: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 228 J. GRINBERG-ZYLBERBAUM comes from outside, it means only that something appears in your mind. Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called ‘big mind’. If your mind is related to something outside itself, that mind is a small mind, a limited mind. If your mind is not related to anything else, then there is no dualistic understanding in the activity of your mind. You understand activity as just waves of your mind. Big mind experiences everything within itself. Do you understand the difference between the two minds; the mind which includes everything, and the mind which is related to something? Actually they are the same thing, but the understanding is different, and your attitude towards your life will be different according to which understanding you have. That everything is included within your mind is the essence of mind. To experience this is to have religious feeling. Even though waves arise, the essence of your mind is pure} it is just like clear water with a few waves. Actually water always has waves. Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water or water apart from waves is a delusion. Water and waves are one. Big mind and small mind are one. When you understand your mind in this way, you have some security in your feeling. As your mind does not expect anything from outside, it is always filled. A mind with waves in it is not a disturbed mind, but actually an amplified one. Whatever your experience is an expression of big mind. (Suzuki, 1977) Can we postulate some physiological correlative of Suzuki’s big mind? The existence of a unified big mind, implies that space as a concept and asa physical reality is no. more than an illusion. If this is true, then also, the concept of distance must be abandoned. Equally true, the existence of a unique mind, if accepted, makes cumbersome the reality of individual minds and isolated brain structures. Since science is so cautious in its acceptance of new hypotheses, postulates and theories, to incorporate within its structure the idea of a unique mind, it would be necessary to prove that: i) Brain activity exists outside the skull. ii) This extra-skull activity establishes a functional connection between different brains and unites them. iii) Space is a component in our brain’s perceptual construction of reality. iv) A fundamental energetic matrix exists behind every material object and physical manifestation. v) The feeling of individuality can be transcended to gain access to the perception of unity. Let us examine each one of the aforesaid postulates, in order to discuss their validity. 1.1 Brain activity exists outside the skull It is obvious that the existence of extra-skull brain activity is a basic condition for all subsequent discussions about the unique mind. Without extra-skull activity, COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 22 the hypothesis about the existence of a unique big mind is unacceptable, There are at least two pieces of evidence that support point 1.1. First, th human magnetoencephalogram (Reite, Zimmerman, Edrich and Zimf@rman 1976). Second, the recent discovery of a relationship between gravgationa changes and brain activity (see section 5 below). =] Both the magnetoencephalogram and the gravitational effect sha tha: there must be some kind of a field emanating from the human skull and agepcting the surrounding space (see section 5 below). oO It has been postulated (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 198 1a, b) that as a result of all the neuronal interactions in 50 milliseconds of brain activity (the ation of the present inter see Torres and Canseco, 1980), a synergic,.fi4 (the neuronal field) is created inside the brain microstructure, and later’on Shands into the surrounding space. Lg In relation to the aforesaid micro-structure, K.H. Pribram writes: = ; oOo The aggregate of slow potentials present over an extended location at any momerfy ean be described as a state which has a micro-structure. The arrival of impulses at ephaptic or synaptic junctions is never a solitary event. Axonal terminations are usually mulgBe, i.e axons branch at their ends. As many as 1000 synapses may characterize the j tional possibilities between a pair of neurons. Dendrites are tree-tike almost by definit{h, cis- playing many fine fibered branches which crisscross, making multiple contact?-gmong neurons, contacts which for some cells (e.g. the amacrine of the retina) include strfctured synapses. Thus ephaptic and synaptic events, those that are composed at the junctions between neurons, form a pattern. Inferences about the nature of such a patter n be made from the known fine structure of the brain and the electrical activity recor from it. Several such inferences suggest that these patterns make up wi (Pribram, 1977). ° , a r = Th fi . * . = €sé wave Ironts must be three-dimensional and in some cases must &olve large portions of the brain, The neuronal field emerges as a result of theglobal activation of the brain microstructure of which the above mentionedMwave fronts are only part. o Furthermore, in the experiment about the relationship between brain a@ivity and gravitational forces mentioned before, it was found that a non-lo& and global change in inter-hemispheric coherence (‘coherence’ is defined as aprain state in which similar EEG patterns and similar evoked potentials are reerded simultaneously in both hemispheres) correlated with gravitational changes. A detailed description of this experiment will be presented in section 5, > A global change in brain activity is probably more related to a synergiPfield emergence than a local EEG alteration. 2. A theoretical construction (the syntergic theory, Grinberg-Zylbemgum, 1979, 1980a, 1981a, b) dealing with the neuronal field will be discussed later on in this article.
: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 230 J. GRINBERG-ZYLBERBAUM 1.2 This extra-skull activity establishes a functional connection between different brains and unites them To accept this postulate, it is first necessary to prove that a real and direct intercourse between brains exists without the use of known sensory interactions. Evidence that during human communication direct nonsensorial interchanges of significant messages occur, has been obtained (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, Cueli and Szydlo, 1978) and it will be discussed and extended in the experimental section of the present paper. Here, it is enough to say that the aforesaid direct communication occurred whenever a high correlation between individual inter- hemispheric coherences appeared in the brains of the subject during the communication sessions. , The fact that both direct communication and gravitational changes occur in direct correlation with the brain modifications in inter-hemispheric coherence supports the idea about the existence of the neuronal field and its physiological role as a device to unite the activity of individual brains. The postulated connection between different brains through their neuronal fields must involve some medium or matrix in which the interaction between neuronal fields could happen. One possibility in regard to this hypothetical medium is the quantum field described by contemporary physics (Capra, 1976). This last hypothesis will be discussed in 1.4 below. 1.3 Space is a component in our brain's perceptual construction of reality In the interaction between our retinal receptors and the energetic information contained in the space of the interaction, a transformation of the quantum field matrix occurs. In this transformation, the information contained in the quantum field is transferred first to local, analogical microchanges in membrane potentials and later on into propagated, digital action or spike potentials in the axons of the optic nerve. Perceptual reality as we know it is neither the reality of the quantum field, nor the neuroelectric reality of our brain activity. Further energetic transformation must be postulated in order to explain our perceptual experience. When the propagated information carried through the digital messages in the optic nerve reaches deeper structures in our brain, at least two families ot further energetic transformations occur. First, convergence-divergence networks concentrate digitalized messages in “neuro-algorithms” (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1976a, b; 1981a). These neuro-algorithms unify disperse activity in logical neuronal patterns (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1976b). The neuro-algorithmic processes are the basis of concept formation, imagination and meaning (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1980a). If an energy system located in the quantum field is capable of being neuro- COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 23. algorithmized by the brain, it will be perceived as a concrete object. If an energs system is so complex as to exceed the neuroalgorithmic capacity of the brain this organization will not be perceived at all or it will be seen as a blurt con. figuration. This last is the case for space. In reality, space is so complex ld ful. of information that our brain is only capable of decodifying the little pofion 0! it transecting our retinal receptors. If we could decodify and perceiveegimult. aneously all the portions of space, we could see a solid. Thus space as transparent and space as an empty and dividing entity is a delusion. 2 Second, besides the neuroalgorithmic processes, wave fronts (Pribrangpl 977) appear as slow potentials in the dendritic microstructure of the braingf the neuroalgorithmic logic has as its function the management of a digital @Gverse. the wave fronts activation deals with the analogical universe inside ovgyprain. Both unify disperse activity but serve different functions. The neuroalgdtjthmic logic deals with linear problem solving processes, while the wave front agwity is the basis of both the neuronal field and our perceptual experience. © Furthermore, an interaction*between the neuroalgorithmic activationgnd the wave front excitation can be conceived as a means to modulate exfiiemely complex patterns of energy. These patterns must be incorporated Mo the morphological three-dimensional structure of the neuronal field. < A good example of patterns developed through complex interaction€are the Cymatics patterns (Jenny, 1973). In them, extremely complex forms of patterns are activated when a vibrating field (i.e. a sound) interacts with a metalég plate on which fine licopodium powder has been deposited. These Cymatic gtterns follow very interesting laws. For example, with an increase in the frequfehcy of the field, the complexity of the Cymatic pattern increases but a fund&pental form in it is maintained. oO According to the syntergic theory (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1978, 1979939802, 1981a, b) a Cymatic-type interaction occurs between the neuronal field @hd the quantum field. This interaction is the basis of our perceptual experiencggnd of experience in general. 7) Therefore, both the neuroalgorithmic and the neuronalquantum fie inter- action processes, indicate that transparent space is only a particular leveSpf our brain’s perceptual construction of reality. Thus, a real medium of seBeration between material objects, brains or energetic fields, does not exist. 3 > 7 fe) 14 A fundamental energetic matrix exists behind every material object ay physical manifestation . roe 4 Specialists in the physics of elementary particles (Capra, 1976) have been claiming that the sudden appearance of particles from the seeming nothingness, as well as the opposite, the disappearance of elementary particles in space as a result of interactions, points towards the idea that a fundamental energetic matrix exists
: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 232 J. GRINBERG-ZY LBERBAUM behind the universe of known particles and objects. These scientists have called this matrix “the quantum field”. They claim that when activated, this field changes in one or in several of its locations, changing some parameters (e.g. fre- quency) of itself. This parametric change is detected as an elementary particle. Since these elementary particles are the basis of every material manifestation, every object, brain, body, etc, is a particular or specific manifestation of the same field. 1.5 The feeling of individuality can be transcended to gain access to the perception of unity All the great mystics in human history have claimed that the perception of unity is not only possible, but that it is the most natural and truly human feeling (Vivekananda, 1963, 1975; Cooke, 1970; Khan, 1978). Furthermore, their description of the state of unity does not involve losing the feeling of the self but expanding it (Santa Teresa, 1578, 1976) into everything (Suzuki, 1977). In other words, individuality is not lost during the perception of unity, but is ‘truly transcended. If the perception of unity exists and the state of unity is real, then there must be reliable neurophysiological techniques that could be used to activate both, the perception and the state of unity. Furthermore, a neurophysiological explanation of the state of unity and its perception must exist. ; In the following and last section of this theoretical introduction, answers to these two questions will be sought. 2. A TECHNIQUE TO STIMULATE THE STATE OF UNITY For many years, our laboratory has been searching for reliable neurophysiological iechniques to stimulate the perception and the state of unity (Grinberg- Zylberbaum and Riefkohl, 1980). We tried several modalities of the EEG bio- feedback technique (e.g. alpha with closed eyes, alpha with open eyes, theta with closed eyes and theta with open eyes) without success. Then we decided to use a very sophisticated evoked potential biofeedback technique (Grinberg- Zylberbaum, 1980a) in which a subject could actually see his own evoked potential components in order to relate his subjective experience to them. The results were fascinating and will be published elsewhere (Grinberg-Zylberbaum and Ornelas, 1980). Here, it is enough to say that very well trained subjects are able to correlate their subjective experience with even the low latency primary components of the visual evoked potentials as if their focal attention could be localized in the beginning of the brain decodification of incoming signals. Fascinating as it was, the technique failed to stimulate unity. COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 23 Then, we decided to present to our subjects 200 msecs. samples of their EEc spontaneous activity recorded from four different bipolar derivations gn thei skull. Two derivations from the anterior and posterior locations of ee righ hemisphere, and the other two from homologous places on the left hem@here. A scale was constructed that allowed us to quantify the similitude@etwee: pairs of EEG patterns. Thus we were able to measure the degree of: © i) Anterior inter-hemispheric coherence. ii) Posterior inter-hemispheric coherence. iii) Right intra-hemispheric coherence. iv) Left intra-hemispheric coherence. 92R0007001 The task of the trained subjects was to correlate their subjeetive enpprience with the degrees of these coherences. 2 The detailed results and methods are to be published in a separa(P paper. The important result for us here is that this technique can be used to simulate the state and the perception ofunity. In a sample of five trained subjehts in 50 sessions, all of them reported that when the similitude between thar above coherences was very high, they felt a sense of unification in themseffes and in relation to others, They also reported a feeling of peace and underSAinding about the “delusive subject-object dichotomy” (Grinberg-Zylberbaymn and Riefkohl, 1980). =] In other words, a high and simultaneous inter- and intrahemisphefi level of coherence (a high global coherence), correlated with the percepttin and the state of unity in our subjects. , Oo Thus, the state and the perception of unity can be stimulated and Feared. In this last regard, it should be said that, in order to reach the levels of coterence which correlated with the state of unity, our subjects had to train theQselves very hard and for a long time (at least several months) in this spontaneq EEG coherence biofeedback technique. © We also learned that the spontaneous EEG coherence biofeedback tAfnique does not work by itself; it is rather only a tool that can stimulate the @ate of unity. The real process that helps to reach the state of unity takes plage at a much deeper level. Our biofeedback technique only activates this procggs and helps to detect very subtle subjective and hidden information. 5 Nevertheless, it is clear that when the aforesaid internal process regshes a level allowing the subject to perceive himself as lacking separation fromggvery- thing else, a high global brain coherence appears. <x We were delighted but not surprised by these findings. They corresponded well with our gravitational and communication studies results and were almost predictable from them. Rp
CIA-RDP96-00792R0007001 30002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 234 J. GRINBERG-ZYLBERBAUM 3. A NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF UNITY. THE SYNTERGIC THEORY between convergence and redundance of light information stands out as a remarkable fact (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 198 1b). I begin this section with this statement, because the relationship between convergence and redundance is seminal in itself and basic for an understanding of the syntergic theory and our neurophysiological approach to unity. In the syntergic theory, space is conceived as a matrix capable of concentrating inform- ation in each of its points or locations (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1981a). A high _ The same observer, now located on the surface of the Earth and using the same hole, would see only a limited portion of the planet. Thus, near an object, space concentrates less information about it than it does when far away. Obviously, trating large amounts of information in each one of its locations, is more redundant than a low syntergic space. An observer located on the surface of the earth and seeing the moon while he travels has the impression that the moon follows his movements. At this distance between the earth and its satellite, the photonic-visual information that the moon reflects is highly redundant; thus, each location of the space from which the observer gazes contains almost identical information. Because what the observer perceives is the Space that: activates his retinal receptors and this Space contains almost the same information in each one of its locations, the observer sees a moon that follows his movements. Thus, COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 235 a direct relationship between redundance and concentration of information exists in space in general and ina high syntergic space in particular. The OpRosite is also true. If instead of gazing towards the moon, the observer direeps his retinal receptors toward the road on which he is travelling, he will see a frred image. At the small distance between the observer and the road, the concen®Ation of information in each location of space that activates the retina of the oltssrver is relatively small. Consequently, information there is distributed in low redundance fashion. Each location of that space activates the retina 6D the observer with different information, In the duration of the perceptual pebsent (50 msec. is the time nécessary to build a visual image) of the observd&% the resulting image will be a blurred one. OD The relationship between redundance and amount of information iSpigh and low syntergic spaces solves the (until now) puzzling problem of the “reative movement phenomenon” in the psychology of perception, 4 A convergence network of information can be conceived as a fundangental feature of the informational organization of space. In this regard, the converfance organization of space and of the ‘brain are similar (see Grinberg-Zylberbgum, 1981a), and the concept of neuroalgorithms could correlate with a sffilar algorithmic organization of information in space, Thus, a direct telatiokehip between convergence and redundance of information exists in space and prokably also in the brain, ‘Oo Some of the brain convergence operations were analyzed by A.R. Luria (1673) in his studies about the synthetic functions of the cortex. Luria stated tha®the synthetic operations related to the language process are Tepresented in. cofgttcal networks and locations with more convergence power than the locations refed to neuropsychological operations with a lesser degree of complexity. Even m@re, according to clinical observations (Luria, 1973), when a high synthetic locaffon of the cortex is damaged, its effect upon the neuropsychological operat@ns is more complex and extended than the effect caused by the damage of ass powerful synthetic region. _ This view is (remarkably) very similar to the one that the Kabalist @ge Rabbi Isaac Luria offered in his analysis of the Sephirot. Each of the Septtrot is a “sphere” located near or far away from the mystical Ein Sof infinite cempre of God. According to Luria the Kabalist, consciousness can be located in reg spheres. When it abides near the Ein Sof, it has more power to affect the ot&er Sephirot than when it is located far away from the centre. 2 Returning to Luria, the Russian neuropsychologist, the synthetic operatigfis seem to be almost identical to the brain neurosyntergic operations and these last ones seem to be similar to the syntergic organization of space. A high syntergic space is a space that contains more information about itself in each one of its locations than a low syntergic space. Thus, a high syntergic space is more unified. The telationship between syntergy and redundance