Mind over matter

RESEARCH TOPICS

Mind over Matter

How Much Effect has Consciousness on Matter

In determining your approach to self-development, you'll often find options that begin with the premise that focused attention can affect outcomes in our physical reality.

The basis for this premise is that scientific experiments have demonstrated on a very small scale that mind does indeed affect matter. For example, frozen water molecules show different patterns when meditators with different emotional states focus on the water. Another example is that some meditators can change the pH-value of water with their meditation. Lastly, it's known that attention can change the direction of the bioelectric current in our bodies.

The explanation from physics is that attention can push electrons out of molecules through the electric and electromagnetic fields of our body. However, this is only accepted as scientific fact on a very small scale – a scale where the effect is considered negligible by mainstream science.

However, practitioners of disciplines that cultivate superhuman skills claim that, under the right circumstances, the effect and impact can be amplified many times over and that this has been demonstrated.

For now, it remains a matter of interpretation whether or not you accept that claim and make it part of your mental model or not.

The following articles contain a large number of examples where some kind of superhuman ability might be at play. Each example could be either real or fake, but in some cases there's even a scientific hypothesis presented. It's up to you what you make of it.

Articles

The topics are:

Brain wave primer
Quantum physics primer
Bio-electricity primer
Cerebral spinal fluid primer
Hypnosis primer
Meditation, Visualization, Breath primer (coming soon)

How to Develop Supernatural Skills

On our book topic page about Supernatural Skills, we provide several book suggestions that you may find interesting. We also like to provide some of the common practices you'll find in these books, so you don't have to buy them.

The bottom line is that, in order to develop supernatural abilities, the following general practices would be beneficial:

Corpus callosum size increase
The stronger the connection between your brain's left and right hemispheres (called the corpus callosum), the more able you become to access supernatural states. The increase can be achieved by meditating several times a day, at least for several weeks.
Pineal gland activation
The pineal gland is where melatonin is produced in the body. This hormone is often associated with higher states of consciousness. It also happens to be chemically very similar to DMT. Focusing on the pineal gland during meditations is known to increase melatonin levels. It's also thought to project the content of what you visualize into physical reality. Another way to activate the pineal gland is to detoxify the body and by gazing at the sun just after sunrise and just before sunset.
Heart coherence
The heart is considered a strong amplifier for the electromagnetic field of the visualization in the mind. The heart becomes involved through excitement, but moreover: by being truthful – authentic; integrity. It improves your heart rate variability. By practicing visualization of things that excite you – that suit you and not your ego – you build the habit of doing more than just imagination.
Visualize outcomes, not your current lack
Basic visualization skills are essential to most (if not all) superhuman skills. The first step is to overcome the (deep-seated) belief that you're not capable of manifesting certain results through visualization. Especially if they don't happen right away. The key to successful conscious manifestation is to keep your frequency high. A simple method is to assume how you would feel in the imagind scenario and then experience it as reality.
Meta-visualization
Once you become good at visualization, you can amplify your abilities in all of the above areas (including visualization) by similarly visualizing increased abilities to even superhuman levels.
Ego
Eventually you'll have to let go of the egoic 'will' to see it manifest; trust the universe to provide you with the abilities of that same frequency that are in your best interest. This is also where the line is sometimes drawn between white magic and black magic.
Initiation
This is optional, but is considered essential for some abilities. You need to find someone to show you the exact frequency of a particular ability; get initiated in a certain discipline (like with finding a particular radio signal)

You can develop any of the featured abilities, perhaps only slightly. It's believed that your best chances are with the skill that excites you the most. Now, you don't have to become an expert. Your objective could be to validate just one of the claims and, in effect, falsify the theory that the mind has no significant effect on matter. It would be an experiment in favor of the quality of your mental model.

About Bukuru

The core philosophy of Bukuru is that each person should test their own beliefs. The project started as a quest to categorize self-development books in such a way that it would become easier to find books that match your beliefs. However, along the way we concluded that the essence of most books can be captured in a few sentences – if the idea is original at all. Instead of helping people buy books, we now help people not buying books.