The story of Jesus’ resurrection is a compelling one, but is it true? How can we in the twenty-first century account for this Gospel story?

Possible Explanations:

Mass Hallucinations

Could it have been a mass hallucination? That’s not a likely answer. Too many people saw the resurrected Jesus over too long a period of time to dismiss it as a mass hallucination. Besides, hallucinations don’t have physical bodies to touch, and they don’t eat and carry on prolonged conversations. Moreover, mass hallucination does not explain the empty grave. No, mass hallucination is not a satisfactory answer.

Swoon Theory

Some speculate Jesus was still alive when taken down from the cross. He had merely fainted and gone into a coma. Aroma from the burial spices revived him in the tomb. He got up, rolled back the stone, and walked away.

Somewhere along the way, he happened to find some clean clothes. Dressed in his new apparel, he ran into Mary Magdalene and her friends. They were startled, so much so, they ran off and spread conflicting rumors about his return from death.

Then Jesus dropped in on his disciples. They misinterpreted the entire event thinking he was a ghost. Jesus attempted to convince his friends he was still a man. He even had them touch his crucifixion wounds. Despite his efforts, they would not be persuaded. Eventually he gave up and set out for some unknown destination where he lived the rest of his life anonymously. He never taught, preached, or performed another miracle. And no one ever discovered his true identity.

It’s a wonder, Hollywood hasn’t picked up on this idea and made a film about “The Great Deception.” Maybe they have and I missed it.

That theory has a few holes in it, large gaping holes at that. It is rather apparent that Jesus did die on the cross. That’s what the soldiers breaking legs said, and that’s what the soldier with the spear made sure of. That is also what the centurion reported to Pilate.

These men were familiar with death and they were well-acquainted with crucifixion. They could tell the difference between an alive and a dead man. Furthermore, they knew how to make sure a man is dead. In other words, the crucifixion detail knew its grisly task.

But just for the sake of argument, let’s say Jesus wasn’t dead, even after the spear thrust in his side. In that case Joseph and Nicodemus placed an unconscious, badly damaged, bleeding body in a cool tomb and wrapped spices around him. But he still wouldn’t have a chance. Shock would more than likely kill him; if not, he would certainly bleed to death. Those large nail holes through his wrists and heels would render his hands and feet useless. He wouldn’t be able to move himself, to say nothing of the heavy stone at the entrance. No, the “swoon theory” doesn’t work.

Let’s go back to Friday. Friday evening before 6 pm, Joseph rolled a heavy stone closing the entrance to the tomb. Inside is Jesus’ disfigured dead body wrapped in linen and covered with seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes. Early Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene, her companions, the apostles Peter and John, and even the guards and the chief priests all seem to agree: The body is missing. So what happened to Jesus’ body? There are only two possible answers. Either someone removed the corpse, or Jesus arose from death.

Someone Stole the Corpse

Let’s consider the first possibility. Someone took Jesus’ body away. Who would want it? Certainly not the religious or civil authorities. They were the ones who had the tomb secured, specifically so no one would tamper with the body. What about the disciples or maybe even grave robbers? Could they have stolen the body? No. The sealed tomb and guards were adequate protection against theft.

But didn’t the chief priests and soldiers claim, “the disciples stole the body while the guards were asleep”? (Matthew 28:12-13) That’s what they said; but it doesn’t make sense. How would the guards have known the disciples took the corpse if they were asleep? And how could the disciples have rolled back a sealed, or even an unsealed, heavy stone without awaking the guards?

Remember the chief priests spoke of shielding the guards should Pilate hear that they slept on duty? (Matthew 28:14) Those were Roman soldiers. The usual punishment for a Roman soldier who fell asleep at his post was death. Considering those consequences, it’s very unlikely they were all asleep at the same time.

If they had been asleep, they would be the last ones to admit it. What’s more, why should the same Jewish leaders who asked for the guard detail be eager to cover-up for the guards who went to sleep on their requested assignment? The most that can be said for it is that it is an awkward story that doesn’t pass scrutiny. Nobody got past the guards and the sealed tomb to steal the body.

Disciples Bribed Guards and Took Corpse

If that idea doesn’t fly, let’s try something more plausible. Maybe the disciples bribed the guards and got Jesus’ body out with the help of the Roman soldiers. Certainly, the Jews proved the soldiers could be bought for a price.

Bribing the Roman guards has its own set of problems. The first problem is the disciples themselves. They were frightened and disillusioned. They were not in a frame of mind to bribe the guards for Jesus’ corpse. Even if they had been, the disciples were not noted for their wealth. And the guards risk their own lives by taking a bribe of that sort. It follows they would require a very large payoff to take such a gamble.

Let’s face it, offering a bribe to the guards would be risky business. If negotiations with the soldiers broke down, the guards might well decide to turn the disciples over to the chief priests. After all, the chief priests did have money, and they would definitely be interested in anyone who wanted Jesus’ body.

There would probably be a nice fat reward for nabbing those disciples. And equally appealing, the guards would not be placing themselves in jeopardy. Would the disciples take such a risk? Apparently not, they seemed to prefer the safety of staying behind locked doors. (John 20:19)

Let’s not forget, the disciples and the guards were not the only ones involved in this story. The chief priests play a part too. What do you think the Jewish leaders would do if they really believed the apostles had Jesus’ body? Those chief priests showed they understood Jesus when he said he would rise on the third day. They also knew the importance of preventing that deception. (Matthew 27:62-64)

I suspect they would have hunted down Jesus’ followers and bribed or tortured them one by one until someone talked. And someone would talk. One of them would tell the chief priests where to find the body. The Jews would exhibit the corpse, and the rumor about his resurrection would quickly fade. But none of this took place. That fact leads us to believe the Jews knew the disciples did not have the body of Jesus.

Effect of Seeing the Resurrected Jesus

The most remarkable thing about the claims of seeing Jesus is the effect it had on the one making the claim. We have already looked at Paul’s conversion. He did a complete flip flop. Paul went from being the number one persecutor of Christians to becoming the number one spokesman for Christianity. And it happened overnight. What reason did he give for the sudden change? He tells us the reason; he saw the resurrected Jesus. That’s the road to Damascus Experience.

The effect on the other apostles is no less dramatic. In my earlier article “Apostles: Legendary Heroes or Real Men?” we took a look at the way the Gospels depicted the apostles. They weren’t zealots; they were just normal men with normal flaws and shortcomings. Sometimes they were quarrelsome; sometimes they were petty; and often they were just ignorant of things Christ expected them to know.

Occasionally, they were cowards. At a critical moment, they deserted their master. Peter even denied knowing Jesus three times. And after Jesus’ death, his disciples were leaderless and frightened. Afraid of the Jews, they stayed behind locked doors.

Suddenly, these frightened little men do a complete about-face. Paul and the apostles spearhead the Christian movement. These men rapidly spread the Good News across Palestine, through Europe, and into Africa. They are fearless and tireless in converting both Jews and gentiles to Jesus Christ.

No longer are they afraid of the Jews. In fact, they seem to welcome persecution. They count it as a blessing that they are considered worthy to suffer for Christ. They teach and preach the Good News of Jesus and his resurrection. Beatings don’t stop them; prisons don’t stop them; even death doesn’t slow down the spread of Christianity. Others praise them for the way they face death and step in to take their place.

What happened? What turned those demoralized, fearful men into dynamic heroes in such a short time? They say they saw the resurrected Jesus. In him they found their reason for living and even a cause worth dying for.

If they are telling us the truth, that is, Jesus actually arose from the grave and appeared to them, their reaction is logical. They are willing to follow the One who conquered death and promised eternal life. On the other hand, if the resurrection story was a hoax, it doesn’t make any sense at all.

Apostles Didn’t Take the Body.

Look at it from the disciples’ point of view. Say they had somehow gained possession of Jesus’ body and concealed it from the authorities. Next, they fabricated the story of Jesus’ resurrection. And from that point on, the disciples dedicated their lives to spreading what they knew to be a lie. They knew for a fact that Jesus was nothing but a fraud. Likewise, they knew that there was no real hope for life beyond the grave.

Yet the disciples faced suffering, abuse, and even death all to perpetuate a cynical hoax. Not one of them cracked. They never admitted their deception, and no one else uncovered it. Does that sound reasonable? No, not a bit of it! Real people just don’t act that way.

You have heard it said, there are two things you can count on in this life: death and taxes. I will give you a third. No man, past or present, is willing to die for what he knows to be a lie. There’s no exception. Then again, men throughout history have shown they are willing to face death for what they honestly believe to be the truth.

The apostles weren’t fools. They were practical men who were not easy to persuade. There was no doubt in their minds they were seeing and talking to the resurrected Christ. Christ’s victory over death inspired them to face abuse, hardship, and death. The turnaround in the lives of Paul and the apostles is the most clear-cut evidence we have of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Science, History, Natural Laws, and Jesus

I have heard people say they cannot accept the story of Jesus’ resurrection because it has no basis in science. But surely that is not a reasonable objection. We accept a wide variety of information everyday which has no scientific backing. For instance, we accept or reject stories in the newspaper or television based on our estimate of the news media’s reliability. We can’t very well hook them up to a lie detector to see if they are telling the truth.

Tell me, how do you know if your friend is telling you the truth? I suspect you don’t shove him in a test tube, pour in a few chemicals, and shake him up to see if he’s lying. No, you accept or reject what he says based upon his past honesty.

Likewise, you either trust your spouse or you don’t depending upon your estimate of his or her past behavior. Very unscientific it’s true; but that is the only reasonable way you can make most decisions in life.

Someone might say, “Oh, but those are personal matters. We would not expect to apply scientific analysis to friends, family, or even our tastes in newscasters.”

Where should we require scientific proof then? How about geography? I have never been to London, England. But I believe there is such a place. I accept it based upon authority: authority of maps which show the city, books which tell about the city, teachers who assure me London exists, and eyewitnesses who have been there. It is not a scientific method, but we all accept it anyway.

Now consider history. How do we know there was ever a Julius Caesar, a Napoleon, or a Lord Horatio Nelson? In so far as that goes, how do we know the Spanish Armada was defeated or that the Battle of Waterloo ever took place?

We “know” and accept it based on authority, the authority of history books which tell us those men lived and those battles took place. The people who wrote our history books never saw those men nor witnessed those events either. Caesar, Napoleon, and Nelson all died long before our current historians were born.

The only reason we know of those famous men and long ago events is because they were recorded by eyewitnesses of their day. Written firsthand accounts have been passed down to our present generation. That too is not a scientific method. But this isn’t science; it’s history. And that is the way we document historical events. If that were not acceptable, we would be forced to discard all history before the age of photography.

Then we turn to Jesus Christ. He too was a historical character. We know that the same way we know Caesar, Napoleon, and Nelson were historical figures. Numerous eyewitnesses, both friend and foe, saw and heard him, and some wrote about him.

Jesus lived and died. Scholars and historians agree; that much is not an issue. Jesus was a great moral teacher too. Again, we find widespread agreement. That is not an issue either. Then we get to Jesus’ miracles, and here is where we find the skeptics. “Miracles,” they say, “run counter to the laws of nature. Therefore, by definition, they cannot be true.”

If nature and the laws of nature were all that existed, then miracles (defined as exceptions to the law of nature) should not occur. On the other hand, if God created the universe and established the “laws of nature,” it’s reasonable to believe that he has the power and authority to supersede his own laws, if he so chooses. That is exactly what Christians believe he did to prove the deity of Jesus and to establish his church.

There is another problem with questioning Jesus’ miracles. Namely, the same four sources who give us Jesus “the great moral teacher,” are also the ones who present “Jesus the miracle worker.” Why accept the teachings and reject the miracles reported by the same men?

We have, in fact, good reason to believe Jesus did perform miracles. Matthew and John were themselves eyewitnesses to Jesus “miracles, signs, and wonders.” Mark records Peter’s eyewitness accounts. And Luke passes on the firsthand reports of other eyewitnesses. These are credible witnesses. They saw Jesus’ miracles.

Many others at the time saw Jesus perform miracles. At Pentecost, Peter appeals to the crowd’s knowledge of Jesus’ power to convince them that he was both Lord and Christ. And it worked. Three thousand of them were added to the Christian movement that day. Even Jesus’ enemies did not question the fact that he performed miracles. They merely questioned the source of his power.

We have reviewed the evidence. We know the story. It’s time for our decision. Long before Jesus’ birth, Hebrew prophets detailed the life, death, and resurrection of the coming Messiah. The prophecies were specific and to the point. Coincidental fulfillment was (and is) out of the question.

The translation of the Hebrew text into the Greek Septuagint around 275 B.C. assures us those prophecies proceeded Jesus by several hundred years. Jesus intentionally carried out and completed each prophecy pertaining to the Messiah. Others unintentionally played their roles in the prophecies related to the Messiah. No one before or since has come close to these prognostications. Old Testament scriptures clearly point to Jesus as the Christ.

Jesus was a real historical man who claimed he was (and is) the Son of God. He said he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He offers us no other alternative. He emphatically said, “No one sees the Father except through me.”

Jesus backed up his claims with his authoritative teachings, his numerous miracles, and his resurrection from death. No one before or since has made claims of that sort. And certainly no one else has offered such convincing proof of divinity.

Testimony from church bishops in A.D. 130 and 177, plus comparisons of papyrus documents of the period, and internal evidence from the Gospels themselves all argue for early dates for Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We have good reason to believe these three Gospels were first century reports from men close to the original sources.

The oral tradition proceeded the written Gospels by twenty to thirty years or less. Matthew and John may well have relied on their own recollections for most of their books. Furthermore, the Gospels were composed during a period when many people of Jesus’ generation were still alive and could remember the “real” Jesus. The Gospel writers would have lost all credibility with their readers if they contradicted public knowledge of the events.

Textual critics assure us that the Gospel stories are basically the same today as when the authors composed them. In fact, the reliability of the New Testament text compares favorably with that of other ancient writings.

The supernatural element was not a later addition of the Gospels. We find it was an intricate part of the original story. Peter used the Jews’ knowledge of Jesus’ miraculous powers as well as his resurrection to convert them to Christianity. Paul spoke of Jesus’ resurrection in an attempt to persuade King Agrippa.

The early writers Irenaeus and Tertullian say that John the apostle wrote the Gospel that bears his name. John’s detailed realism leads us to believe his Gospel is to a large extent a report on events and conversations he witnessed himself. Luke’s meticulous historical approach reads like a report of actual events. His style and content support his claim of objectivity. He investigated eyewitnesses and reported what they had to say.

But the basic integrity of all four Gospels is evident throughout their works. These narratives have that certain odd, nitty gritty quality about them which is often found in real stories. They are not smooth nor good enough to be fiction. The authors frequently include puzzling or even damaging bits of information. They don’t seem to embellish their accounts, and they certainly don’t cover up their blemishes.

And then there is that mysterious missing body and the five hundred people who claimed they saw the resurrected Jesus. Mass hallucinations do not explain the empty grave, nor the numerous individuals who reported they saw him, nor the physical body that welcomed the skeptic’s touch.

Credible Witnesses

Jesus died from crucifixion. His disciples did not remove his body. The inactivity of the chief priests leads us to believe they understood the body was beyond recovery. The disciples dramatically turned from cowards into courageous spokesmen for the risen Christ. The early church claims Matthew, Mark, and Luke all died martyrs’ deaths. The apostles too, say sources ranging from obscure to credible, paid the ultimate price for spreading the word of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Here is how they are said to have died:

Peter – Early Christian apologists Tertullian and Origen tell us Peter was crucified upside down in Rome under Nero in A.D. 64.

Andrew – According to extracanonical tradition, Andrew suffered crucifixion in Achaia.

Matthew – John Foxe in the Book of Martyrs states Matthew died as a martyr in the city of Nadabah in A.D. 60.

John – Exiled to the Isle of Patmos by Emperor Domitian but believe to have died a natural death.

James, son of Alphaeus – Tradition says James was crucified in Persia.

Philip – Tradition says he died by crucifixion.

Simon the Zealot – Tradition says he died by crucifixion.

Thaddaeus – Tradition says he was killed by stones and clubs.

Thomas – Tradition says he was martyred in India.

Bartholomew – According to Eusebius, he died as a martyr by being drowned.

James, son of Zebebee and older brother of John – He was put to death by a sword in A.D. 44 under orders of Herod Agrippa I.

Other early martyrs:

Stephen – Stoned by the Jews in A.D. 36.

James, brother of Jesus – Stoned in A.D. 62.

Paul – Beheaded somewhere between A.D. 62 and 68.

These men were eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ. They say the miracle worker from Galilee did what he set out to do: He defeated death. He kept his word. In their minds, Jesus proved beyond reasonable doubt that he was (and is) the Son of God. That was their testimony, and they were willing to die for it. Such are credible witnesses.

Who among us is willing to die to perpetuate a hoax? A logical assumption is that the martyrs: Stephen, James, Peter, and Paul died firmly convinced they were telling us the truth about Jesus and his resurrection. A blind faith? No, a reasoned faith. For Christianity was established by credible eyewitnesses willing to die for their testimony.

Note: All Scripture References are taken from the New International Version.

Jerry Richard Boone
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Ghostwriting is a profession by which a professional writer is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other content which is credited to another person(1). Various celebrities, executives, political figures etc. hire ghostwriters to do the work for them and then they claim the work as their own.

A ghostwriter may be asked to edit and refine a rough draft or he may be asked to create an article from start to finish in which case the employer may give him a couple of points or a basic idea of what he requires. The time period spent by the Ghostwriter on writing the work depends upon the work or a time period set by the employer. The cost of the same would range from between $30,000 to $ 100,000.(2)

Plagiarize means to appropriate (ideas, passages etc) from another work or author.(3) It involves wrongfully appropriating someone else’s ideas, theories, research results, or even words and phrases and presenting them as one’s own.(4) Plagiarism is frowned upon all over the world. This is looked at very closely especially at Universities which require their students to write a dissertation or a thesis for obtaining a passing grade.

Infringement of copyright means any copy including any colourable imitation, made or imported in contravention of the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957.(5) The question that rises is whether plagiarism would amount to copyright infringement? The same can be answered through an illustration. Suppose an individual borrows a friend’s paper and passes it of as his/her own, it would constitute an academic offence and will have an impact upon his/her academic record. If the same individual has this very same paper published as his own and the original author gives his/her consent to the publication, then it may be a case of plagiarism but it won’t be a case of copyright infringement.(6)

In Universities, when a student is required by the rules of the institution to do a thesis or dissertation by himself, giving the same to Ghostwriters would amount to a contravention of the rules and guidelines laid down for the same. Thus the action of handing in another’s work as the individuals own is illegal in nature and would attract punishment.

To determine if a case of plagiarism amounts to copyright infringement, there exists three conditions. They are as follows:

1) the plagiarized work must be protected by copyright

2) the author has not given authorisation for the usage of his work

3) false attribution of authorship(7)

By plagiarizing, an individual is in a way stealing the hard work put in by another to be his own. The basic idea of Intellectual Property Rights protection is to reward the individual who has put in his skill and labour into the creation of the work. Attribution of the same by another person is unacceptable.

Ghost writing on the other hand is a method by which both parties are satisfied by the arrangement they draw up. If we look at it closely we see that the Ghostwriter knows beforehand that his work will be turned over to the individual who employs him, to be used in a manner which the employer wants. The Ghostwriter is given a very high remuneration for the same. The remuneration is the reward for his work. The Ghostwriter is aware of the same and is happy to hand over his work for the remuneration. There is no plagiarism in the same because there is no wrongful appropriation of the Ghostwriters work. He willfully turns over the work and gives up all rights in it for a due consideration.

The question is then whether copyright protection should be provided for the work. As the Ghostwriter is the original creator of the work, in whom should the copyright subsist? The question is answered by the fact that the Ghostwriter agrees to turn over all rights of the created work to the individual who employs him. He is given a good remuneration as his reward for the same. Thus it can safely be said that the copyright vests in the employer rather than the Ghostwriter.

The concept of Ghostwriting is on a steady increase. It is not something which is ethical in nature but in contemporary times, it is one which is very much in existence.

There is another issue in ghost Writing- the question is:

Would Ghost Writing amount to passing off?

To illustrate, when a fan of Jeffery Archer buys a book where the author is shown to be Jeffery Archer he expects to purchase a novel written by Jeffery Archer. If the novel is written by someone else then is the reader not deceived into buying a book which he believes to be authored by Jeffery Archer. Its obvious that is this day & age publishers would like to publish as many books in the name of a “Best Selling” author & therefore Ghost Writing becomes economically expedient when the author himself is not able to churn out en ough books.

1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter

2 publishersweekly.com/article/CA6338637.html

3 Collins English Dictionary

4 Michael Glick, Plagiarism, salami, ghostwriting and other forms of flattery; jada.ada.org

5 Sec. 35 of THE Indian Copyright Act,

6 Francisco, Javier Cabera Blazquez, Plagiarism: an Original Sin

7 Supra at fn. 6

Mike Smith
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There was once a time when grandparents sat amidst a group of
wide-eyed grandchildren telling stories of days gone by. As the
global village shrinks and families spread out across the nation
and the world, the tradition of sharing family stories orally is
in decline.

Oral tradition – passing stories by word of mouth – has been the
primary means of sharing family histories until the very recent
past. As families spread out across the globe, it is far less
likely that multigenerational families will spend extended time
together; however, just because the method of communication is
changing, does not mean that the global village will be the
death of family history.

Despite the fact that extended families are more separated than
ever, modern technology narrows the communication gap caused by
distance. As such, families do not have to be distant even
though they live far apart.

The same holds true for sharing family histories. While family
histories may not be shared at the dinner table as they once
were, it does not mean that they can’t be shared. The same
modern technology that allows families to stay close also allows
them to communicate family histories from one generation to the
next. The only difference is the absence of the dinner table and
the means of communication.

Since the written word is a much more permanent – and accurate -
method of preserving family history than dinner table
conversation, it is actually recommended that all families make
an effort to preserve their family histories in written form.

In some cases, the stories will only hold significance for the
family itself; however, in many cases, one family’s history may
be representative of an entire town or era. Just as historians
and students today study Revolutionary or Civil War era letters
to learn about what life was like for regular people, one day,
people will turn to our electronic transmissions to learn what
life was like in the early 21st Century.

Those people who do not feel confident enough to write their
family histories themselves should seek out professional writers
to ghost write for them. The most important thing is to get the
stories in written form to preserve them for later generations,
but some families may even choose to go a step further and
self-publish their family histories in a nicely bound book.
There are many self-publishing services that copy and bind
books. Because of new print on demand technology, people can
order 10 copies or 1,000 copies. Some of these services even
sell the books online, making it easy for family members and
members of the community to obtain copies.

No matter how you choose to proceed, preserve your family’s
history in written form before the stories are lost to coming
generations.

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Michele R. Acosta
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Hypnosis

Introduction:

When you hear the word hypnosis, you may picture the mysterious hypnotist figure popularized in movies, comic books and television. This ominous, goateed man waves a pocket watch back and forth, guiding his subject into a semi-sleep, zombie-like state. Once hypnotized, the subject is compelled to obey, no matter how strange or immoral the request. Muttering “Yes, master,” the subject does the hypnotist’s evil bidding.

This popular representation bears little resemblance to actual hypnotism, of course. In fact, modern understanding of hypnosis contradicts this conception on several key points. Subjects in a hypnotic trance are not slaves to their “masters” — they have absolute free will. And they’re not really in a semi-sleep state — they’re actually hyper attentive.

Our understanding of hypnosis has advanced a great deal in the past century, but the phenomenon is still a mystery of sorts. In this article, we’ll look at some popular theories of hypnosis and explore the various ways hypnotists put their art to work.

Why the name “Hypnosis”?

James Braid, a 19th-century Scottish surgeon, originated the terms “hypnotism” and “hypnosis” based on the word hypnos, which is Greek for “to sleep.” Braid and other scientists of the era, such as Ambroise-Auguste Liebeault, Hippolyte Bernheim and J.M. Charcot, theorized that hypnosis is not a force inflicted by the hypnotist, but a combination of psychologically mediated responses to suggestions.

In the proper nomenclature, hypnosis refers to the trance state itself, and hypnotism refers to the act of inducing this state and to the study of this state. A hypnotist is someone who induces the state of hypnosis, and a hypnotherapist is a person who induces hypnosis to treat physical or mental illnesses.

History of Hypnotism:

People have been entering hypnotic-type trances for thousands and thousands of years; various forms of meditation play an important role in many cultures’ religions. But the scientific conception of hypnotism wasn’t born until the late 1700s.

The father of modern hypnotism is Franz Mesmer, an Austrian physician. Mesmer believed hypnosis to be a mystical force flowing from the hypnotist into the subject (he called it “animal magnetism”). Although critics quickly dismissed the magical element of his theory, Mesmer’s assumption, that the power behind hypnosis came from the hypnotist and was in some way inflicted upon the subject, took hold for some time. Hypnosis was originally known as mesmerism, after Mesmer, and we still use its derivative, “mesmerize,” today.

So what is Hypnosis?

People have been pondering and arguing over hypnosis for more than 200 years, but science has yet to fully explain how it actually happens. We see what a person does under hypnosis, but it isn’t clear why he or she does it. This puzzle is really a small piece in a much bigger puzzle: how the human mind works. It’s unlikely that scientists will arrive at a definitive explanation of the mind in the foreseeable future, so it’s a good bet hypnosis will remain something of a mystery as well.

But psychiatrists do understand the general characteristics of hypnosis, and they have some model of how it works. It is a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination. It’s not really like sleep, because the subject is alert the whole time. It is most often compared to daydreaming, or the feeling of “losing yourself” in a book or movie. You are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the stimuli around you. You focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought.

In the everyday trance of a daydream or movie, an imaginary world seems somewhat real to you, in the sense that it fully engages your emotions. Imaginary events can cause real fear, sadness or happiness, and you may even jolt in your seat if you are surprised by something (a monster leaping from the shadows, for example). Some researchers categorize all such trances as forms of self-hypnosis. Milton Erickson, the premier hypnotism expert of the 20th century, contended that people hypnotize themselves on a daily basis. But most psychiatrists focus on the trance state brought on by intentional relaxation and focusing exercises. This deep hypnosis is often compared to the relaxed mental state between wakefulness and sleep.

In conventional hypnosis, you approach the suggestions of the hypnotist, or your own ideas, as if they were reality. If the hypnotist suggests that your tongue has swollen up to twice its size, you’ll feel a sensation in your mouth and you may have trouble talking. If the hypnotist suggests that you are drinking a chocolate milkshake, you’ll taste the milkshake and feel it cooling your mouth and throat. If the hypnotist suggests that you are afraid, you may feel panicky or start to sweat. But the entire time, you are aware that it’s all imaginary. Essentially, you’re “playing pretend” on an intense level, as kids do.

In this special mental state, people feel uninhibited and relaxed. Presumably, this is because they tune out the worries and doubts that normally keep their actions in check. You might experience the same feeling while watching a movie: As you get engrossed in the plot, worries about your job, family, etc. fade away, until all you’re thinking about is what’s up on the screen.

In this state, you are also highly suggestible. That is, when the hypnotist tells you do something, you’ll probably embrace the idea completely. This is what makes stage hypnotist shows so entertaining. Normally reserved, sensible adults are suddenly walking around the stage clucking like chickens or singing at the top of their lungs. Fear of embarrassment seems to fly out the window. The subject’s sense of safety and morality remain entrenched throughout the experience, however. A hypnotist can’t get you to do anything you don’t want to do.

Myths and Misconceptions:

There are many myths and misconceptions concerning hypnosis, for example, that a client is completely under the hypnotist’s control. A hypnotist cannot make an individual do anything under hypnosis that they do not want to do. Hypnotic subjects are totally alert under hypnosis and can remember everything that happened while they were in trance. And if an emergency were to occur during a session, such as a fire, the subject would simply snap out of trance, and attend to the problem at hand.

The Role of unconscious mind:

Often the conscious mind and the unconscious mind are in conflict or disagreement. For example, consciously you may want to stop smoking, but unconsciously you may still associate smoking with being macho or looking sophisticated. Or you may consciously want to eat better food and smaller portions, but unconsciously may associate eating with a positive experience like being nurtured or loved.

During a hypnotic session, clients are helped to progressively relax. As they do so, their conscious mind lets go more and more and the unconscious mind starts to play a more active, more dominant role. The same thing happens in the early stages of sleep; however, in the hypnotic state the unconscious mind maintains a peculiar ability to remain extremely alert and to receive whatever suggestions the client has asked to receive, without normal conscious resistance. In this way, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind are finally able to agree on the desired results. The hypnotist is the facilitator or guide during the journey.

Methods of Hypnotism:

Hypnotists’ methods vary, but they all depend on a few basic prerequisites:

1.The subject must want to be hypnotized.

2.The subject must believe he or she can be hypnotized.

3.The subject must eventually feel comfortable and relaxed.

If these criteria are met, the hypnotist can guide the subject into a hypnotic trance using a variety of methods. The most common hypnotic techniques are:

Fixed gazed Induction or Eye Fixation:

This is the method you often see in movies, when the hypnotist waves a pocket watch in front of the subject.

The basic idea is to get the subject to focus on an object so intently that he or she tunes out any other stimuli. As the subject focuses, the hypnotist talks to him or her in a low tone, lulling the subject into relaxation. This method was very popular in the early days of hypnotism, but it isn’t used much today because it doesn’t work on a large proportion of the population.

Rapid Induction:

The idea of this method is to overload the mind with sudden, firm commands.

If the commands are forceful, and the hypnotist is convincing enough, the subject will surrender his or her conscious control over the situation. This method works well for a stage hypnotist because the novel circumstance of being up in front of an audience puts subjects on edge, making them more susceptible to the hypnotist’s commands.

Progressive Imagination and Imagery:

This is the hypnosis method most commonly employed by psychiatrists.

By speaking to the subject in a slow, soothing voice, the hypnotist gradually brings on complete relaxation and focus, easing the subject into full hypnosis. Typically, self-hypnosis training, as well as relaxation and meditation audio tapes use the progressive relaxation method.

Loss of Balance:

This method creates a loss of equilibrium using slow, rhythmic rocking.

Parents have been putting babies to sleep with this method for thousands of years.

Before hypnotists bring a subject into a full trance, they generally test his or her willingness and capacity to be hypnotized. The typical testing method is to make several simple suggestions, such as “Relax your arms completely,” and work up to suggestions that ask the subject to suspend disbelief or distort normal thoughts, such as “Pretend you are weightless.”

Depending on the person’s mental state and personality, the entire hypnotism process can take anywhere from a few minutes to more than a half hour. Hypnotists and hypnotism proponents see the peculiar mental state as a powerful tool with a wide range of applications. In the next section, we’ll look at some of the more common uses of hypnotism.

Applications of Hypnotism:

Habit Control:

In this application, a hypnotist focuses on one particular habit that is embedded in your unconscious (smoking or overeating, for example). With the “control panel” to your mind open, the hypnotist may be able to reprogram your subconscious to reverse the behavior. Some hypnotists do this by connecting a negative response with the bad habit. For example, the hypnotist might suggest to your subconscious that smoking will cause nausea. If this association is programmed effectively, you will feel sick every time you think about smoking a cigarette. Alternatively, the hypnotist may build up your willpower, suggesting to your subconscious that you don’t need cigarettes, and you don’t want them.

Psychiatric Theory:

In a therapy session, a psychiatrist may hypnotize his or her subject in order to work with deep, entrenched personal problems. The therapy may take the form of breaking negative patterns of behavior, as with mass habit-control programs. This can be particularly effective in addressing phobias, unreasonable fears of particular objects or situations. Another form of psychiatric hypnotherapy involves bringing underlying psychiatric problems up to the conscious level. Accessing fears, memories and repressed emotions can help to clarify difficult issues and bring resolution to persistent problems.

Law Enforcement/Forensic Science:

Hypnotists may also tap dormant memories to aid in law enforcement. In this practice, called forensic hypnotism, investigators access a subject’s deep, repressed memories of a past crime to help identify a suspect or fill in details of the case. Since hypnotists may lead subjects to form false memories, this technique is still very controversial in the forensics world.

Medical Hypnotherapy:

Doctors and spiritual leaders all over the world claim that hypnotic suggestion can ease pain and even cure illness in some patients. The underlying idea behind this is that the mind and body are inextricably intertwined. When you suggest to the subconscious that the body does not feel pain, or that the body is free of disease, the subconscious may actually bring about the change.

There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence to support this idea. Using only hypnotic suggestion as an anesthetic, thousands of women have made it through childbirth with minimal pain and discomfort. Countless cancer patients swear by hypnosis, claiming that it helps to manage the pain of chemotherapy, and some former patients credit their recovery to hypnotherapy.

The success of hypnotherapy is undeniable, but many doctors argue that the hypnotic trance is not actually responsible for the positive results.

• Conclusion:

Thus it is clear from the above topic that hypnotism though seems like hypothetical concept hypnotism is present in our life almost every day.

Pranav Bhat
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/hypnotismthe-basics-for-the-novice-136726.html

In this article, I’d like to discuss a topic very dear to my heart- guiding teen girls into womanhood. Why do I feel so passionate about this subject? Well, I was one once many moons ago and I can’t believe I made it out alive and am now a well-adjusted, mostly-healthy woman. One of the things I say to teen girl clients a lot is, “I hope there’s no such thing as reincarnation because I wouldn’t want to have to come back and be a teenager all over again!”

I’m sure you’re sitting there nodding ferociously thinking, “I hear you, sister!” And I’m also guessing that your teen years were far from easy and idyllic. I’m also guessing that whether you’re a mother, an auntie, a teacher, a counselor, or just plain ‘ol friend of a teen girl who is near and dear to your heart, you’d love to be able to give her something, anything, to make her journey along the rocky road to womanhood a little less difficult.

“But what can I possibly give her?” you ask.

My answer: MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.

Why do I say this?

Because having worked as a therapist with teen girls and women for over a decade, I have learned one very valuable thing: teen girls need guidance from their ‘elders’ (that’s you and me!) in order to navigate their way through the myriad experiences and choices that face them in their adolescent years.

I think that we, as women, constantly negate what our gifts are and what we’re capable of, and being a role model to a young woman who needs help and guidance is no exception. I have experienced this first-hand with my 18-year-old sister (huge age gap between us as you can figure out). When she was born, I had never felt a love so deep and so great. Our bond was immediate. I can still remember holding her little 8-pound body in my arms at the hospital and looking into her face and realizing that this little person was a miracle.

Because my mother was on her own and I still lived at home, I became a sort of ‘second mother’ to my little sister. We were a family of three girls (and still are!) and I cannot say enough about the bond we all have with one another- three generations of women with similar genes, great intellect, compassion, beauty, and elegance (I’m saying these things in order to encourage you to also sing your own praises and those of the women in your family- it feels really good- try it!). However, we are all very different and unique and have learned how to honour our differences and even celebrate them in ourselves and each other.

How is this possible? Well, I believe that it has a lot to do with the fact that all three of us are highly inquisitive, open-minded, loving, and thoughtful women. And then add that we all see the virtue of learning from one another. And while a big part of this involves learning from our ‘elder women’; it also goes both ways. I know for a fact that my sister is one of my greatest teachers, and that I am also one of my mother’s…and vice-versa. That’s the beauty of it- it flows in many different directions.

I believe that this phenomenon is as natural to girls and women as breathing, but somewhere along the way, we lost it. We are however, en masse, reclaiming this beautiful style of learning by the evidence of countless rites-of-passage ceremonies for girls and women being performed and added in many spiritual faiths.

As well, there are some fabulous books out there which speak to this innate need to both initiate, and be initiated into, womanhood and there are too many to list here, but I urge you to check them out and find the ones that speak to you and the teen girls in your life.

One that I have recently completed is based on this concept entirely, featuring 20 women’s stories of their teen years and the wisdom they have gained since then. It is called, “What Your Mama Can’t or Won’t Teach You: Grown Women’s Stories of their Teen Years” and can be ordered at: www.guidebooktowomanhood.com

I want to leave you with something to get you started on the path to guiding teen girls in a positive way.

“Esther’s 10 Tips to Being a Guide and Mentor to Teen Girls”

1. Make room in your life for at least one teen girl who you feel a bond with and spend time with her regularly.

2. Let her guide your interactions and conversations and don’t assume that you need to be in control. In fact, the more you let her control the time, the more empowered she will be to take charge of other areas of her life.

3. Remind her often of her wonderful qualities and attributes and PLEASE focus mostly on who she is as a person; not what she looks like.

4. No matter what she says or does, love her unconditionally and release the temptation to judge. If she even sniffs a hint of judgment coming from you; you run the risk of losing her trust.

5. Never tell her what she SHOULD or SHOULDN’T do- when you are with her, leave your preaching at the door and just be a friend. (A caveat to mothers of teens- you can’t really expect to be your daughter’s friend but it still helps to not “should” her.)

6. Wipe the horror off your face if and when she reveals things in her life that freak you out (trust me, there can be many). Instead, practice the Zen concept of “loving detachment” and just “be” with her without reacting (this can be most challenging even for those of us who meditate everyday!)

7. Share stories of your own teen years with her, even if it makes you uncomfortable- she will probably learn a lot anyways. Remember, this is for her; not you. Girls need to hear what other women did in similar circumstances and situations in order to make informed choices.

8. Be critical of the media and it’s representation of women and encourage the teen girls in your life to do the same. If you want some help with this, get the book, “All Made Up” by Audrey Brashish- it’s fabulous and it’s written especially for teen girls.

9. Do fun things with her that you both enjoy! Let out your own “inner teen girl” and have some fun! Teens are usually quite good at this and you’ll both have a hoot (and a holler if you’re lucky!)

10. And lastly, RELAX and be yourself when in the presence of said teen girl. You can lower your standards and be imperfect, fallible, and even downright goofy if need be. Girls don’t need “perfect” role models- there are enough of those out there who lead them to starving themselves to death and other dangerous behaviours. Be real. Be authentically you. Be genuine and proud of who you are. I can’t think of a better role model than that!

Esther Kane
http://www.articlesbase.com/women’s-issues-articles/guiding-teens-on-the-rocky-road-to-womanhood-99295.html

Have you ever been in the pits?  You know, the kind where you are suffering real emotional pain?  This often happens when we forget our purpose or our reason for being.  You find yourself unable to work or if you do work it is only with half-a-heart.  Food doesn’t taste so good and it is hard to take pleasure in anything.

The simple answer, but not so simple to do, is to “remember.”  Remembering is when you are able to say to yourself: “Oh yeah, I can make it.  Life’s going to be alright.  I got it now.  I’m back in the groove.  I know who I am.”  This realization is wonderful especially when coming out to the pits.  It’s great to be the real you!

While “the pits” is a purely personal and is an internal phenomenon, recessions can be global and external things and usually need solutions you won’t find in your own house.  However, there are very specific things you can do as a person to avoid recession entrapment which includes having your mind trapped in an external form of the pits.

A simple beginning is focusing on “what you want.”  Ask the question, “What do I want?”  But be careful not to make it what your momma wants for you, not what your kids want for you, or not what your spouse wants for you, and especially not what your boss wants for you.  “WHAT DO I WANT?”  (A lot of people never ask themselves that.)

Do you know that most people treat Sears and Robuck better than they treat God?  Can you imagine calling up the Sear’s Catalog Department and saying, “Sear’s, just send me something you’d think I’d like.”  (The computer at Sear’s would go nuts.)  When you order you have to tell them the size, the color, the fabric, the number, and the page.  They need all kinds of details, the physical details.

And yet we dare to go to God with this general kind of, “I don’t want to take the responsiblity for choosing what I want, so somebody else choose.”  You can almost hear them say, “Oh may heavens!  Here’s another one.”  What do you want?  Any vacillating and that is where “fear” comes in.  It is fear because we are afraid will choose something, then when we get it, we won’t like it.  We got it, now.  What are we going to do with it?  The simple answer is, you just pray it away.

The truth is, “you can have anything you want.”  To invoke the law of attraction you’ll need to do something that I’ll tell you about in a moment.  You can being anything you want to be.  You can do anything you want to do.  There is absolutely nothing stopping you.  There is a whole universe out there saying, “Go for it!”  So now it is time to look at what you really, truly want.

The beautiful thing about putting your desires down on paper is nobody else gets to see it.  That’s your private stuff and you don’t have to say why you want it.  (Hey, it’s probably a lie, anyway.)  It maybe that you don’t even know why you want it.  You just want it.  “When you are hungry for chocolate cake, you don’t have to give a reason.  You just want chocolate cake.”

Here’s what you do to escape from a real or an imagined recession: (you won’t find this in “The Secret”)
1. Separate yourself from distractions.
2. Write down single everything you think you want.  Everything you can think of.
All you are right now is a bunch of hazy, vague wishes.  You’ve got to learn to direct your faith by being clear on what you want.       
Take a legal pad, write on both sides, don’t be afraid of filling the whole
legal pad, get another one if you need to.  No matter how big or small, write
them all down.
3. Choose the twelve (12) that seem most significant to you right now.
a. write those down in order of importance
b. write down the date by which you will be ready to receive these

(You’re probably thinking, “But I want them right now!”  No you don’t.  If you wanted them now you’d have them already.)  By putting a date on them you may be opening up a bunch of stuff in your personality.  For example, there are all your excuses, all your barriers, all your “cop outs” and all your reasons why you can’t have it.

The next and most crucial step in this process is:
4. Go into prayer and ask this question; “Father, what must I change about myself in        order to be willing to receive this by this date?”  (Not somebody else, not my spouse,         not my kids, not my boss.)  WHAT MUST I CHANGE ABOUT ME, in order to be ready to        receive it?

Who is this a task for?  It is a task for spiritual warriors.  THAT’S WHO YOU ARE! Why? Because change is scary stuff.  Have noticed that?  Hey, we keep saying, “Change is the name of the game.  Let’s go for it!”  Then “change” rears its beautiful head, in our lives and we get “scarred.”  We think it is much easier to change “them” or think we can than to look and see what I must change in myself.

I don’t know about you but when I was a teenager I became an instant expert.  Yes, I tell a phony from a mile away.  I knew so much I could find fault anywhere and anytime, and I was free with to tell others of my true vision.  I am sad to admit that this became part of my personality for years although I eventually restricted my expression to only those with whom I shared some intimacy.  Although this is not about me as much is it is about a universal principle we all can benefit from knowing and using.  I had to learn to cease “bitching” in order that I could be in a place that would be receptive to my desires.  For you today, dear student of life, the highest metaphysical law in the universe is: “DON’T BITCH!”  When life is reduced to its greatest simplicity, it is time to pay strict attention.  You better pay attention, here, learn to cease to find fault.

In your favor there is a little rule that says, “If you can do anything for 21 days, it becomes a part of your soul.”  If you want to be a more receptive person to the bounty that awaits your amended behavior then make two little 21 day calendars that you can post in your bathroom and on the refidgerator.  Now make an agreement with yourself and your Maker that for 21 days you will not gossip, you will not criticise, you will not complain, and you will not utter any negative language.  Mark off those 21 days!  (I hope your conversations won’t suffer because you can’t think of anything to say outside of those categories.)

Will you see yourself differently? Have you been a poisoner?  Have you poisoned your own environment with gossip?  Have you been a murderer?  Yes, sarcasm is murder.   Criticism is murder.  All that stuff is a waste of time and energy and it turns that negative stuff into powerful stuff.  It really pollutes everything around you.  But by stopping the source of your pollution (your choice of words) you will find all sorts of new energy powering into you.  You will find time and energy to contribute to the good things that are going on.  The good projects, good ideas, the praise, the building up, the loving, the saying the good thing about somebody.

You can really get into what it feels like to be powerful.  Are you willing to be powerful?  ARE YOU WILLING TO BE POWERFUL?  Power is your birthright.  But you won’t be given that power until you learn to be faithful in small matters.  You need to prove to yourself that you are a being of absolute integrity.  You’ve got to learn to tell the truth all the time, not just when it is convenient.  Try that one for a week!

In conclusion, I’ve shared 4 of twelve steps (you can get the other 8 for fr*ee by putting “12″ on the subject line of your blank email to yesdocmiller@gmail.com) you can use to be free of pity parties or recessions and share in life’s bounty by asking for what you want.  You don’t have to take recessions personally.  What we’ve talked about has to do with how you personally exercise your choices.  It is key that you keep your choice personal, very personal.  You can and should include your Maker in your choices and call upon Him for support.  You don’t want to catch yourself finding fault or poisoning others with your words and you know how to cure yourself if you do.  And just say “no” to the personal effects of any recession, today or tomorrow.

Doc Miller
http://www.articlesbase.com/law-of-attraction-articles/how-to-step-out-of-any-recession-751181.html

Have you ever been in the pits?  You know, the kind where you are suffering real emotional pain?  This often happens when we forget our purpose or our reason for being.  You find yourself unable to work or if you do work it is only with half-a-heart.  Food doesn’t taste so good and it is hard to take pleasure in anything.

The simple answer, but not so simple to do, is to “remember.”  Remembering is when you are able to say to yourself: “Oh yeah, I can make it.  Life’s going to be alright.  I got it now.  I’m back in the groove.  I know who I am.”  This realization is wonderful especially when coming out to the pits.  It’s great to be the real you!

While “the pits” is a purely personal and is an internal phenomenon, recessions can be global and external things and usually need solutions you won’t find in your own house.  However, there are very specific things you can do as a person to avoid recession entrapment which includes having your mind trapped in an external form of the pits.

A simple beginning is focusing on “what you want.”  Ask the question, “What do I want?”  But be careful not to make it what your momma wants for you, not what your kids want for you, or not what your spouse wants for you, and especially not what your boss wants for you.  “WHAT DO I WANT?”  (A lot of people never ask themselves that.)

Do you know that most people treat Sears and Robuck better than they treat God?  Can you imagine calling up the Sear’s Catalog Department and saying, “Sear’s, just send me something you’d think I’d like.”  (The computer at Sear’s would go nuts.)  When you order you have to tell them the size, the color, the fabric, the number, and the page.  They need all kinds of details, the physical details.

And yet we dare to go to God with this general kind of, “I don’t want to take the responsiblity for choosing what I want, so somebody else choose.”  You can almost hear them say, “Oh may heavens!  Here’s another one.”  What do you want?  Any vacillating and that is where “fear” comes in.  It is fear because we are afraid will choose something, then when we get it, we won’t like it.  We got it, now.  What are we going to do with it?  The simple answer is, you just pray it away.

The truth is, “you can have anything you want.”  To invoke the law of attraction you’ll need to do something that I’ll tell you about in a moment.  You can being anything you want to be.  You can do anything you want to do.  There is absolutely nothing stopping you.  There is a whole universe out there saying, “Go for it!”  So now it is time to look at what you really, truly want.

The beautiful thing about putting your desires down on paper is nobody else gets to see it.  That’s your private stuff and you don’t have to say why you want it.  (Hey, it’s probably a lie, anyway.)  It maybe that you don’t even know why you want it.  You just want it.  “When you are hungry for chocolate cake, you don’t have to give a reason.  You just want chocolate cake.”

Here’s what you do to escape from a real or an imagined recession: (you won’t find this in “The Secret”)
1. Separate yourself from distractions.
2. Write down single everything you think you want.  Everything you can think of.
All you are right now is a bunch of hazy, vague wishes.  You’ve got to learn to direct your faith by being clear on what you want.       
Take a legal pad, write on both sides, don’t be afraid of filling the whole
legal pad, get another one if you need to.  No matter how big or small, write
them all down.
3. Choose the twelve (12) that seem most significant to you right now.
a. write those down in order of importance
b. write down the date by which you will be ready to receive these

(You’re probably thinking, “But I want them right now!”  No you don’t.  If you wanted them now you’d have them already.)  By putting a date on them you may be opening up a bunch of stuff in your personality.  For example, there are all your excuses, all your barriers, all your “cop outs” and all your reasons why you can’t have it.

The next and most crucial step in this process is:
4. Go into prayer and ask this question; “Father, what must I change about myself in        order to be willing to receive this by this date?”  (Not somebody else, not my spouse,         not my kids, not my boss.)  WHAT MUST I CHANGE ABOUT ME, in order to be ready to        receive it?

Who is this a task for?  It is a task for spiritual warriors.  THAT’S WHO YOU ARE! Why? Because change is scary stuff.  Have noticed that?  Hey, we keep saying, “Change is the name of the game.  Let’s go for it!”  Then “change” rears its beautiful head, in our lives and we get “scarred.”  We think it is much easier to change “them” or think we can than to look and see what I must change in myself.

I don’t know about you but when I was a teenager I became an instant expert.  Yes, I tell a phony from a mile away.  I knew so much I could find fault anywhere and anytime, and I was free with to tell others of my true vision.  I am sad to admit that this became part of my personality for years although I eventually restricted my expression to only those with whom I shared some intimacy.  Although this is not about me as much is it is about a universal principle we all can benefit from knowing and using.  I had to learn to cease “bitching” in order that I could be in a place that would be receptive to my desires.  For you today, dear student of life, the highest metaphysical law in the universe is: “DON’T BITCH!”  When life is reduced to its greatest simplicity, it is time to pay strict attention.  You better pay attention, here, learn to cease to find fault.

In your favor there is a little rule that says, “If you can do anything for 21 days, it becomes a part of your soul.”  If you want to be a more receptive person to the bounty that awaits your amended behavior then make two little 21 day calendars that you can post in your bathroom and on the refidgerator.  Now make an agreement with yourself and your Maker that for 21 days you will not gossip, you will not criticise, you will not complain, and you will not utter any negative language.  Mark off those 21 days!  (I hope your conversations won’t suffer because you can’t think of anything to say outside of those categories.)

Will you see yourself differently? Have you been a poisoner?  Have you poisoned your own environment with gossip?  Have you been a murderer?  Yes, sarcasm is murder.   Criticism is murder.  All that stuff is a waste of time and energy and it turns that negative stuff into powerful stuff.  It really pollutes everything around you.  But by stopping the source of your pollution (your choice of words) you will find all sorts of new energy powering into you.  You will find time and energy to contribute to the good things that are going on.  The good projects, good ideas, the praise, the building up, the loving, the saying the good thing about somebody.

You can really get into what it feels like to be powerful.  Are you willing to be powerful?  ARE YOU WILLING TO BE POWERFUL?  Power is your birthright.  But you won’t be given that power until you learn to be faithful in small matters.  You need to prove to yourself that you are a being of absolute integrity.  You’ve got to learn to tell the truth all the time, not just when it is convenient.  Try that one for a week!

In conclusion, I’ve shared 4 of twelve steps (you can get the other 8 for fr*ee by putting “12″ on the subject line of your blank email to yesdocmiller@gmail.com) you can use to be free of pity parties or recessions and share in life’s bounty by asking for what you want.  You don’t have to take recessions personally.  What we’ve talked about has to do with how you personally exercise your choices.  It is key that you keep your choice personal, very personal.  You can and should include your Maker in your choices and call upon Him for support.  You don’t want to catch yourself finding fault or poisoning others with your words and you know how to cure yourself if you do.  And just say “no” to the personal effects of any recession, today or tomorrow.

Doc Miller
http://www.articlesbase.com/law-of-attraction-articles/how-to-step-out-of-any-recession-751181.html

In a modern world of developing technology and space exploration people are getting used to the notion of “the newer-the better”. In reality, this concept may not prove to be true especially if such an important part of most people’s life as religion is taken into consideration. Numerous of the newly emerging religions are based on easy beliefs and comforting philosophies that are easy to manage as an “every Sunday” obligation. Looking back at the old times it becomes clear that people back than were not looking for a simple answer and effortless routine worshipping.

Hindu religion is one of the richest in history and tradition in the world. Its structure is very complex and confusing although throughout all schools one can trace a certain central theme. This theme is derived from a human’s most sacred and important function of earth-the realization of the fire within given to a human by God. The Atharva Veda is a sacred text of Hinduism, part of the four books of the traditional Vedas. It derives from the Indo-Aryan name Atharvan, a term which is usually taken to describe a fire priest in Vedic Sanskrit. More specifically, the Atharva Veda was mainly composed by two clans of fire priests known as the Bhrigus (also called Atharvans) and Angirasas. Additionally, it also includes composition of certain other Indo-Aryan clans such as the Kaushikas, Vasishthas and Kashyapas. The Atharva Veda, although definitely belonging to the Vedic period, is often considered younger than the other three Vedas. In this sense, it is the “Fourth Veda” of the turiya, or the four original sacred texts in the Hindu religion. Judging from its contents, it is clearly intended for “private” ritual, dealing with sickness, love potions, and other domestic issues, such as charms for cattle and security of harmony, as opposed to the “public” rituals described in the Yajur Veda.

The most important feature of the viewed Veda is the first notification of the whole new philosophical trend. “Agni (fire) is in the earth, in the plants, the waters hold Agni, Agni is in the stones; Agni is within men, Agnis (fires) are within cattle, within horses. Agni glows from the sky, to Agni, the god, belongs the broad air. The mortals kindle Agni, the bearer of oblations that loveth ghee”, those are the mantras of the Cosmogonic and Theosophic Hymns, of the part XII of the Hymns to Goddess Earth. Those hymns are very important for the comprehend understanding of the whole Atharva Veda philosophy. They are announcing that the “The earth, clothed in Agni, with dark knees, shall make me brilliant and alert!” The entire universe is entitled to obey and to coincide with Agni, the mystic fire, the source of life as it is. Life in everything, from stone, water, and air to complex human souls. In those hymns one can trace the first implication of the unification of all life on earth, nature and humans being a whole entity which is united by one mutual component. Everything in existence is described as conglomerated system encompassing all the smallest to the largest articles. The foundations of Vaishheshika, the highest of the Hindu Darshanas is expressed in the mantra XII.1.26 in which the atoms (Paamsu) are described forming the stone, the stones agglutinating to form the rocks and the rocks held together to form the Earth: “To this golden-breasted earth I have rendered obeisance.”, thus hinting on the one common ground that everything sticks too. An early pantheistic thought is seen in the hymn as well and describes the common thread running through all manifest and un-manifest existence as the Skambha. This Skambha element is described as something that poured out of the Hiranyagarbha that was the forerunner of the complex world in a very simple form (X.7.28). This Skambha is Indra and Indra is the Skambha which describes all existence. The hymn also describes the pantheistic nature of the Vedic gods (X.7.38): Skambha is the heat (tapas) that spreads through the universe (Bhuvana) as waves of water. The units of this spreading entity are the gods even as branches of one tree again reminding of the united nature of the universe. This is one particular and central theme that repeatedly presents itself in various interpretations that abounded in later Hindu philosophies and can be considered one of the most fundamental expressions of Vedic thought.

The one element that is believed to give life to all things and to unite all of them according to Vedas is the light or the fire. Both of them are the same thing only in different stages though and have to be viewed as interconnected particles. Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni-all are His names, the name of God, He is also the golden-winged bird of light. He is the one, the seer-rishis have called him in many names, sometimes as Agni, sometimes as Yama and sometimes as Maatarashvin. The Devas are the so called higher and divine powers that are within us and to which the fire worship in offered and through which a person could ascend the spiritual ladder of Indra, the light. We shall promote the higher powers in us that are called Gods (devas). The worshipper of the Vedas offers himself to these devas, and thus raises these powers in him. This is the secret of the fire ritual (yajna or Sacrifice). In front of this yajna is Agni or the power of tapas, therefore, Agni is situated in front. In this way, the worshipper puts Agni to guide him and is asking Him to call the devas, therefore, he is hotaa (caller). So we see that the caller has to make an actual conscious effort to seek for the fire within him. Elsewhere, Agni is also called vahni, because he carries the devas, that is, brings up the worshipper in the midst of higher powers. Agni is doing this every day (divedive), in truth, therefore, he is called ritvik. The fire of tapas (askesis) brings into the worshipper Divine energy or yashasam viiravattamam, Divine knowledge (chitrashravastamam) and Divine treasures (ratnadhaatamam, the radiance of jewels). This ability of Agni is in the consciousness of Divine Works, therefore, he is kavikratu and he is the manifestation of Truth (gopaam ritasya). The worshipper thus becomes angirasa (worshipper of Agni). Therefore the worshipper needs to work hard in order to see the divine light, the works of the spirit not earthly labor. This complicated system of Agni and the light that it brings needs a deep understanding and ought to be looked at very closely in order to get closer to the ancient truth.

The major problem that can be encountered by people unfamiliar with Agni studies can be caused by multiple layers of the Vedas system. To simplify that we should just call Agni, or Indra, God, thus we will be talking about one thing without using various names. In order to rich real results while practicing Athave Veda one has to distance one self from the earthy desires that is probably what is meant where written that the worshipper should promote tapas, pushing one self into some state of mind. From the point of view of modern religion it is a rather barbaric way of finding God. However it is clear that human needs to make an effort to sweep the mind clean off the earthly matters and to let the divine power flow into you, although it seems easy, from the texts of the Vedas and constant repetitions of certain things in them, it is definite that people need continuous practice to be ready for the acceptance of God in their lives.

The Devas are the things that bring out the divine in us, the divine that was there already at our births. They reside in our senses and we need to be trained to see the God’s ways through them. Thus Fire became speech and entered into the mouth, Air became Breath and entered into the nostrils, the Sun became Sight and entered into the eyes. All of those senses were given to us by God (Agni) not only for us to manage worldly matters, but to be able to see what else is there in a divine department. The hymns of the Athava Veda, although at times may seem as purely atheistic are calling to nature and all things that constitute nature: Mother-Earth, Heaven and Air and all the things that bring life. They do not take them apart and view as different but rather as a whole universe which sleeps under the cover of one almighty God. The core issue of this religion is to find a way to see God through all of those things and to worship and thank him for all his creations. And this could be done through inner growth and seeking the light within, as we are a part of the system and God has poured his fire into us so that we could come to him and enjoy his presence in our lives here on earth. Although most of the mantras might look like black magic and non-christian way of worshiping God, the complete picture shows that those stanzas are in perfect harmony with the world and do not contradict the main thought of unity. Besides in Athava Veda a very ancient piece of literature one can find notes of the medical importance. They were one of the first texts that included the description of the black entities with dusky patches, which are considered lichens used as antibiotics. This was the sign of the educated society not an undeveloped barbaric tribe as some people still consider Indians to be.

Ukkhishta, the father of the generator, the grandson of the spirit (asu), the primal ancestor (grandfather), the ruler of the universe, the lusty bull dwells upon the earth. Order (rita), truth (satya), creative fervour (tapas), sovereignty, asceticism, law and works; past, future, strength, and prosperity, are in the ukkhishta-force . Those lines are found in the sacred text of the Athava Veda hymns under the title Appotheosis of the Ukkhishta, the leavings of the sacrifice. These words are very deep and again bring us back to the central meaning of the viewed philosophy. Ukkhishta is said to be a deposited name and holds a deposited quality of all things, the world is deposited in it the first line of this part of the hymn writes. That could only mean that this universal quality is some component that absolutely everything from stars in the sky to the smallest grain of sand can relate too. It is everything is nothing at the same time. Life and death, food and hunger- that is Ukkhishta. All desires of the heart could be satisfied through it. A mysterious phenomenon of Ukkhishta is very unique to the world of religions but at the same time it is understandable when it’s researched deeper. This concept encompasses the idea of life and creation itself, the ultimate seed of life that was there before the beginning of times and is reflected in every atom on the planet and outside its boundaries. The Fire and the Light, those elements are the primary and necessary for human life and any type of life, thus Ukkhishta which carries and gives birth to it, is the ultimate treasure that we humans should seek for and cultivate within our souls.

The inner light of things, the spark that brings everything to life and gives meaning to all living, the spirit that dwells in the soul of the universe- that is Ukkhishta and Agni at the same time. Agni is the derivative of the first one, although it is hard to imagine God being a secondary element. To avoid confusion, there needs to be made a division between the two although it is difficult to make a concrete one, as these concepts are greatly philosophical and hold no specific physical measures. One has to realize that Agni is a spark that is glowing in the creations of the world and is through constant tapas we as people should cultivate the knowledge of it and should learn to see it and derive happiness from it. Through repetitions of certain mantras and efforts of the soul one can reach the inner sight of the light, the Godly fire and through that fire get closer to the creator. Therefore for us humans words such as Agni are simply signs for us to distinguish things that we have lost in the long process of being born to life here on the earth.

On the other side of the coin, there is Ukkhishta to the meaning of which humans could probably never get close. Describing it with words, Atharva Veda creators used all possible comparisons for us to better comprehend the idea of it. Suggesting that there was and will always be forces upon which the universe was created and everything is still operating, most probable explanation would be the combination of the physical powers and natural processes. It is true for most things that happen and are created in life however there are many more of those to which humans still have not found the answer. One of those eternal questions could be the creation of life in the universe and the development of it to the present level. Ukkhishta gives us a hint that there is something that controls absolutely everything and is within everything and is everywhere, only humans can see it through the fire within themselves. The tapas divine energy in us is the key to the possible insight into the world of the creator whoever or whatever that might be. As was already mentioned this divine energy was given to for us to cultivate in if we want to get to know who we are in reality. The mirror in our souls is already existent we just need to clear it so that the small ray of light could become a real flame of creative fire that should be burning in our hearts. Creativity in the meaning of accepting life and understanding life so deeply that everything would be an echo of the Godly providence.

Those who are called by the fire within and are training themselves to hear it, will be developing spiritually and growing in God, thus happiness for them being a state of mind not a sequence of events with good or bad results. For Hindus such a way of viewing the world is usual and natural and is shown in the ancient mantras clearly. The mantras themselves do not mean anything if they are not taken as the major truth of life and are not followed with all heart. Peoples of India are one of the most lovable and peaceful people in the modern world despite of vast poverty. These unique people are the light in the world although not many of them see much light in their lives in our Western understanding. This feature of Indians could only mean that they have found a way to accept happiness as it is and see fire where no one else could see a dimmest ray of light.

In the famous hymns of the Atharva Veda there are lots of sections and each of them could seem odd and strange at first for people of the Western world. For Indians though such things as Prana (power of life that comes with breathe), their holy cows, the sun in the sky, the earth, the food, the charms for the removal of evil characteristics and the mystic prayers for the royalty are ordinary matters. All of those things they accept and try to find common language with all of them through the one thing they actually have in common, the fire of the life which was the primary substance of all creation. By living such lives of agreement with the rest of the world and by training their souls to recognize omnipresent breathe of God in the air, they reflect the nature itself in its unspotted beauty.

Jeff Stats
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In order to successfully remote view, an individual must operate at a level of mind where he/she will show electrical brain wave traces where Theta waves oscillating between 4 to 5 cycles per second will predominate. Psychophysiologists call this the deep Theta level of the mind.

The deep Theta zone is precisely at the interface with the Delta level of mind (deep sleep), where the human brain waves oscillate between 1 to 4 cycles per second.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Delta level of mind (deep sleep: no dreaming present), has remained up to now one of the most mysterious and unsolved puzzles of modern science. Man has, and is exploring further and further frontiers of the natural world and of space, but has yet to gain any understanding of a state in which he spends close to a third of his lifetime. There is a good reason for this: Since consciousness is lost at the Delta level, the scientific mainstream has concluded that most thought processes disappear when sleeping (except for the relatively short dream periods, which have drawn the biggest research efforts). Since no one has ever recalled any experiences while in the Delta state, it was inferred that there was really nothing to be recalled. Remote viewing operations in Europe have shown otherwise.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded When someone is awake and totally active, his/her brain waves operate at a level called Beta where they mainly oscillate between 14 to 30 cycles per second. As one’s mind relaxes and disconnects somehow from the external material world – as when daydreaming, for instance, or when meditating, or watching a movie – one enters a more focused, expanded state of awareness where brain wave patterns are mainly composed of Alpha waves oscillating at between 8 and 13 cycles per second. When relaxing even further, the mind enters a region that correlates with a large relative quantity of brain wave patterns of 4 to 7 cycles per second. This is the Theta zone of the mind.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Beta level corresponds to a focus of concentration by the mind upon the outside or perceptually separated world, and the Alpha and Theta levels correspond to a more internally focused, self-reflective state.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Each human being experiences the Theta level for a fleeting moment every night before the mind dips down from the Beta level of awareness (awake state), to the Delta state (brain waves of less than 4 cycles per second: deep sleep), and passes rapidly through the Alpha and Theta states to enter the profound sleep level, where consciousness of self is totally lost, and where even dreams do not occur. (When dreaming, a sense of self is necessary and the mind has to go back up to the Theta or Alpha state.)
Delta is the level of the mysterious universal mind. It is the level at which the differentiated self (ego) expands to become undifferentiated and operates outside of the confines of linear time/space. This is the level of One.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Time and space exist only within the Universal Mind. The Universal Mind is not separated from us, and we are not separated from It. Since everything interconnects through thought, thought is the only reality that can bridge space and time.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The universal mind creates us constantly. We are but epiphenomenona of It.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The ego (sense of separated self) opposes such notions and fears the notion of the “One.” It reveres and finds security in the notion of the “many.” That is why it fears death and wants to prolong life as a perception of individual separateness for as long as possible, and even projects this fear into its understanding of the so-called afterlife. The stronger the ego, the bigger the need to differentiate from one another, and remain differentiated.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Everybody wants to remember having been somebody, nobody seems to want to remember having been Everybody.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded When operating at the level of Delta ( sleep, surgical unconsciousness, and certain pathological conditions such as epileptic petit mal), the mind changes awareness and from being perceptually differentiated and having a sense of self, of I (ego), which it then forgets, and expands to become interconnected to everywhen and everything. At that point the prior conscious awareness is lost (unconsciousness), and is only regained when the mind once again experiences the previous levels at which separateness is possible: Theta, Alpha and Beta.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded When recorded on an electrocardiogram, the human heart shows electrical vibration patterns that, like the brain’s Delta waves, range between 1 and 4 cycles per second. When either the brain or the heart stop vibrating electrically, death ensues.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Dreaming while asleep is associated with rapid eye movement (REM). Dreaming usually occurs at the Alpha and Theta levels, when the mind of a sleeping person regains a sense of self and being, influenced both by the information coming from the level outside the realm of linear time/space (Delta: universal mind), and the memories attached to the adjacent Beta level of awareness (level of being awake: conscious), which create associational imagery.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In reality, the AlphaΘ levels of sleep is but a mirror image of the Alpha Θ levels of wakefulness. Both are interconnected and express themselves through similar brain waves. Deep Theta is the only level that interacts with the level of Delta. It is the interface point.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Alpha, Theta and Delta (sleep) are defined as “altered states of consciousness,” as opposed to Beta, which is considered to be a fully conscious state. They are so called because it is necessary to alter one’s state of consciousness from the fully awake state (Beta), to either Alpha, Theta or Delta (sleep), which are all progressive states of expanded awareness and thus are subject to less vibratory interference from the biological brain.
Beta is the so-called conscious level of mind. Alpha and Theta form the subconscious regions of the mind’s operation, and Delta is the unconscious region of thought activity. These states form the spectrum of mind operation.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Small children function mainly at the Theta, Alpha and Delta states of mind, as do animals. Human adults operate mostly at Beta.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded While the ego (awareness of self) is present and one is in the Beta, Alpha, or Theta state, all levels of the mind operate at once. One only concentrates more on one level than on another, showing therefore more brain wave patterns pertaining to the one band of operation the mind concentrates upon. Nevertheless all patterns are always present, defining life. It is only at death that this spectrum disappears.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In a nutshell: As the mind focuses upon the external (perceptually separated and material) world, it is at the Beta level. When the mind focuses and increasingly concentrates self-reflectively upon itself and its inner processes, it climbs in awareness from Alpha to Theta, and finally to Delta.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded One cannot make a cognitive bypass from the Beta level of mind to the Delta level (universal mind) without first receiving the sensory thought-data through the interface of the Alpha and Theta levels. Even though one might not be aware of it because of his/her increased concentrated awareness at the level of Beta (full awareness), thought flows as it expands down or restricts itself up and correlates in opposite directions with the brain waves’ rhythms.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The frequency of the real vibratory levels of the mind are inversely correlated with the electrical vibrations at the level of the biological brain. The higher vibration levels of the mind are synonymous with higher levels of awareness, i.e. interconnectedness. These vibrations can only be perceived at the exact interface with the Delta level. Nevertheless, they are always extant.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The recorded electrical activity of human brain waves of the highest voltage and lowest frequency appear in the Delta rhythm (50 to 350 microvolts, 1 to 4 Hz), which occurs mainly during sleep and unconscious states. Delta waves only pierce the outer layer of the brain in great quantity and frequency during periods of cortical rest such as deep sleep. Their focal and very frequent presence at any other moment indicate a pathological process due mainly to brain injury (lack of filtering). The biological origin of Delta waves is totally unknown, short of the fact that they seem to emanate from the deepest layers of the brain.
Theta waves are of a lower voltage and higher frequency (4 to 8 Hz) and show up throughout all the regions of the outer shell of the human brain called the cerebral cortex in an disorganized and spurtive manner. Theta waves originate probably in a very deep inner seated area of he brain called the hippocampus. Animals excluding primates show very large and constantly organized production of Theta waves that are easily recorded at the level of their cerebral outer cortex.
Beta waves are of an even lower voltage and faster vibratory rate (10 to 20 microvolts and 14 to 30 Hz).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The vibratory scheme of the brain seems to imply, therefore, by virtue of the mathematical construct of periodic waves (Fourier transform), that the higher amperage and slower waves of Theta are a prelude to the production of smaller and faster vibrations. Or, in layman terms: Delta probably originates Theta that originates Alpha that originates Beta

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Electric encephalographic tracing of the brain, or any other recording of its biological activity (neurotransmitters, PET scanning), are correlated with expressions of thought processes or levels of the mind. These electrical phenomena are neither the source of mind, nor even part of its real mechanisms. Other, up-to-now unrecognized, fields of light/thought fiber/optic-like strands operating within the bio-computer of the brain are involved in encoding and processing information. These fields are totally unknown to and undetected by modern science, and are paramount in the data processing of thoughts received from Source Itself.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In mammals and many other species, the brain is the major processing interface between the reality of thought and the sensory perception of matter.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The brain is the seat of sensory input/output defining and framing our perception of space/time reality. Visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile etc. sensory perceptions originate from it.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Sensory experiences are coherent and subjective. Life, as a perception of linear space/time causal realities, is but a grand illusion created by our senses.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Reality, which is our perception of space/time, is perceived through our senses, and each individual’s sensory perception is unique. Our senses condition us and define our needs. Thus, we cannot avoid catering to them.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded When all senses are gone, life ends. The space/time dimension of reality is then over, because it can no longer be perceived.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded All individuations of thought operating within the space/time continuum are different in order to keep the challenge great and life interesting.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The challenge is in these realizations and in the ensuing behavior modifications they will hopefully bring about.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It is only the sensory (material phenomenal) world that binds thought to the external realities of space/time. Thought, in itself, is not bound by either.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It has been recently estimated by neurophysiologists that if mankind were to use all of its recent knowledge and resources to build a utopian computer that would try to somehow replicate the feats of the human mind, that computer would need to be at the very least the size of our planet, and – even then – nobody would know how to program it.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Mankind seems to have taken to the misconceived but currently accepted scientific notion that thought is present only as an epiphenomenon of the computer-like biochemical brain, with an almost unquestioned pseudo-religious fervor. At the same time, mankind does not find incongruous the almost instinctive belief that each human entity will survive the threshold of “death” – defined as the moment when the brain dies – as a miraculously converted intelligent “spiritual entity” bestowed with thought processed, or that a general intelligence or “Creator” exists one who is also “permitted to think” without benefit of a biologically material “brain.” This paradox does even seem to invite any questioning, or provoke pondering!

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In a now classical study, British Neurologist John Lorber found that many individuals who had suffered of a condition called hydrocephalus during childhood, where the brain becomes filled with cerebrospinal fluid that destroy many if not most of their brain structures, operated with totally normal cognitive and intellectual capacities. In one celebrated case, Lorber found at Sheffield University, UK, an young student who exhibited larger than normal cranial size. Upon subjecting the student to C.A.T. (Computerized Axial Tomography) study, it was found that this individual (without that man’s prior knowledge of his condition) had virtually no brain: that his cranial spaces were filled with cerebrospinal fluid and that only a very thin membrane of neurons, approximately 1 mm thick was lining the surface of his cranium, and nothing else! Nevertheless, this student exhibited an IQ of 126 and had graduated with a honor degree in Mathematics! He also exhibited totally normal cognitive, functional and sensory behavior! Why the Brain/Mind association myth is so ingrained in scientific circles, in spite of many proofs to the contrary, is akin to the myth of an electron being a material body, even though no one had really ever directly seen one!

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In the classical “rational” scientific view, the “brilliant” assumption is that the entire universe suddenly spewed out of absolute nothingness, and that many billions of years later, intelligence oddly appeared, as rocks turned into meat and started “thinking.” The wonders of RNA/DNA encoding and replication do not even invite the notion of Creational intent! It implies that the Universe only awaits the wonders of our insatiable curious inquiry, as we play clumsily in the playpen of an “unaware” natural world.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded On the other hand, the old ” irrational ” spirito-metaphysical view holds that the Universe was intentionally Created by a Thinking Being of Infinite Intelligence, and Tremendous Wisdom, that we do not quite fathom yet, nor really understand, who IS connected to all of us. This view is encountering problems in becoming “progressive” to most, seemingly “old-fashioned”, and often manipulated by many.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Mind does not need the brain at all in order to operate. The Brain is only a restricting data processing mechanism framing and filtering ,alike a colander, thoughts originating from the Quantum source of ALL THOUGHT POSSIBILITIES.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The main reason human beings perceive thoughts to originate from and be located in the head area is because all sensory apparatus (visual, olfactory, auditory, etc.), is located there. It is only when all biological sensory data is totally gone that the mind expands automatically everywhere, i.e. “death.”

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The fact that the brain shows signs of activity when one is engaged in the process of thinking does not mean that thought originates in this physical organ. Nevertheless, it processes it. In the same way as laughter and smiling are but the outer expression of an inner emotion, they are not the cause of it. To solely concentrate on the smile and methodically try to understand it would make no sense. And the fact that forcing a smile sometimes evokes a slight emotion of happiness does not prove that smiling is the origin of happiness.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In the ever-evolving fields of psychophysiology and neurobiology, the concept of the brain as the seat of thought may eventually be recognized as one of the major scientific blunders of the twentieth century, if not of all times, and the scientific and cultural snapshot of this century will portray a misuse of human energy of staggering proportions.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In a modern digital computer, the linear multimedia output of information is performed by the input/output cards (digital/analog conversion) attached to it (graphics, audio etc..). We can connect to them through video screens and speakers. We can then see and hear information presented in a linear palatable fashion to our linear physical senses processed in our brain. Nevertheless, the digital computer uses nonlinear processing methods and stores memory within its memory cells in a random (nonlinear) accessible fashion. One can see electrical activity within these input/output cards when information transits through them, and they also cease to work properly if they are damaged.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This is exactly what the brain does: it is a transducer and decoder of nonlinear information (digital-like) into linear (analog-like) sensory data. That information is then processed by the individual’s restricted mind. Information only passes through it. As a feedback mechanism, thought (MIND) makes decisions based upon the linear 3D sensory data experienced. And based on these decisions, more sensory information is then projected to each and every thinking individual.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Even matter – as modern quantum mechanics has experimentally proven – might not be as solid as one perceives it to be. In fact, it is but a vibratory byproduct of mind.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded As a matter of fact, NOTHING exists outside of oneself. Neither Space nor Time. It is all a grand illusion called life, activated in order to express thought and emotions from which the Universal Mind learns.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Ego, or the “I”, is an imaginary being. It has no real existence. It is only given the illusion of being a real entity. For experimental purposes (Creation). Only the sum of ALL as the Universal Mind has a real and eternal existence.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The All-That -Is might decide, for experimental reasons, to experience an entity (memory bank) into another life-time (situation) to get more learning from it. It may also blend different memory banks into a branch of thought connected to parallel experiments in the Tree of Creation. It is ITS choice to make.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Thoughtless-ness cannot exist. Consciousness as thought exists only through its active expressions and manifestations as parts of its Creation.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The All-that-IS is not static but forever evolving. It is Awareness Itself modulated by creative thought. It flows in everything and each one of us, and gives life and reality to all. Therefore there is no consciousness as thought that just IS. Thoughtless Beingness is an oxymoron.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded If an expression of thought does not learn or evolve, it is discarded and stops being thought about by the Collective Mind. And in the blink of a thought, it therefore ceases to exist.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This applies to individual expressions of Thought, whole Creations of Thought, and even groupings of parallel Creations. The only goal of the Ultimate Mind is to learn and evolve.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded There is no such thing as an “ordinary state of consciousness;” neither are there “altered states of consciousness.” There only are different focuses of concentration.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded “Man is asleep,” said Ouspensky. However, man is not dreaming, since man is the object of the Dream; A facet/character relationship. This Subject/Dreamer is the Eternal Higher Self, and the object of the Dream is the illusory man/woman entity operating within a spatial/temporal illusion for a fleeting moment.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Often, when the sensory world produces undue stress, fear, grief, and anxiety, human beings try to alter their sensory experience by taking drugs that alter and distort those experiences by poisoning the brain, whose role is to produce the linear sensory temporal/spatial reality.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The brain is really a colander of thought that only restricts the experience of thoughts within slow, linear sensory processes. If the brain is damaged or impaired in any way, the filtering processes increase even more, and the individuation of Thought receives a distorted notion of sensory reality.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Sadly, it has become an accepted state of affairs in Western societies to “medicate” states of unhappiness and/or fear by ingesting brain altering chemicals. An this occurs to a ridiculous degree.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Many “learned” behavioral “scientists,” particularly in the United States of America, have even come to the irresponsible conclusion that naturally inward-focusing (day-dreaming) children that easily get bored with the external reality are at risk of becoming potentially non-productive members of society, and have therefore recently invented a new psychological syndrome which they coined “Attention-Deficit-Disorder (ADD /ADHD),” that they peddle very efficiently to an unaware public. This newly discovered “disease” has recently been extended by many medical and psychological mental health “experts” to even apply to some of the U.S. adult population. European medical mental health authorities, for the most part, deride this approach, and refuse to recognize ADD as a real mental disorder.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The accepted treatment in the US is to medicate these children, often from an early age, with a powerful stimulant that alters and shifts the brainwave patterns into an accelerated beta-mode. By disturbing neurotransmitter functions, especially the dopamine release cycle, the developing child is forced to focus solely on the external material reality. In the 60’s, this powerful class of stimulant was used for recreational purposes, and coined “speed” within the underground drug culture. Often serious depressive rebound effects were experienced when the drug was interrupted.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This class of mind-altering drugs distort the proper natural functioning of the sensory perception of reality.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This relatively recent chemical behavior modification field and the ADD “scare” has given birth to a gigantic profit-oriented industry of so-called experts and drug producing companies that often “push” such misconceptions with great fervor for their own self-interests and hidden agendas.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The irony and great tragedy of the ADD situation is that Western societies which embrace such ridiculous notions might, by sheer ignorance of the real mechanisms of the Mind, be disturbing or even permanently harming the most potentially creative individuals that they harbor. The ones that can think in a nonlinear fashion. The ones that have a natural tendency to focus within themselves in order to find creative inspiration, and intuition. These future visionaries that were meant to be operative in the next century in order to steer us into more evolved behaviors and creative endeavors, in the arts, fundamental sciences; health, geopolitical, financial, spiritual, and ecological crisis management, may very well have been chemically poisoned and maybe permanently impaired by mankind’s inflated ego, ignorance, and the orgy of greed and egoistic tendencies that we are experiencing. This might very well cause the permanent decline of these forms of human societies.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This is and will continue to impact negatively the evolution of those Western societies that seem to try recently to mentally enslave, uniform and robotize masses for the perceived “greater good” of a mechanized industrialized materialistically obsessed “brave new world.” With unknown and dangerous consequences that are beginning to profile themselves on the horizon timeline.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded And nothing, neither almost anyone, is even questioning the legitimacy of such a profound intrusion upon the individual mind and freedom of thought.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Most paradigm-shifting creative geniuses (great scientists, spiritual giants, social and political visionaries, healers, artists, composers, writers, etc . . .) always projected this type of lonely and unruly inward-focused behavior in their childhood years, and were often bothered and easily distracted by the rigid indoctrinations and environments of most Western and Eastern dogmatic educational systems that, for the most, have shunned and stifled questioning minds.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In the seventies and eighties, millions of people worldwide took mind control classes such as the Silva mind control course where the trainee is taught to operate at Alpha levels of the mind. As anyone having taken the courses can testify, rudimentary remote viewing becomes easily achieved even at the Alpha level as one gets closer to the Delta level of mind (universal mind) and away from the Beta level of consciousness. At the Alpha level of mind concentration, millions of people experienced remote sensing (viewing) as they drew information from the Theta level of mind who in turn collected it from the Delta level operating outside of the realm of time/space.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The problem with remote viewing while being in an Alpha state of mind ( as measured by an electroencephalographic apparatus) is that there is still a lot of information that originates from the proximate level of Beta (full conscious awareness) as is the case when one dreams and draws data from the Beta level. This can cause quite a lot of undue parasitic signals (mind noise) coming from the Beta level. The real catalysts to the original research on remote viewing came as a result of experimental data showing the very basic remote viewing efficacy of these courses. The methodology employed in the US and most especially in European countries shows a definite operational bias dictated by these early mind control protocols, even though few would admit it.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The deep Theta level of mind is the closest level to the Delta level of universal consciousness. It is only while operating at this level of mind that one can truly remote view and draw information from the Delta level of the universal mind operating outside of time and space. No matter what some self-proclaimed “RV experts” might assert, the reality is that if one’s mind is not located at the interface with the life matrix originating from the universal consciousness and is not passively focusing on that delta level, the type of information received becomes subject to mental noise from the Beta level (full conscious awareness) and unreliable.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Theta level is called by behavioral scientists the hypnagogic level because it corresponds to the experience, usually immediately before falling asleep, of a stream of nonlinear highly vivid visual imagery projected to one’s self.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Highly ego-centered individuals often fear operating at deep levels of Theta because the ego (sense of self) is on the frontier of dissolving itself at a slightly deeper level of mind (Delta). They tend to prefer the perceptually most separated level of all: The Beta level of awareness.
This eventually became a problem within certain military-type of remote viewing organizations because of the highly self-centered type of mind structures it often appeals to that often border on the desire for maximum separateness i.e. paranoia. The mind always influences mind orientations and will ultimately decide at which level it wants to operate from.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The remote viewing protocols taught by the Academy of Remote Viewing are based on mind sensing training developed by some government agencies.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Mr. O’Donnell became part of a Western European nation remote viewing program where the emphasis was from the start on trying to research extensively the area of mind situated right at the interface with Delta (deep sleep). It had been experimentally proven that this was the best band of mind operations in order to be able to effectively remote view.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The initial remote sensing protocols tried to achieve the attainment of such deep levels of mental functioning, and most importantly to sustain it for as long as possible without plunging onto Delta (unconsciousness: deep sleep) or going back onto Alpha or Beta states.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It was apparent that very specialized protocols would need to be established in order to stabilize the mind at such depths before it gets sucked in into Delta. The mind tends also to operate in a wavelike form going from Alpha to Theta to Delta, back and forth. The goal became to lower the amplitude of such swings in order to remain at will within the deep Theta band (4 to 5 Hz).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Sophisticated biofeedback testing equipment was used. It consisted mainly of an electroencephalographic apparatus recording brain waves, processing them automatically, and sending an auditory signal when the targeted desirable train of brain waves were elicited within a subject’s brain.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Many advanced meditators (yogis, shamans, mystics etc.) who had learned to operate from such deep levels of mind were extensively studied.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Experiments on animals were also conducted in order to try to understand why they operated naturally at the Theta level with full activity retained and their eyes opened. It was perceived that this might shed light as to their naturally occurring remote viewing abilities especially among the predator-prey animal complex and the domestic pet variety. The unexplained migrations and homing behavior of certain species might also be related to such a state of mind.
The ability of animal to remote view was tested. Domestic animals (especially dogs and cats) were studied under laboratory conditions as to their precognitive and spatially remote sensing mind abilities when they concentrated upon their owners’ location and/or intent.
Natural predators were wired up and studied when their favorite prey was either about to be introduced or taken in a sensory-wise isolated chamber to a proximate location. Impressive experimental data was collected that showed that the animal kingdom definitely exhibits a pattern of behavior that seems to strongly suggest very developed natural remote viewing (mental sensing) abilities – when needed – for feeding, survival or protective behavior. Remote viewing activity amongst mammals seemed to strongly correlate with the appearance of very definite brain wave Theta tracing especially in the predator-prey grouping.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Finally, and most importantly, many protocols were experimentally tried and compared as to their effectiveness at allowing a human subject to rapidly reach levels of deep Theta operations within a narrow band of EEG tracing (4 to 5 cycles per second) for sustained periods of time. Mental sensing (remote viewing) training methods were painstakingly devised and tried out.
This culminated in the establishment of an effective methodology designed to rapidly shift one’s concentration upon the deepest layers of his/her self-awareness (deep Theta). The goal being thenceforth to operate from that mental level in a passive/active manner by first sending actively out an information request and in turn taking on a passive role when one receives from the Delta level (universal mind), as an answer, a formidable steam of compressed instant (packet) nonlinear sensory and informational data (delta to theta). This information needs to be reconstructed automatically by the Alpha and Beta level of mind when an individual emerges out of deep Theta.
This is very much alike what occurs within the worldwide web of communications when information sent out by a central server in a compressed packet-like manner is received in a nonlinear broken down format and is then decoded and reconstructed in order to form a linear time/space coherent whole at the level of each personal computer.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Research projects were undertaken in order to see whether one could remote view from the Beta state (eyes opened and mind focused on external stimuli as opposed to internal one) or the Alpha state (eyes closed, or eyes opened with mind relaxed and/or daydreaming).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It was found that the Beta state does not allow for any remote viewing. If an individual perceived that he/she was receiving remote viewing data whilst being fully awake, he had to be at that moment focusing on his thought processes in order to be aware of it and a cursory examination of his/her brain encephalographic tracing would always reveal that the subject had slipped into the Alpha state or very rarely even into Theta. The moment an individual focuses on internal self-reflective thought processes, he/she enters the subconscious (alpha or Theta ) levels of mind operation.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The other conclusion was that even though one could remote sense (view) from the Alpha state, too much mental noise in the form of preconceived notions (mind-sets) or external interference from the Beta level (outside sensory world) were introduced and made for often inconsistent results.

remote viewing It soon became apparent that the only statistically determining factor to remote viewing abilities was not the methodology used but the level of mind achieved through the use of a particular methodology. The training protocols became therefore focused on mind techniques allowing one to rapidly and consistently reach the deep Theta state.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Mr. O’Donnell does not claim that the methods that he teaches in order to reach a level of deep Theta operation are the only ones available. Since the point when consciousness – as separated thought – has arisen on earth and for eons of time, man has reached and experienced such deep states.
As a matter of fact, there is a strong perception that ancient man, at the dawn and infancy of civilization, easily attained such deep self-reflective mind levels. This is probably because the external phenomenal world had not yet carried with it the overwhelming burden of myriad of often conflicting signals and stimuli that are now so prevalent especially amongst the very externally beta-oriented cultures that seek self-fulfillment by concentrating highly on outside quests within the material world.
The time/space restrictions imposed by our “advanced” societies upon the ability to self-reflect is causing all the modern stress that the mind is experiencing.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Within our world, it is particularly so-called modern man that seems to have trouble at reaching such high levels of thought-perceptions. Cultural factors and the tension of modern-living impede such a natural state of mind. There is little incline and time left to self-reflect. Whatever leisure period is available, is usually used for beta-directed type gratification.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Young humans (children of less than 7 years of age and especially those of less than 2 years old) and animals of all ages operate mainly at Alpha, Theta and Delta. For them Beta has not hitherto been imposed and learned. The external phenomenal world has yet to take on such a strong concentrated reality. They are less concerned with external stimuli and self-reflect constantly. They learn and evolve through this mental act. They all remote view naturally. They need to. Otherwise, they could not possibly learn and survive. The humans will forget this, for most, when they proudly enter the highly ego-centered world of Beta operation and embrace adulthood.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Many so-called tribal groups or spiritual orientations have inherited traditions that revere and promote self-reflection, often within a highly symbolized metaphorical background. For them remote viewing is but a natural ability.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded True remote viewing tries to make a child again of adult modern rational man, allowing him/her to experience again this natural state of relearning from the universal pool of knowledge outside of the confines of time/space (knowing).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Eventually, with specialized training, when the concentration has remained at deep Theta for long enough, one seems to span all the levels of the mind and integrate them in a single cognitive awareness. The remote viewer can then operate from the Theta level in concentration and even open his/her eyes and be aware of both his/her external and internal realities at once.
With practice, he/she might make a last perceptual jump and realized that his/her external and internal realities are but mirror expressions of each other.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Nevertheless, within the mind-matter equation: matter, if concentrated too much upon and given undue importance, tilts the balance and becomes the ultimate trickster.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In the same manner as the Theta waves are the only ones that show up non-specifically and equally throughout the human brain cortex, the deep Theta level is the only state that can unify all perceptual levels of awareness.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Although all serious remote viewing operations, originating from various countries, became aware that they were collecting information from the mysterious “collective unconscious” of the mind, very few, if any, realized that this Universal Mind was within an individual and not outside of him/her. Their focus of attention in the search for an explanation targeted henceforth “external” and often creative exotic realms.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Effective remote viewing techniques should allow one to experience the reality of the Universal Mind, and not only ponder about it. Such an experience might surprise many, and disturb built-in inherited misconceptions. It is only to the daring ones that the world becomes a stepping stone. The others just vegetate.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded If certain remote viewing systems do not reach for such an understanding, they are but crutches and fall short of allowing one to cross the stepping stone of ignorance.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The aforementioned statements can only be proven by experiencing. Each human being on his/her own. No written theory nor external mechanical laboratory apparatus can ever bring personal proof of such assertions. Hence the ultimate challenge and paradox…

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Within the former U.S.S.R. extensive mind research was carried out since the 1930’s and successful remote viewing protocols established. Nevertheless, because of the built-in ideological bias against anything non material (spiritual) existent within the Communist dogma, large-scale Soviet scientific research tried to uncover, under strict laboratory conditions, the “physical energies” (electromagnetic or other) that correlated with such remote sensing states.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Eventually, as some correlations were shown, the physical correlations themselves were seen as the explanation to this phenomenon. And a major impasse was reached that tried to duplicate such mind states by manipulating external physical forces.
This resulted in interference wave patterns being applied, using purely physical means, upon the interface mechanisms of the biological brain of many unfortunate human and animal subjects. This greatly affected and distorted their perception of the external world.
The prevailing view within the Soviets’ industrial-military complex was that these techniques of “mind control” were affecting the mind, when , in reality, they were damaging and interfering with the proper functioning of the interface of the biological brain.
This research, unfortunately, ultimately took on a decisively sinister character.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In such a pivotal endeavor as the understanding of the individuations of thought, which means the understanding of life itself, it is ultimately only man that has the capacity to raise himself to lofty heights or to sink to abysmal depths.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Within the US intelligence establishment and because of a cultural bias, similar approaches were undertaken and the same impasse was encountered.
Although effective RV protocols were devised, the scientific establishment within this highly Beta-oriented society had perceptual problems with what they considered to be “altered” internally focused states of attention.
The Theta region was experimentally known to be a better mind level for remote viewing, but the RV research scientists became quite creative at casting away from their peers any perception of their using a deep state of mind operation.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It is within the realm of possibilities that some US remote viewers were subjected to the external beaming of certain radiations in order to test their effectiveness at improving or not RV and study their general impact.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Western European remote sensing approach mostly shun away from electronically – induced mind control attempts. It focused essentially on RV operations originating from deep Theta levels of the mind.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The remote viewing techniques taught by the Academy of Remote Viewing are unique in that they concentrate upon the easily attainability by any individual of a state where his/her awareness will be focused upon the level of the Universal Mind (undifferentiated knowing). The trainee is taught to locate his/her awareness at the border of Delta (deep Theta) and operate a sort of “mental dance” where his/her attention concentrates upon the data originating from the Universal Mind on (passive-receiving state) and off (active-questioning state), while avoiding to be sucked in by the powerful pole of attraction of the Higher Delta level (sleep and/or somnambulistic unconsciousness).
Many adjunctive safety techniques and general explanations are given in order to understand the functioning of the nonlinear Delta level and be able to decode the information received in a palatable time/space linear sensory format. Many Delta operations are given and hinted at. Structured questions-and-answer patterns (so-called RV protocols), made to best fit the modus operandi of Delta/Theta interfacing, are also taught.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Beta, Alpha, and Theta are but the manifest expressions of the creativity of the Delta level.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Beta, Alpha, and Theta are the levels of the ego. They are the levels of temporality, causality, and physicality.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The ego can be defined as the ability a life-form has to be able to differentiate between thoughts that it will perceive as being one’s own (self-reflective) and thoughts that seem to originate outside of one’s realm.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Delta is the level of non-individualized non-reflective intelligence.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Beta, Alpha, and Theta are but brain-wave epiphenomenona of states of self-reflective awareness by perceptually individualized intelligences (levels of individuated thought-concentrations). One only travels in awareness within these states.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The Delta level of thought is characterized by the fact that it can infinitely separate its thoughts in a nonlinear parallel manner. Within these separations, It may choose to operate, for tasks or reasoning purposes, in a causal linear fashion, most often by connecting thoughts laterally.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded An individual travels in awareness from beta towards Delta by focusing his awareness on his self reflective thoughts and deeper subconscious thought processes

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The deeper within Delta one finds oneself, the more concomitant parallel thought processes there are. Up to an All-aware potential Infinity. The ancient Greek letter Delta shaped like an upward pointing triangle symbolizes this reality of the Mind. Delta (alike its ancient cousin the Hebrew Deleth) means a door, an entrance to another realm. The realm of El (the Universal) and Data.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded All so-called deep subconscious thought processes originate from the Delta level. They operate below the level of conscious awareness. This includes the parallel thought operations that allow for the biological and material realities to operate coherently and efficiently. They maintain and project out onto our framework of operation in order to allow our individual creativity to express itself. They are our creative support.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Delta is therefore the Intelligence that directs the operations of the material and biological phenomenal world.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The ego travels towards dissolution (Delta) when it reflects upon thoughts originating from deep subconscious processes. By corollary, the ego expresses itself more vibrantly and forcefully when it focuses its concentration upon the level of the highly separated manifestations of the sensory external world (Beta).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The battle between thought-separation (ego) and thought-Oneness (Universal) is the only real conflict there really was, is and will ever be. All antagonistic expressions, struggles, and hostilities amongst life-forms are but manifest epiphenomenona of this ever-present penultimate challenge.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The built-in opposition between the only two creative poles of thought: Beta (individualistic plurality), and Delta (sense of Oneness) is as the root of what one will perceive as the expressions of evil or bad (Beta Against Delta).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Delta (the Universal Mind) and Beta (ego) always interact creatively. The ego is bound within frameworks of creative intelligence imposed by the Delta level. Delta, in turn, operates the creative steps within these same frameworks according to the desires of the ego.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The only two creative poles within Creation are the Beta level (conscious thought of man) and the Delta level (Collective Unconscious or Universal Mind).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Although the Beta level (conscious mind) would like to think that it rules over and is more powerful than the Delta level (deep subconscious mind), the reverse is true. And the deep sub-conscious (Delta) rules over and is infinitely more powerful and “intelligent” than the conscious level of thought (Beta).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded It is only with the cooperation of the Delta level that the Beta-conscious thought (ego) might perceive that it controls sub-conscious (Delta) thought processes including biological ones.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The cardinal rules that bring about that cooperation from the deep sub-conscious mind (Delta) are not necessarily in concordance with the desires and mental structures of the conscious mind (Beta). If the Delta level disagrees with the desires and/or intentions expressed by the Beta level of Its expressions, that necessary collaboration will not manifest itself.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This applies to all human endeavors implying subconscious processes and input. This was and is especially the case for Remote Viewing that originates information solely from that deep unconscious level. Hence the failures that most military or intelligence-type organizations suddenly developed when they tried to collect Remote Viewing data to be ultimately used for potentially destructive and aggressive purposes, even though they had great success with other innocuous time/space targets.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The ultimate arbitrator and safeguard to processes such as Remote Data Sensing (RV) is the Universal Mind Itself (Delta). No-thing nor any-body will ever supersede It.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The level of deep Delta (Universal) is a level of pure information (no imagery whatsoever). Nothing else. We, as individuated expressions of it, only perceive and interpret this pure information using the realm of sensory reality (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile etc..).

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The level of the Universal and its individualizations (mankind and nature) form together the Uni-verse Itself. A vast mosaic of pure information disguised as reality. Either experienced as a pleasant one or an unpleasant one. Depending on our common choices.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded There are three levels of operations within the Delta level. However, Mr. O’Donnell will not reveal here their significance.
Only rare individuals ever understand them. Remote viewing at a very deep Theta level can be a bridge to such an understanding since one is juxtaposing his/her awareness to the Delta level of mind. It is only within the laboratory of the mind that one can understand the mind. This is the ultimate quest.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The recalled experience of the Delta level is generally a very humbling one.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The middle Delta level operates very much alike a multitasking digital computer. Processing, storing, and doing a quasi-infinite amount of tasks at once. Its role is to create coherency by interconnecting realities out of potential chaos.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The upper Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta levels operate mainly in a linear analog-like fashion where cause-and-effect relationships are paramount and where the perception of space and time exists.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The transducing apparatus (Input/Output interface) decoding and making “sense” out of the encoded non-linear pure information received from the middle Delta level is located at upper Delta and is perceived by us to exist within our brain. This transducing level pertains to the world of our senses that gives reality to our experience and to our perception of a material world “out there.”

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The level of Beta (mankind) has up-to-now never really understood the way by which middle Delta operates.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Middle Delta does not use any imagery whatsoever. Only vibratory light, swirling within different levels of intensity, remains. The Light contains, stores, and processes information.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Mankind seems always to favor and feels more comfortable using its linear thinking processes and especially perceptual space/time linear senses (images, symbols, myths, and metaphors) in order to try to relate to and remotely grasp its original Everlasting Source. This is because that is the way by which mankind operates. Hence the distortions and their consequences.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded In the digital-analog equation of Mind, the analog part (mankind) never comprehended, nor yet comprehends the digital part (its Creator). It could only, up-to-now on very rare occasions, experience it. And the digital part gives life, sustains it, and gets surprises from its very restricted thought processes operating within the perceptual separations of mankind.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded This dialog of deaf is, most probably, about to stop. In one way or another.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The level of Delta is a level of knowing. Whilst being at deep Theta, one can draw from the proximate level of Delta.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The level of Beta is a level of knowledge where the focus of attention is upon the external material reality and a slow intellectual type of learning is attempted.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The major evolutionary jumps, inspirational writings, creative endeavors, scientific discoveries and inventions of all times always originate from the level of knowing and not of knowledge.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Human and animal instinctive knowledge, and “sixth sense” emanate from the level of knowing.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The search for an unification factor outside of one’s self, within linear space/time, is a perceptual dead-end that, at one point, mankind will need to realize.
The unification point is not outside of one’s self, within space or out-of-space, masters, gurus, but within oneself.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Real knowledge comes from within. One is only relearning what One already knows.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The ultimate teacher to all the ripples (individuations of Mind: The individuals ) of the ocean of thought-energy (Universal Mind) is the ocean Itself, and not the ripples.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Expressing it in a metaphorical way: Alike icebergs afloat on the ocean, life-forms, as separate creative thought processes, are but time/space expressions of the infinite waters of the ocean. Ultimately, they each melt down within the waters and return to the ocean. They are all water anyway, but as ice they do no realize it. They can perceive their individuality expressed as forms through the illusionary media of air. They love to cling solidly to that perception. For the most part, they often refuse to accept that they, as water, are all interconnected. That in reality, no iceberg is really taller or smaller than another, for they all come from the same, and they all go back to the same. That their power, or ego, is all illusory, and temporary.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Ultimately, there is only One Mind. One Intelligence. Expressing and experiencing Itself through here and there. Nothing else. Not two. Nor more. Mind is Mind; whether human, animal, vegetable, material, or unattached.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The “kingdom” is “within” not “without”. All that remains, is to tell the king that he is, in his restricted state, as humankind, walking around without any clothes on. Because, he does not seem to realize it yet.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Such an understanding finally explains why the “King” as the Universal Mind is within each one of us, and why we are all, as space/time manifestations of It (the “Kingdom”), within It. One reflects the other.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded The direction of thought-concentration has to be reversed from one increasingly targeting external realities and stimuli to one flowing back from Beta to Alpha, to Theta, and back to Delta.

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded As mankind has thoroughly experienced Beta and adulthood, it is time to experience the inner child again, to reconnect to knowing beyond external time and space.
It is basically time for one’s self to reconnect to Oneself.
It is basically time to stop being a sheep within the “flock” and to start leading
one’s own destiny and understanding.
It is high time to take back control and responsibility. . .

how remote viewing and remote influening can have the Matrix Reloaded Your mind (Spirit) is nor bound by and into a “material” body. It is only bound by and connected to the physical senses that make you aware of a physical reality.

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Gerald O\\\’Donnell
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There are many examples in the Qur’an and Hadith of the virtues of a positive mental attitude, perseverance and optimism in the face of adversity. However, did you know that patience and a positive outlook on life are two of the greatest healing tools that you can use?

The Qur’an (2:155) says, “Give glad tidings to those who exercise patience when struck with adversity and say, ‘Indeed, we belong to God and to Him is our return.’ Such ones receive [the] blessings and mercy of their Lord, and such are the guided ones.” According to the findings of modern science, it appears that this mercy may often come in the form of improved health.

Bernard Jensen says, in his book The Science and Practice of Iridology, “The doctor of the new day will recognize that a man’s most important workshop is not the physical body, but the mind that controls it.” Dr. Ted M. Morter confirms this in his book, Your Health… Your Choice, when he says that “negative thoughts are the number one acid producer in the body (and high body acidity levels are a major cause of disease)… because your body reacts to negative mental and emotional stress brought about by thought the same way it reacts to ‘real’ threats of physical harm.”

In fact, hospital studies show that, of all the patients who consult outpatient clinical facilities in the United States, an astounding seventy percent are found to have no organic basis for their complaint. That figure is amazingly high. However, although medically these patients are not found to have an obvious organic source for their complaints, there actually is a physical basis for this phenomenon. Since Freud popularized the idea of psychoanalysis, people have often focused exclusively on the mental realm to solve certain problems, forgetting that we cannot separate the physical and mental realms. The mind is in the brain, and the brain is an organ. Like all other organs, it feeds from the same pool of nutrients that other body organs feed from and is susceptible to all of the same problems. Ultimately, the brain is just a part of our body like all of the other parts and is completely dependent on the body. It requires sugar to develop energy unlike other tissues that can develop it from potassium and fats. Consequently, it is the first organ to suffer from low blood sugar and it reacts most severely. Freud himself said that psychoanalysis was not suitable for treating diseases such as schizophrenia, and he postulated that their causes eventually would be found to be biochemical.

If we keep in mind that the brain is an organ and that it works in harmony with the other organs and feeds from the same bloodstream, we can understand how various mental events can affect us physically. For example, simply using our brains to think and study burns up nutrients in our system, particularly phosphorus. Heavily exercising the brain can cause us to suffer from a phosphorus deficiency. And we find that the reverse is also true in this relationship. People who have high intellectual capacity usually have high levels of phosphorus in their system.

There is much wisdom in the Prophet’s (SAW) statement (narrated by Abu Huraira), “The strong [person] is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong [person] is the one who controls himself while in anger.” In fact, staying patient and calm is key to physical strength.

Phosphorus is not the only nutrient that can be depleted by mental stress and a lack of spiritual calm. If the thyroid gland, the primary organ to handle our emotions, works overtime, we can suffer from a deficiency in iodine. Stress from a demanding job, a divorce or relocating can cause a loss of potassium and sodium in the body because it effects the adrenal glands creating more of a need for these minerals.

Even hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can be caused by excitement. The prophet (SAW) recommended our taking the more moderate path in life; however, we often engage in or expose ourselves to intense excitement by yelling, excessively watching television, and going to the mall, movies, parties, amusement parks, etc. When we see something exciting, our adrenal cortex is stimulated and there is an increase in our blood sugar. This, in turn, stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin into the blood to lower the sugar level, causing us to then feel tired or weak.

It produces calm and health to practice saying, “Alhamdulillah” for what we have and for what we are faced with. We should try to keep our home and work environments peaceful and as free from stress as possible. One way we can counteract the effects of stress are to simply be aware of the stress we are encountering, and to consume sufficient nutrients and supplements such as herbs.

For instance, if a person is up late praying or reading Qur’an during Ramadan, they can eat phosphorus rich foods and those that will help them maintain their phosphorus intake. If a person is moving, traveling or making Hajj or Umra, they may want to increase their intake of foods high in potassium and sodium as well as vitamin B complex.

If we completely ignore the relationship between mental and physical health, we are missing an important detail in the picture of personal health. And, as in most health problems, practicing prevention is superior to finding a cure. Therefore, the best manner to avoid having negative attitudes and emotions control our bodies is simply to practice the wisdoms that we have been given throughout the Qur’an and Hadith. We should say, “Alhamdullilah” for what we have; “Insha’Allah” for what we intend; and, “Subhana’ Allah” when we see something exciting or amazing. We should remember to say, Astaghfir’Allah” when we lose our tempers or become weak, and most importantly, “Allahu Akbar” when we are faced with the challenges of life. These five phrases, said regularly, are like taking a multi-vitamin for holistic health.

Sajjad Haider
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