The author of a recent parapsychological research paper reported monitoring research subjects’ brain activity during Psi tests to see if there were any changes. This made me question if the author had any experience with students of psychic and mediumship training.
Based on my experience as a frequent student of Psi-related classes, our normal perception is mostly based on our mental storyteller. Our mind is hardwired to explain everything. Our mind’s explanations are based on our worldview. Without conscious intervention, our worldview leads us to experience the world as we have been taught to expect.
Virtually all of the self-improvement classes I have taken have taught me to relax my mind and enter into a deep meditative state.
As I wrote this, our music box was playing a song repeating the phrase “Relax your mind.”
While the Eastern view of meditation focuses on stopping our mental chatter, most of the classes I have had focused on more of a contemplative form of meditation. For instance, guided meditation is a staple of self-improvement classes. The objective is to teach the student how to visualize and how to self-induce a deep Delta-like mental state.
The Monroe Institute bases its classes on binaural beat, hemispherical synchronization to induce a deep relaxed mental state. See The Monroe Way at ATransC.org.
I don’t know about the modern Siva Method, but the old Silva Mind Control classes I took in the 1960 taught students to enter into a deep mental state of relaxation (think Delta frequency) to focus on clairvoyant-like Psi functioning.
The common factor has been the development of a deep trance state for focused contemplation. The idea is to develop a sort of mental path to that state of awareness that we can spontaneously enter into to access information–not just open mind and listen but focus intention and consider.
When I say that a seeker learns to examine the implications of their thoughts, the way I expect the seeker to do so is to enter into focused contemplation. I think people who learn to routinely examine the sensibility of their thoughts have learned to spontaneously enter into a deeply contemplative state of mind. This is very fast, and depending on the subject, it can be for but a moment.
There is a continuum from mostly human instinct at the physical extreme producing perception of an entirely physical world to the increasingly lucid awareness of the actual nature of reality at the other extreme.
Psi researchers might do better examining the speed with which research subjects routinely enter into a deep contemplating state. I expect that a person who is able to manage that aspect of their consciousness will tend to do better in Psi functioning tests. Of course, education is the rest of the story.
I am interested to know if you have had similar training and your thoughts on my comments.
Food for contemplation
Consider the picture at the top of this article. The left image is a small segment of a full video frame from a video-loop ITC session. In that technique, a video camera records what is being displayed on the screen of a television set that is not tuned to a station (no antenna or cable). The streaming output of the video camera is connected to the TV input so that the camera “sees” and records what it has previously recorded.
The resulting video recording is a chaotic rolling video display of light, dark and colored regions. An example of a useful video loop display and further explanation of the technique is in the ATransC.org page Video-Loop, Visual ITC Recording Technique.
About fifteen seconds of the video feedback stream is recorded in the technique we use. At nearly 30 frames per second, that is about 450 frames. We examine each frame in a computer. We ignore those that have no or only low contrast texture. We end up taking a close look at only a small percentage of the frames. Some of those, we might even rotate in 90-degree increments, as features can be anywhere and in any attitude. Yes, it takes a lot of time.
There should be no recognizable features in the feedback display other than the occasional “faces in clouds” effect. However, with the right combination of technology, recognizable features do sometimes emerge. Human faces are most common, but animals do occasionally show up. In some sessions, it is as if there is a “face” background noise composed of uncountable faces crowding every part of the video frame for attention. Close examination of the splotches of light and dark in the left image will show that there are many small, poorly formed face-like features.
The video technology we used was the 720p High-Definition video that was standard at the time. Having tried different combinations of technology, we realize that we stumbled into a sort of technological “sweet spot” for ITC.
The apparently paranormal features appear to be the result of the intention to enhance some parts of the noise to produce an intended face. We think stochastic amplification is a physical process involved. We think the small-signal intention of our hypothetical etheric communicators is amplified via stochastic amplification.
While we have occasionally been able to use this technique to induce apparent contact with a specific person, the majority of features are unidentified.
As you can see in the above example, the features are not photographs. We think of them as simulations of faces, the clarity of which is limited by the technology and how we arrange it. Based on our witness studies such as Perception of Visual ITC Images, you may at first only see fuzzy smudges.
The contemplation begins here. We see a man and a woman. The man’s head is looking toward your right and is slightly tilted down in front of the right side of the woman’s face. The woman is facing toward your left ear and is slightly tilted up. We think of this example as “The Lovers” because the man appears to be leaning down and toward the woman as she lifts her face to kiss his left cheek.
Colors often seem true in our video ITC. The man’s face is much lighter, even white. The woman’s face is more natural skin tone.
We are confident of what we see in this example and others have agreed. But then, we have worked with hundreds of examples. By contemplate, I mean for you to take a little time to focus your attention on the image to get beyond first impressions. An important aspect of contemplation is the practice of suspended judgement. Discernment is not a matter of intentionality. It is a matter of examining the implications of what you first think to possibly change your perception.
Assuming you do see the lovers, contemplation might continue as you consider the implications of their presence in the video-frame. According to mainstream science, there should be no such feature. What does video ITC imply? Do the features exist because of survived personality? Are they a naturally occurring artifact of the technology? How can we tell?
As always, I am interested in your thoughts.
