If you’re just joining us, please familiarize yourself with the earlier posts in this series so you’re reading this within the context it was intended. :)
Part One: Out on a limb
Part Two: The Science of Intuition
Part Three: What is NVCODE?
In the last three parts of this series, I’ve related some personal experiences and shared some of the science that I think is pertinent to this subject. Today, I want to talk a little bit more about how I think “telepathy” – or NVCODE – works in practice and how, if you feel so inclined, you can learn to make use of your amygdala. *grin*
Long ago, I read an article about our conscious and subconscious minds that made perfect sense to me. I lost it and haven’t been able to locate it since, but in that article the author discussed something he called our “Warren”. The name stuck with me, so I’ll use it here.
Everyone has a “Warren”. He’s the guy inside all of us who’s logical and reasoning – our “scientist”, if you will. I imagine him to be a nerdy little dude with very little sense of humor who takes things literally when you crack a joke. In my mind’s eye, he wears thick glasses, a lab coat, and looks a little like Professor Frink from the Simpsons. *grin*
Warren has a job. His job is to take information that’s coming in, synthesize it, and put it into neat little boxes. Above all else, Warren is a skeptic. He has no patience for things that cannot be explained and will attempt to stuff a strange experience into a box – even if it doesn’t fit.
Some people’s “Warrens” are very active. Depending upon an individual’s upbringing, life experiences and level of fear of the unexplainable, Warren is often the first line of defense when anything weird happens and some of you may encourage your Warren while others may try to suppress him.
You can test how hyper-vigilant your Warren is by exposing him to something that is compelling but doesn’t make sense, and see how quickly he tries to MAKE IT make sense.
Let’s go back to my experience on the freeway, in which Mom and I would have been killed or seriously injured had I not screamed at her to slow down BEFORE all of the events began to take place. My Warren immediately begins looking for a “logical explanation” for all of that. Now think back… when you read that story, was your Warren on high-alert? Did you have a feeling of incredulity? Did you say to yourself, “Oh, come on!”
Or have you trained your Warren to chill out?
My Warren tends to be rather quick to jump into the fray. I’m analytical. I analyze the hell out of everything, especially when I feel threatened by something. Warren takes over, and I often let him, because somewhere inside I feel that if I can just understand it, whatever it is, there is less of a chance that it can hurt me.
Warren is also the guy who does all of the tedious work – the mindless tasks that we get stuck doing that cause us to zone out, the less-than-pleasant tasks that make us wish that we were someplace else, or the repetitive things that don’t take a lot of attention. Think about it for a moment. Have you ever taken a long drive and been so lost in thought that you’ve suddenly arrived at your destination, and you don’t remember the drive there? In fact, maybe you feel a little bit alarmed that you were so busy daydreaming that you wonder if you would have been paying close enough attention not to rear end someone had they slammed on their brakes in front of you! But then, suddenly, you realize that a part of you WAS paying attention the whole time. You were on auto-pilot.
Very literally – Warren was driving. And no worries! That’s something Warren does well. He’s good at processing information, making “logical” decisions. He’s very responsible.
But Warren was also VERY, VERY BUSY during that drive. In fact, you kept him so busy that had anything “strange” happened during that time, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to address the situation.
Now think back to what you were doing during that drive. Daydreaming. Woolgathering. Lost in thought. Perhaps someone was riding with you and there was a chunk of time in which both of you were silent, lost in your own thoughts. Suddenly, you get the idea to turn on the radio and you feel compelled to do so, but before you have the chance to reach over and punch the power button, your passenger does it for you.
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed – but an awful lot of “coincidences” like that seem to occur when you’re zoned out…
Time for a quick digression. Those of you who listened to the show I did recently on Nite Callers would have heard this story. But bear with me, because I didn’t have the time on that show to make the point.
My little black cat, Sabbath, has been with me for about 14 years now. One day, about 3 years after I got her, she was standing in the window of my bedroom, watching the birds outside intently. I stood in the doorway, and was suddenly overcome with how much I loved her. My whole being swelled up with feeling. Suddenly she turned, looked straight at me, said, “Prrrt!” and ran to me to be petted, very affectionate and purring. I thought, “Weird!”
So I decided to do an experiment. After finding her back in the windowsill, I went in and sat in a chair in the living room. I decided I’d allow that feeling to well up again, but this time I included a picture in my mind along with it… of Sabbath, jumping onto my lap and touching her paw to my face. I chose that simply because she had NEVER touched my face before so I knew it wasn’t a typical behavior of hers.
As soon as I focused the picture in my mind, and the feeling of love for her spread through me, she came running into the room, prrrt-ing all the way. She jumped into my lap and… yes. Touched her paw to my face.
I was astounded. And suddenly I suspected that little Sabbath had responded because I had experienced an emotion… the very emotion I would have felt if she had showed me that affection! I did several more experiments, each with similar results.
Animals don’t appear to choose logic over impulse. They simply feel compelled to do things and respond. Could it be that the emotion that I felt simply created an impulse within her that she took as her own, not having the ability to question whether it came from me or from within herself?
Sabbath does not have a Warren.
When our Warrens are preoccupied, we are more like animals. Instinct and intuitive thought have a chance to come to the forefront. Remember the discussion we had about cognitive thought being centered in the prefrontal cortex and intuitive thought residing in the amygdala? Warren lives in your prefrontal cortex.
“The most typical psychological term for functions carried out by the prefrontal cortex area is executive function. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social “control” (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially-unacceptable outcomes).”
Believing in telepathy isn’t exactly socially acceptable. Warren, our guy in charge of executive function, knows that. So he suppresses anything that might lead us to believe in something “socially unacceptable”.
But you can re-train your Warren. I have. By giving Warren a dose of what he craves – the science, reasoning and logic behind things that otherwise seem woo-woo and “socially unacceptable” – Warren can learn that these things don’t require immediate suppression.
Would you like to be more “open” to these things, to see what kind of experiences you might have if you were? Feed your Warren. He might be interested in this:
Or this:
“Quantum pseudo-telepathy is a phenomenon in quantum game theory resulting in anomalously high success rates in coordination games between separated players. These high success rates would seem to require communication between the players; however, the game is set up such that during the game, this is physically impossible… The phenomenon of quantum pseudo-telepathy is mostly used as a powerful and explicit thought experiment of the non-local characteristics of quantum mechanics. Yet, the effect is real and subject to experimental verification, as demonstrated by the experimental confirmation of the violation of the Bell inequalities.” – Wikipedia
Or ask him to consider the following:
“A California psychologist, Dr. Charles Tart, has reported experiments in ‘mutual hypnosis’ in which each of two persons were hypnotized and were hypnotized by the other. Tart reported several interesting phenomena in such cases including possible instances of telepathy. The technique seems to be a very powerful one for creating empathy and closeness in two persons. If the participants are not properly prepared for such closeness, psychological problems could develop. Thus, the technique should be used carefully and only by persons who understand its possible dangers as well as its benefits.” (If you’re interested, Dr. Tart has a blog here and there is much more of his work for your perusal available online here.)
Hypnosis would, effectively, put your Warren to sleep. The results of Dr. Tart’s studies don’t surprise me at all.
You can trick Warren as well. Give him something mindless to do – something repetitive that has become “automatic” for you and required little thought. Take a shower. Take a long drive. Knit. You’ll be daydreaming – in a mild self-hypnosis state, as it were – and opening your amygdala up to all of those other, subtle signals in no time.
How does all of this apply to Bigfoot research? We’re getting to that. I promise! :)
I’d like to hear from you. Am I confusing you? Do you have questions? Are you picking up what I’m laying down? *grin* Is any of this coming as a shock, a surprise? Are you intrigued? Wondering when I’m going to get back to the subject of bigfoot?
