By Ben, on May 1st, 2007%
Can you give us a little background into how you wrote this book and came up with the ideas presented within its pages? Is it possible to give us a summary of your main ideas?
The basic idea is something I started to believe as a child – that the other realities that could have existed based upon alternate actions and chance do actually exist – I pictured my life like one of those dandelions gone to seed, with the straight stalk representing the now-locked in past, the base of the flower representing me, and all of those slender lines blooming out from there representing possible futures. Selecting one of those lines then, was like zooming in, where the one line now became part of my past and a new bloom appeared ahead of me – a very fractal, enfolding sort of an image.
Continue reading Part 1 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension – the book and the animation
By Ben, on May 1st, 2007%
There’s a meme of growing popularity, largely due to the success of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, that can be summed like this:
We create reality through conscious observation. What we choose to think, decide, and observe has a literal input into the creation of the reality around us.
You write on page 64 that “we are doing more than just “throwing the dice” as quantum observers, and in fact each of us are actively influencing the outcome through the choices we make.”
To what extent can this idea be taken that we create our own reality? Is this a meaningful perspective to have over how we live our lives or is it an idea that only applies at the quantum level and not in our day to day living?
With the popularity of “The Secret” now, the whole “thoughts become things” movement (which has been around for many years) appears to have gathered new steam. I would describe the Secret as being a very simple and direct version of the What the Bleep ideas.
Continue reading Part 2 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension – What the Bleep style thinking & the Bicameral Mind
By Ben, on May 1st, 2007%
Let me quote the following paragraph from page 122:
“Regardless of the position that mainstream science takes on the topic, a huge percentage of the general population have had personal experiences which show them that the idea of reading minds, “catching vibes”, supernatural connections to dead loved ones, or even just the positive effects of talking to their houseplants has a direct connection to their feeling of how the world really works.”
Continue reading Part 3 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension – ghosts and science fiction
By Ben, on May 1st, 2007%
The forum on your website has a section devoted to altered states and the use of psychoactive substances. Why do you think so many people make the connection between the ideas in your book and the altered states available to us through drug use? What role, if any, has the use of psychoactive substances played in the formulation of your ideas about reality and the 10 dimensions?
Continue reading Part 4 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension – drugs and the tenth dimension
By Ben, on May 1st, 2007%
I was curious to know that some of your songs reference the world of lucid dreaming. In fact, this is what led me to reading your book. What thoughts do you have on the idea that dreams occur in parallel universes and other timelines and realities that are contained within the 10th dimension? Do you have any experience with lucid dreaming?
Continue reading Part 5 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension – Dreams and the Ten Dimensions
By Ben, on April 22nd, 2007%
Yesterday I was at Whole Foods drinking a Yuengling and reading The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in the outside cafe. This book is the best I’ve found so far on Buddhism – especially because it intertwines an understanding of quantum physics and neuroscience into a Buddhist framework for understanding the mind and the nature of reality. I love it!
Anyhow, I found this gem of a passage that I want to share where the author compares lucid dreams to our experience of reality while awake.
On page 82, we learn that:
Continue reading An excerpt from the The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
By Ben, on March 14th, 2007%
With the Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot has succeeded in creating a wonderful book of what I call mind candy.
He pieces together an explanation for events, experiences, and phenomena that have no accepted explanation – or even an acceptance of existing – by modern science. Ironically, at base, his explanation is rooted in the quantum physics theory stating that the universe operates holographically.
He uses this platform to explain all sorts of strange things: out of body experiences, lucid dreams, near death experiences, the placebo effect, the power of the mind to control the body, psychic abilities, and other so-called “fringe” . . . → Read More: The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot: a book review
By Ben, on March 12th, 2007%
As you’re well aware of, I’m a geek for questions about consciousness. I love to think about issues such as understanding and defining experience, the nature of reality, the essence of the spiritual experience from both a physical and mental standpoint, and so on.
So when I stumbled upon a book with the title of DMT: The Spirit Molecule you can imagine that I nearly wet myself with excitement.
I didn’t think anyone was allowed to do research like this anymore. And if they were, I’d fear the culture of the scientific establishment would prohibit any conclusions not ordained by skepticism.
But someone did. . . . → Read More: The Biological Basis of Mysticism? | A review of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
By Ben, on October 28th, 2006%
This book is one hell of a ride. I kept scratching my head, wondering to myself just what the hell this book is ultimately about. Wolfs writing is expansive and wide-reaching, and he is not scared to venture into speculative conclusions as he speaks about near death experiences, lucid dreams, God, quantum physics, the Aboriginal concept of the dreamtime, UFO’s, consciousness, the imaginal-realm, Jung, Freud, Libet, an odd foray into Russian art and architecture, and quite a lot more.
Continue reading Exploring The Dreaming Universe with Fred Alan Wolf
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