Science
and the Evolution of Consciousness
Table
of Contents
Foreword
7
Introduction 9
| 1 |
Mysticism
and Science 20 |
| 2 |
The Path
to Higher Consciousness 32 |
| 3 |
Self-realization
and Psi 47 |
| 4 |
The Mind-Body
Connection 61 |
| 5 |
The Chakras
80 |
| 6 |
Ki and
the Chinese Meridian System 99 |
| 7 |
Actualizing
Human Potential 120 |
Afterword
139
Appendices
A.
Chakras and the Autonomic Nervous System 143
B. Meridian Test Experiment 145
Footnotes
148
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Tony
agreed to let me examine him. I wanted to check whether he showed
any functional abnormality in the autonomic nervous system. At his
home one day, I hooked him up to the equipment, and we ran a control.
Everything was working fine. Then I asked him to concentrate in the
same way he does when performing psychic surgery. Suddenly there was
a loud hiss from the machine, and the equipment blew out.
Because
my examination was so unsuccessful, Tony agreed to visit the Institute
in Tokyo. He consented to act as an agent in the above experiment.
We instructed him to try to send his "healing power" to
a subject lying down in the next room. He was given an electrical
signal to begin and another to stop. Figure 5 presents data from one
of these tests.
The
top two lines (a and b) represent Tony's respiration and GSR, respectively.
The bottom two lines are those of the percipient. The moment Tony
began concentrating on the subject, her breathing became faster and
irregular; the moment his concentration stopped, it started to slow
down. As for the GSR, it took somewhat longer for the subject's sympathetic
nervous system to become strained-about 20 or 30 seconds; but the
fluctuations became quite forceful between 40 and 60 seconds.
Tony's
data show opposite reactions all along. After concentration began,
his respiration became slow, shallow, and rhythmical. Whereas GSR
appeared occasionally before concentration, after commencement the
line became comparatively flat. When he stopped sending his power,
his breath again sped up, and the percipient's slowed down. His GSR
showed excitement again, and hers calmed down.
When
the percipient was asked how she had felt during the experiment, she
said that all of a sudden she was aware of an oppressive energy, as
though some enormous power were holding her down, and that she could
not help but succumb to whatever it was that was affecting her.
The
results of these agent-percipient tests suggest that it is possible
for the mind to affect the functioning of another person's body without
the use of any sensory agency. The mind is not merely a neurophysiological
process; it is possible for the mind to transcend the physical world.
The autonomic nervous system seems to be connected to the mechanism
by which nonsensory levels of consciousness manifest.
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