eq1
21st September 2011, 07:24
Hi everyone,
After having spent some time away from Avalon contemplating how to structure the presentation I would like to make here on Avalon in the coming months, I've now found the appropriate basis to start from.
The following article makes a case for meditation and increasing the neuroplasticity of the mind in doing so:
http://www.ibcsr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202%3Agamma-waves-may-be-meditations-tool-for-changing-the-brain&catid=25%3Aresearch-news&Itemid=59#.Tnl4bwVDIoE.facebook
Here is the original scientific article if anyone is interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/?utpxwna98oarng3
I see the delta as the time of change during which the way people perceive reality becomes fundamentally different than as before. Naturally, the reason this will catch on is because of the many advantages of doing so.
It is evident that many things the spiritual adepts study are difficult to express in words.
To illustrate this better, we can first imagine a core sphere of the body of knowledge that mankind has built outwards from the center of, forming our languages in the process of doing so.
Primitive language forms relate to notions closer to the center of the sphere, while extended, complex language structures refer to notions further towards the outside of the sphere. Furthest outward on the ever-growing sphere is the range of notions that are the most difficult (but perhaps not impossible) to express in words. They occupy the same space as the next scientific discoveries, artistic advances, etc. It is the very act of trying to describe these things on the cusp, make the scientific discoveries, artistic advances, and so on, that enables the sphere to continuously grow. However, there is also a hidden element involved (that which sets the stage for new layers of the cusp to become accessible to the other fields.. detailed below).
Beyond the cusp we have the unbounded range of knowledge that is entirely within the ineffable, however it something that is very much of use to us, more so than most of us realize.
This is the place where these advanced meditators eventually go on to do most of their work, contributing to the world and the collective consciousness as much as anyone (perhaps even more so). Just to be clear to everyone, I am imagining the Tibetan monks, yogis of India, and so on, here. People truly dedicated to this.
Mixing their study of that which has already been written and orally communicated by others in their field, and finally what can be newly learned in disciplined and rigorous meditation, they effectively pave the way for mankind, planting the seeds of new notions of thought into the collective consciousness. Certainly they do this on occasion via direct oral communication or writing to others themselves, but more often than not it is via the 100th monkey effect.
To put this all into our current context: most people would agree that time progresses in cycles, and from this we can surmise that there are waxing and waning periods in the degree of activity in the growth of the sphere.
It's not a far stretch to say that right now we are going through a time where the growth of activity is greater than ever (perhaps by necessity, we feel the pressure of the need to find solutions to the situations we've caused in our own reality over the 20th century).
But there are still many outcomes possible, despite this. There are many variables involved, and some would believe there are many different "camps" that are all vying for different outcomes that further their respective goals.
So too, we as a people, have a range of outcomes that would benefit us most. And so we have a modus operandi for going out of our way to spread clear information along these lines.
(as an aside, I am trying to make a distinction here compared to a lot of the stuff out there that, as far as I can tell, is only serving to add complexity to people's perspectives, filling their head with various, often emotionally charged "maybes". this to me is not finding any kind of The Truth, nor is it awakening.
I find there are so many cliche terms and expressions that should be duly avoided altogether if we are ever to form any kind of solid and independent basis of thought that will distinguish itself from not only the frustratingly tenacious status quo, but now also the terrible mess that has become of the mangled behemoth of pseudo-spirituality, pseudo-conspiracy and pseudo-science.
To me these three bastions of confusion can easily stall us for years, if not decades, on the path to the real truth we actually seek, and the sooner we get better at warning each other of this, the sooner we can help each other to avoid those hurdles and to get to the things that really matter right away, the things that will actually make a difference in their lives right away... I mean the formers just eventually degenerate to become a type of alternative entertainment after awhile, don't you think?)
To the point - hopefully this kind of information should have something immediately different about it. It does not attempt to convince you of specific "things" at all (we begin to refer to "things" as data, beginning somewhere below). It attempts to convince you only of the worthwhileness of studying the patterns of these "things", and organizing the patterns.
It is my belief that a thorough analysis of how this altered way of perceiving reality, and the benefits that can be obtained from doing so, is worthwhile in that it can help to accelerate the rate of sphere growth and ultimately lead to a preferable timeline for the future than what could have been otherwise.
It is important to reiterate here that this is not a study of data, it is a study of metadata, thus there will never be anything to do with specific things as being either true or false. That would be beside the point, in these matters.
Instead, what might be arguable (and I strongly encourage debate of it as we go along), would be the patterns with which we analyze the data, so this is how I would here define "metadata".
To me the delta represents the ability of the individual to see the metadata structures of reality around them and no longer be held victim by the data itself.
As Jim Carrey so elegantly summarized:
uIaY0l5qV0c
"I felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective".
This much is not so unfamiliar to us. Many of us are largely aware of the notion of pure awareness as distinguished from active thought. However, many of us make the mistake that these worlds need be mutually exclusive. What this accomplishes, however, is the very thing we seek to escape - we trade in one duality (the duality between polar opposites that tugs our mind this way and that when we concern ourselves with data like what's happening in our lives) for another (the duality between active thought, and pure awareness). Then we end up treating pure awareness as a necessarily passive state, a simple escape from the grind of active reality.
This is what pseudo-spirituality is teaching us to do. However it is not what those spiritual adepts, if we went and spoke to them, or read their writings, would teach us to do.
Because there is after all a better answer - and this is shown in the study by how these meditators exhibit the same brainwave discrepancies in waking life as they do in meditation.
It is another type of "active" thought that comes from the point of awareness. It is neither regular active thought, nor passive pure awareness, and yet both, at the same time (something I would call a "truth paradox").
It is different in that unlike regular waking "beta" frequency brainwaves which perceive the world on the usual level, or the isolated "alpha/theta/delta" states representing pure passive awareness, these "gamma" waves are perceiving the underlying patterns instead.
Thus there are three main tangents of brainwave state observable (at least from the EEG research I've personally done and participated in, anyways).
1. The regular active thought we are most familiar with, and it's extremes (isolated Beta, neighbored by isolated Gamma above it [associated with intense situations, such as fight or flight]), and isolated Alpha below it [associated with daydreaming].
2. The classic meditation tangent, and it's extremes (isolated Theta, neighbored by isolated Alpha above [usually here it acts as transitory stage at the beginning and end of the meditation], and Delta below [a rarer form of deep meditation analogous to sleep, but while retaining consciousness].
3. The "Awakened Mind" tangent (first proposed by a C. Maxwell Cade in the late 1970s, I will try to beef up my references section later but here's a very brief account: http://www.kaizenmind.com/history.html ), and it's extremes (Theta, Delta, or even Epsilon, a very low range below Delta, projecting Gamma, Hypergamma and Lambda brainwaves - the higher level brainwaves, in this case, are in fact, as my research has discovered, harmonics of the lower waves - see the writeup next to Lambda here: http://www.themeditationsolution.com/brainwaveguide.htm ).
It is this third tangent we are concerning ourselves with, and the goal is to find a way to bring the brainwave state from a place that's only rarely available for most of us, to a place where it is accessible more easily, or even available at all times (though the degree that would transform the nature of our reality is almost mind-boggling).
After all many of us attain this pattern of brainwaves only for fleeting moments, our most inspired moments. But maybe that is becoming a thing of the past. Thought within this pattern of brainwaves is thought that concerns itself exclusively with metadata and never with data. It seeks to understand the underlying patterns behind things and not the things themselves. For the music composer, the details flow of their own accord, it is the larger structures one has inspired from themselves. For the athlete, it is not the individual strides but the personification of the entire effort. For the artist, not the brushstrokes, instead the entire environment within the canvas. And so on and so forth, across all the disciplines.
This is the path into the Delta.
I'll try to elaborate with a few very very clear examples next time.
eq1
After having spent some time away from Avalon contemplating how to structure the presentation I would like to make here on Avalon in the coming months, I've now found the appropriate basis to start from.
The following article makes a case for meditation and increasing the neuroplasticity of the mind in doing so:
http://www.ibcsr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202%3Agamma-waves-may-be-meditations-tool-for-changing-the-brain&catid=25%3Aresearch-news&Itemid=59#.Tnl4bwVDIoE.facebook
Here is the original scientific article if anyone is interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/?utpxwna98oarng3
I see the delta as the time of change during which the way people perceive reality becomes fundamentally different than as before. Naturally, the reason this will catch on is because of the many advantages of doing so.
It is evident that many things the spiritual adepts study are difficult to express in words.
To illustrate this better, we can first imagine a core sphere of the body of knowledge that mankind has built outwards from the center of, forming our languages in the process of doing so.
Primitive language forms relate to notions closer to the center of the sphere, while extended, complex language structures refer to notions further towards the outside of the sphere. Furthest outward on the ever-growing sphere is the range of notions that are the most difficult (but perhaps not impossible) to express in words. They occupy the same space as the next scientific discoveries, artistic advances, etc. It is the very act of trying to describe these things on the cusp, make the scientific discoveries, artistic advances, and so on, that enables the sphere to continuously grow. However, there is also a hidden element involved (that which sets the stage for new layers of the cusp to become accessible to the other fields.. detailed below).
Beyond the cusp we have the unbounded range of knowledge that is entirely within the ineffable, however it something that is very much of use to us, more so than most of us realize.
This is the place where these advanced meditators eventually go on to do most of their work, contributing to the world and the collective consciousness as much as anyone (perhaps even more so). Just to be clear to everyone, I am imagining the Tibetan monks, yogis of India, and so on, here. People truly dedicated to this.
Mixing their study of that which has already been written and orally communicated by others in their field, and finally what can be newly learned in disciplined and rigorous meditation, they effectively pave the way for mankind, planting the seeds of new notions of thought into the collective consciousness. Certainly they do this on occasion via direct oral communication or writing to others themselves, but more often than not it is via the 100th monkey effect.
To put this all into our current context: most people would agree that time progresses in cycles, and from this we can surmise that there are waxing and waning periods in the degree of activity in the growth of the sphere.
It's not a far stretch to say that right now we are going through a time where the growth of activity is greater than ever (perhaps by necessity, we feel the pressure of the need to find solutions to the situations we've caused in our own reality over the 20th century).
But there are still many outcomes possible, despite this. There are many variables involved, and some would believe there are many different "camps" that are all vying for different outcomes that further their respective goals.
So too, we as a people, have a range of outcomes that would benefit us most. And so we have a modus operandi for going out of our way to spread clear information along these lines.
(as an aside, I am trying to make a distinction here compared to a lot of the stuff out there that, as far as I can tell, is only serving to add complexity to people's perspectives, filling their head with various, often emotionally charged "maybes". this to me is not finding any kind of The Truth, nor is it awakening.
I find there are so many cliche terms and expressions that should be duly avoided altogether if we are ever to form any kind of solid and independent basis of thought that will distinguish itself from not only the frustratingly tenacious status quo, but now also the terrible mess that has become of the mangled behemoth of pseudo-spirituality, pseudo-conspiracy and pseudo-science.
To me these three bastions of confusion can easily stall us for years, if not decades, on the path to the real truth we actually seek, and the sooner we get better at warning each other of this, the sooner we can help each other to avoid those hurdles and to get to the things that really matter right away, the things that will actually make a difference in their lives right away... I mean the formers just eventually degenerate to become a type of alternative entertainment after awhile, don't you think?)
To the point - hopefully this kind of information should have something immediately different about it. It does not attempt to convince you of specific "things" at all (we begin to refer to "things" as data, beginning somewhere below). It attempts to convince you only of the worthwhileness of studying the patterns of these "things", and organizing the patterns.
It is my belief that a thorough analysis of how this altered way of perceiving reality, and the benefits that can be obtained from doing so, is worthwhile in that it can help to accelerate the rate of sphere growth and ultimately lead to a preferable timeline for the future than what could have been otherwise.
It is important to reiterate here that this is not a study of data, it is a study of metadata, thus there will never be anything to do with specific things as being either true or false. That would be beside the point, in these matters.
Instead, what might be arguable (and I strongly encourage debate of it as we go along), would be the patterns with which we analyze the data, so this is how I would here define "metadata".
To me the delta represents the ability of the individual to see the metadata structures of reality around them and no longer be held victim by the data itself.
As Jim Carrey so elegantly summarized:
uIaY0l5qV0c
"I felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective".
This much is not so unfamiliar to us. Many of us are largely aware of the notion of pure awareness as distinguished from active thought. However, many of us make the mistake that these worlds need be mutually exclusive. What this accomplishes, however, is the very thing we seek to escape - we trade in one duality (the duality between polar opposites that tugs our mind this way and that when we concern ourselves with data like what's happening in our lives) for another (the duality between active thought, and pure awareness). Then we end up treating pure awareness as a necessarily passive state, a simple escape from the grind of active reality.
This is what pseudo-spirituality is teaching us to do. However it is not what those spiritual adepts, if we went and spoke to them, or read their writings, would teach us to do.
Because there is after all a better answer - and this is shown in the study by how these meditators exhibit the same brainwave discrepancies in waking life as they do in meditation.
It is another type of "active" thought that comes from the point of awareness. It is neither regular active thought, nor passive pure awareness, and yet both, at the same time (something I would call a "truth paradox").
It is different in that unlike regular waking "beta" frequency brainwaves which perceive the world on the usual level, or the isolated "alpha/theta/delta" states representing pure passive awareness, these "gamma" waves are perceiving the underlying patterns instead.
Thus there are three main tangents of brainwave state observable (at least from the EEG research I've personally done and participated in, anyways).
1. The regular active thought we are most familiar with, and it's extremes (isolated Beta, neighbored by isolated Gamma above it [associated with intense situations, such as fight or flight]), and isolated Alpha below it [associated with daydreaming].
2. The classic meditation tangent, and it's extremes (isolated Theta, neighbored by isolated Alpha above [usually here it acts as transitory stage at the beginning and end of the meditation], and Delta below [a rarer form of deep meditation analogous to sleep, but while retaining consciousness].
3. The "Awakened Mind" tangent (first proposed by a C. Maxwell Cade in the late 1970s, I will try to beef up my references section later but here's a very brief account: http://www.kaizenmind.com/history.html ), and it's extremes (Theta, Delta, or even Epsilon, a very low range below Delta, projecting Gamma, Hypergamma and Lambda brainwaves - the higher level brainwaves, in this case, are in fact, as my research has discovered, harmonics of the lower waves - see the writeup next to Lambda here: http://www.themeditationsolution.com/brainwaveguide.htm ).
It is this third tangent we are concerning ourselves with, and the goal is to find a way to bring the brainwave state from a place that's only rarely available for most of us, to a place where it is accessible more easily, or even available at all times (though the degree that would transform the nature of our reality is almost mind-boggling).
After all many of us attain this pattern of brainwaves only for fleeting moments, our most inspired moments. But maybe that is becoming a thing of the past. Thought within this pattern of brainwaves is thought that concerns itself exclusively with metadata and never with data. It seeks to understand the underlying patterns behind things and not the things themselves. For the music composer, the details flow of their own accord, it is the larger structures one has inspired from themselves. For the athlete, it is not the individual strides but the personification of the entire effort. For the artist, not the brushstrokes, instead the entire environment within the canvas. And so on and so forth, across all the disciplines.
This is the path into the Delta.
I'll try to elaborate with a few very very clear examples next time.
eq1