Hi guys. Today I want to discuss a fascinating topic that relates to all of us:
human consciousness and synchronization. This is not pseudoscience. People synchronize in
various ways when we interact with one another. We subconsciously match our footsteps when we walk.
During conversations, we mirror each other's postures and gestures.
Researchers used fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate that the
brains of different people who watch the same movie show increasingly similar activity patterns
over time – a phenomenon called “brain-to-brain synchrony”. Have you ever had this moment when
you can’t get rid of a song in your head and someone close by starts humming the exact song?
It’s as if your brains were in sync at that time. What’s even more amazing is that our brain power
does not just end there; it is not limited to someone who is within a short distance from us.
There is mounting evidence presenting the real possibility that we humans all connect to a
massive planet-wide information or consciousness field which contains numerous sub fields.
Such fields are named Morphic Fields or Morphic resonance by the established British biologist
Rupert Sheldrake. The word morphic comes from the Greek word morphe, meaning form. So,
what kind of special field is it? What profound effect does it have and how does it influence us?
Let me first share some interesting experiments that led to the concept of Morphic field. In one
experiment, Dr. Sheldrake asked a group of English schoolchildren to learn and memorize three short,
similar Japanese rhymes. Among the three, one is a popular rhyme known by millions of Japanese;
the 2nd is a meaningless jumble of Japanese words; and the last one is a brand new verse created
for this study. Neither Sheldrake nor the English schoolchildren in this study knew which was which,
nor did they know any Japanese. The result was that the children were able to learn the
popular Japanese rhyme much more quickly than the other two. The well-known rhyme
that is being used by millions of Japanese appears to subtly generate a higher resonance
and left a deeper impression with people who are far away and speak a different language.
A similar study was organized in America with Hebrew words. Students gave higher confidence
ratings—nearly twice as high—for the common Hebrew words as opposed to the rare ones.
Statistically speaking, people in mysterious ways can pick out a more popular foreign
word in a line-up without ever seeing or knowing the word. How is that possible?
Another study was conducted with lab rats learning how to escape from a maze. New batches of rats
were tested month by month, year by year. The resulting graph indicated that later generations
of rats mastered the maze more quickly than their forebears. As time went on, rats in laboratories
all over the world escaped more and more quickly. The knowledge and skill of maze-escaping somehow
spread to future generations of lab rats on various continents which had absolute no contact.
How did that happen? It’s not like the earlier maze rats uploaded the information they gathered
to a cloud and shared it with other rats far away. Or is it? The lab rats are not the only animals
which acquired knowledge remotely. In the 1950’s, scientists discovered that monkeys on different
Japanese islands separated by the sea all learned to wash their sweet potatoes to get rid of dirt,
and it all started with one monkey doing the washing on one island.
Some researchers proposed that when a certain critical number achieves an awareness,
this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. As more and more people,
rats, or monkeys learn to do something it becomes easier for others to learn or do it.
This reminds me of increasing IQ scores noticed in multiple countries called the Flynn effect.
IQ score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of
testing to the present. For example, the average rate of increase seems to be about three IQ points
per decade in the United States, as scaled by the Wechsler tests. British children's average
scores on the Raven's Progressive Matrices test rose by 14 IQ points from 1942 to 2008.
Similar gains have been observed in many countries in which IQ testing has long been widely used,
including other Western European countries, as well as Japan and South Korea. Some claim
that this increase can in part be ascribed to improvements in education and better nutrition.
It might be true, but after knowing that the later lab rats mastered the maze more quickly than their
forebears, we can’t ignore the possibility that the same effect could happen to humans as well,
which in turn drove the IQ scores higher. Is there a shared, accumulative and collective network or
consciousness field that living creatures can in some way tune in to and learn from subconsciously?
This comes to the question of what is consciousness. Science
is still at an early stage of a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of consciousness,
though a great deal of progress has been made. Early theories on what our consciousness is
and how it has been created tended toward the supernatural, because our consciousness
seem to be non-physical and spiritual. This old school of thoughts suggest that humans
and probably other animals possess an immaterial soul that confers consciousness, thought and free
will—capabilities that inanimate objects lack. However, most scientists today have discarded
this perspective while embracing a ‘monistic’ view of a consciousness generated by the brain itself.
Please note that the mind and brain are not separate entities. What we know from science
is that the mind comes from the brain and nothing but the brain. The mind is what the
brain does. Our brains are made up of billions of neurons. When they fire — sending information to
nearby neurons — they give off electrical signals. Cognitive tasks often require different regions of
the brain to ‘speak’ to one another, allowing information to be transferred and integrated.
At the root of all our thoughts, emotions and behaviors is the communication between neurons
within our brains. But can such communication occur between neurons in different brains?
Brainwaves are produced by synchronized electrical pulses from masses of neurons
communicating with each other. Brainwave is a real physical thing and not immaterial.
Scientists discovered that our brainwaves can be sent by the weak electrical fields of brains.
As we know, electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin, electromagnetism.
These collective electromagnetic signals in our brains can be aligned to certain frequencies.
These frequencies, the brain waves, can be detected from outside of the brain.
The most common method to study brainwaves is known as electroencephalography (EEG),
where sensors are placed on the scalp to measure electrical output. Brainwave reading headsets and
earphones have also been developed. There are five widely recognized brain waves which are divided
into bandwidths, from slow, loud and functional to fast, subtle, and complex. On the electromagnetic
spectrum, high frequency waves have higher energy, short wavelengths and vise versa.
Brainwaves are low and extremely low frequency and low energy with long wavelengths. Btw low
frequency waves are suitable for long distance communication and are known as kilometer waves.
Now, our mind and consciousness come from our brains through neural firing and brain waves.
The brain waves are electromagnetic waves that can go beyond the brain and be detected outside
the skull. It’s even possible that brainwaves can be captured in the air when outside noise
is eliminated and better detecting tools are used. This means that our brainwaves,
even though much weaker compared to microwaves and most electromagnetic waves, can indeed propagate
beyond the brain and into the outside. Because of its low frequency, brainwaves might be able to
travel very long distances. Then we must ask: How far can the brainwaves go? Where do they end? If
direct brain-to-brain communication is proven by reading and transferring the electrical activity
which are the brainwaves, then shouldn’t we ponder whether such waves can also be captured and
passed along amongst people? I don’t see why not. Scientists have observed people’s neural activity
while they complete cognitive tasks. They noticed something unexpected: different people’s neural
oscillations aligned when they cooperated. In one such study, pilots and co-pilots exhibited high
levels of inter-brain connectivity during takeoff and landing because they needed to act as a team.
More importantly, through multiple experiments, researchers found that even though the idea of
a network of brains directly communicating via brain-to-brain interfaces may sound like science
fiction, it actually is not. Brain-to-brain interface allows for technology mediated
direct communications between two or more brains without involving the peripheral nervous system.
Transmitting thoughts directly from one brain to another is not fantasy but reality.
Studies published in recent years have reported direct transmission of brain activity between two
animals, between two or more humans and even between species: such as a human and a rat.
Scientists claim that the number of individuals whose brains could be networked is essentially
unlimited. The possible role of brain electromagnetic fields which enables
brain-to-brain communication and synchronization has becoming the new frontier in science.
This is extraordinary and opens up fresh prospects for us to understand
the fundamentals of humankind and our outer limits of communication.
If thoughts and ideas can indeed be passed along via brain waves directly without writing
or communicative words, then shouldn’t we have found more such evidence? Why doesn’t it work for
most people? Why can’t I send a signal to someone sort of like pointing the remote control to my TV?
Well, brainwaves are low energy and weak electromagnetic waves. I imagine that such
waves would be drowned in the real world with all kinds of WIFI signals, electrical waves and more.
The chance of such waves being able to reach and get picked up by someone could be very slim.
However, it’s not impossible. In 1922, William Ogburn,
a renowned sociologist at Columbia University, and Dorothy Thomas, a graduate student, discovered
148 scientific discoveries that fit a pattern referred to by science historians as multiples.
A multiple is said to occur when a particular scientific discovery is found to have emerged
in multiple geographic locations either simultaneously or within the same time period,
but independent of each other. For example, the calculus controversy was an argument between Isaac
Newton in England and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Germany over who had first invented calculus.
Galileo in Italy, Fabricius in Holland, Harriott in England, and Scheiner in Germany
all independently discovered sunspots in 1611; decimal fractions were developed independently by
three different mathematicians; five people each claimed the exclusive invention of the steamboat.
At least six different individuals who invented the thermometer; and four scientists each
articulated the law of the conservation of energy independently of one another in 1847. Were these
all simply coincidences or the work of a potential shared informational field to which we are all
subtly linked to? Brainwaves are weak electrical waves and not easy to transfer and connect people.
But maybe these waves, no matter how weak and small, can be accumulated and eventually
form an electromagnetic field. In this low frequency field, information waves
or energy stays mostly dormant but sometimes they can resonate with correlated frequencies.
This subtle resonance might be able to invoke information and
ideas subconsciously between a field and an organism, or between two or more individuals.
The long suspected twin telepathy might be related to this Morphic resonance phenomenon.
Scientists have proposed that identical twins have a heightened extra sensory perception, an ability
to acquire information without relying on physical senses and or past experiences. There has been no
scientifically proven evidence that twins actually experience twin telepathy, and the most evidence
researchers have presently involves personal accounts. But some cases are for sure baffling.
The one popular and common story of twin telepathy is from the twins known as the “Jim Twins”.
This set of twins were not raised together, but ended up both marrying twice with women of the
same exact names, named their children and pet dog the same, were both sheriff deputies and drove
chevys. Is this just pure chance? It seems highly unlikely for all of these things to happen without
them even knowing of each other’s existence. Identical twins have the same brain patterns;
their brains are probably more in sync and might naturally resonate with each other. So,
although in general the weak brainwaves containing information and emotions are very difficult to
transfer to another person, it could be easier for identical twins to receive and communicate with
these waves. In other words, the brainwaves from a pair of identical twins more readily
resonate with one another which result in them subconsciously affecting their decision making.
This possible brain to brain connection might explain the Jim twins’ amazing story.
Remember the experiments on the Japanese rhymes and the Hebrew words? Popular phrases are used
more frequently. The more often they are used, the more similar brainwaves are generated and
distributed. These waves could be accumulated in the electromagnetic information field with
the same frequency and can create a larger and more significant resonance.
This might be interpreted as the popular phrases gained more energy, are louder and have made a
deeper impression in the shared consciousness field whereby they are more prone to resonate
and easier to be captured or received by more people. The lab rat and the monkey studies might
indicate that new skills, memory and information can leave the origin and contribute to the field;
this field evolves and changes over time and it supports the learning and growth of future
generations through resonance or synching brainwaves. These influences do not to fall
off with distance in space or time. The greater the degree of similarity of the brain systems
involved, the greater the influence of morphic resonance. On another note, some physicists have
been intrigued by the possible connections between morphic fields and quantum theory.
With the advances of new technology, new discoveries are made and sometimes the so-called
paranormal, the pseudoscience have proven to be right all along. This could be the case with the
Morphic resonance hypothesis. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has been ridiculed and chastised for his theory,
in a way not unlike other scientists hundreds of years ago or in the modern era who brought
up their fresh, ahead-of-the-time concepts and are getting condemned from academia.
Maybe one day Dr. Sheldrake will be vindicated. We need to remember: science is not a religion,
the very core of science is to be skeptical, to question the establishment, to be open to
possibilities or we will never truly make any new progress or discoveries. Let’s keep an open mind
and not be stuck in the past. Be curious, be hungry and be willing to learn novel ideas. If
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