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        the kinds of training that Russell Targ [developer of remote viewing] 
        as well as other disciplines related to non ordinary states of consciousness 
        offers, it is possible that many individuals (and perhaps most children) 
        can learn to use their mind-brain systems in such ways as to open the 
        doors of their perceptions and receive the news from the universe. 
         
        So we have access not only to things occurring in distant places but in 
        other time zones, like the future. In Targ' s experimental work, the viewer 
        as he or she is called can focus their attention to any point on the planet 
        as well as off it and describe what is to be found there with considerable 
        accuracy. 
         
        Further in remote viewing the perceiver can answer any question about 
        any events in the past, present or future and be accurate about two thirds 
        of he time. Why is this so? Well as we have been saying and as David Bohm's 
        writes in his textbook, the undivided Universe, "Like a hologram, 
        each region of space-time contains information about every other point 
        in space-time." 
         
        In our time, in our very years, is coming to be experienced a formula 
        for new ways of being. What we are now coming to suspect about the way 
        reality works grants a perspective on our humanity which up till now would 
        have seemed more mythic than real. 
         
        This it does within a sturdy background of scientific research and years 
        of conclusive studies by physicists, biologists, anthropologists, parapsychologists, 
        spiritual seekers and just about anyone interested in opening themselves 
        to the deeper reaches of human nature.  
         
        Many have long suspected that the very concepts of "near" and 
        "far" may have been a stratagem of our local minds, more habit 
        and cultural dictum than the way things really are. But now we discover 
        what poets and mystics have always suspected: our minds are stargates, 
        our bodies celled of mysteries, and what was taken to be remote is actually 
        near neighbor in the all reaching compass of the mind.  
         
        A friend of mine, Russell Targ has spent a lifetime in the science of 
        consciousness and human possibilities. His research methods are both rigorous 
        and resourceful, as they must be in such pioneering fields. In a new book 
        to be published later this year to which I have written the foreword he 
        offers us in elegant and lucid prose us the other side of the moon of 
        ourselves. 
         
        The descriptions of the work he and his associates have done in remote 
        viewing are as compelling, as they are key to our understanding of once 
        and future attributes of the human capacity. 
         
        He gives us insight into why it is that you sometimes get information 
        about a place, an object, a person that is not available through normal, 
        local, sensory mechanisms, nor classical space/time information. Where 
        does this apparently intuitive information come from? 
         
        Why is it that we sometimes learn with a rapidity that is more like remembering 
        then any learning process? In exploring these questions Dr. Targ is one 
        of the new group of brilliant and courageous scientists who are changing 
        our views of the nature of reality.  
         
        In this company we would include the English biologist, Rupert Sheldrake 
        and his theory of morphic resonance. Sheldrake states the very basis of 
        paradigm shift: things are as they are because they were as they were. 
        The laws of nature are not absolutes; rather, they are accumulations of 
        habits. 
         
        A law like gravitation, for example, is a pretty well fixed habit, probably 
        owing to the trillions of beings throughout the universe who give it general 
        assent. Yet yogis, swamis, and more than a few Catholic saints report 
        that in deep meditation or spiritual rapture, they have been known to 
        bump their heads on the ceiling, for rapture is nothing if not a paradigm 
        shift. Laws change, habits dissolve, new forms and functions emerge whenever 
        an individual or a society learns a new behavior. 
         
        This is because we are all connected through what Sheldrake calls "morphogenetic 
        fields," organizing templates weaving through time and space, which 
        hold the patterns for all structures, but which can be changed according 
        to our changing thoughts and actions. Thus the more an event, pattern 
        of behavior, or skill is duplicated, the more powerful its morphogenetic 
        field becomes. 
         
        We know, for example, that people in the twentieth century learned to 
        ride bicycles and to use machines more quickly and effectively than people 
        in the nineteenth century. Similarly, today's children and adolescents 
        learn to use computers and to write programs in ways that seem beyond 
        the competence of their parents--or as an adult friend once said when 
        he couldn't get a computer program to work, "Let's call in an expert. 
        Get the kid next door."  
         
        Discuss the articles in the September Scientific American about what happens 
        in the brain when one images doing a particular task. Relate this to morphogenetic 
        fields.  
         
        Children, some autistic people, idiot savants, people in life threatening 
        situations, animals knowing just when their masters have gotten on the 
        bus to come home --all are participating in this phenomenon. But where 
        is the resonance and how is it morphing? Recent cutting edge, state of 
        the art physics is now saying that it comes from the quantum hologram. 
         
        In each case I've mentioned, the individuals have gone beyond the bandwidth 
        of local perception and memory and entered a field of knowing that is 
        direct apprehension of much larger information to be found in the quantum 
        hologram. It has been advanced that this quantum hologram that holds all 
        knowledge and information is made of a higher light vibration. 
         
        It may be that the lower light vibration--the one that is in thee electro-magnetic 
        spectrum and therefore guides our perception is what serves to decode 
        the higher vibration of the quantum hologram in ways that are analogous 
        to the way holograms work:  
         
        Light from the laser goes through a maze of mirrors and "beam-splitters" 
        to form two beams of light to make the hologram. A beam-splitter is a 
        half-silvered mirror that allows part of the light (the reference beam) 
        to pass through directly to the film while reflecting part of the light 
        (the illuminating beam) toward the object from which it is reflected again 
        onto the film. 
         
        When the two beams meet, what is recorded onto the film is the result 
        of the interference patterns between the two beams. If the beams coincide, 
        or are "in phase" there will be enough light to expose the film 
        because the light energy is reinforced at the points of interference. 
        If the beams are out of phase, they will cancel each other's energy and 
        leave a dark place on the film. 
         
        The picture of the object in this resulting film hologram can be seen 
        when laser or coherent light decodes it and gives us the picture. 
         
        Now amplify this to universal means and think of the film as the non-local 
        simultaneous-everywhere and everything matrix--the quantum hologram itself. 
        It is not a film but a great field of being--the order of the metaverse 
        itself. (Alfred North Whitehead in 1929 described it as the great expanding 
        nexus of occurrences beyond sense perception, with all minds, all things 
        interlocking. 
         
        More recently, physicist David Bohm referred to it as the primary order 
        of the universe which is implicate, enfolded, harboring our reality in 
        much the same way as the DNA in the nucleus of a cell harbors potential 
        life and directs its unfolding.) So the quantum hologram is an order of 
        pure Beingness, pure frequency, perhaps the essential Light itself, which 
        transcends any specifications and knows neither here nor there. 
         
        It is the place from which pattern and archetypes arise. It is the realm 
        of Love and organicity, the lure of evolution and the Mind that is minding. 
        It is the place from which the forms of reality are engendered pervading 
        everything, and potentially totally available at any particular part of 
        our reality. Do you realize what I am saying? Everything that was and 
        is and will be is not only available to you, it is part of your very being. 
         
        However you have been entrained to live in the secondary order of reality 
        which is second-generation reality. It is explicate, unfolded, manifest 
        in space and time, the decoded hologramatic image of reality. All apparent 
        movement and substance then, are of the secondary order. How does it get 
        decoded? 
         
        Well, think of the incoming electromagnetic (space/time) information (visual, 
        acoustic, etc), as that which decodes the information of the quantum hologram, 
        this implicate order, and establishes the condition so that accurate three-dimensional 
        perception is possible. That is to say, both quantum information and space/time 
        information are used in the act of perception by organisms having sensory 
        perceptors. 
         
        These perceptors or lenses of our brain-mind-body system serve as the 
        somewhat fuzzy coherent light, which then interprets the frequencies from 
        the primary order. But of course, this lensing system narrows its bandwidth 
        through cultural and other conditioning. 
         
        By reorchestrating psychospiritual and neural functioning to bypass the 
        cerebral and psychological reducing valves, we discover that we are naturally 
        attuned to this source, this matrix of reality, this metaverse that includes 
        all and everything, which we call the quantum hologram. 
         
        It is then that we can see the higher order of reality, the higher vibration 
        of light behind the dimmer veiling of our ordinary perceptions. Put it 
        another way, we have a core system within ourselves that can access primary 
        reality. It is this system that engages a world long known to indigenous 
        people as well as our distant ancestors.  
         
        Because consciousness grows and releases innate potentials according to 
        the needs and even the stresses of a particular era, more and more people 
        are looking for this primary reality for what it contains and ways in 
        which it can address the messes we make in the secondary reality.  
        I'll put it another way. 
         
        The eternal part of our consciousness is forever contained in this implicate 
        order or quantum hologram; but the greater part of our awareness is caught 
        up in Bohm's second-generation reality, that which is explicate, unfolded, 
        manifest in space and time, filled with kittens and quasars, and the need 
        to connect with others. 
         
        We all have it in us to travel back and forth between the two orders, 
        for our brains seem to serve both as gates into God as well as hologramatic 
        reducing valves which render God-stuff into structure and form. What scientists 
        like Russell Targ's and Hal Putoff's work at SRI work, and to another 
        extent our own work is about is training human reality to be very fluid, 
        moving back and forth between ordinary and extraordinary realities, local 
        and archetypal worlds, implicate and explicate domains.  
      Let 
        me add that it is likely that most if not all, subtle, ephemeral and unexplained 
        phenomena associated with subjective experience are connected, directly 
        or indirectly, with the phenomenon of the non-locality of the quantum 
        hologram. This runs the gamut from telepathy to clairvoyance to remote 
        viewing to creative insights to mystical experience. 
         
        In this regard what we call psychic phenomena are only by-products of 
        this simultaneous-everywhere-matrix. And synchronicity-those coincidental 
        occurrences that seem to have some higher design or connectedness--would 
        seem to derive from the purposeful, patterning, nature of the primary 
        order, wherein everything, regardless how distant in space or time is 
        interconnected through the primary reality. 
         
        In fact, there is no such thing as coincidence in the usual sense for 
        everything is co-insiding. What so many are observing and speculating 
        about now is that the phenomenon that hitherto has seemed extraordinary 
        is really just a fascinating subset of reality in general. Or rather, 
        to be more exact, ordinary reality is but a subset of extraordinary reality. 
         
        The brain then can be described in part as a quantum computer. Consciousness 
        emerges from quantum processes in the brain--that is the inter-reaction 
        between your perception on the electromagnetic spectrum and the quantum, 
        more ultimate, spectrum of light. 
         
        Targ's research not only implies what quantum physics affirms: the fundamental 
        transformation of the scientific worldview. It also demonstrates the quantum 
        aspects inherent in our human nature. This has tremendous implications 
        for philosophy, psychology and metaphysics. Think of local consciousness 
        on the electromagnetic spectrum of light as the foreground and quantum 
        mind as the background. 
         
        Since it is rare that most of attend to background or non-local during 
        the course of our everyday affairs, we perceive things without the subtle 
        awareness that would bring the full grandeur of reality into play. And 
        yet, as Targ shows so effectively, we all have these capacities for enlarged 
        perception, although they have been stunted by habit, conditioning and 
        the cultural trance. 
         
        With the kinds of training that Targ as well as other disciplines related 
        to non ordinary states of consciousness offers, it is possible that many 
        individuals (and perhaps most children) can learn to use their mind-brain 
        systems in such ways as to open the doors of their perceptions and receive 
        the news from the universe. So we have access not only to things occurring 
        in distant places but in other time zones, like the future. 
         
        In Targ' s experimental work, the viewer as he or she is called can focus 
        their attention to any point on the planet as well as off it and describe 
        what is to be found there with considerable accuracy. Further in remote 
        viewing the perceiver can answer any question about any events in the 
        past, present or future and be accurate about two thirds of he time. Why 
        is this so? 
         
        Well as we have been saying and as David Bohm's writes in his textbook, 
        the undivided Universe, "Like a hologram, each region of space-time 
        contains information about every other point in space-time." In the 
        holographic universe, there is a unity of consciousness with no boundaries 
        of space or time. Let me put it another way. One is not a body. 
         
        One has a body. If you really feel for this idea, it makes expanded awareness 
        all that more realizable.  
        In Targ's work in remote viewing there were the standard tests-of his 
        partner going to someplace in the area and having the perceiver state 
        what he or she was receiving of the place. These kinds of experiments 
        met with remarkable success. 
         
        But then there were the out of the way - or further reaches of human nature 
        experiments wherein the healer can reach into a person's past and heal 
        them then with the result that the present illness heals up very quickly. 
        So your healing intention will reach back into the past to affect a critical 
        seed moment in alternate future pathways of he development of the illness. 
         
        Remember again that modern physics seems to indicate that we live in a 
        spider web of space and time wherein both past and future are tugging 
        on the present. Another mind-quaking aspect of this that comes from quantum 
        physics as well as ancient eastern philosophy concerns the illusion that 
        there is any separation in space and time.  
         
        Buddhism for example teaches that consciousness is the ground of all being. 
        Therefore consciousness pre-dates and is independent of both space and 
        time as we think we know it. Given the quantum interconnectedness of all 
        things, we would have to say that although it is as if events do occurring 
        in time, they just are. 
         
        Another finding, which is corroborated by Robert Jahn's and Brenda Dunne's 
        work at Princeton is that in a total of 411 published remote viewing trials 
        over twenty five years, they showed that without question that remote 
        viewing accuracy does not decline with increasing distance form the viewer 
        - whether in space or time-the past or the future. 
         
        It is a question of inflow of information about a person followed by an 
        outflow of prayers and healing intentions (possible exercise in which 
        in partners one holds the name written and in their hand of a person who 
        has some kind of physical disturbance...while the other descries this 
        person.) 
         
        It is probably likely that Einstein and other high creatives who testified 
        to making huge creative leaps --and then spending years proving steps 
        that would lead to their conclusion, -were actually accessing quantum 
        information from the matrix reality or primary reality rather than extrapolating 
        from factual data. 
         
        They then used their secondary reality to work out the details. 
         
        Given our quantum hologram essence, our minds may well be omni-dimensional. 
        I believe that consciousness has the innate capacity to tune and modulate 
        to different domains. Implied here is the notion that there are within 
        these resonant quantum fields of consciousness availability to different 
        universes. 
         
        Does this mean that the mind has the means to travel in time, to visit 
        the time and place in ancient Palestine when Christ delivered the Sermon 
        on the Mount, to be present in consciousness at the signing of the Declaration 
        of Independence? Is the past still present, nested in the many frequencies 
        that make up the Quantum Mind of the Maker?  
         
        What seems to be true, however, is that by changing consciousness, we 
        can experience more profound patterns of the universe. I find, for example, 
        that when we alter awareness on the continuum of states of consciousness 
        towards more meditative or spiritual states, we become citizens of a larger 
        universe with regard to perception, time, space, dimensionality, and possibility. 
        We are operating at larger frequencies within the electromagnetic spectrum 
        of the light domain. 
         
        This is because we are operating from the higher patterns themselves--what 
        I am calling the archetypal domain. It is then, too, that our psychological 
        makeup has more source hooks in it, is less traumatized by past experience, 
        is more capacious and capricious, and we feel extended into a mutli-dimensional 
        universe. 
         
        Thus, among many other things, we are able to cause action at a distance. 
        There have been millennia of observations of these phenomena. Were not 
        prayer to have produced some positive results, religion would have been 
        abandoned centuries ago. That we ascribed these results to a supernatural 
        agency rather than non-locality is simply, again, another mode of description. 
         
        Look at all the work that has been done in recent years to document the 
        efficacy of prayer, particularly healing prayer. The results in most cases 
        are very suggestive of non-local effects. 
         
        What does all of this have to say about spirituality? God is ever present 
        in all aspects of existence in and beyond time, in and beyond space, in 
        and beyond ourselves. Ultimately it is about the transcendent and yet 
        ever present truth of the heart and the opening to this exquisite feeling 
        of the divine flow of loving awareness that is everywhere all the time 
        and most intimately in and of you. 
         
        Discourse on Love as spaciousness, timelessness and Goddedness. 
         
        I can think of no fitting conclusion to this talk then to offer the great 
        perennial Buddhist metta prayer of loving kindness. To my mind, it says 
        it all. 
         
        May you be in peace. 
         
        May your heart remain open. 
         
        May you be healed from all separation. 
         
        May you be a source of healing for all beings. 
         
        May you awaken to the light of your true nature. 
         
        May you never feel separate from the source of loving-kindness. 
         
        May you be happy. 
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