as Buddha recorded his experiences to pass on, I have not found another such powerful teaching in any of the other world religions or religious/mystical groups, certainly not expressed in such a concise manner anyway. Great teachers tell us the same things over and over, but do we listen? "Whatever happens, I don't mind" - J. Krishnamurti "There is the problem... and your thoughts about the problem" - Eckhart Tolle "There is suffering, and an end to suffering (ways to end suffering)" - Buddha These three are different expressions of an internal state, our "natural" state if you will that we live in constantly when there no confusion about our own identity, or lack of "conceptual mind-created self"
Excellent presentation, but just a few thoughts. 1. The Buddha was supposed to have condemned the pursuit of extraordinary powers (siddhis), though he did acknowledge their existence. His main concern was that such powers can boost one's ego. "Wow, I'm so good, I have such cool powers!" Well, to boost one's personal ego is anathema to Buddhism (at least the Theravada school). It would be interesting to ask what bearing this might have on one's psychic abilities and on developing them. 2. I really don't feel comfortable about bringing in some of the patriarchs of the Abrahamic traditions and placing them side by side with people like the Buddha. If anything the Abrahamic traditions are often HYPER-dualistic; man and God are two absolutely different and completely separated things, and the former can NEVER hope to reach the latter through his own effort. That's why Christian mystics and Sufis were often regarded as heretics. 3. If precognition is for real, does that mean that the future already exists, and that everything is therefore pre-ordained? In which case, does that mean all human effort is pointless, since whatever will be will be, as the song goes? I suspect the Buddha won't like that, since all of his teachings scream in your face that NOT all human effort is pointless. Just a few thoughts.
The precognition was on the order of milliseconds, which suggests that the very near future is knowable, while the more distant future is fuzzier. I don't know if the future is is pre-ordained, or if through our actions we select from various paths. I do know that if I stop going to work, I will stop getting paid, won't be able to pay for my house, and will end up living in my car. If I do decide to stop working, then that decision was perhaps pre-ordained, but the causal link between it and future events will remain intact.
@GWang I was told by a Tibetan Rinpoche in 1979 during Carl Sargent's extraordinary post-doc ganzfeld work, in which I was involved and which was certainly producing plenty of siddhis , that in the Bhuddhist view the siddhis should simply be recognised as 'a sign that one is advancing on the spiritual path....' That, however, is a view from a particular cultural background and time frame. The Western approach is not influenced by the same specific circumstances, we have better social conditions for the most part, and the idea of working towards getting off the wheel of life is less of an imperative, so siddhi investigation, in an attempt to explore consciousness using the scientific method, seems ok.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Precognition certainly happens, sometimes many years in advance of the event. So in a sense yes, it is 'pre-ordained' However, the fact of an individual being able to access his or her individual timeline in advance of an event means there is 'wiggle room', ie, it can be seen as a wholly benevolent early warning system. In any case, the future events are determined by the mass of individuals all using their free-will. So, if there is a deterministic flow to the future, it's the accumulation of the use of free will that does the determining. Think of the Titanic. Many people had precognitive warnings not to use their pre booked passages, even the chief engineer, just promoted to this plum position backed out at the last minute. They used the wiggle-room and saved themselves. The ship couldn't have been prevented from sailing, there was too much inertia generated by the activity of thousands of people involved. All precognition does is gives us a clue about how 'time' works, and wiggle room for use in our individual lives.
This is awesome. Basically my own theory comes to this exact conclusion. Awareness is absolutely foundational. All the postulates and conclusions here are woven into science and epistemology in my books and papers. For example my 2003 book covers the history of epistemology in this vein, and also gives a new experimental method combining the awareness with the physical world.
Fortunately there were a pair of psychologists who explicitly said that they did not believe in any kind of psychic ability but they went ahead and did this same kind of Ganzfeld experiment anyway. Their report after eight studies, we had an overall statistically significant hit rate of 32%. Which is exactly what you see when you look at the overall database. Well, they didn't like this. Because it was precariously close to demonstrating humans do have psychic powers. So, the power of your prior idea is so strong that even if you go ahead and do the experiment and get exactly the same result that everyone else got and presumably you do it the best that you can that's still not sufficient to push your belief. So, it's becoming more popular now in psychology and a few other areas is Bayseian Statistics which takes into account prior beliefs and expectations about the people doing research and it's very clear from Bayseian Statistics that if you start with a prior belief that is very close to zero about something then no amount of additional information could ever change your mind. If you start anything other than close to zero, the evidence will push you, but a lot of people are already starting with basically zero. At that point it's not science anymore. Because if data can't change your opinion then what are you doing?
No, buddha is more then you have ever imagine.. Buddha mean free from death and rebirth, free from death and rebirth mean awakening, awakening mean there is nothing exist that don't know.... So that is a buddha what really mean...
The second postulate is that awareness is unitary, there's just one mind. A nice book on this which just came out by Larry Dossey is called, _One Mind,_ and basically captures all of the lower, about the idea of one mind from many different traditions. It's a good resource. So, if that were true there's just one mind ultimately then occasionally people should share mind stuff. In other words there should be something like telepathy. The third postulate is that the physical world emerges from awareness. If that's true then there should be a way in which awareness occasionally changes our perception or not only to our perception but changes the actual physical world, the way that it manifests. In which case you can be Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo), and bend spoons simply by adjusting your awareness of it. So, what does this have to do with asking the question, "Was Buddha Just a Nice Guy?" Well, it's relevant because if this is the view of the mind which is the way neuroscientist think about the mind today then there's no room for Buddha to be anything other than a nice guy. We don't even know if he was a nice guy. Probably he was nice, he smiled a lot. So, probably nice but there would be no additional, nothing else, with Buddha or anyone else of his style. So, when we hear stories about in this case Buddha levitating in a pillar of flame above his disciples we can only understand that as hagiography. This is the embellished lives of the saints, or their stories, Jesus walking on water or Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. These become powerful stories but from a modern secular scientific viewpoint we would look at that and say, "Well, they're useful for manipulating people's ideas but they're not really true. As a result we get responses like this (Fluke picture). So, you say, "Well yeah this is the Red Sea parting but it was a fluke" or "I'm glad my name's not Thou," or this sort of thing where you get something between Jesus and the Mona Lisa and Mother Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich. This particular grilled cheese sandwich was sold on eBay for $30,000, and was bought by a casino in Las Vegas, and the miracle of this grilled cheese sandwich was not only that Jesus appeared in it but that a bite that was taken out of it miraculously healed itself and so you can't see the bite anymore. By the way, if you want to see dozens and dozens of versions of this kind of picture there's a website called stuff that looks like Jesus dot com. (9:30)
Hi, it's a transcription, the first postulate is noted at 6:16. I have a date stamp on the transcription you're responding to, ending at 9:30. So, based on the length of the transcription I'm sure the second postulate shortly follows from the first, shortly after the 6:16 mark/picture.
If consciousness can affect RNGs, could it also affect the computer systems which record the results of the RNGs? In which case, was the collective consciousness affecting the partices that the RNGs measure, the recorders, or both?
Computers are designed to be highly repeatable, regardless of random fluctuations in their electronics, so I would say no, it was not the computers. Only the RNGs were affected.
There can be no nice people in this world by themselves. As long as we have evil people it's not in one person's hands to be nice, behaviour in itself is what other person brings in you more than how you decide to behave. Some people really go.after ancient sages yet they are not half nice themselves.
I Think In the fall of man, Humans Fell Down To The Third Dimension. He Doesn't believe in the forth and fifth dimensions because he forgot how to perceive it. So, in essence I'm saying that you don't miss what you never had. Meditation is a huge missing element in consciousness.
www.google.nl/search?q=morphogenetic+resonance&rlz=1CAHPZY_enNL570NL570&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=7f0_wAhRlgJNbM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcSQa4ov19zE97wocOJJl_ZpThAboFaRqzzfoi6ypTQUruXKme2c%253B640%253B360%253B-e9prM_dV-IJfM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fcommunity. Very interesting pictures!
Thinking about the mechanical RNG where people intended more 1s or more zeros, I wonder what would happen if they intended AGAINST ones or zeros and what would happen. I imagine if you thought "not one not one!" then you would probably get more ones! haha
Paranormal investigator Susan Blackmore (2001) has an insider's view of the ganzfeld. She has gone over the circumstances under which the ganzfeld studies were conducted and the papers that have been published in support of the psi hypothesis. Here are her comments: How can one draw reliable and impartial conclusions in such circumstances? I do not believe one can. My own conclusion is based not just on reading these published papers but also on my personal experience over many years. I have carried out numerous experiments of many kinds and never found any convincing evidence for psi (Blackmore 1996). I tried my first ganzfeld experiment in 1978, when the procedure was new. Failing to get results myself I went to visit [Carl] Sargent's laboratory in Cambridge where some of the best ganzfeld results were then being obtained. Note that in Honorton's database nine of the twenty-eight experiments came from Sargent's lab. What I found there had a profound effect on my confidence in the whole field and in published claims of successful experiments. These experiments, which looked so beautifully designed in print, were in fact open to fraud or error in several ways, and indeed I detected several errors and failures to follow the protocol while I was there. I concluded that the published papers gave an unfair impression of the experiments and that the results could not be relied upon as evidence for psi. Eventually the experimenters and I all published our different views of the affair (Blackmore 1987; Harley and Matthews 1987; Sargent 1987). The main experimenter left the field altogether. I would not refer to this depressing incident again but for one fact. The Cambridge data are all there in the Bem and Honorton review but unacknowledged. Out of twenty-eight studies included, nine came from the Cambridge lab, more than any other single laboratory, and they had the second highest effect size after Honorton's own studies. Bem and Honorton do point out that one of the laboratories contributed nine of the studies but they do not say which one. Not a word of doubt is expressed, no references to my investigation are given, and no casual reader could guess there was such controversy over a third of the studies in the database. Of course the new autoganzfeld results appear even better. Perhaps errors from the past do not matter if there really is a repeatable experiment. The problem is that my personal experience conflicts with the successes I read about in the literature and I cannot ignore either side. I cannot ignore other people's work because science is a collective enterprise and publication is the main way of sharing our findings. On the other hand I cannot ignore my own findings-there would be no point in doing science, or investigating other people's work, if I did. The only honest reaction to the claims of psi in the ganzfeld is for me to say "I don't know but I doubt it.
I was involved in the Carl Sargent post doc work before Blackmore turned up in late September 1979. Carl was away with glandular fever, Trevor Harley, who was then his research assistant let her wander around in the lab unsupervised. She claims to have found an out-of-place envelope with one of the instruction cards in it. THIS is what she bases her 'blackwash' of Carls hugely successsful Gz work! She has never explained how this could possibly make his results irrelevant, and in any case, she has consistently claimed she's "still awaiting" an explanation from Carl. She seems to have forgotten that he gave her an explanation for the misplaced envelope AT THE TIME, in 1979. Her own work has been heavily criticised, and appears, in part, to have showed significantly positive results, though she claimed the opposite.... In my own experience, Carl Sargent was underplaying things that happened in some of the sessions....I was there, and experienced this myself. RIP, Carl.
Something that is very interesting is that 7 cycles per second is the frequency of the aorta when you maintain a heart rate of 60 while breathing a slow and shallow as possible. I used beat frequency of 7 cycles a second evey night for 500 days one night after I stopped listening to the beat frequency I could hear in my mind the 7 hz not really knowing what to do with it. I tried to increase the amplitude as soon as I tried it stopped i should have just listened but instinctively I knew great power came with what I had done. And hearing 7 hz can only be done in the mind that was 30 years ago it never returned. But if it did strange things would have been done.
+James van der Hoorn writes "So the observer is the real." James, The observer is the observer. Really. Your "here" and "now" only apply to English speaking observers. Thank you for your second message, today's afterthought. I hadn't doubted it. Were you reassuring yourself? Cheers, -dlj.
Life is a test. It is also an experience. If I went and saw a movie in a theater and never knew owner of the theater you will most likely come back to see the same movie or some other movie again. The only difference is you are the movie and the one seeing the movie. Once you know the owner you will never come back. This is what I call nirvana or enlightenment. Grace is very powerful. Try to get some of it. You will be like Buddha. You will be very uncomfortable for some time. Because you will cry because when you see suffering in all life. Therefore Love everybody. But never love them the Movie theater owner. He/she comes first. The movie owner even developed quantum mechanics so the simulation/reality can continue. All the rest are details without end. Space and time dont exist. Again a simulation.
And the other thing is that materialism reinforces our sense of separateness. We clearly have separate bodies, we have to move them around separate ways, but is that all there is? That's something materialism reinforces all the time. So, let's look at idealism. One way of thinking of idealism, btw the reason why idealism usually as a philosophy is rejected out of hand is because it can easily lead to solipsism, and in which case it's easy to argue against solipsism because we're here and things seem to be real here. So, the version of idealism that I would propose looks exactly the same as materialism with one new addition. Namely that the whole thing sits on top of awareness. So, this is not a new idea, this is the essence of the Vedas and practically every mystical tradition there's ever been and so we would imagine that somehow we emerge from awareness and into space & time and then into energy & matter and so on and we keep building up the knowledge pyramid. How do you get from pure awareness into the physical world? There are many proposals, the one I like is The Laws of Form by G. Spencer Brow, but there have been a couple people at this conference already like Don Hoffman the other day talking about how you would start with something like just a field of void or pure awareness, you make a distinction and allow recursion to occur and the whole universe comes out of that. So, just as materialism the bottom level permeates everything in which case awareness becomes inherent at every stage of this pyramid. Now when we go to mind we would say there are aspects of mind that have some of this pure primordial awareness in it and that is prior to space-time. So, the other nice thing about this way of thinking about it is that it doesn't require us to throw the textbooks away. This is one of the fears I see among scientists who have bought completely into the standard materialistic point of view that they say what you're talking about namely, usually psychic experience cannot be true because if it was true then we have to throw away the physics textbooks and everything else and I'm saying "No, all of the textbooks would remain the same, it would still have to be revived every six months because science evolves, but the essence of it remains the same." All you're doing is expanding it and making it a little more comprehensive and the more comprehensive aspect of it would give rise to other kinds of phenomena that are not usually thought about. So, awareness permeates this version of idealism. Nothing is written in stone except this nice recursion which is chiseled into stone. And so, let's simply have a couple of postulates based on this model of idealism. First of all Awareness is more fundamental than space-time, matter or energy. If that is true, especially if it's true for time then it should be the case that through awareness you can see past, present and future because awareness is before space-time. (6:30)
Was Buddha just a nice guy? This was a version of a talk I've given that is related to my new book Supernormal but I have customized it for the Sand audience. You might also think of this as a tale of two cities but not spelled that way but spelled this way. Had I found a book that was a tale of three cities I would have used that because I'm actually going to talk about 3 cities and not just 2. So lets begin with two nondualities. One nonduality is materialism, the other nonduality is idealism. The Idealism picture comes from Burning Man and you'll see why that becomes relevant in a little bit. Materialism you can think of as a knowledge pyramid and at the bottom of the pyramid is something like space and time; and then we have energy lite & energy dense otherwise known as matter and energy. That emerges into atoms and molecules then chemistry to biology and somewhere at the top is psychology and the mind. Within this pyramid it's understood that things emerge from lower levels and so we know that space and time permeates everything above, and energy permeates everything above and so on. So, there's materialism. It has aspects which are good, bad and ugly. The good part of materialism is that it has given rise to predictive models some of which are very accurate and to technologies. So, it gives us a confidence that the models are correct. So, that's the good part. There are also bad parts to materialism. One of which is this, it leads to a kind of nihilistic view of the world. I love the subtitle here under atheism "Shoving nothing in your face." So, that's one of the consequences, of course there are many other consequences to materialism that are not so good, and then there's the ugly part of materialism which is that it doesn't count very well for the fact that we're conscious or worse for things related to consciousness that materialism really can't handle at all, including things like psychic and mystical experience. So, the reason why from a mainstream perspective that these phenomena are excluded or denied is because the knowledge pyramid as they built it up has mind at the very top and has space and time at the bottom, and even though we know that there is very strange slippery stuff going on at the lower level it seems so far away from the mind supposedly emerges that there's no way you can make sense of psychic and mystical experience because those experiences are strange for one reason, they seem to transcend space and time. (3:21)
At some point an unpredictable future for them they will get a stimulus, it's either a light flash or an audio tone. And we looked at what's happening in their brain one second before, and so this is showing that zero is when the stimulus occurs and one second & even up to two seconds before in the controls there is no change in their brain but in meditators there is. So these envelopes here these are one standard error envelopes. This is a very significant difference in just one electrode and we actually found it in many electrodes. So we can see where in the brain this effect is occurring. So as of 2011 there have been 49 replications of experiments of this type from many different countries including Iran. 26 of them fit in an inclusion criteria in a meta-analysis, and the results again are gazillions to one against chance, and even using a Bayes Statistical Method the results in favor of actual precognition is 10 ^ 13. This was done by Patrizio Tressoldi in Italy and Julain Mossbridge and colleagues. What happens if you look at all 49 replications? Putting this now in terms of z scores, or if you're a physicist, in terms of sigma, well it accumulates to 9 sigma, 3 quintillion to one against chance.
I love Dean Radin's experiments & his presentation, but he has presented the same psychic results again & again. I'm more interested in his speculative metaphysics.
I am curious - what were the mental chatter descriptions the senders were saying to themselves as they sent the pictures to the recipients? Were the sent message similar to the received, such as rough, tall, mount rushmore, etc....?
India already taught these things to the world. Sadly just lake it takes a smart person to understand science it takes similar or higher person to understand those. But the world is blind.
I dont like it because the whole 40 minutes are not about the topics said here "was Buddha just a nice guy?" Also, he made a disturbing joke about scientists, i personaly think it needs more measurement - im not a scientist, just using logic- maybe sometimes is provable, sometimes it isnt; not every measurement proves it.
When you have odds against chance of 300 trillion quadrillion to one it addresses what is a valid skeptical concern about extraordinary evidence. You're making an extraordinary claim. It's only extraordinary because of an assumption that materialism is completely true and nothing else is true. Well, this is extraordinary evidence. Whenever you do an experiment of this type, the reason why I like the kind of work that I do is because when you present evidence that is contrary or countering what the mainstream accepts it has to be much better. It has to be better, there is a higher bar to be achieved. The method has to be better the attention to detail has to be better, and for me it's just a better challenge of doing science better. So, we look through all the possible ways we can think of and skeptics over the years have thought of how can you explain the results we see in these experiments, and you go through the due diligence list, and the one thing that you can't do as a single experimenter is ask about replication but we saw that there are 20 labs doing this and they replicate them. It then boils down what if someone did it who really did not believe in telepathy at all? And I have to say, before I started doing these experiments I didn't have a strong opinion one way or another. I didn't know telepathy existed, but I allowed the data to bring me into a direction that says, "It probably exists" because otherwise it's impossible to explain this data. Nevertheless, are there people who absolutely don't believe any of this and do these experiments, and most of the time the answer is "no."
Now Dean, if you are familiar with the Seth material and you are going to speak at the Seth confrence, how can you possibly say their is only one mind, that is so ridiculous , my mind is my mind not yours or some supreme being!
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for renegade researchers and their pioneering paradigm-shifting work, Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne, Russel Targ, Harold Puthoff, the late Cleve Backster and the likes, there really should be some kind of award for their efforts!
I love Sheldrake's books, intelligent and readable, and warm
The consciousness they get to enjoy is the award
he is such a king! 👑 loving the relaxed, humorous approach 💞
A brilliant and humorous lecture. The paradigm shift is on the way: awareness is prior to matter.
Pure awareness is absolute peace, life as wholeness, like the infinite ocean and all aspects are waves on it only. It is like that already but to get a direct insight into it needs training for most of us.
reinhard j It's great to have pure awareness and inner peace, but do you think this would naturally - without the need to speculate upon the future as far as intellectualizing , make all or most of humanity turn around and do less of the bad things we're doing to our environment?
Frater Tenc That's not a sarcastic question by the way, in case you think i'm being rude - just genuinely asking if you think it'd help. As someone who hyper-intellectualizes a LOT, if not almost always, (I feel I'm developing schizophrenia from my amphetamine use) I could benefit from being mindful more. All that puts me in that state of awareness is playing the piano in a really focused way for say an hour at least, maybe two. Same goes for focusing totally on reading a book. I find that the standard meditation approaches don't work.. the 'clear your mind'. I don't like to clear my mind to get into flow, what seems to work instead is exhausting my intellect and creativity.
Frater Tenc I have a mental health diagnosis of bipolar, and have been diagnosed as schizophrenic in the past. I have what's known as dual diagnosis, I've been self medicating with amphetamines and alcohol in the past, I used to go to therapy 3 times a week trying to figure it all out. I used to drink a lot of coffee, that's one of many drugs the health workers at the mental clinic demand we give up.
Go get some professional help, they'll sort you out, once we give up all the crap, and sleep well, keep our bodies healthy, the answers are kind of like present we don't need to look for them!
psx1337 The paradigm shift is not going to occur without individual effort. Anyone who believes that human consciousness will advance without an ounce of work on the part of the individual is simply deluding themselves with wishful thinking. Read The Evolution of Consciousness series by Endall Beall that you can find on Amazon if you are truly interested in advancing your own consciousness without all the speculations of the unknowing and the mystical solutions.
Another excellent presentation by the courageous (and entertaining) Dean Radin, whose research is invaluable at this time. One of a precious few scientists who are exploring consciousness as the ground of everything, rather than a result of material brain chemistry. This work has the potential to lift us out of our Dark Age and bring the right-brain back online!
enormousforce Many thanks for the link
Kerrie Redgate
You're welcome ! You can also checkout *Cracking the Nutshell* while youre at it. You'll find her informative, enlightening and inspiring, for sure :)
***** Thank you for all the references!
Buddha was definitely a nice guy and beyond... The humor in this presentation is for me the happiest form of enlightenment.
Buddha was a regular human being who had advanced his cognitive awareness into a higher level of perception. This level of cognitive advancement can be achieved by anyone without resorting to mystical spiritualism or supernatural explanations. I found some books on Amazon by Endall Beall called The Evolution of Consciousness series that explains it all in easy to understand terminology. The books are hard hitting and are no nonsense, but I found them to provide the most powerful explanations about advancing individual consciousness. The books are not based on speculation guesswork. They deliver what they promise of the reader has the stomach to come face to face with removing their own perceptual illusions.
David Lloyd-Jones You'll never know until you read it. Or you can stay ignorant and challenging and remain an uninformed opinionated drone. It's your life. Who cares what name an author chooses?
The Buddha himself was supposed to have said that anyone can become a Buddha. Indeed he even said that in a sense everyone's a Buddha already. :)
Thank your for the video. For anybody of a mystical persuasion, the core mind technology or "teaching" passed down through Buddhism is very obvious, as it is both a commentary and an arrow pointing at our own ignorance, that is to say, our own perception, and anybody who has personal experience with this state is grateful that such a wonderful intellect such as Buddha recorded his experiences to pass on, I have not found another such powerful teaching in any of the other world religions or religious/mystical groups, certainly not expressed in such a concise manner anyway.
Great teachers tell us the same things over and over, but do we listen?
"Whatever happens, I don't mind" - J. Krishnamurti
"There is the problem... and your thoughts about the problem" - Eckhart Tolle
"There is suffering, and an end to suffering (ways to end suffering)" - Buddha
These three are different expressions of an internal state, our "natural" state if you will that we live in constantly when there no confusion about our own identity, or lack of "conceptual mind-created self"
Love watching Dean Radin. Always so interesting and this one has me laughing out loud.
I'm really glad I found this guy
Brilliant stuff!
Thanks for the link to the Bem, that's some crazy compelling stuff.
Excellent presentation, but just a few thoughts.
1. The Buddha was supposed to have condemned the pursuit of extraordinary powers (siddhis), though he did acknowledge their existence. His main concern was that such powers can boost one's ego. "Wow, I'm so good, I have such cool powers!" Well, to boost one's personal ego is anathema to Buddhism (at least the Theravada school). It would be interesting to ask what bearing this might have on one's psychic abilities and on developing them.
2. I really don't feel comfortable about bringing in some of the patriarchs of the Abrahamic traditions and placing them side by side with people like the Buddha. If anything the Abrahamic traditions are often HYPER-dualistic; man and God are two absolutely different and completely separated things, and the former can NEVER hope to reach the latter through his own effort. That's why Christian mystics and Sufis were often regarded as heretics.
3. If precognition is for real, does that mean that the future already exists, and that everything is therefore pre-ordained? In which case, does that mean all human effort is pointless, since whatever will be will be, as the song goes? I suspect the Buddha won't like that, since all of his teachings scream in your face that NOT all human effort is pointless.
Just a few thoughts.
Excellent thoughts my friend.
The precognition was on the order of milliseconds, which suggests that the very near future is knowable, while the more distant future is fuzzier. I don't know if the future is is pre-ordained, or if through our actions we select from various paths. I do know that if I stop going to work, I will stop getting paid, won't be able to pay for my house, and will end up living in my car. If I do decide to stop working, then that decision was perhaps pre-ordained, but the causal link between it and future events will remain intact.
@GWang I was told by a Tibetan Rinpoche in 1979 during Carl Sargent's extraordinary post-doc ganzfeld work, in which I was involved and which was certainly producing plenty of siddhis , that in the Bhuddhist view the siddhis should simply be recognised as 'a sign that one is advancing on the spiritual path....'
That, however, is a view from a particular cultural background and time frame. The Western approach is not influenced by the same specific circumstances, we have better social conditions for the most part, and the idea of working towards getting off the wheel of life is less of an imperative, so siddhi investigation, in an attempt to explore consciousness using the scientific method, seems ok.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Precognition certainly happens, sometimes many years in advance of the event. So in a sense yes, it is 'pre-ordained' However, the fact of an individual being able to access his or her individual timeline in advance of an event means there is 'wiggle room', ie, it can be seen as a wholly benevolent early warning system.
In any case, the future events are determined by the mass of individuals all using their free-will.
So, if there is a deterministic flow to the future, it's the accumulation of the use of free will that does the determining.
Think of the Titanic. Many people had precognitive warnings not to use their pre booked passages, even the chief engineer, just promoted to this plum position backed out at the last minute. They used the wiggle-room and saved themselves. The ship couldn't have been prevented from sailing, there was too much inertia generated by the activity of thousands of people involved. All precognition does is gives us a clue about how 'time' works, and wiggle room for use in our individual lives.
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This is awesome. Basically my own theory comes to this exact conclusion. Awareness is absolutely foundational. All the postulates and conclusions here are woven into science and epistemology in my books and papers. For example my 2003 book covers the history of epistemology in this vein, and also gives a new experimental method combining the awareness with the physical world.
Can you provide a link to your book?
Fortunately there were a pair of psychologists who explicitly said that they did not believe in any kind of psychic ability but they went ahead and did this same kind of Ganzfeld experiment anyway. Their report after eight studies, we had an overall statistically significant hit rate of 32%. Which is exactly what you see when you look at the overall database. Well, they didn't like this. Because it was precariously close to demonstrating humans do have psychic powers. So, the power of your prior idea is so strong that even if you go ahead and do the experiment and get exactly the same result that everyone else got and presumably you do it the best that you can that's still not sufficient to push your belief. So, it's becoming more popular now in psychology and a few other areas is Bayseian Statistics which takes into account prior beliefs and expectations about the people doing research and it's very clear from Bayseian Statistics that if you start with a prior belief that is very close to zero about something then no amount of additional information could ever change your mind. If you start anything other than close to zero, the evidence will push you, but a lot of people are already starting with basically zero. At that point it's not science anymore. Because if data can't change your opinion then what are you doing?
Good point the pair of psychologists doubted the phenomena was real and set out to disprove it and couldn't. What does that say? It says ego matters.
Comment 111, right on time.
False proponents of buddhism who claim compassion but fail to practice what they preach will fall.
Ganzfeld 4,674 sessions - psychological bulletin 1994, 1999, 2001, 2010
Odds against chance = 300 trillion quadrillion to 1
No, buddha is more then you have ever imagine.. Buddha mean free from death and rebirth, free from death and rebirth mean awakening, awakening mean there is nothing exist that don't know.... So that is a buddha what really mean...
Haha... Ok don't believe it.. It won't fit in your mind... Let buddha just be nice guy in your mind...^^
psx1337 no, Buddha mean gained all wisdom and knowledge and erased all delusional and inner poison..
+はるこあずみ Completely missing the point of the video ^^
The second postulate is that awareness is unitary, there's just one mind. A nice book on this which just came out by Larry Dossey is called, _One Mind,_ and basically captures all of the lower, about the idea of one mind from many different traditions. It's a good resource. So, if that were true there's just one mind ultimately then occasionally people should share mind stuff. In other words there should be something like telepathy. The third postulate is that the physical world emerges from awareness. If that's true then there should be a way in which awareness occasionally changes our perception or not only to our perception but changes the actual physical world, the way that it manifests. In which case you can be Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo), and bend spoons simply by adjusting your awareness of it. So, what does this have to do with asking the question, "Was Buddha Just a Nice Guy?" Well, it's relevant because if this is the view of the mind which is the way neuroscientist think about the mind today then there's no room for Buddha to be anything other than a nice guy. We don't even know if he was a nice guy. Probably he was nice, he smiled a lot. So, probably nice but there would be no additional, nothing else, with Buddha or anyone else of his style. So, when we hear stories about in this case Buddha levitating in a pillar of flame above his disciples we can only understand that as hagiography. This is the embellished lives of the saints, or their stories, Jesus walking on water or Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. These become powerful stories but from a modern secular scientific viewpoint we would look at that and say, "Well, they're useful for manipulating people's ideas but they're not really true. As a result we get responses like this (Fluke picture). So, you say, "Well yeah this is the Red Sea parting but it was a fluke" or "I'm glad my name's not Thou," or this sort of thing where you get something between Jesus and the Mona Lisa and Mother Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich. This particular grilled cheese sandwich was sold on eBay for $30,000, and was bought by a casino in Las Vegas, and the miracle of this grilled cheese sandwich was not only that Jesus appeared in it but that a bite that was taken out of it miraculously healed itself and so you can't see the bite anymore. By the way, if you want to see dozens and dozens of versions of this kind of picture there's a website called stuff that looks like Jesus dot com. (9:30)
May I ask what postulates. you are referring to?
Hi, it's a transcription, the first postulate is noted at 6:16. I have a date stamp on the transcription you're responding to, ending at 9:30. So, based on the length of the transcription I'm sure the second postulate shortly follows from the first, shortly after the 6:16 mark/picture.
If consciousness can affect RNGs, could it also affect the computer systems which record the results of the RNGs? In which case, was the collective consciousness affecting the partices that the RNGs measure, the recorders, or both?
Computers are designed to be highly repeatable, regardless of random fluctuations in their electronics, so I would say no, it was not the computers. Only the RNGs were affected.
There can be no nice people in this world by themselves. As long as we have evil people it's not in one person's hands to be nice, behaviour in itself is what other person brings in you more than how you decide to behave. Some people really go.after ancient sages yet they are not half nice themselves.
The universe is entangled every quantum particle.
I Think In the fall of man, Humans Fell Down To The Third Dimension. He Doesn't believe in the forth and fifth dimensions because he forgot how to perceive it. So, in essence I'm saying that you don't miss what you never had. Meditation is a huge missing element in consciousness.
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Very interesting pictures!
Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic Field Resonance Cosmic Consciousness - The Morphogenetic Universe 1
Thinking about the mechanical RNG where people intended more 1s or more zeros, I wonder what would happen if they intended AGAINST ones or zeros and what would happen. I imagine if you thought "not one not one!" then you would probably get more ones! haha
Paranormal investigator Susan Blackmore (2001) has an insider's view of the ganzfeld. She has gone over the circumstances under which the ganzfeld studies were conducted and the papers that have been published in support of the psi hypothesis. Here are her comments:
How can one draw reliable and impartial conclusions in such circumstances? I do not believe one can. My own conclusion is based not just on reading these published papers but also on my personal experience over many years. I have carried out numerous experiments of many kinds and never found any convincing evidence for psi (Blackmore 1996). I tried my first ganzfeld experiment in 1978, when the procedure was new. Failing to get results myself I went to visit [Carl] Sargent's laboratory in Cambridge where some of the best ganzfeld results were then being obtained. Note that in Honorton's database nine of the twenty-eight experiments came from Sargent's lab. What I found there had a profound effect on my confidence in the whole field and in published claims of successful experiments.
These experiments, which looked so beautifully designed in print, were in fact open to fraud or error in several ways, and indeed I detected several errors and failures to follow the protocol while I was there. I concluded that the published papers gave an unfair impression of the experiments and that the results could not be relied upon as evidence for psi. Eventually the experimenters and I all published our different views of the affair (Blackmore 1987; Harley and Matthews 1987; Sargent 1987). The main experimenter left the field altogether.
I would not refer to this depressing incident again but for one fact. The Cambridge data are all there in the Bem and Honorton review but unacknowledged. Out of twenty-eight studies included, nine came from the Cambridge lab, more than any other single laboratory, and they had the second highest effect size after Honorton's own studies. Bem and Honorton do point out that one of the laboratories contributed nine of the studies but they do not say which one. Not a word of doubt is expressed, no references to my investigation are given, and no casual reader could guess there was such controversy over a third of the studies in the database.
Of course the new autoganzfeld results appear even better. Perhaps errors from the past do not matter if there really is a repeatable experiment. The problem is that my personal experience conflicts with the successes I read about in the literature and I cannot ignore either side. I cannot ignore other people's work because science is a collective enterprise and publication is the main way of sharing our findings. On the other hand I cannot ignore my own findings-there would be no point in doing science, or investigating other people's work, if I did. The only honest reaction to the claims of psi in the ganzfeld is for me to say "I don't know but I doubt it.
I was involved in the Carl Sargent post doc work before Blackmore turned up in late September 1979. Carl was away with glandular fever, Trevor Harley, who was then his research assistant let her wander around in the lab unsupervised. She claims to have found an out-of-place envelope with one of the instruction cards in it. THIS is what she bases her 'blackwash' of Carls hugely successsful Gz work! She has never explained how this could possibly make his results irrelevant, and in any case, she has consistently claimed she's "still awaiting" an explanation from Carl.
She seems to have forgotten that he gave her an explanation for the misplaced envelope AT THE TIME, in 1979.
Her own work has been heavily criticised, and appears, in part, to have showed significantly positive results, though she claimed the opposite....
In my own experience, Carl Sargent was underplaying things that happened in some of the sessions....I was there, and experienced this myself.
RIP, Carl.
@@betacam235 Thanks for the interesting response.
Something that is very interesting is that 7 cycles per second is the frequency of the aorta when you maintain a heart rate of 60 while breathing a slow and shallow as possible. I used beat frequency of 7 cycles a second evey night for 500 days one night after I stopped listening to the beat frequency I could hear in my mind the 7 hz not really knowing what to do with it. I tried to increase the amplitude as soon as I tried it stopped i should have just listened but instinctively I knew great power came with what I had done. And hearing 7 hz can only be done in the mind that was 30 years ago it never returned. But if it did strange things would have been done.
kiitos!
why would ANYone that believes in unity act to publicly disgrace others? by doing so you disgrace yourself?
There's no here without an observer. There's no now without an observer.
+James van der Hoorn
So?
David Lloyd-Jones So the observer is the real.
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James,
I think you just got yourself shortlisted for Keynote Speaker at the next convention of the Association of Solipsists.
Cheers,
-dlj.
David Lloyd-Jones Don't worry. You're real as well!
+James van der Hoorn writes "So the observer is the real."
James,
The observer is the observer. Really. Your "here" and "now" only apply to English speaking observers.
Thank you for your second message, today's afterthought. I hadn't doubted it. Were you reassuring yourself?
Cheers,
-dlj.
Life is a test. It is also an experience.
If I went and saw a movie in a theater and never knew owner of the theater you will most likely come back to see the same movie or some other movie again. The only difference is you are the movie and the one seeing the movie. Once you know the owner you will never come back.
This is what I call nirvana or enlightenment. Grace is very powerful. Try to get some of it. You will be like Buddha. You will be very uncomfortable for some time. Because you will cry because when you see suffering in all life. Therefore Love everybody. But never love them the Movie theater owner. He/she comes first.
The movie owner even developed quantum mechanics so the simulation/reality can continue.
All the rest are details without end. Space and time dont exist. Again a simulation.
And the other thing is that materialism reinforces our sense of separateness. We clearly have separate bodies, we have to move them around separate ways, but is that all there is? That's something materialism reinforces all the time. So, let's look at idealism. One way of thinking of idealism, btw the reason why idealism usually as a philosophy is rejected out of hand is because it can easily lead to solipsism, and in which case it's easy to argue against solipsism because we're here and things seem to be real here. So, the version of idealism that I would propose looks exactly the same as materialism with one new addition. Namely that the whole thing sits on top of awareness. So, this is not a new idea, this is the essence of the Vedas and practically every mystical tradition there's ever been and so we would imagine that somehow we emerge from awareness and into space & time and then into energy & matter and so on and we keep building up the knowledge pyramid. How do you get from pure awareness into the physical world? There are many proposals, the one I like is The Laws of Form by G. Spencer Brow, but there have been a couple people at this conference already like Don Hoffman the other day talking about how you would start with something like just a field of void or pure awareness, you make a distinction and allow recursion to occur and the whole universe comes out of that. So, just as materialism the bottom level permeates everything in which case awareness becomes inherent at every stage of this pyramid. Now when we go to mind we would say there are aspects of mind that have some of this pure primordial awareness in it and that is prior to space-time. So, the other nice thing about this way of thinking about it is that it doesn't require us to throw the textbooks away. This is one of the fears I see among scientists who have bought completely into the standard materialistic point of view that they say what you're talking about namely, usually psychic experience cannot be true because if it was true then we have to throw away the physics textbooks and everything else and I'm saying "No, all of the textbooks would remain the same, it would still have to be revived every six months because science evolves, but the essence of it remains the same." All you're doing is expanding it and making it a little more comprehensive and the more comprehensive aspect of it would give rise to other kinds of phenomena that are not usually thought about. So, awareness permeates this version of idealism. Nothing is written in stone except this nice recursion which is chiseled into stone. And so, let's simply have a couple of postulates based on this model of idealism. First of all Awareness is more fundamental than space-time, matter or energy. If that is true, especially if it's true for time then it should be the case that through awareness you can see past, present and future because awareness is before space-time. (6:30)
Was Buddha just a nice guy? This was a version of a talk I've given that is related to my new book Supernormal but I have customized it for the Sand audience. You might also think of this as a tale of two cities but not spelled that way but spelled this way. Had I found a book that was a tale of three cities I would have used that because I'm actually going to talk about 3 cities and not just 2. So lets begin with two nondualities. One nonduality is materialism, the other nonduality is idealism. The Idealism picture comes from Burning Man and you'll see why that becomes relevant in a little bit. Materialism you can think of as a knowledge pyramid and at the bottom of the pyramid is something like space and time; and then we have energy lite & energy dense otherwise known as matter and energy. That emerges into atoms and molecules then chemistry to biology and somewhere at the top is psychology and the mind. Within this pyramid it's understood that things emerge from lower levels and so we know that space and time permeates everything above, and energy permeates everything above and so on. So, there's materialism. It has aspects which are good, bad and ugly. The good part of materialism is that it has given rise to predictive models some of which are very accurate and to technologies. So, it gives us a confidence that the models are correct. So, that's the good part. There are also bad parts to materialism. One of which is this, it leads to a kind of nihilistic view of the world. I love the subtitle here under atheism "Shoving nothing in your face." So, that's one of the consequences, of course there are many other consequences to materialism that are not so good, and then there's the ugly part of materialism which is that it doesn't count very well for the fact that we're conscious or worse for things related to consciousness that materialism really can't handle at all, including things like psychic and mystical experience. So, the reason why from a mainstream perspective that these phenomena are excluded or denied is because the knowledge pyramid as they built it up has mind at the very top and has space and time at the bottom, and even though we know that there is very strange slippery stuff going on at the lower level it seems so far away from the mind supposedly emerges that there's no way you can make sense of psychic and mystical experience because those experiences are strange for one reason, they seem to transcend space and time. (3:21)
Darryl Bem Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
At some point an unpredictable future for them they will get a stimulus, it's either a light flash or an audio tone. And we looked at what's happening in their brain one second before, and so this is showing that zero is when the stimulus occurs and one second & even up to two seconds before in the controls there is no change in their brain but in meditators there is. So these envelopes here these are one standard error envelopes. This is a very significant difference in just one electrode and we actually found it in many electrodes. So we can see where in the brain this effect is occurring. So as of 2011 there have been 49 replications of experiments of this type from many different countries including Iran. 26 of them fit in an inclusion criteria in a meta-analysis, and the results again are gazillions to one against chance, and even using a Bayes Statistical Method the results in favor of actual precognition is 10 ^ 13. This was done by Patrizio Tressoldi in Italy and Julain Mossbridge and colleagues. What happens if you look at all 49 replications? Putting this now in terms of z scores, or if you're a physicist, in terms of sigma, well it accumulates to 9 sigma, 3 quintillion to one against chance.
The good, The Bad, and The Ugly are mixed up in the movie ad.
That is like asking was the CHRIST jesus a good man with out doubt in my mind he is the LIGHT of the WORLD
I love Dean Radin's experiments & his presentation, but he has presented the same psychic results again & again. I'm more interested in his speculative metaphysics.
I am curious - what were the mental chatter descriptions the senders were saying to themselves as they sent the pictures to the recipients? Were the sent message similar to the received, such as rough, tall, mount rushmore, etc....?
hello . pre atomic conscious , is a living memory . with regards
Psychokinesis - Foundations of Physics & Psychological Bulletin.
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3 cities!! 🤣 omg I love it!!!!!!!! 🥰
I thought that could be way beyond the chance, which is 25%. But the result was 32%. I don’t know if it is significant or is it just a chance.
So Radins answer is: He was more than just nice. He was like George Clooney
India already taught these things to the world. Sadly just lake it takes a smart person to understand science it takes similar or higher person to understand those. But the world is blind.
I didn't get the time travler joke , anybody?
you get it in the future
the bartender responded to a future event
The speaker was talking about “Solipsism” not “Salafism” as the subtitle says!!
Well Good ................ makes me feel even more sad for "Dick" Dawkins and his type... lol.
The Humanistic Psychologist - Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures - Delgado-Romero, Howard. 8 Ganzfeld replications.
Telepathy happens between a mother and child
I dont like it because the whole 40 minutes are not about the topics said here "was Buddha just a nice guy?" Also, he made a disturbing joke about scientists, i personaly think it needs more measurement - im not a scientist, just using logic- maybe sometimes is provable, sometimes it isnt; not every measurement proves it.
If psychic control worked every time then we'd all be controlling each other, that would be pretty weird.
When you have odds against chance of 300 trillion quadrillion to one it addresses what is a valid skeptical concern about extraordinary evidence. You're making an extraordinary claim. It's only extraordinary because of an assumption that materialism is completely true and nothing else is true. Well, this is extraordinary evidence. Whenever you do an experiment of this type, the reason why I like the kind of work that I do is because when you present evidence that is contrary or countering what the mainstream accepts it has to be much better. It has to be better, there is a higher bar to be achieved. The method has to be better the attention to detail has to be better, and for me it's just a better challenge of doing science better. So, we look through all the possible ways we can think of and skeptics over the years have thought of how can you explain the results we see in these experiments, and you go through the due diligence list, and the one thing that you can't do as a single experimenter is ask about replication but we saw that there are 20 labs doing this and they replicate them. It then boils down what if someone did it who really did not believe in telepathy at all? And I have to say, before I started doing these experiments I didn't have a strong opinion one way or another. I didn't know telepathy existed, but I allowed the data to bring me into a direction that says, "It probably exists" because otherwise it's impossible to explain this data. Nevertheless, are there people who absolutely don't believe any of this and do these experiments, and most of the time the answer is "no."
Funniest one ever!!!
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Now Dean, if you are familiar with the Seth material and you are going to speak at the Seth confrence, how can you possibly say their is only one mind, that is so ridiculous , my mind is my mind not yours or some supreme being!