By George Dvorsky
Source: Sentient Developments

While researching my protopanpsychism article, I came across the work of Dean Radin and Dick Bierman whose research has yielded some very eerie results.

Before I get to this, however, I’d like you to conduct a short experiment. While looking at your feet, stomp on the ground. You will notice that your visual perception of your foot hitting the floor matches your sensation of touching it. This would be fine except for one thing: the speed of light is vastly faster than the conduction times and synaptic delays through the long nerves and spinal cord from your feet. As a result, you should be seeing the event before you feel it – and the delay should be noticeable.

But it’s not.

Benjamin Libet and his associates first documented this phenomenon in 1979, which is now referred to as the ‘delay-and-antedating hypothesis/paradox.’ A number of explanations have been posited to reconcile this strange observation.

Perhaps there is a lag in the visual information. If this is the case, then the visual cortex is set for a time delay such that it can keep up with the slow pulses from the extremities. This would be a rather bizarre revelation if true, meaning that we are constantly viewing the world with a small degree of latency. This is almost certainly not the case, as Darwinian selection would favour those animals that do not experience any kind of visual delay. Living in the past would be grossly disadvantageous out in the wild.

Another possible solution is that sight and feel are experienced at separate times, but are remembered as happening simultaneously. Problems with this hypothesis are similar to the previous one – a suggestion that we are not meaningfully rooted in the present and that our brain “edits” reality for us.

A third solution, one that seems ludicrous at first glance, is that the slow sensory information is referred backwards in time from the near future to match the fast information.

Impossible, right?

Well, that’s where the work of Radin and Bierman come in. They have performed experiments in which it appears that the brain is reacting to stimuli before it is experienced. Radin and Bierman have conducted experiments in which subjects viewed random images flashing on a computer screen. Some of the images were rather neutral while others were meant to invoke a highly emotional response. The researchers discovered that the subjects responded strongly to the emotional images compared to the neutral ones, and that the response occurred between a fraction of a second to several seconds before the images appeared.

Bierman recently repeated these experiments using an fMRI brain scanner and documented emotional responses in brain activity up to 4 seconds before the stimuli. Other laboratories have made similar findings.

Assuming the data is being recorded and interpreted correctly, what's going on here? How is it possible that information can run backwards in time? Roger Penrose believes that quantum effects in the brain could explain backwards referral. He suggests that such effects may occur commonly and even routinely. “If in some manifestation of consciousness,” says Penrose, “classical reasoning about the temporal ordering of events leads us to a contradictory conclusion, then this is strong indication that quantum actions are indeed at work!" Neuroscientist Fred Alan Wolf has come to a similar conclusion and has offered his ‘Two-Time Observable Transactional Interpretation Model’ (TTOTIM) of consciousness.

Stuart Hameroff notes that quantum information can indeed run backwards, or be time indeterminate, citing the Aharonov formulation which suggests that each quantum state reduction has a dual vector, both forward and backwards in time.

What does this all mean? As Wolf notes, “we need to look toward altering our concept of time in some manner, not that this is an easy thing to do. Perhaps we should begin with the idea that a single event in time is really as meaningless as a single event in space or a single velocity. Meaningful relation arises as a correspondence, a relationship with some reference object.”

In addition, this not also adds further credence to the quantum consciousness hypothesis, but to panpsychist notions as well.

Scientists Tackle the Secrets of Time Travel

Source: BBC

Researchers are examining the fabric of space time and what science fiction authors refer to as the fourth dimension.

Dr Charles Wang will study the microscopic movement of atoms, which can be affected by the earth spinning. He said: "This is a very interesting possibility which cannot entirely be ruled out by physics."

Television's Dr Who and the Back to the Future movies promised the concept of time travel. Albert Einstein said instead of considering space to be a shapeless vacuum it should be looked at as an object.

The theory is for something to exist it must have length, breadth and thickness, the three dimensions.

It must also have something else. An object exists from the moment it is created to the moment it is destroyed. In between those moments is the duration of time - the so-called fourth dimension.

Space mission

HG Wells wrote the Time Machine about it - now Dr Wang hopes to make it real. He is a reader in the College of Physical Sciences and a member of the Aberdeen centre for applied dynamics research.

Dr Wang said he is waiting for the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch a science satellite to aid his research.

He told BBC Scotland: "If you have curved space time, the time circles and you might just travel in time... If we can slow down the atom and isolate it and guide into the fluctuation then there's a possibility it's there.

"The increased sensitivity obtained by a space experiment certainly makes a space mission very worthwhile... If successful the results will have a profound impact on our understanding of the fundamental nature of space and time in the universe."

Dr Wang however has time on his hands, as the ESA satellite is not due for launch until 2015.

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By Dale Power
Source: Healing.WorldISPNetwork.com

Time does not exist. Not in the way we normally think at least. It certainly does not seem to work normally in psychic pursuits at any rate! This creates both problems and opportunities for us. If we can learn to understand the nature of time in regards to our psychic efforts we will have much greater success with them.

Due to the brief nature of this article, the subject will be confined to the issue of psychokinesis and time. While many of the same basic rules will apply to our information gathering skills, such as telepathy, precognition and remote viewing, because of our personal perspective, it is easier in some ways to understand what is going on with time when we try to effect change on the world around us.

Our problems with time, in regards to PK stem from two basic points;

1. Time does not exist, at least not in the way we are used to dealing with it, on a psychic level. This may indicate that psychic effects are taking place at a quantum level.

2. The portion of our minds that controls psychic functioning does not have a concept of time. That exists in a different area of the brain. So our psychic efforts must be linked to events rather than time coordinates.

Between these two points and our common perception of time, we run into a few problems. By noting the problems we can come up with some solutions that can increase our psychokinetic success rate.

PK spreads out over time. When you try to effect anything on a psychic level, the actual effect can be (if a researcher is careful and looks at the data) charted as starting before you begin the attempt, rise to a peak of strength a short while after the attempt takes place and then tapering off over time. Because time does not work in the same way on a psychic level, you can effect things before during and after the actual cause (your PK attempt) happens. Because your mind does not understand time in the portions of the brain that controls psychic functioning, its targeting of a specific event tends towards a more shotgun pattern.

It can take some thought to really understand how to deal with this problem. Time is so integral to how most of us think, that it seems almost silly that we would have to account for drift and PK effects going to the wrong time.

Another big problem is mis-targeting. It is very possible to be 100% successful in your psychic attempt, with the exception of the fact that you influenced an event that happened long ago, or will happen in the far future! It is possible in fact that every PK attempt has real world manifestations, but we are not local to the specific happening, so we never see the results.

To correct for this we will have to make sure that we:

Target specific events and give them unique patterns that our sub-conscious minds can identify easily. Gaining a good feel for the specific target before you begin. Make sure that you identify it as a unique and special happening before you begin. Also ensure you are in a deep conceptual state without too much linking to similar patterns. This will help keep you on target.

Also…

Pick targets that have stability once you have influenced them. Biological processes are a good example. Once you have healed a living thing, or made any change to its system, it tends to continue to reflect the change for a while. Things like the weather, the state of an object or the location of an object are good examples as well. You get more out of each attempt, as it can make changes over time, and not lose most of your effort. All of these things will tend to hold on to the changes made rather than immediately shifting back to their previous state.

Use all of your psychic abilities. If you can locate the specific “now” of the event that you wish to influence on a psychic level, it is fairly simple to “lock” into it, making sure that you are not just throwing psychic power at any similar event that has ever happened. So it is useful to not divorce your psychokinetic techniques from your information gathering talents. Feedback is essential for improvement over time.

We live with a specific relationship to time. While we are not going to increase raw power by improving our targeting in regards to time, we can greatly increase the level of effect, by controlling the “when” of things as well as the “what”.

Also by Dale Power: How to Bend Time

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