: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07. 236 J. GRINBERG-ZY LBERBAUM points toward the same conclusion; a high redundance space is a more unified space. A similar conclusion is reached in relation to the high neurosyntergic mode of functioning which involves a higher capacity to concentrate inform- ation and thus an increase of the abstract function. By the same token, a high neurosyntergic mode is a more unified mode. If a neuronal network could concentrate in a neuroalgorithmic logic all the information about the brain, it could unify the brain. Possibly a similar mechanism is the physiological correlate of the self. Now, the aforesaid statements mean that different neurosyntergic levels of Operation can coexist in the same human brain and in different brains, each one related to a distinctive capacity for unification. Furthermore, a unification capacity is, undoubtedly, related to a specific level of abstract thought and also to a particular level of consciousness. Thus, the neurophysiological correlates of abstract thought and distinctive levels of consciousness are precisely the physiological mechanisms related to unification. These mechanisms are the neurosyntergic ones. - I am now ready to postulate a physiological explanation of the unified mind, the Big Mind of Suzuki (1977). I postulate that a change in the néurosyntergic level of operation of a particular brain evokes a corresponding alteration in the energetic characteristics of the neuronal field created by that brain. Furthermore, I postulate that a raising of the neurosyntergic functioning level of a human brain evokes an alteration in its neuronal field such as to cause its energetic characteristics to approach the ones observed in a high syntergic space. Thus, the possibility of an interaction between a high syntergic space and a brain increases as a result of the raising of the level of that. brain’s neurosyntergic level of functioning, When a brain reaches its greatest level of neurosyntergic power, that brain becomes unified in itself. Simultaneously, its neuronal field interacts with the high syntergic spectra of space and hence with information concentrated from wide regions of the Universe. When experience is the interaction between the neuronal field and the syntergic energetic organization of space, the experience of the observer will be of a unified whole. The physical characteristics of the interaction between neuronal fields and the syntergic energetic organization of Space are completely unknown, We hope that the data that we have gathered in regard to the process of human commun- ication will help to develop understanding of this problem. Before the presentation of our data, let us summarize some of our basic theoretical concepts: we i) Empty space is a delusion. What we call space is in reality an energetic matrix filled with information. We only see one point of this matrix each time COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 237 that we gaze at some object. If we could see all the locations of space simult- aneously, space would appear to us as a solid. Ye) ii) A high syntergic space concentrates in each one of its locatiogy vast amounts of information in a highly redundant fashion. A similar organgation can be seen in a holographic plate (Caulfield and Lu Sun, 1970). The eStreme of syntergy is a space in which each location contains information abogt the test of the Universe. This space would be the mythical Aleph of Jorg Luis Borges (1970). S iii) Our human brain creates a syntergic energetic field as a result of i the neuronal interactions occurring in a finite interval of time (presumab this interval is the “duration of the perceptual present”, measuring around 50 fec.). iv) The brain field or neuronal field interacts with the syntergie ‘Organ tion of space, the interaction being with the corresponding spectra of the syfPergic continuum most similar with the energetic morphological characteristics $F the oO neuronal field. rn v) The characteristics of thé neuronal field mimic the changes ofptring inside the brain. A brain with a high capacity for abstract information and a great sense of internal unification, presumably is a brain with an extended capacity for neuroalgorithmic creation through the activation of high ‘Ower convergence circuits. This brain will create a neuronal field resembling high syntergic space, i.e. with greater internal coherence, redundance and concen&ation of information. , 3 vi) Experience is the interaction between the neuronal field syntergic organization of space (the quantum field). vii) When a neuronal field is capable of interacting with the high synergic portions of space, the resulting experience will be a holistic and unifiedMone; the observer will experience a state of unification with everything else @ the Universe. rT) the 004/0 a rRe viii) Thus, a unified Mind exists and can be experienced. Obviously, when the energetic characteristics of the neuronal field ag? the quantum syntergic field become identical, the two fields become One (sigictly speaking, they are always One), 4 We decided to study the phenomenon of human communication becaus@jn it a small model of the interaction between fields could be observed and some of its manifestations recorded. We considered that when two or more h@aan beings communicate between them, their neuronal fields interact. Further re, we thought that when the communication reaches a level of empatic order in which feelings, thoughts, emotions and other psychological phenomena are shared without the use of verbalizations (we call “direct” this level of commun- ication), the similitude between the neuronal fields in interaction reaches an
CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 238 J. GRINBERG-ZYLBERBAUM identity and becomes One (once again strictly speaking they are always One). We hoped that some EEG measurements would manifest correlative changes with the neuronal field interactions. 4. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS 4.1 First experiment (method) This experiment was done with pairs of subjects during a semi-therapeutic series of sessions. In each session, a veteran psychoanalyst, with more than 20 years in the practice of psychoanalysis, sat with a patient in order to establish a direct empatic communication, Using the analyst’s experience, we were able to construct a scale with which communication could be measured. This scale had ten divisions. When the communication reached a direct level, the measurement was 10. When there . Was a complete absence of communication, the reading was 0. The sessions took place in a Gesell room or in a semisilent therapeutic room. A Sony video-tape recorder was used to record the movements and sounds of the pair of subjects during each session. The analyst (with the help of an assistant) viewed the tapes after the sessions and used the 10 point scale in order to con- struct a communication graph. Each 120 seconds a measurement was made, The criteria for each measurement were always the same and involved: movements, words, respiration rate and body messages, Sometimes, the video-tapes were reviewed and blindly compared in order to retest the communication scale and measurements, The results of these test- retest compatability checks were excellent. Only a 5 to 10 percent disagreement was found. Simultaneously with the video-tape observations, an EEG recording of at least four monopolar derivations of each subject was done during each session. At least six sessions were held with each subject; thus, when the study was finished, we had the complete outline of the 10-20 International EEG system of derivations. The communication technique used by the analyst varied with each subject. Sometimes it began with verbalizations and movements (limited by the wiring of the EEG cables): sometimes it was without verbalizations. In either case, the measure of communication transcended the logical aspect of the messages and took account of the empatic ones. The EEG recordings were made using a portable eight channel EEG Alvar machine, and were analyzed without the use of any electronic computer system. This visual analysis had to be done by a human being because of the lack of availability of any pattern recognition EEG analysis type of machine. Pairs of EEG derivations were compared for their morphological and frequency COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 23 similarities. The comparisons were made between one derivation ang all th rest during one second in the same periods of the video-tape analysis’ A scal, was constructed in order to translate the morphological and freque com parisons into numbers compatible with the communication ones. Thugda scali going from 0 to 100 was constructed; zero meaning complete lack of sMilitud and 100 complete identity between EEG patterns. In the description otExperi ment 3 below, the details of this analysis and transformations are given. 2 All the EEG analyses were done blindly with respect to the comm catior. analysis. Thus, the communication analysis was done without kno g the EEG analysis results and conversely, the EEG analysis was done without Rowing the communication analysis results, Furthermore, both analyses weté dene by different experts. Ss Non-parametric correlation test and statistics were used, Dod a 4.2 First experiment (results) ‘, at We asked three questions when we began experiment 1: A-RDP96-00 i) Is there any correlation between the communication level <i the similarities in the EEG patterns of two brain derivations, one of the an alyst and the other belonging to the patient? ~ ii) Is there some relationship between the communication level coherence of the analyst brain or the coherence of the patient brain? bp and the patient brain? N 4103/0 e ®. The first question was answered by relating the communication level var¥gtions with the EEG patterns correlation recorded from both brains in hom@@®gous Sites, rd The second question was answered by relating the communicatiog_level variations with the changes in the analyst brain coherence and the patient brain coherence. The third question was answered by analysing the relationship betwemp the patient’s and analyst’s brain coherences. 5 Of all the correlations, the following were the only ones above 0.3: 5 p i) First, a positive 0.58 value of correlation was found between the corffaun- ication level and the values of coherence in the EEG patterns recorded from TS derivation from the patient’s and the analyst’s brain. Figure 1 shows this result. It can be seen that both variables, the coherence between brains and the communication level are highly correlated. This result means that when the level of communication between the patient and the analyst increased, the similitude
: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 240 J. GRINBE-RG-ZY_LBERBAUM COMMUNICATION LEVEL EEG CORRELATION “yA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ANALYSIS POINTS FIGURE 1 Shows the different values in the level of communication (solid line with crosses) and the values of the correlation found when the EEG activity in TS zone of the analyst was compared with the EEG activity in TS zone of the patient (solid line with circles), These results were obtained during a communication session in which seven points of analysis were made. The statistical analysis gave a positive 0.58 value of correlation between the levels of communication and the EEC. between their left temporal brain derivation (T5) EEGs increased. We obtained the aforesaid result in one patient with whom the analyst had an especially good and empatic relationship. We failed to detect the same result in other subjects. ii) Answering the second question, we found a negative 0.40 value of correlation between the analyst’s C3 and C4 derivations EEG patterns coherence and the communication levels, and a positive 0.34 value of correlation between the patient’s EEG coherence recorded in the same C3 and C4 derivations and the communication levels. In Figures 2 and 3 these results are shown. Thus, we found that when the communication level increased the analyst’s interhemispheric C3-C4 EEG coherence diminished while the patient’s interhemispheric C3-C4 EEG coherence increased. These results were found in a patient-analyst relationship in which the analyst sensed high levels of repressed aggression. We failed to detect the same result in other patients. iii) Finally, we found a negative 0.44 value of correlation between the COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 241 COMMUNICATION LEVEL COHERENCE 10 CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 ] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 4 12 13° «14 ANALYSIS POINTS 103/07 FIGURE 2 Shows the different values in the communication level (solid line with.crogegs) and the values of the coherence between the EEG patterns recorded from C3 and C4 dgpiv- ations in the analyst’s brain (solid line with circles), These results were obtained cdi€Nhg a communication session in which 14 points of analysis were made. A negative 0.40 valugof correlation was obtained between these variables. Thus, when C3-C4 level of EEG coheréftce increased in the analyst’s brain, the level of communication with his patient diminished. Relea C3-C4 EEG patient and analyst coherences. This result means that a correlatepn exists between two subjects’ brain coherences while they are in communicatibh, When we finished this experiment, we were convinced that some brain zo s show more relationship than others with the communication phenomenon. AR, that two brains in communication manifest similar patterns of EEG activity. = Simultaneously with the aforesaid conclusions, experiment 1 left us weth many doubts. First, we were unable to find the same results in the six patiets that we studied. Secondly, the C3~C4 EEG patterns and their coherence during the communication session were probably related to some subtle movement operation rather than with a more abstract function. Thirdly, our communication scale was unable to distinguish subtle changes in the 9 to 10 region, We decided to make a second experiment in order to clarify our doubts and
CIA-RDP96-00792R000700130002-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 ne) a to J. GRINBERG-ZYLBERBAUM COMMUNICATION COHERENCE 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ti 12 #13 «+14 ANALYSIS POINTS FIGURE 3 Shows the different values of the communication level (solid line with crosses) and the values of the coherence between the EFG patterns recorded from C3 and C4 deriv- ations of the patient brain (solid line with circles). A positive 0.34 correlation was obtained between the variables. we reviewed our video tapes and EEG recordings in order to find if the subjects that were able to establish a 9 to 10 level of communication had similar EEG patterns. We found that in the sessions in which the analyst reported more empatic feelings toward the patient, the frontal EEG derivations of both brains showed a maintained increase of similitude, while the same region during a low empatic session showed many variations in their pattern similitude. We were not able to control for eye movements. Thus we were not able to determine how much they were involved in this last result. 4.3 Second experiment (method) In this experiment we were able to make more controls and we introduced a third person in the communication sessions. In this second experiment, we COMMUNICATION, GRAVITATION AND UNITY 243 decided to concentrate our attention on the communication procedure. Thus, we only made bipolar frontal recordings controlling for the eye moveméffs of our subjects. S A detailed EEG analysis during human communication was postponéa for . . oO the third experiment (see below). o The aforesaid decision was taken because of the lack of the uniforngify of the results obtained in experiment 1. We thought that the absenc&of a standardized communication procedure avoided the attainment of ubgorm results, Thus, in experiment 2 we developed a controlled technique for stfQying direct communication. The procedure was the following: oo i) For several months, three subjects were trained in the voluntary actfMtion of a feeling of pressure localized exactly in between the eyebrows, This @eling can be activated if during a meditation session the subject is instrucfed to concentrate his attention in the space between the eyebrows. This ining procedure was used until our three subjects were able to activate and deaggivate the aforesaid mild pressure feeling. Simultaneously with this traini the subjects also learnt to maintain a fixed eye position, thus diminishing eye movements to a minimum. Oo ii) The subjects were trained to press a button connected to a circuit signalling the instant in which the pressure between the eyebrows appearedS iii) The subjects sat inside a Faraday cage with the eyes closed and igpemi- darkness. Each time that they felt the pressure activated, they sent a sigh@l (by pressing the button) to an adjacent room in which a bipolar recording @their frontal EEG activity was taking place. 4.4 Second experiment (results) ease 20 A total of 20 sessions were made with the original three subject gro and later on, 10 more sessions were done with another three subject grouf¥Thus a total of six subjects were studied in 30 sessions. S In ail these sessions except the first two with the original group of abjects and the first one with the second group, a most remarkable result was obtined; when one of the subjects felt the pressure activation, at least one of the renQining subjects and in some cases the two of them also felt the activation in them@lves. When questioned after the sessions, the subjects stated that a clear in@rease in the intensity of the pressure feeling appeared when they were in the gr, by comparison with the isolated individual activation. They also assured us that “somehow” they knew when the activation of another member of the group occurred. Furthermore, they declared that the activation in one of them clearly stimulated the activation in the rest of the group, and that they could feel this group interaction.