Here's something you don't hear every day: two theories of consciousness are about to face off in the scientific fight of the century. Backed by top neuroscience theorists of today, including Christof Koch, head of the formidable Allen Institute for Brain Research in Seattle, Washington, the fight hopes to put two rival ideas of consciousness to the test in a $20 million project. Briefly, volunteers will have their brain activity scanned while performing a series of cleverly-designed tasks targeted to suss out the brain's physical origin of conscious thought. The first phase was launched this week at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference in Chicago, a brainy extravaganza that draws over 20,000 neuroscientists each year.

To test the ideas, 6 labs across the world will run experiments with over 500 people, using 3 different types of brain recordings as the participants perform various consciousness-related tests. By adopting functional MRI to spot brain metabolic activity, EEG for brain waves and ECoG (a type of EEG with electrodes directly placed on the brain), the trial hopes to gather enough replicable data to assuage even the most skeptical of opposing fields.

For example, one experiment will track the brain's response as a participant becomes aware of an image: the GWT believes the prefrontal cortex will activate, whereas the IIT says to keep your eyes on the back of the brain.

What the trial doesn't answer, is how neural computations lead to consciousness. A recent theory, based on thermodynamics in physics, suggests that neural networks in a healthy brain naturally organize together according to energy costs into a sufficient number of connection "microstates" that lead to consciousness. Too many or too few microstates and the brain loses its adaptability, processing powers, and sometimes the ability to keep itself online.

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The Practice of Direct Experience
by Leo Babuata

If direct experience is like a movie that's playing all the time, the mind is like a person who adds subtitles and commentary to the movie. Imagine a movie with commented text constantly plastered all over the screen--all over the place, all the time. You'd never actually see the movie! That's what our minds do. We have this miraculous reality right in front of us, and our minds block it all out with constant commentary and fantasies. A few of the things our minds are constantly doing include:

• Judging whether something is good or bad
• Labeling things — pleasant, unpleasant, unhappy, unfair, idiotic
• Judging whether we're good or bad, whether other people are good or bad
• Getting caught up in a narrative about something that happened earlier
• Getting caught up in fantasy or worry about what might happen later
• Getting caught up in a story about what's happening now, why it should or shouldn't happen

These things also get us irritated, frustrated, angry, sad, worried, anxious. These are not terrible things, but they come from these commentary habits of the mind. What would it be like if we dropped the commentary habit? What if we just experienced the movie without all the extra things overlaid on top? Here's the practice of direct experience, laid out simply:

• Notice the sensations of this moment. It might be sounds. Or light. Or sensations on you skin, or in your body. Just notice whatever you notice.
• Experience these sensations directly, without any thoughts, labels, commentary, fantasies, narratives, judgments. Just the experience.
• If you are doing any of these things, just notice, and come back to the experience. Over and over.
• Relax into the experience, just as it is. It's not good or bad, it's just experience. We don't have to do anything about it. It doesn't need to be changed. Be curious about it — what is it like right now?
• You can just have the direct experience of life as it is. What a wonderful thing.

What will this practice get you? Calm, focus, peace, happiness? Maybe, probably, sure. But the thing the practice really gets you is just experiencing reality as it is. It's wonderful, full stop.

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Singing in Choir Can Make You High

Singing in a choir brings joy not only to the audience that is listening, but also to the choir members themselves. Researchers have studied group singing and determined that the singers have lower levels of cortisol which lowers stress. Even if the music is not necessarily joyous or comforting, it still produces endorphins (hormones produced by the central nervous system) which interact with opiate receptors in the brain, diminishing pain and triggering an almost analgesic feeling in the body. Our brains get an endorphin "rush", which apparently feels a lot like taking morphine. Singing (both listening to it and doing it) can also release dopamine, a chemical that works to help regulate the brain's pleasure and reward centers. Listening to music proven to reduce stress and anxiety by 65%. Interestingly, Dr. David Huron, a music professor at Oregon State University, proposes that singing may increase prolactin production. Prolactin helps regulate the immune system, and is found both in tears and in nursing mammals.

As we age, singing brings us other forms of happiness as well. According to neuroscientists, musical memories utilize broader neural pathways than other types of memories – think of hearing an old song, and the specific emotions and visual cues that come to the surface. When dementia and Alzheimer's patients are encouraged to sing along songs from their youth, they sometimes respond with wide-eyed wonder and exhilaration, and sing out in a way that surprises not only those around them, but themselves as well; it's a beautiful phenomenon to witness.

Dr. Gene D. Cohen of George Washington University kept a record of a senior singers' chorale in Arlington, Virginia. The singers' average age was 80 (65 the youngest, 96 the eldest). He discovered that the singers experienced less depression, made fewer doctor's visits each year, needed less medication, and were involved in more activities.

Jaime Babbitt of Choir Director Magazine says, "The most remarkable phenomenon that a choir vocalist experiences are the many 'take your breath away' moments that come as a result of being one of many voices coming together in harmony."

Dr. Gunter Kreutz, in a 2004 study, showed that singing in a choir (as opposed to simply listening to choral music) increases SIgA production (antibodies in saliva that help immune function) and other positive physical responses.

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My Liquid Fish

This is a handy and effective little energy mudra that you can do anywhere to address acute conditions, or to create a routine for chronic pains and conditions. Discovered, or received by healer, Jimmy Mack, My Liquid Fish is a finger motion. Begin with the index finger of either hand, hold it on or near the area in need, and then draw a "fish" as you move your finger away from the area to be healed. Energy can be drawn into an area by simply reversing the motion of the finger by starting away from the focus area and drawing the "fish", ending the motion on or near the area of interest. I use this daily, and have noticed it causes a shift where it is applied, and changes the pain or discomfort, in many cases simply taking it away. From 25 No Cost Health & Healing Hacks by Boyd Martin)

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Oneness and Separation

I've been binge watching "Star Trek" for the past few weeks--completed "Next Generation", and then dove into "Deep Space Nine". The first two-hour episode of DS9 tells the story of how the iconic "wormhole" near the space station came into being, and how Commander Sisko was able to convince the creators of the wormhole to allow ships through the 90,000 light year-long passage to and from the Gamma Quadrant.

The wormhole beings captured Sisko as he first entered the passage and transported him through various points in his lifetime, as he explained to them how humans perceive linear time. The beings did not understand the concept of "past" and "future", so Sisko did his best to explain that humans use time to experience sequences of events that become meaningful to them. The wormhole beings pointed out that Sisko was actually also existing in a past trauma, and so he was "not linear". As they continued to make their point, Sisko finally saw how they saw him, and agreed that his life was "not linear". Based on this agreement and commonality, the wormhole beings granted Sisko and all beings access through the wormhole.

This great story illuminates how linear time is perhaps the greatest illusion of the human mind. Although we can all say that "Now" is happening at every moment, we also claim that there were previous moments that we "came from", and further moments that we are "going to", and this is how we "live".

Closer to the reality is that our attention moves from one area of our chosen timeline to another. We use our powers of choice to move our attention from one time flow to another, and have rules about how events transpire so that the timeline-moving we're doing makes some sense to ourselves and others.

The cosmic reality is that there is no "past" or "future", only an infinite sphere of now that we are moving around in. A crisis of sorts can get created when we start to see our timeline as happening "to us" instead of as a result of us. And this crisis is the Crisis of Separation.

Separation is a big feature of 3rd Dimensional living. We start out in the oneness of our mother's womb, but are expelled from that oneness, and then our umbilical cord is cut, leaving us alone and helpless. We are then labeled with a name that further demonstrates to us that we are not connected to our origins anymore. We are further socialized from a paradigm of societal individualism with rules of conduct that prevent us from unduly inflicting ourselves on others, as if we are wild loose cannons of destruction, a further condemnation of our value and individuality. The most overlooked fact by humanity is that we have all had basically the same experience of enforced separation, and that bonds us in a most intimate way.

Research into such abilities as remote viewing and telepathy, has found that these abilities are built in to all of us, and represent a basic truth that we are all, literally, connected in consciousness.

Not only that, but advanced quantum physics research has postulated that every point in the universe is a "sentient node", capable of consciousness and holographically connected to every other point in the universe. This property of nodal consciousness is being researched as a mode of space travel, where it would be possible to traverse the distance between two points instantly irrespective of their locations. In Star Trek parlance, we'd be transporting through "sub space".

We become convinced that we are separate entities because we must have done something wrong--the classic "fallen angel" syndrome, where for an apparently arbitrary reason, we are no longer a part of the Creator. We became separated from it, and then jumped to the deeply erroneous conclusion that we are separate now from all creation somehow, condemned to a lonely existence of continually justifying ourselves and struggling to re-connect.

The cosmic elephant in the room is that love is the "secret sauce" of connection to all points and aggregations of points. Beyond just a feeling, love is the "dark matter", the plasma of space itself, from which we choose our experiences. It is inseparable from us because that point of consciousness we are experiencing as being, is a node of love. It is what we create our lives with, and is the stuff that vibrates and resonates as our thoughts and feelings.

Rather than the illusion of linearity of time, we are experiencing multi-dimensional holographic fractals of who we have chosen to be. We construct our being from a vast library of archetypes, chosen millions of times over throughout the infinite reaches of time and space. We habitually search The Other for who we are, when all along we are our own archetype.

By choosing ourselves, we return to love, our true, most basic nature. And by embracing and choosing to become that basic property, we inhabit and become the Universe.

To your quantum health,

Boyd Martin
Pureenergyrx.com

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