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Episode 63 – Split Realities

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The Story:

Alternate realities, parallel dimensions, inner and outer worlds, this is all crazy talk, at least it seems that way. Until one has a first hand experience of something weird, something not quite right, something that cannot be explained. Where things just don’t add up and it can’t be helped, you feel obliged to tell all your friends, even if they are not interested, just a glitch in the matrix they said. Followed by laughs of course.

Everyone is involved in interpreting, creating and controlling their reality. The funny thing is very few of us are aware of it. The great religion of science is doing well in catching up, where many theories are constantly being tested. It is often said that at best we only use 8-10 percent of our brain, leaving many asking the question, How do we activate the other 90 percent? and those who don’t ask may be at 6-8 percent. A quick investigation illustrates this to be completely false.

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist created a structural model of the human psyche, often informally referred to as, the consciousness iceberg metaphor. This 5-10 percent of active brain function can be interpreted as an immediate awareness of consciousness. Where the remainder brain function is very much active, however unconscious and therefore one unaware of it.

There is too much information in the matrix to be processed, so one adopts a level of perception – this is our personal construct or reality filter. Perception is limited by what one is conscious of, or what the mind can process. We are constantly bombarded by infinite information, here our unconscious mind selects what is relevant for our conscious mind to process and therefore our immediate reality. This becomes the personal world that is generated which one operates in.

This knowledge is not all that fresh. A movement coined ‘New Age’ is made up of people striving to stretch and grow their immediate awareness, striving to expand the capacity of absorbed reality. This new age movement has inspired all types of life connoisseurs, creating music, films, activities and lifestyles. This is the practice of mindfulness, which traditionally includes many activities like meditation, yoga, tai chi and various activities of relaxation. In turn expanding ones immediate awareness and lifting operating consciousness within moment to moment, individually witnessing one self with higher perception. Be careful with new vision there is a chance the view may not be favourable and appreciated. Stay calm, clear your mind and attempt not to judge, become your very own objective critic and build your new self.

This is the new reality, where one can watch the mind, then control, dismiss and explore their thoughts and feelings. Reactions can be experienced, modified and contemplated in real time. This is the real superpower and it is addictive. Be conscious of yourself via a detachment of all expectations and outcomes, and access the holy grail of personal power!

Now this becomes interesting by creating a multi player game, adding more minds and more players to the experience. Creating a collective reality in which we all operate in, this playing field – referred to as Earth, and we are a mixed bag of stars. Super heroes walk amongst the crowds changing and shifting realities as they wish. Others continue with no control over thoughts, feelings or reactions. Awareness is the new choice, to believe or no to believe in ourselves or others, understand that everyone is limited by their own personal perception, which will never be experienced by no one else by one, in this case you. We are not all living in the same reality and this is simply because we are all unique.

In this episode we discuss this phenomena with a few stories from personal experiences. So, maybe some people are invisible or can read minds, maybe there are those who can fly or talk to aliens or time travel, in their mind reality. We are our own super hero, choose your powers.

The Links:

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

Uri Geller’s Little Book of Mind-Power: Maximize Your Will to Win

The Conscious, Subconscious, And Unconscious Mind – How Does It All Work?

The Five Steps to Shamanic Manifesting

The Ten-Percent Myth

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud the Controversial Pioneer of Psychology: The Famous Psychosexual Stages of Child Development

 

 

Episode 43 – Extraordinary Abilities

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The Story:

It’s the 1920s in Russia. The reporter Solomon Shereshevsky goes to a meeting with his colleagues and his boss. On this day, Shereshevsky has forgotten his notebook, and he makes no notes during the meeting. His boss is dictating a complicated assignment and notices that Shereshevsky is not taking notes. The boss starts berating him, up to the point when he realises that Solomon can remember everything he has said, word for word. This is a shock to the boss, but also to Solomon, who has always assumed that this type of ability is available to everyone.

Shereshevsky (commonly known by his last initial, Ш., or S. in English) had an unusual ability, what’s known as an eidetic memory. To all appearances, he was incapable of forgetting, even to the extent of reproducing lists dictated to him decades before. He augmented his abilities using memory techniques such as creating a location in his mind, such as a street, with many houses and objects in it, each representing some idea. He could even remember poems in foreign languages, reproducing them perfectly, without any conception of what they meant.

S. is just one of many humans who possess extraordinary abilities which are far beyond the reach of many people. Ben Underwood is blind, but can sense his surroundings using echolocation. Wim Hof is so resistant to cold that he was able to climb Mt. Kilamanjaro wearing nothing but shorts. What other abilities exist, as yet undiscovered? Are these abilities really useful or nothing more than a parlour trick? Will we see the birth of the X-Men within a generation? We confront these questions and more, in this exciting chapter of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance
Existenz
N’kisi – African gray parrot telepathy experiment
Stephen Wiltshire – The Human Camera
Kim Peek – The real “Rain Man”
Scott Flansburg – Human Calculator
Wim Hof – Iceman
Tummo Meditation: An In-Depth Guide
Consciously Control Your Immune System With The Wim Hof Method
Going Within And Sixth Sense Abilities
Ben Underwood – Echolocation
Slavisa “Biba” Pajkic – Electric man
Dave Mullins – freediver
Natasha Demkina – The Girl With X-Ray Eyes
Natasha Demkina – The Girl With Normal Eyes (CSICOP article)
Daniel Browning Smith – The Rubber Boy
Mark Rutzen – Dives with sharks
Kevin Richardson – Lion whisperer
Is your brain really necessary?
David Lucas Burge – developing perfect pitch
Four people who gained superhuman abilities from brain injuries or missing senses

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