Oneness in Nature and Life
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Report Topics:
- Evidence for the connectedness of consciousness in both the natural world and in collective humanity
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In the physics of light we can discover that when light waves are "out of step" with each other, as in ordinary light, many tend to partially cancel each other out. Thus a hundred light waves are only ten times as powerful as a single wave.
As the waves increase in number and intensity, however, what is called the "laser threshold" is reached, whereby all the light waves suddenly fall "in step" or are "coherent" with each other, creating a brilliant and penetrating light beam. This beam thereafter is amplified exponentially in energy, as the initial power input is increased.
What is most significant, it takes only a very small quantity of the light waves—one-tenth of one percent—to be in coherence in order to become dominant and bring all other light waves into the same coherent pattern.
Taking this analogy into the realm of human energies, we find that social interaction is severely limited when separated ego-centered minds and hearts attempt to work together. Tensions naturally increase with the rise in the number of two-person relationships, called dyads, as a group size expands. The formula is (N x N - N)/2 = D, where N is the number of individuals and D is the number of dyads.
For example, ten dyads exist in a five-person group, but add one more person and the number of dyads increases by five. Yeshua of Nazareth found that the most feasible number for a group is twelve, with a total of 66 dyad inter-relationships.
Most tribal groups in the past have had a maximum of 25 to 75 individuals, but above this number there occurs a serious breakdown. Even today, when the Yanomani Indigenous Peoples of southern Venezuela reach the 100 to 125 member level—or from 4,950 to 7,750 dyad combinations—warfare breaks out and the tribe splits in two.
In the modern world we can well see the results of extreme hypertension and potential violence in many cities where 10 million people, coping with over 49.5 trillion dyad interactions, are attempting to live together.
But as with the creation of laser light, when separate minds and hearts can move beyond self-centered ego, from mere cooperation into a deeply experienced communion as a spiritually attuned group—one that links their Highest Selves together in turn leading to a One Mind and One Heart consciousness formation—then a major threshold is crossed in which their combined mental-emotional-spiritual energies dramatically increase rather than decrease with each addition.
Whenever group mind-hearts, joining in coherence together manifest, the energy potential becomes amplified exponentially. Thus, 25 individuals in attunement have a combined energy equaling that of 625 ego-centered individuals. One hundred attuned are more empowered than ten thousand "incoherent" people (remembering too as in random light patterns that a percentage of the separate thinking patterns will tend to cancel each other out).
We can see then it would take only a small number of harmonized mind-hearts to begin to have a definite influence on the scattered, directionless thinking of the rest of the human population of the world.
We must also take into consideration the nonphysical consciousnesses at work, as well as those consciousnesses within physical embodiment. According to various psychic and esoteric sources, the number of physically incarnated plus the nonphysicals who are active and who are inhabiting the other levels about the Earth is presently 20 billion.
It is significant that—calculating the group One Mind and One Heart that would be necessary to bring about a harmonization of all these consciousnesses into planetary coherency—the total would be composed of 144,000 individuals.
This is the same number given to us by the apostle John in the Book of Revelations of the "Children of God" who shall "sing a new song together," the Song of the New Jerusalem, inaugurating a New Heaven and a New Earth.
What can potentially happen in the Human kingdom already does take place in the other living kingdoms of the planet. Here are some examples of Oneness found in Nature:
*In 1665, Dutch scientist Christian Huygens observed that two clock pendulums, side by side, swing together in synchronous rhythm. This phenomenon, called phase-locking or entrainment, is universal between any two closely vibrating oscillators. Even two heart muscle tissues, beating separately, when brought within one sixteenth of an inch from each other, suddenly begin beating together in unison. It appears Nature seeks the most efficient energy state between objects in motion, and it takes less energy to pulse in harmony than in opposition.
*Chemists have noticed that liquid glycerin will crystallize when brought no more than a few inches into close proximity with glycerin crystal seeds, even when both are kept in air tight containers. This has been observed even when the containers are several feet away and no known inducement toward crystallization other than the presence of the seed crystals exists.
*In Rumania, experiments revealed that when virally infected tissue cultures hermetically sealed in quartz containers were placed in total darkness alongside similar containers with non-infected cultures, within twenty-four hours the non-infected cultures began dying, although no virus was detected inside. Between 68 and 70 percent of all cultures respond to this sympathetic illness reaction.
*Similarly, as American immunologist Dewey has shown, all bacteria within a body are alerted altogether, in one instant, as to the injection of vaccine into the system, and set up their defenses to either fight or avoid contact.
*Lyall Watson observed that millions of Malayan fireflies will flash on and off in perfect unison, brightening and darkening trees sometimes many miles and far out of sight of each other.
*Biologist Rupert Sheldrake—as evidence of a single animal species being linked together by their common learning patterns he calls morphogenetic fields—describes the following research:
In the 1920's, psychologist Wilson McDougall performed experiments in Great Britain in which rats were taught to escape a tank of water by means of finding a gangway. Each succeeding generation of rats learned this response much faster than the first generation.
But the learning was not inherited, for when the same experiment was later repeated in Australia with rats totally unrelated to their British counterparts, the first generation of Australian rats was as quick in response as the last generation of British rats. Somehow the Australian rats had learned from their distant cousins half a world away.
*More recently, a flock of 50,000 shearwaters flying between Australia and Tasmania was filmed by high-speed photography to study the internal movements within the flock. Contrary to accepted views that the lead bird changes course and all other birds then follow in a ripple effect, the photographers discovered instead that the entire flock moved together in perfect symmetry—all within less than one-seventieth of a second—as if guided by a single bird mind.
*Dolphin researchers Frank Robeson and Wayne Doak accumulated the initial data showing that when one or more dolphins observe or learn a process, dolphins nearby yet separated by sight and sound are also sharing on another level in learning the same process. Further research in these areas in New Zeland and Florida have confirmed the original findings.
*One of the most celebrated—and controversial—examples of animal group mind consciousness occurred on the small island of Koshima, one of a chain of islets off the coast of Kyushu, Japan.
Since the end of World War II the indigenous monkey population, called macaques, have been under study by animal psychologists. One observed behavior is that the monkeys have a particular fondness for sweet potatoes, which they pick up from the ground and eat, dirt and all.
But in 1952 one particular female macaque learned on her own to wash the sweet potatoes first before ingesting them. She taught her mother this task, who in turn passed the lesson on to her offspring and neighbors. By the autumn of 1958 a majority of monkeys on Koshima were actively washing their food.
Then something unexplained happened which researchers are still today reluctant to talk about—and some have even tried to deny—for fear of being ridiculed.
After a hypothetical "hundredth monkey" had acquired the knowledge of washing their sweet potatoes, within six to eight hours of that event not only did the rest of the macaques on Koshima take up food washing, but so did other monkey populations on the adjacent islands.
This occurred even as far away as the Japanese mainland, with which no possibility of normal inter-communications between the monkey populations existed. Some invisible threshold had been crossed whereby the ability suddenly became part of the consciousness of all members.
Much later, in 1992, open warfare broke out among many of the Japanese macaque groups due to pressure of overpopulation. Once again the various hostilities suddenly occurred within hours of each other among groups widely scattered throughout the islands, with no relation among the outbreaks other than the synchronicity of the time element.
Numerous experiments over the past few years have demonstrated that human consciousness has a direct influence on the growth and health of life:
*A decade ago, biologist Bernard Grad watered seeds with saline solution that had been “treated” by a psychic healer, and watered others with a solution that had not. In a careful double-blind test, Grad found that the seeds watered with healer-treated saline were more likely to sprout and grow successfully.
*Beverly Rubik, while director of the Institute for Frontier Sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia, performed a series of experiments with faith healer Olga Worrall, and demonstrated her ability to significantly influence the growth of Salmonella bacteria by simply holding her hands close to, but not touching, the culture dishes. Various samples under a variety of conditions showed increases in bacteria growth ranging from 22 percent up to 121 percent.
*In 1968 a set of experiments had ten people positioned 1.5 yards from 194 culture dishes of fungus and concentrated for fifteen minutes on slowing the fungus growth. The dishes were then placed in incubation for several hours. Out of 194 culture dishes, 151 showed significant slower growth. Another test group in 1981 did the same experiment, only they were stationed from one to fifteen miles away from the target culture dishes. This time sixteen out of sixteen fungus samples showed slower growth.
*In 1984 sixty volunteers were asked to alter the genetic ability of the bacteria Escherichia coli, which normally mutates at a known rate so that it can metabolize sugar lactose. Nine test tubes of the bacteria were targets, with three chosen to increase mutation, three to retard mutation, and three as uninfluenced control samples. Results indicated the bacteria did in fact mutate at the rates desired by the influencers. Not only was growth rate altered, but so was the genetic structure of the organism.
*Another test series completed in 1990 involved influencing the rate of hemolytosis or the death of red blood cells placed in saline solution. The participants were asked to “protect” the red blood cells and prevent their demise. In 74 sessions, by this method a success rate of 67% was achieved. The effect was also significant in 9 out of the 32 subjects tested when chance alone would have expected only a 1.6 result. The odds of this happening are calculated at 1 in 1.91 x 10 to the fifth power.
*One thirteen-year long test series which ended in 1991 measured direct mental interaction with electric knife fish, a species of fish that inhabits the Amazon river and emits weak electrical signals for navigational and food-finding purposes.
By placing an electric knife fish in a small tank with metal plates on its sides with measuring devices, the experimenters were able to use the amplified electrical field of the fish as a feedback signal to human influencers in a distant room, who were able to intentionally influence the fish and its electrical activity. Another aspect of the experiment included influencing the locomotor activities of Mongolian gerbils running freely in exercise wheels. In both sets of 40 test sessions each, the success of experimental significance reached 75%.
*Beginning in the early 1970’s, New York University professor of nursing Dolores Krieger developed therapeutic touch techniques which have since been taught to thousands of nurses and professional health care professionals who use the procedures in their practices. The techniques generally involve the ancient art of “laying on of hands,” the movement of hands across the body in order to reduce pain and swelling, and stimulating healing.
While in most cases direct presence is essential, there are innumerable documented instances in which indirect contact has caused similar results, whereby one or several practitioners have simply visualized therapeutic touch taking place at a distance.
*The results of the influence of group prayer directed toward healing patients was published in 1988 by cardiologist Dr. Randolph Byrd. Over a ten-month period, 393 heart patients admitted to coronary care units were, with informed consent, randomized to a prayer group of 192 patients or a control group of 201 patients. Prayer vigils were provided by various church congregational members outside the hospital. Dr. Byrd found that the prayed-for patients were five times less likely than control patients to require antibiotics and three times less likely to develop pulmonary edema. None of the prayed-for patients needed machine ventilation support whereas twelve control patients did. Also, fewer of the prayed-for patients than control patients died while in recovery.
*In the 1920’s and 1930’s Russian experimental physiologists Vladimir Bekhterev, K. I. Platonov, A. G. Ivanov-Smolensky and Leonid Vasiliev performed hundreds of careful investigations in which they observed direct mental influences on motor action, visual images and sensations, sleeping and waking, and changes in breathing and electrodermal activity in people stationed at remote locations and shielded from all conventional interactions.
These tests have been updated and expanded by French researchers Pierre Jaine, Joseph Gibert, Pierre Janet and Charles Richet who have successfully induced hypnosis at a distance, and by Dutch expert H. Brugmans of Groningen working with remote influences of motor actions.
*Between 1966 and 1972, researchers at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn performed experiments under strict control conditions involving waking persons sending mental pictures to sleeping targets who would then report their dream imagery. Out of 450 sessions, 63 percent successfully received the mental pictures at odds against chance of seventy-five million to one.
*Psychologists at Houston and Edinburgh Universities developed what is called the ganzfeld method for putting subjects into an artificial state of dreamlike sensory deprivation. In 1985 an analysis of 42 ganzfeld studies conducted by ten independent laboratories demonstrated that 35 percent of test subjects placed in this state were successfully able to receive clear images sent by mental influencers, at a probability of less than one in a billion. Further tests conducted up through 1989 involved 2,549 more sessions, with a success rate of 33.2 percent, with odds against chance beyond a million billion to one. Still more tests conducted between 1997 and 1999 yielded hit rates of 37 percent, while one set of experiments reported in the Psychological Bulletin for January, 1994 approached a hit rate of one in two.
*Numerous tests performed at Stanford Research International in California, Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, the Newark College of Engineering in New Jersey, as well as by Czech and Russian researchers, have repeatedly demonstrated that among human beings who are linked by friendship, emotional bonding or other close relation, EEG brainwaves and blood pressure fluctuation patterns experienced by one may strongly influence or even be mirrored by the other. Whole groups of people so linked also may share simultaneous common subtle function alterations. These have been recorded between family members as far away as two thousand miles.
*Over the last three decades Dr. William G. Braud—formerly of the Mind Science Foundation and now director of research at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology—has been conducting several series of carefully controlled and monitored experiments with hundreds of test subjects. These experiments have demonstrated that the influence effect can be both measured and replicated, even over distance and time. In fact in some of the results the influence manifested itself before the experiment took place from 35 to 40 minutes to as much as 1 to 7 days beforehand.
*In thirteen experiments completed in 1987, the tests involved one person generating a specific imagery, and the concurrent measurement of psycho-physiological changes in another person who was isolated in a room thirty meters away and separated by several walls to eliminate all conventional contact. Assessment was made by measuring the spontaneous electrodermal activity (spontaneous skin resistance responses or SRR) of the target person. The thirteen experiments consisted of 323 sessions with 271 different subjects, 62 influencers and 4 experimenters. The result was that 57% of the sessions were statistically significant, a success rate above and beyond what could have been expected on the basis of chance. In Dr. Braud’s opinion the influences that occurred was a “relatively consistent, replicable and robust one.”
A second experimental series gave even better results, with a success rate of 75%, and was documented in the Journal of Parapsychology.
*In still another test series, completed in 1994, and conducted by Dr. Braud and others, participants’ focused attention, ability to concentrate and freedom from distractions was facilitated by distant helpers through the use of mental intentional and attentional influences. Out of ten experiments, five of these were statistically significant. Yet another test series involved monitoring blood pressure influence, muscular tremor response, and ideomotor reactions--movements made by hand-held pendulums. The success significance ranged from 67% in the ideomotor reactions to nearly 100% in electro-dermal activity measuring improvement of focused attention.
*In 1997 Dr. Braud, in association with Dr. Marilyn Schlitz of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, published an article together in the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine regarding 30 experiments performed with 105 healers and psychics influencing the skin resistance response of 317 participants. Once again, the statistical success of these sessions was noteworthy, in some cases reaching 82%.
*In 1971 theoretical physicist Helmut Schmidt began carrying out experiments demonstrating not only remote mental influences but also precognition present in time-displaced tests in pre-recorded targets. In 1997 he published the results of ten experimental sessions n which he successfully attempted to influence the durations of his own pre-recorded breathing intervals.
*This work was an extension of French researcher Pierre Janin, who in 1974 completed his own series of experiments in “psychokinesis into the past,” by utilizing both random number generators and a machine that randomly moved steel marbles. Similarly, experimenters Honorton and Ferrari analyzed the results of 309 forced-choice precognitive tests conducted between 1935 and 1987 involving over two million trials, with participants being asked to guess which of several alternative outcomes would be randomly selected to occur at some future time, ranging from a few seconds to a year. These tests revealed “a strong evidence for accurate and precognitive effects in the database.”
*In 1998 leading researcher Dean Radin reported on experiments measuring skin response and other autonomic effects successfully influenced by participants located 6,000 miles away from the target activities. Two months later the records were unsealed and were accurately predicted by healers in Brazil.
Other studies conducted by Radin and Dick Berman have monitored participants for unconscious physiological reactions—heart rate, electrodermal activity and finger blood volume—before, during and after sensory exposure to slides that had emotional and non-emotional content. They discovered that some of the participants exhibited different autonomic nervous system reactions before the slides were shown, and when the nature of the upcoming slide still was unknown in conventional ways.
*In studies done by the Maharishi International University, tests were conducted using their graduate practitioners in Sidhi Transcendental Meditation (TM). In 1979, a group of 3,000 TM people gathered in Amherst, Massachusetts and focused their combined concentration on a smaller group meditating in Fairfield, Iowa.
Though times were chosen at random, analysis showed that only at those moments of focus did the second group experience neural coherence, a measurable functioning of different portions of the brain in step with each other, and in attunement with the brain activity of the Amherst group.
*In the summer of 1984, psychologists Elaine and Arthur Aron observed that a group of 28 to 40 TM people, meditating nightly for two weeks, reduced over that period the number of violent crime cases of murder, rape and aggravated assault, as well as the number of divorce cases, by 20 percent among a population of 70,000 people living in the Grants Park area of Atlanta.
As soon as the experiment ended, the crime and divorce rates jumped back to their average level for that time of the year. The Arons reported that the focused meditation had "measurable social effects" and that "the probability is almost nil that these results happened by chance."
*In 1993 another group experiment was conducted in Washington D.C. involving a local gathering of 4,000 TM participants. Over a six-week meditation period there was a 24 percent reduction in violent crime and a general improvement in the overall quality of life for the city, as well as higher public approval ratings for government activity. The results were verified by a 27-member independent review board which included representatives from the Washington Police Department and faculty from Washington University.
*In other more recent TM experiments, preliminary statistical studies have shown that in cities where one percent of the total population has learned to practice some form of meditation, the crime rate has fallen an average of 5.7 percent. In the same sized cities, but with fewer meditators (between 0.2 and 0.5 percent), the crime rate has risen only 1.4 percent. The odds of this being purely by chance is statistically calculated at more than 1 in 200.
[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
