-anonOne who has no god, as he walks along the street,
Headache envelops him like a garment.
-anonMy god has forsaken me and disappeared,
My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance.
The good angel who walked beside me has departed.
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by ida pingala » Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:40 pm
-anonOne who has no god, as he walks along the street,
Headache envelops him like a garment.
-anonMy god has forsaken me and disappeared,
My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance.
The good angel who walked beside me has departed.
by Perelandra » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:20 pm
Yes, it is indeed an interesting theory. I hadn't read the whole article though, my point was just because of WRex's and Dr Evil's experiences, seemingly similar to my own, of "hearing voices". So I wasn't implying it has anything to do with the article in the OP, if that was confusing.Burnt Hill wrote:Hey Perelandra, didnt you just bring the bicameral mind to the "third man" thread?
Thats interesting in and of itself!
by 2012 Countdown » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:33 pm
by ida pingala » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:49 pm
-anonMy goddess has not come to the rescue in taking me by the hand,
Nor has my goddess shown pity on me by going at my side.
-anonMay the gods who have thrown me off give help,
May the goddess who has abandoned me show mercy.
by Burnt Hill » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:12 pm
2012 Countdown wrote:2OTs,
Burnt Hill posts Rush... and I gotta listen. I played that every day(SOTR), first song of the morning, for years.
That shit works.
...and yes, HoL does exude that positive vibe that is nice to read.
by Hammer of Los » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:17 pm
by ida pingala » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:32 pm
by Saurian Tail » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:42 pm
Hammer of Los wrote:Like Aurobindo I had the experience where the thoughts were blasted out of my head;
Electrical Universe?
Struck by what?
AC/DC?
I was.. Thunderstruck!
Lightning Bolts within Cells
A new nanoscale tool reveals strong electric fields inside cells.
by KATHERINE BOURZAC
Monday, December 10, 2007
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/40 ... hin-cells/
Using novel voltage-sensitive nanoparticles, researchers have found electric fields inside cells as strong as those produced in lightning bolts. Previously, it has only been possible to measure electric fields across cell membranes, not within the main bulk of cells. It's not clear what causes these strong fields or what they might mean. But now that it's possible to measure them, researchers hope to learn about disease states such as cancer by studying these electric fields.
University of Michigan researchers led by chemistry professor Raoul Kopelman encapsulated voltage-sensitive dyes in polymer spheres just 30 nanometers in diameter. When illuminated with blue light, the voltage-sensitive dyes emit a mixture of red and green light; the exact frequency of light emitted is influenced by the strength of local electric fields, allowing the researchers to measure those fields. Testing these nanoparticles in the internal fluid of brain-cancer cells, Kopelman found electric fields as strong as 15 million volts per meter, perhaps five times stronger than the field found in a lightning bolt.
The cell electric: Encapsulated in a polymer shell just 30 nanometers across, voltage-sensitive dyes (red) emit red and green light when illuminated with blue light. These encapsulated dyes make it possible to measure electric fields inside cells.
Raoul Kopelman, University of Michigan
"They have developed a tool that allows you to look at cellular changes on a very local level," says Piotr Grodzinski, director of the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer. Traditional techniques for studying disease at the level of tissues average out differences between cells. Grodzinski says that many developments in cancer research over the past few years have been "more reactive," working toward developing diagnostics for catching the disease in its earlier stages and for better predicting to which drugs patients will respond. Despite how far cancer treatments have come, the way that cancer progresses at the cellular level is still not very well understood. With a better understanding, researchers hope to further improve diagnostics and personalized care. "This development represents an attempt to start using nanoscale tools to understand how disease develops," says Grodzinski.
Jerry S.H. Lee, a nanotechnology project manager also at the National Cancer Institute, says that Kopelman's research bolsters the set of nanoscale tools that scientists are developing to probe cells' physical properties, such as special microscopic probes for measuring cell stiffness. (See "The Feel of Cancer Cells.") In the past decade, researchers have improved cancer diagnosis by examining protein markers and genetic signatures. Now they're "thinking of how nanotechnology can make tools to look at additional signatures" like electric fields, says Lee.
Voltage-sensitive dyes are not new. For decades, neuroscientists have used them to measure voltages across cell membranes in studies of how nerve cells generate and respond to electrical charges. But Kopelman says that it's not possible to control the placement of these dyes in cells. They are hydrophobic and aggregate in cell membranes, so it has not been possible to use them to study the cytosol, the bulk of the interior of the cell. Kopelman also says that these dyes might be reacting with enzymes and other molecules in cells. His encapsulated dyes aren't hydrophobic and can operate anywhere in the cell, not just in membranes. Because it's possible to place his encapsulated dyes in a cell with a greater degree of control, Kopelman likens them to voltmeters. "Nano voltmeters do not perturb [the cellular] environment, and you can control where you put them," he says.
The existence of strong electric fields across cellular membranes is accepted as a basic fact of cell biology. Maintaining gradients of charged molecules and ions allows for many cellular functions, from control over cell volume to the electrical discharges of nerve and muscle cells.
The fact that cells have internal electric fields, however, is surprising. Kopelman presented his results at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology this month. "There has been no skepticism as to the measurements," says Kopelman. "But we don't have an interpretation."
Daniel Chu of the University of Washington in Seattle agrees that Kopelman's work provides proof of concept that cells have internal electric fields. "It's bound to be important, but nobody has looked at it yet," Chu says.
Grodzinski says that an interesting application of the voltmeters will be to examine whether there's a difference in electrical signals between healthy and diseased cells, and whether different disease stages might have characteristic electrical signatures. To gauge the viability of the technique, researchers will need to "start tying it to biology by studying cell lines from the clinic," says Grodzinski. "This is a first demonstration."
by Saurian Tail » Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:40 pm
March 25 2012
Good News: You Are Not Your Brain
http://www.deepakchopra.com/blog/view/4 ... your_brain
By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP & Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Director, Genetics and Aging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi are co-authors of their forthcoming book Superbrain: New Breakthroughs for Maximizing Health, Happiness and Spiritual Well-Being by Harmony Books.
Like a personal computer, science needs a Recycle Bin for ides that didn't work out as planned. In this bin would go commuter trains riding on frictionless rails using superconductivity, along with interferon, the last AIDS vaccine, and most genetic therapies. These failed promises have two things in common: they looked like the wave of the future but then reality proved too complex to fit the simple model that was being offered.
The next thing to go into the Recycle Bin in might be the brain. We are living in a golden age of brain research, thanks largely to vast improvements in brain scans. Now that functional MRIs can give snapshots of the brain in real time, researchers can see specific areas of the brain light up, indicating increased activity. On the other hand, dark spots in the brain indicate minimal activity or none at all. Thus we arrive at those familiar maps that compare a normal brain with one that has deviated from the norm. This is obviously a great boon where disease is concerned. Doctors can see precisely where epilepsy or Parkinsonism or a brain tumor has created damage, and with this knowledge new drugs and more precise surgery can target the problem.
But then overreach crept in. We are shown brain scans of repeat felons with pointers to the defective areas of their brains. The same holds for Buddhist monks, only in their case, brain activity is heightened and improved, especially in the prefrontal lobes associated with compassion. By now there is no condition, good or bad, that hasn't been linked to a brain pattern that either "proves" that there is a link between the brain and a certain behavior or exhibits the "cause" of a certain trait. The whole assumption, shared by 99% of neuroscientists, is that we are our brains.
In this scheme, the brain is in charge, having evolved to control certain fixed behaviors. Why do men see other men as rivals for a desirable woman? Why do people seek God? Why does snacking in front of the TV become a habit? We are flooded with articles and books reinforcing the same assumption: the brain is using you, not the other way around. Yet it's clear that a faulty premise is leading to gross overreach.
The flaws in current reasoning can be summarized with devastating force:
1. Brain activity isn't the same as thinking, feeling, or seeing.
2. No one has remotely shown how molecules acquire the qualities of the mind.
3. It is impossible to construct a theory of the mind based on material objects that somehow became conscious.
4. When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious fallacy to say that the radio composed the music. What is being viewed is only a physical correlation, not a cause.
It's a massive struggle to get neuroscientists to see these flaws. They are king of the hill right now, and so long as new discoveries are being made every day, a sense of triumph pervades the field. "Of course" we will solve everything from depression to overeating, crime to religious fanaticism, by tinkering with neurons and the kinks thrown into normal, desirable brain activity. But that's like hearing a really bad performance of Rhapsody in Blue and trying to turn it into a good performance by kicking the radio.
We've become excited by a flawless 2008 article published by Donald D. Hoffman, professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California Irvine. It's called "Conscious Realism and the Mind-Body Problem" , and its aim is to show, using logic, philosophy, and neuroscience that we are not our brains. We are "conscious agents," Hoffman's term for minds that shape reality, including the reality of the brain. Hoffman is optimistic that the thorny problem of consciousness can be solved, and science can find a testable model for the mind. But future progress depends on researchers abandoning their current premise, that the brain is the mind. We urge you to read the article in its entirety, but for us, the good news is that Hoffman's ideas show that the tide may be turning.
It is degrading to human potential when the brain uses us instead of vice versa. There is no doubt that we can become trapped by faulty wiring in the brain - this happens in depression, addictions, and phobias, for example. Neural circuits can seemingly take control, and there is much talk of "hard wiring" by which some activity is fixed and preset by nature, such as the fight-or-flight response. But what about people who break bad habits, kick their addictions, or overcome depression? It would be absurd to say that the brain, being stuck in faulty wiring, suddenly and spontaneously fixed the wiring. What actually happens, as anyone knows who has achieved success in these areas, is that the mind takes control. Mind shapes the brain, and when you make up your mind to do something, you return to the natural state of using your brain instead of the other way around.
It's very good news that you are not your brain, because when mind finds its true power, the result is healing, inspiration, insight, self-awareness, discovery, curiosity, and quantum leaps in personal growth. The brain is totally incapable of such things. After all, if it is a hard-wired machine, there is no room for sudden leaps and renewed inspiration. The machine simply does what it does. A depressed brain can no more heal itself than a car can suddenly decide to fly. Right now the golden age of brain research is brilliantly decoding neural circuitry, and thanks to neuroplasticity, we know that the brain's neural pathways can be changed. The marvels of brain activity grow more astonishing every day. Yet in our astonishment it would be a grave mistake, and a disservice to our humanity, to forget that the real glory of human existence is the mind, not the brain that serves it.
by Hammer of Los » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:56 am
by Allegro » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:46 pm
by crikkett » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:54 pm
Allegro wrote:
This scholastic offering is a bit difficult to manage, especially with the math. I've included here only what might be considered relevant for the thread minus the idea of the brain as a radio.
Highlights mine.
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Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with
activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion
by Allegro » Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:38 am
.by Burnt Hill » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:42 am
Earth's Magnetic Field: Is it a Global Brain?
Buryl Payne
http://www.buryl.com/global_brain.htm
Earth’s magnetic field is one of the most complex variables known. It varies with the Sun’s activity, the Sun’s rotation, the Moon’s rotation, the Earth’s rotation, and the positions of the planets.
The Sun is constantly emitting particles, and waves of all frequencies. When the particles hit Earth (mostly those particles called electrons and protons) they are deflected by the magnetic field of Earth. The positively charged protons go one way, and the negatively charged electrons go another. They swirl around the Earth, many of them temporarily staying in orbits, called the Van Allan belt. The solar wind particles disturb the Earth’s magnetic field and produce tiny irregularities in it.
The Earth is affected by the planets around the Sun and their positioning, which is also associated with the sunspot formation and changes in the solar wind. Sometimes when a planet is relatively near Earth, and the Moon lines up with it, there is also a magnetic disturbance (Payne, 2008). Even the thoughts and feelings of humans, when synchronized, also affect the solar activity and therefore the GM field, (Payne, 1986).
A typical GM pattern is shown in Figure 1. The rapid fluxuations on the afternoon 7/25 correspond to a rare alignment of Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
Figure 1. – Earth’s Geomagnetic Field. Time of day along x axis.
Figure 2. A Typical Brain Wave for One Second.
Although the GM field and brain waves do not appear to be similar, except that they are complex electromagnetic waves, there must be some connection that has not been noticed yet. For centuries humans have noticed connections between human behavior and planetary positions. For thirty years, I have consistently noticed connections between geomagnetic activity and planetary positions, especially when the Earth was near these planets in its yearly orbit and the Moon was either conjunct or trine to them. Figure 3. shows the influence of planetary patterns on the geomagnetic field. When Saturn and Pluto were close to one another in 1982, the effect was greater, clearly showing in the data. The only exception was observed when two other planets briefly moved into exact opposition. It is clear that the Sun’s activity and the positions of the planets both affect the geomagnetic field. Laboratory studies have found that magnetic fields can affect brain waves as well as glandular activity, although precise correlation’s between brain wave patterns and the geomagnetic field have not yet been discovered, it seems a strong working hypothesis.
Figure 3. Combined influence of Saturn and Pluto on the Geomagnetic field. 1983.
This is not the sole influence on human behavior, perhaps only about 15% on the average. Yet, there are a few exceptions, when the influence of the geomagnetic fields increases to as much as 90% and sometimes decreases to practically 0. Not only human behavior, but all life is influenced by the solar-planetary-geomagnetic field network.
In a way this could be called the default program. That is, the most likely condition or influence on behavior UNLESS HUMANS ACTIVELY CHOOSE TO THINK AND DO OTHERWISE, ESPECIALLY COLLECTIVELY. That is going “against the flow” as it is said. Not easy, and sometimes a waste of effort, for “the flow” is too strong. The question could be: “Are we self conscious, choosing humans or are we biomechanical, biochemical robots?” What percent of ‘free will’ do humans have? I often say it is less than 5%, which is insignificant in statistics. Look around at the world, or your own life; what do you think?
Tuning in.
The brain is always generating a pattern of internal neural frequencies, so called alpha, theta, delta, and beta; names for different ranges of frequencies, plus others, some of which are altered by the patterns of electromagnetism in our environment. Radio waves, cell phone microwaves, TV, and general noise from electric circuits also generate electromagnetic frequencies. The minute electromagnetic patterns of the Earth are also a part of the environment. Brain waves are a mixture of these frequencies, which vary depending on human activity, that is, sleeping, meditating, visualizing, concentrated alertness, etc. During meditation, the higher frequencies diminish and the lower ones become dominant. Although, external radio frequency noises are always present. Quieting the internally generated neural patterns can make us more receptive to the geomagnetic patterns. Perhaps this is what people call tuning in to the super conscious, Higher Self, or the over soul. The activity of the Sun and any nearby planets that the Moon amplifies by lining up with them, will dominate. This could be called “The Global Brain”. That doesn’t mean it’s always good. During solar flares, it could be agitating and the patterns from some planets may also be annoying or may amplify difficulties in our personal horoscope (so called ‘squares’.)Knowledge and awareness of external electromagnetic influences is helpful so people can make the best personal choices.
The GM field also affects brain rhythms and hormone balance. As human’s hormones vary, so do the person’s feelings.
A very noticeable and powerful influence of the GM field is the cyclic nature of mass human behavior. The late Professor Raymond Wheeler at the University of Kansas found that wars increase and decrease in approximately 11 year cycles. This cycle was found to be in phase with solar cycles, and geomagnetic activity. Since few people are aware of this there is scarcely any way to know when to strengthen resolves for peace.
Figure 4. 11 1/5 Year Cycle of International Battles
Figure 5: 11 Year Sunspot Cycle
A typical Solar cycle. The Shaded area shows when the GM field is most active, and therefore times of planetary unrest. I found that the start of battles occurred mostly during the ascent, or decent, of sunspot activity every 11 years.
The shaded area shows when GM field is the most active
Figure 6. – Stressful Times
Figure 4. Illustrates the 11 year cycle of International battles. Figure 5. illustrates the sun spot cycles, also of 11 yrs. Figure 6. shows a typical solar cycle.
Warring behavior is not the sole effect of solar and geomagnetic activity; business activity and creativity are also stimulated by geomagnetic activity. Every geomagnetic pattern is different and has different influences on people.
When the planet Jupiter is nearby and the Moon is aligned with it, good feelings prevail. When Earth passes Pluto, there are storms, or cold snaps for a couple of days, and so forth, in diverse yet somewhat predictable patterns. The study and practice of astrology is mostly about geomagnetic patterns and behavior, though few astrologers are aware of this and fail to be complete in their predictions.
Humans are almost like puppets dangling on magnetic field lines. Almost, but not quite. We have a little freedom. People are alive and have their own little magnetic or spin force. Minute, compared to the Earth’s and Sun’s, but it does exist. By combining thought forces, many accomplishments can be made.
REFERENCES
Dewey, E. R., Evidence of Cyclic Patterns, Index of International War Battles. 600 B.C.-A.D. 1957, Cycles, 21(6), pp 121-158, 1970.
Payne, B., Spin – A Collection of Experiments and Observations. EBook available from the author’s website: http://www.buryl.com.
Payne, B. How To Predict Sunspots and Geomagnetic Changes.
Payne, B. The Power of Thought to Influence the Sun. buryl.com
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by ida pingala » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:51 am
Humans are almost like puppets dangling on magnetic field lines. Almost, but not quite. We have a little freedom. People are alive and have their own little magnetic or spin force. Minute, compared to the Earth’s and Sun’s, but it does exist. By combining thought forces, many accomplishments can be made.
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