READ Stalking the Wild Pendulum (StWP) pages 60, 62-63
“When a person has been trained by biofeedback to produce
theta waves or can put himself into a deep meditative state and at the same
time is able to watch the second hand of a clock in front of him, he will be
surprised to find that the second hand has come to a stop. It’s a rather
startling experience, and the natural reaction to it is: ‘This is impossible!’
At that moment, the second hand will accelerate and resume its normal rate.
However, if we can get over this reaction and watch with half-open eyes the
face of the clock, while all the time being in a deep meditative state, then we
can keep the second hand from moving for as long as we wish…
Why, then, did the watch slow down or stop altogether for
a while? I propose that the observing mind (or ‘the observer,’ for short), the
entity that correlates and makes sense of the information submitted to it by
the brain, was absent. It went off to the beach and left the ‘hardware’ at
home, unattended. The ‘hardware,’ by which I mean the sensory organs and the
brain, are processing and producing the information, but the entity that
correlates and makes sense of the information, has left the body for a while…
From the moment the watch stopped to the moment it
started moving again, the ‘observer’ was ‘out of the body.’ In cases in which
the watch has only slowed down, the ‘observer’ was ‘split.’ He was partially on
the beach and partially in the body, handling information at a reduced rate.”
What or who is the “observer”?
The entity that correlates and makes sense of the
information submitted to it by the brain and physical senses – but is NOT that
brain or physical body because it can leave or at least disengage from the body
such that it stops making sense of the information being given it by the body.
The spirit that animates the body – that entity which leaves
the body at death but continues to exist (and has always existed, even before
taking possession of the body).
What is the relationship between the observer and the
brain?
The brain is a primary tool that the observer uses to
sustain and control the body, which in turn is the vehicle within which the
observer interacts with the physical world.
The brain is not the observer, although the “concrete
reality” of the physical world (which paradoxically is not concrete at all, at
the subatomic level) sometimes results in the observer forgetting who they are
and falsely melding their identity with the brain and the body.
READ StWP page 63
“An alert reader has probably noticed by now an
interesting property of this ‘observer’: He can flit about to distant places in
fractions of a second. He may leave his physical body and be off to a beach
thousands of miles away and be back all within one or two seconds. In the previous chapter we discussed the
behavior of oscillators and pendulums. Let’s recall what happens when a
pendulum comes to one of its extreme positions. We found that between the
points at which the pendulum has to come to a full stop and the point at which
it started on its return trip, there is an area in which causal relationships
between time and space break down, in which its position “smears out” and
infinite or nearly infinite velocities are encountered because of the uncertainty
principle operating on the quantum scale of things. We know that we cannot
accelerate physical objects to the velocity of light, not to speak of infinite
velocities. But under the conditions we are discussing, physical matter loses
its definiteness, it becomes less “solid” thus making it easier for the
observer to separate from it. Our bodies, as we know from Chapter 1, behave in
pendulum-like fashion.”
It is possible that the “observer,” having no physical
mass, could really be flitting back and forth at very high velocities with each
up and down oscillation or movement of the subatomic elements of the body?
Yes; we know that a spirit can enter a body and vacate it
again; this happens at birth and death; it also can happen if a person is
possessed by dark entities; if spirits can enter and exit bodies in these
instances, then it’s possible that a spirit “observer” (one who has a “right”
to possession of a body) could also be separating from it for split seconds of
time and returning.
From a quantum physics perspective, this is definitely
possible, as Bentov has theorized.
How does the observer separate from the body?
The subatomic elements of the human body lose their place in
physical space 14 times per second (they reach the end of their respective oscillations)
– when this happens, the physical elements of the human body become less solid
and thus, easier to separate from it.
The fact that there are seven billion billion billion atoms
in the average human body and each of these are composed of vibrating subatomic
particles (which are likely not entrained together in a single oscillating
rhythm), in any given moment, there are always subatomic particles in the body
which have reached the end of their oscillation and have “flashed off” – so we
are constantly in a state in which the spirit observer could separate from the
body and likely is.
Is the “observer” which can “flit” to different locations
a single entity or is there an “observer” in every subatomic element of a human
body?
This introduces a very interesting idea which Bentov
explores later in the book, but which I’m not planning on discussing here – at
least not at this time, but I’ll talk about it very broadly here.
If consciousness exits in every subatomic particle of the
universe, one can think about how those groups of atoms are bundled and the
nature of consciousness at each level of bundling. For example, subatomic particles with
consciousness are bundled into atoms, which collectively have a greater
consciousness than the individual particles.
Atoms are bundled into molecules, and the same is true. This continues as elements are bundled into
larger and larger discrete things – to make up a body or a rock or even the
planet itself (or beyond). So, if each
of these collections of consciousness have subatomic particles which flash off,
it is the consciousness of a finger that is leaving the body or some
consciousness that is controlling or animating that finger? Bentov talks about it bring the “observer”
that is using the physical body to have a physical experience within, and I
think this is the correct way to think about it – but the idea of consciousness
at all of these other various levels (and within every element of the universe)
is an interesting idea. It gives more
understanding to Christ’s comment to the pharisees after His triumphal entry
into Jerusalem at the beginning of Passover week, that if the people hadn’t shouted
their praise of Him and recognition of His role as the Messiah, that the very
rocks would have done so – because of the consciousness within them and their
acknowledgement of Christ as their creator and Lord. It also makes you wonder about the “spirit”
or consciousness of a rock, or a tree, or a hill (a collection of rocks), or a
forest (a collection of trees) or the planet earth in its entirety (Mother
Earth?). There may be more to CS Lewis’
dryads or Tolkien’s naiad (Goldberry, the River daughter) than we thought!
READ StWP page 71
“Here the attentive reader has probably noticed that in
our subjective time we have unceremoniously slipped through the velocity of
light barrier. This is something that no physical object can do; but our
‘observer,’ being a nonphysical entity, will have no problems doing this.
However, the ‘observer’ is still tenuously linked to the physical body, and the
physical senses still relay messages to him in an undistorted form. He still
operates, although loosely, against a background of physical spacetime.”
If the observer within each of us is a non-physical
entity, what is it?
It is our spirit; the entity of light which animates our
body; it is the true “us” which is having an physical experience by
“possessing” a physical avatar or body within which it can interact with the
rest of this physical creation.
When the observer permanently leaves the physical body, that
body dies, despite the consciousness inherent in the subatomic particles which
make up that physical body.
If the non-physical observer can travel faster than the
speed of light, where could they go?
Anywhere within the universe.
Anywhere within time.
And if one was to connect with “infinity” or the “absolute”
(the fullness of all truth) then one might be able to travel outside of time
and this dimension, entirely.
What does it mean that the observer is still tenuously
linked to the physical body and what does this imply about the physical body?
The physical body was “given” to the observer as an avatar
within which to experience this physical reality.
Although physical bodies can become possessed by other
entities than the designated observer, we know from the fact that a single
observer usually retains control over a given avatar/body through the course of
an 80 year life span, that there is some right to that body given to that
observer; in other words, we are given a body by the creator of all things (from
whom all light and matter emanates) and have the right to the control of that
body unless we relinquish control to another.
So, despite the fact that the “loosening” of the connection
between the observer and the body occurs many times a second, that observer
returns to that specific body until they are permanently severed from it.
Physical bodies are gifts from God to us to use as we choose
(although not without consequence) to enable us to have a mortal, telestial
experience.
Since the physical body is composed of billions upon
billions of subatomic particles, each with their own consciousness, a physical
body has its own collective consciousness, separate from that of the
observer. It is a “natural man” with a
lower level and quality of consciousness than the “higher” self or observer,
but it is definitely conscious. Unless
the body and the observer spirit are aligned, they will be at war with each
other for control of the avatar.
What does it imply about the observer?
The observer is separate from the physical body, which is
created from vibrating subatomic particles emanating from the Absolute – each
of which have consciousness and are actually part of God.
The observers who animate these physical bodies are made up
of a different level or type of consciousness than the subatomic particles
making up the body (or the universe) – they are actually co-existent with God
or the Absolute and are more akin to Him/Them than to the subatomic units of
consciousness making up this physical dimension.
READ StWP page 71
“It is time now for us to start putting together the
assumed bizarre behavior of the pendulum or oscillator discussed in Chapter 3.
When the distances per unit time at the extreme point, through which the
pendulum is moving, become extremely small, almost infinite or infinite speeds
are encountered. But infinite speeds of what? The answer seems to be: infinite
speed of a nonphysical entity, the ‘observer,’ while the physical body loses
its definiteness in space. (We cannot know its position.) The ‘observer’
retains its integrity as an information-processing unit in spite of its rapid
expansion into space, while all we can say about the physical body is that it
‘blinks’ off and on twice per each oscillation, at the points of rest. So, as
our bodies oscillate up and down about seven times a second, the ‘observer’
expands at the end of each movement for an extremely short period of objective
time, then contracts, unaware of the event… This would happen about fourteen
times a second since we have two points of rest per cycle. Normally, we retain
no memory of the event. However, the ‘observer’ can cover long distances within
this very short period of time and observe many things. No wonder then, that he
can be off to a distant beach and be back in a few seconds.”
What does the fact that the non-physical observer retains
its integrity as an information-processing unit mean and imply?
The observer is not the brain – it processes information
separately from the brain.
Our observer/spirit has a much greater capacity for
intelligence (taking in, processing, recalling and using information) than our
physical brains can process; our brains cannot comprehend the entire universe
at the subatomic level throughout all time but our observer/spirit can.
If the observer retains its ability to process information
and has the capability of processing infinite amounts of information, retaining
some of that information for use on this physical earth should be a top
priority for each of us.
What sorts of things could the observer see when its
consciousness expands?
Almost anything – on this planet or anywhere in the universe
and across all time; and if one’s observer connected to the Absolute, they
could see all of this at once, as God does – although if they were “trained” or
advanced enough to be able to expereince this AND recall it again in the
physical body, it likely would mean that the physical body was advanced enough
and glorious enough to have no need to continue a mortal probation here in this
telestial sphere.
This is could be the scientific answer behind clairvoyance
or prophesy and a host of other “supernatural” occurrences or “spiritual
gifts.”
