Monday, August 30, 2010

Brainwave Synchronizers

I wanted to share something that I have using and studying for over 20 years now. The technology is called "brainwave synchronizers". This technology uses a principle called FFR or "Frequency Following Response". The principle is similar to why we want to dance to a certain beat or at least tap our feet when presented with an appealing rhythm. When a frequency is input into the brain, either electrically, magnetically, sonically, and/or visually, the brain tends to mimic this frequency and go to the corresponding state of consciousness. These states are, approximately, 25+ ordinary waking beta consciousness, 15-25 day dreamy relaxed alpha consciousness, 15-9 light alpha hypnotic trance, 8-5 theta lucid dreaming and zen meditation, and 4-0 delta nondreaming sleep and enlightenment. There are some high frequency states above 25 hz that are also being studied, like the "gamma compassion" frequencies that some Tibetan Buddhist masters have in their brains, associated with beta wakefulness and compassion.

The earliest research was done by the Air Force when they found that the radar blip pulses were causing Radar Techs to fall asleep. They were pulsing at the delta wave and causing parallel waves in the brain which in turn shifted into the corresponding state of consciousness aka nondreaming sleep. Later on hypnotherapists used "shaped wave generators" to help induce trance. These early machines were expensive. During this time I made a crude sound and light synchronizer by wiring my electro-acupuncture device to my portable stereo boom box and then used headphones and the little LED light on my electro-acupuncture device to do my experiments. It eventually fried by stereo and burned out my electro-acupuncture device, but not after I got a lot of good experiences and some solid data. I even did a recording of the sound and mixed it with an ocean track that I made using some cheap microphones from Radio Shack and a trip to the ocean. This tape seemed to rapidly induce a deeply relaxed meditative state until it finally broke from much use.

What I found fascinating is that the brain was learning from these experiences. I later found that just remembering how the LED light pulses was enough for the brain to induce its own frequency shift. It seemed that the brain was learning to do something in its own language. It was possible, too, when the brainwaves reached "coherence" to induce others to make the shift with a kind of brain to brain frequency telepathy. When the brain produces coherent waves, the normally chaotic brainwave patterns are organized into high amplitude waves which can broadcast like radio waves. I have a feeling that this kind of activity happens a lot with many people all the time, but appears more powerful when our brain learns to produce its own coherent waves. I think that many angry people, for instance, stimulate an FFR response in people around them and bring forward any unresolved anger energy in those around them, unless those people are frequency aware and know how to neutralize this stimulus. In reverse, it is possible for "calm mind" to soothe and dissolve the anger EEG patterns in another person when the person is within their "mental aura".

The research that I had read was during pre-internet times and was hard to find. Some of it was buried in abstracts in library collections that Universities used to do preliminary research on a subject. Happily, I found two websites that summarize much of the research done during this time and even afterwards:

What was of deep interest to me with the use of the "hemi-sync" approach where two tones were input into the brain and the brain heard the combination. Thus 110 and 118 would produce a 8 hz beat. Since our ears tend to only hear, at best, 20 hz or higher, this allowed the low FFRs for the brain states to be done with sound. This kind of sonic induction can directly affect 50 percent of the brain, while light induction can affect 80 percent. Electrical frequencies tend to follow the path of least resistance in our electro-chemical brain environment but slowly do reach almost all the brain. While magnetic is a weaker stimulus, but affects 100 percent of the brain immediately. There were a few four channel synchronizers. I had bought one and used one for over a year. I gave to a friend who suffered epilepsy. This is usually contraindicated but my friend was willing to take the risk and see if it could heal his condition. He found that it was neutral to the epilepsy, but did stimulate some creative shifts in his brain, inspired his artwork immensely. He then passed it on. As far as I know, this machine is still making its rounds. The four channel seems to produce deep state. Although it had a dial to select a range of frequencies, I only used 7.83 hz. This is the Schumann resonance frequency. It seems to be a theta lucid dreaming zen enlightenment frequency where a person is "one with the Earth" literally pulsing with the magnetic field of the Earth itself. Kamiya found that Zen masters would produce a rhythmic theta train after 10 years of Zen meditation. A brainwave synchronizer can do this in 5 minutes! While Zen enlightenment is more than just getting this frequency, the very fact that a synchronizer can accelerate reaching this state of consciousness that fast is amazing. I do feel that it is a valuable tool to accelerate our meditational development. It seems to dissolve our background static thoughts very quickly.

From the early research, I have found that 7.83hz seems to be a key frequency. It is not the only one that matters, but if you had to master one frequency this is most likely the best one. Later brainwave synchronizers would evolve complex programs that acted like a brain gym. But I found that I would get the best results just using the brain sync to reground in 7.83hz.

I found that with the advent of hemi-sync, the use of a simple audio CD could rival some of the expensive sound and light machines. My theory is that when the brain reaches coherence that it generates its own electrical and magnetic waves which saturate the rest of the brain. I found, too, that just having audio was enough for me, because I usually do some specific visualizations in my Tumo meditation process and the light pulses sometimes slightly interfere.

I have been creating some ambient synthesizer compositions based on understanding harmonic fifths, harmonic fourths, brainwave sounds, and other frequencies to compose "soundscapes" conducive to various kinds of meditation processes. They do seem to accelerate and support, for instance, emotional processing and emotional healing. I hope to soon offer them in a more formal way, but have been giving them to clients so that they can support their healing process between sessions.

I do feel that this kind of tech can help physical immortality. It combines well with breathing meditation to help the body to regenerate itself. I would like to share more about this later on.

Sunday, August 8, 2010


Affirmations are thoughts that are repeated in order to dissolve a mass of psychological conditioning that blocks feeling and understanding an inner truth. They are not meant to convince oneself that something is true, but to "make firm" something that has been assailed by doubts. Affirmations are like mantras, but they are usually repeated in the ordinary language of the person doing the affirmation, rather than the languages of chanting, like Sanskrit, Tibetan, Latin, Hebrew, Itanami, and Aramaic. Ideally, they are repeated while placing attention at the 3rd Eye. Thought is a power, not as vast as radiant awareness, but in a sense more accessible to people. The problem with Dzogchen level awareness work is that people are not always able to shift beyond all the obscurations which prevent them from resting in the primordial state. Sometimes, after doing affirmations, it is easier to make this shift. Not all positive thoughts have a basis in deep truth. Sometimes they are only conventionally positive, like affirming that one will get a promotion at the job one has. These positive thoughts may still be able to manifest and be useful, but like getting extra money at work from a promotion, they can still have a trace of attachment to success and fear of failure behind them. Whereas, trusting the universe to take care of you, and affirming this, may lead to the same manifestation and also release the fear behind the desire to get the promotion.

I would recommend that before doing an affirmation that one center in the breathing, expanding the lungs as fully as possible without strain on the inhale, inhaling deeply and fully, and then have the exhale be long, soft, and smooth, with the feeling of relaxing and letting go without strain. Be conscious of the inhaling and exhaling, but without bringing in the observing inner critic. Do not worry about doing the breathing correctly. Just be aware of how the breathing feels and, if possible enjoy the breath, feel how wonderful it is that you can breathe and be alive. There was a time when I had a severe bronchitis and did not know if I was going to survive the night. Every breath was an effort and I just concentrated on each inhale and exhale one breath at a time. Since then I have not taken breathing for granted and feel that each breath is a gift. If you are consciously aware of each breath, then you will draw in vital energy from the life that surrounds you, from the larger world, from the larger consciousness that we all abide within. You will make a connection with this larger life and feel your oneness with this. It does take a little bit of time. Usually some new feeling about this arises after just 20 conscious breaths and becomes a significant feeling after 1,000 conscious breaths.

Once grounded in the breathing, it is good to do some affirmations. We are not always aware of what we are thinking. Sometimes our minds have a lot of thoughts flowing within them. They sometimes flow so fast through our mind that we do not always see what they are doing to our life condition. But they can be gently tamed by deep, full, and relaxed conscious breathing, by placing attention at the 3rd eye, and then mentally affirming the inner truth of life. I do recommend that you try at least 10 repetitions of an affirmation before letting it go. It is an interesting experience to consciously repeat a deep thought and hold it in relaxed attention for a sustained time. If you repeat long enough, usually somewhere between 10 and 20 repetitions, you will feel an emotional shift happen, like a surge of inner peace. Sometimes the obscurations are so strong that it may take longer than this, possibly even 1,000 repetitations. But rarely more than this. Sometimes there is a deep issue that is blocking this process. If there is a deep karmaic issue arising for you and it does not shift so easily, then you may wish to get some help with a skilled meditation oriented and process oriented hypnotherapist. Releasing afflicted samskaras, mental impressions embedded in the subconscious mind, can produce a deep healing for a lot of people that even affects them physically. I had witnessed some miracles in my own healing practice when a person has worked through a samskara and released it completely. One person had a repressed the need to grieve for the loss of a loved one and when this person completed the grieving a full body athritis went away. When we do not let ourselves feel the emotions within us, we unconsciously inhibit our breathing and underbreathe. Our blood stream gets too acidic and starts iritating the inner tissues and cause all kinds of ailments. When our breathing normalizes, then our blood stream is constantly being alkalized and can heal itself of many illnesses.

Here are some affirmations worth experimenting with:

Everything is unfolding perfectly.
Everyone is where they should be.
I relax into the flow of life.
I trust life to take care of me.
I relax into the support of life.
I radiate compassion toward everyone.
I forgive everyone for everything.
I open up to the wonder of simply being alive.
I relax into the safety of the now.
I do whatever needs to be done without strain.
I trust the process to heal me.
I accept everything as it is.
Just being myself is enough to enlighten me.
Letting others be themselves is enough to enlighten them.
Whatever I truly want is already coming to me.

Below is the Great Dharani of the Heart Sutra, translated with some poetic license, with an immortalist spin, and expanded to bring out some deeper meanings, given as an affirmation script:

I am letting go, letting go,
really letting go, totally letting go,
letting go of any effort to let go,
moving beyond clinging,
moving beyond resistance,
moving beyond
anger, fear and struggle,
fully grieving and letting go,
no longer defending myself,
being okay with dying,
being okay
with whatever wants to happen,
resting within the flow,
awakening to this joyful moment,
feeling an eternal now,
radiating love freely again,
feeling my cells heal
and move beyond
aging and death,
being here now
shimmering with energy,
fully alive.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

About Conspiracy Theories

One of my favorite books is called THE MASTERS OF WISDOM by J. G. Bennett. John Bennett was one of the students of Gurdjieff. Unlike most of the students of Gurdjieff, Bennett found some of the teachers of Gurdjieff and worked with them. I consider the teachings of Gurdjieff to be very important ones to integrate. IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS by Ouspensky is probably the best summary of his ideas.

In the book THE MASTERS OF WISDOM, John Bennett talks about what I feel is the original conspiracy in the real sense of the word. The root of the word "conspiracy" means "to breathe together". The word points directly to a meditation method based on conscious breathing and an advanced one. It would take some time to go into the method, because it would assume that many preliminaries are mastered. It is beyond the simple conscious awareness of breathing that Guatama Buddha taught and which, in itself, has tremendous depth. It is even beyond the third eye nourishing breathing that is mentioned in the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra of Shiva. Both of these breath processes would need to be mastered to some extent first, before "conspiracy breathing" can be sustained. You would have needed to already have gotten a sense of what I call "telepathic link yoga" and use the breathing to sustain this connection. You can get some sense of this breathing by being with someone in a dark room, palms touching the palms of the other person, right palm touching left with right palm face down and left palm touching right with left palm face up. You do Ujjayi Breathing, whispering "ha" across the entire slow exhale and inhaling without hurrying, filling the lungs as completely as possible without strain. After a while, you synchronize your breathing pattern with the person who is with you. A mild magnetic pulsation should be felt arcing between the palms. You want to breathe in such a way that you stay synchronized with the other person and in such a way that the pranic pulsation gets slightly stronger over time.

When I was teaching some neural net body repatterning, where conscious touch is used to make contact with the body and synchronized breathing is used to interlink the two neural nets (healer and client), I had everyone be aware of the breathing of each other and then synchronize with each other, while moving the body consciously and slowly in a way that the extensions synchronized with the exhale and the flexions synchronized with the inhale. There was a shift where everyone was, for a short time, telepathic with each other, and felt united with each other within a larger consciousness which had a "we feeling". It did not annihilate individuality, but it did end a feeling of separateness. Identity did feel different, more like waves in the same ocean rather than rocks in the same room. Our usual way of thinking "I" sustains a feeling of separateness and usually our breathing is desynchronized with each other. It is partly deliberate. I find when I track the breathing of another and synchronize with him or her that he or she will unconsciously desynchronize to maintain separateness and not feel an emotion inside himself or herself. There is a lot of observation and study that is possible on this horizon.

The key thing that relates to this essay is that there are enlightened beings who have mastered "unity breathing" and who function as a true conspiracy. They do not need to have a hierarchical pecking order mammalian government structure to organize their activity in the world. They are telepathically and energetically linked to each other through a dreamtime connection, united in a living wisdom that they pool into each other and draw from, and which they sustain through breathing. Jesus initiates his disciples into this breath link in John 20:21-23, and says to them, "Peace be with you, as Abwoon has sent me, I also send you. Receive you the holy breath. If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them." Jesus exhales on the disciples and gives them an initiation into a deeper aspect of the holy breath, the level of unity. This initiation is sometimes still done by Sufi masters on their disciples. I had written before about this. When John the Baptist sees Jesus, he says, "Behold the lamb of god who takes away the sin (singular) of the world." The deepest core of all sins is one sin which is the feeling of separation from god or love. Forgiving this sin is entering into unity again and this heals the core of all illness, including the inability to act from love behind all the breaches of all the commandments. Jesus enters the feeling of agonized separateness and heals this on the cross ("My god, my god, why have you forsaken me?") he moves through the cruxifixion (cross-i-fiction) to atonement (at-one-ment). Because of this deep initiation, he is able to unite with his disciples through breathing and confer the power to forgive/heal to them. It is a breath of peace and it blesses those with peace. The word "father" (abwoon) is really both genders conjoined in creative spiritual energy and is a breath mantra.

In the book, Bennett presents a summary of the historical movement of the conspiracy of love across a few thousand years. Although he gives a lot of information, it is far from a complete picture of the conspiracy and all that it has done for the people of the Earth during this time. You can fill in the gaps when you get the feeling for the group, how they work, what they have done, and what they will do. They do not care about making a name for themselves or calling attention to themselves. They prefer to work silently, do what needs to be done, and go on to the next assignment. Occasionally, one of them, like Jesus and Buddha, has to do something that brings some level of public attention. But this is not their prefered mode.

There is another problem in sharing the complete historical movement of these beings. This is the regular history has a lot of spin and bias. Certain groups are branded as bad relative to the interests of a mammalian primate tribe that has political power at some point in history. If you look at the history of angels and demons in the dark ages, you might notice that some angels get demoted to demons and some demons get promoted to angels. In modern times, some conspiracies are considered sinister and other ones are considered good, and the many conspiracies, like the Free Masons, shuttle between the evil and good conspiracy lists. The current fad seems to be to assume that all conspiracies are bad. Another complication is that the unity conspiracy does not need a label and does not attach to labels. It has created whole religious movements and then dropped out of them to let them move on their own, occasionally visiting these groups and inviting the more advanced students to be initiated into deeper levels of the mahasangha. When the groups go on their own, their effect on the world is usually mixed, some good and some bad. It starts lacking the precision of wisdom in action. It takes a very mature being to know how to not use power. Jesus could have called in legions of angels to prevent his crucifixion, but does not. He sees through wisdom that is necessary to undergo this shift and stays aligned with it. There is, to the very end, a temptation to misuse power and many higher beings fall at this time. When historians try to analyze these groups, they usually do not see them as front groups for a deeper operation. Even the people in those groups do not see their groups this way. This is partly because of the ego, because many humans want to believe that their club is the best in the world and not a kindergarten for a whole level of evolution that they have not even begun.

One beautiful word in the Old Testament is the word "altrea" which is usually translated as "remnant". The word means a small group of people who are the ekklesia (normally translated as "church"), the people "called" (klesia) "out" (ek) of the ordinary world and into the Abwoon through the breath, through initiation, and through their development reaching a maturity where they can serve the higher evolution. Part of Judaism is about a small number of truly righteous people who are needed to keep uplifting humankind and to keep it generally on track. Nearly every spiritual tradition talks about advanced saints who keep reminding the people of a tradition to be true to the essence of the teachings. What is often not always understood is that these saints are united with each other beyond the boundaries of any religion, that all the religions of the world, in their essence, point to the same evolution, and are really part of one religion. These many religions usually get co-opted by political powers and even turned upside down and inside out compared to their original intent. I am still amazed that some versions of Christianity have somehow translated Jesus's basic message of "Bless those who curse you, turn the other cheek, pray for those who persecute you, walk the second mile, judge not, and love your enemies" into "nuke the nonbelievers". But it is no worse than some versions of Islam forgetting that Mohamed was a pacifist who only fought back after one of his disciples got killed and called the need to fight back a hateful but necessary thing to do, and even then when he was victorious marched into Mecca without weopons once again, and then said, "The outer holy war is over, now the inner holy war begins." It seems that the deepest struggle is letting a love to emerge inside us that is greater than all the anger and vengefulness that humans hold there.

I mention this, because if one is into the usual political emotions of humankind, it is hard to even see the operation of a group of people who have no anger towards anyone and who indeed love enemies so much that they are not seen as enemies. Such a group would uplift humankind through love, education, and patience, and only use power minimally when it is the only thing that works. There is a story where two kingdoms were about to fight each other in what would have been a high casualty war with two relatively advanced cultures wiping each other out and moving back to a more primitive state. A Sufi master and two advanced disciples came out on the battlefield during the morning when these two armies decided to fight. They "prayed" and, although it started as a sunny day, giant thunder clouds rolled by, blanketed the sky, and shot lightning so fierce that both armies fled the battlefield in terror, never to try to fight each other again. Without killing one person, a battle that would have started a long and bloody war had ended. Was it a coincidence that the storm came at the same time the three had prayed? Why the prayer of these people and not others? I feel that it was their alignment with a wisdom about what was possible and what wanted to happen in the name of peace. They became a conduit for a wisdom that even the biosphere wanted to make happen. This is one of the stories in the book.

I wanted to share this essay and this book as another perspective on conspiracies and mainly to assert that the longest, oldest, and most important one is a positive one, and is the one which will eventually be seen as the active force in human social and biological evolution, and will eventually allow humans to rise up from their primate barbarity to a level of compassion that is even hard for us to imagine right now, and through this create a society which will be a kind of heaven on earth. If you want to read just one chapter of his book, the one entitled, "One thousand years of love," summarizes a slice of this history.

There is another historical summary of the unity conspiracy in THE MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI by Robert Anton Wilson. It is embedded within a fictional story where Karl Jung, James Joyce, and Albert Einstein synchronistically meet on a train and help a person who is undergoing some deep spiritual initiations, and eventually meet with Aleister Crowley who is the leader of both a "white" lodge and a "dark" lodge, and helps the person to go beyond duality, beyond the struggle between "the imaginary mongoose and the imaginary snake".

There are number of books that try to take smaller time slices and talk about the Sufis and a few other groups. Sufism is one of the current names for the unity breathing conspiracy, assuming that Sufism is not reduced to merely being Islamic mysticism, but is seen as something spanning at least 7,000 years and which only took home in Islam for a part of its history and is still behind some groups that are now left to themselves, occasionally making contact with them to re-inspire them if they are open. Again, this group is one step removed from the public eye and from popular movements.

I have shared this unity breathing conspiracy conversation with a lot of friends who have been gripped with the illuminoid conspiracies or whatever you want to call them. These are various groups from alien grays, to carnivorous reptile like aliens, to big business corporations who are "really in control", to a small number of elite families who have been controlling humankind, to certain national or culture conspiracy theories, like a hidden group of Jews, to some mafia type groups, to a hidden part of the government, to something to do with the Harvard Skull and Bones frat, something to do with the CIA, with the US Military, with the Arab Oil consortium, and probably a few others that may have slipped my immediate memory. They are usually called "they" or "them" when in conversation, in such phrases as "you know what THEY are like" and "THEY are in control". My favorite one is about a group of superwealthy families who have coopted alien technology and who have been in control so long that they do not flex their power very often any more and who have a base on the dark side of the moon. They are apparently so advanced that they do not need to control things on Earth any more and are relaxing their grip on things.

What I notice, though, is that my friends who talk about this evil conspiracy seem to weaken their aura and disempower themselves when they are talking about THEM. They become like an evil god who is running their lives and they forget to live according to a higher power that is ultimately really in control. What I am clear about is that all those conspiracies are the usual primate tribes still in mammalian level evolution and still competing with each other with no one conspiracy/tribe really being fully in control, and no tribe being greater than or above Universal Law and Karma, and usually those beings seem to age and die, so that other beings may be able to enter into their families and guide them from within to some extent.

It took me a long time to understand why my friends are under the "mental grip" of these negative conspiracy stories and give them more power than the older and vaster mahasangha conspiracy. I got that it is part of a primate circuit to view the world in terms of competing factions and tribes, rather than seeing the world from a trans-tribal view where all of humankind may be preparing for a leap. Perhaps such conspiracy awareness might, once it is freed from fear based primate perception, might allow humans to recognize the other tribes and discern the mahasangha's patient guidance through time and history.

I do find it interesting that when I share about these things how little emotional influence these ideas have about how they think and feel their life right now. I saw that it takes a certain activation of an inner process inside oneself to feel beyond this way of structuring political events, this "us" versus "them" away of seeing what is happening. Nicholas of Cusa, a Russian Orthodox mystic, created a term called "complexio appositiva" which roughly translates as a coincidence of opposites. Applied to the current political situation, the rival tribal conspiracies kind of cancel each other out so that no one is really in control. There is still a bit of barbarism and brutality in the process which will be healed by compassion. But the primate "might is right" evolutionary phase will eventually end when this compassion is more strongly present in this world.

It is really an amazing thing that the mahasangha is active in our world and uplifting humanity in stages. I wish I could communicate more of a sense of what this means than merely to give a review of the best single book that I have found about this. The other thing about the mahasangha is that, while some of them are in light bodies, many of them are in physical bodies and doing their part of heal planetary life even on the physical plane. Sometimes they have even seeded discoveries that make for good medical care and building the equivalent of hospitals earlier than the high tech era that we are now in. They are not merely nice ghosts that just talk good things to people. The ones that John Bennett met were 500 years old in physical bodies that had conquered aging and death.