Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a top story in crypto and bring on a bite-sized piece. Today, just as the thumbnail suggests, Solana is looking to do some pretty amazing things as an integration with the Brave browser. Also, I'm going to take a look at New York Mayor as he says that, hey, we should be teaching more about Bitcoin and blockchain. We're going to take a look how Bitcoin has surpassed Tesla and is really rocking up in that market cap spot. And finally, we'll take a look at Zimbabwe as there's rumors that it may adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. So we'll take a look at all those things. But first, let's just talk about the elephant in the room, which is Simon U is here from Stormpex. What's up, Simon? Hey, great to be here. Thanks for the invite. Sure. So here's what happened, everybody. So what we're going to do is we're going to just do a quick interview. And then me and Simon were talking about it. I go, hey, man, why don't you just stick around and just talk to the news with me because you have more of an insight as a real insider. And he said, sure. So let's just do that. Huh? All right. So here's what we got. First of all, let's take a look at what's going on the market. Simon, this one is trade that changed. This is Alex Massioli's project here. And it says 2.88 trillion, but I think it's a little bit higher, somewhere around 3 trillion. Did you ever think we'd hit 3 trillion by this early in this bull cycle? I didn't think it would happen this early. I mean, yeah, I think everyone's surprised, right? But all the institutional funds start coming in. And this is, we haven't even really started coming. And once we get a spotty TF and more of these traditional sort of capital coming in, I mean, that's why I'm so bullish still, even with all this, everyone thinks that this might be the top. And we're going to see a three-year bear market coming soon. But if things get approved on time, and I do know from a lot of family offices and VCs, they're definitely feeling the FOMO and pressuring their, the LPs are pressuring their firms on like, why can't we get into crypto? Why can't we get into crypto? And there's still a lot of money out there. There's a ton of money. See, these are the things that I'm not privy to. That's why I'm glad you're on the show to really back what I've been thinking, which is these different home offices and different LPs and different entities, they probably get pushed and say, hey, we should look into crypto. But I just hear the stories, but I don't really talk to those people. I'm guessing that is what it is. And it's good to actually hear. Cool. I like that. Let's see here. You know what's funny is that in the last 24 hours, Solana, even though that that great news we just about to talk about, it's still in 24 hours is down half a point. Crazy, huh? Yeah. Let's take a look. So here's what we got. So this is what is happening. So Solana is looking to add tens of millions of users by becoming the native blockchain of the Brave browser. First of all, Simon, do you use Brave, use Chrome, use something else? What wallet do you use when you're going around shopping besides, of course, Starbucks? Yeah, I use Brave and both Chrome. Sometimes MetaMasker integrations, like one works better than the other. Brave in terms of privacy and stuff, it is better. It is. So now imagine this. Now you have all these millions of people who use Brave, and this now becomes the native blockchain of Brave browser. Wasn't it basic attention token before that? I thought there, yeah, I wasn't sure if they're actually building a blockchain or not. But I mean, it's great news. Solana is, you know, it works. It's fast and it's scalable. I think on the UI front, they're upgrading, they're spending a lot of time on that. But I mean, with, with just a few months, I think that'll improve quite, quite a month. Yeah. Phantom will already, you know, doing a great job on that, but it just launched like a few months ago. So, but Solana works. I love it. You love it. And I think, have you guys used it? Have you guys tested it? We have tested a bunch of layer ones. And I mean, we've got them. There's definitely pros and cons. When you look at sort of like 2017, like the ICO, like crowdsale boom, you know, other than ETH, there were some chains like Quantum that were really popular and attract large seller that attracted a lot of capital and companies to start building on it. Yeah. But the issue was like, it was really tough for exchanges and wallets to get integration with some of these chains. And the tokens that launched on Quantum or Steller, for example, they couldn't get any liquidity.  Yeah. And it was faster. It was like, you know, ETH had like 10 or 20 TPS and Quantum had like 40 or 50 and it was like double, you know, the speed, et cetera. And the CEO was really compelling. He was like, hey, you know, for all the projects that were trying to come on, like he was saying that like, hey, Vitalik is never going to jump on a call with you and help you work through some of these like situations by building on ETH. But I am call me at 3am. I'll pick up the phone. I'll get some devs to help like sort out stuff. It's a very attractive deal. That's why a lot of companies started building on it. But in the day, if there was no liquidity, like, what can you do with the token with your product? And that's why everyone started migrating back to ETH again. And we're sort of in the similar situations because ETH has been around the longest, like exchanges and wallets. And, you know, I think everyone in crypto that has a consumer facing product is trying to deal with a user experience problem.  But if it's not ETH, it becomes that much harder because some of the wallets and infrastructures are not set up yet. Suck. I mean, you've used Phantom Wallet, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome, right? You can, you can, you can use it. It's super fast. It's intuitive. And also you can actually see your NFTs in it. Yeah. Yeah. That is pretty cool. But yeah, it again goes down to like, how easy is the app to use?  And I think those stuff will probably come soon. And then if it becomes as easy as Venmo, and that that's when, you know, some of these later ones are going to start really popping off in terms of usage. Perfect. Yeah. And just like now, now it's going to happen. And it's all about liquidity and marketing and getting your name out there. Well, as long as you're going to do this and they become, you know, that backbone of Brave, 42 monthly million users, I don't see why this price won't go up. But I guess time will tell. I think it could be a big thing. What do you think, Simon? I think we could see some price appreciation just because of utility. I try not to talk about price. I mean, like it's hard, right? Because I definitely think the usage is going to go up significantly. But at the end of the day, if Solana is like gas fees or like, you know, like three cents to send a transaction, why do you need $100,000 worth of Solana? And, you know, so I think price and, you know, like utility are two different things when you look at layer ones. I think for layer ones, like if there's a better incentive to hold it, well, and for Solana, there's a good staking mechanism and, you know, being a validator and etc. And so that's, that's also good. And if there is more usage and I think more VCs and more, you know, capital on the institution side, we'll start picking it up. So yeah, I mean, I do think it's bullish overall for sure. But we've also seen bullish overall. Layer ones. Bullish overall. Yeah, but layer ones that don't have a product or, you know, anything launched being like straight up, you know, it just keeps going up for no reason. And a lot of crypto speculation still, unfortunately, so it's hard to predict. It's all speculation until you get a massive option. And here's how you get it, I think. You get somebody like the new, the, the mayor-elect Eric Adams saying, hey, we should start to teach about cryptocurrencies and digital assets in schools.  And when he said, when he was running, he's like, look, if you elect me, I will make New York the epicenter for Bitcoin and crypto. So what do you think about this one, Simon? Good news, bad news? Or do you think people are going to fight them all the way? I think it's great news because New York as a state is one of the hardest places to run a crypto business because it's a bit licensed, right? And if he could do something about that, I think there will be a lot more crypto companies that are building from New York because it is the financial capital of the world.  I know a lot of people have avoided New York for that reason, but it'd be great to get, you know, education in like a high school course that's straight up about Bitcoin or blockchain because it is the future and something that we need, but to get, you know, younger kids educated so they can start building from a technology perspective, right? And I think you'll notice this with me. It's like I'm more driven by like people trying to build rather than like price speculation more than anything. I just get excited if there's, you know, a 16-year-old that wants to build a next blockchain company instead of wanting to, you know, do something else in tech, for example. Sure. So here's a question before we go to the next one and talk about Market Cap and Tesla. Where'd you grow up, Simon? Which state? I grew up, you know, half and half Portland and Seattle, so possibly in Oregon. Yeah. When you went through school, was there any kind of education as far as like, I mean, STEM, STEM products, STEM projects, and also for finance. When you went through, did they do anything of those types of things? Or was it all after school projects? Yeah. So I'm a very anti-school person. Like, I'm a very like, if I didn't have to go to school, I would have not, you know, just because like everyone learns very differently. Sure. And I was, you know, going to talk about this too. Like, I mean, like certain classes, I understand very fast, like math always just came to me right away. And, you know, like high school, for example, like I just understood a subject that we were going to learn in like five minutes and just were able to skip through the textbook. And then I got so bored that I started playing a lot of tattish on my calculator and I always got in trouble.   But at the same time, like certain subjects, like it didn't come to me right away. And I asked a lot of dumb questions and I asked, you know, because for me, like knowledge is like, I'm just really curious about like stuff all the time. And, you know, just everyone's pace is really different. And then there's a great video on like how people learn by Mark Rover. He's a YouTube, you know, like the former NASA guy. And it's like, when you put a video game with like one guy, you know, like, he ran a test of like hundreds of people were like, there was a score that how well you performed versus there was no score. And at the end of the day, the people that learn from the no score category learned a lot better than the people that had the score, for example, so it wasn't created by like A or B, C or stuff. But it's just, you know, and like, are you like, yeah, so for me, like, I think the education system needs to be a little bit changed. But the important part is people still need to be aware of it, you know, aware of crypto and blockchain. Well, sure. I just because because my big question is, are we, are we teaching the right things in school to actually get get to set up the kids for success? I think finance is one of those things. And of course, if we're not if we're not really pushing the forefront as far as like the STEM projects, then what is the whole point? Right. And yeah, it's just, I mean, like definitely like basic finance, like how do you do your taxes or in high school? And I've actually like spoken a lot about this too. And like local meetups and stuff is like high schools should have a category where people come in and say, Hey, like if you're thinking about this college, and you're going to be, you know, taking a student loan for $200,000, this is what your monthly payment is going to look like.   If you are going to take a huge debt, like, and be aware of that, because right now, like you're allowing an 18 year old that doesn't know much about life to make decisions that could impact you for more than a mortgage. And that's why our generation has a hard time buying a house or a car, you know, all these things. And the gap just gets worse and worse, because you're so in debt. And I personally went through that, you know, experience of having a $1,000 a month student loan and it was miserable. Yeah. No, no, we all went through it because we were never taught the things that we were supposed to be taught, right? Because we thought, oh, well, we're just going to learn about, you know, social studies and history. And that's great and everything else. But as you kind of get out in the world, you're like, man, I didn't really do anything. And before you know, you're like, I'm super in debt. And how do I get out of this debt? And guess what? There's a there's a shrinking job market. And guess what? There's this thing called inflation inflation.   I don't understand all this stuff. And you're like, where's all my money? And then it's just a big snowball effect. And now you see that huge layer of people who are kind of under kind of suppressed. And here we are. It's unfortunate. Robert Kiyosaki thinks it's intentional, like that system's trying to keep people poor. So they have to work in, you know, mindless jobs kind of thing. And it is an interesting thought in terms of why it's built like this. But yeah, I mean, there definitely needs to be more awareness to help people as much as possible.  Anyhow, that might, that might be a little bit off topic of what we're just talking about. But I think it's more important than some of the things we actually are. Now let's, here's what we'll do, son. Let's let, we'll finish up on these two and we'll get the good stuff. So Bitcoin surpasses Tesla market cap. And I don't, there's nothing really to really say beyond the actual headline, but it is amazing though that to where Bitcoin and the crypto market came from to being laughed at and as a joke, to actually being on the forefront and actually being talked by senators and congressmen and women and actually, you know, presidents of and of nations and actually being legal tender to where we are right now in 2021. So to think of like it's, it's past Tesla and it'll probably at some point surpass meta, whatever you want to call it, as far as Facebook, I think it's a step in the right direction. What do you think still? Yeah, definitely step in the right direction. It's still early, right? I mean, the fact that individual companies are still valued more than Bitcoin. What is really the future of money? We're still early. I mean, should be definitely be higher than gold because it's got so much more practical use cases and there is a finite supply and more continuous getting lost. So there's, you know, it is depreciated. The supply is decreasing in a way. But like you said, just like entire countries, I mean, we first started off this year with companies starting to adopt it in their treasury, because about now we have entire countries like El Salvador just starting to put their treasuries. I mean, it's just the beginning, right? There's still 195 countries in the world and you start getting every one of these and the best part about Bitcoin and crypto in general is typically for like a VC or like a public company, the VCs and all the great like the sort of the insiders get the best rates and then the public can only consume once like the price is really high after, you know, for example, but in the case of Bitcoin, retail got in first, institutions are coming in last and then they're buying, you know, sort of our bags kind of in a way. But that's why yeah, that's why it's created so much more wealth for the average person than it has from any financial capital out there, which is it has leveled the playing field. It's just been amazing. Yeah, and it really comes down to like you just talked about pushing it into mainstream, but then utility, what does it actually do? Does it actually serve a function? It can actually be used, which of course leads us into our last or second to last story, Zimbabwe to potentially adopt as legal tender.  This is just hearsay per se. According to a local news station, country wants to make Bitcoin a legal tender. Zimbabwe government intends to meet the high demand of digital assets. This is by a recent statement by retired Brigadier Colonel Charles Wickwetti, member of the government's technology unit. And then he says, there are presently holding talks with consultants and businesses as to this effect. And then he talks about how the government's still wary of illicit activities and drug use and front running for terrorist acts and so on and so forth. But if we get a second country in just this year alone, how much would that actually lead to the legitimacy of crypto and digital assets? And oh yeah, it actually has utility. What do you think? Absolutely. I mean, the entire country adopting Bitcoin as legal tender is amazing. I think we're going to see more from an institutional side first, like before countries start adapting it, because US and it's going to anger US for sure if more and more countries start coming in. And I think we've already seen IMF trying to cut resources off to El Salvador for the Bitcoin thing, right? So yeah, there's definitely more behind the lines in terms of politics. And it's going to be tough for I think countries, unless they're in a complete sort of desperation state where they have to. But from a corporate side, I definitely think it's coming like more and more companies will start adopting it for treasuries, etc. And yeah, I'll see this exactly right. And this never would have happened if it wasn't for the lighting network and the actual to be actually have it as utility as an actual cryptocurrency. Because I remember when I got in 2017, we kind of figured out that the store value narrative it worked. And the currency narrative didn't work at all because there was such a huge network congestion, lighting network, and it changed all that for that layer too. So as we talk about utility, let's just talk about a little Storm X, because if we're talking about utility, this is one of them. And everybody's watching today, just so you know, what is it November? What is it, Simon? Eighth, right? Yeah. Soon, we're going to be in Christmas season, right? And you probably want to order some things. And if you want to order some things, why won't you just use a little bit of Storm X, put it on there and actually get crypto cash back? Simon, take it away. What do you got? Yeah, I mean, we have really, I mean, we've been doing this for a long time now. And we have really built one of the earliest and most widely used apps in terms of onboarding people to crypto. And a lot of people got introduced to crypto through us.  We have, you know, over a thousand vendors right now where you could just earn it for free. I mean, we do all the negotiating with all the vendors. So we can give, you know, the cash back or for them, like they would have spent it on ad dollars anyway, and just pass it on to the consumers. So it's an easy way for us to, you know, just introduce crypto to you. So even if you don't have an account, like trading account or anything like that, you just want to earn it for free. Definitely use the app and download it on iOS, Android, or Chrome and start earning some crypto. So modest. So just so you guys know, it all kind of goes by membership. It's really like just a reward. It's like, it's a better version of rewards program, we'll say, right?  Yeah. I mean, you don't have to have any tokens to use the app. You can always earn for free. This is just extra perks, right? So all the reward memberships, these are, think of it like airline miles. So airline programs have, you know, like, silver, platinum, like American Express or American Airlines, Diamond or whatever. But yeah, that part is like, you can never sell your membership back. In this case, like the number of tokens that you own put you into different categories where you just get bonus cash back. And it's great because we're just constantly adding more and more stores and we're launching a debit card where, you know, we'll add 15,000 more stores, you know, which will make it even more useful and you'll just have, you know, sort of extra cash back. And it's that's where the utility comes from in terms of like, hey, there's an actual use case as to why you need these tokens.  And it's, you know, you have the right. And so that's the flexibility. So that's a really good use case. And so for us, yeah, just how do we make this more useful? And currently 99% of the cryptocurrencies don't do anything still. We're really trying to lead, you know, with innovation in terms of like, okay, let's actually make it useful with the product and then more people will come use it. So. Right. And Simon, tell people how long you guys have been around for. Um, so I, like I've joined full time, like 2015, but my co-founder Calvin, you know, built the initial version of the app, like December of 2013. So, you know, it's been like almost eight years now. Jesus, crime and Christmas, eight years so far. And then lastly, I will just say this, I think you guys had a pretty sweet deal that was launched out with an NBA team. It looks something like a Zeese. Yeah. So yeah, we were the first crypto company to be a Jersey patch partner in the NBA. So we made a Portland Trailblazer partnership. Yeah, on Saturday, we got some of our team members and investors got to fly out and watch the game together.  And it's just really awesome seeing, you know, crypto companies being the main stage of, you know, an NBA arena. And we're just trying to expand the mass adoption. And, you know, we're just, we're really early. I mean, it's only. That is true. And Simon, yes, sorry to interrupt, but before I let you go, is there any, is there anything that you can tell us without breaking any confidentiality rules about what's in the future for Stormax? And this is a nothing that you can't say, just anything that's coming out of the pipe. Yeah, definitely watch out for a debit card. It will be different.  And it will be an easy way for you to earn and spend crypto. So it will be very different than what's all out there. And it'll be even more competitive than some of the traditional, you know, rewards cards, you know, even on the traditional side. So definitely look forward to that. We're making a lot of upgrades and updates there. And also just we are launching, you know, governance, and we're starting to get more involved in that, which is pretty interesting because, you know, let's say like Apple came out with iPhone 13.  Come on, Tim Cook, like I know you're making a lot of money, but we want to see something different. You know, they can't vote on that. Ultimately, Apple's the one that makes the decisions and they're the ones that pushes everything out. But we're sort of aiming to be one of the first companies where like, Hey, you know, like, we're going to launch this, like, let's get your feedback as users and the users can vote based on where our product will head towards. And that that's going to be interesting.  And Amazon or Apple or Facebook or Twitter, it's like, none of these guys do this currently. It's a different mindset. It's a different way of thinking. It's a new way of thinking that this will get adopted more because ultimately you're building a product for the users.  It's typically just like, which one's going to be offering a private or like a better rate, for example. In our case, like, Hey, you are the decision maker, like you help this company run. And that's where, you know, we're going to start building sort of these very strong communities that are part of, you know, what's being built in a decentralized ecosystem. It makes sense. Community, utility, mass adoption. Makes sense. Simon, that's it for today. Thanks for being my co-host. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, no problem. And then for you watching right now, if you like the video, like, get a little value, give it a thumbs up, give it a like, consider subscribing. And that's it for today. So thanks so much. And we'll see you on the next one.


nd control organization is a fairly simple one the institute of psychoreontology ink is the parent organization the course is taught by silva mind control international ink in 34 nations one of its divisions silva sensor systems mix tapes study aids and research equipment available to students and graduates and manages the mind control bookstore the institute of psychoreontology ink publishes a newsletter for graduates and holds conventions graduate courses seminars and workshops mind control research is conducted by psychoreontology studies international ink a nonprofit organization smci programs ink concentrates on marketing relaxation seminars some of which use biofeedback custom tailored for executives appendix h silva mind control and the psychiatric patient plan cd mckang see md and lance s right md in november 1970 we attended a silva mind control class in philadelphia because we were curious about some of their claims as the course progressed it became apparent to us there were three persons who were definitely emotionally disturbed and a fourth whose stability was in question what was the reason did the course precipitate emotional illness had they been ill when they arrived were disturbed persons attracted to the course we discussed the possibilities with our colleagues and many of them speculated that the course could precipitate acute psychosis in unstable individuals this sounded plowsible it is generally accepted that anything that facilitates regression may bring about an acute psychosis in someone who is so inclined sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs can bring on psychotic like behavior and even such techniques as biofeedback and hypnosis can alter the psyche as well most psychoanalysts do not recommend plan cd mckenzie mj greater than director of philadelphia psychiat rick consultation service attending psychiatrist philadelphia sigh aang chieh right md senior attending psychiatrist accented in ts of pennsylvania hospital associate professor of child psychiatry hanneman medical college 182 184 divided by the silver mind control method flexible in their thinking presumably they would not represent persons who might get into difficulty during the course because they were not likely to take the course in the first place initially patients from the severely disturbed group were sent to the course one at a time and with great caution during the initial part of the study the patients were sent during a time of their remission as the study progressed however the patients were sent during less stable periods of their illnesses toward the end of the four-year period 17 were sent while they were actively psychotic and delusional and sometimes 10 or more went through the course at once in addition to their ongoing psychiatric treatment and evaluation 58 of the 75 were given the experiential world inventory questionnaire before and after the course the ewi is a 400 item questionnaire designed to measure real id perception doctor s l melody and osman authors of the questionnaire attempted to put the rorschach in question and answer form and arrived at a sensitive test for the mar general individual the primary purpose of the study was to find out which patients might become more disturbed with the training in that regard the results were startling because only one patient became appreciably more disturbed after the course he was a 29 year old catatonic schizophrenic pothine who became upset two weeks after the course when he stopped taking his medication and began dating for the first time in his life he was also the only patient who scored appreciably worse on the ewi after the course he did not require hospitalization two other patients one who had experienced psychotic depression and one with involuntial depression showed an increase in depression following the course perhaps in contrast to the way they have felt during the training the high feeling during the course was a marked contrast to their depressive state and the experience was like taking a headache away from a person who had had it all his life appendix 2 divided by 185 if it returned it was more noticeable however these pothines did score better on the ewi afterward and they were able to make use of the training the involuntial depressed patient was able to use the mind control program being later the same week and function with less anxiety at work and the person with a history of psychotic depression was able to work through things in therapy she had previously been unable to handle 26 other depressed patients including involution now psychotic schizo effective and manic depressive types were much less depressed after the course and showed no harmful effects one woman reported a sudden feeling of sadness during one of the relaxations a man not included in the 75 dropped out after the second day because he had flashbacks of unpleasant vietnam experiences his condition was not thought to be worse than when he began but he did not return for further evaluation the relaxation puts persons in touch with feelings usually because the mood of the group is high and the focus is positive the feelings are of warmth and love but on infrequent occasion persons evoke sadness and unhappy memories still another patient was afraid of the things to be done on the last day of the course and after a bad dream did not go to the last day a paranoid schizophrenic man age 30 demonstrated great exuberance approaching psychothermic proportions after the course he tried various mind control techniques to determine what to do with the rest of his life and spent many hours checking out possibilities from program dreams this was seen as an increase of compulsive defenses nevertheless as a result of his heightened activity he was able to go back to school to earn his phd he also was able to discuss a delusional system he had experienced several years before when he thought he was telepathically on a mission to kill someone if he had not taken the course this might never have been brought up and resolved in comparison with the relatively few and minor negative 186 divided by the silver mind control method effects of the course the positive effects and results would require a book to describe the most consistent finding was one we were not looking for and did not expect in almost every instance there was an increase in reality perception of the 58 who took the ewl one became appreciably worse 21 remained about the same and 36 demonstrated an impressive increase in reality perception of the 21 who remained about the same 15 had scores that moved in the healthy direction the average scores of the first 20 women who took the course were sent to dr l meligie co-author of the ewl i questionnaire he lauded the dramatic changes that took place after the silver mind control training and said that in some categories the before and after scores were like those of a person during and after a bad lsd trip in each of the 11 categories there was con system improvement individual scores were more impressed side composite scores of the 50% of the men and women who improved the most are indicated in chart c and d it is thought that no convene chenille psychotherapy could produce as much change in a week indeed it might have required months or years of therapy one involuntial paranoid woman's scores changed as much with the one week course as they had on another occasion with 11 electro shock treatments and 12 weeks of hospitalization after the one week course she was able to get on a bus by herself for the first time in four years another woman who was paranoid schizophrenic and acutely delusional maintained some of her delusional thoughts after the course but was able to go repeatedly to her mind control level to examine these thoughts and each time arrive at clear rational ideation another woman with an acute undifferentiated schizophrenic reaction was too disturbed to fill out the ewi she was given her choice shock treatment or mind control at the end of the course there was clinical improvement and she not only could fill out the ewi but she scored quite well on it appendix 2 i 187 still another a hypochondriacal woman with a history of 20 operations was about to have another while the internal medicine specialists were still checking out the heart and kidneys she used a mind control technique to program a dream that diagnosed an intestinal obstruction at the ileo skull junction she discovered from the same dream that she had produced the obstruction and how and why mind control techniques enabled her to release the obstruction in a sudden unexplained way one hour after the diagnosis was confirmed at the surgical hospital the exact location of this obstruction was confirmed from records of previous surgery another very distracted 21 year old woman was dangerously suicidal and in the early phases of an acute psychosis the patient had assured us there was nothing we could possibly do that would help and that she probably was just going to kill herself we sent her to the mind control course under careful monitoring much to our surprise she became remarkably calm was more rational her thought process is no longer raised in all directions at once and she was less pessimistic hospitalization and high doses of medication could not have calmed her as much she repeated the course two weeks later and again improved she had changed dramatically for the better yet another very delusional individual who thought he could shrink people took the course while hospitalized returning each day to the hospital although he continued to think he could shrink people he was remarkably calm the effect was improved other parts of the delusional system were fading and he no longer spent hours ruminating over the meaning of simple parables he took the course during his sixth week of hospitalization and the changes were more dramatic than during all of the previous five weeks an involution paranoid woman was back to her self after the course several others had a better understanding of their illnesses as a result of portions of the course 188 divided by the silver mind control method clinically the severely disturbed group as a whole showed an impressive change only one became more upset all the others benefited to some degree from the training there was an increase in emotional energy after the course and an improvement in effect many persons with flat effect showed enthusiasm for the first time they had a more positive outlook about their future and for some there was a better understanding of their psychotic pro cesses even some who maintain delusional thought were able to evaluate their ideation at the mind control level and arrive at clarity and understanding there was a greater relaxation and lessening of anxiety patients learn to rely on their own inner resources to understand cope with and solve problems and being able to do so gave them more self-confidence some of the patients who have been psychotic found chat their illness had enhanced their ability to function in an altered state of consciousness and this added meaning to their prolonged illness and meaning to their lives neurotic patients showed no negative effects clinically six of them took the ewi their scores improved but not as much as the severely disturbed groups because their first scores were already so near the healthy end of the scale invariably the neurotic patients seem to benefit from smc training those who continued to practice the techniques after training were able to alter their lives greatly and even those who did not practice he techniques steadily were able to use them in times of personal crisis when they had to cope with stress or had important decisions to make for all it seemed to be a mind expanding experience a revelation that they could use their minds in new ways group enthusiasm mounted toward the end of the course and most persons experienced a higher and more positive emotional level in general both the neurotic and psychotic groups improved after the course as demonstrated on psychological examination and as determined clinically only one out of 189 patients became appreciably worse and data from any research have to be evaluated in light of all conditions present the tests and criteria used and the care that goes into the study therefore we will try to point out all the factors we are aware of that might have influenced the result from the standpoint of research we wanted to know what effect the training had on disturbed individuals as physicians we wanted our patients all to get well this undoubtedly had some bearing on the result as they surely sense this we believe our optimism carried over in some way this is an integral part of our everyday therapeutic efforts initially with some of the psychotic patients we waited until they were well stabilized before sending them through the course but eventually patients were sent in acutely psychotic states the EWI test was thought to be a sensitive indicator of reality perception and we found that the scores matched the clinical findings Dr. Elmelgi confirmed that our clinical observations were consistent with the changes reflected by the EWI scales the only patient who became oppressively more disturbed was the only one whose score became appreciably worse the ones whose scores dramatically improved consistently show remarkable clinical improvement as well the authors of the EWI believe that the test is repeatable and can be given over and over again we did not initially test to see whether any of the changes noted were related to some repeatability factor we tried to give the test the week before and the week after the training but this was not always accomplished more recently in seven cases the test was given twice the week before and once the week after to determine whether there is any repeatability factor the ratio of wrong answers on the three tests was 192 65 thus the difference between the first two tests appendix 2 I 189 190 divided by the silver mind control method was nominal compared with the change after the SMC training counter balancing any repeatability factor is the fact that there were many answers expected after but not necessarily before the training that would earn negative points for example two of the questions where can you read person's minds and have you had a religious experience recently an affirmative answer to either earns a negative point the course teaches persons to function psychically and most persons become convinced they experience ESP and for some the experience is almost a religious one thus we would have expected a worse performance after the course instead summarizing the reliability of the EWI a repeatability factor was nominal and was counterbalanced by another factor that caused a worsening of the score the test was thought to be sensitive and reliable and results corresponded with clinical evaluation as well as with how the patients felt subjectively for the purpose of the study we decided Matt anyone who became disturbed within a three week period following the course would be considered a casualty whether or not there were other factors contributing to the illness with any group of seventy five highly disturbed patients followed over a period of three weeks we might expect one or more to become more disturbed this might happen even if they are in treatment and not exposed to a regressive experience the fact that all patients were in treatment at the time of this study and at times were given direction and reassurance undoubtedly was supportive and perhaps pre vented illnesses from occurring but we believe that this supportive therapy could not of itself account for the dramatic positive changes that took place M it is our experience that acute psychotic illness has an early origin with a pathological mother-infant relationship what is silver mind control silver mind control is a 40 hour course consisting of 30 hours of lecture and 10 hours of mental exercises 192 divided by the silver mind control method the mental exercise is not only teach persons how to relax the mind and body as do other approaches such as biofeedback and transcendental meditation but they go one step beyond they teach persons how to function mentally when they are at the relaxed level the entire course consists of techniques for using the mind in beneficial ways after experiencing this ourselves and witnessing many others using it we have no doubt about the superior ability of the mind to function when the person is using specific techniques in an alert relaxed state it is similar to the state sigman Freud described in his paper on listening like the state Brahms went into for creating his compositions or the state thomas Edison described for arriving at new ideas the course teaches a quick easy method for going to this level of relaxation at any time trainees practice visualizing imagining and thinking at this level of consciousness until they learn to function their mentally they capture a wider range of brain activity for conscious use they have an expanded range of consciousness instead of just day dreaming when they are relaxed they can use their minds effectively at that level instead of being in a light slumber they can have awareness and use of the mind at that level to instead of just dreaming at night they can use the dream state to solve problems and arrive at answers the mind is not capable of at any other time when persons learn to function mentally at the deeper levels of relaxation of mind and body creativity is enhanced memory is improved and persons are better able to solve problems from the altered state they are able to direct the mind to do what they desire and thus control of such habits as smoking is made easier continued practice at the relaxed level has an effect on the thought processes of everyday life as well i for sons have access to their level without being there like a musician who no longer has to concentrate on the music to know when a wrong note is played the mind has great capabilities but at its normal level of functioning it is constantly bombarded by various stimu appendix 2i 193 my at once thoughts wishes needs desires noises lights pressures conflicts stresses of ale sorts it is not free to direct more than 10% of its attention to any one thing at the relaxed level it is but persons ordinarily are at that level only when they are falling asleep and they have not practiced using that level most often they do not even know that it exists and can be used once a person experiences the results obtained from this level of consciousness he never attempts to make important decisions or solve problems without using it the course most importantly teaches a person to use this level of mind in addition to teaching persons to think while in the state of relaxation the course teaches special techniques for habit control problem solving goal achievement memorizing health care pain control sleep and dream control etc mind control is not hypnosis it more nearly approaches self-hypnosis persons learn to get a fuller attention of the mind perhaps because it is no longer bombarded by as many external stimuli when it is relaxed with this fuller attention they are better able to direct the mind to do what they want it to another large portion of the course is learning to repeat beneficial phrases to oneself while at this level of mind body relaxation this is thought to have a powerful effect positive thinking is always valuable but positive thinking in the relaxed state is immeasurably more so the last portion of the course deals with parapsychology almost all persons report having ESP experiences during the course this is so common that mind control guaranties of full refund if trainees do not feel they have experience clairvoyance on the last day then why does mind control help the mental patient early in the study we stopped speculating on why mind control might harm the mental patient and turned our attention to why it helped 194 divided by the silver mind control method we do not know the answers how we think we are in a better position to speculate than those who have not carefully evaluated patients before and after the training the mobilization of energy may be an important factor Freud said in analysis terminable and interminable that the effectiveness of a therapy of the feature may depend primarily on the mobilization of energy persons are highly energized by the end of the course the positive attitude and optimism generated in the course must have a beneficial effect on the patient perhaps telling oneself then official phrases while at the relaxed level does effectively program the mind in a way that goes beyond simple positive thinking relaxation diminishes anxiety and therefore decreases symptomatology a person cannot be in a relaxed state of mind and body and be extremely anxious or conflicted at the same time functioning at that level is thought to produce the same carry over effect of relaxation throughout the day as noted in TM the mood of the mind control group is high and person's experience greater feelings of warmth and love while at the relaxed level perhaps the love energy plays an important part persons in love are generally not troubled by things that might otherwise bother them since persons at the relaxed level are not in as much conflict the early defenses of emotional distancing are not as necessary therefore effect is improved they are more in touch with their feelings and more in touch with reality they have captured a wider range of brain activity for reality testing perception is improved at the relaxed level of mind and body and clear thought and judgment are enhanced special techniques help patients to solve some of their own problems and they are able to program for relaxation and better feeling to last throughout the day to be able to rely more on their own inner resources gives them more confidence the therapist trust the answers they get at the altered state and this adds to the patient's confidence a group phenomenon is present the good emotional appendix 2 at 195 feeling of the group is contagious and carries over even to the most disturbed the parapsychological part of the course helps some of the disturbed patients in an unexpected way many who were pushed to the outer reaches of the mind reported frequent paranormal experiences that psychotherapy did not explain it was only in the parapsychological part of the course that they gained understanding one of the stated purposes of deep psychotherapy is to make conscious what was unconscious expanding the range of consciousness and exploring the parapsychological aspects of the mind served this very same purpose patients felt relieved to uncover this aspect of their mental processes and found it to be real and accepted because emotional illness helped them experience paranormal phenomena this added meaning to their prolonged illnesses and meaning to their lives the therapist learned to apply mind control techniques to psychotherapy helping the patients further vi summary and conclusions 75 highly disturbed patients were sent through silver mind control training to determine which patients might get into difficulty only one became appreciably more disturbed the most consistent finding was a dramatic increase in reality perception as determined clinically and on objective psychological testing it is important to note that all the disturbed patients from one psychiatric practice were asked to go through the course which meant that this was a complete sampling from one psychiatric patient population no one was withheld therefore the results do not apply to selected individuals only silver mind control is not a psychotherapy it can be used as a tool in any psychotherapy particularly if the therapist is familiar with the course and not antagonistic toward its concepts it provides the patient with an n 196 divided by the silver mind control method found stability to use the mind and apply himself to whatever therapy he is in psychotics have been helped so dramatically that dr mckenzie now insists all his psychotic patients attend while under his care in supervision because of the dramatic improvement in most of the disturbed individuals and because the training can be applied to large groups at once the authors foresee an application as an ancillary form of treatment in the hospital setting the course was found to be safe and potentially beneficial for neurotics it was relatively safe and definitely beneficial for the highly disturbed individual when under the care of a psychiatrist familiar with the program both clinical and objective psychological data show that the benefits far outweigh any negative effect 198 divided by the silver mind control method complete suspension of action asocial antisocial or bizarre impulses appendixy ii 199 200 divided by the silver mind control method appendixy it 201 average difference in t scores before and after smc training for 20 men from the highly disturbed group 202 divided by the silver mind control method appendixy ii 203 average difference in t scores for 19 of the 38 women in the highly disturbed group whose scores changed the most 204 divided by the silver mind control method appendixy ii 205 average difference in t scores for the 10 of the 20 men in the highly disturbed group whose scores changed the most 206 divided by the silver mind control method chart i appendixy ii 207 an acutely psychotic patient tested twice the week before and once the week after mind control note the similarity of the two scores prior to smc training as compared with the score after 208 divided by the silver mind control method appendix 2 i one more of the highly disturbed group tested the w before and the week after smc training 210 divided by the silver mind control method appendix 2 divided by 211 one more of the highly disturbed group tested the week before and the week after smc training appendixy ii 213 mother wake of brain wave biofeedback experiments of doctor camia of the langy porter neuropsychiatric institute researchers have shown that these methods are effective in teaching individuals to control their brain wave algorithm voluntarily other less laboratory oriented techniques have also been used to control internal body organs for instance the technique of transcendental meditation attempts to produce a relaxation of internal organs including the brain another system by which subjects can produce relaxity on and control of brain waves is silver mind control persons who have taken the silver mind control courses report a sensation of deep relaxation and a belief that they can control their brain waves these claims were tested in 1971 by doctor fj bremer psychologist at trinity university in san antonio texas it appeared that people trained in this way can indeed control their brain waves and produce alpha rhythm when they choose to do so this was determined in a study in which a group of 20 untrained students volunteered for an experiment in brain wave control half of the students were conditioned by a method similar to pavelov's method of conditioning dogs that is when the subjects heard a click case signal that a strobe light would elicit an alpha frequency response in the eel soon the click also elicited the alpha frequency pattern in the subject's eel readout the other 10 subjects were trained by mr silva with the mind control method both groups showed e changes in the direction predicted that is both groups increased the percentage of alpha frequency in their ecs at a later time a second experiment was done using subjects with considerable practice in the silva method these subjects could start and stop alpha frequency responses at will and could carry on a conversation while generating alpha rhythm one further test was made on these more practiced subjects since these subjects had also had considerable experience in esp exercises eagles were recorded while they engaged in esp exercises 214 divided by the silva mind control method these eat patterns also showed a high incidence of alpha frequency it seems from these studies that wife training man can exercise a good deal of voluntary control over his internal organs this holds true for the brain if we accept the electrical responses of that organ as being an indicator of its function it also suggests that much more research is needed to determine the correlates of the physiological and mental emotional states and the training procedures required to make the most of voluntary psychophysiological self-regulation a better understanding of the significance of silva mind control training may be emerging from research on the physiology of the brain as reported by neurobiologist dr roger w sperry and ms colleagues in los angeles these and other scientists have developed laboratory and clinical evidence for the existence of two distinct kinds of consiousness functioning separately but simultaneously within the brains of humans the one kind of consciousness deals with sequential logic dependent dunking activities such as mathematics and speech it is functionally a product of the left hemisphere of the cortex the other kind is associated with the right hemisphere and accounts for holistic and spontaneously creative intuitive thinking within a preciation for spoility and music the left hemisphere consciousness dominates most of our everyday living and is favored even by the educational system as well as by the societal attitudes of the western world it is objectively oriented and usually associated with the generation of much beta brain wave activity right hemisphere consciousness seems to be primarily subjective receives secondary consideration i r education and finds its greatest expression in the arts it is generally accompanied by alpha or theta brain wave emanation silva mind control trains individuals to maintain speech and other beta thinking activities at alpha as well as indulge in alpha thinking processes of a creative intuitive nature as part of a deliberate undertaking to provide for more equal distribution of function between left and right appendix three divided by 215 hemispheres it helps balance and otherwise unequal preoccupation with left hemisphere function when undertaking to solve problems it would seem to accomplish a more effective use of brain potential through the encouragement of deliberate right hemisphere function it correlates of attention in humans frederick j bremer the bent new and w mortis trinity university san antonio texas this study was supported by the mind science foundation los angeles california the authors expressed their appreciation to mr. joss and silva for his participation in the experiment and to david l carlson for his help in preparing the manuscript an attention model has been presented by bremer and his co-workers which makes use of eek changes as a dependent variable this model considers that there are different classes or subsets of attention but that while these subsets are orthogonal they are not arranged in an hierarchy the subsets already defined are expectancy counter expectancy orientation arousal and non-focus the utility of the above model will increase as its gen morality increases the present study attempts to extend the generality of the model from the animal data used for its original conception to data concerning human attentional states the present study concentrated on two aspects of generalizing the model one of these aspects was to see if human eek was sensitive to changes relative to any of the east correlates of attention fast humane has since been pub ewed and neuropsychologist vol 10 1872 pp 307 minutes 12216 divided by the silver mind control method previously proposed subsets the other aspect was to determine if there was any unique attentions subset present in humans but either not present in animate or not testable in animals because much of the experimentation used to test the model has been directed toward the expectancy subset this was the subset chosen to test human attention the reader is reminded that expectancy is used here to mean that the subjects have learned the relationship that stimulus b follows stimulus a since the details of the procedure will be elaborated in the method section suffice it to say that this will be done by means of a classical conditioning paradigm this paradigm followed as closely as possible that used to gather the animal data the animal data however capitalize on the ready availability of theater rhythm human eek data on the other hand are characterized by high probability of alpha rhythm therefore alpha rhythm was used as data for the dependent variable the second aspect of this study may well be the more interesting psychologists have often debated the existence of a human inner consciousness the present model addresses itself to this question by making internal focus a subset of attention the internal focus subset is characterized by the absence of external stiff stimulus and by being testable only in the human it is proposed that this subset can be measured by eek changes that occur following ss responses during meditational and deep relax asian states method subjects the ss were 20 volunteer male college students from an introductory psychology class ranging in age from 18 to 25 they were told that the experiment was about self control of brain waves and were assigned irregularly to two groups of 10 ss each apparatus a beckman type t electroencephalograph was used electrodes were stainless steel attached subputane appendix three at 217 ousli over the vertex an occipital area eek data were visually monitored as well as tape recorded to an auditory biogenic feedback system the brain waves in the alpha range could be filtered from the occipital eek and presented to the s2 earphones as an analog of the alpha frequency a digital equipment corporation logic programmer was arranged to indicate a binary number turn on a half second os and 10 seconds later to turn on a 10 second ucs the cs was a click delivered to the earphones worn by the subject and consisted of the opening and closing of a relay connected to a six volt battery the ucs was a grass ps2 photo stimulator strobe light set at the s's eyes closed alpha frequency all data were recorded on an eight track ampex sb 300 analog tape deck and the completed analog tape was digitized by an a d converter connected to an ibm 360 over 44 computer before analysis fox this experiment was reviewed and approved by a university committee for humane treatment of humans as experimental subjects each s was asked to fill out a protocol sheet asking for such information as last use of alcohol or drugs history of epileptic seizures and previous experience with hypnosis yoga or alpha conditioning in addition the first time a s was brought into the lab he was asked to sign a statement consenting to participate in the experiment and asserting that the nature and purpose of the procedure had been explained to aim a baseline e was run on each s with no feedback provided the s was given a closed eyes instruction as a stimulus the graph was marked with a binary number and separate recording channels were used for the unaltered and filtered brain waves this procedure was then repeated with an open eyes instruction the s's face was monitored with closed circuit television and the total time in the chamber for the baseline data was approximately 30 minutes for each s if the baseline reading was inadequate the baseline procedure was repeated until artifact free data were obtained 218 divided by the silver mine control method following the baseline procedure ss were divided into two groups of 10 ss each one group was given a 14 hour weekend session of the hosay silver mine control training course while the silver mine control technique is unique unto itself it capitalizes on both deep relaxation and group hypnosis like procedures sometime is also spent in what best can be described as esp exercises at the beginning of the following week the ss were brought into the lab and an e was taken for 20 minutes recordings were made both with eyes closed and with eyes open while the ss were practicing their silver technique on another occasion an eel was taken on the same ss with auditory biogenic feedback under similar instructions the second group of 10 ss was run through a classical conditioning paradigm of so trials per session each trial consisted of a cs of a half second click followed by a 10 second interstimulus interval followed by a ucs consisting of 10 seconds duration of a strobe light set at the s's eyes closed alpha frequency the intertrial interval was irregular with the experimenter starting the trial when s appeared relaxed no feedback was provided for this set of trials a 50 trial session lasted 20 to 30 minutes and the sessions were repeated until s was conditioned to produce alpha or until the experimenter was convinced s could not produce alpha sufficiently the final 50 trial session was conducted for the cc group with biogenic feedback provided all classical conditioning data reported were taken under eyes open conditions treatment of results for purposes of analysis the e data were sampled in terms of epochs one epoch being 10 consecutive seconds of data for the baseline data one epoch was taken for each s under eyes closed and one epoch under eyes open conditions for the silver ss after the 14 hour training say sion one epoch was taken for eyes closed and one epoch for eyes open conditions without feedback eyes closed and appendix 111 i219 eyes open epochs were also taken on the silver group when feedback was provided for the cc group an early trial was taken and the epoch was the 10 second isi a similar epoch was taken from the last trial before the biogenic feedback and a final epoch was taken after the feedback was started each epoch was a deconverted and spectrally analyzed yielding the power at various e frequencies only the eyes open data will be reported in this paper results figures i and 2p 229 summarize the results of the cc group and silver group respectively the effect of biogenic feedback can also be seen in each figure the three aspects of the experiment were projected on a common axis thus a comparison between baseline readings improvement in alpha frequency production to either experimental procedure and the influence of biogenic feedback can be observed on the figure for each group turning first to the cc group a definite increase in alpha production due to the cc procedure is indicated by a peak in the middle line at frequencies 8 to 9 hertz the baseline data did not appear to indicate a dominant alpha rhythm output as seen by the broad and rather fiat spectra the increase in mean percent power is distributed among a smaller number of frequencies an additional change in the alpha band is observed when biogenic feedback is introduced and this is accompanied by a further narrowing of the spectra that is the introduction of biogenic feedback yielded yet another frequency shift similar observations can be made of the silver group data but caution must be exercised in comparing the figures of the two groups observation of the figure however indicates that the silver ss were quite capable of producing the alpha rhythm following treatment although not in the quantity demonstrated by the cc ss c fig 220 divided by the silver mind control method ui again a downward frequency shift occurred and it appears to be greater here than in the cc group this conclusion may not be entirely correct because the silver group baseline readings included elevated production of higher frequencies such as in the 10 to 12 hertz range while baseline readings in the cc group did not it is difficult therefore to make a judgment on the degree of relative shift in the two groups it is worth noting however that the frequency shift occurred in the same direction in both groups and that the biogenic feedback had the same effect in both cases discussion the data reported above would apparently support the bremner attention model particularly the expectancy and internal focus subsets it is rather interesting to compare tight human data recorded in this study with animal data originally used to define the expectancy subset if one compares figures i and i n a certain similarity becomes apparent the baseline and c s alone curves are broad and sat while the conditioning curves are peaked also both graphs show a frequency shift the authors realize that the frequency shift is in the opposite direction this is attributed to the fact that the animal data are from bipocampal sites while the human data are most closely associated with the occipital cortex it seems therefore that expectancy as conceived by the model is core related with the shape of the spectra and a frequency shift other authors have reported frequency shifts in human alpha rhythm that would support an expectancy subset or at least a correlation of alpha with attention it is the contention of the authors that the subset internal focus is demonstrated by figure two these s s trained in the silver mind control system used no external stimuli to generate their data but rather what can best be described appendix e i two hundred twenty one as mental imagery one of the values of the bremner model in this regard is that by defining the subset internal focus it becomes unnecessary to use terms such as conciousness or mental imagery internal focus depends on antecedent conditions such as instructions to the s s and on the ill changes observed it is of course realized that additional controls will be needed in order to test the reliability and validity of the internal focus subset this is particularly true in the light of hearts is criticism that s s left to themselves in a dimly lit quiet room for several minutes will increase their alpha production the present study may not be as vulnerable to this criticism since it makes use of frequency shifts and shape of spectrum as opposed to those studies which rely on quantity or amplitude of alpha nevertheless it is interesting to speculate about the additional frequency shift following introduction of the biogenic feedback in the case of the cc group it might have served to make the ucr and cr moreover thus changing the clause sickle conditioning paradigm into an instrumental conditioning situation with a cr of high incentive value for the silver train group on the other hand the feedback might make explicit to the s s a correlate of internal focus that is not subjective internal focus as a subset of attention frederick j bremner and f mortis finnity university san antonio texas this study was supported by the mind science foundation los angeles california and the authors expressed their appreciation to mr hosé silva for his participation in the experiment 222 divided by the silva mind control method abstract this report attempts to marshal more evidence on internal focus of attention in humans the theoretical model used capitalizes on changes in each states as the dependent variable and a verbal command of the experimenter to start alpha generation as the independent variable in order to predict internal focus of attention in a previous publication it was suggested that internal focus was a subset of attention and this subset was definable by certain antecedent conditions and certain characteristic eke changes the eke changes were the generation of alpha rhythm triggered by stimuli used as independent variables this previous study was vulnerable to criticism since heart had reported that some s s left to themselves in a dimly lit quiet room for several minutes will increase their alpha production f t was reason however that if s could start and stop he generated on of alpha frequencies simultaneously with some signal from the experimenter this would satisfy the question of spurious appearance of alpha frequencies as reported by heart if in addition this initiation of alpha rhythm was related to s's verbal report of being internally focused it would provide collateral evidence in support of an internal focus subset method subjects 10 men and women previously teamed to generate alpha rhythm served as subjects some of these were those used in the earlier experiment nevertheless all of the s s reported having considerable experience in generating alpha and conditioned deep relaxation as well as having had some experience with psychic exercises appendix the II 223 apparatus of Beckman type T electroencephalograph was used electrodes were stainless steel attached subcutaneously over the vertex and occipital areas eke data were visually monitored as well as tape recorded additionally a microphone hooked into the tape deck was supplied to the s so that his verbal account of his experience could be tape recorded a digital equipment corporation logic programmer was arranged to indicate a binary number on the record the s's face and upper torso were monitored with a closed circuit television camera all data were recorded on an eight track ampex sp 300 analog tape deck procedure each has filled out a protocol sheet asking for such information as last use of alcohol or drugs history of epileptic seizures and previous experience with hypnosis or deep relaxation techniques in addition each s was required to sign a statement consenting to participate in the experiment and asserting that the nature and purpose of the procedure had been explained to him each s was told to generate alpha by whatever method he was accustomed to using a baseline run lasting approximately five minutes was made with s's eyes closed 10 minutes more or less were spent in what can be best described as esp exercises in order for the s to establish a point of reference for alpha generation the ss were then asked to generate alpha upon verbal command of the experimenter while their eyes were closed when in the opinion of the experimenter enough eke data indicated s was indeed generating alpha approximately 30 seconds later s was given the command to stop alpha the start stop command was given until the experimenter felt s was adequately demonstrating his ability and the record was sufficiently artifact free the s was then given the instruct tion to open eyes and the same start stop procedure was continued none of the ss in this study evidence difficulty generating alpha however some could not always cease alpha production upon command especially when their eyes were closed total time in the chamber for the entire procedure was approximately 45 minutes 224 divided by the silver mind control method results the results of the study are presented in figures iv and v although the study was originally designed so that the data could be spectrally analyzed the contrast between alpha and non alpha was so well defined the experimenters felt that statistical analysis was unnecessary figure iv contains the data for four ss with their eyes closed the s symbol on the record indicates the start command while the t indicates the command to stop note the contrast between the sawtooth structure of the alpha and the decreased amplitude of the record following the command to terminate figure v contains data for a set of five ss three ss with eyes closed and two ss p8 and t9 with their eyes open it is interesting to note that st9 with his eyes open has a several second lag after the start command before beginning to generate alpha rhythm this was consistent in all trials with this s with eyes open it was demonstrated by s5 with eyes closed and was fairly characteristic of this s it was also occasionally demonstrated by some of the other ss the verbal report of all of the above ss was that they were in a particular recognizable attentional state all but one of the above ss were able to predict when they were generating alpha and when they were not in other words the ss could say start and stop and the record would look the same as figures i b and b discussion the results given above would indicate that at least for this group of ss the generation of alpha rhythm is not spurious thus this group of ss is less vulnerable to the kind of error pointed out by heart the lag time for some ss is very interesting but the authors can find no ready explanation of why recruiting takes so long in these ss nevertheless there was a relapse appendix 2 divided by 225 tionship between the onset of alpha rhythm in the e the subject's unique subjective feeling and the subject's verbal response that he was at a particular state of attend tion we choose to call the internal focus subset


Gweithio. Yn y tynnu ymddangos ymddangos, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r lleidio'r lleidio yn Ysgrifennu Dr Nicholas Taylor, y rechydig o'r adon o'r llach y Pysigol. Oedd y Prif Weinidog yn gweithio'r lleidio'n gweithio. Mor i'r aglwg yma, polydydd yn unig iawn i'r cyfnodol, that our calling is to be simultaneously leaders and servants in our communities, as well as their representatives in and to our society. Effective leadership is founded upon knowing and understanding our communities, their needs and aspirations, and our ability to articulate these in a language which is clear and rooted in the lives and experience of our people, that also captures a vision of what their future might be ac yn ymdegwyd i'n bwysig i gael i'r gwahodd ddod ymddangos. Llaeth yr ysgrifennu bwysig o David Livingstone'r bwysig yn Scotland a yn ymdegwyd yn Afri ac yn ymdegwyd yn Ffrasil. Ysgrifennu Arsbyswyr, tezman 2, rydyn ni'n rhoi ei ddweud ymdegwyd yn y gwaith yma o'r ddweud o'r drwg ar gyfer y ffordd a'r cyfnodau i'r hoffa, yn ymdegwyd yn Afri. Archbishop Tutib was by no means the first to make such an observation in places where I have worked in Africa and no doubt in other parts of the world. Scottish missionaries and secular educators and medics, amongst others, are remembered with an affection and appreciation not always conferred on expatriates associated with European imperialism. Important questions about the future of Scotland have been vigorously debated in recent times and will continue to be with this Parliament playing an important part in deciding them. The presiding office and others have noted with enthusiasm the high levels of participation in the democratic process. Among the voices often at the margins of political discourse have been those individuals and groups whose agenda and concerns have emphasised not economic or other forms of self-interest. But the potential of Scotland to be a force for good in the world. However realistic or unrealistic we may consider some of the idealism expressed in recent debates. The conviction that Scotland can be an agency for good in the world and an example for justice in all aspects of our common life is surely a vision in which we can all share. It is my hope and my prayer that this Parliament will exercise both leadership and service in realising this vision.