Brain wave technology

For a brief inside look at some of the training processes and the biology of the brain we will speak about awareness as four levels and what happens when you experience each level. (Science has labeled our 4 brain wave states as Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta)

First Level of brain intent and awareness: The brainwave state for most people's every-day consciousness has a narrow awareness bandwidth and is called a "Beta State", and is generally a very stressful condition with a characteristic high and rather chaotic hertz frequency (cycles per second). (Please visit our products page if you are interested in an additional description of brainwave states).

Living in the beta state of consciousness one is generally only capable of having one level of awareness and are only aware of one thing at a time. For example, in a conversation you might be lost in what the other is saying, with no awareness of your breath, how your body feels, or thoughts or feeling you are having...or you may only be aware of your agenda or what you want to say, and your awareness flits from yourself to them, waiting for them to finish enough for your turn. If you are multi-tasking, your attention is like a strobe light, flitting from one task to the other, gasping in bits of attention and action a little at a time. It's normally extremely tiring and stressful!

Often in this limited brain intent and awareness state one is not aware of and is often in denial of any negative programs that are running even if someone points them out.

Second level of brain intent and awareness: When the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual system relaxes a little bit, one finds them self in an "Alpha State" of awareness. Here the brainwaves have slowed enough to rest a little in the space in between what is going on and a witnessing emerges. Disciplines such as meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, sports, hiking and others can easily trigger an alpha state of awareness. And so can a good glass of wine, a sunset, sex, a good conversation, or watching TV. This is often called situational space or witnessing as it is easily pulled back into a harried state.

Often in this brain intent and awareness state one can begin to see the negative sub-conscious programs running but are unable to stop them.

In an alpha state one can have two levels of awareness - I can feel my body at the same time I connect with you or listen to your words. I can be aware of my environment or a task I'm doing while I am noticing my breath, thoughts and feelings.

In dropping into alpha and the more relaxed brainwave states (theta and delta), one can begin to experience one's breath, thoughts and feelings as a witness, the who that is observing rather than doing. Most of us say things like "I am sad" "I don't have time" "I'm upset" I'm happy" 'I'm fearful" "I'm angry" "I'm hungry". However, if you are in an alpha state you can notice that these thoughts come and go all on their own. They are not really you. In fact, who you are is the spacious consciousness within which these thoughts and associated feelings exist. If this sounds strange, try experimenting with this thought: "who is it that is watching the thoughts and feeling that are saying I am sad, fearful, angry, happy, hungry etc"? These thoughts change and come and go. Are you these changing thoughts and feeling or are you that which never changes, the silent watcher, the witness?

During the weekend we experiment with this awareness using several different processes which will allow you to master some of your attention to rest with the quiet part of you that is able to contain and therefore notice the content of thoughts and feelings as they come and go.

Often the illusion of choice is celebrated in this brain intent and awareness state. A very high state but still one based on should I or shouldn't I programming, still a world of mind and duality.

Third level of brain intent and awareness: In a "Theta State" your brain waves quiet even more. Theta is associated with dreaming sleep, creativity and healing. In a waking state a marker of theta is your ability to be simultaneously aware of three things at one time. For example: 1-you can remove the stress and take care of yourself by watching your breath and feelings while listening to your thoughts as the witness and; 2-truly connect with another person as they and you speak and listen to each other; and 3- while also being holographically aware of your environment surrounding you. When you are in all three awarenesses at once with a sense of ease and openness in the body you can be sure you are in a theta brainwave state. In this state many tasks are accomplished easily and effortlessly, connections with co-workers, employees, friends, lovers and store/service workers deepen and sweeten. The world begins to feel like a sacred and exquisite dance as the witness deepens its awareness of wholeness.

Often in this state of awareness you begin to notice that your are connected to a flowing field of intelligent energy, resistance to what is begins to leave and you feel the relief of relaxation and stillness spread through out your body, mind and spirit.

By Saturday night most everyone in the room is generally able to experience dipping into a waking theta state.

Fourth level of brain intent and awareness: In a "Delta State" your brain waves are the same as a person in a deep dreamless sleep. However, with practice it is possible to have your consciousness address be in a delta state while awake and moving around. Awake in delta you experience the wholeness of life as a walking meditation. There begins to be no real boundaries between "you the witness" and "others". The findings of quantum physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and many others showing the oneness of all life are experienced directly. (The book "The Field" by Lynne McTaggart is a great story of many of these findings from may difference scientific disciplines www.thefieldonline.com). The popular movie "What the Bleep" also hints at this state.

When your mind, body and spirit drops into a waking delta state one is simultaneously aware of all four awarenesses at once and can move easily among them:

1-One's own body, breath, thoughts and feelings;
2-Then adding witnessing and the connection with another or with a task being worked on;
3-Then adding the overall environment around (the sounds, sights, smells in a kind of holographic field); and
4-Then feeling the glow of the energy of consciousness, stillness, spaciousness or presence.

A profound state shift occurs when your four awarenesses come together and your awareness no longer hovers around space, but in fact (as the Buddhists refer to it) crosses over into the vast consciousness of the experience of spaciousness, stillness and a connection to the ever present and undeniable field of living, intelligent energy.

The experience is no longer subtle as your attention gravitates toward the vast inner stillness that is aware of all the content in the moment - the thoughts, feelings, sights, sounds, breath, conversations and environment. You can unmistakenly experience the mind, body and spirit reorganizing to allow your true essence to arise as you marvel at the energy radiating out and in simultaneously from all your senses and into the vast spaciousness around you.

By Sunday most everyone dips into the waking delta state and many are able to leave the course and maintain it for longer and longer periods of time and some, because of their intent and gratitude of finding space, will do what ever it takes to stay crossed over into spaciousness forever.

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The following is an extrodinary treatment on the discover of who you are, enjoy! -Larry

By Neville Goddard 10-14-1968

The Biological effects of Deeksha by the German particle physicist, Christian Optiz:

Deeksha and Brain Scans

During a recent stay at the Oneness University, I had the opportunity to measure the brains of several people at different
stages of the diksha process, using a very sensitive electromagnetic sensor.  At first, I examined several participants of the
10 day deepening course who had already gone through the 21day course several months earlier.  All of them showed the
brain patterns of enlightenment:  A greatly decreased level of activity in the parietal lobes and enhanced activity in the
frontal lobes, with a dominance of the left frontal lobe.  This is particularly important, because the difference between
genuine spiritual awakening and pathological mystical experiences that make a person more neurotic lies in the dominance
of the frontal lobes:  Over activity on the right side is problematic, whereas a healthy integration of spiritual awakening into
human life always comes with left frontal lobe dominance.  These findings where also confirmed by Ralf Franziskowski, a
medical doctor specialized in psychosomatic medicine, who scanned people with an AMSAT diagnostic device.  We
purposefully used two very different technologies to cross-check our findings.

One very interesting aspect of these findings was that the brain hardware of these people was more reflective of
permanent enlightenment than their current conscious experience.  It seems that diksha first installs the neurobiological
hardware of enlightenment and the software in form of the experience slowly catches up.  This makes a lot of sense to
me.  So often people have access to great awakenings, but do not have the prepared brain to sustain and integrate such
awakenings.  All the problems of “ungrounded” spiritual awakening have to do with this discrepancy.  If the order is
reversed, it dramatically increases the chances of enlightenment being complete and easy to integrate into human life……

Although this study does not address those that have received individual deeksha outside of the programs in India, my
observation is that you are experiencing a profound neurological rewiring as well.  Both your direct individual experience
as well as a quick reading of the book of Awakening makes this obvious to yourself as well as the casual observer.

Now, from a different perspective, Christian Opitz explains what happens on a biochemical level when you attend deeksha
for some time:

Deeksha and the Hormones of Joy

Until now, I mostly emphasized the effect of deeksha on various brain centers in my writings. An equally important aspect
of the process of awakening the brain is the change in hormone and neurotransmitter production. I would like to give an
overview of some of the significant changes in regards to hormones and neurotransmitters that I have found in people
who have been receiving diksha for a while. First, let’s take a look at some of the important neurochemicals and their
effect on our experience of life:

Dopamine

Produced in the substantia nigra in the mid – brain, this important neurotransmitter is almost always out of balance in
modern people. We need sufficient dopamine to feel alive, vibrant, to be able to concentrate and have good discernment.
Lack of dopamine leads to boredom, depression, brain fog, one merely exists but is not truly alive. This is turn leads to
cravings for dopamine stimulation, mostly through destructive means. Intense but short – lived dopamine stimulants are
for example cocaine, amphetamines, junk food, aggressive behaviors and conflicts with other people. Those suffering
from ADD are restless and often have hyper aggressive tendencies because they are desperately trying to stimulate some
dopamine production.
Too much dopamine at once leads to a dulling of the dopamine receptors and that in turn has undesirable consequences.
Delusions, including hallucinations that are mistaken for genuine mystical experiences, often go together with prolonged
overproduction of dopamine. People addicted to computer games have similar dopamine imbalances, which shows an
interesting correlation between the addictions to virtual realities, whether on a computer screen or on the screen of one’s
own mind. In some people, excessive dopamine can lead to stuttering. People who stutter usually have twice as much
dopamine in their system that average people.
It is easy to see that for a balanced spiritual awakening, we want a consistent level of dopamine without the detrimental
effects of extreme highs and lows. A consistent dopamine production goes hand in hand with awakened frontal lobes,
which Bhagavan associates with God – Realization. Given the fact that dopamine is essential to feel truly alive, it makes
sense that we need it to also feel the Source of all life.

Oxytocin

Oxytocin is the hormone of love, open – heartedness and gratitude. Happily married people produce more oxytocin,
relationship stress severely decreases it. Oxytocin is the neurochemical foundation for compassion, for truly caring for
others. When we care for others, we ourselves are rewarded many times over, because oxytocin regenerates the body and
induces a very deep sense of well – being. Love is great health insurance because of oxytocin. Indifference and cruelty are
accompanied by very low levels of this hormone. I assume that these biochemical facts are one of the reasons behind
Bhagavan’s emphasis on setting right relationships.
The production of oxytocin is severely hindered in most people today and this often starts at birth. In the late 1940s,
medicine began to use drugs at birth as if it was some kind of disease. Among those drug, petocin (synthetic oxytocin) is
used to induce contractions and thus birth, on the hospital’s schedule instead of following the natural interaction between
baby and mother. Whenever we receive a huge dose of a synthetic version of a hormone, our receptors are overwhelmed
and the body’s own production can be compromised. If this happens at birth, there can be permanent damage and a life –
long pattern of producing too little oxytocin. It does not help much that the most important bonding phase between mother
and child right after birth has become a medical procedure of taking blood, measuring the baby, cutting the umbilical cord
too early and not allowing the baby a direct bonding with the mother and thus a gentle entrance into this world. The
combination of petocin and the lack of empathy for the newborn baby in medicalized birth procedures is almost certain to
severely compromise oxytocin production.
It is interesting to note that heavy drug use at birth, from petocin to pain killers to even some psychedelic substances that
are no longer used, was introduced after WWII. When the first generation of babies who came into this world on drugs
had arrived at young adulthood in the 1960s, they where the first generation to seek a deeper meaning of life through
drugs. I believe the lack of natural oxytocin caused by drug use at the entrance into life can set up a strong recapitulation
pattern of seeking life through drugs.

Cortisol

The opposite in terms of effects on our life experience of oxytocin is cortisol, the stress and death hormone. We need
cortisol in life – threatening situations, but, as Dr. Hans Selye discovered, we tend to overproduce it much of the time
when there is no threat to survival in sight. On cortisol, all of life takes on the quality of struggle, including relationships
and even the spiritual search. Cortisol activates the parietal lobes, which are supposed to give us a sense of our physical
boundaries. When overactive, this sense of physical separateness is extended to our general experience of ourselves and
we then feel existentially separate. This is at least part of the reason why Bhagavan emphasizes the deactivation of the
parietal lobes. Cortisol makes us walk around with chronically over activated parietal lobes. In that state, we are not able to
feel our feelings fully, to embrace ourselves as we are.
Being in the here and now, being in the flow, requires abundant oxytocin, sufficient dopamine and low levels of cortisol.

The effects of Deeksha

Although it is very difficult to measure hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain directly, electromagnetic signature
testing allows for some conclusions about the effects of diksha in this regard. One of the main effects I have found with
people who have been receiving diksha for a year or longer is a regeneration of receptors for both dopamine and oxytocin.
This automatically leads to greater efficiency of these neurochemicals and a decrease in cortisol production. Diksha can
also regenerate the substantia nigra, where dopamine is produced and this directly shows up in changed electromagnetic
brain patterns. Many times I have observed a natural release of addictive patterns through diksha that where clearly related
to low dopamine levels. Another interesting parameter is the electromagnetic communication between the brain and the
heart. This seems to progressively get stronger in people through diksha and is one of the most important energetic
correlation's of the flowering of the heart and true compassion. In some of the Dasas and in Ron Roth, this connection
was off the charts when I measured them. Oxytocin is the biochemical bridge between the brain and heart. From the data
I have gathered so far, diksha seems to be effective in strongly enhancing oxytocin in the vast majority of people. I also
believe that this is one of the aspects of birth trauma that can be healed through diksha and that this effect makes diksha so
worthwhile for children. Even though children are not supposed to enter into an enlightenment process, growing up with
lots of oxytocin will give them a much more beautiful life experience.
Finally, the neurochemical effects of diksha are one reason why other methods people utilize for inner transformation can
become so much more effective when people receive diksha. If someone does not need meditation anymore to lower
cortisol, meditation can go to much deeper levels right away. If emotional or physical healing work is done on a person
who already has high levels of oxytocin, the receptivity to receive healing is enhanced. The synergy of diksha with specific
methods of inner transformation is a fascinating subject for more exploration and the role of neurochemicals is essential
for the effects such synergies produce.

Thoughts from Dr. Emoto:

Our inner intention, thoughts, beliefs and feelings influence how our outer reality appears.

Life will instantly reshape itself to mirror our inner imagination and beliefs.

So imagine just how magnificent you can be!

The photographs of frozen water crystals in this column and the one to your right are from the book "The Message From Water" by Masaru Emoto and show the incredible reflections of water, as alive and highly responsive to every one of our emotions, intentions, beliefs and thoughts. It is quite clear that water, just like humans, easily takes on the vibrations and energy of its environment, whether toxic and polluted or naturally pristine.

We now have profound evidence that we can positively heal and transform ourselves and our planet by the space we come from, the thoughts we choose to think and the ways in which we put those thoughts into action.

An enlightening interview with Dr. Emoto by Reiko Myamoto Dewey.
(Click Here)

Pristine Antarctic Ice

Water Placed in Front of Beethoven's Pastoral Music

These frozen water crystals are telling us to take a much deeper look at our selves.

We are not separate. The interdependency of the presence of the universe extends from the micro to the macro, from the visible to the invisible.

Viewing Mr. Emotos work we are provided with factual evidence, that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas, feelings and music, affect the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over seventy percent of a mature human body and covers the same amount of our planet.

The quality of our life is directly connected to the quality of our water.

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After much experimentation, Dr. Emoto discovered that the most powerful combination of thoughts in terms of capacity to transform was that of

"Love and Gratitude."

Hopi Elders Prophesy

To my fellow swimmers:
here is a river flowing now very fast
It is so great and swift,
that there are those who will be afraid,
who will try to hold on to the shore,
they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.
Know that the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore,
push off into the middle of the river,
and keep our heads above water.
And I say see who is there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves, for the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves.
Banish the word struggle
from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
For we are the ones we have been waiting for.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!