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I'm gonna play with this guy tonight. Pure random impulse.

Thought I'd share.

I am excited to introduce you to MAS SAJADY. Mas is teaching tonight and we want you to be there. Mas is a spiritual leader and healer who, after two near-death experiences, discovered he had acquired a profound ability to transform others in every area of their life. Mas 'edits' your blueprint at the core frequency level for effortless transformations in all areas of life - physical, financial, spiritual, relational, and more - with rapid, tangible and documented results. I have personally worked with Mas and I can attest to his efficacy. He is the real deal. Check out his video below:
JOIN US FOR HIS FREE INTRODUCTORY ONLINE EVENT TONIGHT 6-8pm PT. This experience has a $50 value. However, as a friend of UNIFY, Mas has gifted this event for absolutely free to the UNIFY family. There will be no sketchy salesmanship and no sleazy pitches. The power of Mas’s work speaks for itself.

We want to give you this opportunity to connect with Mas because we believe in his work and his mission.

To sign up for tonight, click here:

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and enter coupon code UNIFYMAS

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If you want to share in a unified field of healing and powerful positive intention for your life and the life of those around you, check out the event details below: EVENT DETAILS: Friday Mar 11, 6 - 9pm PT Pure Source ‘Medi-Healing’: Meditation and Healing Mas works as a powerful conduit that connects you directly with Pure Source. While his abilities are a mystery, the tangible benefits many have received through his work are not. During the Medi-Healing, the group is immersed in the purest and most potent Source frequencies and participants experience instant transformation in many areas of life.

[video=youtube;vaZITKcllf4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaZITKcllf4[/video]

 

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I'm gonna play with this guy tonight. Pure random impulse.

Thought I'd share.



To sign up for tonight, click here:

http://www.mas-sajady.com/livestream-sedona0311​

and enter coupon code UNIFYMAS

(After clicking the link, scroll down and choose "get your virtual ticket now", then enter code UNIFYMAS)​

If you want to share in a unified field of healing and powerful positive intention for your life and the life of those around you, check out the event details below: EVENT DETAILS: Friday Mar 11, 6 - 9pm PT Pure Source ‘Medi-Healing’: Meditation and Healing Mas works as a powerful conduit that connects you directly with Pure Source. While his abilities are a mystery, the tangible benefits many have received through his work are not. During the Medi-Healing, the group is immersed in the purest and most potent Source frequencies and participants experience instant transformation in many areas of life.

[video=youtube;vaZITKcllf4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaZITKcllf4[/video]

Hey…it’s a $50 value…plus, there could be free refreshments.
I doubt there will be an open bar…best you get shit-faced and take a cab.
Hehhehe


JK

Sounds interesting!
Give us a complete report please on how it was and what you gleaned from it if you would???!

 

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Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel

Researchers have found evidence for “chronesthesia,” which is the brain’s ability to be aware of the past and future, and to mentally travel in subjective time. They found that activity in different brain regions is related to chronesthetic states when a person thinks about the same content during the past, present, or future.​

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life.
Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, and future as "chronesthesia," or mental time travel, although little is known about which parts of the brain are responsible for these conscious experiences.

In a new study, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates of mental time travel and better understand the nature of the mental time in which the metaphorical "travel" occurs.

The researchers, Lars Nyberg from Umea University in Umea, Sweden; Reza Habib from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois; and Alice S. N. Kim, Brian Levine, and Endel Tulving from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, have published their results in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Mental time travel consists of two independent sets of processes:
(1) those that determine the contents of any act of such ‘travel’: what happens, who are the 'actors,' where does the action occur; it is similar to the contents of watching a movie — everything that you see on the screen; and

(2) those that determine the subjective moment of time in which the action takes place — past, present, or future," Tulving told PhysOrg.com.
"In cognitive neuroscience, we know quite a bit (relatively speaking) about perceived, remembered, known, and imagined space," he said.

"We know essentially nothing about perceived, remembered, known, and imagined time. When you remember something that you did last night, you are consciously aware not only that the event happened and that you were ‘there,’ as an observer or participant ('episodic memory'), but also that it happened yesterday, that is, at a time that is no more. The question we are asking is, how do you know that it happened at a time other than 'now'?"

In their study, the researchers asked several well-trained subjects to repeatedly think about taking a short walk in a familiar environment in either the imagined past, the real past, the present, or the imagined future.

By keeping the content the same and changing only the mental time in which it occurs, the researchers could identify which areas of the brain are correlated with thinking about the same event at different times.

The results showed that certain regions in the left lateral parietal cortex, left frontal cortex, and cerebellum, as well as the thalamus, were activated differently when the subjects thought about the past and future compared with the present.

Notably, brain activity was very similar for thinking about all of the non-present times (the imagined past, real past, and imagined future).

Because mental time is a product of the human brain and differs from the external time that is measured by clocks and calendars, scientists also call this time “subjective time.”

Chronesthesia, by definition, is a form of consciousness that allows people to think about this subjective time and to mentally travel in it.
Some previous research has questioned whether the concept of subjective time is actually necessary for understanding similarities in brain activity during past and future thinking compared with thinking about the present.

A few past studies have suggested that the brain’s ability for scene construction, and not subjective time, can account for the ability to think about past and future events.

However, since scene construction was held constant in this study, the new results suggest that the brain’s ability to conceive of a subjective time is in fact necessary to explain how we think about the past and future.

“Until now, the processes that determine contents and the processes that determine time have not been separated in functional neuroimaging studies of chronesthesia; especially, there have been no studies in which brain regions involved in time alone, rather than time together with action, have been identified,” Tulving said.

“The concept of ‘chronesthesia’ is essentially brand new. (You find a few entries on it in Google, but not on Web of Science.)
Therefore, I would say, the most important result of our study is the novel finding that there seem to exist brain regions that are more active in the (imagined) past and the (imagined) future than they are in the (imagined) present.

That is, we found some evidence for chronesthesia.
Before we undertook this study it was entirely possible to imagine that we find nothing!”

He added that, at this stage of the game, it is too early to talk about potential implications or applications of understanding how the brain thinks about the past, present, and future.

“Our study, we hope, is the first swallow of the spring, and others will follow,” he said.
“Our findings, as I alluded to above, are promising, but they have to be replicated, checked for validity and reliability, and, above all, extended to other conditions and situations, before we can start thinking about their implications and applications (of which it is easy to think of many).”

More information: Lars Nyberg, et al. “Consciousness of subjective time in the brain.” PNAS Early Edition. DOI:10/1073/pnas.1016823108

 

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[Kgal]

Hey…it’s a $50 value…plus, there could be free refreshments.
I doubt there will be an open bar…best you get shit-faced and take a cab.
Hehhehe


JK

Sounds interesting!
Give us a complete report please on how it was and what you gleaned from it if you would???!

You're hilarious!

The time was stated incorrectly and I could not attend due to the mixup. We'll see if they share the audio for later.
Instead.... Me and the Ex made awesome grilled cheese sandwiches, drank some home brewed dark beer, and watch a movie called "Speed of Thought" about psychics and being controlled by the NSA. Was pretty good.

 

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You're hilarious!

The time was stated incorrectly and I could not attend due to the mixup. We'll see if they share the audio for later.
Instead.... Me and the Ex made awesome grilled cheese sandwiches, drank some home brewed dark beer, and watch a movie called "Speed of Thought" about psychics and being controlled by the NSA. Was pretty good.

Whenever I see ads for things like this now I think of this automatically -

[video=youtube;MEzQiWb9FZk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MEzQiWb9FZk[/video]

“When you break a promise to yourself….things can get a little…..dicey."​

 

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[MENTION=10759]BrokenDaniel[/MENTION]
Thought you would find this interesting considering what we were just talking about.

[video=youtube;kO_S9oT0Prk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kO_S9oT0Prk[/video]

Rune Soup Episode 10 - Talking the End of Materialism with Alex Tsakiris


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[MENTION=10759]BrokenDaniel[/MENTION]
Thought you would find this interesting considering what we were just talking about.

[video=youtube;kO_S9oT0Prk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kO_S9oT0Prk[/video]

Rune Soup Episode 10 - Talking the End of Materialism with Alex Tsakiris


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I listened to it while i was studying and transcribing for a while. I remember a quote i've recently read, i think it was Aleister Crowley but it may have been another one who said that today's science is just obsesed and misguided by what's quantifiable and factual. Needless to say that factual can turn into a pretty arbitrary word imo.

 

[Skarekrow]

Took a fairly large dose of psilocibin last night.
Say turned for “I Psychonaut Part 3”
My mind is blown right now…I was so tired and slept in and most of the day today.
It was beyond beautiful…there are no words.
I’m still trying to figure out all that took place and I saw, I felt, etc.
Call me crazy and just on drugs, but I was able to manipulate reality last night.
I mean we all do…all the time…every second….with our thoughts, emotions, words, intentions…we just can’t see their effect and impact most of the time.
I’ll get back to you when I type it all out with some examples.
I feel calm today…exhausted though…mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

I got to peek behind the veil of this dimension yesterday…I’m so at a loss for words right now still…it was so intensely beautiful in every manner that tears flowed most of the time. I feel…idk.
Good.
I felt my mind working beyond itself.

 

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Dreams vs. Near-Death-Experiences:
What’s the Difference?​

Where do the images in your dreams come from?
Are they the product of pure imagination, or do they have a more down to earth origin?

This might seem to you, to be a fairly simple question, but rest assured, it’s anything but.
There are in excess of eleven scientific theories on dreams, from both a psychological and a neurobiological perspective.

There is the Freudian view of dreams and the Jungian view of dreams.
Dreams have a cultural meaning in terms of ancient history, philosophy, theology, literature and pop-culture.

Some believe they can be prophetic, others think they’re the manifestation of an alternate reality.
To some they are a nightly escape into a world of fantasy, for others they are frequently a horrific adventure into past hurts and fears.

Whatever they mean, which ultimately is a highly subjective and semantic idea, there are some facts about dreams of which you might not have been aware.

There is, without question, a defined physiology to dreams, a physical process undertaken by the brain, the mechanics of which are relatively well understood.

It is our subconscious mind playing movies for our benefit while we sleep, right?

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Well no, not actually.
Dreams occur most often during REM sleep.

That is, the sleep cycle characterised by Rapid Eye Movement.
The average person spends, or will spend, approximately six years of their life dreaming, in nightly bouts lasting between five and twenty minutes.

There doesn’t appear to be a single area of the brain responsible for generating dreams, but little is known about their precise origin, despite continuous testing and research for centuries.

So, where do the landscapes and characters of our dreams come from?
Without delving into a discussion of the merits of Freudian or Jungian archetypes, which are more interesting in discussion than in practise, there are a few theories that shed some light on the subject.

Since 1976, when J. Allen Hobson and Robert McCarley turned Freud’s theory of unconscious wishes on its head, most researchers have yielded to the idea that dreams are, in some fashion, the result of our subconscious mind sorting out short- and long-term memories from our waking lives.

Along a progression in thinking, from the Activation Synthesis Theory, which speaks more to the neurobiological origin of dreams, to the less well defined theories of long-term memory excitation and the strengthening of semantic memories, it seems clear that memory plays a key role in the dreamscape.

Published in the journal Science (October 13, 2000 issue), are the results of the inspired research of the Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Robert Stickgold PhD. Stickgold is, among other things, the Director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition.

His paper, titled Replaying the game: hypnagogic images in normals and amnesics tells the story of a group of people playing video games, of all things.

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Stickgold and his colleagues used the video game Tetris to study the function of memory in dreams, and they found, as may not be surprising, that when people played the video game for a set period of time prior to sleeping, their dreams featured elements from the game.

From geometric shapes and landscapes, to activities such as sorting objects in the dream.
This may not seem particularly interesting, but consider that he tried the same experiment with amnesiacs, or people who suffer from amnesia, a neurological condition that prevents sufferers from converting short-term or semantic memory into long-term memory.

There are different forms of amnesia, ranging from the Hollywood style wiping of a person’s long-term memory and identity to other types of memory related maladies as noted above.

When Stickgold conducted his experiment on the amnesiacs he found, quite remarkably, that they too dreamed of geometrically themed landscapes and activities following a set duration of game play.[1]

Interestingly, this seems to prove, with room for discussion, that dreams are in fact the process of the subconscious mind cementing learned information into either semantic memory or episodic memory — which is related to factual knowledge, i.e. 2+2=4, rather than subjective experiences.

Further research by Stickgold and others has further confirmed this idea in recent years.
This means that the imagery you see or experience while dreaming isn’t the product of pure imagination, it comes directly from memory.

The faces and buildings and other sensory aspects of your dreams are taken directly from, or are amalgamations from recent memories. When you dream of people or places that you don’t readily recognise it may be because your mind has twisted the details ever so slightly in its attempt to make sense of the information, or that the memory involved was insignificant to your waking consciousness and therefore isn’t something you readily recall, or possibly a combination of both processes.

This is all very interesting, especially if you’re a student of psychology, or are particularly fond of Freud, but it has an impact on something you may not readily understand.

As reported here, Dr. Sam Parnia, Critical Care Physician and Director of Resuscitation Research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, has, through his research in conjunction with the AWARE Project (The Nour Foundation — Human Consciousness Project) likened the phenomenon of Near-Death Experience to that of a dream state.[2]

“We’ve certainly found in our studies … that if we manage to get to patients immediately after waking up – which is not easy at times – and talk to them, they tend to remember more, and if you go back and reinterview them within a couple of days, they tend to have forgotten their experiences, possibly. So we think that probably many more people have these experiences – if perhaps not even everyone – but somehow their memories get wiped in the same way that most of us – if not all of us – dream every night, but somehow there’s a disruption to the memory circuits that allow us to recall our dreams the following day.”[3]

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This seems a reasonable comparison, NDE’s, which often are reported to have Out-Of-Body Experiences associated with them, are described in much the same way as dreams.

Though one thing is quite different about NDE’s, in roughly 80% of reported NDE’s the imagery is universal or archetypal among those who experience it.

Meaning, in simple terms, that those who have Near-Death Experiences often report strikingly similar landscapes, events and characters in the dreamlike world of the experience.

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This has been held up as strong evidence that NDE’ers are in fact experiencing a real event.
That they are actually meeting with loved ones and with religious characters and are travelling in a real, albeit non corporeal place to whatever end, and are ultimately being pulled back from that place or journey upon resuscitation.

This has potentially far reaching implications, such as bringing us closer to answering the mind-body question.
That is, do we have a soul?

Or, is there an afterlife?

Those questions are without a doubt very much unanswered as it stands, and while Parnia’s research pushes forward, though admittedly not with the goal of answering those questions directly, it seems we may find ourselves closer to an answer in the near future.

The above though, might give you the wrong impression.
NDE’s are not like dreams, as convenient as Parnia’s analogy above may be.

Dr. Kenneth Ring, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and one of the leading researchers in Near-Death studies, has outlined in his 1999 book Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind that, even without the benefit of sight, blind people share in the common archetypal imagery known to sighted, Near-Death experiencers.[4]

This sort of flies in the face of the idea that NDE’s are in any way similar to dreams, other than superficially.
One of Ring’s research subjects, Vicki Umipeg, a forty-five year old blind woman, remarked about her experience:

“This was the only time I could ever relate to seeing and to what light was, because I experienced it.”[5]

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Vicki was blind from birth, and as researchers have known for decades, if not centuries, blind people do not dream in visual terms.
They experience dreams in terms of other sensory perceptions, such as touch, smell and sound etc.

If a person lost their sight at some point later in life, they can experience dreams that incorporate limited visual stimulus, relative to the length of time they’ve been blind.

In simpler terms, blind people don’t have visual dreams, because they have no visual memories.
This supports the notion that dreams are the product of memories, as demonstrated by Stickgold et al.

Though it quite thoroughly dismisses the idea that NDE’s are dreamlike.
If they are not similar to or related to dreams, and the imagery experienced during an NDE are not the product of memory as dreams are, what does that say about where the imagery of NDE’s comes from?

Many modern theories coming out of neurophysiology and psychology have suggested, with varying success, that the environment and characters reported with NDE’s are the result of some unknown neurological or neurodegenerative process associated with the early stages of death.

Whether the instant decay of neurons and synapses or de-oxygenation of blood in the brain, or even changes in the quantum state of the brain being perceived by failing synaptic functions, the problem is that the specific archetypes reported seem to be generated independently of the memories of the patient.

If the rich and often alien environments reported with NDE’s are the product of imagination, this is counterintuitive when considered alongside the above theories.

Can a brain with no electrical activity and quickly degenerating physiology be expected to generate a vivid and hyper-realistic dreamscape, the likes of which could scarcely be replicated in actual dreams?

This, of course, is entirely suppositional, and doesn’t speak to any of the other issues tangled in amongst the mind-body question, but it does seem to give much food for thought.

NDE’s and their associated OBE’s seem not to be associated with the memories of their experiencers, and as such, their imagery need to be accounted for in some other way.

Whether that’s through neurophysiology or quantum mechanics is yet to be discovered, but we do seem to be tantalisingly close to an answer nonetheless.

[1] Stickgold R, A Malia, et al. Replaying the game: hypnagogic images in normals and amnesics. Science. 2000 Oct 13; 290(5490):350-3. [PMID: 11030656]
[2] Nour Foundation — Human Consciousness Project:http://www.nourfoundation.com/event...ect/the-AWARE-study.html#sthash.R1si2gMb.dpuf
[3] NPR.org — ‘Erasing Death’ Explores The Science of Resuscitation. February 20, 2013. http://www.npr.org/2013/02/21/172495667/resuscitation-experiences-and-erasing-death
[4] Ring, Kenneth. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. iUniverse Books, ISBN-10: 0595434975
[5] Williams, Kevin. People Born Blind Can See During A NDE — Dr. Kenneth Ring’s NDE Research of the Blind: http://web.archive.org/web/20080117054508/http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence03.html

 

[Skarekrow]

[MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION]


This is kind of cool.
http://sigilscribe.me​

 

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[MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION]


This is kind of cool.
http://sigilscribe.me​

Pretty cool and semi traditional. It uses gematria.

I do something similar but I don't always use gematria.

 

[Skarekrow]

Pretty cool and semi traditional. It uses gematria.

I do something similar but I don't always use gematria.

Yeah…it was apparently created by a Chaos Magick practitioner.

 

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Yeah…it was apparently created by a Chaos Magick practitioner.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of apps like this, just not this one in particular.

http://caostar.com/thoughts/

 

[Wyote]

Your move Warlock [MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]

 

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Your move Warlock @Skarekrow

 

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[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION] Yea, only when I eat beans... which is pretty regularly...

I don't think the creator of this app intended for it to be used in this manner, but I'm enjoying it in a whimsical sort of way

 

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